postingan ini sebenarnya terinspirasi dari postingannya si onit tentang komunikasi dan asumsi. memang asumsi yang berlebihan dalam berkomunikasi akan menimbulkan salah paham. akan tetapi menghilangkan semua asumsi juga tidak bisa dilakukan. karena asumsi itu berasal dari sekumpulan fakta yang kita yakini kebenarannya. jadi kadang2 secara tidak sadar sudah tercampur di kepala kita antara asumsi dan fakta.

akan tetapi, dalam berkomunikasi dengan kebanyakan wanita, imho, asumsi ini perlu dipertahankan malah kalo bisa ditingkatkan hehe. karena kaum hawa yang tergolong unik ini memang lebih suka untuk tidak mengomunikasikan fakta2 yang ada. contoh paling sederhana, misalnya si oncom nanya ke istrinya, "ncim, mo dibeliin makan apa?" kemudian si oncim menjawab, "gak usah dibeliin apa2. masih ada makanan di rumah." kemudian ketika si oncom pulang gak bawa apa2 setibanya di rumah, si oncim dalam hati, loh kok gak dibeliin apa2 ya.

ya begitulah, sering kali wanita itu sulit dimengerti. tapi ini juga asumsi loh ya :d

i got the chance to watch it in the very first day of indonesian film festival 2009: focus on riri riza. he's the director. this festival takes place in abaton. the opening started with balinese dance performance and short introduction movie about tourism of indonesia.

this film is actually an adaptation movie from the very famous book of andrea hirata with title 'laskar pelangi'. the title's translation doesn't perfectly fit, does it? anyway, after having some experience watching the adaptation movie, i didn't give much expectation this time. if we compare to the book, the visualize version of course could not capture all the written scenario well. however i'm still satisfied. i would give the ratings 8 out of 10 to this movie. good work!

in movie version there is no introduction to each character in detail. therefore the audiences who haven't got chance to read the book couldn't get the whole pictures of what's going on.

for those who doesn't have any idea about this book/film, it's about the childhood of the author and his friends where they had difficulties to go to school because of the poorness, eventhough they actually lived in one of richest city in indonesia. they have been taught about how to live a dream no matter of what they have now. they have to struggle to get every single thing that for the rich people who by the way lives next door might be very easy to get. what an inspiring story.

lintang, the genius one, and bu muslimah, the teacher, were the stars for me. they made the movie happy and sad at the same time. nevertheless the others has made a big contribution too to the success of this movie.

i cant wait to see the next movie of this series, the dreamer - sang pemimpi

Sang Resi tua itu terpekur dan bertanya dengan sabar kepada muridnya yang memegang busur dan anak panah: "Apa yang engkau lihat muridku?". Sang murid yang sedang bersiap memanah menjawab: "Aku melihat seekor burung yang bertengger di ranting, aku melihat pepohonan, dan juga lembah di belakangnya", jawab sang murid. "Sudahlah, tak perlu engkau lanjutkan lagi. Letakkan busur dan anak panahmu", tukas sang Resi sambil tersenyum pahit.

Ketika murid yang lain mengambil busur dan panah itu, Sang Resi mengajukan pertanyaan yang sama. Kali ini sang murid yang gembul itu menjawab. "Aku melihat daging burung yang sedang dibakar, harumnya menyebar kemana-mana!". "Sudah... sudah, tak perlu engkau lanjutkan"

Begitulah seratus orang murid bergiliran untuk bersiap memanah dan kemudian menghadapi pertanyaan yang sama. Tidak seorangpun yang diijinkan untuk memanah karena jawaban mereka tidak memuaskan pertanyaan Sang Resi.

Sampai tiba giliran seorang murid rupawan yang dengan lemah lembut mengambil busur dan anak panah itu.

"Apa yang kau lihat, anakku Arjuna?" tanya sang Resi.

"Aku melihat burung merpati yang berdarah dengan anak panah yang menancap di lehernya".

"Ah.. coba kau lihat lagi", tanya Sang Resi dengan mata berbinar.

"Aku melihat leher burung merpati dengan anak panah yang menancap!", dan bagai kilat meluncurkan panah Arjuna tepat menancap di leher burung merpati.

last week i took a training about how to make good project plan. calm down, i'm not going to bore you with all the detail.

at the beginning of the training, we, all the participants were given a paper containing the questions that we should give an approximate answer by giving the range (lower bound and upper bound) reflecting around 90% chance of the correct answer. it's expected that the given range are not too wide. here's the questions:

1. January 1, 2000 population of the world
2. The year of Napoleon's birth
3. Length of the Nile River
4. Maximum takeoff weight of a Boeing 747 airliner
5. Seconds for a radio signal to travel from the earth to the moon.
6. Latitude of London
7. Minutes for a space shuttle to orbit the earth
8. Area of Sahara Desert
9. Height of Great Pyramid
10. Number of bones in the adult human body

it looks like a silly questions, but sometimes it happen that we've to determine something that we don't even know what it is.

btw, i could only answer 1 question correctly :d

which reminds me of this saying:
we should know something about everything and now everything about something