Archive for the 'My Thoughts' Category

Operator Three (3) - How to Win Indonesian Market with Skypephone

It has been several months for GSM Operator 3 (operated by Hutchison) entered Indonesian market. First month of the launching was quite a hit and word-of-mouth. But recent months was quite difficult for 3 because they didn’t offer something CATCHY and BIG as a new player (you can compared with Esia or Fren). Surely they [...]

New Ride: Tornado at Dufan Theme Park

Yesterday I went to Dunia Fantasi Ancol Theme Park. Using free ticket got from Giant, with Yulia we entered the largest theme park in Southeast Asia. Yep, this time in Bulan Ramadhan we got few queue in most of the rides. It has been almost one year since my last visit, so many improvement have [...]

New Corridor Line for Jakarta Busway

Get ready for more traffic jam! Yesterday I passed S. Parman street in front of Slipi Jaya Plaza just found that workers were preparing for busway lane construction. It must be a heavy traffic since this main road is very crowded during day. It must be Busway Line 9: Pinang Ranti - Pluit. Can you [...]

Jogging Track Planned on Kelapa Gading

Last week I went to Kelapa Gading Mall for some purposes. On my way home, I passed boulevard circle between East Boulevard and West Boulevard, just noticed that one corner in East Boulevard had been blocked and had a sign telling ”Jogging Track is coming soon”. It will be built by Summarecon and Local Government. No information about when it will open for public.

Telkomsel You’ve Got Mail

Notes: This article’s Indonesian translation available at Teknolagi.
Telkomsel has just launched new campaign called Telkomsel You’ve Got Mail. I call it as campaign because the promo was not a new thing. Basically Telkomsel provides mobile email client program (J2ME Java-based) for customer that can POP3 or IMAP from any mail servers that support that protocols.
Annoying thing is you will be charged on monthly basis for using the email client. I don’t know [...]

Indonesia Open 2007 Live at Stadium

I’ve never watched international badminton game before in my life. Then the opportunity came last week on Djarum Indonesia Open 2007 held at Istora Senayan Jakarta. I watched second round on Wednesday for free (yes!). Actually Tickets were sold only for quarter finals, semi finals and final.
Istora Senayan was quite a good place to held international game. It is an air-con stadium, with capacity more than a thousand seats, I guess. The place was nice and temperature was cool. One [...]