My seventh anniversary today. And with that, I have officially linked to that particular post one time too many. Can't help it, it's one of my all-time favs.

And in yet another self-pimpin' -- as if I hadn't done enough of it -- mode, I would like to dedicate this entry to the past ones that are special. Entries written when I feel I was my most articulate self. Entries for some reason I like more than some others. Entries memorable to me personally.

Oh, and I'll do it VH1/E! way -- you know, with commentary from random people so remotely connected to the topic in hand that you wonder, what the fish?! Still, I like that Awesomely Bad Love Songs stuff they did.

In chronological order:

1. Enemiester
A bit of trivia. This entry was not the first posted on this blog (it was this,) albeit showing up top in the archives. Having originally written this on LJ, I moved it here -- and backdated it -- when I decided LJ was too inflexible. More trivia. The term "Enemister" was coined by Ms. Hera Saragih, a great lady whose company I was fortunate enough to enjoy -- even if in the end it wasn't to be.

Randy Jackson, American Idol judge: Yo, dawg! This is by far your best entry so far!
Paula Abdul, also American Idol judge -- rather unfortunately: Randy, that's his first entry.
Simon Cowell, yet another American Idol judge: And he said "far" twice.
Randy: What? What?
Paula: How can a "first" entry -- the only entry -- be a "best" entry?
Simon: Well, technically, the only entry is always the best entry, as well as the worst.
Randy: Dawg, that's what I meant!
Paula: *does her crazy eyes-rolling antics*

2. The Indonesian President
I wrote this after reading the endless, going-nowhere debates on the mailing list. Hey, is that why they call it debat kusir? Because when you engage your kusir in endless arguments, your andhong ain't goin' nowhere. Anyway.

Yogi Berra, National Baseball Hall of Famer: You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
Yoda, one wise... err, being: When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not.
Yogi Berra: You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yoda: Always in motion is the future.

See what I meant by random people?

3. I Dated A Jehovah's Witness
I particularly like this entry because of the title. It just popped up out of nowhere and I felt like a genius writing it down.

Michael Jackson, former Witness: No comment.
Winston Churchill: "No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

4. Monkey Business
I feel this entry really highlights the not-so-apparent problem with our IT world. A lot of times we're simply caught up in doing things for technology's sake. We have this new technology, let's implement it because, well, why shouldn't we?

William Henry Gates III, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft Corporation: I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Steven Paul Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer: You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Bill Gates: Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Steve Jobs: I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

Guys, guys, this entry is about me... please?

5. This Lion City
My ongoing love-hate relationship with this city I still refuse to call home. Even after seven years. Hmm, if I put a self-referencing link here, would it send our robots into -- if not perpetual then -- ephemeral befuddlement?

Isaac Asimov, author and biochemist: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Will Smith in I, Robot: What makes your robots so much goddamn better than human beings?
Isaac Asimov: If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn稚 brood. I壇 type a little faster.
Will Smith: Whatever, dude.

6. Bus Ini Tidak ke Mana-Mana
When I wrote this, I subconsciously meant it as a metaphor for that previous relationship. God knows why a week later I chose to go ahead with the, well, arrangement.

Quote from, well, just about everywhere: What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.
Quote from Caligula: What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
Quote from John Wayne: A man's got to do what a man's got to do.
Quote from Rhonda Hansome: A woman must do what he can't.

Quote from Dodol Surodol: I said random people, not random quotes, geez!

7. TOW Dodol Surodol
Yes, took me several months to finally find another entry that stood out. My best short story, if I may.

Randy Jackson, still American Idol judge: Yo, dawg! What's goin' down? Yo, check this out: this is by far your best entry so far!
Paula Abdul, also still American Idol judge -- still rather unfortunately: Randy, you said it several paragraphs upthread.
Simon Cowell, still... well, you got the idea: And he said "far" twice again.
Randy: What? What?
Paula: But I agree with you. It is so inspirational and refreshing and shows just what Dodol Surodol is all about. It's who you are, Baby, yeah!
Simon: Paula, Paula. Of course it's who he is; the title says The One with Dodol Surodol, doesn't it?
Randy: Dawg's right, yo.
Paula: *does her crazy eyes-rolling antics*

Whoa, seven! Just nice.

Have a wonderful birthday, Fio. And Oni. Yet more Geminians.

Updated 13:07 WIB
Just finished Il Destino. Excellent graphics, if easy. Trying Il Destino R now...

Updated 13:24 14:00 WIB 14:20 WIB
Still stuck with Gave up Il Destino R -- for now. This is unusual, hmm... BTW, now you know how I spend my Sundays.

Time to do something more useful (general perception.)

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