The MEATrix

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

- KENNETH E. BOULDING

If the UN-FAO Report on "Livestock’s Long Shadow –Environmental Issues and Options" does not mean anything to you, you might find this award winning movies interesting: The Meatrix I, II, and II1/2 (Indonesian subtitled). Whether we (represented by Leo) take the blue pill and remain in a fantasyland or will he face the bitter pill reality? ... it's all in our hands. Some may say that the movie is a crap or not a serious one, still there are truth in it. Just read several articles and find the facts and statistics relating factory farm issues. There are disturbing facts and several dangers on factory farming and food safety: artificial hormones, antibiotic resistant germs, massive pollution/environmental problems, cruelty treatment, antibiotics overuse, mad cow disease and community destroyed. We should save the environment and our health by considering not consuming cow-meat again.

Fast Food Nation, published in 2001 and a New York Times bestseller, was an incendiary nonfiction exploration of the factory farming and fast food industry. Fast Food Nation is a Recorded Picture Company production directed by Richard Linklater and written by Eric Schlosser and Linklater. With several issues shown in the book and in the 'documentary movie', I’ll be quite surprised if they're not vegetarians in real life. The same surprise, if I found that Morgan Spurlock is continuing his rituals having meals in McDonald resaurants after being supersized at the 30th day period. He is an American independent filmmaker who wrote, produced, directed and starred "Super Size Me", an Academy Award-nominated 2004 documentary film.

Other things to chew on (other than the french fries you're lovin' it!):

[The statistics are showing those in the US, but they should be approximately applicable to any place in the globe. Btw we all have only one earth]

• More energy is consumed by the beef industry than any other single industry in the US,
• If we were to reduce by 50% our meat consumption, we could totally eliminate our reliance on nuclear power throughout the US,
• The same resources that are used to produce one pound of beef can produce sixteen pounds of grain,
• Rainforests account for an astounding 80% of the eart's vegetation, and are critical to our ecosystem. The US imports 10% of its beef from Central and South America. In order to meet this need, rainforests are being eliminated at a pace of one acre every five seconds.

The decision about what to put on your dinner plate tonight is one that has profound processional effects. It sets in motion a whole series of events and activities that are shaping the quality of life on earth. Behind the chuck steak hides the forests that have been cut down, our children's food and water supply, our children's top soil, their future environment. And we have to look at the steak and say, 'That costs too much.' Real power lies in the decisions you make in the supermarket and in restaurants and in your kitchen.
(Robbins, John, "Diet for a new America"; Robbins Research Report, "The Fate of Our Planet" - cited from Anthony Robbin's "Awaken the Giant Within")

Inconvenient Truth

The contents of this post were taken from The McDougall Newsletter

According to the 2006 UN report, global production of meat and milk will more than double by 2050. We cannot let this happen. Our planet is already being devastated. Long-overdue changes based on the truth could halve livestock usage by 2015.

According to a report, Livestock’s Long Shadow –Environmental Issues and Options, released in November of 2006 from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, livestock* emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to every one of the most serious environmental problems. (The release of this report was not covered by any of the major news outlets, only a few mentions are found on the Internet.)

*livestock refers to beef cattle, dairy cattle, chickens, pigs, and a few other animals domesticated for food uses.

The Following Are Some of the Findings from the UN Report:

Atmospheric Damage
Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalents. By comparison, all transportation emits 13.5% of the CO2. In addition to CO2, environmentally toxic gases produced by livestock include nitrous oxide, methane, and ammonia generated from the animals’ intestines—belching, flatus, and manure. The report says “The impact is so severe that it needs to be addressed with urgency.”

Livestock:
- Produces 65 percent of human-related nitrous oxide, which has 296 times the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of CO2.
- Accounts for 37 percent of all human-induced methane (which is 23 times as warming as CO2).
- Generates 64 percent of the ammonia, which contributes to acid rain and acidification of ecosystems.

Land Damage
- The total area occupied by grazing livestock is equivalent to 26 percent of the ice-free terrestrial surface of the planet. In addition, the total area dedicated to producing feed crops for these animals amounts to 33 percent of the total arable land.
- Clearing forests to create new pastures is a major source of deforestation, especially in Latin America where, for example, some 70 percent of former rainforests in the Amazon have been turned over to grazing. The forests are the major “sinks” for removing the greenhouse gases from the atmosphere—they are the “lungs of the Earth.”

