When you want billions friends

Friendster, Hi5, Facebook alike won't give you easily, but this one will.
This one is very easy to join.
No need to write long profile, you get it just by answering more or less 4 questions and the site will create you a profile based on that.
Instant billions friends at one click :))
Read the FAQ first if you need to be convinced.

I'm talking about nclüdr.
Oh, and it has superb un-clickable ads :-)))

This is my first profile:

Great eh :))

Being blessed

That's what Holy Friday makes me think.
What if I were not born Christian?
It would be harder for me to understand about Jesus.
Even I was born and am Christian, His lifestyle and His life story is still hard for me to follow and understand.
If not because of His Love, I would have lost my faith.
He died for our sins so we who believe in Him can live, He didn't come for Christian, He came for those who believe in Him.


I'm happy, I managed to push myself to attend Holy Friday congregation this afternoon though I was a bit late and didn't get a nice seat. There were at least 3000 people who attended our Church congregation this afternoon and it was not held in Church building but in one of a big national sport centers in Jakarta.
This evening one of our TV stations broadcast "The Passion of The Christ" and again with no ads at all. That movies affirms me that I'm blessed already.

I'm already blessed, and I still want moreeeee!! :-P
Well....human...
Anyhow, hope you can feel the Love of Christ too in your life.

Photo by midiman

Blog Marketing Tool

It seems that blogsphere has become busy and busier with monetization. The old personal blogs style do still exist, but realise it or not many of them too have tasted the euphory of ads on blog. Some take it seriously and some just want to test the water or just want to get easy money while doing something that they like.
Those who are doing monetization of their blog seriously maybe have already been familiar with iContact, an email marketing plus tool that help blogger or webmaster to present and tract their post, rss feed, survey, and all the marketing needs. The tool acts just like an adept yet affordable assistant, it starts as cheap as $9.95 per month, but it's also available free for 15 day trial.

The following screenshot shows how easily to manage all sort of marketing stuffs from its user friendly interface.


The tabs on the interface looks like are designated as guidelines of things to do in managing a website or blog and at the same time also act as reminder.
Its Mycontact tab has the ability to segment contacts based on the available subscribers' data to make easier doing targeted email marketing, while the Create tab is for creating contents for blog, email newsletter and feeds.

A complete overview of iContact feature is available on this following video on http://icontact.com/www/video/introduction_video.html.

Bule

The word 'bule' for some caucasian people who have been living or are now living in Indonesia is considered derogatory word.
I didn't know the meaning of bule at first, but since ten years ago I've become aware that it means albino, white person. Well, being native doesn't mean someone is expert or have better understanding at her/ his language of course.
As far as I know, most Indonesian people never intend that as derogatory remark.

Some of my siblings and I were lighter than average Indonesian when we were kids, and thanks to Mom, we all have pointed nose - though mine is the less pointed one amongst my siblings. That made village people in our neighborhood called us bule, they thought we had western blood and they said we're good-looking. Now, only my brother retains that look.

One very famous Chinese-Indonesian young actress -Agnes Monica- once on an interview were very proud of her newborn niece or nephew who she said very beautiful and '....just like bule.'

Well, I'm not really going to discuss whether it's a derogatory word or not, I'm writing this because of what Filo -my teacher said.

My friends, Filo and I were waiting for an elevator at one apartment, and there were some expats around, and suddenly Filo -who is also an expat and a caucasian- said '...banyak bule ya di sini' (= there are many bule here). She said that quite loud and there were a Caucasian couple right behind us.
Yes, she's quite fluent in Indonesian and she doesn't like to use English at all, we either have to speak Indonesian or her language.

We of course laughed because it's very funny, considering that she's also entitled that word.
She didn't think that other expats might also speak Indonesian language as fluent as her.

I also remember once my other expat friend was proudly telling me a story how he could manage to get tickets for Jakarta International Film Festival although he and his friend were late because the person in charge there let them in. He told me '.....that's the advantage of being bule.' And this somehow makes me annoyed, what a racist Indonesian!

