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An Interview with Yamakasi Team in Jump Magazine

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Q: Please introduce yourselves individually.

Laurent: My name is Laurent Piemontesi, I am 30 years old for few years again and I live in Milano, Italy. Here I teach Art du Déplacement in a school called Forma Arte, where there are others different disciplines. I’m trying to do the same as I did in France working around sport, education, art and culture.

Guylain: I am Guylain Boyeke, I’m 35 years old and from France.

Châu: I’m Châu Belle, one of the founders of the Yamakasi. I’m 34 years old, living in Paris and I’m an actor.

Williams: My name is Williams Belle, I’m 30 years old, I am half French and half Vietnamese. I’m living in Sarcelles, where I spent all my childhood and where I train Art du Deplacement. When I was a child, I had a communication problem: I had a stammer, so I expressed myself thanks to the movement. Today I am an actor and professional photographer. But after a broken ankle during training, I put my artistic career aside until my recovery. I am currently working on a comic book in which I share my ADD/Parkour experiences, called “SUPERNEM”.

Q: Obviously Parkour has become a massive international movement now, but please explain how it all started for you guys right back at the beginning?

Laurent: Everything  started off like a childrens  game. We were training  together, between friends.  A cool time. Everything  was still there to be  discovered.

Châu: At the beginning, it  was like a childrens game  for us. Young people who  want to become stronger, but in a particular way by working very hard with good mental preparation.

Williams: I was looking for physical and mental freedom. I found it in ADD. I was a prisoner of my fears and life apprehensions. I found the answers in the movement and inner searching, which allowed me to be calm and confident in front of the obstacles I encountered in life.

Q: When exactly was it that you all began to train in this way?

Laurent: We started to train a long long time ago. We all have a different story. When it arrived there was already Yann, David and some people we don’t see any more. I was looking for strength. That’s how I started, just for this and my motivation at the beginning. Of course I did develop after different things like human values.

Guylain: All began with the Yamakasi when I met Charles Perrière, I was 17 years old. A Saturday  morning, when I was at my parent’s place in Evry, I go out to do stupid things, as usual. It is at that time that he saw me for the first time. He asked me to show him some karate exercises. He talked to me about David Belle, Yann Hnautra and Parkour. From the first training, I recognized myself in the practice games that reminded me of my childhood on the streets of Kinshasa.

Williams: In the early 90’s, I accompanied my older brothers Châu and Phung, my cousin David, Sébastien and friends in the forest of Sarcelles. They were doing strength exercises and having fun to pass the obstacles that stood in their way. In a game park, on a boat-shaped structure, some friends were trying to do a “saut de détente”. I felt the urge to make that leap to confront myself and my fears. It was my first “Yamakasi” jump. It was an awareness that we could overcome our fears and go over them. So I was 9 years old, and I discovered my first way to go through the obstacles of life. At that time, there was no teacher or Yamakasi teaching, not even a name for this practical movement. So I trained mostly alone while relying on my mother who is my model of generosity, courage, perseverance and selflessness. Once I had the opportunity to share trainings with my family and friends, I watched and listened carefully.

Q: What was it that inspired you all to develop it into something structured?

Laurent: Progress and find methods to train the others. At the beginning Yann Hnautra trained me. Then by myself as an autodidacte. Then reading books, speaking with people and training in different disciplines such as athletics and basketball...

Williams: I was too young and inexperienced to manage so I followed the group’s approach in the structuring of the association and shared my experience of practicing when I could. I wasn’t thinking to structure the  practice, I had only one motivation, which was to train and improve myself to be a good human being. It’s not easy to be fair in life and to give the appropriate response to a question, to overcome the emotions that can invade us and to avoid to hurt yourself and the others. But it is something fundamental to work on this for a positive life.

Q: What was the feeling like? Did you have any idea that it would develop beyond something that was exclusive to you guys in Evry/Lisses?

Laurent: We wanted this discipline to survive, so we had to work on transmission, find routines exercises etc. To give something to people in order to use after. It pass by transmission from life. We had no idea it would be much more important than just Lisses/Evry. We just knew that we were doing something good. I think we all do things without need to have the answer but we can feel it and it was what we had to do.

Châu: Since we decided to show what we were doing, it was obvious that it would develop.

Williams: At the beginning, there were 2 cities where the discipline was developed. Lisses, in southern suburb, and Sarcelles, in northern suburb. It is said that Art du Déplacement was born in Lisses, and the spirit in Sarcelles. At first, I was happy to have the chance  to share with the others my passion, this art, and the human qualities that one acquires in overcoming our fears thanks to the overcoming of physical obstacles and mental barriers.

Q: Seeing as you were all starting from nothing, please explain the kind of techniques you would practise in the beginning?

Laurent: In the beginning I was just doing basic techniques, no esthetical, just survive to jumps or trainings. There wasn’t cinema.

Châu: We used basics techniques. We were very direct in our jumps. For example: arm jump, take-off jump.

Williams: At the beginning, the techniques we used were the ones we do when we made a sequence the fastest to reach the goal. We did not  focus on the aesthetic of  the movement. What matters was to do it  without injuries and also  the mentality of the  person. At this time, we  were bop axis of the spirit  of courage and strength.

Q: Was it all a case of experimentation to see what worked and what didn’t with regard to techniques that were useful?

Laurent: I do not believe  in the concept ‘useful’  when we talk about  technique. What is more  useful between “saut de chat” and “about turn”?  Everything that encourages creativity is good. Everything that helps work on coordination, mobility, resistance etc... is useful. Useful will be more adapted about how we can help the others. And to help we need to be strong already ourselves. Understand what we do to after explain etc. How to make it etc.

Châu: Yes, we tested a lot of things because nobody  was there to tell us if it was right or not. Sometimes, for only one techniques, we trained the same movement for months.

Q: Do you remember the first proper technique that was developed and used by everyone?

Laurent: I do not remember the first technique we all used. We were also very different. But we did some saut de fond, roll, sauts de détente, sauts de bras. Very basic ones.

Q: The first name for what you were doing was L’Art du Deplacement, right? At what point did the name of ‘Parkour’ get brought into the equation?

Laurent: L’Art du Déplacement is the mother of everything and it was an action. Parkour is a reaction, from David and Sebastien when they left and followed the way they thought fair to follow.

Châu: The word ‘Parkour’ appeared when David and Sebastien left the team.

Williams: ‘Art du Deplacement’ was born in 1995 to make known the discipline. The word “art” is important because it’s a way of living, not only a simple discipline where you have to jump everywhere. I think it’s the motivation that makes the difference between ADD and the others. For me, the motivation I am based on, it’s to train to find your proper way in order to help the others.

Q: Do you find it frustrating having to keep correcting everyone about the development of Parkour and the role you have all played?

Laurent: It wasn’t so frustrating, a bit at the beginning but very quickly it was ok. What is frustrating is when people forget that it is not only about jumping. It is also about sharing, respect, not giving up... All that what gave to this discipline is a human dimension. I’m not waiting for medals, so that’s fine.

Williams: As a co-founder and mostly as a practitioner, it’s my role to ensure that Art du Deplacement practices are improving in an altruistic way, because it is the motivation, the great one that I see for this practice. It’s my job but it is also the role of each practitioner.

Q: Did any of you step up with backgrounds in any other sports?

Laurent: Everything is connected, so all discipline can help. Then I should say that some of us did capoeira, athletics, boxing, basketball etc... All this helped to build trainings, plus reading books etc... when we had to find some answers that did not come from the playground or trainings.

Châu: We always had been influenced by other sports. L’Art du Déplacement is a common wealth of human inspiration.

Williams: I’m practicing Capoeira for 10 years, and also Kalaripayatt (Indian martial art) for 4 years. It’s helped me a lot for technique and teaching.

Q: If anyone reads about the history of Parkour in the beginning, your names are mentioned along with David and Sebastien, but at the time was anyone else practising or was it just you guys?

Laurent: At the very beginning there was much more people, Yann’s brother, girls... Some of them did continue, most of them stopped because it was just for  a time in their life and they had to invest for their own future. Probably we were the only people who were doing things like this in the world but nobody knows.

Châu: I think that other people were practicing at that time, but not at the same level: we brought new techniques and made evaluated others.

Williams: There were also others before us. My other older brother, Phung Belle, who influenced me on the ADD/Parkour mentality and also my friend Abdul Hamid, with whom I trained with for a long time. And especially my mother, she is my model of courage, perseverance and generosity.

Q: The first time a lot of people saw you guys in action was when the Yamakasi movie was released. Please give us some info with regard to how that all came about.

Laurent: For the movie Yamakasi, we had a choice between 2 big productions. The group chose Besson. I preferred the other one. More opened. It was after we did a report in a magazine, Besson production heard about us. We met, spoke and it happened.

Châu: It was a great meeting wanted by the team. We struggled during 4 years to make known the discipline. Luc Besson heard about  us, and we all meet to make a movie.

Q: Was it the first major film production that you were involved in?

Laurent: Yes it was the first movie we performed, in man like character. We did something small in the Taxi series movie.

Guylain: It wasn’t our real first appearance in a  film. During our launch  meeting of the project “Yamakasi, les Samouraîs des temps moderns”, Luc  Besson asked us “a favor”.  He wanted us to play  ninjas in Taxi 2, but they  were 4 or 6, and we were  7, so we insisted to make a turnover, so that everyone can have their first cinematic experience.

Q: I’m guessing it was a very exciting time. Did you think that things would keep moving upwards in terms of your own careers?

Laurent: It was really great doing the movie. And we didn’t want to stop. We are still working on our own projects and we want to make another movie but one which respects more the values and what we want to say and give to people. The 2 movies did not let us to do it.

Guylain: We weren’t thinking in terms of careers, the most exciting thing was to live this artistic experience as a team. Friends who manage to play in movies together! For me, a dream had been realised, even if, with time, ours desires change. In any case, this movie will remain forever in my memory, great!

Q: Tell us about Notre Dame de Paris. Was this before or after the Yamakasi film?

Laurent: Notre Dame de Paris was before the movie, it gave to some of us the opportunity to travel in America, a bit in Europe... And we learned English!

Q: If we go back to the early days of Parkour, did you have any idea that things would explode in the future and that a multi million pound industry would develop?

Laurent: Industry of millions pound? Really? Not for us <laughs>. But no, at the very beginning we could not imagine that it will be so much business around this discipline.

Williams: I wasn’t thinking about that, I was only thinking about training and improving in life. Money in training isn’t useful, what matters is you and your own deep capacities.

Q: What are your thoughts on the global scene?

Laurent: About the global Art Du deplacement/Parkour scene? I don’t know, we can see always more and more techniques, often around gymnastics. It is an evolution. With Yamakasi we wanted something free. Let everyone have the possibility to interpret the message how he wants.

Q: Everybody knows that Parkour was born in Paris, but do you find it frustrating that a massive community has developed and nobody from France is leading the way?

Laurent: In France there is the ADD Academy, they don’t make much noise but they are on the playground, they move and they still keep going. Plus some of others groups etc... It is just nobody in the ADD Academy does videos to put on Youtube every other second. Because at the origin we were doing things for ourselves. We were trying to impress ourselves and not others.

Châu: We still working on it. The Yamakasi, the founders and the practice are born in France. So people always come back to the origins.

Q: Going back to the Yamakasi movie, in it you were a seven strong team. What caused Charles, Malik and Guylain to part company with the rest of you?

Laurent: That is a personal reason why Charles, Malik and Guylain left. In all groups here’s ok and not ok. It is just life.

Guylain: The strength of a team is essential, and at that time, I wanted to live other things and in a different way. I was living the reverse side of the medal. Most of the people only think about the positives sides of playing in a movie. We don’t think about the negatives sides. At this time, I was questioning myself, which caused my leaving of the team. The founders spirit is so positive that I came back naturally.

Q: Are you all ok now? I see that Guylain is working with you again.

Laurent: We are not at war, so it is not so much good or bad terms. Everyone follows the way he feels it, and it is good to follow it. We will meet again at the end anyway.

Guylain: Yes, great! Guylain is well <laughs>.

Williams: I like and respect each member of the Yamakasi team, because I grew up and learned a lot with them. They were like older brothers. But my brother Châu, Yann and Laurent have a special place in my heart, because it’s with them that I learned and improved in ADD.

Q: Do you still go by the name of Yamakasi or are you now just operating under the Majestic Force banner?

Laurent: Majestic Force is a production label. There is nothing to see with Yamakasi.

Châu: We are the Yamakasi and we’ll stay the Yamakasi. Majestic Force was created because we needed a structure to work.

Williams: We are still going by the name of Yamakasi.

Q: Do you keep up to date with what’s going on in the Parkour world via websites and Youtube videos?

Laurent: I stay informed on what’s happening in Art du Déplacement world on playground, on earth. Sometimes I watch videos when friends send it to me but I don’t like the idea of watching videos to get inspired. It’s not a good way to encourage the creativity. People want too much to be like somebody and they forget themselves.

Williams: Usually yes, but since this year I have had no time, because of my photography work.

Q: When you see practitioners stepping up with very high skill levels, do you feel inspired?

Laurent: My inspiration comes more often from people or from history, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Mandela, Bruce Lee... Then the others in Yamakasi like Yann, Châu, Wiliams... It is nice to see some new practitioners. But I’m waiting for the next 10 years to see where they will be and yes, I may be inspired. What inspires me more is attitude. Movement is nice but it is just about training. Understand and repeat.

Q: As for your own training, is it more a case of conditioning and practising what you already know, or do you strive to be better practitioners and improve your skills?

Laurent: During training I do revision and I always try ameliorate. Discover and try things.

Châu: Every day is a march, because even the things that are most simple can present big difficulty. You must always train to be ready to progress.

Williams: I try to improve myself and apply what I had learned during my training in my personal and daily life. I’m training also to maintain my health but also because I like to move. The ADD allows me to have the stability we need in life.

Q: Seeing as you’ve been training for so long, do you find it hard to get motivated?

Laurent: No problem for motivation. This is my passion. Then if we know why we do things we always find the right energy to dedicate for it, so the motivation.

Châu: It’s been a long time that we forget the motivation because now, it’s a way of living. Williams: I absolutely do not find it hard to get motivated. It’s true that I like to rest, but what I love the more is to practice ADD. When you see that your practice makes you happier in your life, you can only be motivated to wear your shoes and practice.

Q: Do you still see David Belle and when was the last time you trained together?

Laurent: Some of us discuss with David, but there is a very long time we do not train together.

Châu: The last time we trained together was one year ago. We all are very busy now.

