Indonesian Lifestyle

Indonesia has a very diverse life styles. There are many rich people, and at the same time there are poor people too. In big cities, like Jakarta, you will 

find big houses which may be more expensive than houses in Beverly Hills. (The land itself is so expensive, as if there is gold underneath.) In slum areas, you will see homeless people live on the street. In street intersection you will see beggars going from car to car begging for money. 

Most brochures talk about the beauty of Indonesia. This site will document everything; the good, the bad, and the ugly. You deserve the truth. 

In this new update I add more good things about Indonesia, since many readers suggested that I should not leave out many good things. I hope, now, it is more balanced. I added more pictures and will add more in the future (a friend lent me his digital camera for those pictures. I wish I have one of my own. Want to donate a digital camera?).

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The Lifestyle of the Rich and needy

Debate continues to swirl around President Obama’s idea of what it means to be rich. Married couples who occupy the top 2% of the populace are now in that lucky position, since they earn about $250,000. Among the honors that attend this status is the right to pay more income taxes. Since that group for the most part already pays about 50% of its annual take in federal, state and local tithings, you can imagine the outcry.

On the one side are the populists who chide them. “Selfish rich people who make over $250,000 per year,” they say. “The world is starving. You sit atop the heap. And still you complain! Fie! Cough it up, mean and selfish rich people!” 

On the other side are the affluent few, sitting on their tuffets of green. “Really!” they reply, stirring their expensive martinis and downing tasty petit fours, “You wouldn’t believe how far my puny hundreds of thousands goes these days!” 

It’s easy to see who’s in the right here. No matter how they cough and whine, those who earn two and a half large are by any estimation swimming in it. Just look at how many things they can enjoy that we cannot.

For this purpose we will take a look at the Forbisher family of New York, NY, although we could most certainly find their counterparts in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami and Boston, not to mention all their outlying suburbs, and many places in the midwest frequented by the plump and shiny.  

The Forbisher Family consists of Bob and MaryAnn, and their children, Ned, Fred and Teddy, as well as a turtle named Mr. Bean and a bichon frisee/chihuahua mix named Eduardo. Together, they brought in a massive $254, 540 in calendar 2008. On that income they most certainly should enjoy all the lifestyle benefits that go along with their status as top-tier rich people. And so they do! 

On any given day, for instance, they can be assured they will have food. This immediately places them above a majority of the world’s population, and already classifies them as rich by many in less fortunate circumstances. The same must be said for the clothing they wear, which is ridiculously expensive but which they purchase anyway, proving they are rich. 

Ned, Fred and Teddy go to private school, like all super-wealthy entitled kids do these days, particularly but not exclusively in urban settings for a variety of reasons. They get a deal here, because Teddy is only in Kindergarten, so his tuition and extras only come to $15,000. Ned and Fred, on the other hand, top out at $35,000 each, bringing the cost of eduction for the Forbisher clan to almost $100,000. They are also, like rich people do, planning to go to college, which must be saved for, but they’re not worried because they’re so rich. 

Like all those who earn more than just about everybody else, the Forbishers live in a swanky apartment. On their income, they were able to afford either one tenth of a four bedroom apartment, or half a roomy three-bedroom apartment, but instead they chose to be frugal, as rich people sometimes are, and spent only $1.2 million on a perfectly serviceable two bedroom apartment that is worth $825,000 in the current market.

Living the life of the elegant class to which they belong, the Forbishers drive a fabulous car that would be the envy of many, in this case a 2005 Toyota Camry with 87,000 miles on it. One can only assume that they have chosen such a modest vehicle in order not to shame their less affluent neighbors. Rich people sometimes do that.

For some reason that is unclear to us at the present writing, the family last vacationed in 2007, a short trip to a theme park in Orlando, Florida, at school break time, which Mr. Forbisher was heard by friends to describe as “a nightmare that will never be repeated.” It hasn’t been. Several years ago, they rented a modest house in the Hamptons, but inexplicably that luxury, too, has yet to be repeated. And while like many rich people Mr. Forbisher looks at magazines that feature amazing yachts, he has apparently so far failed to purchase one.

Instead, both he and Ms. Forbisher can be seen heading off to work each morning, she on the Fifth Avenue bus and he on the Lexington Avenue subway. We must assume that this is voluntary, since as rich people they don’t have to work too hard and never have to worry about money. 

