Ya, tim Uber kita kalah terhormat, tim Thomas kita? menurut saya kalah “tragis” Sebenarnya saya sudah pesimis tim Thomas Indonesia akan menang di laga semifinal melawan Korea kemarin mengingat pada babak penyisihan grup yang melawan Thailand hari minggu kemarin (11/05) harus ngos-ngosan sebelum menang 3-2.

Terlepas dari kegagalan tim Thomas dan Uber Indonesia, saya pribadi salut dengan perjuangan mereka yang pantang menyerah dan mampu memberikan hiburan tersendiri bagi masyarakat Indonesia, semoga kelak prestasi Indonesia dalam bulu tangkis kembali jaya lagi. Buat tim Uber Indonesia yang bertanding dengan gigih dan semangat malam ini, terima kasih….! Bravo bulu tangkis Indonesia!

Ini sharing saya. Saya seorang pemuda usia 23 tahun.

Suatu ketika saat saya chat di channel #kristen (mIRC), tiba2 ada seseorang yg dikick dari channel krn sedang masuk di channel lain yg "hot". Lalu saya ikutin. Eh, saya yg selama ini udah jaga2 jarak terhadap hal itu malah hmm. Saya jadi merasa aneh. Apakah ini serangan ? Mungkin iya. Krn pelayanan saya jg membantu org2 spt itu. Saya heran kenapa mereka begitu menyukai dg hal spt itu. Selidik menyelidik krn jiwa muda saya akhirnya saya jadi ketagihan. Upz. Saya rasionalisasikan saja :Apakah salah kalau saya ingin mengetahui kehidupan di luar sana?! sementara yg saya lihat saat ini berbeda dg kehidupan saya 3 tahun yg lalu sblm saya bertobat. Rasionalisasi yg pertama berhasil dan tdk menghasilkan rasa menyesal dan jera. Sudah dilayani pelepasan ternyata tetep aja bs jatuh. Setan terus menyerang lewat pikiran. Saya tahu itu dan saya menyadarinya. I realize that! Sempat saya masuk ke channel itu lagi dan ketahuan sama seseorang yg pnh saya ajak ngobrol ttg hal rohani bbrp hari sebelumnya. Saya senang berbicara rohani. Wow. Sya katakan pda dia bahwa saya sedang belajar sex education. Ha3... rasionalisasi yg mantap. Really ? Hmm. Dan dia katakan bahwa "melihat channel spt ini bukanlah sex education. Itu kontras sekali dg hidupmu!" Sya katakan bahwa saya pelayan tapi jg saya ingin mengetahui sisi lain kehidupan di luar sana. "Terus kenapa kakak liat di chann ini? wah kakak ketauan nih ma aku :)". "Aku masuk ke chann ini gara2 kamu!"."Whats?". Saya pura2 kalau saya cm hanya ingin sekedar tahu. Padahal jiwa muda saya sedang bergelora.

Saya sering mendengar kotbah dan membaca buku bahwa :

1. "Masturbasi / onani itu normal. Itu untuk memenuhi kebutuhan biologismu!" hmm betulkan demikian ? itu hanya tipu daya iblis untuk membuat kamu jatuh dan semakin jauh dari Tuhan.

2. Kita adalah imam2 Allah. Apakah selayaknya kita melihat hal spt itu ? tanyakan itu pada diri anda sendiri.

3. "Kita tdk bisa menghindari pornografi dlsb. Yang bisa kita lakukan adalah Lari spt Yusuf........... " terus kalau lari tp masi kebayang gmn donk ?.... alihkan fokus. Mungkin untuk beberapa org bisa. Tapi bgmn dg yg sensitif ?....

4. "Lihat vcd dan gambar porno itu normal". Mungkin bisa jg sih. Untuk memuaskan rasa ingin tahu kita. Yap! rasa2nya itu alasan yg tepat. Tp bgmn dg rangsangannya ?

Baru-baru ini saya ngobrol via chatting irc dg seorang cow yg mengaku masih duduk di kelas 1 SMA di jakarta. Dia mengatakan kalau di indonesia menonton film2 luar negeri yg tanpa sensor itu masih tabu krn soal budaya. Krn budaya indonesia masih memegang adat ketimuran. Dia mencontohkan di luar negeri. Kakaknya  yg di luar negeri bilang ke dya  kalau di luar negeri itu ciuman bibir dlsb sdh dianggap biasa. Film2  dg adegan syur itu sdh biasa krn dari kecil sdh diajarin sex education dg benar.  Sampai "kumpul kebo" jg dianggap biasa. Ini berbicara soal respon seseorang dan budaya. Bahkan saya dengar di Belanda anak umur 12 thn sudah berhubungan sex. Wow. Bgmn dg di negeri kita ?