Williams: My last training with David was in 1997. Since this year, we didn’t meet. I get along with David, there has been an exchange of emails to get news of family because he’s my cousin but each follows their way and we do not feel the need to see each other for the moment.

Q: If you could press rewind on the history of Parkour and start from the beginning again, what would you have done differently?

Laurent: Go back in the past to see what we would have change? Personally, nothing. Where I am now is from decisions, choices I made. I’m glad with it even if it s not perfect.

Châu: Whatever the road, what is important is the way and the behavior.

Q: Tell us about the academy you run in Paris.

Laurent: ADD Academy is a place where people can learn ADD as we all learn from the origins. Safely and in a deep respect of people. I’m not in ADD Academy but places like this are very important. It does exist, thanks to the job we did from many years on the playground. Châu: Yann, Laurent, Guylain, Williams and I had created the ADD academy to give heritage in the values and the spirit of the practice.

Q: Do you enjoy teaching?

Laurent: I really like teaching. ADD isn’t just a sport or an art. When people do jumps or techniques I want them to understand the way they did to make it and like this keep something they can use for all life days. Obstacles on playground, obstacles in life... Keep the key. Challenge in teaching is huge.

Guylain: It’s a real pleasure to share the knowledge I received. I enjoy finding in the eyes of beginners the spark that I had myself when I started. As in many months, I see their progress and their satisfaction to manage to do certain of the techniques they thought impossible to do a few weeks earlier. We’ve all been there! It is the infinite circle of the Art of Deplacement until we can do it on Mars <laughs>!

Williams: I love it!

Q: If a beginner came to your class for the first time, what kind of things would you get them to do?

Laurent: A beginner will start like this: Preserve the physical integrity, develop the potential physical and creative. Art du Deplacement is for all life, not just one day in your life. Or if somebody stops it because he is tired, not because he is broke.

Williams: I woud make them do a sequence of physical conditioning that I call “the railroad” to see his level and to see how he approaches the exercises. Then, I try to find the appropriate training for him to improve.

Q: For the more experienced  students, what kind of  things would they be  doing at one of your academy classes?

Laurent: The same but  with a stronger energy. So  for experienced students, everything is more intense in all parts.

Q: How many students do you currently have?

Laurent: There are 250 students, and around 50 for the most regular ones.

Williams: I hope one day I would open my own school if I find the right place for this project.

Q: Of all the countries you’ve visited, which country has been the most inspiring for Parkour in terms of architecture and why?

Laurent: From all countries I’ve visited, it’s impossible to say which one inspired me more. It is not so much about architecture but about people. The good times we share. All experiences in this case are unique.

Châu: All the countries are good places to practice. They have their own custom and strength.

Williams: I like the woods of Sarcelles, there’s not much things, but I grew up with this wood and when I go there, I feel to be carried by the earth.

Q: Do you still find that you enjoy Parkour as much as you did in the beginning, or have things changed a lot over the years?

Laurent: Yes I still like Art du Deplacment/Parkour as I did at the beginning. Things changed but it is life. I keep focus on my actions and try to represent in the way I feel fair to represent.

Châu: Time makes us grow and the spirit change. For us, the founders, we try to keep the same essentials as we did in the beginning.

Williams: I still enjoy the practice side of things but it is very different now because practitioners are too much focused on physical performance. But I understand this because I’m also an athlete.

Q: What do you love most about Parkour?

Laurent: People

Guylain: I like using the mental aspect of going forward. The ADD was our life school.

Châu: What I like the most , is the practice’s life, the spirit of l’Art du Deplacement.

Q: What don’t you like about Parkour?

Laurent: People

Guylain: The ADD is practiced by man, with its good and bad sides, everything depend on the use it made.

Châu: Nothing, everything is good!

Williams: The injuries which prevents you from moving for months.

Q: If you were given the finances to set up your perfect training environment, what kind of obstacles would it include?

Laurent: Even if I could have a lot of money it will be not enough because in Art du Deplacement/Parkour the most important thing is people. The soul we put in what we do. There is no money for it. From a technical point I think it is already good to have material we can move and change position to create as often as possible new situations of ways.

Williams: I would do a playground where you can use the maximum of ADD techniques.

Q: Outside of teaching, do you still follow your own training regimes?

Laurent: Yes I still keeping a very serious funny training. Williams: I train often alone to find myself and to see where I am in my life. But I don’t train as much as before because the need is no longer the same.

Q: If yes, do you train alone or as a group?

Laurent: I prefer to train alone because like this I can have hard intensity and just go. I like to train with friends but it is different. I like it because I’m taking the place of the student. I think it is important for somebody who trains to be able to listen. Be the teacher, be the student.

Q: What is your opinion about the whole Parkour v Freerunning argument?

Laurent: The arguments about Parkour, Art du Depalcement, Freerun is stupid. Instead of caring about the name of the discipline, care about the attitude and the way you want to express what you want to offer to people.

Châu: I don’t think it’s a problem: whatever the name we choose, the important thing is that you recognise yourself in the discipline. And that people understand what we are doing in the practice.

Williams: If Parkour and Freerunning enable the personal development, to regain its balance and be more open to others, the quarrels is not rationale. I prefer if people focus on training instead.

Q: What is your opinion about people who focus a lot on doing flips? Do you think flips are useful or not?

Laurent: About flips, everyone does what he wants to do. It is clearly an influence from gymnastics but everything is connected. It is not about to be useful. Useful for what? If they help grow up, develop the personality etc... So of course they are. They are not less useful than saut de chat.

Williams: I see acrobatics as an exercise to manage his body in space. If a person find itself in doing flips, well that’s cool for him.

Q: What is your opinion of  Freerunning competition?

Laurent: Competitions in Freerunning? Not for me, it is not something I believe for many reasons. But it’s not because I do not share the idea I do not have to respect people. We all are different. Art du deplacement is also a message of peace.

Châu: I don’t think that Freerunning competition make advance the practice image.

Williams: ADD is focused on mutual help, sharing and respect of the others. In fact there is no competition in practice. Otherwise a form of competition which support us to improve ourselves.

Q: In the last issue of Jump Mag we ran a pressure test of a pair of the 2WS ‘Big Ben’ bottoms. Please tell us more about the 2WS brand and your involvement.

Laurent: We wanted to have a brand who could correspond to the spirit of the discipline we did develop us, Yamakasi. Clothes had to be resistant, fluid and elegant. The brand does also respect our values, that’s fundamental.

Châu: We create 2WS to have clothes which can follow and guide our movement. The collection is like us, and is influenced by our story.

Q: A lot of practitioners from around the world make the effort to visit Lisses/Evry to train at the place it all started. Does it bother you to see your hometown flooded with so many people, or do you find it inspiring to see the knock-on effect of what you all started?

Laurent: I m not bored to see people come to Evry to train. It is a big chance to meet different cultures without TV filters. Meet the real practitioners, videos can lie, playground and hard training time don’t lie. Then Evry is not my city, it’s the city of everyone, like all cities in the world. Just respect people who live there and you will feel at home.

Châu: It’s not a bother for us to see people coming in our hometown, it’s a good thing, as long as they respect the places and the people who live there.

Williams: I’m glad to see that practitioners take this step. It is important to know the origin of a practice and its motivations.

Q: Of all the famous Lisses/ Evry hotspots, which is your favourite and why?

Laurent: In Evry it is hard to choose the favourite spot. Depends of the mood. If I want to work on basics I’m go on cathedral. If I need more nature I will go to the lake or in the forest...

Q: If you are up to speed on the scene worldwide, are there are practitioners in particular that you can point to as being highly skilled? If yes, who are they?

Laurent: Of course there are practitioners who are very talented. I met on playground and I told them so. That’s between us. What I like the most is the attitude and this is what impresses me more.

Q: What’s your opinion of the current French Parkour scene?

Laurent: French Parkour scene? They speak French <laughs>. I don’t know... it is not about French, English, Italian... It’s about people. We are all connected. I do  not make any difference. Everywhere I go in the world for workshops meetings etc... You will see in the eyes practitioners the same. A dream of something, a hope... Something they did not find in other disciplines and they try find here. French, English, American...

Q: What are your current goals with Parkour?

Laurent: Goals in Art du Deplacement/Parkour: to continue... Do always better but keep going.

Châu: My goal is still the same: to make ADD known and respected.

Williams: People often ask me to write a book talking about the practice. I’m thinking about this.

Q: Do you ever supplement your Parkour training with anything else?

Laurent: Art du Deplacment is a result of many different disciplines so I keep being open minded and when I have the possibility to learn something new I do it. It is important to stay open minded.

Châu: Everything inspired me, from my meetings to my personal life.

Q: Do you all eat healthily? If yes, what kind of diet do you follow?

Laurent: I try to eat healthy, but not too much, I don’t want to be crazy. Not too much. The secret is eating a bit of everything.

Châu: <Laughs> It depends, but it’s true that now we pay more attention to it, we do our best!

Williams: I am more careful now, trying to eat fresh products and bio when I can.

Q: Favourite shoes for Parkour?

Laurent & Châu: No particular brand. In general, running shoes.

Williams: Running shoes.

Q: Outside of training, what are your individual interests?

Laurent: Outside of training I like writing, going to museums, theatre, watch performances in the streets...

Châu: watching movies, reading/watching manga.

Williams: I like cinema, photography. I want to be a film director. I also like Capoeira and dance.

Q: Do you release much video material as a team?

Laurent: Not so much video as a team for now... Team or alone but at the beginning of 2012, hopefully yes.

Châu: We don’t release much video, I’m not part of this generation who need to be filmed to exist.

Q: When can we expect to see some new videos from you?

Laurent: Maybe soon we will do something as a team. Who knows?!

Williams: After my recovery, I hope I can do some new videos, because people often ask me to do it. It doesn’t matter for me, but I understand that releasing video is also necessary to share.

Q: Do you have a Youtube channel? If yes, what’s the url?

Laurent: My Youtube channel is the playground, this is where we meet people and nobody can lie. Training game says a lot about attitude, that’s why I like meet people for real.

Q: How important do you think Youtube has been in spreading the word about Parkour/Freerunning?

Laurent: I do have to say that Youtbe helped to spread very quickly the discipline. That’s an advantage and the good part. I guess also that for people who cannot travel, Youtube makes it possible to see people from all over the world moving.

Châu: Youtube was essential to promote ADD/Parkour, but also, unfortunately, to show a practice without substance.

Q: What’s your opinion of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter? Laurent: That is great to stay connected with friends everywhere in the planet.

Châu: It’s a good and a bad thing. What is it important is to control it. Williams: I use Facebook, daily it’s a way to communicate with other practitioners.

Q: Have any of you suffered any injuries?

Laurent: We had some injuries of course, but it was ok. We discover very late what was a physiotherapist. So we had to listen to our body, to really care about all small signals. Even if we did stupid things or small injuries. The worst injury I had wasn’t because of Art du Deplacement

Châu: Everyone has their own injuries, but the most important is to cling on and to come back.

Williams: I had a broken ankle, I will have surgery in a few days, and will have 3 months of plaster.

Q: Do you think that it’s important for beginners to find their own ‘way’ or that they need to be taught in the early period of their development?

Laurent: It is important that beginners can learn the basics about techniques, conditioning etc... After they know the necessary info they can start to put their own signature on what they are doing. First be safe!!

Châu: Everyone has to find something good for themselves, but I think it’s better to have a good start, in order to avoid bad habits.

Williams: A beginner will improve faster if he or she has a teacher.

Q: What has been the most enjoyable experience so far for you in Parkour?

Laurent: Tomorrow and the roots.

Châu: The team, the family.

Williams: To live with the others in joy.

Q: What’s been the least enjoyable experience so far?

Laurent: The worst one? Doesn’t exist. In everything there is something.

Williams: To not live with the others in harmony.

Q: If you could pass down any information to beginners reading this, what would it be?

Laurent: Take care of you and yours. We are all important.

Châu: To be strong in their heart, and to understand and live in the practice action.

Williams: Believe in yourself and do things in the most positive manner possible.

Q: Do you think that you’ll still be training in another 5 or 10 years time?

Laurent: I will train until the end.

Châu: As long as we live and breathe, it’s a training and a discipline.

Williams: Yes, but differently. The practice is long to be completely free of yourself.

Q: When you prepare to do something ambitious like a big jump, what goes through  your mind?

Laurent: For a big jump I try to not let the fear eat me. I keep focus, I try, on what I know and not on what I don’t know.

Châu: The pleasure to feel this sensation of freedom. Williams: I look inside of me if I’m really able to do it, or it’s only an oversized ego crisis.

Q: Do you suffer from fear  and if yes, how do you  overcome it?

Laurent: Of course I have  fear. To fight it, I try first  to understand why. Then  I keep focus on technique,  on what I know. The  unknown part is less important like this.

Châu: The fear is always present. The fear is here to lead us, in order to take a better way.

Williams: When I’m scared, I know I’m in the uncertainty of what can happen. So I look at what I did before in my life and if I will be able to overcome this uncertainty. If so, I am calm, if not, I am also calm because I know where I am.

Q: What would you say is the strongest part of your game?

Laurent: The strongest part of my game is my mind.

Q: What is the area of your skills that you’d most like to improve?

Laurent: I try to ameliorate everything. Techniques, mental, attitude.

Châu: We always trying to improve, in everything, because we are still students.

Williams: I try to improve the way to overcome the deep barrier.

Q: Do you prefer to train indoors or outside?

Laurent: I like to train outdoor and indoor. I like movement.

Châu: Both, as long as we can train.

Williams: I prefer to train outside.

Q: Which is most important to you.....Flow, speed or power?

Laurent: It is hard to say what is the most important. Depends of the situation, if it’s about mobility, I will focus on flow for example.

Williams: The one which makes you go on.

Q: Where do you see Parkour being in five years time?

Laurent: Older than now but still beautiful. Not perfect but I hope still human.

Williams: We will see. I’ll keep training and hope to be in a good health to move.

Q: If you could control the path it takes, how would you like things to develop?

Laurent: I don’t want to control anything because it is not mine, it is for all of us. I will do what I feel fair to do and everyone will do it like this. The result will be at the image of the world. Different, creative, unperfected but human.

Châu: I would lead it in a good way, in keeping it’s essential spirit: free but in the respect of each other.

Williams: I hope there will be good teachers and coaches to help the students.

Q: On a closing note, do you have a message you’d like to pass on to our readers?

