Few days ago I went to Boston to attend the fireworks festival. It was 4th of July — US Independence Day. Sounds lame, but that was the first time for me to see the real fireworks. They were spectacular indeed. Fire dancers swinging under the black sky, jumping, overlaping in many colors toward any directions.

Where I was… The event held at Charles River - Boston. If my 6th sense serves me well, I’ll say there were about… 42,579 people around the river. How the hell I came up with that number? I have no idea, just random.

I was not come alone. I had invited by the group (anime-lover) through Facebook, and they were hit the spot since 10 in the morning to claimed a good ground for us to camp on; while the main event started at 10.30pm. That was a frikin 12+ hours wait time.

This event hosted by one of Anime Boston member, hmm… by two actually. Zero-sama and Ethan Fleming. Thank’s for both of them who sacrifised their sweat, battery, energy, sponsored by the super stinks public restroom-box (i have no idea what these boxes called?) and greater possibility of skin cancer.

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Some of you might know PowerBall, some might not. It’s a lottery game in United States, along with bunch of other like Lotto, Cashola and others. You know how it goes right?

The price starts from $1 (uno dallah), and by guessing random numbers, you might hit the jackpot if your prediction is proven correct. I’m not really sure how the game play (since I’m a good boy…), beside that’s not really my main topic.

I’m more interested in the word of Luck. I wonder how many people are actually believe in good luck. For example, in Chinese believing for Feng Shui, your good luck determined from how you locate your windows, bed, dinning table, mirrors, doors and the direction of your house facing into.

Does good luck really exist? Or all of it are just a lottery picked up randomly in our everyday life? I have no idea. Continue »

I’m not so sure what day on the calendar states:

“it’s official, we’re entering summer day!”

It’s getting hot and hotter lately. Last couple days were the worse… so far. My Yahoo Weather Widget shows it’s 65-70 Fahrenheit, which I believe it screwed. It feels like almost 100 degree outside.

A lot of my friends asked me “Is it hotter than Surabaya?” — or Semarang, Jakarta, and many other famous Hot Cities among the nation, well… I might say “Yes!” but to be honest, I couldn’t remember.

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How many of you are using Firefox?

Prologue

It’s been 4th month since I migrated myself from Opera to Firefox. Not that Opera is a bad engine, but for some of particular secure sites, like banking, specific kind of javascript, toolbar add-ons for webmaster tools (alexa, google toolbar, social bookmarks) Opera just doesn’t support it.

Opera was also crashes so often several months ago, every time I was trying to access GMail. That’s how I decided to move. Continue »

One from many things that quite bugs me when I came to state was the “How Are You?” culture. I wasn’t sure, and still unsure today, whether it supposed to be a good culture or bad.

In Indonesia, I barely see people say “How Are You?” (in my own language of course) to anyone in daily conversation, while the most common question being said is “What are you doing?” That’s how we start conversation for most of the time =)

Here, in United States, I heard it everywhere, anytime. I mean, everywhere you go… Continue »