Maybe it depends on the person whether it's considered bad word or not, just like the word 'black people' maybe?
For sure I think some Indonesian people -native or non-native- don't mind to be referred bule cause for them it means good-looking, again showing how racist are Indonesian people :-P

Pull me up

Ho avuto questa ricetta di sabato scorso dal mio professore, mi piace molto tiramisù!!


Ingredienti per due persone:
200gr Mascarpone
100gr ca biscotti "Savolardi"
2 uovo
Caffe/ Alcool
Cacao in polvere
200gr zucchero

Dividere il tuorlo dell'uovo dal bianco
Montare il bianco dell'uovo con una frusta
Unire il tuorlo allo zucchero e al mascarpone
Mescolare, poi aggiungere il bianco montato e creare un impasto omogeneo
In una teglia mettere un primo strato di impasto
Immergere un po' di biscotti nel caffe e metterli sopra allo strato d'impasto
Ripetere l'operazione fine alla fine, l'utimo strato deve essere d'impasto
Infine coprire la superfice con il cacao in polvere
Mettere in frigo per circa 1 ora.

Hhmmm...gusto celestiale nella bocca, c'e Tiramisu.
Ma attento del' influenza aviaria!! :-P

Photo by UncleVinny

Lucky Oliver Color Lovers Contest

Everyone who love colours should join this contest because it's really fun.
First of all of course we have to be a member of Colorlovers in order to join it, but you don't have to join LuckyOliver.
As colorlovers, you don't have to pay anything but a big love of colours, cos you're going to see or discover all shades of colours there.

Ok, back to the contest.
In brief, contestants have to pick inspirational photo from LuckyOliver, then extract five colours from that photo, creates new colors palette on your colorlovers, post it and leave comment to Colorlovers blog.

Browse LuckyOliver great photo collections now, I'm having fun already with some of photos there and this palette is one of my entries which is inspired by this photo.


Contest will end on March 17th, and the winners will be selected based on the best palettes that captured the spirit/mood of the inspiration photo.

Here are the prizes:
1st prize: 8GB iPod Touch or $300 + 50 LuckyOliver tokens
2nd prize: 1 x iPod Shuffle or $79 + 50 LuckyOliver tokens
3rd prize: 1 x iTunes Gift Card or $25 + 25 LuckyOliver tokens

Office Furniture Solution

Work space may contribute positive value to employees; therefore the arrangement and the choice of furniture are two important components in designing office space. The choice of furniture is very important because furniture is every office inventory that requires them to possess certain qualities for their durability, and because the use of furniture is usually in big number, the choice must be economical in price. The set of furniture choice must also have the ability to merge flexibly with the work space layout.

Price Point from intercounty.com provides wide range choice of office furniture which have been known for their durability, simple but sophisticated design, and their affordable good prices. Office desks from Price Point all use 25mm thick tops, which is above the average standard 18mm thick desk top, and the upstands of office cantilever desks are not only one, but double upstands that is designed to prevent bending caused by heavy weight use. The office desks have clutter free cable system because each of the desks has at least 2 cable ports, this also means no need additional expenses for cable organisers.

All of Price Point Grey office desks have 8 years of warranty that makes them good choice for office furniture because in my opinion, non-private or service use furniture are more vulnerable to damage. Their affordable prices don't make them bear the quality of cheap, low quality desks because Price Point meets BS 4875 Level 4 for its desks strength and stability. Check also their various choice of office storage, such as metal filing cabinets, wooden filing cabinet, multi drawer units, etc to complement the work space.

Anger Management

Well...sort of :-P ..however...
When you just get too annoyed and need to say things, just find B*SH
When the world is tumbling down go to Boredat
When you think evil possesses your world and you have nothing but justanger
When you need boss bitvhing and all you want to do jihad in the name of anger.
And you will never find mybiggestcomplaint here.

