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Date:
Sat, 5 May 2007 10:04 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Donald Trump's Donation to Governor Schwarzenegger
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Donald Trump watches the Phoenix Suns play
the Los Angeles Lakers in an NBA Western
Conference first-round basketball playoff
game Thursday, April 26, 2007, in Los
Angeles. The Lakers won 95-89.
(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
AP - Fri Apr 27, 2:49 AM ET
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Trump gives donation to Schwarzenegger
By SAMANTHA YOUNG,
Associated Press Writer
Sun Apr 29, 12:16 AM
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SACRAMENTO -
Billionaire Donald Trump gave $10,000 to Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger to help pay off his
campaign debts, a little more than a month after
the governor guest-starred on Trump's TV show
"The Apprentice: Los Angeles," according to a
campaign filing.
In an episode that
aired March 18, Schwarzenegger hosted five of
the show's contestants in his private conference
room at the state Capitol. The governor denies
any link between the donation and the television
appearance, but some political watchdog groups
are skeptical.
"He's clearly using
his personal friendships and his celebrity to
pay off his campaign debt, and that's just
wrong," said Jamie Court, president
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Taxpayer and
Consumer Rights, a group that tracks campaign
donations.
Schwarzenegger
spokeswoman Julie Soderlund said the April 20
donation was not connected to the governor's
appearance on the NBC prime-time show. The
taping took place earlier in the year, but she
was unsure of the date.
Trump could not be
reached for comment Saturday at his company's
headquarters in New York.
The donation was
Trump's first to Schwarzenegger, whom he
described as great friend when he told a group
of contenders that they would meet California's
governor as a reward for winning a competition.
The show features Trump and contestants vying to
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When the news appeared in the media about
Donald Trump gives donation of US $10,000 to governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger, I thought it has nothing to do with me. Yet later on
there were two other news that made me thing it could be related with
me, like in the followings.
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Date:
Sat, 5 May 2007 10:10 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Kabelvision Programs on Friday 13 April 2007
On Friday, 13 April 2007, Kabelvision,
the Indonesian Cable TV operator, televised two different programs at
two different channels that seems like questioning something of my past.
At National Geographic there was the video
of "Violent Earth: Chasing Earthquake", about some devastating
earthquakes in history, including the December 26, 2004, in Aceh that
caused Tsunami with more than a hundred thousands casualties in more
than a dozen countries. Also the earthquake in California of 17
October 1989.
At AXN there was the video of a movie
starred by Arnold Schwarzenegger, "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines".
Arnold Schwarzenegger is now the governor of California.
Both of those videos was started at the same
time, at 20.00 Jakarta time. Like questioning me about my experience at
the American Express in 1989 before the earthquake in California
happened.
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Date:
Thu, 3 May 2007 10:16 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
The Shooting at
Ward Parkway Mall
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Three people were shot to death,
including the assailant, and at least two were wounded on
Sunday in a shooting spree at a Kansas City shopping mall,
police said. REUTERS/Graphic
Reuters - Mon Apr 30, 11:16 AM
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This graphic locates the Ward
Parkway Center in Kansas City, Mo. A gunman shot a police
officer, then opened fire in the parking lot and inside the
mall Sunday, April 29, 2007, authorities said. By the time
the violence was over, he and two other people were dead.
AP - Sun Apr 29, 9:05 PM ET |
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Kansas City, Mo.
police close down the parking lot at Ward Parkway
shopping center in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, April 29, 2007.
A man driving a dead woman's car shot a police officer, then
opened fire in a parking lot and a mall Sunday, authorities
said. By the end of the day, four people, including the
gunman, were dead. Police shot the gunman to death outside
the Target store.
(AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
AP - Sun Apr 29, 9:36 PM ET |
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A Kansas City
Police bomb squad robot approaches the house at left of a
suspected gunman in Kansas City, Mo., Monday, April 30,
2007. The man is suspected of killing his neighbor in the
house next door at right Sunday, before killing two people
and wounding several at the nearbhy Ward Parkway Center mall
where he was shot and killed by police. Police looking
through the window of the house saw a suspicious device
consistent with being explosive, Sgt. Tony Saunders said,
prompting the bomb squad response.
