get this out off my chest

Today's Mothers' Day for Indon. For those who still have a sane mother
will joyously celebrata this day. Not for me. I'm not saying my mother
is dead to me. She's alive (and a tiran) and got 2 children who
consider her a mother. Well, that excludes me, to be clear.

I wouldn't call someone who gave birth to me BUT planned to get rid of
me right after she found out she was pregnant with me my ibu. I'll
just call her my biological mother, if I must use the word 'mother'.
Why would I wanna call someone Ibu, when that person accused me a
lesbian, just because I didn't feel like having a boyfriend on my high
school years (it would kill all the joy I could get with my
bestfriends)?
Why would I call a woman Ibu if she accuses me of sleeping around,
when in fact she got pregnant with another man while she's still
married to my father? Not me.
And do you really want to call that person Ibu if she took away your
child? Definitely not me.
Someone who refused to come when you're in the hospital giving birth
to your child is definitely not a mother.

Happy Mothers' Day to all mothers in the Universe.. No need to be a
perfect-loving-cooking-sewing-yet-working mother. Just be a sane one,
please, girls? For the sake of your (future) children.

mentok?

Ah jadi sebel gue. Ga ada yg bisa dimintain tolong apalagi dipercaya. Teteppp aja dimanfaatin. Bukan masalah duitnya yg bikin sebel, tapi hak anak gue yg diambil orang. Payah. Dunia emang udah kebalik. Orang gila berkuasa, yg waras minggir. Sinting.

European Support for Bicycles Promotes Sharing of the Wheels

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL

Published: November 9, 2008

BARCELONA, Spain — In increasingly green-conscious Europe, there are said to be only two kinds of mayors: those who have a bicycle-sharing program and those who want one.

Over the last several years, the programs have sprung up and taken off in dozens of cities, on a scale no one had thought possible and in places where bicycling had never been popular.

The sharing plans include not just Paris’s Vélib’, with its 20,000 bicycles, but also wildly popular programs with thousands of bicycles in major cities like Barcelona and Lyon, France. There are also programs in Pamplona, Spain; Rennes, France; and Düsseldorf, Germany. Even Rome, whose narrow, cobbled streets and chaotic traffic would seem unsuited to pedaling, recently started a small trial program, Roma’n’Bike, which it plans to expand soon.

For mayors looking to ease congestion and prove their environmental bona fides, bike-sharing has provided a simple solution: for the price of a bus, they invest in a fleet of bicycles, avoiding years of construction and approvals required for a subway. For riders, joining means cut-rate transportation and a chance to contribute to the planet’s well-being.

The new systems are successful in part because they blanket cities with huge numbers of available bikes, but the real linchpin is technology. Aided by electronic cards and computerized bike stands, riders can pick up and drop off bicycles in seconds at hundreds of locations, their payments deducted from bank accounts.

“As some cities have done it, others are realizing they can do it, too,” said Paul DeMaio, founder of MetroBike, a bicycle transportation consulting company based in Washington, D.C., that tracks programs worldwide. “There is an incredible trajectory.”

The huge new European bicycle-sharing networks function less as recreation and more as low-cost alternate public transportation. Most programs (though not Paris’s) exclude tourists and day-trippers.

Here in Barcelona, streets during rush hour are lined with commuters and errand-goers on the bright red bicycles of Bicing, the city’s program, which began 18 months ago. Bicing offers 6,000 bicycles from 375 stands, which are scattered every few blocks; the bikes seem to be in constant motion.

“I use it every day to commute; everyone uses it,” said Andre Borao, 44, an entrepreneur in a gray suit with an orange tie, as he prepared to ride home for lunch. “It’s convenient, and I like the perspective of moving through the streets.”

The expanding program in Barcelona is typical of so-called third-generation programs, which rely heavily on technology. (In its first generation, bike-sharing involved scattering old bikes around the streets, where they could be used for free; second-generation programs accepted coins.)

Here, a customer buys a yearly membership for about $30 and is issued a smart card that allows the rider to remove a bike from a mechanized dock. The first 30 minutes are free, with a charge of 30 cents per half-hour after that. A bike must be returned to any bike rack in the network within two hours or the card may be deactivated.

Most programs in Germany and Austria work on a different system; members receive cellphone text messages providing codes to unlock the bikes.