Water Damage
The livestock business is among the most serious users of the earth’s increasingly scarce water resources; in addition, contributing to water pollution, excessive growth of organisms, depletion of oxygen, and the degeneration of coral reefs, among other things.

- The major water-polluting agents are animal wastes, antibiotics, hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers, and the pesticides used to spray feed crops.
- In the United States livestock is responsible for 55 percent of the erosion and sediment, 37 percent of the pesticide use, 50 percent of the antibiotic use, and a third of the load of nitrogen and phosphorus put into freshwater sources.
- Widespread overgrazing disturbs water cycles, reducing replenishment of above and below ground water resources. Significant amounts of water are withdrawn for the production of feed.

Species Loss
Livestock’s very presence in vast tracts of land and its demand for feed crops also contribute to loss of other plants and animals; livestock is identified as a culprit in 15 out of 24 important ecosystems that are assessed as in decline. The loss of species is estimated to be running 50 to 500 times higher than background rates found in the fossil record.

Al Gore Does Not Discuss the Role of Food Animals
Not once during the 96 minute presentation, An Inconvenient Truth, did Al Gore mention animal foods as a cause of global warming or suggest any form of management of livestock as a solution. This oversight would be similar to not mentioning cigarette smoking in a discussion of lung cancer. With all due respect to Al Gore, I must speculate as to why he ignored this essential connection. Ignorance could not have been the reason. Catastrophic damage to our environment from livestock, especially cattle, has been recognized for decades. Nor do I believe his exclusion of this topic was for political correctness. His documentary is filled with unrestrained challenges to almost every segment of business and society. Al Gore is a brave and honest man, but he has human frailties, too.

Al Gore identified one reason for his leaving out the livestock connection in his documentary when he said, “You know more than a hundred years ago, Upton Sinclair wrote this: ‘It's difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on him not understanding it.’” Al Gore has been involved in the business of raising Black Angus cattle for most of his life. Today quite a few Angus breeders from around the country are among his closest friends.

To explain the second source of his blindness to livestock’s role in global warming, I offer one of my personal quotes, “People love to hear good news about their bad habits.” With no intention to offend, I must point out that Al Gore’s physical appearance reflects overindulgence in the Western diet—filled with meat, chicken, seafood, milk, and cheese. To speak plainly, he cannot see over his own dinner plate.

Does Global Warming Matter Enough?
For forty years I have believed people would rise up and take action once they realized that the vast majority of human sickness and suffering in developed countries is due to eating animal foods. The masses have remained quiet. For the past decade I have witnessed the growing epidemic of childhood obesity—a misery caused largely by the fast food giants. All this time I have waited for informed citizens to rise up in protest, or at the very least, to boycott the perpetrators of this child abuse. The sellers of easily procured beef burgers and milk shakes thrive uncontested by a single one of us.

Until now, inaction meant other people and their children became fat, sick and died prematurely—somehow, we have been able to live with those immoralities. The inconvenient truth is that most human beings find the destruction of fellow human beings, even little ones, acceptable. You can assume these same people will sit idly by and let the entire earth be destroyed. But we cannot let this happen, because this is our world, too. This time, failure to act means we and our children will be lost, along with those who do not seem to understand or care.

The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. warned that “our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Nothing matters more than solving global warming. Those of us—meaning you and I (experts or not)—who have the ability to take action, have the responsibility to take action.

Action Items

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy

We frequently heard "action speaks louder than words" words though words are not always less important than word-less...

Looking at the mind map in the previous post, alot of things can actually be done to make the global warming cooler. So, see what have been doing. Let's start with the easiest and easier things: using energy saver light bulbs, optimizing natural lightings, buying LCD screen to replace the tube monitor, planting trees, constructing absorption well in the yard, working out 3x a week in the gym, etc.

It looks easy to practice all of the those acts, doesn't it? Any 'regular' persons can do it and even there are several other things every of us able to do. Seem as easy as any action listed above, I consider the followings as the major ones (but we may have different opinion or priority):

1. Converted car into water fueled. It is not literally a water powered car that I built. I only planted a device that produces hydrogen from water by electrolisys. This is not a new thin by the way. Many people may have developed this since years ago. Daniel Dingel did it in Filipina and many others in the US and perhaps all over the world. But not many have the courage to bring it in public. The inventor, Stanley Meyer, was reported as poisoned at a restaurant in 1998. Conspiracy theories persist that oil companies and the government were involved in the death (wow!).

