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big thing from little nation January 5, 2009

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Emerging as one of the big and upcoming nation ever since its independence, Singapore has successfully lived to its hype and never look back, while the rest of south-Asia are trying hard to catch Singapore in terms of standard of living, economics, wealth, etc. I started my admiration for this little nation long time ago, but then what keeps me amazed was when recently I started the discussion with sugi about the nation where he study. I’m saying how Singapore is a good role model for every country; many smart people in Indonesia tend to go to Singapore for study now, as also for living. Then sugi says, it went down to lee kuan yew, because once upon a time, lee kuan yew says, we don’t have natural resources in Singapore, what we have is people, let’s martyr them. In some way that sounds harsh, but when you look it even further, it shows how although they are having constraints in terms of resources they do not whine or even jealous with other country, instead they keep on moving forward. But then, many would argue their success is because the smallness of area, Indonesia is much more bigger and larger meaning the problem is bigger and also larger, ah I forgot there we go again make the whining, how will we go to the top and beat Singapore if I keep this whining.

-D-

wake up call January 4, 2009

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It was a long and tiring road coming back from Bandung, at Sunday morning. It was me, erik, dennis, and Minul after the so called dies natalis. Then what was the big story morning glory until I have to waste my time on writing this blog? I was supposed to go down in citos, but then I changed my mind and would like to go down in lebak bulus. After going down on the highway in front of citos, we need to stop because it says red light. Moments after, BRAK! Such a nuisance noise, even denis who was sleeping all the way was awake along with Eric who fell a slept moment before, then we have this view of motorcycle crushed down along with the person. What shocked us is that the person is not moving a bit! While the motorcycle was badly damaged, the silence was broken when minul said, he must have been dead.

I didn’t see clearly what happen, all I knew there was a car slowing down after the accident, then we conclude that it was the car which crashed the motorcycle, and we found out that the person who drove the car was a teenager that perhaps was younger than me. All I could say was WTF inside my heart, I mean imagine, what did that motorcycle rider dreamt when he about to rode until he was hit like that? Death is inevitable, it could happen just about any time. It does not matter you are black or white, rich or poor, male or female, we all will have that faith. And when you have seen the life defining moment like that, will you still stand to your ego and keep believing on your selves?

-D-