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My BlackBerry 8820 with color trackball !

We all know that BlackBerry is definitely an amazing gadget that has become such a major hype throughout the world. But do we all know what’s beyond BB rather than just a tool to connect you with people around you?

Yes I do love the BB Messenger, Push-Email Technology, etc. but still there’s actually more than that in BB.

Well, for me BB is not just that kind of tool. It simply can help us to personalize ourselves within.

So why don’t you improve your knowledge and personalize your BB to be exactly what YOU want it to be??

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2. Assistance in BB’s recent development and updates
3. Buying/selling guides

I kindly inform you that, I DO NOT sell BlackBerries !!

All I’m here for is just to share my knowledge & information regarding BB so that you can love your BB as much as I love it.

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Nokia 9300i Communicator for Lifetime Personal Guarantee

During my whole life, I’ve changed my personal mobile phone several times due to development of technology or even caused by damage/lost.

Among those phones that I’ve been using for the last decade, I guess the one that really amazed myself was the Nokia 9300i that I still use currently. The thing is, this phone I’m using, despite the physical condition, as in medium-sized, thick, not to mention how it is not in a good shape right now since I bought it 2 years ago, I still love the phone itself. Mainly because, compared to other phones, this Communicator has a feature that I don’t see in many other. That is which, the scheduled SMS feature that would save me quite some time to send particular SMS messages. For instance, birthday message, anniversary message, etc.

All I have to do is just type my message greetings, and put it on a scheduled SMS mode then voila! The phone will automatically store my message in the Outbox and send it on the determined schedule. I don’t have to stay awake until late midnight just to send someone a message saying “Happy birthday” or “Congratulations on your graduation”.

That is mainly the reason while I still keep this phone around my desk and pocket, as it is quite a handy PDA for me and it does have such a reliable organizer feature. Even though I’ve managed to own a BlackBerry 8820 that I bought in US last February, I still think of not selling the Communicator.

More or less, technology is growing rapidly at present time. Do we have to adjust our necessities based on technology? Or should we make sure that technology is keeping up with our necessities?

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Sahur Tanpa Asumsi

Akhirnya selain sahur hari pertama dan kedua, sahur hari ini saya sahur dengan makanan rumah yang, menurut saya cukup layak untuk dikatakan as a decent meal. Kenapa? Karena jujur saja, sejak sahur hari ketiga sampai kemarin, saya makan makanan di luar rumah, yang kalaupun dimakan di rumah itupun dengan delivery. (Yaa, nasib anak kost.. hahaha)

Lalu apa yang membuat sahur hari ini begitu menarik untuk saya pribadi? Tidak lain dan tidak bukan karena saya sahur di depan laptop saya, sambil mengisi Facebook dalam rangka berusaha untuk membantah sebuah asumsi yang nyangkut di kepala sepupu saya. Dia berasumsi bahwa saya ada certain kind of feeling dengan seseorang, yang memang harus saya akui beberapa hari terakhir ini komunikasinya cukup intens dengan saya.

Hm. Asumsi, bagi saya sendiri, saya menganggapnya sebagai suatu proses untuk mendapatkan informasi lebih lanjut tentang sesuatu hal yang belum tampak jelas di permukaan. Sebagai contoh, katakanlah saat ini saya sedang “rajin-rajinnya” membangun komunikasi dengan seseorang, yang tentu saja hanya saya dan Allah Swt. yang tahu pasti alasan mengapa saya membangun komunikasi dengan orang tersebut. Kemudian tentang bentuk dan proses dalam membangun komunikasi itu sendiri, jelas yang tahu hanya saya dan orang tersebut. Namun, dalam kenyataannya, saya hidup di dunia yang bukan hanya saya dan dia yang menjalankan hidup ini. (Ditambah kalau komunikasi tersebut melibatkan situs sosial seperti Facebook, yang mau tidak mau hampir seluruh network saya maupun dia, bisa melihat dengan jelas segala bentuk komunikasi yang kami lakukan satu sama lain). – damn those mini-feeds

Pada akhirnya, tentu saja network kami dapat melihat secara kasat mata – kalau boleh dibilang hanya di permukaan saja – segala bentuk komunikasi yang kami lakukan, entah itu sekedar saling mengisi wall, saling tukar comment pada photo, dll. Yang jadi masalah adalah, ketika asumsi-asumsi tersebut, tanpa klarafikasi, dianggap sebagai sesuatu yang sudah pasti benar, dimana seharusnya pihak-pihak yang terlibat dalam proses komunikasi tadi diberikan kesempatan untuk menjelaskan hal yang sebenarnya. Seringkali, masalah ini muncul dalam kehidupan kita sehari-hari, yang pada akhirnya juga bisa berpotensi terhadap kemunculan suatu konflik horizontal antar sesama ke permukaan.

