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It has been a tired weekend, while everyone i know might enjoy their weekend like reading books, watching movies, night outs, or simply doing nothing in their weekend, here i am wrking my ass off driving my truck 480km straight out in two days, hauling rice sacks from the field to the grinder and to the truck and driving them straight from the village to the big city to be sold on the weekdays. how my life come to this, was a big surprise anyway…didnt plan this, it just happend and it start nearly a year now.

good thing, i love to drive my truck, if i stay with the other jeep, i might throw up all the way. btw my truck stink now hehe not many owner of that kind of truck in jakarta really ever do what i did to that truck, but hey i guess it is what a truck build for, right!

i hope business should going good for now, the trend show it is on the right track but i still remember a words like ’shit do happend’ and it is happening for me more than what i hope for..so i just hope that ’shit’ never happend to this business that i do now.

The good thing of being farmer/trader/marketer/land owner is that you get out of the office a lot and you did spend more time out door than indoor. it gives me a time to appriciate what god have created for us, such as a green earth, air to breath, water to drink, plant to eat, shit (manure) make our plant healthy and how sad it is to see that man (women) take it for granted and sometimes act arrogantly by destroy it for a short gain without looking at the long term effect on what they did. hey i never think like this until i am doing this farmer thing and realise how fragile we are and how depended we are to this earth. before i never think that water is truely that essensial until i am trying to keep my field with enough water to survive the dry seasons. i never think that human and animal excrement was such a sweet and sort after goods until i try to keep my chily plant getting enough food to last until it is the harvest time.

The sad part is i also took a notice that human have the ability to help them self from poverty but not many want to do that. when i said ‘let them poor’ when i look on a begger in the street, many thinks that i am cruel and not understanding to other miss fortune. but by doing farming, i realise that god gives us a way to better our self regarding whatever our situations.

but again it is up to us to change our destiny, doing this owning/farming/marketing is not an easy things to do..other might look at me and said ‘ahh you are lucky, if i was on your shoes i will be able to do that too’. but it aint like that at all. i taught it will be like that but it do need your strong will to excel and think on how to work with something you have and not think of something you dont have.

anyway, when i write this blog..i also do internet poker hehe so i am sorry if one story is not relating to others since it depend on what is my state in the poker game

well it has been long since i write about me in this blog. so far all the thing i want to do since i was still in china, none of that are materialise but it doesnt mean that i didnt accomplish anything. life is strange, you can plan anything but the momment you are about to execute it, then all are not going according to your plan so what can we do? just chill and enjoy the ride. this words has translate what i have become.

right now, i am doing farming and constructions in two different locations well islands. the farming is progressing well which i didnt plan to go this far, i do it because i have nothing else to do since the thing that i wanted to do is being hold by many challanges and becoming out of reach (for now) but by doing farming it gives me many new opportinities and new dreams. the same for the constrations, i did it simply by accident and do it as we go kind of strategy, but it to progress very well better than what i was anticipated early on.

thats work aside, as for my personal life, nothing actually happend, been involved with someone but it is very hard to work it out, it is not her fault or mine but just the reality of the situations which i couldnt take it. so right at this momment i am still looking. but since my working area are so remote, the chanse of getting to know the opposite sex are near zero! but still the beauty of this world is you never know who you will end up with.

well thats just about it at this moment since i have to prepare my self to face the on slaught of jakarta traffic.

Banyak yang mengeluh dengan naiknya BBM, maka biaya hidupnya makin tinggi, harga makanan jg naik, uang sekolah jg naik..intinya semua naik!. mahasiswa berdemo sambil anarkis, para pekerja dan ibu rumah tangga pusing-pusing mikirin gimana cara ngakalin pengeluaran yang makin tidak terkendali ini. Kenapa harga minyak dunia naik terus? apa perlu BBM di indo dinaikin? gimana cara kita menyiasati perubahan yg terjadi sekarang ini tanpa menunggu petunjuk pemerintah?

