From Detikinet (16 November 2007):

Jakarta - Mengakses situs jejaring sosial macam Friendster memang menyenangkan. Namun jika berlebihan, kegendutan disinyalir bisa mengancam.

Adalah Menteri Kesejahteraan Anak Inggris, Beverley Hughes yang menuduh situs jejaring sosial macam MySpace, Friendster dan lainnya jadi biang kerok banyaknya muda Inggris yang kegendutan.

Beverley menandaskan bahwa di saat anak-anak makin terisolasi dari ruang publik, mereka makin tertarik dengan dunia maya alias Internet. Menurut Beverley, sekali anak-anak asyik dalam dunia virtual maya macam MySpace, mereka akan ketagihan dan sulit melepaskan diri.

Hal ini dikemukakan Beverley menanggapi laporan lembaga penelitian Demos. Penelitian ini mengungkapkan, 20 persen dari anak-anak usia 4 tahun kelebihan berat badan. Sementara, 8,5 persen anak usia 6 tahun dan 15 persen anak usia 15 tahun mengalami kegemukan.

Salah satu sebab fenomena ini karena sebagian anak-anak terlalu dilindungi orang tua sehingga tak bisa sering keluar rumah. Tak heran, dengan membenamkan diri di dunia maya, mereka jadi gendut karena malas bergerak. Demikian seperti dikutip detikINET dari TheRegister, Jumat (16/11/2007).

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Recently, I’ve been hearing about what is true love. There is one notion that grabbed my attention from the talk about this topic: True love is the love that comes from the sacrifice that knows no boundaries.

Before I continue, I just wanted to make things clear that this posting is about human to human love. Thus, the concept of true love in this posting only talks about human relationship, men and women to be exact.

The article also does not discuss about changing physical appearances.

Moving on…

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I personally don’t of goodbyes. Still, it is one of the facts of life that you eventually have to deal with.

Today I received an email from one of my good colleagues saying that it was the last day of him working at the current office.

Honestly I feel sad knowing him leaving, but for whatever reason I’m sure it’s for the best. I wish him good luck and I hope he would have more fulfilling life in the future.

It still doesn’t change the fact that I don’t like goodbyes though…

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From my observation and from my blogwalking, for now I think I can say that:

• Indonesians love their foods. Especially with the varieties and with how easy it is to get them.
• Indonesians love their natural sceneries (mountains, beaches, etc.)
• Indonesians take pride in their cultural diversity.
• Indonesians love the concept of family, and of course they love their families (maybe not all though).
• Indonesians love the fact that they can get cheap branded clothings
• Indonesians love the fact that they can bargain for stuff
• Indonesians love football a lot (many of them at least)
• Indonesians smokers love how cheap (relatively speaking) cigarettes are, and unfortunately the number of smokers is in the increase.
• Indonesians love Indonesian soap operas (many of them at least)

From the above list, I should say that food is often become the number one reason why Indonesians love Indonesia. From many people I’ve met and from my personal experiences, when Indonesians live overseas, one the hardest things to leave behind is food. It is then followed by family (or the other way around, but these two are usually mentioned).

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