Grateful living

Yesterday, my car refused to start at the gas station. I was on the way to repair my PC, and when I tried to make a phone call, my cellphone suddenly went blank.

the first thing that crossed my mind was, "why are all the things I own either broken or require constant repairs?" like any other normal human being, I complained.

And while I was sitting there, alone in my car, waiting for the battery to charge up, I realized that I really should be grateful

Looking back at those days when I don't have a car, when I couldn't even drive, or when the term "transportation" meant either Taxi or Bus, I should be thankful for my trusty old (literally old) car. even though he's high maintenance, he's actually quite reliable to take me places.

My PC might require a visit to the nearest service center every other week or so, but looking back at the old days when I had to go to my mom's office just to experience internet, or when I had to wait till my mom gets home in order to type a report for school. Looking even more way back, there were even times a computer was only something I get to touch once a week at computer class at school. And I'm embarrassed when I realized that some people have never even seen a PC. I really should be grateful for that PC.

My cell phone has withstood 5 years of torment, believe me! it never leaves my side, and I go places. Even though it only has 2 spaces left at the messages inbox, and the camera can't be used due to lack of memory, I can only play polyphonic ring tones, and say goodbye to mobile internet, I can hardly open anything from the WAP browser. But looking back at those pre-cellphone days, when a pay phone is all I could rely on for communication, I really should be grateful for my phone.

and stemming upon the realization of those things, I also realized that I should be grateful for other things:

I should be grateful that I've had enough experience from previous cases of broken cars to know how to push-start a car. And when I had to charge the batteries this morning I realized that I really should be thankful that my mom used to drive an old Mitsubishi minicab that required her to take the battery out and recharge it every month or so, learning from that experience i knew just how to take out the battery of a car. (I know it's actually pretty simple, but I wouldn't have known how to do it.)

I'm grateful for all those days working at an Internet cafe, it really gave me knowledge about computers. and when I found that this time it's actually something that i can't handle myself, I have the right connections to ensure that the PC is in safe and caring hands. And while the main board is being repaired, I am forced to rely on the internet stalls, which is a good thing, I needed the reason to get out of the house.

and after waves of other realizations, I realized that I really need to be grateful for many things in life, and also for many other past experiences, I wouldn't be here, and things would not have been the same without all of them.

As I go on living, I continue learning, and who knows when a simple skill that I've learnt today would be useful in the future. And who knows how a thing that seemed like a bad thing in the past might actually turn out to be a good thing. One thing I've learned from the past 26 hours is that being grateful feels better than complaining. Why don't you try it sometime?

Megan Fox is not a Man, Okezone is not okay

When I got online this today I was greeted by the usual Today's page from MSN. What caught my attention was the story about Megan Fox being a man. The issue has actually been around since a couple of months ago. When I first heard about it I did a google search and found that it had been sourced by this article by the Weekly World News. They did not provide any hard facts, no official statements, it sounded fishy. Since I couldn't find any confirmation or any similar article published by a more reliable media, I dismissed it as a hoax.

I thought it was the end of that until i read the title Megan Fox: Saya Laki-laki (translated: Megan Fox: I'm a man) on the MSN page this morning. At first I thought "oh finally, a more credible media gives coverage about this," but to my disappointment I find that the article was actually published from Okezone.com and it is nothing more than a translated and summarized version of the original World Weekly News article. Apparently the content of MSN Indonesia is fed by Okezone.com. With all the hype going around lately caused by Transformers II, they probably did a search on Megan Fox, found the piece by Weekly World News, and passed it of as news.

www.okezone.com is a news site owned by MNC group, one of the largest media groups in Indonesia. considering this fact i expected a degree of quality in the news they churn out. Unfortunately there have been some cases in the past where people pointed out that Okezone.com published a hoax. I did some google search and found another case of a hoax being published by okezone.com. who knows how many other cases i could find if i devoted more time for the search?

Now, I'm not saying that everything that's published by Okezone is crap, but I think the editors really should give more scrutiny to their news. An established media wouldn't want to be caught once publishing a hoax as news. And to make it worse, it is fed to MSN Indonesia and shoved to people's faces right after they sign-in to MSN Live. Knowing the tendencies of the Indonesian people, they probably swallowed it whole as news and begin passing it around. Please people, check and recheck, get clarifications and confirmations.

Until I found an official statement from Megan Fox and her representatives, or at least some hard evidence (such as birth certificate, baby pictures, etc) I'm gonna presume that she is a she. Can anybody prove otherwise?

can anybody tell me what that is?

i had just come out of the office when i noticed that streak of light. i was wondering if anybody could explain to me what that is. what is that? a shooting star? a meteorite? a fallen aircraft? WHAT?

Introduction

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