May 31, 2002
The Better Worldcup 2002 Weblog.
The Better Worldcup 2002 Weblog. Guardian's selection of the best World Cup comment, analysis and features from the rest of the world wide web.The World Cup kaleidoscope
The World Cup kaleidoscope. A London pub conversation between four friends on the eve of the soccer World Cup in Korea and Japan which starts on 31 May.Philippe: What is the World Cup about? Money, pure and simple. This is a beanfest for global corporations. The statistics on sponsorship, advertising, and merchandising are staggering. The top fifteen sponsors – McDonalds, Budweiser, NTT, Gillette, the usual suspects – will pay FIFA, the world governing body, £375 million to display their images at the tournament. Adidas is paying ten teams around £60 million to wear their products. And the money is not just decoration – it has colonised the very soul of the game. Brazil is a franchise of Nike. When injuries to key players are discussed – Ronaldo in 1998, Zidane in 2002 – the sponsors are in the wings, pulling the strings. It used to be a game. It’s now a global business.Nice provoking thought eh? Nevertheless, dont't forget the opening ceremony this evening!!
Rita: The heart of it all is still passion, the sense of belonging to something wider than yourself – a team, a cause, a country. The focus on commercialism forgets that there are twenty-four national squads each of whom represents an epic national story for the people back home. From Slovenia to China, the smallest participating country to the largest, people will be gathered round their TV sets and radios, brought together in a spirit of intense, positive togetherness. The game is the connective tissue of the nation. At the end, win or lose, people will have travelled together on a journey and feel differently about themselves. It is an emotional depth charge in the imagined community.
Ali: For me it’s about globality rather than nationalism. We hear a lot about ‘shared national experiences’, but these are often top-down, highly-orchestrated events, without spontaneity, and by definition confined to a single territory. By contrast, the World Cup is one of those rare occasions when the idea of a global citizen becomes real. This is a world party that everyone wants to be at. People are not limited in their allegiance – you are free to choose a country to support, to discover new heroes, to experiment with different identities. This is the postmodern world. And this freedom extends to the participating nations – where else do you have Senegal or Turkey competing with Germany or the United States on an equal stage? No-one is privileged, the playing-field is level, only the best wins, and nobody gets killed – the essence of the World Cup is global justice!
Yolande: The World Cup is about television. It is a mechanised spectacle, nothing more – the world reduced to the confined, static, managed dimensions of the TV set. The event becomes an intense daily effort to capture, process, and package a multifarious but messy reality into a form that is easily digestible – and of course sellable – for the various ‘domestic’ (meaning family and national) audiences. It is about the impoverishing of life by television – done often with awesome expertise and sophistication, but a compound lie nevertheless. The real ‘real thing’ is infinitely more interesting. But television can never come near it.
Celebrate the Great Noise. For
Celebrate the Great Noise. For every person who addict in the game of sportivity in the time of world cup, and also the first game that played pararelly in two country, Japan and Korea. Enjoy the crowd!Updated
Finally, i just added "Recently Read" section in the right side of the page. In time, i'll show you what does on my reading activity at this place.
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May 30, 2002
Yogya's Old Books Corner
Feeding my addiction of reading, i then jump to a small hidden used books store at a cavy-neat place in Yogyakarta. It's located on Gang I Sosrowijayan, the north corner of Malioboro and Tugu Station. After you find the street, come inside, then walk for about 200 meters, and you'll find a bookstore named "Lucky, Boomerang BookStore". This bookstore sell both used and new books. The lucky is, you could bring back book you don't want, the bad, you get a half of price for turning. Exactly, it's win-win solution, in case you could find rare book with lower price. In my visit, I found The Book of Ruth written by Jane Hamilton with cost only 28.000 rupiah, a good novel that awarded PEN/Ernest Hemingway Prize and also picked as November 1996 Oprah Book Club® Selection. Any other cheap?
Catfish On The Table. A
Catfish On The Table. A reflections out there.Next Planet, Please
Next Planet, Please. Earthquakes, forest fires, floods, dissolving icebergs, poison ivy, alligator attacks ... What kind of payback is that for all the hard work environmentalists do?Get Back
This early morning, a far distance train have came to Jakarta from the origin of Yogyakarta. Inside this train, a passenger comes back to his little busy world in Jakarta. This man, exactly was me, who came back after take holidays from the lovely town of Jombang, East-Java. By this post, i also apologize if I didn't updating this website, or not repliying your email, or any others situation that happen by my holidays because my town was diffficult to reach the internet connection. If so, I should go for about 20 km to reach the nearest internet-station, and this not very posible to do every day. After all, every holidays always becomes refreshening. For me, i'm now thinking already to post buzzy-words again :-)
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May 23, 2002
Statistic is Smiling
Gladly, after long weeks work to make this web better, i just happy on the statistic.
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Heey!!!! I just got new pictures.
