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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Thats Why We Migrate Here Anyway!!!

Thanks to prince Charles' comments on MickyDees aka McDonalds.

Charles say : "You're to fat!!"

LONDON (AP) - Prince Charles suggested Tuesday on a visit to the United Arab Emirates that banning McDonald's fast food was crucial for improving people's diets, a British news agency reported.

Charles made the comments while visiting the Imperial College London Diabetes Center in Abu Dhabi for the launch of a public health campaign, The Press Association reported.

"Have you got anywhere with McDonald's? Have you tried getting it banned? That's the key," Charles was quoted as asking one of the center's nutritionists.


Every "gendut" people like him will be forced to storm the nearest Asian restaurant.
"No more Big Macs for ye, Sire!"
Next on the agenda!

Have you ever wondered, why so many Indonesians migrate to other countries? Countries such as U.S, Canada, heck even Trinidad is better than Indo for the penny!

The first and foremost reason is the Freedom of Speech which is guaranteed by the First Amendment.

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

See people ? Different from back home, we are guaranteed of our freedom of speech and religion--and we are not being prosecuted for talking "shait" about our corrupt governments. Or how moslems women looks ridiculous in an all covered up shindigs. This is the true spirits behind the nation of U.S. People are free to voiced their opinion, if they think you suck then by all means they can say so.

Sure, we chinese descendants are so literally abused by our native counterparts; our ears are practically deaf by the use of words such as "engko" "enci" "ncek" and many other racial slurs voiced by our "tikow" friends.

Read the news today:
NEW YORK (AP) - New York declared the n-word off limits to all races Wednesday in a purely symbolic resolution prompted by the increasingly casual use of the slur in hip-hop music, comedy and street slang.

"People are using it out of context," said Leroy Comrie, a black city councilman who sponsored the unanimously passed measure. "People are also denigrating themselves by using the word, and disrespecting their history.
Look, the point is, I don't care which one is politically correct or incorrect, I think when people wanna say Nigga, or niggas, or negros they should be able to say it, regardless of the tragic history behind the word Nigga, or niggas, or negros anyway-- It's a free speech, and its a free country.

Black people is not the only one that has experience hardship and dark history, the Jews did and they are cool about it (You don't see Jews get offended when someone refers to them as "Jews"), its because they are freakin' Jews.

retarder say:
We have long history of suffering during the gold rush period, being enslaved by the Americans also, and people still call us "chinks" and "orientals," do we object to that? No!

But when a politician is offended because he is of a nigga black descent then by all means all hell break loose, every rapper cannot say nigga anymore, and everyone that say nigga is a prejudice bastard. So you cannot say nigga to a nigga, but are free to say chinks, and oriental to asians, and rednecks to white people? Where is the justice in that anyway...

Let's see, If I have a quarter or 50 rupiah everytime some tikow told me engko, or ncek, I would be driving a ferrari by now!
Yeah.... we feel the pain, the same pain. That is why we are migrating to some other country better of from our own nation.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

The Ultimate Unbiased Review of Windows Vista Ultimate... (that was a long tittle)

Well, everybody is kinda screaming for Windows Vista right now. Kalo elo-elo gak tau apa yang namanya Windows Vista, baru aja direlease 31 Januari lalu. Sistem operasi (OS) pengganti Windows XP ini baru aja dikeluarin ama Microsoft setelah melewati masa pembuatan 5 tahun.

Mac OS fanatik bilang, katanya Windows Vista adalah terjemahan langsung dari Mac OS X yang dijuluki "Panther." Sementara Windows fanboys cuma bisa bilang "If it's good and popular, Windows can copy do it."


Cute doesn't always translates to "better"
But beautiful wife doesn't come in "ready to cook mode" either...

Beberapa Varian Windows Vista:
  1. Windows Vista Home Basic $199
    Windows Vista yang paling standard tanpa efek animasi "Aero" (khusus buat pengguna komputer basic) dan paling murah harganya. (katanya paling cocok buat komputer lama yang kepengen cobain kemampuan vista)

  2. Windows Vista Home Premium $239
    Home premium adalah versi Windows Vista dengan efek animasi dan GUI Aero dan kemampuan system operasi "Media Center", dikhususkan buat para gamer ynng menyukai fitur media center (menggunakan TV dan komputer bersamaan) juga paling cocok buat fitur online XBOX 360 (Katanya)

  3. Windows Vista Business $299
    .... What do you expect me to say?? It's for your freakin' office use! (Although it didn't come with the Office suite 2007) Vista bisnis juga dibagi dalam kategori bisnis biasa dan bisnis "Enterprise."

