Bah. I barely look at my blog nowadays. I think it suits my moody and inconsistent personality or something like that. Actually I’m spending more time in the real world now (not that I was stuck on the internet all this while) and jotting down stuff with the more traditional paper and pencil or the occasional ballpoint pen et cetera. It’s a better and faster way to write or scribble down inspirations. But I still find blogging (like this) is a good way to just bitch. So here are some things that annoy me:
1. Overuse of multi-color LEDs on building facades. You see this everywhere. The building walls changes color seamlessly thanks to the new technology. It looks kinda nice if it’s done correctly and only on a few buildings. But the thing is it seems that it’s the IN thing right now and so all around Singapore we see buildings changing color like a discotheque in the 80s. Hell why not add lasers as well. UGLY. OVERDONE. BAD TASTE.
2. Our landlord is selling the house we’re staying in and it seems he’s quite desperate at it. Comon we all know this is exactly not the time to sell a house. Anyway the flat is small, expensive, and the crowd downstairs tend to get a little too rowdy for family living. But it’s located very strategically. A good 2 dozen or so buyers have come and go and it’s still not sold.
What pisses me off the most is that the agents hold the key to the house and on more than 1 occasion, they just let themselves in the house without giving us a call beforehand. So we’re caught sleeping / showering / on bad hair day. The owner is not much better in keeping forgetting to tell us that buyers are coming. I should put up a “trespassers will be shot” sign on the door.
Uhm.. yeah that’s about it for now. Anyway I’m kept quite happy with my weekends. I love my art class and the museum keeps me from wandering aimlessly on weekends.
Categories: Random
Tagged: bitching, me, Random
Helloooo… have you guys heard of this thing called privacy? Yes? So why did you make personal details of 37million (and counting) students across Indonesia available online? From Elementary School up to College and Universities? Including their school, home address, place and date of birth? And in neat Excel spreadsheets organised by province and region? And available for download by any perv with an internet connection and not-very-good intentions?
Knowing how kaypoh (nosy) Indonesians usually are (they will ask you everything about your personal life), maybe PRIVACY or IDENTITY THEFT aren’t exactly words they’re too familiar with. Maybe KIDNAPPING, or BURGLARY, or RAPE, or TERRORIST sound more familiar?
Hell, why don’t they publish a print catalogue along with it to be distributed to all schools and available at a bookstore near you.
Leave me a message if you’re curious about the link. Or you can do a Google search on your own. I don’t want to post the link here for everyone to see, increasing the possibility of some poor kid getting stalked by some sexually deprived mid-age “Oom” from Friendster.
To be fair, the intention was to enable teachers and schools to ensure their students are already registered under the Department of Education, along with their national studentID number. Good enough. And the Internet is an obvious medium to make this database easily accessible. But they could at least implement a password / security measure if they REALLY want to put it online? I know it’s not that simple with the programming and database building and whatnot, but an extra year or so of building a secure system will certainly be worth it?
Oh yes. I forgot. *slaps forehead* You guys aren’t concerned with privacy. Right.
I suspect this is one of the side-effects of the increase of the national budget for education up almost 100% from 2 years back. This is obviously an improvement, as education has been neglected quite badly for the longest time in Indonesia. But as Cafe Salemba noted, they should have a clear plan on how to spend it. Otherwise the budget will be used to fund pointless projects such as this one.
On another note, a friend pointed out that the government must’ve missed out on something more urgent: a worryingly small percentage of legislative candidates have their profiles available on the Candidates profile website. The header reads:
Apologies, Citizen of Indonesia. Only 32 out of 11,868 candidates have identities – For Election 2008
Others on the same issue:
Categories: bitching
Tagged: bitching, depdik, indonesia, rant, stupidity