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Déjà vu
Déjà vu.May 22, 2002
Time to blog on
Time to blog on. I just get on lonely. In the time, i then think about relationship with others. You might be deal with the quote that said, "person without people is nothing". That's what I get on when experiencing alone with myself. Yes, sometimes it's become nice to get myself alone with lonely, but, it's better great if we could apporach by approaching somebody. It's very pretty to get touch or touched with/by someone. About this, blogging is kindly nice things to be used to touch someone else in the world. By blogging, we get touch and approach the beauty of relationship community. Right isn't it?May 20, 2002
Do you?
Happy monday for all! Does it nice to get the days begin again?
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May 18, 2002
Disinformation
Do you ever believe in world? If not, i think you're weird. But, expected to be weird is something nice. I just experiencing myself that i had more of thousand unanswered question in my mind. They're about things, people, life, nature, our head, and so on, and so on. By turning in this way, i just got dropped to this website by lucky, Disinformation. In this web, you'll need to be totally unbelieveable thinker for any matters. Do you want to experience?All of Us a Same Descent?
Hermann Goering, Daniel Boone And You: All Descended From Muhammad. "A mathematical study of geneology -- based on historical world populations and the exponential nature of ancestry -- suggests that everyone of European ancestry alive today is a direct descendant of both Charlemagne and Muhammad (and of the majority of Europeans circa 1000 A.D.). You only have to go back another 1000 years for the same logic to apply to the world as a whole. So, they claim, it's almost certain you are related to Confucius," writes Velvet Iguana. "I find these statistics a little counter-intuitive, but they do explain why so many people claim to be descended from royalty or the Mayflower. Does this surprise you? Will this news bring the world together in one, big, multilingual chorus of 'We Are Family'? "Read also The Royal We?. What do you think?
May 17, 2002
Copyrightwebsite
Copyrightwebsite. I just found a cool website that could help someone who wants practising on the web. It's about copyright. Yea, you need to know about your rights before publishing something on the web. Because the web is such a kind of open-for-all media, it'll easy for anyone to steal your things. By knowing the kind of copyrights and its friend, you'll have the power and know the rule to protect your things on this wild world web. :-)JASON Project
JASON Project. Let's study, explore, and excite the beauty of the world."By taking advantage of cutting edge communications technology and bringing science to life, the JASON Project is helping to revolutionize the way science is taught. That is good news not only for our students, but for our country."
Dr. Robert D. Ballard
Musashi
Musashi. Finally, it's feel so hard after finishing a book which has more than 1200 pages. I got used 4 days did this all, it's also become very-late sleep syndrom. Fortunately, it's very astonishing, it's vividly lightning my brain, washed and cleaned it with new think then called 'the philosophy of Samurai', the way of blade-warrior. In the end, the hero Musashi, found that the life is not simple as living between lose or win, neither is only to climb the way of warrior. He found in his next adventure a new wisdom after met with various teacher, buddhist, and then introduced the life in the way of Zen. Endlessly, where does his way turn? I bet you should read on yourself.May 15, 2002
Becoming Human?
Becoming Human?RSS Technology
RSS Technology. You need to know about the most advanced technology to share content on the web. It's RSSWebbyaward nominees
Webbyaward nomineesMemoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha. Life without love is unsual, others says weird. But, that's the life of Sayuri, the story of a Japanese Geisha in the novel created Arthur Golden. Geisha is commonly known as an escourt-woman who served entertained people in Japan last decade ago. They served high position people with dancing, songs, plays, and poets. Actually, this words also misknown (perhaps reality?) as prostitute. That's all about Geisha reality, the form of woman-function legalled by goverment. This novel told about the life of Sayuri, who become a Geisha after inspired by a man which he fell in love in her eleventh. Her dream about this man guide his life finding her love.May 10, 2002
All for The Head
Radio.Weblogs.Com. More for your head! Let's Free-thinking on the net.!!!May 08, 2002
Einstein a Spy?
New Details Emerge From the Einstein Files. But now new details are emerging in "The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against the World's Most Famous Scientist," by Fred Jerome, who sued the government with the help of the Public Citizen Litigation Group to obtain a less censored version of the file. His book will be published this month.
The new material spells out how the bureau spied on Einstein and his associates and identifies some of the informants who said he was a spy.
A Life of Albert Einstein
A Life of Albert EinsteinMay 02, 2002
Asian Heroes
Asian Heroes. Usually, life is easily coloured by its heroes. All people has the hero of themself. It's also with Asia. However, it's very proudful that Indonesia mentioned two men in this TIME issue. They are: Iwan Fals and Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Iwan (an Indonesian male pop singer is obviously a 'heroes' for people of Indonesia. And, Pramoedya is a kind of internationally known as Indonesian celebrated writer, the author of Buru Quartet.In this issue, TIME told us about that heroes: Iwan himself as a hero for all people, and Pramoedya who creates a hreos in his writing told us about the meaning of hero. Read it all!
UPDATE
I just finished my writings page. This section completely publishes all of my creative works on writing. Some articles has been published on public media like magazine and newspaper. You could access them on the left menu by clicking category subject.I'm writing poets, essays, general articles, book reviews, film reviews, and also my experimental writing titled as Ngoceh. I hope you could read on your free time. I'm sorry if there are still no translations in English.
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