Mine is not as sophisticated as those people have developed. It is a very simple, yet very cheap, device could be made by any junior high school (not the lazy ones for sure). And you could find the secret or the diagram by googling it with key words: water fuel, hydrogen, etc. I would not make a claim that the device I bult works successfully as I haven't made empirical obervation and measurement of the performance improvement. To minimize any possible risk, this prototype is installed in a 1975's Volkwagen as an experiment car. I am not confident enough to implant it in my SUV's ignition engine at this moment. However, for the sake of going green, contributing in pollution reduction, developing clean-renewable energy, it will be part of the SUV's fueling system very soon... once it's noticed that there is nothing wrong with the VW and it is positive result with having it installed, at least on the reduced emission and fuel saving (yes, gasoline is needed still, but hopefully at a lower amount)...

2. Stop eating meat !!! This is the hardest part. I was raised in a carnivorous family, omnivorous community. Being a vegetarian (not yet a vegan) in a non-vegan world is not easy. In the past, I ridiculed those who not eating what the Nature had provided. I told one who practiced it as an oxymoron.

There are Lacto-vegetarian, Ovo-vegetarian, the combination of those types and vegan. I consider my self as Seafo-vegetarian. I am eating sea food still, but I quit eating meat, especially of animals "possessing self awareness of life-conscience". First, I dropped beef from my diets since last year and later on chicken is also absent from my dish and plate. It's really a big challenge. One who said that he could resist of not choosing "rendang" and "ayam bakar" in Padangese restaurants or tenderloin steak in Outback's, most likely he/she was lying. Replacing steak with tempe and fried chicken with tofu, would it work for me? That's a big question mark?

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It was very difficult in the beginning or even to got it started, but after we accustomed we can just do it so joyously. It's a matter of the ability to control the will-power in a one square-inch spot in the head. The reason behind this decision is a combination of several factors, that I may want to explain in the upcoming post(s). I did not say that this was a victory of the brain over the belly, not at all. It's just a matter of choice. Btw, I have made a life changing decision in the past, far greater than this. I have changed the way I live... now I want to change the way I eat - no matter what. I would not be able to change others, families, communities, the world, ... if I could not change my self. "No matter what" is strong words to bear in mind for moving forward with rational things we strongly believe, especially if we did not follow the crowds.

I am not accussing any one, but I just recall PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) argue that being a 'meat-eating environmentalist' is an oxymoron. I am not sure, to me it just like 'deafening silence', 'a mournful optimist', 'cruel kindness', 'brutally honest', 'marijuana medicine', 'smoking doctor' or 'buncit indah' words.

I noted that Fuel and Food are notorious topics most widely discussed in the mainstream media these days (besides the 'never-ending' competition between Obama and Omama v. Ograndpa...) Then, taking those two subjects for discussion is necessarily appropriate as an effort to improve our planet earth and its inhibitants' life, if followed with adequate actions. Let's check the week's breaking news:

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On "Earth Day" Tuesday, the price of a barrel of crude hit a record $119.90, a fivefold increase since the beginning of 2002!
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Today, rice prices hit record. This week's 5 percent jump in Thailand rice takes prices to $1,000 a ton, nearly triple their level at the start of the year, intensifying fears of social unrest in Asia. This week, even the United States felt the reverberations, as major retailers started to notice signs of panic buying. Sam's Club, a unit of retail giant Wal-Mart, said on Wednesday it was capping sales of rice at four bulk bags per customer per visit!

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Serious issues we are all facing...

Global Warning

Something has gone wrong so that there was a global warning on global warming… (You may simply google it or go to wikipedia to understand what global warming is). And it may look foolish today, but there also are global cooling worries. The cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people in poor nations as written by Lowell Ponte in his 1976 book “The Cooling.” Apparently, the later case was not what we have been facing in the tropical area, but perhaps by those of us living in the other part of the earth.

It is too soon to 'decide' whether we would eventually face an ice or fire at the end, but the impact is now so obvious that it carries the potential for human disasters of unprecedented magnitude. Only minorities of people that regard the climate change merely a fiction nowadays. There are ominous signs we see in the television and newspaper’s headlines that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes are causing a drastic decline in food production with serious implications for just about every nation on Earth.