  4. Windows Vista Ultimate $399
    Versi ultimate konon menggabungkan seluruh versi windows vista diatas yang juga dilengkapi dengan kemampuan media center, aplikasi khusus untuk bisnis, dan juga kemampuan portabel.
Stop! sebelum elo memutuskan buat upgrade Windows Vista, mending liat dulu spek komputer elo, sebab Windows Vista (versi selain home basic) banyak menggunakan system memory (RAM) dan processing power (CPU).


Windows Experience Index adalah sistim evaluasi yang diterapkan oleh Microsoft untuk menentukan kelayakan kompie kamu dalam menggunakan Vista, dalam skala 1.0 sampai 5.0.

Kompie gw aja cuma dapet 2.0, so bayangin kalo ente kagak punya kompie baru, kelaut ajeh....

Buat elo elo yang masih penasaran, apa sih perbedaan Vista ama XP? Setidaknya review gw bisa membantu, catatan: review gw cuma buat pengguna PC biasa, bukan buat gamer ato business oriented.

Efek Aero.

Perbedaan kentara yang terletak pada Windows XP dan Vista adalah efek gelas kaca "Aero" yang membuat tiap aplikasi menampilkan kesan transparan. Efek aero juga mempunyai efek "glow" atau bersinar kalau elo mouse over bagian bagian tertentu dari Windows yang aktif. (Seperti contoh tombol "maximize windows" di gambar atas) Perlu diperhatikan kalau Aero gak disupport dalam versi Home Basic dan kalau Video Card elo kurang mampu alias "murah" version.


Salah satu efek aero "Switch Between Windows" yang menampilkan efek diagonal dari tampilan Windows yang aktif.

Windows Sidebar

Fitur kedua yang berbeda adalah kehadiran Windows Sidebar, yang bisa menampilkan semacam aplikasi transparan di desktop kamu, seperti Jam, Kalender, dan Cuaca. Buat kamu yang kepengen cobain aplikasi ginian tanpa upgrade windows, bisa cobain google search "Yahoo Widget."


Sure, it's worthless, but why not???
Internet Explorer 7, Windows Defender, Sama Windows Media Player 11, kali ini diberikan oleh Microsoft cuma cuma buat pemilik Vista.

Perbedaan terbanyak dalam hal penggunaan menurut gw Windows Vista terasa sedikit lebih stabil daripada Windows XP, lain daripada itu rasanya kalau loe gak bisa dapetin mbajak version dari Glodok, the price tag is not worth the package.


Microsoft charges you 400 shindigs for the genuine label.

Is it well worth it? You decide...

~Salam retarders~

Friday, February 16, 2007

The fights over the betel nut brouhaha....

Tau yang namanya betel nut?


Gue baru tau minggu lalu, saat temennye si Anggora telp doi untuk menanyakan soal betel nut. Walaupun udah bertahun-tahun gw tinggal di U.S sinih masih aja ada kata kata baru yang belom pernah gw denger.

Kali ini gw mo membahas tentang betel nut alias biji pinang!

Nah ... ini namanya betel nut, aka biji pohon pinang yang sering dikunyah (terkadang pake daun sirih) ama nenek loe, ato engkong loe di jaman kuda doeloe. Sampe sekarang betel nut juga masih digemari ama orang orang dikalangan ekonomi "kejepit" aka sulit (seperti tk. becak, kuli, pengemudi truk, babu pembantu, tk. coli, tk. bacok, sama tukang tukang lainnya)

Dari Wikipedia:
Modern day consumption

In India (the largest consumer of betel nut), the betel nut is cut into small pieces using a special instrument called sarota, and the husk is wrapped in a betel leaf along with lime and may include clove, cardamom, catechu (kattha), etc. for extra flavouring. Betel leaf has a fresh, peppery taste, but, depending on the variety of areca from which it comes, it can be very bitter. Seasoned chewers might mix the betel nut with tobacco. This preparation of betel nut is commonly referred as paan in India and Pakistan, and is available everywhere.

Betel nut is also available in ready-to-eat pouches called Pan Masala. It is a mixture of many spices whose primary base is betel nut crushed into very small pieces. Sometimes Pan Masala also includes a small quantity of tobacco, in this case, the product is called gutka.
Kebiasaan mengunyah biji pinang (betel nut) ini begitu populer di daerah Asia - terutama Asia Tenggara.

Konsumsi biji pinang yang kerapkali dibungkus ama daun sirih di daerah mainland Cina.

Nah, di daerah Cina sono, ternyata penjualan betel nut ini banyak mengundang kontroversi. Pasalnya karena begitu populernya konsumsi biji pinang ini dikalangan ekonomi kejepit, membuat banyak bermunculannya kios kios penjual biji pinang aka betel nut ini di sepanjang highway dan jalan jalan urban di negeri Cina.

