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Manchester United Football Team was due to arrive in Jakarta today and will be placed to stay at Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Mega Kuningan, Jakarta. A day before the team arrival, that luxury international hotel was bombed together with another hotel, JW Marriott. The two hotels was bombed in Friday morning, approximately at 8 AM (local time).

Finally Manchester United confirmed that they won’t fly to Jakarta related with this danger situation. Although that the government guarantee there’s no bomb anymore during their visit to Indonesia but MU eventually canceled their tour to Jakarta. So ironic!

Desperate, I can feel how unsatisfied the people who have bought tickets and hold their flight and travel to Jakarta, this big event finally had been canceled by irresponsibility terrorist. Investors will tend to move their business into another countries, such as Singapore, Malaysia, or Philippines. Another football team won’t even consider in their agenda to trip to Indonesia. Indonesia can not be trusted anymore, people will say, “Indonesia is a terrorist country, why do we need to bet our safety to visit to insecure place like Indonesia?” Well, this will be very popular, I believe.

Nowadays Indonesia is really known as good and suave country since the arrest of three terrorists and they had been executed last year. It’s a leakage, people thought that Indonesia now is secure, there’s no terrorist anymore, no one thought that it would happen. But actually, we realized that they are still alive, they have shown to the world they are existing in this country.

Oh yeah, tomorrow I plan to meet two old friends, hopefully tomorrow will be a great day for us! One of us will leave Indonesia to continue her study to Taiwan so then tomorrow will be our last meeting before her departure. Wish the best luck for her! Congrats my friend, it’s absolutely not easy to pursue it, but I believe you can do that!

Date: 8th July 2009

Time: 11:00 AM

Finally, fulfilled my obligation as Indonesian to give vote for The Next Indonesian President For 2009 until 2014. The pictures from this election:

Election paper (before giving the sign)

After giving the sign, it’s not a secret for me

My inked finger

The result of this election will be announced about two weeks from now on but based on some surveys, it looks like Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono would be the next president again (he leads about 50%-60% besides Megawati Soekarnoputri 20-30% and Jusuf Kalla 11-13%).

Tomorrow I will start working again for the rest of this week, so happy working friends!

Starting the new month, July, I’ve just realized that we have passed a half year for 2009. My 23rd year in this life, has passed quickly. Wow, amazing! I guess I was really busy with my work and my hobby, F1 and Real Madrid.

Firstly, I would like to figure out what have happened so far, from January to June.

1. January: My first trip to my lovely hometown, Pontianak. I made my first step to that city since 2004. It has been 5 years since I left that city to go for my university in Jakarta.

My Senior High School, SMA Santo Petrus

Khatulistiwa Monument

Ligo Mitra, one of the biggest supermarket in Pontianak

Inside of Megamall Ayani, Pontianak

I was a little bit surprised with some major changes such as new mall, new market, or there are many taxis there right now compared with year 2004. But I can say a lot of things haven’t changed and looks same with 5 years ago.

Then, I marked my first visit to Danamon Bank as Technical Support since I always be assigned to visit Bank Mandiri by my boss. Afterward, it was my only trip to Danamon Bank. I don’t know why when I saw and visited Bank Danamon, it felt like hell, felt like I never want to visit this place anymore. I was assigned to replace my friend who was sick at that moment. Fortunately, it was only for one single day.

2. February: my boss went to her hometown for Chinese New Year and I replaced her, did her job as Quality Control and a lot of things to be done. The clueless me was really struggling at that moment, really have no clue at all, no one taught me at that moment, felt depressed but was a little bit happy when I got a tiny moment to learn new things.

3. March: did my first job in weekend, Saturday and Sunday, did UAT at that moment with my friend at client’s side. They proved me lunch but I felt really sick, tired, and didn’t have a single time to take a breath. Finally, got sick at the beginning of April.

4. April: Hmm, nothing was really special except my sickness.

5. May: my birthday, marked my most be remembered birthday. Got so many birthday bless on my facebook wall, and in the noon, got pizza from client. Surprisingly!

6. June: got my THR (read the entry before) I should be happy but in fact, I didn’t feel happy at all. I must learn a lot to feel blessed and thank God.

Finally, I hope the rest of months of this year would be spent with grateful and happiness, especially by the sadness me. Still waiting for something big and surprisingly, please pray for me for this best luck. Thanks God, good night or later everyone! Happy July!

Finally we (I and office mates) received our 13th salary last Friday. But it was sounding really bad when I put my card into ATM machine and saw my salary + my THR was not as I expected before.

For another my annoyance, this THR had been being delayed for a half year with any reasons. So then everything that we could do was just waiting.

Yesterday I was told by finance manager that the calculation of THR is just 7/12 from my basic salary, not including transport/meals or any others, I won’t explain them all here, in essentials, all of the calculations didn’t match with what I expected. So then my pay day was pathetic - that’s why I don’t want to continue my work career at that place for one point - I have so many reasons why I’m looking for another opportunities.

So then, I keep praying to get that opportunity - move and seek for better place. Oh yeah, Rest In Peace, Michael Jackson (1958 - 2009).

It is interesting when you know someone’s email and password and then see all of his/hers mails, isn’t it? I’ve been knowing someone’s email account and his password for one and half year. Although he ever changed his password, I still could get myself logging in to his mail. For this case, I can log into his Facebook, Friendster, Viwawa, etc. as well.

It is really interesting but my parents always remind me, “It brings you bad luck when you get connected with him. You don’t have to know everything about him, it’s his privacy.” But then, I still couldn’t stop it.

The main reason why I did it because I still want to know what happened and what discussed topic around my university friends since I don’t talk to them after graduating, because a “lecturer problem”. And then I just want to know if they talk about me or don’t.

Last week (read my post before), I applied another job at another company since my current company don’t give me any satisfaction stuffs since they delay the THR (bonus received near holidays, and it should be given by the end of last year, see how long have they been delaying this?), another disappointment comes from my boss, my salary, etc., I just feel bored with this situation.

I thought that my parents might be right for this case. Too much knowing about others’ stuffs can cause bad luck for me. So then I try to stop myself from being addicted to know much about him, quite hard, but at least I have prevented myself to control addiction in me. Finally I know how hard if someone tries to stop smoking or drinking, I will understand if he/she can’t stop it quickly. It’s really hard, but since Sunday I have stopped it and today is Wednesday, I haven’t been logging in for four days, hope it will bring good luck for me, reduce my sins for sure, and I still pray to get the new job, dream job that I’ve been waiting so long.

Thanks for reading, good night. I’m sick now, lack of sleeping and too tired after doing migration two days ago, hopefully I would get well soon and please wish me luck.