Archive for August, 2008

Beberapa hari lalu Penerbit Pustaka Primatama mengirimkan dua edisi Gideons’ Spies, Sejarah Rahasia Mossad ke kantor (yang satunya untuk redaktur buku Gatra).

Itu adalah kedua kalinya –setelah Birdman– saya terlibat dalam proyek buku. Honornya oke. Meski duitnya sudah lama habis jauh sebelum bukunya terbit, hehe.. (ngga ada hubungannya memang)

Saya mau sedikit mempromosikan buku itu. Bukan karena saya terlibat…

Indonesia Cleric’s Council, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) will likely to issue a fatwa against smoking, or make it HARAM within Islam.

The issue surfaced (again) as MUI prepares their routine meeting forum, bahtsul masail, which will be held next October.

The cleric’s forum hasn’t even started yet but the tension already began. Last week in Jember, East Java,…

I met this diplomat from one of European countries at Starbucks several days ago. He was about 30 something years old, and has been in Jakarta for two and half years (his previous post was Washington, DC, US).

The atmosphere was nice. I paid for my own meal and so did he. After the “main course”…