“It’s already a complicated world, so don’t add more complications just by believing ONLY to your assumptions. Give someone the opportunity to explain anything he/she wants to explain. In the end, the line between truth and lies is very thin”

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Menunggu.

Dari sekian banyak hal yang paling dianggap mengganggu bagi seseorang, mungkin menunggu adalah hal yang paling tidak disukai bagi hampir semua orang. Sebelumnya, perlu saya tekankan bahwa saya bukanlah seorang yang sempurna, yang hampir selalu bisa menepati janjinya tepat waktu dan tidak membiarkan orang lain menunggu. Alasan kenapa hal ini tiba-tiba muncul di kepala saya, lebih dikarenakan hal ini merupakan sesuatu yang umum yang mungkin pernah dirasakan oleh semua orang.

Bagi saya pribadi, menunggu adalah suatu hal yang sering saya rasakan dalam interaksi dengan orang-orang yang ada di sekitar saya, baik keluarga, sahabat, teman atau bahkan orang yang belum pernah saya kenal sebelumnya. Memang, ada kalanya saya merasa bahwa menunggu bukanlah sesuatu yang buruk sama sekali, karena saya menganggapnya sebagai bagian dari suatu proses untuk mencapai hasil yang saya inginkan. Tapi tentunya, pada lain kesempatan, sebagai manusia biasa yang tidak luput dari berbagai kekurangan, saya bisa sampai pada satu tahapan dimana menunggu bisa jadi sesuatu hal yang menganggu.

Dalam kaitannya dengan suatu pengambilan keputusan, seseorang tentu perlu melakukan analisa-analisa tertentu, dengan harapan bahwa tindakan yang akan ia ambil terkait keputusan tersebut tepat sasaran dan tentunya tidak merugikan orang lain. Menunggu, dalam kaitannya dengan hal ini, adalah sesuatu yang dianggap wajar karena selama proses menunggu tersebut dilakukan, masih ada hal lain yang bisa kita kerjakan sehingga pada akhirnya proses menunggu tersebut tidak kita sadari sudah berjalan dengan sendirinya.

Namun, seringkali kita dihadapkan pada situasi dimana, disaat kita menunggu, tidak ada satupun hal yang dapat kita kerjakan sehingga kita benar-benar harus berkonfrontasi langsung dengan proses menunggu tersebut. Dalam kamus saya, hal seperti inilah yang dapat mengganggu saya secara pribadi, terutama dari segi psikologis. Mengapa? Karena kondisi menunggu yang seperti ini, benar-benar memposisikan kita dalam keadaan idle condition. Yang mana, hal ini bukanlah sesuatu yang membuat nyaman bagi diri saya sendiri maupun bagi orang lain. Karena pada akhirnya, ketika kenyamanan itu hilang dan mempengaruhi mood saya dalam menjalankan aktifitas sehari-hari, bukannya hasil terbaik yang dapat saya capai, melainkan sebaliknya, pengaruh tersebut bahkan bisa menular sampai ke proses interaksi saya dengan orang lain. Tentunya, hal ini bukanlah sesuatu yang baik, karena saya percaya justru proses interaksi antara saya dengan orang lain, seharusnya didasari oleh goodwill antar sesama, bukannya malah bad mood

P.S. Maaf jadi sedikit curhat, tapi yang jelas saya sedang mengalami kondisi yang kedua dari menunggu, seperti yang saya jelaskan diatas. Terutama ketika saya on a tight schedule untuk dapat menyelesaikan skripsi saya, dengan catatan saya harus lulus Oktober nanti. Yang jelas, sampai sekarang skripsi saya masih stuck karena data-data yang saya butuhkan masih saja belum dikirim dari API ditambah dengan pekerjaan finansial dari skripsi saya yang juga belum dapat saya selesaikan. Well, di bulan Ramadhan ini ada baiknya saya sering-sering mengingatkan diri saya sendiri untuk bersabar.

