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BISA!

Setelah bercakap sekian lama sambil lihat2 produk, berikut percakapan yg terjadi:

Ibu: Saya punya teman bisa pake lensa sony di kamera canon!

S: Mustinya ga bisa ibu, mungkin dia pakai alat khusus…

Ibu: (dengan semangat mengebu2) Engga! Bisa kok! Saya memang ga ngerti gini2an, itu temen saya yang ngerti, tp bisa kok!

S: Oooo, iya bu… bisa… (suka2 loe deh)

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MATIC vs. Manual Drive

So, awalnya pencarian mengenai perbedaan matic dan manual drive bermula karena papa mau beli mobil Ford Everest.
Karena papa pengen ganti velek yang ukuran 18 (standardnya 16) papa mulai berpikir utk pindah ke yg limited.
Tapi yg limited hanya available yg matic, meski veleknya uda 18 dan joknya kulit (yg biasa semi kulit).
Karena itu, aku mulai research tentang perbedaan2 matic dan manual.

Google2 di internet, kok susah banget ya dapetin info.
Adanya sih, yg banyak, org2 blgnya begini “hare gene masik pake manual, apa kate duniee!”
And i was like, uuuhh… not helping ><

Lalu, setelah kuberusaha keras untuk terus mencari informasi dan bertanya sana sini, kesimpulan yang aku dapatkan adalah:

    1. Bagi mereka yg tidak tahu tapi malu bertanya, pada dasarnya, “gigi” matic itu terdiri dari: P (parking), R (rear), N (neutral), sama D (drive). Selebihnya tergantung ama mobilnya, tadi saya ke kantor Ford sama papa untuk tanya2 mengenai matic drive dgn Bpk. Satria yang sangat baik dan sabar dalam menjelaskan hal-hal baru ini. Jadi, kalau di Ford Everest, di bawah D ada 3, 2 dan 1.
    1.1 3 fungsinya apabila kita sedang menyetir dengan kondisi datar dan mendadak memerlukan tarikan tambahan (contoh: utk menyalip) maka kita dapat memindahkan dari D ke 3, apabila tarikan sudah kenceng, maka kita kembalikan lagi ke D. Perlu diingat, apabila sedang menggunakan 3, kecepatan dianjurkan untuk tidak melebih 100km/hrs. Jadi sungguh intinya cuman bantu dorong sementara. tapi informasi 3 ini saya masih ragu, karena menurut saya kontradiktif dengan mode overdrive (lihat dibawah), nanti akan saya klarifikasi lagi
    1.2 2 fungsinya untuk kondisi jalan menurun, tapi sangat dianjurkan untuk melebihi 60km/hrs.
    1.3 1 fungsinya untuk kondisi jalan menanjak, dorongan lebih kuat dan sama seperti 2, tidak dianjurkan untuk melebihi 60km/hrs.
    Lalu ada lagi yg symbolnya +/- (Over Drive), kebanyakan SUV keatas semua ada option ini, beberapa orang menyebutnya fasilitas Semi-Manual. Jadi Over Drive ini kerjanya mengunci gigi di posisi 1-4 dgn menaikan rpm terendah per gigi, tapi katanya mode ini menguras BBM. Mode ini setahu saya ada 2 type, ada yg berupa tombol, yg ditekan, maka akan muncul tulisan “Over Drive” di dashboardnya, atau berupa dimana tuas gigi bisa kita ganti ke kiri, dan disana kita bisa menyetir dengan menyesuaikan posisi gigi seperti menyetir manual tanpa harus menggunakan kopling. Fungsi Over Drive ini adalah untuk membantu memberikan dorongan extra disaat kita akan menyalip sewaktu kita berada di jalan menanjak
    2. Tetapi, meskipun Bpk. Satria bilang bahwa matic mereka boleh dicoba, pasti puas kok! tapi dia memang tetap mengakui bagaimanapun, tarikan mobil matic dan manual pasti ada bedanya, dan bedanya ya manual lebih kenceng tarikannya. Cuman kebanyakan orang sekarang sudah cukup puas dengan tarikan matic yang ada. (mungkin untuk mereka, tapi bagi saya dan papa, tarikan itu adalah segalanya yang memutuskan bisa ngebut, nyalip, naik dan nikung pada saat yang bersamaan apa tidak, terutama kalau kita lagi di jalan naik spt digunung2, trus mau nyalip truk tronton, nah, it’s a matter of life and death! so, in the end, i think we gonna stick with manual :P )
    3. Matic jaman dulu kalo mati tidak bisa didorong, jadi agak repot kalo parkiran lagi penuh, kan biasanya klo pake manual, kita free-in aja, biar bisa didorong2 ama tukang parkirnya, trus apalagi kalo mogok ditengah jalan. Nah sekarang, matic itu ada tombol dimana kalau itu ditekan, kita bisa mematikan/mencabut kunci dgn posisi di N (netral). So, mobil bisa didorong pada saat mogok.
    4. Secara diteliti lagi, biaya perawatan mobil dalam jangka panjang, ternyata lebih murah matic. Considering this:

