[opini] choice and consequence

sekarang orangtua banyak memberikan pilihan kepada sang anak dan membiarkan sang anak sebagai sang decision maker. suatu hal yang cukup menggembirakan selama ada batas-batas tertentu dan sekedar memberi tingkat keleluasaan lebih lebar pada aspek yang semakin lebih luas. orang tua harus memperlebar keleluasan dan memperluas aspek bersamaan dengan kedewasaan sang anak.

bahkan anak-anak balita sekarang mampu memilih dan merangkai baju celana yang matching, mungkin lebih bagus dibanding kita dulu. anak-anak yang jauh lebih well informed atas hampir segala hal dibanding era orang tuanya dahulu.

begitu juga ketika akan mencari sekolahan, saya merasakan pendidikan berlandaskan keseimbangan antara agama dan umum, kemandirian dan sosialisasi, kepandaian intelectual dan emotional, atau keseimbangan lainnya. diketerbasan saya, saya melihat pondok pesantren modern merupakan salah satu pendekatannya.

dan sejak kelas 4, saya berusaha menanamkan opsi tambahan untuk bersekolah selain SMP, yaitu pondok pesantren modern yang sekarang menjamur. memasuki kelas 6, mulai diajak untuk melihat beberapa boarding school yang bernuansa non pesantren hingga yang mengedepankan pesantren modern. pemahaman akhirnya terbentuk bahwa ada opsi lain untuk jenjang SMP. sang anakpun juga mulai mencari referensi dari teman-temannya, pernah share vcd temennya tentang sebuah pesantren di bogor.

akhirnya, februari yl dia ingin masuk ke boarding school dan memilih di mana dia punya teman sd, bahkan dia berhasil mengajak teman sekompleks untuk bergabung.

setiap minggu kita sekeluarga masih diperbolehkan menjenguk dan sang anak juga semakin betah. perkembangannya juga menggembirakan dari sisi agama maupun kepemimpinan. pilihan dan konsekuensi sudah dipilih olehnya atas opsi-opsi yang lebih berkembang. walaupun di awal, sang anak tetap menginginkan opsi ketika memasuki jenjang lebih tinggi lagi untuk menentukan pilihan sekolahnya.

[F1] Go Kimi Go

Another season is coming in, the engines have been started, the lap after lap have been tested. This year is the year of my hero. Kimi will win the champion this year, after one point distant with the champion in 2004 and the worst year in row of the team performance, now it is the time.

The time to be a champion is now, you can beat Alonso ... even Schumi (who is Schumi any way).

Go for it ... Iceman, you can smile now!

Gene: 'Ferrari can win titles with Kimi'

Ferrari test driver Marc Gene is confident that the Scuderia will fight for this year's Championship titles even without Michael Schumacher. Schumacher retired from F1 at the end of the 2006 season after finishing runner-up to Fernando Alonso in the Drivers' Championship title. However, the Spaniard shouldn't expect an easy run to this year's trophy just because Schumacher's out of the way. In fact, Gene believes new Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen has a chance of beating Alonso to the 2007 World title. "Schumacher won so much with Ferrari that some doubt if, with Schumacher gone, Ferrari can continue in the same form," Gene told Diario As.

"As I see it, though, Ferrari is still Ferrari and Raikkonen is a great driver."As for concerns about the pace of the new F2007 in recent testing, Gene claims that the Scuderia's preparations for the upcoming season are more advanced than they were at this same time last year."At this time last year we were not in as strong a position as we are right now, so we believe we will start the year level with the competition," he said.

[EZ] The One ticket experiment

3 engineers and 3 accountants are travelling by train to a conference. At the station, the 3 accountants each buy tickets and watch as the 3 engineers buy only a single ticket.

- "How are 3 people going to travel on only one ticket?" asks an accountant.

- "Watch and you'll see," answers an engineer.

They all board the train. The accountants take their respective seats but all three engineers cram into a restroom and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets.
He knocks on the restroom door and says, "Ticket, please."

The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand.
The conductor takes it and moves on.

The accountants saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So after the conference, the accountants decide to copy the engineers on the return trip and save some money (being clever with money, and all that). When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the engineers don't buy a ticket at all.

- "How are you going to travel without a ticket?" says one perplexed accountant.

- "Watch and you'll see," answers an engineer.

When they board the train the 3 accountants cram into a restroom and the 3 engineers cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Shortly afterward, one of the engineers leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom where the accountants are hiding. He knocks on the door and says,
"Ticket, please."

[World] SOHO or SOTO

[Nirwana]
This is an example of how people manages their time ... and it start to think out side the box. This must be the new revolution on managing office space, people start think to have small office and home office (SOHO). This guy thinks advance how to combine work space, personal space with minimalist (no cable at all) ... This guy has just introduced us new jargon ... SOTO - small office TOILET office

Economic but not ergonomic ... wanna try??!

[Me] 4T finnaly

[Nirwana]

40 years ago today:

A boy was born at Demak hospital on Saturday Pahing morning. The fourth kid of Abdullah Zaini - a young judge at that time. I was no strength, no power but a cry; no good deed but no sin; no wealth but health.

40 years later:

A boy becomes a man with a wife and three kids+, celebrated this day with a kiss from a wife and all kids, I also got called from my brothers and sister and also an sms from a friend --- a surprise one ---

Any way, happy birthday to me --- hope that all good wishes are blessed by Allah and all hope and pray are anwered, here and then.