And so, while the rest of us working middle-class people scrape and save and work our fingers to the bone, rich people like these go about their cushy, indolent lives. Worst of all, perhaps, is the fact that on their stated income of more than $250,000, the Forbishers last year paid only $110,000 in taxes! Isn’t that shameful? Thank goodness that in the days to come we can all look forward to them paying their fair share.

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Lifestyle

Lifestyle was originally coined by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in 1929. The current broader sense of the word dates from 1961.

In sociology, a lifestyle is the way a person lives. A lifestyle is a characteristic bundle of behaviors that makes sense to both others and oneself in a given time and place, including social relations, consumption, entertainment, and dress. The behaviors and practices within lifestyles are a mixture of habits, conventional ways of doing things, and reasoned actions. A lifestyle typically also reflects an individual's attitudes, values or worldview. Therefore, a lifestyle is a means of forging a sense of self and to create cultural symbols that resonate with personal identity. Not all aspects of a lifestyle are entirely voluntaristic. Surrounding social and technical systems can constrain the lifestyle choices available to the individual and the symbols she/he is able to project to others and the self.

The lines between personal identity and the everyday doings that signal a particular lifestyle become blurred in modern society.For example, "green lifestyle" means holding beliefs and engaging in activities that consume fewer resources and produce less harmful waste, and deriving a sense of self from holding these beliefs and engaging in these activities. Some commentators argue that, in Modernity, the cornerstone of lifestyle construction is consumption behavior, which offers the possibility to create and further individualize the self with different products or services that signal different ways of life.

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Tidak Kelihatan, Namun Bergerak - Gerak Diranjang ( Ngeri ! )

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Ebook gratis dari ObralPlatinum

Udah lama nggak update blog nih. Setelah kemarin mabuk dan terseok-seok saat belajar SEO di Kampanye Damai Pemilu Indonesia 2009, sekarang saya mau belajar tentang bisnis internet. Saya mau cerita dulu tentang salah satu tempat untuk belajar internet di mana saya bisa mendapatkan obralan ebook gratis. Dimanakah itu?ObralPlatinum merupakan produk hasil kreativitas Dokter Hengki. Beliau merupakan Read More..

Pasang Widget Voting LintasBerita.com

BloggerCeria.com baru ditambahin widget voting dari LintasBerita.com nih.. Cara Pasang Widget Voting itu gunanya nanti visitor yang berkunjung bisa langsung ngevote artikel-artikel kita. Hehe. Biarpun widget-widget di blog ini uda cukup banyak, tapi gpp lha. Karena LintasBerita ternyata jadi sumber traffic kedua terbesar untuk Blog Wisata SEO Sadau ini. Wekekek..

Cara pasang widget voting ini gampang banget. Pertama-tama, login dulu ke LintasBerita.com, terus langsung menuju ke : http://lintasberita.com/widgetvote.php, scroll ke bawah, nanti ketemu tulisan "Widget Voting Plugin untuk Blogspot". Selanjutnya tinggal ikutin aja instruksinya..

Kalo udah, selesai deh.. Btw, kalo senang dengan artikel-artikel dari BloggerCeria.com tolong di-vote ya.. Widget votingnya ada di sebelah kanan atas, di deket judul artikel. Ato berlangganan lewat email aja. Kotak Subribe by Email-nya ada dibawah ini. Di bawah iklan Adsense dari Kliksaya.com..

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Membuat Form Login ke Draft Blogger

Tak seperti pada wordpress yang mempunyai halaman login di sidebar, login pada blogger hanya tertera pada navigationbar yaitu pada bar yang terpampang di ujung atas halaman blogger. Bagaimana kalau kita ingin membuat form login blogger di sidebar? Berarti kita harus membuat form yang bisa ditanamkan pada gadget blogger. Duh...padahal penguasaan bahasa html javascript penulis sangat minim dan hanya berbekal pengamatan saja, akhirnya ada ide juga yaitu kenapa tak copy paste saja dari halaman login yang sudah ada misalnya pada http://draft.blogger.com tentunya memakai akun di google. Akhirnya setelah tercopy, maka kodenya dapat dilihat dan diambil untuk kode formnya saja, beberapa kode yang tidak perlu disingkirkan, dan didapat tampilan form seperti gambar berikut ini, dan setelah ujicoba untuk login ternyata berhasil!, ya udah saya posting saja, siapa tahu ada blogger yang berminat. Oh ya, contoh formnya juga sudah ada di sidebar blog ini pada form blogger account,

Di bawah ini kodenya (teks warna biru) yang hasil dari cutpas tadi, bisa anda copas deh, silahkan...