Masalah yang sering dianggap mudah bagi pengguna matik adalah masa tenggang waktu pergantian oli. Memang di buku manual terdapat waktu tenggak penggantian oli, bisa pada 40.000km, atau semuru hidup..eiit..jangan salah dulu.mobil itu dibuat dan diperkirakan berumur 5 tahun (Singapura dan Jepang).dan mobil ini dibuat dari sononya. di Indonesia umur pakai mobil puluhan tahun..jadi anggapan ini bisa beda..jadi saya sarankan rajin ganti oli aja deh..biar gak nyesal..mungkin di 10.000km sekali..sedangkan kelipatan 20.000 perlu dilakukan pengurasan.

Jadi..apakah perawatan matik lebih mahal dengan seringnya ganti oli mengingat harga oli yang mahal (40.000 perliter)? Belum tentu juga..coba kita asumsikan pemakain mobil 20.000 km per tahun. Berarti dalam setahun anda harus ganti oli sekali dan mengurasnya. Artinya butuh oli matik 11 liter dengan biaya 11x Rp 40.000= 440.000. dengan interval pergantian oli yang teratur ini, umur matik bisa puluhan tahun.

Untuk tansmisi manual, pergantian oli cukup 20.000km sekali dengan harga oli transmisi manual sekitar 20.000 per liter. Berarti setahun butuh biaya 60.000 jika rata-rata jumlah oli trnasmisi manual sekitar 3 liter. Jauh leih murah dari matik? Betul..tapi perlu diingat kalo transmisi manual juga butuh penggantian kampas kopling dan part lainnya seperti clutch cover, dan clutch bearing. Penggantian kopling set ini biasanya sekitar 3 tahun sekali dengan biaya sekitar 2,5 juta untuk SUV.

Artinya dalam satu tahun biaya perawatan transmisi amnual adalah Rp 60.000 + 2.500.000 / 3tahun = 910.000. jadi diatas kertas, matic masih lebih murah Rp 470.000..nyaman lagi dikendarai..matic gak akan pegal kakinya. Biasanya perawatan di bengel resmi juga gak terlalu beda ama bengkel resmi..menurut pemilik x-trail..pengurasan oli matik di bengkel resmi untu Nissan X-Trail sekitar 420.000..di bengkel biasa biasanya pasang tarif 380.000..

Matic SUV lebih bandel daripada matic Sedan..karena dirancang untuk pemakian kasar..beda dengan sedan..jadi jangan disamakan matic sedan dengan SUV.