If there's something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action. Benjamin Franklin Gates – National Treasure

What actions we must take then?

Earth Day

Today, 38 years ago, Gaylord Nelson (the Democratic senator from Wisconsin) and millions of people in the US from coast to coast involved in nationwide grassroots demonstration on behalf of the environment. An event to express their concerns about what was happening to the land, rivers, lakes, and air. That’s a remarkable history of Earth Day.

". . . on April 22, 1970, Earth Day was held, one of the most remarkable happenings in the history of democracy. . . " -American Heritage Magazine, October 1993

Today, April 22, 2008, we are facing an environmental crisis, far worse than the US demonstrators realized in the 1970. Earth is already showing many signs of worldwide climate change:
- Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius) around the world since 1880
- The rate of warming is increasing. The 20th century's last two decades were the hottest in 400 years and possibly the warmest for several millennia.
- Average temperatures in Alaska, western Canada, and eastern Russia have risen at twice the global average between 2000 and 2004.
- Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the region may have its first completely ice-free summer by 2040 or earlier.
- Glaciers and mountain snows are rapidly melting—for example, Montana's Glacier National Park now has only 27 glaciers, versus 150 in 1910.
- Some experts also attribute an upsurge in the amount of extreme weather events, such as wildfires, heat waves, and strong tropical storms, in part to climate change.

Just like a body with lung cancer, it will not recover simply by quitting smoking. It is almost impossible to turn the earth just like it was two hundred years ago, when it was young and strong, when we still had time to establish sustainable development. Damage has been done, it is now much too late to pretend we are living in the 'same' earth. Something got to be done… a radical change just to make this earth remains a friendly place to live. Even turning all the cars and trucks off will not make our earth a better place; we need to do more than just stop smoking. And we need to do it together… started by every one who accidentally read this, whoever we are. Get out of the comfort zone because 'business as usual' is no longer an option. The planet is ours to save. Don't leave it to the government, earth needs our actions today... yes! ours, today...

Insignificantly Small v. Infinitely Large

The universe includes everything from the largest star to the smallest string. Everything is included in the universe, then the universe is considered infinite, is also expanding. Galaxy, just representing a tiny small fraction of universe. But somebody was asking 'Are universes thicker than blackberries?'

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Our lovely planet is one of 11 planets orbitting the sun, the only star in the solar system, one of billions in the galaxy, one of billions & billions in the entire universe.

13 visited countries represent only 5% of those in the globe

create your own visited countries map

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minuscule Indonesia islands - located at middle right - in the Taman Mini area
(our home is only a tiny spot about 1 km away from the centre)

Our home is exactly right in the centre of the map above
(I can see swiming pools in the neighbourhood. Thanks to Google-map)

Blackberries in our palms

Perhaps universe may be not thicker than blackberry but I'm not pretty sure.

However, a galaxy is indeed comparably smaller than a blackberry. It was contained in a marble hanging in the necklace of a cat (named Orion - see below) and we can clearly see it's size compared to blackberry. The Men in Black have saved its existence once from the UFO agents (or alien bugs?)...

Mind over Matterix !

The self, consciousness, thought, or whatever we call is eternal. It cannot die. The existence of self is independent of matter and energy. But the self, consciousness, thought could be so powerful that it can tap energy source to ‘manipulate’ matters.

"As you believe, so shall it be", "Believe it and you'll see it" - we have heard these kind of words such as "Power of Intention", "Mind Power", etc. either from self-help books or seminars. From Wayne Dyer, Anthony Robbin, Tony Buzan, or many others like Napoleon Hills and Andrew Carnegies with their receipts to think and grow rich! and later on from Rhonda Byrne who just revealed a long burried 'secret' from the ancient.

I consider myself as a rational person that won’t easily believe anything unless or until it is verified. I was not aware of such powerful mind resulted from focusing thought, until I gave it a try to myself. A metal rod was cut into two pieces by scrolled paper only by believing that it was a cracker that we smashed using a solid bar… An incandescent lamp was dropped from approximately two meters height not broken, instead it broke the tile it hit simply by manipulating the thought by believing a light bulb as a bowling ball! No wonder Abraham was safely walking from burning fire alive when ‘regular’ people even do the fire walk barefoot without getting burned.