Kalau tmn2 search di google, pasti ada pertanyaan di forum ttg sex, seorang anak muda yg inosence tanya soal sex. Mungkin ini pertanda bahwa kehausan akan sex education di indonesia sudah hrs ditanggapi. Dokter andik sudah memulainya.

Sbg seorang pelayan, mgkn kita bilang : no sex before married! dg tegas malahan. Sampai bilang ke yg lain "jgn ikutan2 arus dunia". Wah... suatu ketika kita diuji. Apakah kita tetap bertahan pada pendirian kita? itu jd problemnya. Ngomongnya sih gampang  : kita harus hidup kudus. Tanpa kekudusan tak seorangpun dpt melihat TUhan. Kekristenan tanpa kekudusan nonsensen bla bla bla. Saya sering mengatakan spt itu. Dan setelah jatuh jadi malu untuk mengatakannya. Hmm. Ga aneh kalau ada Pendeta jatuh ke dosa amoral lalu meninggalkan pelayanannya. Krn ini problem kekudusan. Bukan saja terjadi di indonesia (kalau bicara soal culture), seorang pendeta terkenal di amerika pun mengundurkan diri gara2 hal ini. Tp ada jg yg meskipun tetap pelayanan di dlm terang tapi tetap jg melakukan hal2 di kegelapan. Yah... Gajah diblangkoni,,, iso kotbah ga iso nglakoni. Itu pepatah jawa. Lalu gimana spy kita bisa menjaga kekudusan ? keputusan ada di tangan kita.

Coba perhatikan kalau mungkin di sekeliling kita ada tmn2 pelayan yg sudah bosen melayani. Mungkin dia sedang mengalami problem kekudusan. Yaps! itu sptnya jg terjadi dg seorang teman saya. Saya mendengar kalau dia sering membawa pacarnya di kostannya. saya sdr jg melihatnya. Dan akhirnya dia jadi males melayani di gereja. Saya melihat hal spt ini sudah sangat biasa tjd di kalangan anak muda. Apalagi yg kost. Saya sdr mengalaminya. Tau kalau itu salah, bahkan tau kalau itu bujukan iblis, tapi tetep aja dilakuin. Kita belum kapok melakukan sesuatu kalo tdk merasakan penderitaan yg diakibatkannya.

Btw, bgmn kalau seumpama kita anggap hal spt itu biasa (spt kulture barat) shg kita tdk tergoda lagi ? dg demikian menaikkan ambang sensitivitas kita thd sex. Tp yg saya tahu dg tdk memenuhi pikiran kita dg sex kita bs jauh dari dosa amoralitas spt ini. Untuk melengkapi share saya, silahkan teman2 berkomentar. (valent)

Anybody want to share ?

I'm happy to say, Little Dude has successfully gone up and down the upstairs of our house quite a few times within the last few days. We still won't be taking the gate down anytime soon, but we feel a little more comfortable about him being around stairs.

We also won't be letting him do the basement steps yet, as they are wooden, unfinished, and that concrete at the bottom would make for a disastrous landing.

We're getting there though!

In other news, Little Dude appears to have come up with a name for my mom - one of the grandmas. She is "Ama," and adores it! My guess is that all the grandmas (he has three - the Hubby's mom, my mom & my mom's mom) will be christened "Ama," for now.

Have a great weekend everyone! We have a lot to do around here, so hopefully the weather stays nice, like last night, when we were able to take Little Dude for a walk around the block at about 8/8:30 pm. It was a nice way for him to relax before bed, and a nice way for us to enjoy some fresh air.

So the other night, I was in the heat of passion with my hubby. He told me that I was really sexy and I asked him why. It was basically a list of three things:

1. I like sex

2. I have big boobs

3. The color of the inside of my vagina is apparently a nice rosy pink (I have embellished that if you can believe it).

So, ladies, there you have it. The three essentials from the perspective of a man. I know that each man has a slightly different list. But not that different. Maybe round butt or long legs, instead of big boobs but that's about it.

Keep that in mind the next time you feel the eye lash curler and bikini wax are ESSENTIAL!

LOL!

For some of our teachers, however, it was mystifying. Our Resource specialist tried to explain how to modify tests. Some teachers said, "But I don't have enough time!" However, the law requires us to make time. And modified tests do not really need to take you longer than 15 minutes to make. Most teachers had this concept about modifying tests and instruction that they had to write two brand new tests every time they wanted one! For those who were relying on A Beka tearouts (We are still phasing A Beka out of our curriculum, not that those who use it should be offended...), this was a nightmare. In reality, the idea is that you are testing on the same material, but you just have to check the wording and make it look different on the page so that those with processing disorders, dyslexia, attention deficit disorder, and reading disabilities do not get points wrong simply because they are not understanding the instructions. Your 15 minutes of time may make the difference between a happy, confident, motivated student and a failing, miserable, depressed student. I ask you now, is it worth it?