Laurent: Express yourself the way you want, don’t care about the name, care about your attitude

Châu: Let your body expresses itself, and it will lead you to the good road. Keep always your feeling, because it’ll make you exist. Strength and courage.

Williams: I hope that ADD, Parkour and Freeruning will be an altruistic practice, and that will enable everyone to find the answers to obstacles encountered in life. I hope you all enjoyed reading this.

Q: Thanks very much for your time guys.

Source: http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/jump_mag_issue_22.pdf

Infographic: Social Media Statistics For 2012

2012-01-04T10:10:00.001+07:00

#GalihTU on 2.1.12 at Urban Kitchen Senayan City

2012-01-03T03:03:00.001+07:00

The first I-think-I-can-say-it's-BIG tweetup in 2012! Those who showed up:

@galihwismoyo or @wismoyosakti
@willyirawan
@titisapto
@farhansv
@ayubski
@mondododo
@chioo
@inggriasto
@andratdj
@rezaprabowo
@misshitta
@bellamy
@budi
@qronoz
@hellosigit
@iambadung
@farizvanjava
@fannyfanny
@alderina
@natalixia
@tieshadiona
@themma

... pardon me if I skipped some names. I hope I didn't.

Lenovo #DoNetworkID Program. Buat kamu yang punya cita-cita jadi penemu yang bisa ngubah dunia.

2011-12-27T10:45:00.001+07:00

Hidup di jaman teknologi yang udah maju itu bener2 enak ya. Nggak usah cari contoh aneh2, ambil aja dari #TaiwanTrip gw pertengahan Desember 2011 kemaren. Kalo nggak ada namanya sistem online booking kereta, mungkin gw udah keliyengan di Taipei Main Station. Dan yang paling berasa, kalo gw gak pake translation app di handphone, pasti gw bakal waste banyak banget waktu buat ngomong pake bahasa tarzan sama orang2 di sana yang mostly gak bisa ngomong Bahasa Inggris :)

Ada ribuan inovator keren yang udah bikin hidup kita sekarang jadi lebih gampang dan kalo harus dilist di satu postingan blog ini rasanya nggak akan muat. Dan nggak cuma luar negeri doang kok yang punya inovator2 keren, kita di Indonesia juga punya banyak. Mulai dari Pak BJ Habibie yang nemuin teori, faktor, dan metode Habibie di teknologi pesawat terbang, sampai ke (mimin) Andrew Darwis sama Kaskus-nya.

Mungkin ada di antara elo yang lagi baca blog post ini yang punya cita2 yang sama dengan orang-orang di atas: JADI PENEMU.

Impossible is nothing :) Selama kita yakin sama mau nyoba sih selalu bakal ada kesempatan. Mungkin elo bisa mulai coba sama langkah2 di bawah ini:

Tekunin hobi, cari tau apa itu passion elo, seriusin
Cari insight seputar masalah yang ada di environment sekeliling elo dan belom ada solusinya, bisa aja masalahnya simple banget tapi kita gak nyadar
Mulai pikirin, cari tau lebih banyak seputar masalah tsb, mulai cari ide kreatif apa buat resolve
Langsung action dan develop! Kalo kita nunggu agak lama biasanya lupa, mending langsung dijadiin inovasi baru. Daripada keduluan kan :)

Kebetulan sekarang lagi ada program Do Network dari Lenovo Indonesia nih. Cocok banget kayaknya buat elo yang punya cita2 buat bikin dunia jadi lebih enak buat ditinggalin :) Pengen ikutan? Langsung aja cek http://bit.ly/t5zUmm dan info tanggal2nya di bawah ini:

Pendaftaran: 8 Desember 2011 s/d 25 Januari 2012
Pemilihan peserta favorit: 5 s/d 25 Januari 2012
Finalis: 26 Januari s/d 29 Februari 2012
Pengumuman pemenang: 1 Maret 2012

Elo bakal bertanding dalam tim dan bakal ada 3 mentor paling handal di Indonesia, yaitu:

Budi Putra - @budip - konsultan teknologi
Nurdiansyah - http://kir-fosca.blogspot.com - peneliti LIPI dan pemerhati pendidikan
Onno W Purbo - @onnowpurbo - independent IT writer

Kalo emang elo tertarik, langsung mulai aja dari ngumpulin anggota tim. Abis itu duduk bareng buat ngomongin ide sama project apa yang mau dibikin. Kalo udah, langsung aja gabung sama Lenovo #DoNetworkID Program yang bisa kamu baca lengkap infonya di http://bit.ly/t5zUmm.

Eh iya, jangan lupa juga dukung program Do Network ini pake twibbon di Jangan lupa untuk dukung program Do Network ini dengan menggunakan twibbon di http://t.co/Yae7e1Dt.

Selamat berinovasi!

Free Your Feet: Why running shoes do more harm than good

2011-11-16T09:10:00.001+07:00

via xraytechnicianschools.net

54 jam di Kuala Lumpur

2011-11-14T14:56:00.001+07:00

Sehubungan flight murah ke Chennai yang baru ada tanggal 6 November pagi sementara flight murah ke KL adanya tanggal 3 November malem, gue dan @idznie akhirnya memutuskan untuk stay 2 malem dulu di ibukota negeri jiran ini. Kira-kira inilah gambaran apa aja yang kita bikin selama di sana. Enjoy!

3 November

Keluar pesawat jam 23.40. Pastinya akan sangat rugi kalo musti book hostel dulu, jadi kita mutusin buat tidur di LCCT aja sampe pagi. Sebelom ngampar, kita sempet mampir makan dulu di gerai fastfood namanya Marrybrown, yang ternyata gak direkomendasiin sama temen-temen yang pernah ke sana karena nggak enak-enak amat.

4 November

Beranjak pagi, akhirnya kita mulai nyari bis tujuan ke buat ke hostel. Waktu itu kira-kira jam 5.30. Setelah nanya information center, akhirnya dipilihlah Aerobus tujuan KL Sentral buat nanti lanjut ke stasiun selanjutnya. Bis ini berangkat setengah jam sekali, kalo nyampe LCCT, langsung aja cari arrival hall buat domestic flight, terus lanjut lurus aja, dia kayak ada meeting point-nya gitu. Bagasi bis dibuka jadi kalo bawaan banyak bisa ditaro di situ, bayar tiketnya pas lagi mau naik aja, langsung ke orangnya.

Nyampe di KL Sentral, pagi itu lagi ujan gede. Untungnya bisa lanjut monorel buat ke Stasiun Mesjid Jamek tanpa basah-basahan lagi. Cuma beda 2 stasiun aja udah nyampe. Seperti biasa, self-service ticketing machine di sini gampang dan gak susah buat pendatang.

Setelah teduhan sekitar setengah jam di KL Sentral, akhirnya kita lanjut jalan by foot ke lokasi hostel. Cuma 10 menit udah langsung nyampe di BackHome Hostel, resepsionisnya udah nyimpen data kita, gak perlu nunjukin print out lagi, dan karena udah ada kasur yang kosong, jam 8 pagi itu udah langsung bisa masuk kamar.

Istirahat sebentar, berbekal sisa-sisa tenaga akhirnya mutusin buat menjelajah KL. Rutenya siang itu ke Merdeka Square, ke daerah Taman Tasik Perdana, Old Kuala Lumpur Station, akhirnya balik lagi ke Jalan Tun H S Lee.

Balik lagi ke hostel, numpang tidur sekitar 2 jam. Sempet ngobrol-ngobrol juga sama serombongan backpackers cewek dari Taiwan, dan tentunya udah dapet (Facebook) contactnya buat ngomongin itinerary trip gue ke Taiwan bulan Desember nanti. Sorenya kita lanjut lagi ke Petronas Twin Tower. Sempet agak khawatir soalnya pas keluar LRT station ternyata ujan rintik-rintik, tapi ternyata cuma bentar doang. Meskipun Skybridge lagi ditutup sampe Desember, tapi kemaren udah cukup puas sama foto-foto dari masih terang sampe udah gelap.

Ketemu juga sama Paulina, solo backpackers asal Chile yang desperate soalnya kameranya udah abis batere padahal dia mau foto-foto di KLCC situ. Akhirnya dia ikut bareng kita makan di Nasi Kandar Pelita, sampe lanjut ke SkyBar di Traders Tower buat dapet angle foto asoy Petronas Twin Tower. SkyBar ini dapet rekomendasinya dari Renaud, solo backpacker Prancis yang lagi keliling Asia Tenggara buat 7 bulan, dia bilang sih kita bisa masuk aja buat foto doang, tapi berbekal etika ketimuran, akhirnya kita pura-pura bilang mau liat-liat tempat soalnya Senin mau makan bareng di sana.

Pulang ke Bukit Nanas LRT Station, pisah sama Paulina, dan akhirnya melepas lelah di hari pertama di KL.

5 November

Hari ini targetnya nggak mau capek-capek amat. Bangun udah sekitar jam 10an, packing dikit buat checkout, dan akhirnya kita cabs ke Batu Caves. Kita pergi pake Metrobus, naiknya cuma beda 1 blok dari hostel tempat kita nginep. Nggak sampe satu jam udah nyampe.

Kesan pertama pas nyampe Batu Caves: India banget euy! Ini emang semacem Hindu temple dan kalo mau naik ke atas, ada 272 anak tangga buat naik ke atas, sisanya silakan liat di foto aja ya. Balik dari situ kita pake kereta, makan di KL Sentral, abis itu ngadem di hostel buat wifi-an. Meskipun udah checkout kita tetep boleh nongkrong di sana.

6 November

Sedikit breakfast roti di dalem LCCT Terminal. Then off I go to India!

Expense (semua udah diconvert ke Rupiah, ada beberapa pembulatan)

3-4 Nov, total IDR 318,000:

Marrybrown: 40k
Minuman ringan: 6k
Aerobus: 23k
LRT KL Sentral - Mesjid Jamek: 3.5k
BackHome Hostel (1N): 110k
DiGi sim card + data package (gue recommend pake Maxis aja jgn ini): 60k
Lunch nasi goreng + teh tarik: 25k
LRT Mesjid Jamek - KLCC: 3.5k
Nasi Briyani Kambing + Teh Tarik: 36k
LRT Bukit Nanas - Dang Wangi: 3.5k
Minuman ringan: 5k
LRT Dang Wangi - Mesjid Jamek: 3k

5-6 Nov, total IDR 184,000:

Bis ke Batu Caves: 8.5k
Milo sekaleng: 7k
Kereta Batu Caves - KL Sentral: 6k
Lunch: 43k
LRT KL Sentral - Mesjid Jamek: 4k
KLIA Transit dari KL Sentral ke LCCT: 36k
LRT Mesjid Jamek - KL Sentral: 4k
Old Town White Coffee (Dinner): 46k
Breakfast at LCCT Terminal: 30k

Apply visa turis buat ke India ternyata nggak susah!

2011-10-14T12:50:00.001+07:00

Jadi begini ceritanya, hari Rabu (12 Oktober) kemarin, gue, Idznie, sama Vasanthi akhirnya apply visa buat trip ke India bulan November nanti. Berbekal cari info sana sini dan bongkar Google, akhirnya ketemu blogpost super informatif ini. Makasih banyak buat yang udah nulis :)

Kita masuk ke ruang pengurusan paspor/visa satu-satu, pintu masuk Kedutaan India itu ada di samping, bukan dari pintu utama di Kuningan. FYI, untuk pengurusan visa/paspor ini mereka cuma buka jam 9 - 12 siang aja. Cukup ninggalin tas sama HP aja di pos penjaga, dokumen sama dompet mah bawa aja, abis itu dikasih kartu visitor, masuk ke
ruangan, ambil nomer antrian, udah deh nunggu nomernya nongol aja kayak di bank.

Kita bertiga sebenernya agak bingung soalnya flight sama hostel booking hampir semuanya jadi satu atas nama gue dan belom difotokopi buat dipegang masing-masing. Tapi ternyata pas giliran gue dipanggil (kebetulan gue yang pertama), gue cukup bilang kalo gue bakal travel in group, jadi si petugas counter langsung nyuruh Idznie sama Va ke counter juga.

Si petugasnya agak bingung pas kita bilang kalo berangkatnya cuma bertiga, mana mukanya masih muda-muda semua, dia sampe nanya: "Any older travelers in your group?" *LOL*, dan kemudian pembicaraan nggak berlanjut karena mungkin dia liat paspor kita yang alhamdulillah udah nggak kosong-kosong amat.

Selesai dari situ, bayar ke counter, dan dikasih tau kalo besoknya visa udah bisa diambil dari jam 16.00 - 16.30. Besoknya dateng, bawa struk pembayaran visa ke counter pembayaran, VOILA, dapet deh paspor yang udah ditempelin visa India. Dikasih yang valid sampe 13 Desember 2011, sisanya sesuai yang kita apply. Single entry, tourist, dll.

Jadi sebenernya poin-poin yang musti diperhatiin nggak banyak kok, gue coba repost ulang dan ngasih tambahan sedikit dari blogpost yang gue jadiin referensi ya:

Passport dengan masa valid minimum 6 bulan. Yang ini cukup jelas lah ya, standar kok kalo mau apply visa.
Dua lembar foto ukuran passpor (4x4), background putih. Yang ini foto visa standar juga, bisa pake bekas apply visa mana, terus kita cetak lagi (kalo gue sih gitu)
Tourist visa application form yang sudah diisi. Tinggal print terus isi aja langsung pake pulpen.
Tiket pesawat atau confirmed booking PP. Jelas lah ya.
Confirmation of hotel booking di tempat-tempat yang akan dikunjungi di India. Buat yang rencananya mau go-show apa nyari hostelnya baru pas nyampe India nggak masalah kok, gue aja cuma attach konfirmasi booking buat 1 malem doang pas di Chennai. Padahal total ada 17 hari di sana. Cari aja hostel-hostel yang bisa dibook online kayak di hostelworld.com, bayarnya cuma DP dulu kok sekitar $3.
Histori transaksi rekening bank dalam 3 bulan terakhir. Kalo kemaren Idznie sama Va bawa rekening koran asli gitu, kalo gue malah cuma nyantumin fotokopian buku tabungan BCA, dan tembus-tembus aja kok. Jumlah saldo juga gak masalah, kalo nggak salah kita-kita nggak ada yang sampe 8 digit, malah Idznie aja di rekening korannya cuma ketulis 1 jutaan.
Biaya urus visa IDR 492,000. Tenang aja, bawa 500 ribu tetep bisa kembalian kok :)

Mungkin segitu dulu aja info dari gue, semoga berguna buat yang pada punya rencana jalan-jalan di India. Namaste!

