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Tentang kebapakan

Surat tanpa nama pengirim ini dituliskan di Bukom Karisma sekitar tahun 91-93. Ditulis ulang oleh Ery, Singapura, 26-Jan-2000. … dari surat-surat yang tak terkirimkan … tentang kebapakan Assalamu’alaikum, Nak … Sebelum kulanjutkan surat ini, biarlah kusampaikan betapa aku punya seribu rindu padamu yang aku simpan diam-diam. Betapa aku punya sebuah cinta padamu yang besarnya hanya [...]

My language, your language, our language

In Indonesia, 28-Oct is commemorated as the Youth Pledge Day. On this day in 1928, there was a congress held in Jakarta attended by various youth organizations in Indonesia. This congress that was seen as an important milestone towards Indonesia’s independence from the Dutch colonial government, because this congress introduced a new platform in the [...]

A small world?

Saya ingin melakukan percobaan kecil-kecilan untuk membuktikan bahwa dunia memang kecil: bisakah saya menyampaikan foto berikut ini kepada yang bersangkutan, hanya dengan mengirimkan posting ini? Ini saya lakukan tanpa bermaksud menyaingi penelitian Roby Muhamad (is he the only Indonesian ever published in Nature?) yang dilakukan dengan jauh lebih metodik (klik di sini untuk melihat ringkasan [...]

Asides

If Moses had gotten the Ten Commandments on a floppy disk, it would never have made it to today. (Dag Spicer, curator of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, The NYTimes Circuit, 26-Mar-2009)

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

“The wrath of God is the only way I can describe it. I’m used to seeing roofs off houses, houses blown over. These houses were down to their foundations, stripped clean.” said Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee, after surveying tornado damage there.

James Madison said, “If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one.” In Indonesia, …, well no comment.

Setelah empat belas hari menunggu, akhirnya saya bisa menikmati kembali berita-berita dari Bandung. Harian PR tampil dengan wajah baru dengan koneksi yang tampaknya lebih kencang.