<form id="gaia_loginform" action="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth?service=blogger" method="post" onsubmit= "return(gaia_onLoginSubmit());" >

<div id="gaia_loginbox">

<table class="form-noindent" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="100%" border="0">

<tr> <td valign="top" style="text-align:center" nowrap="nowrap" bgcolor="#e8eefa">

<input type="hidden" name="ltmpl" value="draft">

<div class="loginBox">

<table id="gaia_table" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0">

<tr><td colspan="2" align="center">

<table> <tr> <td valign="top">

<img src="http://kodehexa.googlepages.com/google_transparent.gif" alt="Google">

</img>

</td>

<td valign="middle">

<font size="+0">

<b>Akun</b>

</font>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

<font size="-1">

</font></td>

</tr>

<script type="text/javascript">

<!-- function onPreCreateAccount() { return true; } function onPreLogin() { if (window["onlogin"] != null) { return onlogin(); } else { return true; } } -->

</script>

<tr>

<td colspan="2" align="center">

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td nowrap="nowrap">

<div align="right">

<span class="gaia le lbl">

Email:

</span>

</div>

</td>

<td>

<input type="hidden" name="continue" id="continue" value="https://draft.blogger.com/loginz?d=%2Fhome&amp;a=ADD_SERVICE_FLAG" />

<input type="hidden" name="service" id="service" value="blogger" />

<input type="hidden" name="naui" id="naui" value="8" />

<input type="hidden" name="fpui" id="fpui" value="2" />

<input type="hidden" name="skipvpage" id="skipvpage" value="true" />

<input type="hidden" name="rm" id="rm" value="false" />

<input type="hidden" name="ltmpl" id="ltmpl" value="draft" />

<input type="hidden" name="hl" id="hl" value="in" />

<input type="hidden" name="alwf" id="alwf" value="true" />

<input type="hidden" name="alinsu" id="alinsu" value="0" />

<input type="hidden" name="ltmpl" id="ltmpl" value="draft" />

<input type="hidden" name="GALX" value="Ie2nThzvHSI" />

<input type="text" name="Email" id="Email" size="18" value="" class='gaia le val' />

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>

</td>

<td align="left">

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td align="right">

<span class="gaia le lbl">

Sandi:

</span>

</td>

<td>

<input type="password" name="Passwd" id="Passwd" size="18" class="gaia le val" />

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>

</td>

<td align="left">

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td align="right" valign="top">

<input type="checkbox" name="PersistentCookie" id="PersistentCookie" value="yes" />

<input type="hidden" name='rmShown' value="1" />

</td>

<td>

<label for="PersistentCookie" class="gaia le rem">

Ingat saya di komputer ini

</label>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>

</td>

<td align="left">

<input type="submit" class="gaia le button" name="signIn" value="Masuk" />

</td>

</tr>

<tr id="ga-fprow">

<td colspan="2" height="33.0" class="gaia le fpwd" align="center" valign="bottom">

<a href="https://www.blogger.com/forgot.g" target=_top>

Anda lupa sandi?

</a>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</div>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</div>

<input type="hidden" name="asts" id="asts" value="">

</form>

<form id="gaia_universallogin" action="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth?service=blogger" method="post" onsubmit="return(gaia_onLoginSubmit());">

<input type="hidden" name="continue" id="continue" value="https://draft.blogger.com/loginz?d=%2Fhome&amp;a=ADD_SERVICE_FLAG" />

<input type="hidden" name="service" id="service" value="blogger" />

<input type="hidden" name="naui" id="naui" value="8" />

<input type="hidden" name="fpui" id="fpui" value="2" />

<input type="hidden" name="skipvpage" id="skipvpage" value="true" />

<input type="hidden" name="rm" id="rm" value="false" />

<input type="hidden" name="ltmpl" id="ltmpl" value="draft" />

<input type="hidden" name="hl" id="hl" value="in" />

<input type="hidden" name="alwf" id="alwf" value="true" />

<input type="hidden" name="alinsu" id="alinsu" value="0" />

<input type="hidden" name="ltmpl" id="ltmpl" value="draft" />

<input type="hidden" name="ltmpl" id="ltmpl" value="draft" />

</form>

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