(AP Photo/Dick Whipple)
AP - Mon Apr 30, 12:57 PM ET |
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A Kansas City
Police bomb squad robot approaches the house of a suspected
gunman in Kansas City, Mo., Monday, April 30, 2007. The man
is suspected of killing his next door neighbor Sunday,
before killing two people and wounding several at the nearby
Ward Parkway Center mall where he was shot and killed by
police. Police looking through the window of the house saw a
suspicious device consistent with being explosive, Sgt. Tony
Saunders said, prompting the bomb squad response.
(AP Photo/Dick Whipple)
AP - Mon Apr 30, 1:01 PM ET |
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An unidentified
member of the Kansas City Police Bomb Squad prepares a robot
for possible entry into the home of a suspected gunman in
Kansas City, Mo., Monday, April 30, 2007. Police says the
man allegedly killed his neighbor on Sunday, and then shot
and killed two people in the Ward Parkway Center mall
parking lot, and wounded several others, before being shot
and killed by police inside the shopping center. Police saw
what could be an explosive device through the front window
of the home, prompting the response of the bomb squad.
(AP Photo/Dick Whipple)
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The shooting at Ward Parkway Center
in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday April 29, 2007, was like
strengthening the questioning of my experience in American Express in
1989, because the name of the shopping center, Ward Parkway, was
like reminding me with the name of my supervisor in American Express,
Mr. Wardy Bafagih. And the store name, Target, was like
reminding me that my getting the termination form American Express by
Mr. Wardy was because I failed to fulfill the sales target.
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Date:
Sat, 5 May 2007 10:31 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
San Francisco Bay Bridge Collapse
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A section of
freeway that funnels traffic onto the San Francisco-Oakland
Bay Bridge is shown on fire, early Sunday April 29, 2007,
after a gasoline tanker truck overturned and caught fire,
authorities said.
(AP Photo/Bryan
Carmodi)
AP - Sun Apr 29, 1:04 PM ET
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Aerial view of freeway
interchange that funnels traffic off the San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed onto another highway
ramp in Oakland, Calif., Sunday, April 29, 2007, after a
gasoline tanker truck overturned and caught fire,
authorities said.
(AP Photo/Paul
Sakuma)
AP - Sun Apr 29,
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Traffic flows
smoothly across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge,
Monday, April 30, 2007, near San Francisco. Bay Area
commuters skirted the wreckage of a collapsed section of
freeway Monday as crews began hauling away the charred
debris that had been a vital link between San Francisco and
its eastern suburbs.
(AP Photo/Noah Berger)
AP - Mon Apr 30, 10:29 PM ET |
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Aerial view of freeway
interchange that funnels traffic off the San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed onto another highway
ramp in Oakland, Calif., Sunday, April 29, 2007, after a
gasoline tanker truck overturned and caught fire,
authorities said.
(AP Photo/Paul
Sakuma)
AP - Sun Apr 29,
3:44 PM ET |
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Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger (L) looks at collapsed sections of the
McArthur Maze interchange between the 80 and 580 freeways
near Oakland, California, April 29, 2007. A stretch of vital
highway for San Francisco Bay-area commuters collapsed on
Sunday after a gas tanker truck crashed and ignited flames
that shot more than 200 feet (60 metres) high, officials
said. Picture taken April 29, 2007.
REUTERS/William Foster/Office of
Governor Schwarzenegger/Handout (REUTERS).
EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR
MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.
Reuters - Mon Apr 30, 3:17 PM ET |
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Southbound Highway 880 traffic
was routed around a damaged section of Highway 580 in
Oakland, Calif., Monday, April 30, 2007. The elevated
section of highway that carries motorists from the San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to a number of freeways was
destroyed early Sunday when the heat of a burning gasoline
tanker truck weakened part of one overpass, crumpling it
onto another. (AP Photo/Dino Vournas)
AP - Mon Apr 30,
2:23 PM ET
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The accident of a gasoline tanker truck
overturned and caught fire, that caused San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
to collapse, also happened at the same day of the shooting at Ward
Parkway, on 29 April 2007. Like to strengthening more the questioning on
me related to my experience at American Express in 1989 that later on
followed by a devastating earthquake in California.
