Firda Beka - Plinky Answers

In 2109, my personal robot attendant will...

2009-09-10T21:57:54-05:00

Make money.
It doesn't have to get a job. It just have to be able to make something that can be sold and is profitable.

Do the dishes.
I hate doing the dishes.

Clean the house.
I hate cleaning, too. I wish the house would clean itself.

Do the laundry.
Why not?

Cook.
I wouldn't mind searching for recipes if the robot would cook me whatever I feel like eating. Especially Indonesian food. I don't like cooking.

Casino Rama wasn't as fun as you'd think

2009-05-01T09:59:09-05:00

My first time going to a casino and, having no interest in gambling (I'd rather spend my money somewhere else), it was as boring as I'd thought it would be. But eh, at least the older people in our group seemed to be having fun and even won a little cash. Conclusion: Casinos are made for old people to have fun.

My advice

2009-02-12T09:45:22-05:00

My mother used to tell me over and over again, if you don't have a lot of money, you have to be creative and have a lot of ideas to compensate for it. Well, I never had a lot of money, but I never ran out of ideas! I shop thrift stores and if there's anything I want that I can make myself, I make it myself. I might not have a lot of money, but with all the ideas and creativity I have, I'll never feel poor.

Three overplayed songs I love anyway

2009-02-06T19:36:56-05:00

Perfect Day by Lou Reed

It's a reminder that love doesn't have to be complicated, that you don't have to go all out to have a perfect day.

Happy Together by The Turtles

How could anyone *not* love a song about being happy together with someone you love?

One by Metallica

It's an anti-war song that I can sing from beginning to end for you if you want to be impressed. :D

When I started using the Internet

2009-02-05T10:14:16-05:00

Plinky wanted me to recall when I first started using the Internet regularly. Well, it's got to be 1996. You've probably been online long before that, but keep in mind, it's Indonesia I'm talking about. I signed up for an Internet account after a field trip to an Internet provider for a class in University.

My first webmail account was with Rocketmail before Yahoo! bought the service in 1997 and transferred all Rocketmail accounts to Yahoo! Mail, which was lame. I had countless of free GeoCities and Tripod accounts. I'd always preferred GeoCities to Tripod. GeoCities was okay until Yahoo! bought it and introduced pop-up ads. Ick! Yahoo! seemed to ruin everything that was good back then. The only good thing about Yahoo! back then was, if your site got listed on the Yahoo! directory, you could brag about it and it actually brought you quite a few hits.

Some Indonesian guy once sent me an email upon seeing my pictures on my GeoCities site and asked me to remove them because he was concerned that people from outside Indonesia would think that all Indonesian girls are as ugly as me. Nice! Sadly, that site is no longer up. I didn't take it down. Yahoo! did, apparently.

I have a site at Angelfire from 1997 that's still up but you have to beg me for the link (it's that embarrassing). I kept some kind of a blog on that site. I posted wacky news articles from Indonesia, copied straight from a local English language newspaper by hand. No fancy cut-and-paste! See? I've always been a hardcore blogger. Heh.

I found Usenet very entertaining. I would download news from random servers using my email client just to see what kind of crap they had for me to read. I learned how to use stylesheet/CSS in 1998. I loved it and still do. I practiced my CSS-Fu a lot while online-journalling (that's what blogging was called back then) over at Diaryland between 1998 and 1999. I discovered Blogger in early 2000 when it was still owned by Pyra instead of Google, before Blogspot was conceived. Made quite a few friends from the world over. And the rest, as they say, is history.