Untuk menjawab pertanyaan pertama, harga minyak naik karena permintaan didunia pun naik pesat. ini disebabkan oleh negara seperti cina dan india, jumlah penduduk kayanya bertambah pesat yang menyebabkan jumlah orang yang dapat membeli mobil jg bertambah. di indonesia sendiri, jumlah kendaraan baru selalu menanjak dari tahun -tahun sebelumnya and guess what, jumlah pembelian BBM pun ikut menanjak tentunya.

BBM perlu dinaikan karena harga minyak dunia pun sudah jauh lebih tinggi dari harga di indonesia, tokoh2 yang bilang seharusnya harga minyak di indo tidak naik seperti Kwik kian Gie adalah orang2 yang "smart ass" atau sok tau dan lupa akan prinsip dasar economi atau mungkin hanya orang-orang yang hanya mencari popularitas semata tanpa perdulu akan nasib rakyat sebenarnya. bila kita tidak menaikan harga maka, BBM kita hanya akan diselundupkan keluar dan boro2 bantu orang miskin, buat menyenengin orang2 yg punya mobil aja engga akan cukup yang dgn kata lain adalah terjadi kelangkaan walaupun harga tidak naik.

banyak orang yg lupa (termasuk saya) bahwa subsidi itu bukan berarti selamannya, sebab kalo selamanya namanya gift atau hadiah. subsidi diberikan bukan untuk dijadikan suatu kenikmatan semata tetapi diberikan untuk membantu kita dalam memulai suatu usaha dan hanya bersifat sementara. kalo subsidi dicabut kenapa kita harus complain? apa tidak mampu kita beli bensin tanpa subsidi?? jawabannya tidak mampu kalo kita emang mental tempe, mampu kalo kita bermental mandiri.

subsidi BBM sebetulnya sama seperti subsidi rokok (bila ada) kenapa? pemerintah membantu menalangi bensin yang ujung2 nya dibakar dan ilang jadi udara, sama seperti rokok bukan? kenapa tidak uang subsidi tersebut diperuntukan buat mensubsidi pendidikan dan pembuatan jalan? menurut saya itu lebih wise dan memiliki long term prospect yang lebih bagus daripada mensubsidi BBM.

yg paling diperuntungkan dalam subsidi BBM adalah orang-orang yang memiliki motor dan mobil, sementara yg tidak hanya menjadi bulan2an ORGANDA dan regulasi pemerintah itu sendiri karena harga angkutan umum jadi naik padahal seharusnya ini tidak harus terjadi.

gimana cara kita menyiasati perubahan yg terjadi sekarang ini tanpa menunggu petunjuk pemerintah?

sebetulnya sangatlah mudah, disiplinkan diri kita dan biasakan hidup effisien. 

kalo kita liat skng di jakarta, setelah BBM naik, apa kemacetan berkurang? tidak, malah makin macet. apakah konvoi2 puncak berkurang? tidak, malah makin banyak. apakah jumlah orang yg pergi ke kantor naik motor dan mobil sendirian berkurang? tidak, malah makin menjadi2. apakah jumlah polusi yg dikeluarkan kendaraan berkurang? tidak, malah makin susah nafas.

so saya berinisiatif melakukan percobaan sendiri tanpa bantuan pemerintah dan siapa2. pertama saya menggunakan mobil saya seperlunya saja, jalan kaki kalo kewarung depan dari yg biasanya naik motor. kedua, sebelum melakukan perjalanan dgn mobil, saya (dgn mesin mati) memplan kan rute perjalanan saya sehingga menghidari jam2 macet seperti pergi jam 6 sebelum jam 8 - 10 pagi dan pulang diatas jam 8, percaya engga mobil gw jadi irit banget hehe soalnya engga buang-buang bensin percuma dan engga nambah polusi yang engga perlu.

oh iya servis mobil berjangka itu lebih ngirit daripada benerin kalo ada yg rusak aja.

skng listrik jg pemadaman bergilir, dari pada saya beli genset. yah saya beli lilin aja yg banyak, panas panas dikit engga apa2 lah wong kita di lahirin di indo kok. jadi pengeluaran saya jg malah makin irit.

so kalo ada yg punya saran ato komentar, kasih tau gw yah

cheers