Time is Money

Jika Uang begitu berharga, demikian juga dengan waktu, Pergunakanlah waktumu dengan bijaksana, karena waktu takkan bisa dibeli dengan uang.

Work

Kesempatan dapat memungkinkan Anda untuk mencapai tujuan, tapi konsistensi terjadi hanya jika Anda mencintai apa yang Anda kerjakan dengan sepenuh hati.

Relationship

Dengan siapa kita bergaul, mencerminkan siapa kita sebenarnya. Pergaulan yang buruk merusakkan kebiasaan yang baik. Jagalah pergaulan Anda

Success

Keberhasilan tidak hanya sekedar di tentukan oleh harta atau posisi, tapi seberapa besar kita memberi arti dalam hidup untuk masyarakat dan Sang Pencipta.

@Life

Semua bagian dari kehidupan adalah eksperimen. Semakin banyak percobaan membuat hidup semakin baik. cobalah hidup hari ini lebih baik dari kemarin.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

sekilas ttg tsunami

Gempa berkekuatan 7,2SR yang mengguncang Kepulauan Mentawai, Sumatera Barat, Senin 25 Oktober 2010, menimbulkan serangan gelombang maut, tsunami. Seluruh pemukiman yang berada di pantai barat gugusan kepulauan itu diterjang tsunami sehingga menewaskan lebih dari 400 orang.

Indonesia tidak lagi asing dengan bencana itu. Pada Desember 2004, tsunami besar terjadi di Aceh. Lalu tiga bulan berikutnya terjadi di Nias. Setahun lagi, tepatnya 17 Juli 2006, tsunami juga terjadi di Pangandaran, Jawa Barat.

Rekam jejak tunami ternyata sudah terjadi sejak tahun 6.000 Sebelum Masehi. Laman media ilmiah Livescience.com mencatat daftar tsunami maha dahsyat yang pernah terjadi di bumi.

6.000 SM

Gugusan salju besar di Sisilia longsor dan jatuh ke laut. Longsor yang terjadi pada 8 ribu tahun lalu ini memicu bencana tsunami tersebar di Laut Mediterrania. Tidak ada catatan sejarah bencana ini. Hanya para ilmuwan geologi memperkirakan tsunami dengan kecepatan 320 kilometer per jam ini mencapai ketinggian gedung 10 lantai.

1 November 1755

Setelah gempa yang menghancurkan Lisbon, Portugal, dan mengguncang sebagian besar Eropa. Orang-orang banyak yang berlindung di perahu. Namun, tsunami justru terjadi. Tak pelak bencana ini menewaskan lebih dari 60 ribu orang.

27 Agustus 1883

Letusan Gunung Krakatau di Selat Sunda, memicu tsunami yang menenggelamkan pesisir Sumatera, Jawa bagian utara, dan Kepulauan Seribu. Kekuatan gelombang bisa menyeret karang seberat 600 ton ke pantai. 36 ribu orang meninggal sia-sia.

15 Juni 1896

Gelombang setinggi 30 meter muncul sesaat setelah terjadi gempa di Jepang. Seluruh pantai timur disapu tsunami itu. 27 ribu orang meninggal.

1 April 1946

Gempa besar di Alaska menimbulkan gelombang besar di Hawaii. Bencana yang sering disebut sebagai misteri "April Fools Tsunami" itu menewaskan 159 orang.

9 Juli 1958

Gempa berkekuatan 8,3 SR di Alaska menyebabkan gelombang besar hingga 576 meter di Teluk Lituya, Alaska. Ini merupakan tsunami terbesar yang tercatat di zaman modern.

Untung saja, tsunami terjadi di tempat terisolir, sehingga tidak menimbulkan banyak korban. Tsunami ini hanya menyebabkan dua nelayan meninggal dunia, karena kapalnya karam diterjang ombak.

22 Mei 1960

Gempa bumi terbesar yang pernah tercatat sebesar 8,6 SR di Chile. Gempa ini menciptakan tsunami yang menghantam Pantai Chile dalam waktu 15 menit. Gelombang tinggi terjadi hingga 25 meter. Tsunami ini menewaskan 1.500 orang di Chile dan Hawaii.

27 Maret 1964

Gempa Alaska "Good Friday" berkekuatan 8,4 SR, menimbulkan gelombang 67 meter di kawasan Valdez Inlet, Alaska. Gelombang dengan kecepatan 640 kilometer per jam ini menewaskan lebih dari 120 orang. Sepuluh orang di antaranya dari Crescent City, California, yang juga mendapat kiriman ombak setinggi 6,3 meter.

23 Agustus 1976

Tsunami di Filipina barat daya menewaskan 8 ribu orang. Gelombang besar ini juga dipicu gempa bumi di sekitar pantai.

17 Juli 1998

Gempa dengan kekuatan 7,1 SR menghasilkan tsunami di Papua Nugini. Gelombang besa dengan cepat membunuh 2.200 orang.

