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lazy sunday arvo

tedy gunawan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:24:43 +0000

we live in a funny world. we meet strangers, share a period of time together and become friends. later on, we part our ways, not knowing where and when we will meet again. we temporarily forget about them as we get bogged down with daily routines.

i got to catch up with Sue Hooi after not knowing where she was all this while – through MSN. the beauty of technology (or partly because ive abandoned it all this while.. oops).

she told me something funny about age and life – something she holds true. verbatim:

guys older they get more demand in market. gals older they get less demand… love n work life. so u should be happy u r getting older!

this is one facet of life i have yet to have a rock solid opinion on.

complacency and fear

tedy gunawan — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:21:28 +0000

Complacency is fear’s best friend. When you are avoiding fear, you tend to seek comfort, stability and routine. In the end, you become complacent. Maybe its a good thing. You need to anchor to something. But at what cost?

round the world….

tedy gunawan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:13:49 +0000

ok… this is what has been keeping me occupied:

Prelim RTW trip

need input.

end of an era

tedy gunawan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:35:05 +0000

Back after a long break to signify the end of an era and the beginning of an exciting journey.

Stay tuned.

Yes We Can (Si Se Puede!)

tedy gunawan — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:36:36 +0000

/*My apologies for the extended hiatus. I was on strike and am now officially back. */

America has taken a new brave step. Obama is the 44th. The impossible is possible. Yes We Can!

~~pending further update.

kudos

tedy gunawan — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:30:54 +0000

i should really be studying tonight..but i cant help to do a postmortem to a gigantic step Democrats have taken in IN and NC.

while my opposition to Clinton is clear, i must admit she has shown that she is a fighter despite many odds against her. her interview with Fox clearly showed that she can engage well with those who oppose her strongly.

but the time has come for the Dems to rally behind a nominee and the choice couldnt be starker this time. A pro-war vs pro-peace candidate. Obama is now the only candidate who is opposed to authorising and waging the Iraq war.

kudos to HRC for running a hard-fought campaign. it has been quite an inspiration to observe (to some extent).

Obama has won!

tedy gunawan — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:24:54 +0000

Finally..after a long gruesome battle, Obama has won the Democratic nomination. The rules are clear: the candidate who has the most delegates win. Obama now commands an insurmountable and impossible to overtake lead in the pledged delegates. No politically realistic scenario can deny his being at the top of the ticket. Unless of course, he’s a muslim, he’s a terrorist, he has sex scandal, oh wait, the last time i checked, it was ok to have sex scandal in the White House (not in NY).

at the end of the day, the question we should be asking is, whose campaign are you proud of? There’s no single doubt in my mind that it’s Obama.

Not just another fight..

tedy gunawan — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:25:20 +0000

On the back of Wyoming’s victory, it’s important to understand why Democrats need to settle the nomination fight now.

Everyone knows that there are no ’sameness’ in this election cycle – nearly all old rules in politics are already thrown out of the door. From the fund raising phenomenon, participation of young voters, to the unpredictability of candidates in both parties. Only as recent as 3 months ago, Clinton was dubbed the ‘inevitable’ nominee. Few people already wrote off McCain so early in the game and no one was taking Obama that seriously. But there’s one rule that will always stay true – one day is a long time in politics.

Fast forward to now, a number of people are calling Clinton to quit – myself included. The fact that she’s still in the game reflects the ’stubbornness’ of her well-oiled machine and a testament that this is simply not the typical election. In any other Democratic nomination fight, Obama would have simply become the nominee.

In my last post, i mentioned about the delegate math that is not on Clinton’s side. Her only hope of course is on superdelegates – the elders in the smoke-filled room to decide who is worthy of their support. Oh, and the other thing, to seat Florida and Michigan delegates back in the convention despite Obama’s name not even in the ballot in Michigan. The irony is, apart from the fact that she signed a pledge not to campaign and indirectly imply her agreement that the party rules agreed 1 1/2 year ago stand, Harold Ickles who is part of Clinton’s campaign has been shouting the loudest to ensure those delegates are seated despite the fact that he was the one who voted for the ban in the first place!!

The fight now has reached a point of no return. It’s simply destructive. Weeks ago, she shouted ‘Shame on you Obama’ on flyers which were already out weeks before – as if its new revelations. She claimed that Obama shouldnt have used tactics on the scripts of Republican playbook. What has she done then? Her infamous 3 AM ad is a clear fear-mongering exercise out of the same playbook she ‘despised’.

Recently, her attacks have increased to the point where she even praised her Republican opponent, McCain, for sharing the same credentials reducing Obama’s to just ‘one speech’ in 2002.
She literally feeding the Republican counterpart on attack points for Obama. I guess, when you are bound to lose everything, you are prepared to do almost anything!

So we say to her, “Shame On You Lucifer!”

Yes We Can!

tedy gunawan — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:36:35 +0000

But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Genius!

Merry Xmas….

tedy gunawan — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 03:53:06 +0000

Ho ho ho.. Merry Xmas everybody…

It has been quite a year and while the upcoming last days of 2007 will be spent at work, i’m savouring every moment now i’m back in Melbourne.

Pre-boxing day sale reconnaissance has been amazing with my first-time experience in the 24-hour Chadstone madness. You can complain all you want about shops closing early in Oz but there’s one important trading day right before Christmas where shoppers were out in force.. jam packed!

Dave and Shan provided me with the pool comfort after such a long abandonment of simple life pleasure.

Jelita and Dazza have been too kind in bringing back old memories. and this year, they decided that i needed a new scent as my Christmas gift. So thoughtful that they actually ’surveyed’ how the smell will mix with other smokey odour. hahahaa

By the by, after a year (it was last year when i posted my desire to get BB8800), i decided its worth the wait to get BB8820 (WiFi). Thanks to my aunt who gave it to me as my Xmas present last year but didnt really get 8800 then due to the lack of its WiFi feature…. My RazR V3 has been serving me well in the past 3 years or so… i love its form factor and simplicity and its bold blackness.. but its due to retire… been having problem with its software and some of its call buttons lately… but BB8820 is comin soon, most likely i’ll get to play with it in the second week of Jan… this festive season pretty much shuts and slows down everythin…..

Anyway.. tomorrow will be the big day where we will be getting up early and knockin on those shops at 6am. Crazy? Yes!

In the mean time, party hard.. have a good Merry Christmas and take care of each other especially when travelling!