Infographic: Facebook University. How the social network is enriching the college experience

2011-10-14T08:52:00.001+07:00

via onlinephd.org

Infographic: Planet Text. How SMS messaging is changing the world.

2011-10-12T09:02:00.001+07:00

via mbaonline.com

The Avengers Official Trailer

2011-10-12T08:30:00.001+07:00

CNN: The world remembers Steve Jobs

2011-10-07T12:08:00.001+07:00

"You've got to find what you love" ~Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

2011-10-06T07:32:00.001+07:00

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

Source: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html#

salingsilang.com: Nostalgia Melalui Media Sosial

2011-10-05T17:04:00.001+07:00

Facebook Timeline, sebentar lagi bisa dinikmati oleh umum. Dengan fitur baru dari Facebook ini, kita bisa melacak apa saja yang pernah kita lakukan di Facebook bertahun-tahun yang lalu. Facebook bahkan membuatkan satu titik di saat kita baru dilahirkan, dan menambahkan foto atau status di sana. Saat ini Facebook Timeline belum aktif untuk umum karena masih menunggu hasil sengketa hukum dengan Timelines.com.
Ini mungkin fenomena unik, menjadikan media sosial sebagai dokumentasi perjalanan hidup. Dari situs media sosial lainnya, Foursquare, ada aplikasi pihak ketiga yang menawarkan fitur unik; mengingat apa yang dilakukan setahun yang lalu di Foursquare. Belakangan, aplikasi ini juga tersedia untuk Facebook. Nama aplikasinya 4SquareAnd7YearsAgo. Ia mengirim ke email kita setiap hari, apa yang terjadi setahun yang lalu di media sosial yang kita ikuti. Mungkin ada yang pernah dengar, atau bahkan sudah memakainya?

Salah seorang penulis di situs berita teknologi Wired.com, Clive Thompson, menyebut fenomena ini sebagai Memory Engineering. Dalam artikel yang ia tulis 27 September yang lalu, ia mewawancarai spesialis media sosial asal Indonesia, Daniel Giovanni, yang bisa ditemui di akun Twitter @qronoz. Daniel dijadikannya contoh tentang bagaimana memory engineering bekerja; sebuah proses mendandani masa lalu kita di dunia dijital menjadi lebih menarik.
Daniel bercerita tentang pengalamannya memanfaatkan aplikasi 4SquareAnd7YearsAgo. Kebetulan, saat ia diwawancarai tepat setahun ia menyelesaikan skripsinya. Menurut Daniel seperti yang dikutip artikel di Wired.com tersebut, aplikasi ini membantunya membangun kembali ingatan pada peristiwa setahun yang lalu. Dari aplikasi itu terekam apa yang pernah dilakukannya saat itu; berangkat ke kampus untuk bersiap ujian, lulus dengan nilai A, dan merayakannya dengan nonton film ke bioskop bersama teman-temannya.

Aktivitas individu yang terekam melalui media sosial, terkadang memang sangat detil dan lengkap, sampai pengguna sendiri tidak sadar kalau mereka sedang mencatatkan sejarah mereka di beragam media sosial. Gagasan Facebook Timeline, yang oleh Facebook dipromosikan dengan judul artikel, "Tell Your Story with Timeline" tampak selaras dengan gagasan memory engineering yang dimaksud Clive Thompson tersebut. Apakah Facebook juga sedang menerapkan hal yang sama?
Satu sisi, mungkin berguna bagi si pemilik akun. Tapi jika secara tidak sadar sampai bocor ke publik, informasi yang terlalu detil tentang seseorang bukanlah hal yang lumrah untuk diumbar. Ada hal yang bersifat personal, yang mungkin orang lain tidak punya hak untuk mengetahuinya. Jadi, sambil menunggu Facebook Timeline benar-benar aktif, mungkin perlu dipertimbangkan dari sekarang, informasi apa saja tentang perjalanan hidup Anda yang akan dijadikan konsumsi umum

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Kalo 4SquareAnd7YearsAgo udah coba. PastPosts juga udah. Kalo Facebook Timeline ini asli gw baru denger, resmi keluaran Facebook katanya. Mari kita tunggu bersama!

Wired Magazine: Clive Thompson on Memory Engineering

2011-10-02T23:53:00.001+07:00

Do you remember what you were doing a year ago today? Daniel Giovanni does. A social media specialist in Jakarta, Indonesia, he recently began using a clever service called 4SquareAnd7YearsAgo. The service plugs into your Foursquare “check-ins”—those geotagged notes showing where you ate, drank, and socialized. Each morning, it finds your check-ins from precisely one year earlier and emails you a summary.

The result is a curiously powerful daily jolt of reminiscence. I talked to Giovanni on July 20, the one-year anniversary of his thesis defense, as he looked over the check-ins for that day. According to the recap, he arrived on campus at 7:42 am to set up (with music from Transformers 2 pounding in his head), left the building at 12:42 pm after getting an A, then hit a movie theater to celebrate with friends. Giovanni hadn’t thought about that day in a long while, but it all came rushing back.

“It’s like this helps you reshape the memories of your life,” he told me.

4SquareAnd7YearsAgo is an example of a new trend I call memory engineering—the process of fashioning our inchoate digital pasts into useful memories.

Right now, of course, our digital lives are so bloated they’re basically imponderable. Many of us generate massive amounts of personal data every day—phonecam pictures, text messages, status updates, and so on. By default, all of us are becoming lifeloggers. But we almost never go back and look at this stuff, because it’s too hard to parse.

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Never thought that my name could be written on Wired Magazine (Oct 2011) because of using 4squareand7yearsago.com. I should've post this on my Posterous to get it archived (and I think I'll get the printed one too).

PayPal: Future of Shopping - YouTube

2011-09-20T09:33:00.001+07:00

Infographic: 10 Hot Recession-Proof Careers

2011-09-03T09:48:00.001+07:00

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Infographic: The rise of QR codes

2011-09-02T11:20:00.001+07:00

Infographic: Always Connected, A Day In The Digital Life

2011-09-01T10:57:00.001+07:00

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Titip menitip dengan layanan GO-JEK Indonesia dan Bistip.com

2011-08-30T14:27:00.001+07:00

Mau nonton laga Timnas Indonesia tapi males ngantri tiket? Apa mungkin ngantri tiket Laskar Pelangi yang ticket box-nya buka siang-siang? Atau mungkin pengen beli barang di kota lain? Di luar negeri? Tapi butuhnya cepet kalo nggak males kena shipping fee? Mungkin dua layanan di bawah ini bisa elo coba.

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GO-JEK Indonesia

Pertama kali tau ada layanan ini dari twitnya @arief_aziz. Pertamanya gw pikir ini cuma sebatas order ojek by phone/Y!M/BBM/Twitter aja, tapi ternyata bisa buat titip-titipan juga. Waktu meeting @TEDxJakarta beberapa bulan lalu, adiknya Arief yang jualan House of Lumpia pake GO-JEK ini buat delivery service. Makin lama ngeliatin timeline di Twitter, malah ada yang nitip tiket laga Timnas Indonesia buat diantriin, terus ada beberapa orang juga yang pake buat beli tiket Musikal Laskar Pelangi yang cepet abis itu.

Berbekal testimonial orang-orang, gw akhirnya memutuskan untuk nyobain layanan GO-JEK ini. Pertama kali gw cobain buat nitip benerin rantai jam tangan Casio gw yang cuma bisa dikerjain di Casio Service Center di deket Harmoni sana yang buka cuma pas office hour. Kalo gw musti ke sana pas lunch break, dijamin waktu gw abis di tengah jalan. Akhirnya gw coba telpon call center GO-JEK, prosedurnya cukup cepet, kita tinggal kasih tau detail pickup barangnya di mana, ntar mereka bakal calculate, dan kalo udah deal mereka bakal dateng sesuai jam request kita. Even ada konfirmasi SMS segala yang ngasih tau siapa driver yang bakal ngambilnya. Total bolak balik dari Permata Hijau - Casio Service Center - Permata Hijau cuma abis 2 jam.

Kali kedua gw nyobain, gw pake buat beli Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter di iBox Senayan City. Cukup ngasih tau detail barangnya, nanti mereka bakal beliin barangnya dan anter ke alamat kita. Kalo ini Permata Hijau - iBox Sency - Permata Hijau cuma butuh 1 jam. Overall ada beberapa poin lah yang bisa gw bikin setelah pake layanan GO-JEK ini:

Platform buat ngehubungin call centernya banyak
Sekalinya udah pernah pake, mereka bakal record datanya jadi gak ditanya-tanya ulang detail alamat kita
Kalo beli barang di bawah IDR 200.000, bisa dibeliin dulu sama mereka, ntar bayar pas barangnya dateng. Kalo di atas itu, mereka musti pickup dulu uangnya
Entah belom ada apa gw nggak dikasih semacem bukti pembayaran gitu
Tarifnya mirip kayak taksi tarif bawah (CMIIW)

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Bistip.com

Nah, yang kedua ini gw taunya sebenernya udah agak lama. Dulu tampilan webnya nggak sebagus yang sekarang ini, gw baru tau lagi pas webnya udah revamp. Sempet masuk DailySocial juga kalo nggak salah. Waktu itu gw emang lagi mau beli Crocs Crostail. Ya ya ya, gw emang penasaran sama si sendal yang banyak orang gak suka ini. Tapi yang Crostrail ini modelnya nggak gitu-gitu amat kok *pembelaan*. Back to topic, jadi setau gw ada beberapa model yang emang kalo di Indonesia suka abis gitu, nitip ke temen yang lagi trip ke SG mungkin bisa, dan ternyata di timeline juga ada yang rekomendasiin buat nyoba @bistipes.

Pertamanya gw kirain gw ini service sejenis Bistip dan ternyata ini justru semacem sub-service di bawahnya Bistip yang bisa dititipin barang tapi nggak usah bayar tip si orang yang dititipinnya. Jadi sebenernya si Bistip ini nyediain wadah buat orang nitip-nitipan barang, misalnya mau beli barang di Bali, tapi kitanya di Jakarta, kita bisa pake Bistip ini buat nyari orang yang bakal jalan dari Bali ke Jakarta, nego seputar tip yang mau dikasih, nanti kalo udah deal dibawain deh barangnya ke Jakarta.

Setelah daftar di webnya, akhirnya langsung kirim message ke Bistipes yang udah ada akunnya di Bistip.com, dan kebetulan @nathaliezileta juga mau nitip yang model Shayna. Prosesnya cepet aja, gak pake repot, dan sesuai jadwal pas dia balik ke Jakarta, barangnya dibawain. Useful banget buat yang mau nitip barang yang agak mahalan dari jauh, both nitip beliin apa nitip bawain, tapi harganya jauh lebih murah dari shipping yang terkenal-terkenal itu. Kalo poin-poin dari gw:

Kalo kirim dokumen dari US ke Indonesia abis sekitar IDR 300.000, kalo pake Bistip kemaren sempet nanya-nanya salah satu user, kenanya cuma sekitar IDR 100.000, dan itu udah nitip barang, bukan dokumen
Cocok buat kirim-kiriman dokumen apa barang ke sodara/temen di luar kota/negeri
Kalo mau pake jasa nitipnya, mending cek dulu reputasinya, sekalian background check aja soalnya alamat web, FB, sama Twitter si user juga dicantumin kok

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Kira-kira segitulah review gw buat dua layanan baru yang rasanya cukup meringankan orang-orang yang maunya banyak tapi nggak mau repot. Udah ada yang pernah nyoba juga? Silakan tinggalin komentarnya di bawah ya.

Infographic: How Businesses Use Social Media for Recruiting

2011-08-29T14:26:00.001+07:00

Infographic: Why are (U.S.) students today more stressed than ever before?

2011-08-25T23:54:00.001+07:00

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Freerunning + Flatland BMX + Street Trial Bike + Skateboard = Concrete Circus

2011-08-16T23:28:00.001+07:00

9 Reasons not to buy an iPhone 5

2011-08-16T15:36:00.001+07:00

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Droid vs iOS: Battle Of The Ops

2011-08-16T10:14:00.001+07:00

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Perfect Running Form, Perfect Race

2011-08-15T22:20:00.001+07:00

Everyone dreams of running the perfect race but not everyone has the drive to work on their running form. That’s a shame, because when it comes to marathon running, form is incredibly important. If you can perfect your form then you have a much better chance of getting the time you want at your next marathon.

To help you along, consider five effective tips for improving your running form:

#1: Stay off your heels.

Never extend your leg out so far that your foot lands on the heel. Many beginner and casual runners do this and they end up with shin splints, back pain and a whole host of other problems. When you are training longer distances for marathon running, you have to make sure you are not landing on your heel. This will not only make your running stronger, but it will make training more comfortable on your body and reduce your chances of injury.

Aim to bring your foot down on the front ball or land flat-footed. This will give you the strongest spring off for smoother run and will protect your joints and muscles from strain.

#2: You are not a kid hopping puddles.

Did you ever try to jump over large rain puddles when you were a kid? When you try to leap over a large area and make it fully to the other side before you hit ground, it is natural to stretch your front leg out as far as possible. You are reaching.

Proper running form does not reach like that. You are not trying to make it over the puddle and there is no reward for taking the longest strides. Your strides must be adequate to keep your body propelling forward with consistent speed and grace, but you don’t want to look like a ballet dancer leaping through the air.

If you are over reaching in stride you will be forced to land on your heels. That is one way of determining if your stride is adequate or beyond what is necessary.

#3: You are not a camel.

You can’t go back to hopping puddles and you can’t act like a camel in marathon running, either. Some runners want to hunch forward too much when they run, creating an unnatural posture and throwing the body off-balance. This can be bad for your back and very bad for your time.

While focusing on your running form, try to stay as upright as possible. You can lean just a little forward if it helps you feel centered and balanced, but this should not be a hunched position. Keep the bumps out of your back and shoulders!

#4: Don’t bounce your way through training.

Next time you head out for a run, pay attention to the amount of bounce you have in your stride. If you feel you are bopping up and down just as much as you are propelling your body forward, then you are too much like the Easter bunny and not enough like a successful marathon runner.

All that extra bounce is going to do is eat up your energy so you have less to give to your training. Marathon running is incredibly demanding on your energy, so this is a very important aspect of running form to correct if you feel it applies to you.

#5: Keep your body strong and lean.

It is very difficult to perfect your running form if you don’t have the lean muscle to sustain that perfect posture. Similarly, if you are eating the wrong foods or packing on the pounds you won’t have the energy needed to sustain marathon running with proper running form.