Transmisi —————————– Manual ———————————- Matic
Jenis Oli ———————————- Mineral SAE 90 ——————— ATF
Harga Oli ——————————– Rp 20.000 ————————– Rp 40.000
Waktu Penggantian Oli —————– 20.000km ———————— 10.000km
Kerusakan Paling Sering ————- Pelat Kopling set ———– Oli Seal Bocor
Pemeriksaan oli berkala ————– Tidak ada —————— 1minggu sekali
(sumber : jip vol 53:2006)
from http://www.bluefame.com/lofiversion/index.php/t44756.html

    5. Tapi, meskipun biaya perawatan jangka panjangnya lebih mudah, kalau ada kerusakan apa-apa, anda harus memperbaikinya ke service centernya, sangat tidak dianjurkan untuk bongkar2 mobil matic sendiri. Yang dimana saya dan papa kurang suka, karena, kalau kita lebih senang bongkar2 sendiri. Kalau bisa diperbaiki sendiri, kenapa tidak. Lalu meski banyak orang yang bilang, jaman sekarang uda maju. Kalau mogok, sisa telpon service centernya, ntar mereka dateng njemput kita. Tapi kalau kita lagi dipedalaman, trus mogok, kan susah.. soalnya kita hobbynya jalan2 ke pelosok gituh. Sampe Bpk. Satria cuman bisa ketawa waktu ditanya papa begitu. Katanya, yah, kalau udah dipedalaman, ya memang lebih aman manual, soalnya kan service center ada batas2nya juga, ga mungkin ngejar ampe kepedalaman gituh
    6. Masalah kaki capek gonta ganti gigi, sama sekali irrelevant menurut saya. Itu semua tergantung kebiasaan. Saya punya mobil matic dan manual, pakai mana2, rasanya sama aja tuh, ga ada capek2nya. Malah kalau pakai matic, kadang agak2 ngantuk, kurang tantangan rasanya, sementara pake manual, rasanya lebih hidup, lebih seru dan menantang. Dan sebagai cewe, betis saya gapapa tuh, ga kaku, ga gede sebelah (kata beberapa orang) :P
    Papa saya yang laki-laki, dan sudah hampir 60thn, masih hobbynya pake manual, kalau ditanya, capek ga? jawabannya, kamu kalau jalan kaki, capek ga ngangkat kaki? ya biasa aja lah, itu sudah mendarah daging, refleks, jadi ga ada rasa capeknya.
    Sama seperti kalau kita motret dengan kamera SLR, pake Manual sama Automatic, kalau Manual, yang pinter itu manusianya, maka kalau manusianya pinter, hasilnya akan bagus. Kalau pakai Automatic, yang pinter itu mesin, jadi manusianya tidak ada peran apa-apa. Maka, apakah memotret dengan modus Manual, yang harus ngatur2 Aperture dan Speed bikin capek? tergantung orangnya kan? kalau orangnya pinter, jago dan uda biasa, its nothing gitu loh, bahkan hasilnya akan jadi legenda dunia.

Jadi, kayanya udah lengkap deh.. Ntar kalau ada yang kelewatan, bisa aku tambahin lagi.
Kalau ada yang salah dari infomasi diatas, tolong dikoreksi.
Apabila ada informasi2 lainnya, mohon dibagi juga ^^

Kesimpulannya saya:
Matic itu untuk orang yang jalannya didalam kota saja, dimana akan aman2 saja apabila mogok (didaerah yang terjangkau oleh fasilitas servicenya), apalagi yang tempatnya macet. Trus mungkin lebih cocok untuk orang yang jalannya kalem2 aja, ga maen salib2 kaya dikejar setan :P
Manual memang jodohnya orang yang suka keluar kota, kepedalaman, dan mereka yang suka berexperimen sendiri dengan mobil mereka. Mereka yang hobi kebut2an, naik2 jalan ga jelas dan yang pasti nyalib2 truk tronton :P

Akhirnya, si Papa tidak bimbang lagi apakah lebih baik beli Matic yang Limited yang dilengkapi dengan velek 18 dan jok kulit. Setelah dia menerima semua informasi diatas, dan pelajaran mengenai Matic spt yang Bpk. Satria berikan, dia memutuskan untuk memilih Manual, karena yang namanya hati tidak bisa berbohong ^^
Urusan velek 18, nanti dia mau ganti sendiri, dan jok kulit, bisa diatur.
Harga jatuh lebih mahal? Kata dia, gapapa, yang penting aman dan puas :)

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The Five Pillars of Self-Discipline

from http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/06/self-discipline/

The Five Pillars of Self-Discipline

The five pillars of self-discipline are: Acceptance, Willpower, Hard Work, Industry, and Persistence. If you take the first letter of each word, you get the acronym “A WHIP” — a convenient way to remember them, since many people associate self-discipline with whipping themselves into shape.