Copenhagen and Amsterdam have had devoted bicycling commuters for many years. But the new programs have created the greatest transportation revolution in central and southern Europe, where warmer climates allow riders to ride comfortably year-round. The shared bicycles in Barcelona, Lyon and Paris are heavily used, logging about 10 rides a day, according to officials in these cities.

In North America, issues like insurance liability, a stronger car culture, longer commutes and a preference for wearing helmets have slowed adoption of bicycle-sharing programs. None of the European programs require helmets. Still, Washington and Montreal are experimenting with small projects, and Chicago, Boston and New York are studying options.

Perhaps the best indication that bicycle-sharing has arrived is this: Shanghai, which 10 years ago was trying to eliminate bicycles from some of its boulevards to make way for cars, opened a pilot bike-sharing stand last month.

In most European cities, advertisers have been given contracts to set up and maintain bicycle-sharing programs in exchange for the rights to sell advertisements on city-owned structures like bus stations.

“We provide a turnkey program,” said Martina Schmidt, bike-sharing director of Clear Channel Outdoors, which now runs programs in 13 European cities and recently started its first American program, the one in Washington. “We give the city what they’re looking for, and they give us space to sell.”

Here in Barcelona, the Bicing program has had its glitches, reflecting, in part, its unexpected popularity.
On Barcelona’s outskirts, users complain that the program’s racks, each with up to 36 bikes, can run out toward the end of the morning rush hour, leaving customers temporarily stranded. Likewise, docking sites downtown are sometimes full, so riders have to search for parking.

Car owners complain about the removal of parking spots to accommodate new bike lanes; the city has about 80 miles of lanes, after rapidly expanding the lanes in the past two years.
Barcelona’s downtown business district is in a geographic bowl, compared with most residential neighborhoods, so while many people want to ride downtown to work, fewer want to ride bikes home. Directed by controllers at a command station, Bicing’s 100 employees use trucks to rebalance the system, taking bikes to where they are needed.

City officials seem a bit overwhelmed.
“For the moment, it will not grow anymore,” said Ramón Ferreiro, an official with Bicing. “We now have to consolidate and start working so that maintenance is adequate, and improve the system at all levels.”

Even with the growing pains, José Monllor, a graduate student, says he now rides to class instead of driving his car. “It stays in the parking lot,” he said of his car. “It’s stupid to drive.”

The impact of bike-sharing on traffic or emissions is difficult to quantify because converts include people like Mr. Monllor, who would have driven, as well as those who would have taken public transportation.

Officials in Lyon, one of the first cities to institute a large technology-driven bike program, estimate that bike-sharing has eliminated tons of pollutants since its inception in 2005. But more than that, they say, it has changed the face of the city.

“The critical mass of bikes on the road has pacified traffic,” said Gilles Vesco, vice mayor in charge of the program in Lyon. “Now, the street belongs to everybody and needs to be better shared. It has become a more convivial public space.”

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this is one of the reasons we're moving to Europe... woohoo!!!
original article is here

Telkomsel tolol

Telkomsel lagi tolol abis malem ini. Kartu gue salah PIN dan terkunci. Gue telfon 116 dari jam 7 dijawab sibuk mulu. Ngapain aja emangnya? Kurang orang?
Terus gue email-in cs@Telkomsel.co.id. Disuruh daftar dulu di web Telkomsel. Dikasi link tapi salah! Apa sih! BUMN tuh gitu ya kerjanya, sama ama sodara tuanya para PNS idiotic itu. Yang tersinggung gue bilang tolol ngomong ama gue sini! S**T.

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Hani
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Tinggal

Buat gue yang paling enak emang tinggal di Jakarta deh. Ga ada ceritanya kota-kota kecil di pinggiran Jakarta layak ditinggali, minimal oleh gue. Apalagi kota kecil sok eksis kayak bogor ini.

I'm so glad we're getting out this worm hole tomorrow. Bubye, garbage!

namaste,
Hani @ SE K530i

Sendirian di rumah kayak sekarang ini jadi inget waktu ngekost di Karet Gusuran. Di situ penghuninya lebih individualis, ga kayak di Flamboyan yang suka rumpi. Gue ngobrol palingan sama Niken, Vivi, Martha dan kak Retha aja.