Besides getting out there for your training sessions, you have to cross train. Add in some strength training for your upper body so your arms and chest balance out the muscle that naturally develops in your legs, buttocks and hips. Do other forms of cardio exercise that burn fat and keep your body tone, limber and ready for the road.

When you run short distances, you might do fairly well without focusing on running form. Once you cross into the longer distance and take up marathon running that form becomes far more important. It can control the impact felt on your joints and muscles and give you a smoother stride. In the end you will find it easier to keep to your marathon pace and make your goal time in an upcoming race.

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"A seat in TEDx changed my life. Now it's your turn" ~@edwardsuhadi

2011-08-14T07:52:00.001+07:00

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Nokia N8: The World’s Largest Stop Motion Film

2011-08-07T07:28:00.001+07:00

Nokia is making another big push to promote the quality cameras on board their latest range of phones, by partnering with Aardman Animations and Wieden + Kennedy once again to create the Gulp animation, a new Guinness World Record animation filmed on the Nokia N8.
The stop motion fim is shot entirely on the new Nokia N8, and aims to showcase the Carl Zeiss optics and its 12-megapixel photography capabilities. They managed to place three phones elevated some 36 meters above the ground on a cherry picker on a beach in South Wales, in the UK, to cover a canvas of 42 meters x 24 meters… Basically creating the “World’s Largest Stop-motion Animation”. Crazy effort…
Do you remember the last world record stop motion animation by these guys?
It was the “World’s Smallest Stop Motion Animation“

According to research, there are certain food items that help you burn calories with just the act of eating them.

2011-07-29T11:15:00.001+07:00

What would you do if someone told you that there are such things as fat burning foods? According to research, there are certain food items that help you burn calories with just the act of eating them. This is quite good news for those weight loss advocates. Here are some of them, possibly the top 10.

Lean cut chicken

It doesn’t necessarily mean chicken alone, almost any meat would do for they are rich in protein. Chicken however has the lowest cholesterol and fat content except the skin, which is totally the opposite. The white meat in good serving size will help you burn calories just by eating them. It takes a lot of energy to digest meat, thus burning more calories and fat in the process. This is also the reason why some diets promote protein over carbs. Well, you don’t have to necessarily eat protein alone, just add them and make sure you have healthy preparations as well. Expect the effort to be countered when you had the meat soaked in oil.

Spices

Spices specifically cayenne pepper and chilies are good additives to flavor up your meals and they are quite versatile that you can add them to almost any dish even your pizzas! Studies have shown that pepper component capsaicin helps lower fat and burn fat at the same time. It also promotes metabolism. You may notice at times that you sweat while eating a considerable amount of spice and this is evidence your metabolism is having a boost.

Olive oil

Yes, oils are fat but olive oil is different. It is actually a good source of fat that can help you lose weight. It provides healthy source of calories unlike most oils. Olive oil contains monounsaturated fat that helps you burn calories and fat. More than that, it also lowers cholesterol level. Of course we don’t expect you to drink them like water (that would turn out quite bad), but you probably want to have them in food preparations where you would likely use oils.

Low fat dairy products

There is a good connection with weight loss and calcium. Studies have shown that people drinking or having low fat dairy products rich in calcium had better outcomes with weight control. In low fat dairy products however they contain both protein and calcium, both apparently help metabolize fat. Choose your low fat milk of course like those skim and non fat yogurt.

Garlic

Garlic can help you burn fat. It has certain component that helps in burning fat by reducing bad cholesterol. Adding them to your meals also add up to the satiety value.

Citrus fruits

Some foods contain chemicals that are conducive in reducing fat amount in the body, one of them is citrus fruits. A good intake of your oranges and lemons will help you burn fat effectively and also provide a good source of vitamin C good for your immunity.

Apples and berries

Apples and berries contain chemical called pectin. Pectin essentially limits the amount of fat your cells can absorb. It involves a certain bind with water at cellular level in which helps remove fat deposits. Apples are quite a good snack and can give you full nutrients.

Broccoli

Broccoli or basically any green veggies contain a lot of fiber. Fiber as we know acts as a good booster for metabolism. Eating a good amount will help you control appetite and also allows more fat burning due to the boost in metabolism.

Whole grain

Whole grains and oats are great bulk food items. It lowers your appetite and makes you feel full. Also it contains a lot of fiber helping you burn more calories and fat just by regular intake. It is always a better option to choose over whole grain products for your cereals and bread.

Green tea

Green tea contains an antioxidant called EGCG which acts on burning calories throughout the day. Green tea is great taken as a drink and in replacement to coffee if you dislike too much caffeine. Natural green teas can give you lesser caffeine content but still help you stay away awake and alert.

Of course eating may help you burn fat but it doesn’t totally mean that it is the only thing you should do. There are definitely a lot of approaches for weight loss and you can add this technique to your main activities. Don’t forget exercise and a healthy living. Good luck!

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Infographic: The Social Travel Revolution

2011-07-28T10:25:00.001+07:00

Infographic: Happy 4th Anniversary, iPhone

2011-07-27T13:30:00.001+07:00

The History of Advertising on YouTube

2011-07-27T13:29:00.001+07:00

‪What is Google+ (Google Plus) and do I need it?‬‏

2011-07-27T11:45:00.001+07:00

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Komik Strip: Industri Musik 2011..

2011-07-26T12:29:00.001+07:00

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Ini sih jelas banget nyepet SM*SH ya :))

Comic: How to get a lot of comments on a post

2011-07-25T19:19:00.001+07:00

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Photo: 30 Seconds To Mars with Java Rockin'land 2011 crowd

2011-07-25T10:37:00.001+07:00

The four stages of adulthood

2011-07-25T08:27:00.001+07:00

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How to Achieve Your First Muscle Up

2011-07-19T21:23:00.001+07:00

After saying to myself that I was going to do it for over a year now, I finally took the time and practiced until I was able to do my first muscle up. I had forgotten what it’s like to do an exercise you never were able to do before – and I will tell you it feels great.

What makes the muscle up so fun to learn is that most people can’t do it. It’s the same idea behind getting really good at the butterfly stroke for those of you who swim. It’s not really necessary for a good workout…but you look sweet doing it. Hey, there’s nothing wrong with a little showing off here and there.

What is a Muscle Up?

A muscle up is when you do a normal pull up, and then continue to go up pushing your arms down into a dip like movement. At the end, you’re straight on top of the bar when your arms back down. Here’s a video demonstrating how to do it:

Working Your Way Up to Your First Muscle-Up…

You’re probably not going to be able to watch a video and then go out and do a perfect muscle up. If you are able to – well, that’s impressive. But for the rest of us – you need to work your way up. Both strength and technique are involved, and you need both to get the exercise.

Building Strength:

Building strength for this is pretty straightforward. You’ll want to focus on pull-ups, dips, and some lower leg lifts for your abs (not necessary but helpful). Once you can do all of those exercises for more than 10 repetitions each, you’re strong enough and just need to work on technique.

Technique:

This is how I learned how to do it.

Part 1:

The first time ever, start with a normal pull up (you can kick your legs though). Then literally climb to reach the next part. Put one of your elbows onto the bar, push yourself on the bar and then get your other arm over there. Then push yourself up and do a full dip getting your arms pushing straight down.

This may have been ugly and it may have hurt a bit – but you’ve done your first muscle-up! It only gets easier after this.

Part 2:

Start with a normal pull up, kick your legs for momentum, try to get a little swing going. While in the swing, kick up and get to the top of the bar, bend one elbow up quickly and push yourself over the bar. Now bring your other arm up, and do the dip. You’re starting to look good now, and it’s time to reach the final stage.

Part 3:

Swing back and forth on the bar, kick your legs for momentum mid swing, reach the end of the bar and bend both elbows up, push yourself over the bar and down and complete your first, beautifully done muscle-up. Good work!

Here’s a really nice video tutorial:

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RunAddicts: 5 Long Distance Running Tips for Beginners

2011-07-18T22:20:00.001+07:00

Long distance running is a very challenging thing to take up. Most successful long distance runners have a real passion for training and are mentally able to push through physical discomfort to hit their mile goals. If you think you have what it takes to become one of these elite runners, these long distance running tips for beginners will help you get started.

#1: Make sure your expectations of your body are realistic.

The first thing you have to do when you decide to become a long distance runner is take stock of where you are as a runner today. If you are not already running shorter distances on a routine basis, then you will realistically take longer to hit the long miles than someone who has already completed at few 5Ks and runs a few times a week.

If you expect too much of yourself in the beginning, you will feel disappointed with your progress. That disappointment can easily feel like failure which leads to quitting. It is much better to start out with reasonable expectations so you feel successful and powerful as you progress.

#2: Your toes need room to breathe.

It is very common for long distance runners to have black and blue toes that are quite painful. This isn’t just the demand and strain of an intense training schedule. It is also a matter of finding running shoes with the proper fit.

Make sure there is ¾” to 1″ of space between the top of your big toe and the end of your shoe. This may feel too big when you first try it on, but you need the extra space around the toes so they are not rubbing into the shoe and being pressed into one another. That is what causes a lot of the bruised toes experienced by runners who pound the pavement for many hours at a time.

You can wear thicker socks or put moleskin the back heel of your shoes if it slips off your heel due to the extra room in the toe.

Also pay attention to your clothing and make sure you are dressed for the weather.

#3: Pay attention to your body and listen if it needs to slow down.

Training pace is not a one-size-fits-all issue. If you are following a training plan or someone else’s guidelines don’t be afraid to make modifications if your body needs to slow down at times. If you are doing your own thing then make sure to listen to your body and give yourself rests when it is needed.

If you push too hard too fast you can end up with overuse injuries that take you out of the running game for awhile or severely slow your training down. Your body will talk to you if you pay attention.

Some aches and pains are normal, but you shouldn’t feel severe pain. Also look for signs of fatigue and exhaustion which can be signs that you are pushing too hard at the moment and need to give yourself a break.

Most importantly, don’t be afraid to take a day or two off before a race. Rest up and restore your energy so you don’t face exhaustion on the big day.

#4: Smoother, softer surfaces are best.

It is easy to find a sidewalk or perhaps a concrete path to run on, but it is best to go for a dirt trail or some other surface that is softer. Long distance runners can develop joint and back problems over time because of the pounding their body takes during those long runs. The softer the surface, the more you spare your joints.

You can also do some of your runs indoors on a treadmill to go even lighter on your body. Just make sure outdoor running is part of the plan as well.

#5: Every workout doesn’t have to be ball-busting hardcore.

You don’t have to run your body into exhaustion every time you set out for a run. Some of your runs should be light, casual runs that work the body with less stress. You should also do some interval training that doesn’t focus directly on increasing your distance.

Long distance running is about going further, but it is also about form, speed and control. If you are just beginning as a runner you may want to do a lot of reading to learn why these other things are so important when running the distance.

It takes a lot of dedication and passion to survive in the world of long distance running. Do you still think you have what it takes?

via runaddicts.net

The History of America, As Told by Facebook [PIC]

2011-07-05T08:31:00.001+07:00

How to send Google+ invitation for dummies

2011-07-01T14:31:00.001+07:00

Open your Google+ home screen
Head to the "Circle" tab
Click "Add a new person"
Write down their email (preferably Google account), or maybe you can try emails from other domains
Pick the proper circle for your friend
Head back to the home screen, then write your friend's email on the stream

There's another alternative if you want to sent all-at-once invitation, just repeat the step 1-5. Then you can sent the invitation to the circle instead of writing down the emails one by one.

Social Media Revolution 3 (4:15 version via Erik Qualman)

2011-06-30T00:04:00.001+07:00

Cerita dari London dalam 326 tweet

2011-06-29T23:50:00.001+07:00

Sekitar 300an tweet di bawah ini adalah kumpulan update yang gw lakukan dari tanggal 22 Juni sore hingga 29 Juni dini hari. Enjoy!