Source: Mashable
Photo by Jarosław Pocztarski

Shopping with less guilt

Well, if there is Christmas Rush, then there should be Easter Rush because both are happy jolly celebrations. Even without giving presents like on Christmas, still the celebration season is a good time for shopping. Don't I sound so uneconomical?
No way, I have a good reason because in some countries celebration session means shopping discount season. However for whatever reason whenever you want to save or cut your shopping expense, just shop with discount coupons. Buy your Easter Bunny costumes from Buycostumes.com with discount coupon. Find coupons on www.couponchief.com, it has coupons galore.

Maybe you fancy something from Target? Collect their discount coupon there first. Anyone who needs a new computer can get 25% off coupon for minimum $999 purchase of Dell Inspiron desktop that will end today, but don't worry that's not the only discount offer from Dell.

How about doing your garden during this spring? Michigan bulb supplies you with quality plants at low price. I'm sure you have plenty ideas of what to do this Spring, just remember visit www.couponchief.com first and redeem your discount coupons there. Save your money.

Habitable Shipping Container

Thanks to a visionary group of developer who built a container city with 100% recycle materials in the heart of London. Now there's a second life for shipping containers and that is better than in scrap yard.

It's even shipped to Australia, Pakistan and South America.
I love the modern look of this architecture, though this will need a good heat insulation for hot climate countries like in my country.

About that picture

I did a mindless mistake when I posted one of Scragz's photos for my post “Ever Wonder about this Picture.”

Luckily Scragz sent a comment last night for that post, here it is:

Creative Commons is the best...but watch out! The link to my photostream is wrong and the Commons Cops will soon be at your door.

At that point, I was not sure what mistake that I've done, cause I followed Skelliewag's tips on using photos from flickr.
I then click his Blogger.com profile to contact him, but it's not publicly open. So I clicked the link that I used for that photo, of course I went to the wrong person and I was lucky too that I couldn't find how to contact the person otherwise I would confuse him cause it's not his photo at all. I browsed his photo collections a bit though in order to retrieve that photo, again of course it's never there.

Finally I noticed what's wrong, the person who contacted me is Scragz and the link that I used has different flickr id.
Felt a bit relieved that I could find how to leave message to Scragz, I explained the purely accidental mistake and apologised for that. Feel completely relieved that he actually never mind the use of that photo, with the correct link credit of course.

Here's his reply:

Use it, please! Just fix the link. It's really not a big deal; I thought
it was kind of funny in the context. ^^

Grazie Scragz :))

Buzzfuse

If you have many blogger contacts or friends then you should join Buzzfuse.com. Perhaps you are the lucky one who can win one of 1000 premium Buzzfuse account which values more or less $180.

But what is Buzzfuse.com?
Buzzfuse helps bloggers or any content creators to reach more audience for their products. The process is simple. Put Buzzfuse code on anything that you want to buzz, whether blog article, audio/foto file or flash media, then click the widget to activate it. If you are non-Premium creators, you better have at least 5 friends to build your initial social circle, otherwise you cannot yet accomplish the process. Premium creators have the ability to test-market their buzzfuse with specific people.
Let shine your contents.

How to describe Durian?

No offense to the durian lovers, but maybe this can describe Durian fruit best.
Don't let these conversations scare you away though :)))

WonderRandy

01-04-04, 12:43 AM

I LURRRVVVE Durian!!! it truly is the king of fruit (if you can get past the smell...). It smells like an old stinky sock wrapped in a dirty diaper. but it tastes HEAVENLY...... :drool:

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raindrop

01-04-04, 01:50 AM

I LURRRVVVE Durian!!! it truly is the king of fruit (if you can get past the smell...). It smells like an old stinky sock wrapped in a dirty diaper. but it tastes HEAVENLY...... :drool:

If the taste can overcome that description it must truly be a marvel!
I can just imagine the experience. :stinkeye:

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galinusa

01-04-04, 04:35 AM

I totally agree with WonderRandy - durian smells really bad, like few-day old socks but it taste really good!!! It's sort of like fermented tofu that Taiwanese is famous for.