Pas musim libur, partner in crime gue, tentu saja, Niken hehe. Yang lain pada pulang ke rumah masing-masing. Waktu taun baru 2006, kalo ga salah, kita nyantai aja di kamar gue, nonton tv di pc sambil ngemil. Sebelum jam 12 midnight udah tidur, hahahaha.. Acara tv jelek-jelek jadi mending tidur deh. Pas bangun paginya agak lost, udah pagi ato masih malam ya? Udah ganti taun belum ya? :-D
Terus lebaran taun kapan gitu, lupa, juga sama dia. Ga enaknya cuma 1: susah cari makan dan isi pulsa. Urusan lain malah lebih enak: pake mesin cuci ga perlu antri, pake dapur bisa kapan aja (tapi males naiknya, secara di lt 4 dan kita di lt 2).

Sekarang anggep aja lagi liburan super panjang, makanya rumah sepi. Ya kan ya kan ya kan.. ;-) bentar lagi juga rame lagi. Horeeee..

namaste,
Hani @ SE K530i

Festival Jajanan Bango

Kemarin panas-panasan di Festival Bango, di Plaza Selatan Gelora Bung Karno. Masuk dari fx mall (mall yang aneh :-P), deket Hotel Atlet Century. Pas banget gue ga sempet sarapan jadi bisa langsung berburu. Tujuan pertama: coto makassar pake buras di RM Pelangi, langsung dari Makassar sono. Porsinya pas untuk sarapan. Harga 15 ribu. Masih make sense karena isinya jeroan semua :-P
Rasanya ok. Harap diingat lidah gue sekarang sensitive banget. Ga bisa kena garam yang berlebihan, apalagi MSG aka vetsin. Buat orang lain mungkin cotonya kurang tasty.

Setelah ini puter-puter lagi cari yang lebih ringan. Ga lama yang lain nyampe. Muter di wing kanan, ketemu es goyang. Es potong gitu loh.

Karena masih kenyang dan belum nemu yang menggoda iman (dan perut), gue duduk jagain base camp. Sambil payungan, haha. Secara jam 12 ya bow..
Ada makan sup buntut Cut Mutia. Dia direkomendasiin bokapnya yang dulu sering makan siang di situ. Kuahnya enak, cuma dagingnya strong banget rasanya buat lidah gue.
Rita makan mie aceh Seulawah, Benhill. Gue sempet mo beli itu juga. Tapi ngantrinya sangar euy. Rasanya anyep ajah :-D
Neera makan siomay Kari Umbi. Lumayan juga, bikin gue pengen makan lagi.
Ada yang jual pecak gurame & gabus pucung. Tadinya mo godain gabus, tapi mirip banget rawon. So gue pilih pecak (liat foto). Enak juga, rasanya pas untuk makan siang.
Terus jajan es doger (di Bogor belum pernah nemu euy, kasian ya gue hihi) dan payung Bango.

Kita sempet ngadem di fx saking panasnya. Sebelum ngadem, foto-foto jadi condiment nasi tumpeng boongan dulu. Jam 15.30 balik lagi ke Bango.
Gue makan rujak juhi. Neera makan asinan betawi. Rujaknya lebih mirip mie lontong karena juhinya dikit banget :-P kenyang beneran nih abis ini. Cuma muat risol setan 2 biji. (Kenyang macam apa itu? :-P)

Jam 16.30 cabut ke stasiun Kota. Naik kereta jam 18.15. Sampe rumah jam 9 kurang. Makan lagi hehehehe, ngabisin peda. Keren banget ya perut gue!

namaste,
Hani @ SE K530i

pemandangan

Pemandangan paling aneh di pagi hari adalah laki2 yang masih rapi (baru mandi) ngerokok. Di tempat umum lagi! Pengen nggampar aja gue ngeliat orang tolol kayak gini. Egois banget, ga mikir orang lain keganggu sama asapnya.

namaste,
Hani @ SE K530i

*Kedip-kedip*

Wowowo.. Mayday mayday..
Kalo warna-warni ga keruan gini siapa yang tahannnn...

*perempuanlabilgontagantitaksirantiaphari*

namaste,
Hani @ SE K530i

Indonesian Idol 2008

ARIS!!

Khusus tahun ini gue ngerasa grand finalnya fair match. Ga berat sebelah ato ketara bgt fabricated-nya. Siapapun yg menang emang karena dia bagus.