26 Desember 2004

Gempa maha dahsyat dengan kekuatan 9,3 SR mengguncang di Samudra Hindia, lepas pantai barat Aceh. Gempa paling besar sepanjang 40 tahun terakhir ini menimbulkan gelombang tinggi di Sumatera Utara, Pantai Barat Semenanjung Malaysia, Thailand, Pantai Timur India, Sri Lanka, bahkan sampai Pantai Timur Afrika.

Setidaknya 320 ribu orang dari delapan negara meninggal dunia. Bencana ini merupakan kematian terbesar sepanjang sejarah.

28 Maret 2005

Tiga bulan kemudian tsunami juga terjadi di Sumatera. Gempa di lepas pantai Nias yang berkekuatan 8,7 SR itu memicu tsunami besar yang menewaskan 1.300 orang di Pulau Nias, Sumatera Barat.

Friday, October 29, 2010

siapa sesama kita?

"Di saat sesama menderita, masihkah kita sibuk mengumpulkan harta untuk diri kita sendiri?saat sesama berduka, masihkah kita sibuk memperdebatkan status politik, ekonomi, bahkan posisi? siapakah kita, jika sampai saat ini, kita masih bisa bergembira, semua karena anugrahNYA, bukankah ini saatnya kita belajar berbagi, belajar merasakan apa yang sesama kita rasakan? AYO, BANGKIT INDONESIAKU!!" YNK 30102010


Apa yang sedang kita perdebatkan?
Apa yang sedang kita kejar mati2an?
Apa yang kita sembunyikan?
Apa yang kita sedang menyibukan kita?

Apakah itu sehingga membuat kita jadi pribadi yang serakah, egois dan hanya peduli diri kita sendiri?

Jika seandainya kita peroleh segalanya itu, apakah itu menaikkan harkat dan martabat kita sebagai pribadi manusia yang sesungguhnya?
Jika seandainya kita dapatkan itu semua, benarkah itu kebahagiaan yang sesungguhnya?

Masih adakah hati nurani yang bersih?
Adakah belas kasih dan kepedulian di masa ini?

Jika ada sodara kita kelaparan, adakah kita member sepotong roti yang kita punya?
Jika ada yang berduka, adakah kita berusaha menghadirkan senyum di wajahnya kembali?

Siapakah sesama kita?
Siapakah sodara kita?

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Computer Vs Woman




WHY COMPUTER ALWAYS BETTER THAN WOMEN

1. Computer does not care how you look.
2. Computer can’t be angry if you not respond immediately.
3. Computer always wait for you
4. Computer can’t have PMS.
5. Computer never forgets your birthday.
6. Computer can’t compare you to previous user.
7. Computer did not accept calls from previous users.
8. Computer doesn’t say: “Do you come home now?”
9. Computer doesn’t ask: “Do you have another computer?”
10. Computer never start a conversation about marriage.
11. Computers don’t care if you’re married.
12. Computer can’t look your phone book or digging through your pockets.
13. Computer is simply Start and Shut down.
14. You can share computer with friends.
15. Computer doesn’t make a scene when you arrive home late.
16. Computer not shave his legs with your razor.
17. Computer will not call you 100 times a day.
18. You don’t need to say him that you love him.
19. Computer doesn’t care for the difference in years.
20. Computer has a warranty.

Monday, October 4, 2010

hero's story 2 ( john stephen akhwari, tanzania )

I Learn much from this true life story..

Ada sebuah kisah luar biasa yang terjadi padaOlimpiade di Mexico City tepat 40 tahun yang lalu (1968). Ada seorang pelari maraton asal Tanzania yang sensasional direkam sejarah. John Stephen Akhwari namanya.



Ia menjadi tajuk berita bukan karena memecahkan rekor finish tercepat, bukan pula karena memenangkan medali emas. Dia justru finish di tempat terakhir. Para pelari lain telah menyelesaikan perlombaan lebih dari satu jam sebelumnya. Stadion pun sudah hampir kosong. John Stephen Akhwari kemudian terlihat memasuki stadium dengan tertatih-tatih, kakinya dibalut dan terlihat berdarah. Ini yang terjadi: ketika memasuki kilometer ke 19, ia terjatuh karena tubrukan. Akhwari mengalami luka menganga di lutut kanannya dan mengalami masalah dengan persendian bahunya. Dalam kondisi demikian, semua orang akan maklum jika ia mengundurkan diri. Bayangkan terus berlari dengan lutut terluka parah, dan bahu lepas dari persendian. Mungkin membayangkannya saja kita sudah bergidik. Tapi apa yang diputuskan oleh Akhwari adalah luar biasa. Dia meneruskan perlombaan dengan segenap sisa kekuatan yang ada, dan bisa mencapai finish. Mungkin bagi sebagian orang ia dianggap bodoh, minimal heran akan keputusannya. Wartawan pun bergegas menanyakan apa yang menyebabkan ia terus berlari meski tahu bahwa ia tidak mungkin lagi menang. Akhwari memberi jawaban:“My country did not send me 5,000 miles to start the race,They sent me 5,000 miles to finish it.”

great articles



Derek Redmond and Jim Redmond

Unlike Carl Lewis and Daley Thompson, Derek Redmond is not a name that conjures up memories of Olympic gold medals. But it is Redmond who defines the essence of the human spirit.
Redmond arrived at the 1992 Olympic Summer Games in Barcelona determined to win a medal in the 400. The color of the medal was meaningless; he just wanted to win one. Just one.