This is gonna be an exciting trip. My very first time traveling overseas alone by myself. #JDLondon
Harusnya nanti bakal duduk nggak jauh2 bareng @_thunderpanda_ sama @wenzrawk pas di pesawat. Kecuali pada pilih seat jauh2an :) #JDLondon
Baru merhatiin visa. Duration of stay: 180 days. @magnivate mau buka kantor cabang London nggak sampe Desember? :))
Nampaknya counter check in belum dibuka saudara2. #JDLondon
Ternyata internet online check-in punya counter sendiri. Dan gw paling depan sendiri. Uhuy! #JDLondon [pic]: http://4sq.com/j5iiEk
Yang ngantri counter online check-in: 4 orang. Yang ngantri check-in normal: 30 orang. Menarik. #JDLondon
Yang masuk bagasi 10kg pun nggak ada. Pulang bawa apaan ya yang 20kg? Bayi bule? :)) #JDLondon
*ngambil makanan seenak jidat* (@ Citibank Lounge Terminal 2 Soeta w/ 2 others) [pic]: http://4sq.com/jr067W
Org ini dpt approval visa UK juga hari ini ---> RT @willyirawan: Alhamdulillah!!!!! RDV 2011 here I comeeee!!!!!!!!!! *joget2birdsofparadise
Ternyata @nathaliezileta di Pulau Palue masih dapet sinyal. Malahan gw yang buat 5 hari ke depan nggak ada sinyal :|
Boarding EK 357. CGK - DXB. (@ Gate D1) http://4sq.com/iEh5Ld
Milih seat di 25H dr Seating Advice di TripIt. Kalo yang merah itu artinya nggak enak banget. Yg kuning ada +/-.
(lanjutan) Kalo yang putih normal. Kalo nemu yang ijo itu berarti yang paling enak. Pokoknya TripIt recommended bgt lah.
Nggak cuma Seating Advice, updated flight schedule juga ada di TripIt. Lengkap lah. #JDLondon
Cobaan selanjutnya adalah di imigrasi Heathrow. Katanya @LingkyChingo ketat banget di sana. Yaudahlah, masih bbrp belas jam lagi. #JDLondon
Gate D1 Soekarno-Hatta udah berasa di Dubai nih. Assalamualaikum! :) #JDLondon
Udah duduk manis. Siap berangkat. Sampai jumpa, Indonesia! #JDLondon
I'm at Dubai International Airport (DXB) مطار دبي الدولي (Al Garhoud - Airport Road, القرهود - شارع المطار, Dubai) http://4sq.com/lfzbbZ
Hello from Dubai! It's 10:42pm here. Finally stepped my foot in Middle East for the first time.
Buset gatenya nyampe beratus2 kalo di airport Dubai euy! #JDLondon http://twitpic.com/5faway
Kasir2 di toko2 yang ada di airport Dubai ini muka2 familiar ya. Btw, jogging asik kali ya, panjang gini euy hall-nya. #JDHRC
Btw, official hashtag-nya ternyata #JDHRC, diganti ya bukan #JDLondon :)
Makasih @alderina buat pinjeman battery pack-nya. Berguna sekali! #JDHRC
Bersama rombongan @GBluesShelter di Burger King. Bareng @wenzrawk @_thunderpanda_ @ipongHRC juga. #JDHRC
Duduk doang. No expense ah :) (@ Burger King Terminal 3) [pic]: http://4sq.com/khIjy3
Taman di dalem airport Dubai. Ini kok dingin ya di sekitar sini? Emang suhu normalnya gini apa AC doang? #JDHRC
Jam 1 pagi di Dubai Airport ramenya kayak Senayan City kalo weekend. #JDHRC
Akhirnya dapet juga nih tempat buat tiduran dikit yang sinyal wifinya mantep. #JDHRC
Kata @_thunderpanda_ naik Emirates berasa dibacain doa melulu :)) #JDHRC
Flight ke London dari Dubai lamanya udah kayak Jakarta ke Dubai. Tidur blas ini mah euy. Mana laper lagi. #JDHRC
Gimana nggak betah di dalem pesawat kalo kayak gini :) #JDHRC
Lumayan lah pas flight tadi nonton Rango sama Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. Btw, ada The Adjustment Bureau juga. Kalah bioskop Indonesia.
Yang analog buat timezone Indonesia, yang digital buat timezone local :) #JDHRC
Boarding now. Ciao, Dubai. See you soon, London! #JDHRC
Foto terakhir sebelom sinyal wifi ilang. #JDHRC http://twitpic.com/5fd2pu
I just unlocked the "JetSetter" badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/jip2FO
I'm at London Heathrow Airport (LHR) (234 Bath Rd., Hounslow) w/ 16 others http://4sq.com/lSCIrb
Butuh nomernya @LingkyChingo nih. Mungkin @willyirawan @anienmd bisa membantu? Urgent euy.
Ketemu stasiun nyolok nih bray. Langsung diserbu @wenzrawk @ipongHRC @_thunderpanda_ :)) #JDHRC
Untung ada sim card 3 yg pay as you go. Masih bisa buka Skype sama Twitter jadinya buat minta nomer @LingkyChingo.
Udah di dalem tube. Picadilly Line. Menuju Leichester Square. #JDHRC
Yak. Udah ketemu @LingkyChingo. Siap berpetualang sambil nunggu check-in hotel. #JDHRC
I'm at Trafalgar Square (Trafalgar Square, London) http://4sq.com/iYWCtc
Untuk pembukaan jalan2 di London, nih gw beri #planking di Travalgar Square :)) #JDHRC
Cuacanya nggak dingin2 amat. Mirip kayak Puncak siang2. Gak perlu jaket :) #JDHRC
Awas kuda galak! #JDHRC (@ Horse Guards Parade) [pic]: http://4sq.com/kb7de3
Nggak berani kalo #planking di sini kakak :)) #JDHRC (@ Big Ben w/ 2 others) [pic]: http://4sq.com/lBtFVr
Orang ini yang akan jadi tour guide-nya @willyirawan bulan depan di London :))
Liat doang dari bawah biar gratis :) (@ The London Eye w/ 5 others) [pic]: http://4sq.com/laVhxt
Boleh nonton freerun-nya kakak :) /cc @willyirawan
Argh! Ada street artist dandan mirip banget sama Jack Sparrow. Pengen foto bareng tapi nggak punya uang receh :(
Kayak pernah liat tempat ini deh di video parkour yang mana gitu. *nginget2*
Pemandangan yg biasa di tgh siang bolong di London: Runner!
Makan siang beli di Borough Market, makannya numpang di sini. (@ Southwark Cathedral) [pic]: http://4sq.com/lJlzD3
Belom 24 jam udah kangen nasi. Edan lah sekotak gini sama lime abisnya £7. Hadehhh :| #JDHRC
Seriously. There are so many runners here in London. Running along in exact same pavement with tourists and workers. #JDHRC
*joget2 ala Fergie* (@ London Bridge) [pic]: http://4sq.com/mhTJi8
Installment keren tentang Coca-Cola.
Dengan ini twitpic2 dari London akan ditunda hingga pukul 6pm BST atau pukul 12am WIB demi kemaslahatan timeline :)
I'm at Hotel InterContinental London Park Lane (1 Hamilton Place, London) [pic]: http://4sq.com/mehmGS
Kayaknya di sini nggak ada yang namanya sinyal EDGE ya? Apa iPhone gw yang bermasalah?
Eh, ini di InterContinental bisa minta toothpaste sama shaver nggak sih? 2-2nya ketinggalan nih kayaknya di Jakarta :)) #turiskere
Shaver sama toothpaste udah nyampe di kamar. Sekarang waktunya berburu voucher 3 (lagi) buat aktifin unlimited data plan.
Dengan bahasa Inggris pas2an akhirnya sukses nelpon ke customer service Three UK yang (kayaknya) orang India.
Si @LingkyChingo yang mau lanjut jadi tour guide buat sesi sore-malem malah ketiduran. Kumaha ini? :))
Weis, tipinya customized gini euy menunya! :)) #NdesoUnite #JDHRC
I'm at 3 Store (257 Oxford St., London) w/ 2 others [pic]: http://4sq.com/iejkPY
Buset rame amat ini kayak Ramayana :)) (@ Primark) [pic]: http://4sq.com/ljaweX
Kena hasutan @LingkyChingo buat belanja. Bahaya ini bahayaaa :)) #JDHRC http://twitpic.com/5fqbdx
Udah mau jam 8 malem tapi masih terang aja nih di sini. Bahaya buat jam tidur :) #JDHRC
"Wanted for murder of a Chinese family of four". Ini ditempel di rumah makan biasa.
I'm at Four Seasons | 文興酒家 (12 Gerrard St, Dean St, London) w/ 3 others [pic]: http://4sq.com/l3x7Y9
Di London sini orang2nya dandanpol semua ya. Mengagumkan.
Crispy Duck Aromatic rekomendasi @LingkyChingo di Four Seasons Restaurant ini asli enak banget! #JDHRC
I'm at Apple Store w/ @andytjokro [pic]: http://4sq.com/j4soHD
Just posted a photo @ Nag's Head http://instagr.am/p/GP8Fy/
Uang kertas Inggris lebar amat ya. Gak muat di dompet jd pake dilipet segala. Uang logamnya jg tebel parah. #JDHRC
Tube-nya London mengingatkan pada MRT-nya Singapore. Somehow yang ini lebih asik. #JDHRC
Just spent my first 15 hours in London. I like this city but I completely hate the expenses :)) #JDHRC
I'm at Hotel InterContinental London Park Lane (1 Hamilton Place, London) http://4sq.com/k8s5ui
Terima kasih sebesar2nya buat @LingkyChingo yang udah nemenin strolling keliling London seharian jalan kaki campur pake Tube. #JDHRC
Yang di WIB udah pada bangun pagi. Yang di GSTbaru pada mau tidur. Selamat malam semuanya!
Buset deh London. Kemaren jam 10 malem masih terang, sekarang belom jam 5 pagi juga udah terang. Yang vampir buru2 pasti kerjanya. #JDHRC
Air keran di London bisa langsung diminum nggak sih?
Bro minum air keran bro. #JDHRC
Kemaren malem pas pulang ke hotel udah ada weather forecast di meja samping tempat tidur. #JDHRC
#JDHRC stands for Jack Daniel's Hard Rock Calling. Thank you JD Indonesia for giving me a chance to see another side of the world.
Dikasih tau @heykie kalo ada aplikasi Hard Rock Calling di iPhone. Lumayan banget ini euy! #JDHRC
Bawa smartphone yang bisa tethering kalo ke UK ini bener2 ngebantu banget. 15p udah all you can eat. Kalo wifi hotel 15p cuma sehari. #JDHRC
Pulsa 3 udah abis aja gara2 dipake nelpon 2 menit doang. Tinggal sisa bonus buat call/SMS sesama nomer UK. Untung ada Google SMS :)
Kayaknya seru ya kalo festival2 musik di Indonesia dibikin juga iOS app-nya kayak Hard Rock Calling ini. #JDHRC
Pagi2 ada kabar gembira dari The Daily Telegraph buat para jomblo nih :))
Memulai petualangan London hari ini bersama @wenzrawk @_thunderpanda_ @ipongHRC #JDHRC http://twitpic.com/5g0ppo
Pada nggak mau foto dalem telepon umum. Bau pesing parah :)) #JDHRC
Mampir ke sini lagi demi kelancaran komunikasi sesama Petualang London :) #JDHRC (@ 3 Store) [pic]: http://4sq.com/mQtpSa
Numpang pegang2 BlackBerry Playbook (@ Phones 4 U) [pic]: http://4sq.com/lDvnuN
RT @deathrockstar: @qronoz @wenzrawk @iponkhrc di london #jdhrc
Nggak berani twitpic banyak2 takut dihujat :))
Somewhere in London http://instagr.am/p/GR7YF/
Just posted a photo @ Abbey Road Studios http://instagr.am/p/GSQlV/
Gak bisa #planking di Abbey Road. Traffic-nya rame. Dilindes double decker ntar gw :))
I've just crossed the famous Abbey Road! :)
Mengandalkan Google Maps demi ketemu @mahadewa :) #JDHRC
I'm at St Paul's Cathedral w/ @mahadewa [pic]: http://4sq.com/iE44h3
RT @mahadewa: Finally Meet :) w/ @qronoz [photo] http://with.me?CaB
Kunjungan ke kantornya Chris w/ @mahadewa [photo] http://with.me?CaV
Just posted a photo @ St Paul's Cathedral http://instagr.am/p/GSldb/
Akhirnya ketemu kereta yang nggak underground :) (@ Whitechapel Railway Station (ZWL)) [pic]: http://4sq.com/iNQfin
I'm at Geffrye Museum (136 Kingsland Rd., Pearson St., London) http://4sq.com/kqzBh9
Masuk ruangan ini jadi inget Mr. Bean yang ngerusak lukisan :))
Isi standar ruangan keluarga di Inggris periode 1990-2000. #JDHRC
Latihan Quidditch di sini enak kali ya :)) #JDHRC
Lagi ada kebakaran. Nggak kayak di Jakarta. Kalo di sini nggak rame sama penonton :) #JDHRC
Hard Rock Calling! #JDHRC (@ Hyde Park w/ 15 others) [pic]: http://4sq.com/j51OrK
Let rock and roll! #JDHRC
I'm seeing WOLF GANG at HR Calling. Get the App http://vf.xomo.ca/app/hardrockcalling
Buset deh. Lautan manusia ini di Hyde Park euy! Performer pertama lagi main nih: Wolf Gang #JDHRC
Ternyata di London sini juga ada calo. "Any spare tickets? Any spare tickets?". Gak tau calo apa emang nyariin tiket :)) #JDHRC
Is this tweet gonna be displayed on @HardRockCalling big screen? If so, let me send my greeting to all Indonesians in Hyde Park! \m/ #JDHRC
Mencari letak keberadaan @itsbowie @wenzrawk @deathrockstar @ipongHRC di dalem Hyde Park. Posisi dimana? Ganti. #JDHRC
Vokalisnya Wolf Gang ini mirip Kurt yang ada di Glee. #JDHRC @HardRockCalling
I'm live on Ustream! Check out my show: http://ustre.am/Aevz 5:26 PM GMT+01:00
RT @HardRockCalling: Yay! @wolfgang just played their new single 'The King And All Of His Men' - check it out here:http://cot.ag/lSQBSI ...
Udara makin dingin dan perut makin laper. Enaknya tahu gejrot nih. #JDHRC
Any1 wanna receive this postcard sent from @HardRockCalling? I can send u one. Just tweet me why u want it. #JDHRC
Hickory Smoked Pulled Pork and Golden Cadillac for dinner. Ossum! \m/ #JDHRC @HardRockCalling
The Killers parah kerennya euy! Sayang batere iPhone udah mokat mulai pas Kaiser Chiefs. @HardRockCalling #JDHRC
Alesannya @alderina bagus juga. Gw kirim postcard @HardRockCalling ya, Pon ;)
Mulai dari jam 6 sore (GST) udah ujan di Hyde Park. Nonton lengkap bareng sama poncho deh. Parah dinginnya. @HardRockCalling #JDHRC
I'm seeing KAISER CHIEFS at HR Calling. Get the App http://vf.xomo.ca/app/hardrockcalling
I'm seeing THE KILLERS at HR Calling. Get the App http://vf.xomo.ca/app/hardrockcalling
Dapet VIP access di @HardRockCalling ini asik bgt. Makan sama minum gratis sekuatnya. Pas nonton ada area khusus pula. #JDHRC
Di London agak beda sm Singapore. Kalo di sini pengguna iPhone banding BB masih (keliatannya) sama banyak. Malah ada yg Samsung, HTC, dll.
Drizzle dari kemaren malem nampaknya belom reda juga sampe pagi ini. Alamat dingin banget nih euy :|
Baru jam setengah 6 pagi nih di sini. Siaran @skypeunite radio aja apa? :))
The Crossing - Abbey Road Studios: http://t.co/tVErBbk via @AddThis
Apparently abbeyroad.com recorded my crossing and it's archived for 24hrs. That's me & @IpongHRC! #JDHRC
Mengudara ah sejam di @skypeunite radio. Yang mau dengerin silakan aja langsung ke http://bit.ly/yeahSU. Bisa dari smartphone juga kok :)
RT @stellaweenas: Lagi dengerin @qronoz mengudara di @skypeunite. Live From London! Canggih lah temen gue yang satu ini :)
RT @mahadewa: A private #Instameet with @qronoz  It was good to see you Dan! You lucky lucky man  Enjoy your stay and the con http://i ...
Madame Tussauds London itu worth nggak sih buat £28.80? Mahal bener tiketnya :| #JDHRC
RT @MissLaiLai: @qronoz gw ke London, HK, and NYC semua ada madametussaud, and gw ga pergi loh :P. Males, not my thing. Make sure u do L ...
RT @babysmurf: @qronoz kira-kira kamu tertarik gak liat kumpulan patung orang terkenal dari lilin? Kalo gua sih gak :p
Hari ini bakal berawan seharian & besok katanya bakal panas bgt sampe 30' C di London. Besok ada kesempatan buat pake celana pendek klo gt.
Today's breakfast @ Hotel InterContinental London Park Lane http://instagr.am/p/GV1T9/
Jesus Festival http://instagr.am/p/GWIfD/
Besok pagi lari di taman sekitar hotel kayaknya seru nih. Udah lama nggak @GLTDrun-an :)
I'm at Buckingham Palace (7 Buckingham Palace Rd., London) w/ 2 others [pic]: http://4sq.com/jBhx3k
Buset deh kuda2 di sini gede2 amat ya. #JDHRC
Just posted a photo @ Buckingham Palace http://instagr.am/p/GWMlu/
Di halaman Buckingham Palace lg ganti shift prajurit. Gw udh dtg 30 menit lebih cepet ternyata ttp gak dpt spot :|
Polisi2 yang jaga di Buckingham Palace sabarnya tingkat tinggi nih. Dari turis yang beneran clueless sampe yang pura2 bego musti dijabanin.
I'm at Changing of the Guard (Buckingham Palace, Buckingham Palace, London) w/ 2 others http://4sq.com/iffhcf
Changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace frontyard. http://twitvid.com/KW64T
Combo tuh barusan twitpic sama twitvid :)
There you go, fellas. I'm #planking at Buckingham Palace.
I'm at Natural History Museum (Cromwell Rd., London) [pic]: http://4sq.com/lD0xib
Antrian masuk ke Natural History Museum panjang bener.
Whoa! The Giant Sequioa!
I'm at Science Museum (Exhibition Rd., London) w/ 10 others [pic]: http://4sq.com/kyWJse
Ternyata London cuacanya juga bisa nyamain Bandung. Serasa pulang kampung. #eh
I'm at Hotel InterContinental London Park Lane (1 Hamilton Place, London) http://4sq.com/kmCCKL
Sepatu kayak ginian di Primark harganya £5 alias gak nyampe 70rb Rupiah. Gimana gak kehasut sama @LingkyChingo :))
Buset yang nitip sepatu banyak gini. Gw bisnisin aja apa? :)) Btw, tapi kan koper gw gak muat euy :|
Kalo gini ceritanya mending ntar gw & @LingkyChingo buka jasa pesen brg Primark kali ya. @incaem @bonni_pc @farhanvsgnk @dinandar @echosant
Tau gini gw bawa koper gedean biar bisa bisnis sepatu yg dibeli di Primark. Lumayan nih udah ada 7 orang yang nitip :))
Btw, di London ini ada siapa lagi ya? Masa cuma ketemu @LingkyChingo sama @mahadewa doang? #banciTU
RT @GNFI: @dinopattidjalal will be the first RI ambassador invited to Black Entertainment Television award in LA, Sunday.
Back here again for the second day! #JDHRC (@ Hard Rock Calling w/ 35 others) http://4sq.com/lL1c8F
