Yes, for all of you that didn’t know. This is the reason why on Microsoft Words 2003 and 2007, every time you write cuma, it got capitalized. To stop this, here’s some tricks.

1. Every time you write cuma, write hanya. It has the same meaning.
2. Write Cuma plus space, move four characters left, delete the C, change it to c, and move four character right.
3. Find autocorrect options (it’s in different location on Microsoft Words 2003 and 2007, and uncheck Capitalize names of days. This doesn’t mean that Senin, Selasa, etc won’t be capitalised, because it isn’t even capitalised from beginning. D%^n you, Microsoft! Indonesia is not just Bali, you know. Screenshot here

Good luck finding the autocorrect options :p

Customer is the king. Yeah, right! If that’s correct, why is reader’s mail so popular? Why does the shops, providers, companies treat their costumer like VUP (Very Unimportant Person)? Maybe because companies are the king of kings. Maybe losing one customer  isn’t a big loss. Perhaps, we didn’t act like a king and more like a tyrant. How to act like a king when you want to purchase something?

1. Smile and be nice. Kings are usually a nice person. He’s likeable. If you want to purchase something, be someone that the seller enjoy selling the product. You can make some jokes or laugh at their jokes. Complain? Say it with happy face.
2. Act generous. Don’t act like you are Uncle Scrooge from Ducktales. Yeah, i know you love to bargain, but don’t show it. Good king are generous. Say things like “Yeah, but if I get cheaper price now, I’ll come back later.” And if you want to complain, don’t act like if you didn’t get any refund, your whole world will collapse. Be cool.
3. Do not threaten. Yup, many customer say things like “If I can’t get no..Satisfaction, i will write to newspaper.” Or worse.. “I will write it in my blog, you f*(k!” Kings know good diplomacy.
4. But, show your ammunition. Appearances maybe overrated nowadays, but it still can bring some respect from the shops. Maybe you can bring your knowledge regarding some product you’ve read on internet or other sources so they know that they can’t fool you.
5. Patience. Yup, you must remember that they are human too. Equal, not some lowlife crawling creature that sells things. Give them some time to understand your problem.
   
6. Execute the guilty one, and choose another. And last but not least, if all hell breaks loose, just abandon your people, and pick another non-sucky people.

Any other suggestion to complain and bargain?

So during my blogwalking, i’ve read many comments from another visitors and also left my own comments. Some repetition like the one that promote brand of fuel and like “Thank you for visiting my blog”.

Be a good stealr. So, i come up with several alternatives for comments that i haven’t seen before. Care to try it?

1. Don’t say “Please visit my blog” if you come first time on some blog. What are you? A salesman? Say, “Thank you for leaving such an interesting comment in my blog.” The blog owner will react like “Huh, do i leaving comment in her blog? When? God, am I sleepblogwalking again?” Eventually, the owner will visit your blog just out of curiousity.
2. Comment like it’s been cut off in the middle. Such as “In my humble opinion, you should” or “That’s a very interesting subj” The blog owner will react like “Oh, my God, what happened? Did The Happening just happen there?” Eventually, the owner will visit your blog looking for clues.
3. Be a foreigner and said, “Your blog is nice, but i cannot understand what it means.” Yeah, for you who receive comments “Wah, bahasa inggris, malas bacanya”, this is your revenge comment. Maybe with some twist like, “I want to give you 100000 idr but i don’t understand your blog.“

Okay, let’s start blogwalking again.

Wow, i cannot believe that two favorite bloggers moving from their wordpress domain almost at the same time. One moving from here to his dotcom, and others are moving from here to her dotcom. Why do they move? Well, they might have their own reasons. Anyway, if you want to move your blogs, you surely have a right reason to do it. Such as :

1. Wordpress or blogspot or dagdigdug is so not YOU. Yeah, admit it. This is the main reason. Everyone’s a geek and want yourname.com domain. You dislike putting the wordpress.com or blogspot.com when you tell others about your blog. Yes, eliminate the middle man. go straight to the dotcom.
2. Level up! Wordpress and blogspot is for write-only blogger, with some exceptions, of course. When you have more experiences and want to spice things up, then your own domain is the next stage. You control your own files and pictures and themes and plugins.
3. Free domain for ehm..free. Yes, apparently your blog at wp reach a lot of fans and one of them decide to surprise you by giving you a free dotcom domain. Or you won it in some contest. It will be such a waste not to use it right?
4. Create your trademark. More or less the same like number one. You can’t create your trademark with the middle man still hang around you.

A : Hey, what’s your blog?
B : jdkjsfi
A : good, wordpress or blogspot?
B : Blogspot. What’s yours?
A : lplpx
B : nice, wordpress or blogspot?
A : nope, just lplpx.com
B : That’s sooooo cool…

If you feel ready, create your own domain. But as starter, you can create your own blog in wordpress or blogspot or dagdigdug.

1. When you’re not at somebody else’s loss?
2. When you’re not gain any benefits other than personal satisfaction?
3. When other people do it also?
4. When there’s a good justification?

