My opinion on traffic jams

I'll start with a question,

Do you like traffic jams?

It's an easy one, isn't it. If you are sane, than the answer is NO, but if you are crazy and rich and can buy time with your swiss bank accounts, then maybe yes, you do like traffic jams. We'll I don't i hate traffic jams it make you unproductive, it some times makes you wet (bare with me, i don't have a car, i am not rich enough to buy one) the point is, traffic jams piss you off.

Well, Do you know what causes traffic jams? Well in my opinion there are a couple of reasons, lets start with the first one :

1. The Humble City transport (angkot)

It's is a cheap form of mass transportation, but i guess it's to cheap because the drivers (not all of them) are idiots. They are colour blind and some times they are also illiterate. It seems to them that the colours on traffic lights have no meaning, they are there just to make the road bright or just to be as a decoration so that people don't get bored while driving. They are egoistic people that only think for them selves and not think for other road user. They think that they are the king of the road and they own the road, but i bet you they don't pay the income tax, so they have no bloody right to use the roads.

2. People from Jakarta (They come at week ends and cause havoc on our roads)

Every saturday or sunday or at any given week end there will be lots of people from Jakarta coming to Bandung. Their sole purpose is to cause traffic jams and buy clothes and eat batagor, and get there cars trashed by viking supporters. Don't they realize that the only thing they do is just make a bloody traffic jam. If they make traffic jams and give me money thats okay, but they don't. They come with their posh and expensive cars. From Alphards To S klasse to Z4, all they do is make a nuisance, so please Jakarta people, GO HOME!!, By your bloody clothes and batagor some where else. I'm sure that there are better and more EXPENSIVE boutiques to buy your clothes. Go some where else, like Sukabumi or Subang.

There are also more reason for the traffic jam cause, but i won't mention them because our goverment has very strict and stupid laws about what is allowed and what is not allowed to written (fell like I'm living in Iran or maybe a communistic country where every thing has a law). And one more thing traffic jams causes global warming which, I quote from CInta Laura "Global Warming is Kool" hahaha

good night..

My opinion on Money.

Money money money, always sunny
in a rich mans world..

The lyrics from one of the song sang by ABBA. Money. If you can touch it, then you can count it. If you can count it than you can never have enough of it. Money is the sum of all evil, money is what makes the world go round or the world stop and have an apocalyps or have an armagedon.

Before there was money, people use to trade stuff like trade rice for rabbits or rabbits for sugar or cats for cockroach, then came the money and everything went wrong. People started stealing money from the money shops (we call banks today) and the there cam inflation where the prices of the good when very high that everybody went poor and can only eat cheap rice and cheap corn. No wonder they call money, the sum of all evil

About last week, i went to a hard ware store in the central part of Bandung, and i saw a bike that costs RP 48.0000.0000,- that about $4800 (well roughly). It may sound normal to you foreigners but for us "native" people, that price is crazy, its ridiculous, just for a stupid bike you have to pay forty eight million, think of what kind of stuff you can bloody buy for that amount of money. You can pay mortgage for a loan to buy a house, for god sake. And who is the idiot that will buy a two wheel contraption for that kind of price? certainly I won't, It's not worth it. You can get a bike for about RP 300.000,- near pasar kosambi (thats around $30). beside bike they also sell barbeque cookers or stove for RP 43.000.000,- (do the conversions yourself) it's crazy. Just to cook an egg or meat on a cooker that expensive. Thats what i call inflation. Just imagine, if a bicycle cost that expensive, how much could a standard ball point cost? Rp 100.000,-? its just crazy.

People too are becoming crazy, spending Rp 1.000.000,- on clothes or shoes or on things that are not worth spending on. They buy it because of the prestige and not because of the use. There are many people that earn 1 million rupiah per month and they have to use it for their living needs. Whilst some people in Jakarta or Bandung use it to but shushi or to buy some under wear. I just think its not worth it.

So please, spend your money wisely and buy a pack of cigarettes....

My opinion on smoking

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The smell of cigarettes always broads my mind. It has become not just a habit but a tradition for most Indonesians. More than 50% of Indonesian population smokes, and mostly the people that smoke (within the 50% of Indonesia citizens ) are poor, or they live below the average line.

Then, you may ask, why do they have money to buy a pack of cigarettes and not have money to pay for their child's education fee? or maybe for their monthly lively hood??
well, I really don't know, you should ask them..

I've been a smoker for 4 years know, and i admit its a stupid thing to start, because smoking is a serius thing to stop. Once the nicotine gets into your system, it's like grease on teflon, or molten cheese on a hot fry pan, It's very hard to let go, and very hard to stop.

There are no benefits of smoking, like we all know. It says it clearly on the cigarette box. Or as people say smoking kills. And it does. There are more than a 100 poisonous substances in a stick of cigarette, and people will argue that a cigarette contains the same substance as rocket fuel (which i dont believe, and it contains a substance that is also found in mosquito repelent). But if you are a smoker, you would igonore the facts and say, what the hell.I'm not writing this article to encourage people to stop smoking, remember its just my opinion.

I've tried many brand of cigarettes from gudang garam, to Djarum Super, Dji samsoe (kretek filter), malrboro, lucky strike, marco polo, pall mall, dun hill, raison, esse, sampoerna, u-mild, classmild, x-mild, djarum black (tea and capuchiono), benson and hedges, phil, duffyduff, muld seven, wismilak,broen, somperna hijaun,djarum coklat, local made cigarettes such as gudang ganam, bintang buana, djeruk, rokok linting, kraton dalem, and many more. For me it's not because i'am an ash tray, but it's because every cigarette has its own character. Like people who do very hard labour usually smoke djarum coklat or sompoerna hijau or maybe dji samsoe. The taste it's not that good, execpt for dji sam soe (of course), but the nicotine a tar level is quite high. Maybe thats what they need.

For people who have "money" (middle class) they may smoke anything from "millds" (class milds etc) to kretek filter (Gudang garam, super) to marlboro, lucky strikes. Usually girls tend to smoke "milds" or menthol, but some extreme cases they will smoke djarum super or maybe Sam soe.

I at the present moment smoke marlboro lights. Its not the best but its may way of decreasing the nicotine. I use to smoke Dji sam soe (magnum Filter). That is like buying death. THe nicotine and tar level out run other cigarette brands. But the smoking sensations is uncomparable. It's one of the best tasting cigarettes that i ever tried.

In the long run, smoking will make your life miserable, but in the short term it gives a sensation of satisfaction that can only be felt by smokers....

as posted on face book 16/03/2010