Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Brian mobile blogspot online again

After friendster mobile friendster been renewed and dunno how to blog via e-mail.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Speeding

What's the aim of speeding? I feel adrenaline rush when speeding at night avoiding drowsiness. It delivers me home or workplace early. But faster we move means slower our reaction become. Wether the math formula result increasing probability of death. While living is difficult to achieve, death on the contrary randomly possible to happen. Once and nothing can return life back. With the same reaction (see-decide-act : taken from internet) time approximately 1.6 second at 100km/h or 27.8m/s, an act will happen 44,48m after we see a potential threat. At 100km/h full braking (rear, front and engine brake) to 0km/h will need at least 10m more, depend on road, brake and tires condition. Do we have 60m to avoid an accident? Mostly we don't as traffic condition is very tight with space less than 10m between vehicles. But with such condition it's better to keep the speed 20-30km/h but who can stand with such speed today?

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Hibernating reflex

An interesting stupidity happened this morning. After riding my new motorcycle and get used to its transmission system it goes smooth. Until today I did a stupidity. There was a car in front of me that I want to cut over from right (Indonesia is right side driving system), everything was ready then I wanted to switch up the gear then I reach the gear switch lever. How could I stepped the gear switch lever down (switch down in sport bike) like I usually did on moped bike (in moped it will switch up gear). The result was engine brake, abruptly slow down the bike. Fortunately it happen in low speed, I didn't flew from my bike forward.
I wonder how can in a split second after forgetting to drive a moped for quite long time, the old reflex appeared again. My body is still not a reliable recording device, and it can be dangerous when happen in a critical situation and common as a human error. More practice needed to sharpen the riding skill.

Sunday, August 12, 2007

After experiencing manual clutch motorcycle

I decided to change my daily commuting means from public transportation to a bit more private vehicle, by motorcycle. Father already has one with automatic clutch, means we only switch gears up and down without having to pull clutch lever. Then I decided to have one with manual clutch, at first I ask myself why should people trouble themselves with manual operation while there are automatic solution (automatic scooter is the easiest 2 wheel commuting solution). After several times using the motorcycle with manual clutch, I think I understand the feel of controling everything we are riding. The sense of being manual, it open more ways for the bike to be me while in a road. Mine is a 200cc sportbike style that I think enough for daily use, competing with public transportation, trucks, lower class bikes to go to campus and miscellaneous places that usually costy when using public transportation.
I think I should love this bike, like I love my bicycle like when I was in Japan. This is my feet, walking now converted into pulling clutch, shifting gears, opening throttle, braking and steering. I think I still need time to tame the new iron horse.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Gouvernment Civil Service Performance

We are preparing for permission for our KKN (Live Class of Workmanship). We plan our KKN will be conducted in Ranupani. In Lumajang we bumped on Kesbangpol (Society and Political Unionship). First they asked the students to bring the person in charge to make sure there is someone from institution who responsible for the activities. They went again with me and I hoped the procedure can be done immediately, but it seemed they don't take it seriously. They didn't ask my identity as a staff from Brawijaya University, strange. I don't have idea whether they believe or not. They only gave comment on how important a person in charge without giving attention to the coordinator of KKN itself. They keep talking about they need to meet the head of the research, which is only a part of whole activities of KKN. A coordinator should be representative enough for whole activities. I still don't understand what the problem is. We try again today, we should make it clear as soon as possible.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Which one is the real Love.

Most of songs we hear tells about Love. Each with its own version or point of view. From those version I think we can try as a game to classify the types of love. I believe there will be many types of love.
1. The most popular I think between man and woman, a meristematic love that can be anything in the future. Sometimes very complicated involving possessiveness, jealousy, affection and sometimes lust. Possible as a way for reproduction as a living being.
2. Family love, a should be everlasting love as there is no ex-family. A brother will always be a brother, so is sister, parents or extended families. Very pure without hoping for returning. But returning love is possible as we human can communicate.
3.Homosexual, they have feeling like love between man and woman but of course with some limitation. They are sexually incompatible. Sure no reproductive purpose.
4. Non human love is usually between a master and pets. It can be very pure as the pet is not yet understandable whether it loves the owner. The owner should not expect much from the pets then. Usually as a substitute for a love the owner can't get because it is free to interprete the love from the pet. Pet here is for plants, animals and other things.
5. Divinelove where it descends from heaven for everything God has created. Still mostly as religious belief since it is very abstract.

Those are my version please feel free to add or give comments.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Who wants to be a God?

What's required to be a God? We often assume that in order to be a God, an almighty power is the most necessary condition. Will it be enough? What kind of power required, powerful will, strength, brain etc? If someone has all required power to be a God what will he/she want next? Still he/she need money, top position, sex, beauty, cronies etc? That person has had everything, nothing will attract him/her anymore. Any mischief means less control power and he/she is not a God anymore.
We may have power of God but it may require our nothingness to be a true God. We cease our will, we think million of years ahead, there is no chaos everything is predictable. Or is it the real power of God? Applying rules over other rules without any paradox happens.

Who wants to be a God since we can still feel in a state of powerfulness as a human.