A glass of Howling Wolf for booster. \m/ #JDHRC
Panoramic view of Day 2 @HardRockCalling 2011. #JDHRC
I'm seeing THE CONTRAST at HR Calling. Get the App http://vf.xomo.ca/app/hardrockcalling
Nikmat bener festival musik kayak @HardRockCalling. Duduk2, tidur2an, sinyal gak susah, angin sepoi2. #JDHRC
Di festival semacem @HardRockCalling ini rasanya jarang banget liat orang yang ngerokok. Hmmm. #JDHRC
Di @HardRockCalling ini, screen gedenya berkali2 ngasih tau penonton buat like FB, follow Twitter, pake hashtag, checkin 4sq. #JDHRC
I'm seeing BON JOVI at HR Calling. Get the App http://vf.xomo.ca/app/hardrockcalling
Akhirnya Bon Jovi nongol juga di panggung @HardRockCalling :) #JDHRC
Suasana venue @HardRockCalling hari kedua. Cerah euy! #JDHRC
Lautan manusia di @HardRockCalling 2011. Hyde Park penuh pol! #JDHRC
Melipir dulu ke VIP area buat isi perut. Ntar baru balik lagi ke depan panggung. #JDHRC @HardRockCalling
Legendary Pizza Burger (menu from Hard Rock Cafe New York) and Blue Hawaiian for dinner. @HardRockCalling #JDHRC
Itu yang ada kecil2 di belakang bendera orang semua tuh. #JDHRC @HardRockCalling
Btw, di Jakarta udah tengah malem kan? Justru maksudnya biar gak banyak yang baca jadi aktif ngetwitnya jam segini :)
RT @HardRockCalling: Spine tingling version of Hallelujah from @BonJovi! Wow! #hrc2011
Hari ini gw ada 2 postcard lg nih buat dikirim lgsg dr @HardRockCalling. Siapa yg mau silakan tweet gw alesannya.
Apa banget dah dibikin kuis2an segala. Ya gpp lah ya, biar seru :)
I'm seeing BON JOVI at HR Calling. Get the App http://vf.xomo.ca/app/hardrockcalling
Nangkring di VIP area bray w/ @_thunderpanda_ [photo] http://with.me?Cer
Bro makan bro w/ @itsbowie @nyep_nyep @HardRockCalling [photo] http://with.me?CeF
Sedang berkumandang di Hyde Park: Livin' On A Prayer by @BonJovi. #JDHRC @HardRockCalling
Berakhirlah gelaran hari kedua @HardRockCalling. Besok waktunya @GBluesShelter! #JDHRC
Weather forecast London bener2 terpercaya. Pagi berawan, sore matahari dikit, malem cerah.
Di saat2 seperti Google SMS benar2 terasa manfaatnya. *dadah2 virtual sama yang lagi di Pulau Palue*
Sepi gila di Canada Water. Padahal udah jam setengah 11 siang.
I'm at Surrey Quays Shopping Centre (Redrif Road, London) [pic]: http://4sq.com/juGoGU
RT @ilhambastiankid: #planking itu #ternyata melelahkan, memalukan, kadang menyakitkan, tp menantang *lirik @qronoz http://t.co/G5beGZa
Jgn lupa nanti jam setengah 6 ikutin @RollingStoneINA @deathrockstar buat live report @GBluesShelter manggung di @HardRockCalling. #JDHRC
Kira2 kayak ginilah suasana di London pinggiran. Daerah pemukiman.
Inikah sepatu Kalenji yang terkenal di antara para penggiat parkour itu? (@ Decathlon) [pic]: http://4sq.com/kPeH3O
Taun2 depan belom tentu ke London lagi. Kalenji Ekiden 50 langsung borong dua! :))
Mampir bentar taro barang abis itu siap meluncur ke Hyde Park buat nonton @GBluesShelter http://4sq.com/ixryg3
Cuaca hari ini katanya bakal nyampe 29' C. Akhirnya celana pendek kepake juga! :)) #JDHRC
Di pintu masuk Hyde Park ada LED display kasih pengumuman "DO NOT BUY FROM TOUTS". Calo ternyata universal ya. #JDHRC
RT @GBluesShelter: Jono, Bowie and @HardRockCalling !! @nyep_nyep @itsbowie
Postcard dari @HardRockCalling sudah terkirim ya @myuts @alderina @umenumen @lalitia :) #JDHRC
Panasnya udah kayak Ancol nih. Lebih parah malah. (@ Hard Rock Calling w/ 2 others) http://4sq.com/mugfmE
Siap2 nonton @GBluesShelter. @deathrockstar udah siap tempur aja nih. @HardRockCalling #JDHRC
Jayalah Red Bull beserta hasil oplosannya! :)) @HardRockCalling #JDHRC
Postcard @HardRockCalling terakhir dikirim buat @yukinoalmira. Dikirim langsung dari Hyde Park! :) #JDHRC
Semoga postcard2 yg dikirim buat @alderina @lalitia @umenumen @yukinoalmira @myuts sampai selamat di Jkt. #JDHRC
RT @pinot: USGS: 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits north coast of Papua, Indonesia http://t.co/T5wtrFW
#nowperforming on @HardRockCalling Main Stage: @GBluesShelter! @nyep_nyep pake baju Soekarno! #JDHRC
.@GBluesShelter main di depan puluhan ribu penonton di @HardRockCalling! http://twitvid.com/LXAR0
.@GBluesShelter on @HardRockCalling big screen. Superb! \m/ #JDHRC
Parah banyaknya yang nonton @GBluesShelter di @HardRockCalling! Gelo! #JDHRC
RT @RollingStoneINA: Live tweets @GBluesShelter concert from the main stage of @HardRockCalling 2011, Hyde Park, London is powered by J ...
RT @RollingStoneINA: @GBluesShelter menghajar @HardRockCalling 2011 di Hyde Park, London dengan "Woman", +20.000 berdansa! http://locker ...
.@GBluesShelter sukses menarik perhatian puluhan ribu penonton @HardRockCalling di Hyde Park!
Ribuan jempol buat @GBluesShelter. Se-Hyde Park pada tepuk tangan! @HardRockCalling \m/ #JDHRC
RT @HardRockCalling: Don't forget to bring the suncream today if you're heading to @HardRockCalling - it's going to be hot hot hot! #HRC2011
Mari mencoba peruntungan. Kalo dapet apel warna emas bisa dapet iPod nih. #JDHRC
Menjelajah venue @HardRockCalling bersama @wenzrawk dan @ipongHRC. #JDHRC
I'm seeing GUGUN BLUES SHELTER at HR Calling. Get the App http://vf.xomo.ca/app/hardrockcalling
I'm seeing STEFANY JUNE at HR Calling. Get the App http://vf.xomo.ca/app/hardrockcalling
Di Hyde Park sini kalo udah pada kepanasan gini ya pd buka baju. Nggak cowo nggak cewe :) @HardRockCalling #JDHRC
Dan @ipongHRC serta @wenzrawk ikut juga ngobok2 gentong. Kali aja nongol nih iPod Shuffle :) #JDHRC
Yang cewe pd bikinian sih, nggak sampe segitu buka2nya. Nggak usah di-twitpic ya. What happened in Hyde Park stays in Hyde Park :)) #JDHRC
RT @anienmd: RT @tedxjakarta: Hey, D-6 to TEDxJakarta:YOU! submissions deadline. Get that webcam on and start recording your talk | http ...
I'm seeing TRAIN at HR Calling. Get the App http://vf.xomo.ca/app/hardrockcalling
VIP dapet area khusus di depan panggung antara media pit sama penonton. Thanks, Jack Daniel's Indonesia! #JDHRC
RT @HardRockCalling: Patrick Monahan, lead singer of @train has just been for a wander into the Hyde Park crowd! #HRC2011
Sblm nyanyiin Soul Sister, vokalisnya Train turun ke barikade penonton buat foto2 bareng. @HardRockCalling #JDHRC http://twitvid.com/HGYJJ
Semua yg ada di list ini gratis euy! Btw, Raspberry Mojito ini berasa daun kemangi ya :)) #JDHRC @HardRockCalling
Ini bule lagi cerita kalo kemaren dia hampir busted kemaren gara2 "the good stuffs" :)) #JDHRC @HardRockCalling
Pls introduce Jason Sanform from @RoscoBandana! His band got some great stuffs! Check out their Myspace page too!
Si bartender ini girang bener dikasih kaos Jack Daniel's. Sampe teriak2 segala. You're welcome, dude! \m/ #JDHRC
Selesai manggung, @GBluesShelter sekarang dimintain interview sama Columbia Radio (US). #JDHRC @HardRockCalling
Dan baru saja @deathrockstar memberikan satu buah CD @sajama_cut untuk @RoscoBandana. #JDHRC /cc @bekicotngesot
Berapa banyak yang nonton @HardRockCalling hari ini? Gw nggak tau deh. Udah kayak pasir liatnya. #JDHRC
I'm seeing ADAM ANT at HR Calling. Get the App http://vf.xomo.ca/app/hardrockcalling
Sumpek dan panas banget di Pepsi Max Stage. Barenaked Ladies lagi main nih soalnya. #JDHRC @HardRockCalling
Sumprit ini beneran panas banget di Hyde Park. Ikut2an buka baju juga apa? :/ #JDHRC
#nowperforming Adam Ant on @HardRockCalling Main Stage. #JDHRC
I'm seeing BARENAKED LADIES at HR Calling. Get the App http://vf.xomo.ca/app/hardrockcalling
"I owe you man. I don't work for Hard Rock anymore. You're my boss now". Dan gw mintanya apa malah dikasih JD :))
Calling out all TBBT fans out there. Barenaked Ladies is performing the soundtrack on @HardRockCalling! http://twitvid.com/ULBRZ
Gebles banget dah. MCnya barusan salah ngomong Hard Rock Calling jadi hard cock :)) #JDHRC
Dan ternyata Lighthouse Family bikin showcase di VIP tent. Woohoo! #JDHRC @HardRockCalling
Lagi2 @GBluesShelter dimintain wawancara. Kali ini buat media Columbia. #JDHRC @HardRockCalling
12 hours left in London. What to do now?
Cuaca hari ini berkisar antara 25'-31' Celcius. Mari bercelana pendek! #JDHRC
Keren...Senjata, Granat dan iPad untuk Tentara Singapura | Republika Online http://t.co/XOcvsWH via @republikaonline
Kalo commuting di Zona 1 London lebih banyak ketemu iPhone 4. Kalo ke Zona 2 mepet ke 3 ketemunya iPhone 3GS. Kebetulan mungkin :))
Tapi kayak yg sempet gw tweet kemaren, iPhone user di sini masih seimbang sama user BB, HTC, Samsung, dll. Nokia jadul aja masih ada. #JDHRC
I'm at Camden Market (Camden High Street, London) [pic]: http://4sq.com/jhbiH1
Camden Road ini mirip Cihampelas ya ternyata. #JDHRC
Mau beli souvenir tapi Made In China kabeh. Duruktukces. #JDHRC
"Religions of The World". SuperLOL! :))
"If you cannot read Chinese, Please tilt your head to the right". Nice one! :))
#barutau kalo search "weather london" di Google via iPhone keluarnya kayak ginian.
I'm at The Camden Stables Market (Chalk Farm Rd, Camden Town) w/ 2 others [pic]: http://4sq.com/k5FXFo
RT @wenzrawk: Having lunch with @iponghrc @qronoz @deathrockstar at THE CLASH HQ in Stables Market, Camden Town.
Visanya masih berlaku sampe 22 Desember. Bisa sih kalo mau extend. *ngomong sama cermin*
Makan siang bareng @_thunderpanda_ @ipongHRC @wenzrawk. Bener2 berasa makan siang di Jalan Riau (Bandung) :))
Nampaknya Jamming Regional @ParkourJKT kemaren berlangsung meriah ya.
Menuju Heathrow Airport. Sampai jumpa, London. I'll be back! Someday. Ton of thanks, Jack Daniel's Indonesia!
Makasih @LingkyChingo yang udah jadi tour guide di hari pertama gw di sini dan @mahadewa yang udah nyempetin tweetup singkat di London!
Chicken Curry ini ternyata ada nasinya! Mantap gannn! #JDHRC #twittelat @HardRockCalling
“@rezaprabowo: Saudara2, @qronoz udah siap2 mau balik ke Indonesia. Silahkan di follow kembali.” :))
Tadi concierge di InterContinental Park Lane London Hotel pake MacBook Pro. Pas gw liat dari belakangnya ternyata buka Internet Explorer :|
90% foto2 di London diambilnya pake iPhone. Bawa Canon PowerShot tapi nggak gitu kepake. Next visit musti next gen iPhone nih :)
Saran kalo ke London: Bawa smartphone (iPhone/Android), beli paket data unlimited, dijamin petualangan di kota ini jadi lebih seru :)
Ngecek flight? Pake TripIt. Ngecek cuaca? Ke Google. Ngecek jam buka museum. Ke Google. Nyari arah? Pake Maps + Compass. #iOS #London
It's always hard to say goodbye :) (@ London Heathrow Airport (LHR) w/ 12 others) [pic]: http://4sq.com/lsJzqN
Ini softlens bermasalah di tempat yang salah. Kayak orang abis nangis kejer tapi mata kiri doang. Pas di hall Departure lagi :))
Gini deh nasib kalo di negara maju. Antrian yang online check in malah lebih panjang dari yang biasa :|
RT @wenzrawk: Pose ala cover album pertama The Clash di markas mrk di Camden Town. @deathrockstar @qronoz @solehsolihun http://lockerz.com/s/114714459
Buset deh Heathrow Airport ini penuhnya nggak karuan gini
Jadi ternyata kalo pas pulang nggak dicap ya paspornya. #barutau
Kalo nggak dicap gini ya berarti bebas2 aja ya kalo mau extend. Yang penting nggak sampe expired visanya. *mikir*
Ngintip unread email pribadi sama email kantor. Masing2 ada 200an. Musti nguatin iman dulu nih gara2 5 hari ini ada di dunia surreal :))
Kehilangan @_thunderpanda_ dan @wenzrawk setelah urusan counter check in tadi :|
Ada baiknya kita googling "things to do in heathrow airport".
RT @rubiyem: @qronoz keluar dicap gw ngerasa di asia
Daripada rebutan wifi gretongan di Heathrow mendingan pake jatah unlimitednya 3. iPhone tethering FTW!
RT @DianOnno: @Outstandjing @qronoz di US ama di UK gak dicap kalau berangkat....makanya banyak yang illegal...entah di Uganda ya :P
Fail banget ini airport kayak Soekarno-Hatta. Nggak ada yang seru. Bedanya isinya banyakan bule kalo di sini. Sama toiletnya bersihan.
Kalo dapet rejeki ke London lagi dan expire date visanya lama mau disekalianin aja ah :))
RT @inggriasto: @qronoz Ga heran niel, Arsiteknya Soetta & Heathrow itu sama. Tipologi alur fungsinya juga mirip
RT @chainesea: @qronoz Ke Eropa itu perlu detail dr awal kota+tmpt nginep+tgl"nya pas apply visa. Klo visa dah granted & ada prubahan » no big deal.
Bagus juga nih info dari @chainesea. Jadi next time tinggal siapin budget paling nggak buat hidup sebulan lah ya. Sisanya kerja :))
Btw, maksimal bawa botol cuma satu ya kalo masuk Indonesia?
Ya Tuhan, lindungilah teman2 hamba di Indonesia yg saat ini sdg lembur dan siapkanlah diri hamba untuk hal yang sama saat tiba nanti. Amin.
Airbus A380 from London to Dubai. Woohoo!
Eh asik nih. Di Airbus A380 Emirates ICE-nya pake versi baru.
Sebelahan sama orang Bangladesh yang lagi belajar di UK. Sesama orang Asia, ngemengnya langsung nyambung. #apasih
Ahlan wa sahlan! (@ Dubai International Airport (DXB) مطار دبي الدولي w/ 13 others) [pic]: http://4sq.com/mlugY9
Pilah pilih yang mana yang bisa dijadiin oleh2 buat @magnivate :)
Bro breakfast bro (@ Burger King Terminal 3) [pic]: http://4sq.com/kWAG5A
Kapan ya Garuda Indonesia bisa sampe bikin Soekarno-Hatta jadi hub gede kayak Dubai buat Emirates gini?
Di Dubai Airport ada bioskop nggak sih? Transformers 3 udah nongol kan?
Btw, kemaren ini Insidious main di bioskop ya? Tadi pas di flight LDN-DXB udah ada tuh di in-flight entertainment-nya :)
Kemaren pas lg jalan di Camden Road ada mobil lewat, posternya: "OH YESSS! YESSS! FASTER! FASTER!". Ternyata iklan Virgin Mobile Broadband.
RT @KopdarJakarta: SELAMAT HARI CAPSLOCK SEDUNIA TEMAN-TEMIN :)) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caps_lock#International_Caps_Lock_Day
Qik - Transit in Dubai by Daniel Giovanni http://qik.ly/H2hNQ
“@rioferdy5: In Dubai waiting for the connecting flight to Jakarta....eyes are stinging, 3hrs sleep! Roll on Indonesia!!”. Bro bareng bro!
BRO SEPESAWAT SAMA RIO FERDINAND BRO. PAS BANGET LAGI PAKE JERSEY TIMNAS KW2 NIH.
SUCH A LUCKY BASTARD, I AM.
Oh jadi pada nyari jadwal mendaratnya Rio Ferdinand? Ntar landing jam setengah 11 malem waktu Jakarta. Sambut gw juga ya. *minta dirajam*
Skrg sih gw masih di Burger King. Kalo Rio Ferdinand mungkin di VIP lounge ya. Btw, ntar gw pastiin ya apa flightnya bener sama apa nggak.
Kalo gw emang bener2 hoki, Rio Ferdinand bakal duduk di Economy Class seat 41B kalo nggak 41C :)
Gw gak bilang Rio Ferdinand di economy class lho. Kalo gw sih ngarepnya gitu :))
RT @UtdIndonesia: Confirmed! Rio akan mendarat di Terminal 2 SOETTA dengan pesawat Emirates EK358 pukul 22.40 WIB! Merahkan airport! #MUFC
Mulai menikmati traveling: Ngobrol sm stranger. Sibuk nyari colokan. Copot softlens pas mau masuk pesawat. Ngatur jam tidur biar gak jetlag.
Udah boker, cuci muka, sikat gigi, dan siap sm jersey timnas KW2. Kali2 ntar beneran bisa ketemu Rio Ferdinand :)
Emirates EK 358. Gate open. Semoga beruntung.
Qik - Menuju Terminal 3 Gate 225 di Dubai Int'l Airport by Daniel Giovanni http://qik.ly/H2jZ4
Selamat malam, Jakardahhh! Ngantri gila nih di imigrasi (@ Terminal 2D w/ 11 others) [pic]: http://4sq.com/junpsu
Pindah jadi warga negara EXIT aja boleh nggak? Ini ngantri di yang INDONESIAN lama gila nih.
RT @zanqier: Rame ginilah pada nungguin ferdinand. Bukan pada nunggu @qronoz kan? http://t.co/7etrsgB
Yaoloh. Mau masuk negara sendiri aja apa susahnya sih dicap doang terus dikasih jalan?
Rio Ferdinand udah keluar tuh. Gw masih nyangkut di imigrasi. Hokinya gw cuma sampe sepesawat doang ternyata :))
Yak. Malah diajak bonyok nginep di sini dulu ternyata. (@ Jakarta Airport Hotel) http://4sq.com/jZB2sD
RT @zanqier: Ini dia rio ferdinand, karena seflight sama @qronoz jd bs skalian liat sepintas pas lg jmpt barusan. http://t.co/SkDRxP3
Ngantuk nggak ngantuk harus dipaksain tidur nih. Btw, kok udah tanggal 29 Juni aja nih ya?
Pengen bikin postingan seputar trip kmrn ini tapi gak tau musti mulai dr mana. Yaudah ah tidur dulu aja. Kali aja besok nongol lagi niatnya.

