2008-03-25 19:57
Proxima Centauri, belonging to a small cluster of three stars, is the nearest star to the Sun. The distance between the two can be calculated in the following manner:Light travels 300,000 km… Read More
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2008-03-21 15:51
Traffic-wise, Sunday mornings are noticeably better than weekdays. Hence, speeding towards the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta, somewhat light-headed, I was trying to gather my… Read More
2008-03-21 15:50
Haven't been blogging for a while, so here's a quick-n-dirty synopsis of the last two months: I am no longer in Jakarta. Things were getting hazier around the beginning of September, and at… Read More
2007-08-09 18:10
Honestly speaking, I am a bit more excited and overwhelmed than most of my friends and colleagues, after undergoing the experience of "feeling" an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 on the Richter… Read More
2007-08-04 11:25
Captured these photos the night before leaving for India for a two-week vacation. It was a Saturday, and I was supposed to be stand-by at office for the night, which (quite fortunately!) was… Read More
2007-07-14 17:54
Have been frequenting two places lately: BuGils and Top Gun.I got introduced to BuGils via KK. It's situated at Taman Ria, Senayan, and is owned by a group of (mostly) Dutch men. Even though… Read More
2007-07-09 17:16
A gift to myself, for no obvious reasons:SONY ERICSSON, K800iCamera resolution: 3.2 MegapixelsSome cool features: auto-focus, 16x digital zoom (but gets choppy at that level), xenon flash, a… Read More
2007-06-07 18:02
MZ left last Tuesday. Normally we give farewell gifts to the one who leaves, but here it turned out to be otherwise. Before leaving, she handed over the following to me, which I truly cheri… Read More
2007-06-03 13:08
Had been to the church yesterday (thanks, MZ, for letting me go with you). Being born in a middle-class Bengali Hindu family, there's no reason why I would suddenly visit a church for the Sa… Read More
2007-05-28 17:31
... on my one month quit.I have been drinking occasionally, but was completely out of touch with cigarettes. And I congratulate my friends from Quitnet who reached this or some similar miles… Read More
2007-05-07 17:50
Spotted near Plaza Indonesia...BLINK, WHOEVER YOU ARE, I AGREE WITH YOU MATE Read More
2007-05-07 17:50
Here's an article from the "Opinion" page in today's Jakarta Post (May 7, 2007):And then once again in the front page of the "Business" section of the same edition:Some facts:The same articl… Read More
2007-05-04 11:00
This part of the road, adjacent to our office building in Jl. Jend. Gatot Subroto, normally remains uncongested, except extreme conditions, like flooding. The reason being a traffic signal a… Read More
2007-05-04 05:53
The latest news is of PT Mobile-8, Indonesia, with 2.02 million subscribers. 91% of Mobile-8's revenue come from prepaid subscribers. This speaks a lot about the general psyche of the popula… Read More
2007-05-04 03:25
Spiderman has grown up, as is evident from the theme of the latest in the series (#3). As many others (mighty Superman, or Anakin - the Skywalker [Star Wars Episode]), our friendly neighborh… Read More
2007-05-01 11:59
Quitnet is one place where co-quitters like me should go while refraining from the puff. Compatriotism takes a new dimension at Quitnet. If you're feeling hopeless to the point that you're t… Read More
2007-04-30 08:16
Two days back I went Cold Turkey again. The first time was in mid-2004, around the time I started with this blogging business. Neither blogging, nor my quit, could go on for long. Then it wa… Read More
2007-04-25 07:26
[An old one, written sometime around end 2002.]A common hourA winter nightThe city, Calcutta.They were togetherTheir state, nakedTheir love, deepTheir passion, silent.A convoy passes byIts s… Read More
2007-04-24 07:32
So I have finally settled on this template, which I picked up from the blogger workshop website. The original template looked like this:I changed the background and text colors, fonts, did s… Read More
2007-04-24 07:32
2007-04-24 07:31
Lately, I didn't really like the look of my blog, and started to search for a new template. Blogger offers a few, which are either too common, or somehow not suitable for holding diamonds an… Read More
2007-04-24 07:31
2007-04-22 17:20
Toddler puppies on the road,Lorries full of junk and load,The paper-boy just dropped his pocketful of news.And what's your views?I sing to you baby the happy happy morning blues.Pass the win… Read More
2007-04-20 05:48
This blog doesn't contain many pictures. So here's one Read More
2007-04-19 07:08
(Or, misapprehensions of a desolate lover)Tonight,I don't mean the world to you.Acquaintance.Common talk.Like common salt on your dining table.But, my love,A night will comeSilent of them al… Read More
2007-04-18 15:15
It's quite a remarkable fact that out of around one hundred million (100,000,000) unique species inhabiting Planet Earth today, human beings are the only one to wear clothes. I think the mai… Read More
2007-04-18 15:14
There's nothing to keepThere's nothing to throwThere's nothing to wearNowhere to goThere's nothing happeningOr coming soonThe sun is goneAnd there's no moonAnd there's no darknessNothing in… Read More
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