Only one more subject to get through the final exam and I have absolutely nothing to do. So I scrambled the internet and found some interesting stuffs here.

Rec’d from co-worker this list of 21 funny statements made by pilots or attendents in the cabin of commercial airliners. Here are the top three…

1. On a Southwest flight 245 (SW has no assigned seating, you just sit where you want) passengers were apparently having a hard time choosing, when a flight attendant announced, “People, people we’re not picking out furniture here, find a seat and get in it!”

2. On a Continental Flight with a very “senior” flight attendant crew, the pilot said, “Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve reached cruising altitude and will be turning down the cabin lights. This is for your comfort and to enhance the appearance of your flight attendants.”

3. On landing, the stewardess said, “Please be sure to take all of your belongings. If you’re going to leave anything, please make sure it’s something we’d like to have.

4. “There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane”

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Some say that to work in United Nations is every International Relations student’s dream. Well, maybe not all of them, but at least I know that I am one of those dreamer. It has been three years since I started my study as an International Relations student, and from the very beginning, I always wanted to be part of the international community. I dedicated this post to the late Mr. Ali Alatas and his endless inspiration for me and my friends of IR study. Read the rest of this entry »

As some of you might have noticed the ongoing debates here and here about our department, this post is intended to provide you a more objective view on some of the facts and also my personal view on the subject.

Just a few days ago some of my friend gave me this link over an offline YM message along with an urgent-like words, “YOU HAVE TO READ THIS…!!”.

Well, eventually, I ended up reading the post and I can tell you that my reaction was similar to what the writer of the post wrote on her second paragraph…maybe I can even use her EXACT words to describe my reaction to her post. Read the rest of this entry »

This week has been an extremely exhausting week for me. Most of it because of this whole PRAKDIP thingy; which I’m about to write now

The Diplomacy in Practice (or PRAKDIP in bahasa) is actually one of UNPAR’s International Relations subject, which basically a simulation of an international conference. The similar activity itself is widely known as Model United Nations which has been practiced by many universities all over the world. In Indonesia, UNPAR is one of the first (and might be the only) university who put this diplomacy-in-practice into its intra-curriculum.

The activities of this PRAKDIP (I copied it from Wikipedia to put it simple) is aims to educate participants about civics, effective communication, globalization and multilateral diplomacy. In Model UN, students take on roles as foreign diplomats and participate in a simulated session of an intergovernmental organization (IGO). Participants research a country, take on roles as diplomats, investigate international issues, debate, deliberate, consult, and then develop solutions to world problems. Read the rest of this entry »

Less humorous story from Huffington Post and what I think about it…

At a rally on Saturday in California, Sarah Palin offered up a rather loud argument for supporting the Republican ticket. “There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women,” the Alaska Governor said, claiming she was quoting former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Read the rest of this entry »

Randomly read this from HuffingtonPost…Funny one!

10. Suspicious Russian tourists spotted across the Bering strait in Dezhnevo

9. Wrasslin’ a bear

8. Learns Tina Fey will be watching

7. When taken on tour of White House by McCain handlers, is “inadvertently” locked in Cheney’s man-sized safe

6. Schedule for memorizing state capitals thrown off by need for new schedule to memorize states

5. Speechless after finally looking up what “MILF” stands for

4. On deadline to finish her book, Namin’ Your Baby the Alaskan Way

3. Needs more time to really nail those hilarious hair-plug zingers

2. No matter how hard she scrubs, she can’t get Kissinger’s moral stank off of her

1. Stuck in traffic on the Bridge to Nowhere

Today, as the US first presidential debate took place in the University of Mississippi, we watched a very inspiring and I think one of the most crucial starting point for the US presidential election.

It is nonetheless a precious and valuable lesson for our democracy, as the United States is the product of nearly two centuries of effort by a democratic society to cope with conflict, elections, grapple with issues and has been very successful to bring the idea of democracy in all its gaudiness and glory to millions of people throughout the world.

The debate between the Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain and the well-known Democrat presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama started with the issue of economy. Not surprisingly though, concerning the United States is now struggling with their worst financial crisis since the Great Depression in 1930s. Read the rest of this entry »

Yup. I’m a robotic teacher now. And that is why this site had been hiatus for quite some time.I’ve been occupied with my new job and its hard to find time to just relax, sit and go online.

Currently, I teach primary and secondary students in several schools in Bandung. One thing I learned from my new job: kids absorb your energy! To be honest, this job is exhausting, you have to deal with kids and their unlimited energy all the time. *siggh..* But so far, I enjoy every second of it. Read the rest of this entry »

That is exactly my first impression when I finally managed to finish this game called “Ayiti: The Cost of Life” with a good score.

It is my lecturer, Mr. Sapta, who first introduced me to this game in his Political Economy of Development class. He told the class to play this game to understand more about how poverty becomes an obstacle for education in the developing and underdeveloped country.

The game is about the life of a common poor family who lives in Haiti–named the Guinard family. The goal of this game is to help the Guinard family live their poor life, get them education and improve their living standard. Read the rest of this entry »

One word for Google’s Chrome: AWESOME!

Just 2 days ago I received an email from my friend who happens to be very excited about this new browser named ‘Chrome’. For those of you who haven’t heard any of it, Chrome is the new browser developed by Google team. Out of curiosity, I tried to download the beta installer and run the setup. The installer then downloads the necessary files for the installation—which turns out quite a space consuming one. About 75MB in size and 36 minutes on my broadband ‘Speedy’ connection. Read the rest of this entry »