Defining Maturity Among People

It’s Ramadan and all I know that during this holy month, Muslims all over the world are cherishing and welcomes this annual event as a part of their religious activity. It’s actually such a blessing for me, as a Muslim, to feel this kind of experience as I believe people around the world, with their own religious activities and beliefs, would celebrate on their own behalf. The very important message about Ramadan itself is how we, as a human being, try to withdraw our desire to do bad things, lusts and sins. At the end of Ramadan, families would gather and up rise forgiveness among them, remembering them as a human being, they are reluctant to conduct false and mistakes among themselves.

It’s a common thing for me too, that usually during Ramadan, I won’t sleep until Sahur, have my breakfast at 3 A.M., conduct Salat Subuh afterward, then I will sleep until the sun rises and do my activities for the day. Just like now when I wrote this Blog.

Earlier this evening, I had some discussions with some of my friends on my Facebook Event page regarding my plan for a group trip to Bali in October. Just FYI, this trip has been planned by me and some of my friends to celebrate our graduation this year (SBM ITB class of 2008). During those discussions, I was quite surprised that one of my friend has reacted quite harsh regarding another person’s suggestion for the event. So I had to clear things up between them, try not to over-reacted and making sure that everybody’s speaking the same language. Even making smart-jokes just to chill things down

And then, I was thinking the whole evening, what’s wrong with people these days? I mean, has good communication has really downgraded into the lowest level of understanding that could heat things up between a person and another? Or is it just the goodwill of a person to solve questions and problems with clear head rather than just seeing things as it is. In my own perspective, we should not judge statements, attitude, moral, law, well you name it, at just the single side of an issue. Instead, we as human being, created by God to look things in a clearer perspective, moreover multiple side of an issue. Realizing that problems does not arise by itself, as there must be a root cause of it. This is what I, on my own behalf, thinks that it is important for people to be aware of. Knowing the root cause of a problem, might gives us the basic foundation to solve that problem.

So I guess, this is what actually happens to people often these days. Instead of using their own capability, with a clear and multiple approaches, people tend to force on their own ego, without letting others express what they had in mind, even if they do, they just don’t try to think on others’ condition when an issue had to rise. For me, this is the initial capital of creating a conflict. I’m not a person that highly praised on debates nor hated it. But of course in life, everything should have a reason. Well, yes maybe there are certain things that we as humans can’t explain, but yet in a connection of human-to-human interactivity, (almost) everything is built on a logical basis. For instance, I will be nice to people that are nice to me and as a result I will build a good interaction with them. On the other hand, will someone be nice to me if I’m not nice to them? In a complicated world like this, it’s definitely possible! Yet again, there will always be a reason for that. And even sometimes, we won’t be able to explain on these reasons, especially when it involves the thing called feelings. We as humans are blessed with feelings, as it in many cases may have great influence in our decisions and judgments. So in the end, between logic and feelings they both do us good in certain times, or even causes harm to us in another time.

What actually makes someone considered as a mature person? Maturity. Let’s define it. Maturity is the state, fact, or period of being mature. What is mature? In the definition of mature in persons, we will find two descriptions:

(1). Fully developed physically; full-grown
(2). Having reached an advantage stage of mental or emotional development characteristic of an adult

These two descriptions might align in a personality of someone, yet might not. For instance, we’ve seen in a lot of cases often (1) as we can look through the physical and outer signs of certain people. But would that be enough to tell someone that he/she is mature? I disagree with that, because in my opinion, what’s more important is (2). Why? Because this kind of development stage in a person will affect in many aspects of a person’s life, including their interactivity with others. This would show others how manly is a man, and how womanly is a woman. This is the stage where actually people would reveal their true identity, rather than hiding behind the mask called selfishness.

In the end, I believe that in this life we’re living, there shall be peace and unity among us as long as we believe to ourselves and try to tolerate each others. We actually learn these things during our elementary days in school, yet we might not realize when, why and where we should implement it. I try to remind myself that every time I face my greatest problems or fears with others, I try to think as others not only as being myself. Tolerance. That’s what our founding fathers has taught us since long ago, and that is the kind of value we should maintain until the day we are ready to pass it to our descendants.

“ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL”
(Obama, Barack. 2004. Democratic National Convention, Boston.)