The ancient Indian writings said everything was made of the same material, the “Chi” theory said that the fire and our feet are made of the same substance. Amazingly, the Quantum Physics says the very same thing: our feet would “tune” us to the fire, they are dancing at the same vibration. The universe is no different than your car, your cellular phone, your cloths, or your hair. It has been designed to directly interface with your thoughts using the Universal Operating System. Matter and energy are composed of atoms, and atoms are themselves vibrational in nature. The atom is vibrating within itself as well as all things vibrate because all things are made from atoms. It is our thoughts that make reality. My thought created mine, your thought created yours. There are infinite realities created by thought, only those that are having matching tune would meet in shared reality. Other’s reality may sometime seem odd or impossible to those who never experienced such. But we could not simply tell that it’s not real just because we haven’t seen or tasted it. This understanding has turned me, from a sceptic, into a more open-minded but not out-of-minded one. People are using only about up to 5% of their brain capacity in average, there is still plenty of space to use. Not only the conscious, we may also utilize the sub or even superconscious mind if we want to (or could?) develop further.

Science tells us that the light sometimes behaves as a particle and sometimes as a wave. Waves are vibrations and everything we see is based upon light. Even we could still ‘see’ things when we closed our eyes dreaming (I could see everything in my dreams vividly, without putting on my glasses, and colorfull too!). We feel all events as living experience of reality until we awaken. But if we are dreaming for 24 hours, we never know if all we feel are merely illusion. Sounds like a ‘Matrix’ world heh…? Then every of us could be a Neo, the One, who created our own and each universe as our own reality! But hey, we don't want to hang out only with Trinity, Morpheus and Oracle in a boring universe that full of mrrs. Smithes. Don't we??? (and our choices are not only those blue and red pills picked up by chance!)... Neo could be the long awaited messiah (in the cinematrix)... WE are the true messiahs in our reality, the real world, when you just believe...

Life as Circular Path

Let’s see the journey of self from different perspective. Every person and every life form has to be born and has to die. One tastes death and life twice each. The first death was before entering the physical universe and the second when leaving. Birth is the self entering a body, and death is consciousness leaving the body. The point A is when the journey starts and reaches full circle of the life path in the physical body. Say there are six billion of people inhibit this planet, and the average of life span is 65 years, there would be 92 million of such circle completed each year with 92 million of A’s as points of departure. So death is absolutely a natural process… is nothing to be afraid of. But where the self would go after that? Will it just vanish into a thin air? Nay, except if one agrees that life has no meaning and is unjust…

But death is not the focus, but the self. We are what we eat, if we eat like lion or like a pig then we are. But the truer is that we are what we thought (“I think therefore I am” as Descartes said). Our thoughts are to drive the body-mind-spirit system to the direction we want it to go in accordance to ‘free-will map’ in front of us. Thought is the steering wheel of the life system vehicles. It could be a joyful ride or misery, but life is supposed to be positive experience.

How, then Where ... rather than When?

It was about one year ago when I wrote in this blog last time and then forgotten till a friend of mine found this blog and asked me to continue writing…

To a little kid, a year seems like an eternity when he needs to wait the next birthday for prize. To those accustomed to thinking in terms of million or billion years such as a geologist, one year is but a blink of eyes!

The events of yesteryear or even our entire past are nothing more than thought. Our thoughts have always created our world. I am now the Z version of me to start the 2007, this is my world and my universe. The other version of me, say the Y-me may be living somewhere in the parallel universe I would never know. As far as I am concern, only the Z is relevant to my present time and space. I could be in the Y situation if my thought instructed me to make other significant or life changing decision between 2006 and 2007. But it is impossible to shift from Z to Y due to the consequences of the path(s) I have chosen.

The entire line from 0 (the time we were born) to the end of the road has been determined to the being where spacetime is not a constraint. To us as human being living in this planet, our ultimate destiny is definitely unknown. The distance between Z to (A’-A”) can never be predicted upfront. There are infinite possibilities and opportunities we could reach. Our entire future from this moment onward and the determination to succeed is nothing but our thought to do so. Our destiny would be within the range of the combination of our willingness and ability to make change, but our thought to lead the way and we are all given the gift of being able to write our own story and to create our own universe. Perhaps, not when we reach the finish line is the most important but how do we get there… it is not necessary to find a way to happiness, as happiness is the way.

A New Year, A Same Old Sun

Time keeps flowing... Time's sequence of events. There is no way back into the past. Time machine (to the past) is not a choice, it is a paradox.
Too much of good things in the last year. No need to regret, but to reflect. Winner or looser to be determined in the last minutes of our live. We can't win them all in every events, but we can be successful in the most of ... if we want, if we try.