What Is Self-Discipline?
Self-discipline is the ability to get yourself to take action regardless of your emotional state.

Building Self-Discipline
My philosophy of how to build self-discipline is best explained by an analogy. Self-discipline is like a muscle. The more you train it, the stronger you become. The less you train it, the weaker you become.

Just as everyone has different muscular strength, we all possess different levels of self-discipline. Everyone has some — if you can hold your breath a few seconds, you have some self-discipline. But not everyone has developed their discipline to the same degree.

Just as it takes muscle to build muscle, it takes self-discipline to build self-discipline.

The way to build self-discipline is analogous to using progressive weight training to build muscle. This means lifting weights that are close to your limit. Note that when you weight train, you lift weights that are within your ability to lift. You push your muscles until they fail, and then you rest.

Don’t compare yourself to other people. It won’t help. You’ll only find what you expect to find. If you think you’re weak, everyone else will seem stronger. If you think you’re strong, everyone else will seem weaker. There’s no point in doing this. Simply look at where you are now, and aim to get better as you go forward.

Self-Discipline: Acceptance
The first of the five pillars of self-discipline is acceptance. Acceptance means that you perceive reality accurately and consciously acknowledge what you perceive.

This may sound simple and obvious, but in practice it’s extremely difficult. If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there’s a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.

Why is acceptance a pillar of self-discipline? The most basic mistake people make with respect to self-discipline is a failure to accurately perceive and accept their present situation. Remember the analogy between self-discipline and weight training from yesterday’s post? If you’re going to succeed at weight training, the first step is to figure out what weights you can already lift. How strong are you right now? Until you figure out where you stand right now, you cannot adopt a sensible training program.

Without acceptance you get either ignorance or denial. With ignorance you simply don’t know how disciplined you are — you’ve probably never even thought about it. You don’t know that you don’t know. You’ll only have a fuzzy notion of what you can and can’t do. You’ll experience some easy successes and some dismal failures, but you’re more likely to blame the task or blame yourself instead of simply acknowledging that the “weight” was too heavy for you and that you need to become stronger.

Self-Discipline: Willpower

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi

Willpower is your ability to set a course of action and say, “Engage!”

Willpower provides an intensely powerful yet temporary boost. Think of it as a one-shot thruster. It burns out quickly, but if directed intelligently, it can provide the burst you need to overcome inertia and create momentum.

Willpower is the spearhead of self-discipline. Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward. You attack your problems strategically at their weakest points until they crack, allowing you enough room to maneuver deeper into their territory and finish them off.

Use Willpower to Create Self-Sustaining Momentum

So if willpower can only be used in short, powerful bursts, then what’s the best way to apply it? How do you keep from slipping back into old patterns once the temporary willpower blast is over?

The proper use of willpower is to establish that beachhead — to permanently change the territory itself such that it’s easier to continue moving on. Use willpower to reduce the ongoing need for such a high level of sustained force.

Self-Discipline: Hard Work
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.
- Oprah Winfrey

My definition of hard work is that which challenges you. Most people will do what’s easiest and avoid hard work — and that’s precisely why you should do the opposite. The superficial opportunities of life will be attacked by hordes of people seeking what’s easy. The much tougher challenges will usually see a lot less competition and a lot more opportunity.

Strong challenge is commonly connected with strong results. Sure you can get lucky every once in a while and find an easy path to success. But will you be able to maintain that success, or is it just a fluke? Will you be able to repeat it? Once other people learn how you did it, will you find yourself overloaded with competition?

