crap

This is so embarrassing. Regardless of who is at fault, or the cause of the meelee, it is just plain embarrassing. Some notes: there are a lot of racist foreigners, there are a lot of racist Indonesians.
Notes to myself: if ever I get into an argument for my son or daughter, I hope I can keep a cool head and not resort to violence or name calling or any other low form of expression.

A bit of curio, how can a person who claims to be a Nationalist, prides himself of being Indonesian, put his son to go to an International School. The Jakarta International School at that. Can you not find a more bourgeois school? There are other better "English speaking" schools in Jakarta that are more nationalistic.

Jeez, I still cant get over how embarrassing this is. Unfortunatly for him, he will have to bear the consequences of SBY's policies and wrath.

sheesh....

race a definition...

the link above i guess shows that race is more of a sociological construct than anything else. i think it also is because we have become a more heterogenic society with more cross breeding as transport technology has progressed. so then at one point, when we have all cross bred and have become a civilization of partial breeds, then we will have become a homogenic society.

at that point, what will the role of tradition, heritage and culture play? what will happen to the "mother tongue" ? will that be more of an issue on where you live, and not what your geneaology is? isnt that already happening?

hmmmm.....

oh, one more thing, ive been looking at a pyramid scheme that some people have been touting. man, it really looks enticing. except that i'll be the guy at the bottom feeding the guys up top who do very very little.
no wonder its illegal in some countries.

but they have ways to get around that i guess. all you have to do is provide a receipt for "services rendered" and you are now a consultant. i wonder how they pay taxes. its not a steady source of income is it ? i guess it is.

i suddenly remember this guy on tv in the US who tried that "i can teach you how to make a lot of money right from your own home" line. last i heard that guy was bankrupt and indicted on a pyramid scheme accusation.

i suddenly have the urge to search up on this topic....

uggghhhhhh..... sooooo many things to write about, so little time and so much laziness...
things i want to write about :
- personal space and lack of it. sheesh... i was standing in line for something and this guy kept inching up to me. i didnt appreciate it at all. gotta give a guy some space ...
- which side of the road do you drive on? left or right? which side of the sidewalk do you walk on? which side of the stairs do you climb up on? i hate it when i have to zig and zag when people walk on different sides of the path. shouldn't there be some common ettiquette on how to walk on sidewalks....
- small plane seats on long flights. airline people need to wake up and realize that people are getting bigger. i think the statistics on body mechanics need to be readdressed.
- can we also take a look at the BMI index as well ? I mean why are asians (actually isnt the race 'mongoloid') put in a different category than europeans (caucasians) ? the diets of people around the worlds are now almost similar thanks to McDonalds and Starbucks, 2 champions of globalization.
- speaking of 'race', according to this race is more of a sociological distinction. and has almost no biological merit. every homo sapien has the same biological potential. to get sick, healthy, fat, diseased, whatever. that a certain sociological group of homo sapiens have the propensity to be small, or large or whatever may be due to surroundings, culture etc. so if you take that individual (say from very young) out of its regular surroundings and put it into a different group, that individual would obviously adapt to its new surroundings. it happens all the time right ?

thats enough for tonight.... ive got so many things i want to do and write about but time is always an issue.... even as i write this beside my sleeping spouse.
just so that i write this down: i want to preserve my family pictures. i want to start reading up on the new horizons of technology to keep up, i want to go out and take more pictures, i want to go and take pictures of the stars, the planets, the moons. i want to go camping again. i want to read more books (real literature to counter my current dosage of pop novels). i want to be able to spend more time with my family....

sheesh...