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Fri, 1 May 2009 17:40 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject: Indulging The Softness
Part Of God
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Software magnate
Bill Gates while having an interactive session with the
audience during the 3rd International Conference on
Information and Communication Technologies and
Development(ICTD) held at Carnegie Mellon University in
Qatar, Doha on Saturday, April 18, 2009.
(AP Photo/Maneesh
Bakshi)
Sat Apr 18, 2:28
PM ET
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Software magnate Bill
Gates addresses the audience, and is seen on the screen at
rear, during the 3rd International Conference on Information
and Communication Technologies and Development(ICTD) held at
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Doha on Saturday, April
18, 2009.
(AP Photo/Maneesh Bakshi)
Sat Apr 18, 1:49 PM ET
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Software
magnate Bill Gates addresses the audience during the 3rd
International Conference on Information and Communication
Technologies and Development(ICTD) held at Carnegie Mellon
University in Qatar, Doha on Saturday, April 18, 2009.
(AP Photo/Maneesh Bakshi)
Sat Apr 18, 1:52 PM ET
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REFILE -
CORRECTING RESTRICTIONS Ahmed Hussein, deputy director
general of Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, gives an Abu Dhabi
cap to Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates (R) in the High
Flyers Lounge during the qualification of the first stage of
the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Abu Dhabi April
17, 2009.
REUTERS/Global-Newsroom/Daniel Grund/Handout
(UNITED ARAB EMIRATES SPORT BUSINESS TRAVEL TRANSPORT) FOR
EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR
ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
Fri Apr 17, 11:58 AM ET
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Sunday 26 April 2009, after on the previous
day my brother gave me a laptop, I went to the Mall to get information
about relevant additional software, especially related with graphic
design.
Afterward I strode across the street to a food
stall to buy Ketoprak, some kind of food containing boiled bean sprout,
fried tofu, pieces of rice steamed in banana leafs, chip crackers, mixed
with peanut sauce and soy bean sauce. While sitting there eating the
food, came a thought in my mind about the softwares.
Compared with other industrial products such
as airplanes, cars, TV, and so on, actually softwares are more
vulnerable to forgery. Yet within such vulnerability, you can survive
the first position of richest man in the world for more than 13 years
since 1995.
The word software then reminds me with one of
God's attribute, Al Latief, which is translated into Indonesian word
as Maha Halus, in which "Maha" means "Great" and "Halus" means "Soft",
just like in your Microsoft.
Al Latief also reminds me with my first
business in early eighties, a small printing business, with my friend
Herry Latief.
While the TV station where Rahma works now,
TV-One, has the company name PT Lativi Media Karya. The name Lativi was
from the founder, Mr. Abdul Latief, a successful businessman famous for
his Pasaraya department store with some branches through out Indonesia.
He began the TV business in late nineties, named it Lativi, before in
early 2008 he sold it to some young entrepreneurs who changed the name
to TV-One, but the company name remains the same, PT Lativi Media Karya.
So what could be the message of my surrounding by the
Latief, the Softness Part of God? It could be related with recent decade
hard times faced by human being, the hard times of economic problems,
monetary problems, natural disasters, diseases, human error disasters,
and so on.
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Ahmed
Hussein, deputy director general of Abu Dhabi Tourism
Authority, talks to Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates (R) in
the High Flyers Lounge during the qualification of the first
stage of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Abu
Dhabi April 17, 2009.
REUTERS/Global-Newsroom
/Daniel Grund/Handout
(UNITED ARAB EMIRATES TRANSPORT BUSINESS TRAVEL)
FOR
EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR
ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
Fri Apr 17, 11:33 AM ET
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Date:
Sat, 2 May 2009 8:40 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject: 6 : 103
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When a thought about software
came to me at a food stall as written in the above letter, I
immediately considered about searching the word "Latief" in
the holy book, to make sure I remembered the meaning
correctly.
Finally at home I could find it,
in the Al An'am verse 103. Al An'am has the meaning of
livestock. But it also sounds a little bit like Indonesian
word "enam", which means "six" in English.
And Al An'am is also known as
sura number 6.
In Indonesian, number 6 is "enam",
that sounds like "end A.M.", commensurate with my consent to
meet the end of my life for the good of this world.
Of course, whenever I had such
thinking, I always wonder whether I was thinking of it
rightly or just some kind of "Da Vinci Codes" kind of
notions. On Thursday, 30 April 2009, the answer seemed to
appear. As usual, after the dusk prayer I like to recite the
holy book for ten or fifteen minutes. Such reciting usually
began from the opening at one day, and the next days
everyday it would continue part by part until finished.
Approximately such series of reciting at the dusk would take
two months to finish the whole book.
That dusk, I happened to reach
the sura Al An'am. What a coincidence. Because that dusk the
rain fell since fifteen minutes before I began reciting,
with some strong thunder and lightning that caused me to
unable watched TV or work in the computer, I carried on the
reciting until reaching verse 103.
It was then something unusual
happened. Although at the beginning of the rain the thunder
and lightning were so strong, yet later on it abate, and by
the time I was approaching the 103 verse, the thunder and
lighting came again, but not too strong. And by the time I
was beginning the 103, the thunder and lightning were more
like fire-crackers in the new year's eve, high in frequency
but not scary.
Is the 103 related with "Collaboration
of Paris and Rahma", in 2014 for Rahma and 2016 for
Paris, in which "1" representing Rahma who works at TV-One,
and "3" representing Paris as a Christian? When I copied the
shortcut for the hyperlink of this collaboration, I just
realized that when I first wrote this idea of collaboration
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