The initial reaction when I saw his ojek (motorbike taxi) approaching me was: no, I didn’t want to hire his. It wasn’t because I didn’t like this man: a 40-something, around 155 cm-tall, broad-shouldered, overweight and long-haired, that for me he looked more like a bromocorah (bandit) than a tukang ojek (motorbike taxi driver/rider). My sentiment was even getting stronger especially when his eyes, cold and intimidating, met mine. [More...]
Archive for June, 2007
“In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes” Benjamin Franklin once famously said this line.
But why humans expect to die if the body has self-healing mechanism? True, the body gets sick from time to time but eventually it recovers itself. Biology tells that when a cell dies, another cell substitutes. By this mechanism then, theoretically, humans can live forever. [More...]