Hard work pays off. When someone tells you otherwise, beware the sales pitch for something “fast and easy” that’s about to come next. The greater your capacity for hard work, the more rewards fall within your grasp. The deeper you can dig, the more treasure you can potentially find.

Your life will reach a whole new level when you stop avoiding and fearing hard work and simply surrender to it. Make it your ally instead of your enemy. It’s a potent tool to have on your side.

Self-Discipline: Industry
Industry is working hard. In contrast to hard work, being industrious doesn’t necessarily mean doing work that’s challenging or difficult. It simply means putting in the time. You can be industrious doing easy work or hard work.

Self-discipline requires that you develop the capacity to put in the time where it’s needed. A lot of messes are created when we refuse to put in the time to do what needs to be done — and to do it correctly.

It wasn’t difficult or costly to do these things. It was simply a matter of time to get them done. It didn’t require much skill or brainpower. All we had to do was just accept that they needed to be done, take a few minutes to figure out how to do them, and then do them.

Of course industry is only one tool among many. It will allow you to complete your work efficiently, but it won’t tell you what work to do in the first place. Industry is a low level tool. Working hard doesn’t necessarily mean working smart. But this weakness of industry doesn’t remove its powerful place in your personal development toolbox. Once you’ve decided on a course of action and see your plans laid out in front of you, nothing can do the job as well as industry. In the long run your results will come from your actions, and industry is all about action.

Self-Discipline: Persistence
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press On” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
- Calvin Coolidge

Persistence is the ability to maintain action regardless of your feelings. You press on even when you feel like quitting.

When you work on any big goal, your motivation will wax and wane like waves hitting the shore. Sometimes you’ll feel motivated; sometimes you won’t. But it’s not your motivation that will produce results — it’s your action. Persistence allows you to keep taking action even when you don’t feel motivated to do so, and therefore you keep accumulating results.

Persistence will ultimately provide its own motivation. If you simply keep taking action, you’ll eventually get results, and results can be very motivating. For example, you may become a lot more enthusiastic about dieting and exercising once you’ve lost those first 10 pounds and feel your clothes fitting more loosely.

Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision. When you’re super-clear about what you want in such a way that your vision doesn’t change much, you’ll be consistent in your actions. And that consistency of action will produce consistency of results.

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Bersyukur

At that time, WL lagi ribut2nya pengen kuliah, dgn berbagai tantrums nya yang super wah dan “menyentuh” hati…
Trs i had a sudden inspiration to goggle “bersyukur”
And this is wat i came up with:

Ada sebuah penelitian yang dilakukan oleh seorang bernama Philip M. Hartner dari Fakultas Kedokteran Stanford University Amerika Serikat. Penelitian itu berangkat dari pertanyaan begini, bagaimana profile dunia, jika diciutkan menjadi sebuah desa kecil dengan populasi 100 orang saja ??? Jika perhitungan rasio kependudukan dianggap masih berlaku, beginilah profile dunia kecil tersebut menurut analisa Philip M. Hartner :

Dunia dengan populasi 100 orang terdiri dari :
57 orang Asia
21 orang Eropa
14 orang dari belahan barat
8 orang dari Afrika
Berdasar jenis kelamin terdiri dari :
52 orang wanita
48 orang laki laki
Berdasarkan tingkat kesejahteraannya :
6 orang memiliki 59 % dari seluruh kekayaan yg ada
80 orang tinggal di rumah tidak memenuhi standard
70 orang tidak dapat membaca
50 orang menderita kekurangan Gizi
1 orang hampir meninggal
1 orang sedang hamil
1 orang dengan pendidikan Perguruan Tinggi
1 orang memiliki komputer

Sekarang mari kita renungkan analisa Hartner tersebut :

Jika anda tinggal di rumah yang baik, memiliki makanan yang cukup, bisa membaca, anda adalah bagian dari kelompok terpilih