Di daerah Taoyuan, contohnya, pemerintah daerah setempat udah kesel sama yang namanya para gadis penjual biji pinang ini, pasalnya untuk menjaring konsumen, mereka memakai pakaian yang (terlalu) minim selagi melakukan transaksi jual beli dengan para pengemudi truk yang mampir di kios kios mereka. Buat pemerintah setempat katanya, hal ini bertentangan dengan budaya ribuan tahun Cina yang kesannya sangat tertutup.

Betelnut Princesses (Binglang Xishi)

Begitu populernya para gadis penjual biji pinang ini, mereka dijuluki dengan sebutan Binglang Xishi, atau Betelnut Princess.


Salah satu stand penjual biji pinang, lengkap dengan rokok, snack dan minuman.

Bahkan konon, para cewek penjual betel nut ini juga dicurigai memberikan servis lain, selain menjual biji pinang, seperti prostitusi. Hal inilah yang membuat pemerintah daerah Taoyuan ngambek, sebab katanya gak memperlihatkan image yang bagus buat para turis. Pemerintah daerah mulai menggencarkan aksi "Three No's policy," yang artinya gak boleh memperlihatkan DADA, PANTAT, ama PUSER (sekitar perut). Para gadis penjual biji pinang yang masih melanggar akan ditangkep, dan ditiket dengan dasar hukum indecency.


Ini bikin bingung, jualan biji pinang apa jadi Victoria Secret's Spokeswoman??

Pure clean, atau exploitasi? You decide.....

~salam retarders~

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Doc.... the numb feeling is dissappearing.....

Engrish lesson of the day: The tale of the missing "b"

Pay attention to your spelling, it might cost you your business.....
Now I feel like gettin' up and runnin'.....Fast....
Takut sama dentist aka dokter gigi???

I do.....
Selain dari kurangnya dana untuk membiayai kunjungan ke Dr. Gigi, gw nervous banget kalau udah masuk ke yang namanya klinik gigi. Mo dokternya baik kek, mo dokternya senyum ha ha hi hi kek, gw gak perduli tetep aja pas naik kursi elektrik langsung keringat dingin mengucur deras!

Beberapa hari yang lalu (semingguan kali) gw checkup gigi, yang biasanya orang indo mana kata ngerti yang namanya regular cleaning sama check-up gigi??? Kalau tuh gigi kagak bolong dan kagak nyut-nyutan mana kate loe mau ke dr. gigi??? Apalagi yang namanya hidup di U.S sinih biaya kunjungan ama perawatan gigi ampir sama mahalnya ama biaya kawin.


Yeah, We Indos can live without dentist, even if our teeth bolong semua "depan bisa belakang bisa style."


I guess Indos were never meant to become chewing gum spokesmen.

Bahkan setelah di apply insurance, co-pay gw untuk perawatan gigi masih bikin kantong gw jebol. Hiks.... Total total gw perlu keluarin 5200 U.S Dollar buat biaya perawatan mulut gw, yang kata si dokter "Falling apart."

Kelainan jiwa mulut gw yang serba kecil, membuat 2 gigi gw kagak bisa keluar alias kesempitan buat nongol diatas gusi gw. Hal ini membuat komplikasi dengan hadirnya kantong kantong sisa makanan yang membuat gusi dan gigi kagak sehat. So pak dokter bilang, 2 gigi gw mesti dicabut, ditambah dengan kehadiran braces (kawat gigi) yang bakalan membuat tampang gw lebih geeky untuk 2 tahunan mendatang.

Ghile.... alhasil gw mesti bolak balik ini klinik gigi seminggu sekali, tiap pulang kerja.
Akibatnya gigi en gusi gw ngilu rasanya tiap abis treatment, biasanya 2 hari kemudian baru ilang.....


Bayangin gigi loe di kobok kobok make ginian, kayak mancing ikan lele aje....
Wasyaaaa....

Hmm... buat elo elo yang sekarang kurang memperhatikan masalah gigi loe (biasanya kalo males), males gosok gigi lah, males flossing, ato males kumur2 pake listerine, mendingan buruan deh lu rawat gigi. Kenapa? Sebab dokter gigi dimana mana mahal, dan biaya perawatan gigi itu kalau udah rusak lebih mahal lagi daripada cuma preventive maintenance dengan gosok gigi dan flossing secara teratur.

Tapi katanya ada bagusnya juga kalau loe pake braces aka kawat gigi, dengan begini, orang orang yang gendut kayak gw bakalan susah makan alias kelaparan karena gigi nya kesakitan. Nah ...anggap aja program diet mahal... bener gak???

~salam retarders~