Side note, I had durian yesterday! This thread made me crave for some. It was one that was slightly bitter but sweet at the same time! The type that I lurrrve!!

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WonderRandy

01-04-04, 08:40 AM

it's amazing, the smell actually enhances the flavor....

Learn more about durian to encourage you here.

Smells hell, Tastes heavenly

It is how to describe Durian or Duren. The durian fruit on the picture is from my parents' home backyard. I used to like it very much when I was a kid, but the smell has never been my favourite. I got a bit dizzy with the smell when my brother, sis-in-law came and together with my Mom opened this durian to eat it. I tried a bit though and it tasted great. If I'm not wrong this durian is durian Montong -the sweetest and most delicious type of durian.

Western people usually can't stand the smell of durian, but don't dismiss it when you have the opportunity to try it. Just hold your breath for a while and eat it, soon you won't mind the smell as you taste its deliciousness. If you're not as lucky as I am to have durian tree that bears fruit in your backyard, you must visit Warso Farm because it's a heaven for durian lovers as they can pick any kinds of durian directly from the durian trees. I've never been there, though it's only 2 hours from my city. I think I will ask a friend to come with me there and challenge him to eat durian -hopefully he has never tried it before. Wonder if he can stand the smell :-D

After all, what else can you find anything that smell stinky hell but taste heavenly?
Only Durian, only durian!

Booth Design

Trade show booths are the representatives of companies in trade show. How it looks may result in sending positive PR company message or the other way around. As a medium to exhibit product or service, booth should have a notable look that is able to pull in the passers-by attention.
These are some physical elements of trade show booths:

Banner Stands
This is the front-row enticement for booth because this element functions as product or service message display to visitors that can make booth stands out. There are different types of this element, ranging from simple square banner stands to non-standard square shape banner stands, from stationary to motorized scrolling system banners. Use hanging or overhead display if you want to form an even more enclosed and compact space.
Table Skirts
Table covers is a neutralizing element. A blank cover and a cover with only company’s name or logo is good for booth design that already uses colourful banner stands. A pattern and colourful covers are good choices for a show booth with less banner stands because this kind of covers -as an exchange to banner stands- can be used as a medium to send marketing message to visitors.
Pipe and Drape
Backdrop, as the commonly largest element of booth, can use this system. Pipe and drape system easily boost the look of booth. Choose the right colour shade, and use only high quality fabric. Drape can be with or without print, just remember to not ruin the booth look with too much use of colours and prints.

Info on Addiction

Some time ago a relative told me about her battle to fight her drug addiction five years ago. She had tried many drugs during her crazy years –from the cheapest until the expensive ones. She went to the addiction rehab centre out of town, far from her family and she finally gave up the drugs after her Dad passed away just a year after her Mom, both when she was still in that rehab centre. Her story sadly is not a unique story, there are similar stories like that have happened in my country because of drug addictions and alcoholism. I hope our government is willing working harder to socialize the danger of irresponsible using of drugs because there are still many people using it and the number seems even to grow bigger.

Those who get connected with internet might be luckier, because through internet there are many accessible information that can help drug addiction and alcoholism. Location difference is not at all a problem, I'm sure many people from all over the world can learn a lot about drug detox from their reading on Chillpharm.com. I just learn there that there are many drug detox programs, but from what I learnt from my relative seemed the rehab that she took mix all kind of drug addicts into one place and even sometimes if they do wrong then they got punished by putting them in the same room with mental patient. I don't know if any other drug rehabs also have that policy, I feel that it's obnoxious.

There should be a proper treatment so to make addiction recovery succeed, otherwise like what my relative experience the drug rehab would only be like an underground place for drug transaction or for exchanging drug dealer contact. Perhaps there should be guidance for those rehab centers about the right addiction recovery treatments.
Here is a good link about heroin rehab, or if you know someone who seems suffering addiction after they're using a pain relief like Vicodin, you can recommend the person to take vicodin detox.