Jika anda memiliki rumah, makanan, dapat membaca, dan memiliki komputer, maka anda adalah bagian dari kelompok elit

Jika anda bangun di pagi hari dan merasa sehat, anda lebih beruntung dari jutaan orang yang mungkin tidak dapat bertahan hidup minggu ini

Jika anda memiliki makanan di lemari pendingin, baju di lemari pakaian, dan memiliki atap yg menaungi tempat tinggal, anda lebih kaya dari 75% penduduk di dunia ini

Jika anda membaca pesan ini, anda baru saja menerima karunia ganda, karena seseorang memikirkan anda, dan anda jauh lebih beruntung dibandingkan lebih dari sekian banyak orang yang tidak dapat membaca sama sekali

Semoga anda menikmati hari yang indah ini, hitunglah karunia keberuntungan anda, dan sampaikan kepada orang lain untuk mengingatkan, bahwa kita adalah orang orang yang sangat beruntung

“Kebanyakan manusia tidak bersyukur dengan apa yang telah diperolehnya, akan tetapi senantiasa menyesali sesuatu yang luput dari dirinya”

Diposkan oleh raka Sabtu, 2009 Maret 14 09:05 http://mozaikkata.blogspot.com/2009/03/bersyukurlah_14.html

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Mummy – Rosalia Lombardo

One day, when i was bored like crazy coz i cannot sleep.
I watched ripley’s believe it or not! and there is the story of Rosalia Lombardo, the youngest mummy aka. the Sleeping Beauty.
The next day, i googled her and was fascinated by her…
But then, 3 months has passed, suddenly she passed my mind and i was having the hardest time to remember her name.
I scrabbled my scraps paper, googled here and there, and finally i found her name…
This is why i want to put her in my blog, in case i forget again :P

Here’s her story:

Rosalia Lombardo

Rosalia Lombardo


Rosalia Lombardo was an Italian child born in 1918 in Palermo, Sicily. She died on December 6 1920. It is thought that she died from a bronchial infection. Rosalia’s father was sorely grieved upon her death that he approached Dr. Alfredo Salafia, a noted embalmer, to preserve her. [1]She was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily.

Thanks to Dr. Salafia’s embalming techniques, the body has been well-preserved and appeared so lifelike that until recently, locals believed she must be a doll. X-rays of the body show that the organs are remarkably intact. [2] The child appears as if she were only sleeping, hence receiving the name “Sleeping Beauty” . Rosalia Lombardo’s body is kept in a small chapel at the end of the catacomb’s tour and is encased in a glass covered coffin, placed on a marble pedestal.

Aside from a flat and somewhat unnatural skin tone, Rosalia’s body is remarkably well preserved. Many say she appears to be sleeping, and this may have been the case for some time after her death; however, it is quite obvious today she is deceased due to the discoloration that has become more pronounced since her death.

The mummification techniques used by Dr. Alfredo Salafia, which allegedly involved a chemicalinjection process are still a mystery as Dr. Salafia never revealed this particular technique in his lifetime. It is difficult for many to believe that Dr. Salafia developed such a complex procedure or a chemical compound entirely independent of other experts in the field of preservation. Methods for embalming are generally developed over time by experimentation guided by new understandings of anatomy and chemistry. If Dr. Salafia was not in communication with other preservation experts, and had in fact developed the method entirely independently, he would likely have required multiple “subjects” to experiment on before achieving the quality seen with Rosalia Lombardo. It is more likely that he used methods which he learnt privately from other embalmers, and modified these methods with his own medical knowledge. There is also no evidence that he did not educate others before his death, since chemically preserved corpses are not particularly rare.

Recently, the formula was found from a handwritten memoir of Salafia’s. The formula apparently consisted of formalin to kill bacteria, alcohol to dry the body, glycerin to keep her from overdrying, salicylic acid to kill fungi, and the most important ingredient, zinc salts to give the body rigidity.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalia_Lombardo

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