He had been forced to withdraw from the 400 at the 1988 Games in Seoul, only 10 minutes before the race, because of an Achilles tendon injury. He then underwent five surgeries over the next year. This was the same runner who had shattered the British 400-meter record at age 19. So when the 1992 Games arrived, this was his time, his moment, his stage, to show the world how good he was and who he was.

Derek's father Jim had accompanied him to Barcelona, just as he did for all world competitions. They were as close as a father and son could be. Inseparable, really. The best of friends. When Derek ran, it was as if his father were running right next to him.

THE MOMENT
The day of the race arrives. Father and son reminisce about what it took for Derek to get to this point. They talk about ignoring past heartbreaks, past failures. They agree that if anything bad happens, no matter what it is, Derek has to finish the race, period.

The top four finishers in each of the two semifinal heats qualify for the Olympic final. As race time approaches for the semifinal 400 heat, Jim heads up to his seat at the top of Olympic Stadium, not far from where the Olympic torch was lit just a few days earlier. He is wearing a T-shirt that reads, "Have you hugged your foot today?"


With the help of his father, an injured Derek Redmond completed his race in the 1992 Olympics.
The stadium is packed with 65,000 fans, bracing themselves for one of sport's greatest and most exciting spectacles. The race begins and Redmond breaks from the pack and quickly seizes the lead. "Keep it up, keep it up," Jim says to himself.

Down the backstretch, only 175 meters away from finishing, Redmond is a shoo-in to make the finals. Suddenly, he hears a pop. In his right hamstring. He pulls up lame, as if he had been shot.

"Oh, no," Jim says to himself. His face pales. His leg quivering, Redmond begins hopping on one leg, then slows down and falls to the track. As he lays on the track, clutching his right hamstring, a medical personnel unit runs toward him. At the same time, Jim Redmond, seeing his son in trouble, races down from the top row of the stands, sidestepping people, bumping into others. He has no credential to be on the track, but all he thinks about is getting to his son, to help him up. "I wasn't going to be stopped by anyone," he later tells the media.

On the track, Redmond realizes his dream of an Olympic medal is gone. Tears run down his face. "All I could think was, 'I'm out of the Olympics -- again,'" he would say.

As the medical crew arrives with a stretcher, Redmond tells them, "No, there's no way I'm getting on that stretcher. I'm going to finish my race."

Then, in a moment that will live forever in the minds of millions, Redmond lifts himself to his feet, ever so slowly, and starts hobbling down the track. The other runners have finished the race, with Steve Lewis of the U.S. winning the contest in 44.50. Suddenly, everyone realizes that Redmond isn't dropping out of the race by hobbling off to the side of the track. No, he is actually continuing on one leg. He's going to attempt to hobble his way to the finish line. All by himself. All in the name of pride and heart.

Slowly, the crowd, in total disbelief, rises and begins to roar. The roar gets louder and louder. Through the searing pain, Redmond hears the cheers, but "I wasn't doing it for the crowd," he would later say. "I was doing it for me. Whether people thought I was an idiot or a hero, I wanted to finish the race. I'm the one who has to live with it."

One painful step at a time, each one a little slower and more painful than the one before, his face twisted with pain and tears, Redmond limps onward, and the crowd, many in tears, cheer him on.

Suddenly, Jim Redmond finally gets to the bottom of the stands, leaps over the railing, avoids a security guard, and runs out to his son, with two security people chasing after him. "That's my son out there," he yells back to security, "and I'm going to help him."

Finally, with Derek refusing to surrender and painfully limping along the track, Jim reaches his son at the final curve, about 120 meters from the finish, and wraps his arm around his waist.

"I'm here, son," Jim says softly, hugging his boy. "We'll finish together." Derek puts his arms around his father's shoulders and sobs.

Together, arm in arm, father and son, with 65,000 people cheering, clapping and crying, finish the race, just as they vowed they would. A couple steps from the finish line, and with the crowd in an absolute frenzy, Jim releases the grip he has on his son, so Derek could cross the finish line by himself. Then he throws his arms around Derek again, both crying, along with everyone in the stands and on TV.

"I'm the proudest father alive," he tells the press afterwards, tears in his eyes. "I'm prouder of him than I would have been if he had won the gold medal. It took a lot of guts for him to do what he did."

Love video