Really, watching the american presidential decate is interesting, especially, in my opinion of course, the candidates are so different, not in terms of colors, but in terms of consistencies.

McCain is a big old veteran whinner, enough said. and i can see that he’s simply failing to be consistent. Simple example, all of a sudden, he is all for geothermal, wind power, and so on, while in the previous two debates, he seems didn’t care to respond on Obama’s alegation that he oppose green energy in favor of good ol’ diminishing fossil energy. Then within minutes after, he said again, he wants to do off shore drilling now !!

McCain’s speech was always dried out with whining about how Obama never repudiate on negative campaign towards him, well, come on old man, it’s presidential campain for cry sake… You said you are a patriot, going through lots of war, but then you cry like 5 years old, telling your parents that naughty Obama calling your name… bwahahaha…

I know that who will be US president will make too little different to my daily life anyway, but watching the process is fun. Obama might not be 100% winner, he also has too many flaws, but he’s consistent, systematic, and clear about many fundamental concepts, unlike McCain who is apparently a puppet mastered by his campaign managers, make him look like a foot soldier rather than a leading general. And McCain is too old, that is a bad thing IMHO, and the fact that he’s admitedly said that he’s computer illiterate, is a major minus points. Let’s imagine, a country that is a leader in innovation and science, able to send human to the outer space, lead by an old president who can barely find a PC’s power switch… that is baaaaaad…

Anyway, I could only wish that at least one of presidential candidates in my country could be as systematic and conceptually clear like Obama, regardless whether or not they fulfill their campaign promises, because honestly, all of my country’s presidential candidates are all McCain-ish, and that is baaaaaaaadddd

Somewhere around 90 kilometers from Jakarta, I noticed that 2 litres German engine start to sound louder and strange. I suspect something happened with the exhaust piping, and do a little inspection at nearest rest area. I saw nothing suspicious except a thin line across one of pipe segment, which i thought was a speck of oil and dirt.

The sound gets louder and louder, and when i finally stop the engine at home, i reinspect the exhaust piping, and as you can see, i manage to break it big time !!

It felt a bit eerie though … it’s 9 am in the morning and the car ahead was 30 meters away, in a road usually jam packed with bumper to bumper traffic since 7 am.

I bought her a test pack the day before, and she did take the self test this morning. And … yes, we are expecting our first child now … schweeetttt…

I know it’s still early in the process, but it doesn’t matter, I can still say “Yataaaaa!!!” just like Hiro in Heroes movie… Yataaaaa!!!! I did it !!!

I’m not a believer of one application does it all, but more on “do one thing , do it good” side, but for Yahoo! Messenger I kinda put my expectation a bit diversed. And the latest update really does excite me. It can do voice, so i can voice chat with my overseas friends without having to switch to other software, although Skype still a champion here, but I think it will be nice if software that I use nearly all the time to connect to my friends can also do voice call once in a while. It can save transcript into message archive, a good feature for business and long time feature on Win Y!M. And many other thing, that makes me thing that Y!M Mac developer team really know how to prioritize. I couldn’t care less about audibles or changeable smiley sets, so I missed nothing in that area.

One thing that bothers me is Sending SMS to mobile number. Okay, it is a text message to mobile, but WHY the hell the UI have to resemble cellphone keypad ? I know it only for phone number entry, but I see no reason to play cute here, even on a Mac. It’s a desktop PC, no space limitation, no keyboard limitation. What make it worst is that it was not intuitive at all. I click Send sms, a big icon on top of a chat window, then pops up that clumsy little mobile phone keypad… what the hell is that ? do i type the message there, or do i enter number there ? Why not just pop a dialog asking enter recipient mobile number , then go back to chat window. Sigh.. Not sure where or what is wrong, maybe it’s just me, or maybe the UI design team are wacky enough to create such annoyance inside a great sofware… Come on, Kai Krause’s concept never really took off, why trying too hard to catch with it… Once again.. Sigh…

Because I own 20 percent of the company, I can’t apply as employee, therefore i have to reapply as self employment, meaning additional paperworks,  like company legal papers, balance sheets and company account reports, for whick i never really get in touch with, because somebody else taken care of them all.

The bank need to survey the company, as in physical office… this is another glitch for me as a virtual worker. the company does have a small office space, but it is, well, a small office space.. a place to the programmers & designers to work, which never really occupied by more than 3 persons at a time. Sigh…

The other bank rep called me with more twist :

Since the company is small, the analyst will put suspicion on my salary amount.. Whaatt ??!!… May as well pull the trigger straight to my head then… I just don’t get the logic. I have my payroll slip, all my bank account reports, which I may say pretty much in sync. Then they still can’t believe that I can actually make that much money ? Double sigh..

Oh well… I’m thinking of calling these all off now, because of all strange procedures and it just take too loooooooong…  Virtual workers rulezzz !! .. or is it ?

I noticed that I don’t have well defined neck anymore, and oh, is that second chin I have now ?  Worst thing is body size still change that much, shoulder and such, but I can’t button up the neck part which means I can’t wear tie properly… oh well, maybe this is the dawn of custom made clothing era for me…