At least you have shown them

what can be done in our Nation

Thank you and Bon Voyage!

Note: Gus Dur Died in Jakarta on 30th Dec, 2009

No no, I am not dead,

I was just hybernating in this cold Tokyo..

I am writing away two of my important pieces in my life,

one is my Master Thesis, and the other is a secret yet to be revealed…

Wishing you well
Anton

just watch

Enjoy!

Well in today’s English language fascination I am going to introduce a random sentence that meant alot to me.

If I remembered it correctly, this words came from my former physics teacher back in the Singapore days.

it goes something like this:

“You won’t treasure a thing,

Until its..Lost”

to me these words are very symbolic and full of meaning..

This is why I like it: It cleverly uses the word “treasure” and “lost” and brilliantly use its off topic relations and makes it meaningful in such a short but sweet sentence.

The fact is, I’ve checked, of all the languages I know so far.. there is no other language than the English language, that describes it best and deep like:

You won’t treasure a thing, until its lost..

If its not lost, it would not be a “treasure” right? duh…

I better stop this blog, before you become my “treasure”, yes you my readers..

thanks for reading!

PS: Thanks Mr Chan (my physics and form teacher when I was in 3A Bowen)

It is called: WordFlip.IN

I came accross someone who wrote upside down like this:

¡ǝɹoɯʎuɐ noʎ puɐʇs ʇ,uɐɔ ı

So I decided to make one for me.. and therefore http://www.wordflip.in was born!

Go ahead, it is free, meaningless but fun!

what you can do with WordFlip.IN

1. Update your twitter and baffle your friend
2. Same as number one, but do it on Facebook!
3. Annoy someone with an upside down email..

ǝʌoן ’sɹnoʎ

˙ןɐɯɹou oʇ pןɹoʍ ʎɯ ʞɔɐq ƃuıɹq puɐ ‘ǝsɐǝןd ǝɯ ןןɐɔ ¿ǝǝɹɟ noʎ ǝɹɐ uǝɥʍ

˙pɐǝɥ ʎɯ ɟɟo noʎ dǝǝʞ ʇou pןnoɔ ı ǝsnɐɔǝq uʍop ǝpısdn pǝuɹnʇ uǝǝq sɐɥ puıɯ ʎɯ ʇɔɐɟ uı

‘ʎɐp ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ noʎ ƃuıʇǝǝɯ ɹǝʇɟɐ pǝןzzɐpǝq ןǝǝɟ ʇnq dןǝɥ ʇuɐɔ ı

’sǝɯɐɾ ɹɯ ɹɐǝp

That would for sure make their day!

Thats something about me folks! YEah I like crazy stuff..

Any comments are welcome! Please try it out!

PS: ¡snıuǝƃ ɐ ǝɹɐ noʎ ‘ɯǝןqoɹd ʎuɐ ʇnoɥʇıʍ pɹoʍ uʍop ǝpısdn ǝɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ɟı ʎɐs ʎǝɥʇ

Now we can run out, FREE

Thanks for all the memories,

And for all the coming stories..

if it is not Anton again?

I am starting this (again….yawn..) series about…. ME…

to let the world know, the real me…

and this series also will act as an addition to the About Me section.

FAQ about Anton Part 1

1. Where are you from, and where are you at now?

Ans: I am from Indonesia, born and raised there, and a proud one too!

I am currently studying in Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, which is my 12th Years staying abroad, after starting my “education adventure” 12 years ago in Singapore.

2. What are you doing except studying right now?

Ans: apart from running a WebHosting company, I am also joining my friends and my brother in the iPhone apps/game venture, we actually has released two apps on the iTunes store, and they are doing well!

More info: TouchTen

More about me soon!

Comments, suggestion and requests are mostly welcomed!

Thanks for reading,

Anton

by rambling about some random English language word, sentence, parables, idioms, expression, proverbs, or anything to do with the English language

Background:

I am not a Language expert, nor am I a native speaker of the English language, but my “love affair” with the language having been using, and studying about it, or studying with it for the past decades or so has motivates me to start this “column” about it.

Today’s fascination:

I found this word/idiom while reading an article “somewhere”

Red Herring

this idiom is used to describe a purposeful attempt to divert attention from the supposedly main purpose of the argument.

example of use of the idiom “Red Herring” can be found usually in newspaper articles describing a politician debate.

Actual Red Herring in action:

“I believe that the penalty given (in a soccer game) was a controversial one, but we would like to point out that the opponent’s team supporters and member of the team has been playing unfairly against us.”

Anton’s Non-native point of view explanation:

the above example is a clear Red Herring, where the arguer introduce a second irrelevant point (the other teams are a cheat, the other teams are not playing fairly) in an attempt to divert the attention of the “audience” and making it sound “relevant” and valid.

Read more about Red Herring:

Wikipedia

comments and suggestion, especially corrections are most welcomed!

“A United States judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft Corporation to stop selling Microsoft Word in its current form in the US as it infringes upon a patent owned by a Canadian company, i4i.”

Say WHAT??

YES YOU ARE READING IT CORRECTLY

According to the Court Law, Microsoft has to

“.. pay the Toronto-based software developer $200 million in damages as reasonable royalty. Apart from that, Microsoft was also told to pay an additional $40 million for willful patent infringement and another $37 million-plus in interest, taking the total damages to over $287 million.”

And Stop

“selling, offering to sell, and/or importing in or into the United States any Infringing and Future Word Products that have the capability of opening a .XML, .DOCX, or .DOCM file (”an XML file”) containing custom XML;”

Read the full court order here:

‘Microsoft Corporation is hereby permanently enjoined from performing the following actions with Microsoft Word 2003, Microsoft Word 2007, and Microsoft Word products not more than colorably different from Microsoft Word 2003 or Microsoft Word 2007 (collectively “Infringing and Future Word Products”) during the term of U.S. Patent No. 5,787,449:

1. selling, offering to sell, and/or importing in or into the United States any Infringing and Future Word Products that have the capability of opening a .XML, .DOCX, or .DOCM file (”an XML file”) containing custom XML;

2. using any Infringing and Future Word Products to open an XML file containing custom XML;

3. instructing or encouraging anyone to use any Infringing and Future Word Products to open an XML file containing custom XML;

4. providing support or assistance to anyone that describes how to use any infringing and Future Word Products to open an XML file containing custom XML; and

5. testing, demonstrating, or marketing the ability of the Infringing and Future Word Products to open an XML file containing custom XML.’

That is a slap in the face for bill gates:

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Source:

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/176223.asp?from=blog_last3

http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/aug/12/court-bans-microsoft-from-selling-word-in-us.htm

When a customer order from you, you want to make sure that fraud is checked rigorously to avoid headache afterwards..

But what saddens me today as I was reviewing one of the order is that, an online fraud check software adviced me this:

This order is very high risk, and we suggest you not accept it. The order is slightly riskier because the e-mail domain, hotmail.com, is a free e-mail provider. The order is riskier because it comes from a country associated with high levels of fraud

When I tried to check an order coming from my country: Indonesia

My oh my.. to be honest, I am sad.. I know with all the bad press Indonesia received.. I am just completely saddened by the sentence:

The order is riskier because it comes from a country associated with high levels of fraud

I am not on denial..but I am left speechless…

Thanks for reading..