Things change very fast in the computer and technological language. A PC we bought last year is no longer sophisticated at all. Internet has shaped our lives. Human genome will be decoded in a piece of CD. Nanotech molecular machines to be built in atomic size. Soon we could reach the star.

But...

Some humans would just become obsolete. Those who are afraid to defy traditions, who are reluctant to change, those who are ignorant...?

Some humans would transgress the limits. Those who use the power, knowledge, technology as a tool of war and oppression, those who are arogant...?

Some human would be the worse ones. The ignorant who are arrogant...?

Some humans would be the victims. Those who could not escape from the opressing tyranny...?

Some would be victorious. Those who believe in Him, be aware of the last day, and do good deeds...!

"The most successful person is
the one who holds onto the old
just as long as it is good and
grabs the new just as soon as it is
better."
Lee Iacocca

What Difference A day Makes

It could be no difference, small or huge... it could be positive, better :) or negative, worse :( or just so-so! The most expected difference is positively significant against substantially negative. But I noted a difference that could not or difficult to objectively measure from those +100 to -100 scale. This is not about mathematics, but subjective feeling...

Being apart of those we love. I said before that connecting people is only a few click or tap away. I realized that it is not the same between having contact and being around.

Flying for miles, staying in a 5* room here, enjoying good food... but alone (at night). I am loosing something in this heart. A same heart actually, but lack of smiles, tears, touches, kisses... or any others that cannot be conventionally or digitally transferred into the wire or the air over the magic of the internet high way. And this does not mean entirely 'negative' in any way, but only 'unfulfilled'. This lacking is not permanent... hopefully for a few days or whatever it could take.

Family... there are billion of individuals, but none could possibly replace the one we possess. Hundred million of houses, but none like home. My home, the one we are living in, is the center of this universe, not this beautiful hotel, not those expensive places...

So, I would say that a day or days could make a 'mathematical' difference and a different difference.

JW Marriot, Sby

After office hours

It is Monday... do I like it? I would say so so. Sitting in the same old chair to clear up my desks. Meeting with counterparts to find solutions or the ways mutual to the involving parties. Now, I need to pause from the business activities... just a few minutes before I conclude today's agenda.

Well what I have done today... do I contribute to make this world better? to make my family happier? to make things easier to anybody else? what I ve done to myself? I don't think I've made the best of my time today. But I settled some issues, making progress of pending matters... and learned somethings from the meeting. May not be useful today, but in the future perhaps.

Monday, did God start creating the world on Monday, or it was Sunday? The "Book" mentioned that God took a rest on Saturday... So, it should has been Sunday then the first day. Regardless, I would not think that it was the 24 hrs day. One day of 'heaven' could mean a thousand years of our reckoning. The universe was created about 15 billion years ago, and the world was 4.5 billion years ago. So, why do I care about one day, about Monday... which seems nothing compared to the age of universe. But I should and I do... because I don't have such along time to inhibite this world. And I could not predict when the time of mine would end. So, I would say that every day, every hour, every minute and every second is meaningful. Because we have a limited time and we don't have time machine to ravel back in the past...

What I have done today, I could not change it. But I would still have Tuesday (hopefully) to make correction, adjustment, improvement... whatever it called... and I should not be falling on the same mistake!

Monday, I could wait till Tuesday If I make up my mind ... said Sting.

From Nothingness

My bro just asked me if I had a blog already as his... he is now in the other part of this earth, 13 hours in distance, but only a few click away to call. Thanks to Skype that enables us to talk with a person in Houston at a real time and a real FREE! And I read in the PCWorld yesterday that Skype 2.0 beta is now realeased. A software and a tool that allow us to see the face (or any part, anything that the person wish to show us) over the screen... video calls! I think I need to get a new web cam sometime (to replace the no longer usable old one).

So I created this blog right after the communication ended. It took only a minute to be a blogger, alot easier than what I thought. But don't have anything in my mind to write down at this moment. OK, let me just type what are here by my side. A 17" LCD in front of me, my fingers are dancing... hitting the buttons what my brain is instructing, a world map in the wall (courtesy of National Geographic), books & magazines on the desk, also a glass of water, wearing t-shirt and short...

I think that's enough as a start!