Archive for January, 2007
“Because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed, all we can ask for is for them to do their best per head,” Japan’s health minister said. He added: “Although it may not be so appropriate to call them machines.” BBC reported. [here for news]
The first stunning thing about it is by calling women [...]
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cold-blooded journalist
I went to library to watch An Inconvenient Truth to find that the DVD was missing. So, I watched an older movie “Hotel Rwanda”. It was based on a real story of a man Paul Rusesabagina. He saved more than 1000 people from genocide in Rwanda in 1994. He kept them in the hotel he managed and used his financial [...]
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Reflection
Only days into 2007, I have already had to give myself a hard pinch which I truly deserved. The thing was I did not get my priorities right.
The holiday mood caught me up so tightly I messed up my last assignment really badly. Firstly, the assignment was not done with maximum effort. I am okay with any results I get as long as I think [...]
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One of interesting things about four-seasons place is the weather. The place where I come from has tropical climate which consist of hot&dry and hot&wet with a lot of sunshine. There, I hardly has any strong wind or storm. We has occasional man-made foggy days because of forest burning. However, Indonesia is very big, there are colder [...]
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Christmas experience
It was started one afternoon with “Mari? Hi, I am Danny”. I then spent six interesting days of my christmas holiday with him, his wife Karen and their family and friends. They moved to Boughrood, Mid-Wales for 28 years ago and still seemed very pleased with the place. They are running a B&B and have two very lively dogs [...]
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new things
Logic of a 15 year-old boy with Aspenger’s Syndrome in the book The curious incident of the dog in the night-time:
“…And Sioban says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn’t make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the [...]
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