Momonolog

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Piracy has been, and probably will always be our bread and butter.

Take a peek inside this book titled ‘Rahasia Jadi Seleb di Blog,’ written by Rulli Nasrullah:

It’s infact a comic strip created by our fellow seleblog Ndoro Kakung. It was mercilessly stolen off ndoroakakung.com, without any permission, obviously. Apparently the book author (under the pen name of Josephine K. Christian) has no idea who made the funny strip, evident to the citation below it:

Sumber: www.blogger.web.id

Quite an irony for a book that goes to an extra length to educate new bloggers not to steal other’s work.

Has anyone ever heard Rulli Nasrullah before? I don’t think she (or he) is a celebrity blogger. I’m guessing that everything the book says was not based on personal experience, but an observations of celeblogger behaviors. Oddly enough, she/he doesn’t know a seleblog as famous as Ndoro Kakung.

This begs the question: is the author really qualified to write any techniques to be a seleblog?

Update (June 3rd, 2008)
The publisher issued an apology regarding to the copyright infringement, which was claimed unintentional.

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I often amuse myself how much time I spent for writing blog posts. My latest post about deaths took four hours to write and research.

Now why do I willingly waste (if you call it unproductive) precious time like that? Because I like to have my facts correct. Critics (esp. the lame one) tend to attack one’s opinion by attacking wrong supplemental facts, not the arguement itself.

The good thing is you learn so many things during your research. Now I know that diarrhea is the top fifth killer in poor countries. The legendary HIV, which barely touches the top 10 killers in rich countries, is third most deletrious disease in the third world counterparts. Some kids are born with HIV, while many parents are losing their adult descendants due to AIDS. That is just painful isn’t it.

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One nice thing about leather goods is they age gracefully. My leather wallet gets wrinkles, oil stains, folds; but its nowhere ugly. It is infact, looks charming, and personal. As if I had extra an appendage, but detachable.

Thats why I never refrain anyone who are considering to purchase leather shoes or bags. It is a good idea, however, not to buy one with overly trendy design. You probably going to use it for years! On the other hand, overly conservative design is boriing! However, trends do come and go in cycles. I guess it’s more about the art of buying things.

My old boss used to have this studentish parachute wallet. I cannot stop myself from ignoring this fact, hence I spoke to him that people in his position should only use leather. He gave an awkward response. Must be really uncomfortable to be criticised by your subordinate, for wallet choices.

But the next day he showed me his new wallet. It was leather.

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“While we have over 130,000 Indonesian blogs; most of the traffic are occupied by useless unimportant topics”—a fellow blogger said.

Doesn’t that statment feels like a disembowelment of our overconfident ego? But my gut says it’s true.

I am not going to delve into whats important and whats not. But if we dreamt of blogs replacing conventional media, we should start pruning well-written blogs on big-issue matters. This responsibility are twofolds, frankly.

See, having tonnes of good blogs on important subjects is, however, not enough. Good big-issue blogs needs good readers who are smart and concerned on the subject matters. If blog readers is still incapable to give proper comment on serious blogs like ndorokakung.com and priyadi.net, those great blogs we wish to have will be pretty much useless.

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Why do we have to respect old people? If they are not worth respecting, would our respect be worthwhile?

Shouldn’t the respect be given to respectable people, regardless their age?

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To best describe most Indonesian movies is by comparing them to living organism, notably human. They often started with good premise like a plump teenager, then losing direction during the midlife, and ended up rotten.

Radit and Jani is about rebellious street couple whose daily life is dedicated to rock-n-roll, drugs, and stealing foods. They have alotta lusty sex too, but since they are officially married, no free-sex were practiced. Things get sour when they have to pay the rent, while penniles at the same time. Meanwhile, the girl got pregnant too.

I was bored to death when this rebellious-couple movie slowly turning into a passable episodes of household conflicts. Apparently this part consume a major bulk of the screentime. If you go the moviehouse not to see a daily life, skip this.

Well inless you want to scrutinize Vino and Faharani steamy making out session.

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We went to see this movie Pan’s Labyrinth by Del Torro. It was exciting and well paced (and likeable characters), but the ending is somehow a turn off. I didn’t understand what the hell this Dell Torro trying yo say. Overheard during the credit title are “This is the worst movie I have ever seen” and “My Rp 15.000 was not well spent”. Boy I hate when people making quick judgement for things they don’t understand.

My mistake is expecting Pan’s Labyrinth to be a generic fairytale.

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