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Posted by binsar on 23 Nov 2007 at 02:56 am | Tagged as: Love
I thought it would be nice to post this link that can count your love compatibility up to three names. They based their test on the letters of your name and your crush. I’ve tried it and it kinda gives me a strange result. But I’m posting the link anyway in case you want to try. I’m warning you not to try it if you’re not too sure about it. You can click here, or copy and paste the link below.
http://www.secret-loves.com/index.php?test=1115709
Posted by binsar on 13 Feb 2008 at 10:32 pm | Tagged as: Love, Opinion
This page shall be dedicated to host my opinions on life and love.
Let me start with a little story of how my opinion on how love comes grew:
- First I thought love will come when you are cool, can drive a car, ride a big motorbike, play one of the sports, play musical instruments, sing, and smart as well.
- Then I considered love as a gift. If you have one, its a gift and you should cherish it. I thought I was the object and love is the subject.
- Again I shifted, I was thinking about love as an agreement. If you had the agreement, you can develop your love to your partner. If the agreement fails, then love will fade away.
- After that I consider love as work. You should work on your love and not to take it as it is. You should work on your love to make things going. You will feel tired, bored, upset, but that’s just a small part of the package of happiness, laugh, self-improvement, and a mutual partner for yourself.
- Now I am still learning. I am starting to think that pure love is an unconditional love. If you can love someone or something without hoping to receive something back then you have found what true love is all about.
As you can see, my opinion on love grows. This does not mean that the later opinion is more correct than the previous ones. I started by thinking that love is something that will be given to you, now I am thinking that you should not expect something back. Its a life learn process, and I can still change in the future.
7 July 2007
I think I need to add something on that list. A friend told me that instead of building my life around the person whom I love, why don’t I build something together to the future. I could argue her opinion but I think she has a point as well. So here goes number 6.
6. Love should be built towards a new goal in life, together, without forsaking yours or hers (maybe, I’m not 100% sure).
7. I think love works in a funny way sometimes, even in a weird situation where you least expected. The most difficult things is to be able to hold back your feelings when you know that love is not possible to go on but you can’t deny your heart and still you want to have it. IT SUCKS BIG TIME!
updated 18th September 2007
Ethnicity and religion are recognized as an immensely powerful basis of collective identity. However, religion is often – if not say always – excluded from social science on collective identity, also vice versa, church ignored sociology as well. As powerful basis of identity, religion and ethnicity are intertwined. These two factors have been influencing one another, therefore it is important to find what is the primary unifying element the two of them: is it religion or ethnicity.
Three models can be used to explain ethnicity and its relation with religion. First, primordialism and universalism: where ethnicity was a priori category, a primordial feature that identified and defined the social group. Religion was part of the identity. It is deep within people and it established their ethnic affiliation and identity no matter what the external realities may be. Religion is a stable, conservative, and traditional social force that keeps ethnic group members true to the ordained order of being. Second, circumstantialism/instrumentalism and particularism: where ethnicity is a variable that depends upon particular circumstances and interactions. People define ethnic identity themselves in response to unique interests, goals, and agendas. Ethnic identity may change as well when interests change. Ethnic groups is not a fixed things, they are formed without shape and content. It is a dynamic process, not a stable given. Religion is not a cause of identity. It is an aspect of the social system. The last one tries to combine them dialectically, which is constructivism: where in the constructivist approach there are two facets to expressions of ethnicity: 1. the primordial: ethnic identity is expressed in terms of cultural features which are said to be ancient and perceived to be a priori charactheristics by which its members define the group in distinction to other groups. 2. circumstantial: an ethnic identity is expressed in varying intensity through the interactions of the group and its members with neighboring groups as individuals are mobilized in response to issues which focus group in opposition.
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Posted by binsar on 17 Dec 2007 at 09:06 pm | Tagged as: Article
Ada sebuah episode South Park yang menggelitik pikiran saya mengenai Santa Klaus. Eric Cartman, seorang tokoh utama South Park sedang menghitung perbuatan baiknya agar mendapat hadiah dari Santa, dan ternyata dia perlu melakukan sebuah keajaiban untuk mendapatkan hadiah tersebut. Eric memutuskan untuk membawa natal ke Irak. Pendek cerita, Santa pun akhirnya tertangkap oleh pemerintah Saddam dan kereta rusanya ditembak jatuh karena dicurigai sebagai pesawat mata-mata Amerika Serikat. Eric meminta bantuan Yesus (versi South Park hahaha) untuk menyelamatkan Santa karena Jesus saves! Akhirnya Yesus mati tertembak karena menyelamatkan Santa, dan Santa Klaus menetapkan Natal bukan untuk memperingati dirinya melainkan untuk mengenang Yesus yang menyelamatkannya!
Belakangan ini Santa Klaus menjadi lebih penting daripada pesan Natal yang sesungguhnya yaitu berita damai sejahtera melalui peristiwa kelahiran Yesus. Karena itu episode kecil South Park ingin mengingatkan kembali dengan cara yang sarkastis bahwa Natal adalah untuk memperingati Yesus yang menyelamatkan dan bukan tentang Santa Klaus yang memberi hadiah natal!
Posted by binsar on 09 Dec 2007 at 02:53 pm | Tagged as: Love
Christmas is coming near and you can feel love everywhere and I thought why not put my favorite love songs here. These songs have their own reason to be on the list. They all have sweet and bitter memories. Here are my 20 all time favorite love songs:
1. Billy Joel – Just The Way You Are (click here for youtube link)
2. Basil Valdez – You (click here for youtube link)
3. Michael Buble – Everything (click here for youtube link)
4. The Beatles – I Will (click here for youtube link)
5. Max – Can’t Wait Until Tonight (click here for youtube link)
6. George Benson – Nothing Gonna Change My Love For You (click here for youtube link)
7. Daniel Sahuleka – You Make My Life So Colourful
8. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of The Opera – All I Ask (click here for youtube link)
9. Lighthouse Family – Lost In Space (click here for youtube link)
10. Goo Goo Dolls- Iris (click here for youtube link)
11. The Beatles – Here, There and Everywhere (click here for youtube link)
12. Michael Buble and Nelly Furtado – Quando Quando Quando (click here for youtube link)
13. Stevie Wonder – Overjoyed (click here for youtube link)
14. Slank – Ku Tak Bisa (click here for youtube link)
15. Warna – Oh Ya
16. Dewa 19 – Satu Hati (click here for youtube link)
17. Gigi – Nirwana (click here for youtube link)
18. All 4 One – So Much In Love (click here for youtube link)
19. Kerispatih – Cuma Manusia (click here for youtube link)
20. Kahitna – Cerita Cinta
Most of them are cheesy… but it’s my choice people!
Posted by binsar on 08 Dec 2007 at 12:04 pm | Tagged as: Article, Experience, Opinion
I’ve told you the story of my experience of working in Restaurant Selecta, now I’m going to give you a bit of analysis on the difference of woking culture in that restaurant. I’m going to use Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner theory on their book, Riding The Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Global Business. This analysis was done in cooperation with Sally Siregar.
This restaurant is owned by a Dutch nationality, Chinese Indonesian by birth. The children of the owner are also working and even managing the restaurant. They are born as Dutch and have Dutch education, and know well what Dutch culture is. The working environment is a bit mix of two different poles in Trompenaar’s tools. Sometimes the working culture is even intertwined between the two sides. This makes the analysis on the restaurant working culture becomes interesting.
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