shouldn't you fix yourself before you sell it?

on a flight to balikpapan, i grabbed this newspaper. and it told me about indonesian lion air's plan to buy 60 aircrafts from boeing. i was amazed. before the plane took off, i had a chance to send a short message to anna. "lion is buying 60 pieces of 737-boeing. it wants to get the asia pacific market. having flown with them once, i say, dream on". in fact, we had bad experience with this carrier -- despite it's reputation as the number two in the country.

holidays should mean days in peace

we are busy moving in. things turn out to be a little more complicated than we expected. the house needed some additional construction. we thought that could be done in not so long a time. but, as it turns out, in the residential estate we are going to live in, you can't have construction workers work on mondays, nights, or holidays. at first, i thought this is a rule by law -- and i condemned it: why should the country decides who and when to work? but anna told me, that it is our neighborhood estate's policy. why, asked i. because people who live there deserve quiet time. most of them work in jakarta, about an hour away from the complex. at night, on weekend, or holidays, they sure like to enjoy their home, away from works. and that means, no noise from construction, please. not to mention distraction to safety.

that, i agree. with a sorry to construction workers.

interpreter

interpreter (pollack, 2005)

so we went to see "the interpreter". it's awesome. kidman and penn are superb, especially the latter. the dialogues are smart (e.g. "black or white?" -- "no, thank you" -- "no, is she black or white"?). the plot is not too special, but sidney pollack is, well the sidney pollack. the only thing that bothered me is the hollywood flavor. it wouldn't have hurt if there were no any romantic moment between penn and kidman. thank god, she leaves at the end.