Infographic: How Facebook Affects You and Your Relationships

2011-06-07T14:54:00.001+07:00

Chris Anderson: Don't pursue your passion. Pursue the things that will empower you. Knowledge, discipline, generosity.

2011-05-30T20:47:00.001+07:00

Don't pursue your passion directly. At least not yet. Instead... pursue the things that will empower you. Pursue knowledge. Be relentlessly curious. Listen, learn. You're leaving Harvard this week, but your learning cannot ever, ever be allowed to stop.

Pursue discipline. It's an old-fashioned word, but it's never been more important.Today's world is full of an impossible number of distractions. The world-changers are those who find a way of ignoring most of them.

And above all. Pursue generosity. Not just because it will add meaning to your life -- though it will do that -- but because your future is going to be built on great ideas and in the future you are entering, great ideas HAVE to be given away. They do. The world is more interconnected than ever. The rules of what you give and what you hold on to have changed forever. If you hold on to your best ideas, maybe you can for a moment grab some short-term personal commercial gain. But if you let them roam free, they can spread like wildfire, earning you a global reputation. They can be reshaped and improved by others. They can achieve impact and influence in the world far greater than if you were to champion them alone. If we've discovered anything at TED these past few years, it's that radical openness pays. We gave away our talks on the web, and far from killing demand for the conference, it massively increased it, turning TED from something which reached 800 people once a year to something which reached half a million people every day. We gave away our brand in the form of TEDx, and far from diluting TED, it democratized it, and multiplied its footprint a thousand fold.

Knowledge, discipline, generosity. If you pursue those with all the determination you possess, one day before too long, without you even knowing it, the chance to realize your most spectacular dreams will come gently tap you on the shoulder and whisper... let's go. And you'll be ready.

And that is how you're going to help shape a better future for all of us.

via tedchris.posterous.com

What did I do on May 27, 2010?

2011-05-27T17:02:00.001+07:00

Yesterday, I posted my checkins result from 4squareand7yearsago.com. Recently, I've just received my result from pastposts. Did not really much back on that day, eh? Just try it if you're curious about what you did back in a year ago :)

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May 27, 2010

Let's see what you did that day Daniel. Let's. See.

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Nahason Berlian Sulisthio at 08:05 pm
nel di kampus y?

Arnold Sitorus at 09:05 pm
lu ke cinere mall aja dulu. ada McD (deket rs puri cinere), nah lu tunggu disana. nanti hub gw aja ke hape kalo udh sampe ok

Daniel Giovanni at 12:05 am
kok gw gak ada nomer lo sih nold?

Kiki Desmaykha at 09:05 pm
daneeeeeelllll besok bareng gw ajaaaaaaaa!! muqit juga bareng gw!! sms gw cung!!

Daniel Giovanni at 12:05 am
sms terbalas cuy

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Where were I on May 26, 2010?

2011-05-26T19:42:00.001+07:00

According to 4squareand7yearsago.com, I were checking in at Magnivate, Warung Nasi Brainstorming, then head back to Magnivate again. You should try it! :)

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Hi there Daniel!

May 26, 2010 was a Wednesday. Here are your checkins from that day:

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

9:14 AM		Magnivate Office
		"Absen pagi!"

9:31 AM		"Happy birthday, @unwinged! Salam dahsyat! :D"

12:17 PM		Warung Nasi Brainstorming Nenek & Kakek Super Enak Bolo-Bolo Asian Restaurant
		"Nyobain sop tulang iga. Katanya enak."
		with:

1:00 PM		"Warung nasi ini bener2 butuh bantuan tenaga kerja tambahan. Yang makan puluhan orang tapi yang kerjain cuma sepasang opa oma."

1:52 PM		Magnivate Office
		"Kembali ke leptop!"
		with:

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Nice job year-ago Daniel! That was a solid day. How about a repeat this year?

Coming up in the next week:

1 Church, 1 Home, 1 Park, 1 Indie Movie Theater, 1 Multiplex, 1 Automotive Shop, 1 Movie Theater, 5 Universities, 1 Hospital, 2 Asian Restaurants, 2 Offices, and 1 Miscellaneous Shop.

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benny + jonathan + matt

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What if you can pay less insurance premium by taking more runs and exercises?

2011-05-26T15:37:00.001+07:00

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Awesome concept of a health insurance! More run, less amount to pay for your insurance. It really bring back "health insurance" into "health" itself. What's your opinion?

Review bokap setelah naik pesawat Merpati MA 60 waktu trip ke Waingapu kemarin

2011-05-25T20:10:00.001+07:00

MA-60_1.pdf Download this file

Pagi tadi bokap ngirim email ke gue sama adek gue. Isinya ternyata review doi tentang pesawat Merpati MA 60 yang dipake waktu trip ke Waingapu kemaren. Emang nih ya, kalo engineer vision-nya beda. Ini kutipan isi email dari doi, lengkap sama .pdf yang dia bikin lengkap sama foto-fotonya.

Dear all,

My experience flying with the new Merpati MA 60.
The engine is strong - P&W engine
But Safety seems very poor:
1. Very narrow space in side
2. Loaded with 64 passanger
3. Main door is small like enter a small cave
4. emergency door is small
should be problem during emergency evacuation.

Best regards,
PL

Apparently there's a scientific answer why does Apple could be considered as a religion

2011-05-24T18:23:00.001+07:00

Next time Grandma asks why you're going to the mall on Sunday morning instead of church, tell her you're going to Apple Chapel.

For Apple fans, the brand triggers a reaction in the brain that's not unlike that of religious devotees, according to a BBC documentary series that cites neurological research.

The neuroscientists ran a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test on an Apple fanatic and discovered that images of the technology company's gadgets lit up the same parts of the brain as images of a deity do for religious people, the report says.

The first episode of the documentary shows Apple employees "whipped up into some sort of crazy, evangelical frenzy" at the recent opening of an Apple store in London.

via edition.cnn.com

So, are you a true believers? An agnostic? A fanatic? Who cares. Let's go to the Apple Church! :D

Are you a fan of Sudoku? Now you can let Google Goggles to help you solve it

2011-05-11T08:16:00.001+07:00