From hackyourself.org part Four

Your environment includes yourself — your physical presence. Do what you know you need to do — treat yourself better. Sleep, eat right, exercise. This doesn’t mean you have to stop staying out late at night now and then, it doesn’t mean you can’t have a candy bar, it doesn’t mean you have to stop sitting around watching television — it just means start doing the things that are good for you as well as the things that are bad for you, every so often. It’s not an all-or-nothing proposition; you don’t have to devote your life to being a health nut. Just try eating more fruits and vegetables, the occasional vegetarian meal; go for walks in the park on the weekends. You’ll feel better and be more alert if you’re a little healthier, and once you start feeling a little better, you’ll start wanting the things that make you feel better. You’ll see.

Your environment includes your appearance. If you’re not happy with yourself, if you’re angry with the person in the mirror, it can honestly help to literally change who you see when you look in the mirror. Try a different hairstyle, new glasses, new jewelry, new clothes. It doesn’t have to be expensive — there’s a whole universe full of possible You’s waiting to be found in thrift stores, if need be. If you’re deciding to become the person you want to be, then decide what that person is going to look like. Dress the part. It’s not shallow, it’s not about vanity, it’s about self-transformation — even the most primitive tribes understand the value of costumes and masks for ritual, for change, for becoming someone else.

You are not an object. You are a system. Like with any system, if you change the inputs — change what goes into it — you’ll change what comes out.

Despite everything I’ve just said:

Self-examination can be paralysis.

Don’t “remember to breathe” — just breathe. It’s a Tao thing.

It’s the paradox at the center of all this — remember that, “Am I living up to being the person I want to be?”, is not a question the person you want to be would ask.

If I can leave you with just one thought, it’s this:

Stop wasting your time fretting over not being happy.

Just be happy.

From hackyourself.org. Part Three.

Think about the person you want to be and do what that person would do. Act the way that person would act.

Amazingly enough, once you start acting like that person, people will start treating you like that person.

And you’ll start to believe it. And then it will be true.

Welcome to your new self.

You are a product of your environnent.

Most people realize this — usually, in the form of having something else to blame — but they tend to forget one important fact:

Humans are the masters of changing their environment.

What this means is that if your environment affects you, and you can affect your environment, then obviously, you can affect yourself.

Your environment includes people. Figure out who in your life isn’t good for you, whose presence tears you down more than it builds you up, whose nearness is poison to you — and get rid of them. Get them out of your life. I don’t care if it’s your best friend, your boss, your mother, your lover — if they are harming you, if they are doing nothing but reinforce everything bad you tell yourself about yourself, then your relationship with them needs to radically alter or it needs to end.

Your environment includes goals. Don’t set yourself pie-in-the-sky impossible goals and then beat yourself up over not achieving them — set yourself goals that will be good for you, not a source of pain. Attainable goals. Set them and meet them. Don’t tell yourself you can’t — that’s the old story, that story you used to tell yourself about what a poor sad victim you were and how you could never change anything about your life. You can meet your goals. This is the new story.

Trying to clean your house? Good for you — a clean house can really affect your state of mind for the better. But don’t say “Today I’m going to clean the entire house from top to bottom,” when you don’t have the time and energy to — don’t set yourself up for failure; don’t feed the demon. Just say, “Today I’m going to wash all the dishes and clean off the kitchen counter.” And do it.

Don’t tell yourself, “This month I’m going to write that novel.” Tell yourself, “Today I’m going to write five pages.” And do it. Take your dreams and break them down into small pieces and you’ll have them in your hands before you know it.

And you’ll find, as you start meeting your goals, that you like it. That it feels good, makes you feel confident and capable. You’ll develop a hunger for it.

From hackyourself.org. Part Two.

Surprise yourself. No — amaze yourself.

You don’t have to keep doing the things you hate. Why go home and beat yourself up for, say, not going over and saying a few words to someone you find really attractive? Can any damage they could do to you by rejecting you possibly be any worse than the damage you’re going to do to yourself for missing the chance?

Find the demon.

Do you know what I’m talking about? It’s the little voice in the back of your head that’s always whispering, “You can’t.” You know the demon. You may think you hate the demon, but you don’t. You love it. You let it own you. You do everything it says. Everytime there’s something you want, you consult the demon first, to see if it will say, “You can’t have that.”

What you don’t realize is that your demon doesn’t know anything. It’s an idiot. It’s nothing but a parrot, repeating back to you anything negative that it’s ever heard, anything that makes you hurt, makes you squirm. If a teacher once told you “You’ll never accomplish anything,” it was listening; it hoards words like that and repeats them back to you to watch you jump. It doesn’t know what it’s saying. It doesn’t care.

Exorcise yourself.

You can take me literally or not, as suits you. But do, please, the next time you hear that voice in your head, imagine it, visualize it, as something physical that you can get hold of; tear it out of you, feel its fingers weaken and lose their grip on your spine, and grind it to dust, to nothing, under your boot heel on your way out to dance in the streets.

You can. You think you can’t; but it’s telling you that. You can.

You don’t exist.

You just think you do.

We’re nothing but the stories we tell ourselves. We know in our hearts what kind of people we are, what we’re capable of, because we’ve told ourselves what kind of people we are. You’re a carefully-rehearsed list of weaknesses and strengths you’ve told yourself you have.

(Self-confidence, for example, is a particularly nebulous quality you can easily talk yourself out of having.)

You owe no allegiance to that self-image if it harms you. If you don’t like the story your life has become — tell yourself a better one.