Buy your Grave and Coffin Beforehand

SOURCE SUARA PEMBAHARUANThat's a secret to a longer life according to some belief.
That is also probably the ground of San Diego Hills Memorial Park development that costs US$ 1.000.000.000!! One thousand Million US Dollar!!
Don't get fooled by the name, it's not at all in San Diego, USA, but it's in Indonesia.
In this currently country of disaster, Mochtar Riady, a magnate from Indonesia, apparently sniffs a big opportunity from death.
He said, "death is not something taboo, but it should become our responsibility to plan it spiritually, mentally and physically beforehand. A beautiful cemetery and to respect the dead are the basic needs for anyone."*

SUARA PEMBAHARUANOf course he must say anything – even the most absurd things- to sell one grave for $US 3200/ m2!!
This Memorial Park will also have facilities like Italian Restaurant, swimming pool, jogging and bicycle track, shops, multifunction hall, etc, which of course not for the dead. Probably for some Italian tourists? ;-)

Maybe if he built it in some rich developed country, it would not be that controversial at all, but here in Indonesia, where so many people currently have lost their homes or even villages because of some nature disasters and some dirty shrewdness?
No sorry to say, for me it's a courtesy for the dead and discourtesy for the poor living.

Btw that irrational belief is very irrelevant to this country.

*source taken from Suara Pembaharuan

Not His Last Words

Unforgettable
Zippo
honour member of dog heaven
since 22 January 2005
xoxo

Blood Diamond

It seems in this movie, people in Sierra Leone either got killed or enslaved by the rebels. This armed rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) finance their movement by operating diamond mine and selling those diamonds to some dirty big western company who doesn't give a damn about the terror story behind those diamonds.

Because this film is inspired by what actually happened there in Sierra Leone, I felt stressful watching it. How a naturally beautiful and rich country becomes one of the poorest countries in the world because of the civil war, how killing is nothing without torturing, and so many other horrid things.

Other than the horrific things that happen to Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), his family and the people of Sierra Leone, there's this scene when Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) phones Maddy (Jennifer Connelly), where they can only talk without being able to stop the already felt fate, I also found this scene very touching.

Just do not miss Blood Diamond.

Google-alienated

"Hey, what did you do to my blog?"
It's Leet alterego, on the other side of the connection.
"Nothing. Why?"
"It doesn't appear on Google search! You must have done something"
"What will I tell my friends now?? I told them just to type Leet and they'd find me"
"Now their searches will lead to nothing"
"It's your fault"
etc...etc....
She went frantic!

And of course she suspected me. I know her password -she doesn't mind I play with her blog setting/ template/ layout, and though I might not have enough know how about html/template/css/blahblahlanguage, I'm not as illiterate as she is about this thing :-D

These days Leet alterego has really become Google-ized after reading The Google Story, and I think that what influenced her to join the Blogger world now.

I don't know what's happened with Leet's blog, it does not appear on Google search anymore. Poor her! And this is her S.O.S...
"Now, how am I gonna be famous?"
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