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Date:
Sat, 5 May 2007 10:31 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
1989: My Work at American Express, Then Earthquake in California
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Fire in San Francisco's Marina District after the earth
quake, 17 October 1989. |
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The Cypress Viaduct in Oakland
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Car crushed by Marina District
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Two of the cars that got
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Fallen section of SF-Oakland
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photos from wikipedia.com |
The Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on
Tuesday October 17, 1989, in the greater San Francisco Bay Area
in California at 5:04 p.m. local time and measured 6.9 on the
Moment magnitude scale (surface-wave magnitude 7.1). The earthquake
lasted for 15 seconds. This earthquake was the first major earthquake
in the U.S. to be broadcast on live television as it happened.
Extensive damage also occurred in San Francisco's Marina
District, where many expensive homes built on filled ground collapsed.
Fires raged in some sections of the city as water mains broke. (source:
wikipedia.com)
At the same year of 1989, before the
earthquake, I spent my time working at the American Express.
To make sure all letters in this "Closing
the Window of Disaster" is not about blaming game, I would
only write the possibility of my own mistakes that might related with
the earth quake.
Around two weeks after I began my work at
the American Express, one day I heard the entrance door to the Personal
Sales at the ground floor was knocked from the outside. It was a
card-key lock door, could only opened from the outside using a card key,
yet from the inside could be opened like ordinary door. Since I was the
one who was so close to the door, I opened it, and it appeared to be a
beautiful girl searching for my supervisor Mr. Wardy.
A few days later she began to work at the
same team with me, in the Personal Sales. Her name is Rina Triana.
Because the Sales Department was on expansion, there were some
additional sales persons that made the sales office room in the ground
floor was inadequate. So some of the new sales persons were placed in
14th floor, at one of the rooms of BNI-Amex Leasing.
Since then I often spent some times alone
with her in the office room, because usually most of the other sales
persons rarely in the office, while I often needed to do some paper
works in the office after visiting some clients. Rina was a nice girl,
often shared some jokes with me. She made me forgot my bad memories with
previous girls.
Yet one day I made a terrible mistake. When
she all of a sudden asked me to propose her, and she did it in front of
my friend Idris whom my other friends said as the boy friend of Rina, I
felt tortured. I thought she was a part of a conspiracy to frame me,
to prove that I was a kind of person who liked to grab someone else's
girl friend. Since then I began to feel uncomfortable, and I began to
think that every time she was alone with me in the office room it could
be also a part of the conspiracy to frame me to prove that I like to do
sexual harassment toward any girls.
A few weeks later Mr. Wardy terminated me,
with the reason that I failed to fulfill my sales target. But even the
termination seems like triggered by my own measures. Around two days
before Mr. Wardy terminated me, I withdraw almost all of my money from
my account at Amex Bank. Actually the reason was because I also have
another saving account in a bank close to the house where I lived. Yet
so often Mr. Wardy liked to take inspirations from whatever I was doing.
For example, if one day in the meeting room I mentioned to my friend:
"Yesterday I met Mr. A wearing brown shirt....," then Mr. Wardy would
immediately grabbed the phone and talk to someone: "Mr. A with brown
shirt...." My friend Edison Sinaga would usually smiled and said:
"Ustadz Wardy is so fast to grab the inspiration....." Ustadz is the
Arabic word for "teacher", because Wardy is an Arab.
So, most of all, regarding the earthquake in
San Francisco in 1989 after my work at American Express, I certainly
hope it has nothing to do with me. Nevertheless, if there were any
mistakes that I have done, I apologize for it.
It could be because I have let myself to
feel tortured when Rina asked me to propose her while in fact she
already has a boy friend. Next time if such a thing happened again, I
should prevent my self from feeling tortured, since it could
unnecessarily like pushing the button for false alarm. I
should be better have a positive thinking, by considering it as
an indirect advice to raise my appetite to get married with someone
else, not to consider it as a torture toward myself.
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