Graphic organizers comes in handy for meeting the needs of special students. Most of them work well when they can picture the information that goes in the box and map it out in their heads. The important thing to remember is that multiple choice does not really work well with most special needs students. Long matching columns also can be confusing as they lose track of their thoughts. Give them smaller matching columns, graphic organizer responses and do not take points off for spelling. A graphic organizers link is located in my right hand column.

I would like to gather together some samples of your modified tests so that we can share and make them available for other teachers who are confused about how to create modified tests in a time-saving way. I will post these tests here on the Forum for people to view. Unfortunately, I cannot pay you for sharing your tests with all of us, but I hope that you are willing to trust that if you share your materials with us, one day you will find materials that you can use as well. I ask that all those who use the Forum respect the materials shared and do not sell them, post them on their own personal websites, or take credit for the work of another. Please upload your own tests/quizzes to your blogs/sites and then send me the URL link for access. For right now, here in a link that I discovered in the process of seeking lesson plans for inclusion:

http://www.reacheverychild.com/

The above site is a secular one, but I believe that reaching all children is a mutual goal of all educators. Also, if you have tips for instructing Special Needs students that have been key to your success, share them with us in a comment! I would love to hear from you!

Tepat minggu yang lalu saya tulis posting tentang bagaimana parahnya pengendara harley Davidson kalau seandainya jatuh dari motornya, dan benar.. siang ini saya liat berita di rcti, actor senior dan mantan pimpinan fraksi PDI-P di DPR Bpk Sophan Sophian meninggal dunia akibat terjatuh dari HD yang dikendarainya.

Huuh,

cukup terhenyak juga, gimanapun sejauh yang saya liat beliau termasuk politisi yang idealis, sampai-sampai berani bersebarangan dengan Megawati dan keluar dari DPR karena ketidak cocokannya dengan praktek yang beliau rasa tidak sejalan lagi.

Selamat jalan Bung, turut berduka untuk keluarga yang ditinggal.

Pada pemerintah, apa masih kurang nyawa yang harus dikorbankan akibat kurangnya perawatan jalan. Kenapa duit kenaikan BBM, jangan cuma habis buat operasional pemerintahan, buat gaji PNS + sisanya dibagi-bagi, tunjukkan bahwa apa yang kami berikan buat negara lewat pajak, harga BBM yang harus kami bayar juga punya dampak nyata bagi public services dan infrastruktur..

Fluuuh..!

Anyway, that's all I had to say, I think.  I'll be on my merry way now, as only a merry person can.  =D

So what happens after your ideas get a good listen and are rejected? Do you keep pushing them? Do you modify them in light of skeptical criticism? Do you take them elsewhere? Or what?

Throughout my entire senior year in college I poured my heart and soul into a business plan with three other people.  We knew our concept was amazing, and we all still believe it to be amazing.  I'll even give you a three word pitch on it right now: Healthy Fast Food. 

We entered this plan into a few nationwide business plan competitions and everyone loved it, but we never won.  There are many valid reasons why we didn't win, after all who wants to invest in a restaurant concept, with low margins, run by four college kids with no experience?  These flaws aside, the biggest thing I learned from this experience is that ideas (business plans in particular) are living, breathing, and growing things; they need constant attention and you can't get ahead of yourself.  We met with investors and executives daily to pitch and pick their brains on our concept, which would lead to us re-writing our 30 page plan and reworking our powerpoint many many times.

For us, putting the plan aside was a matter of time and money.  We didn't have the money to put into it, all of us would be jobless upon graduation, and 2 of us were getting married a month after graduation (my wife was on the team).

At the end of the day it all depends on how you feel about your idea.  Deep down, I think we all know whether our ideas are good or if they are crap.  The key is how much thought you have put into it's execution.  How many people you have talked to about it, talking with other people gives you different perspectives.  Someone may find a fatal flaw in your plan, but if you have the passion for your concept you can work to find a solution. 

The bottom line is that we don't possess our good ideas, they possess us.  Once you are possessed you have true passion to keep trying, when you are knocked down, you get up you take your passion to someone else to try again.

Howard Schultz was possessed by Starbucks.  He was possessed enough to pester them until they found a place for him in their company.  He was possessed enough to move from New York to Seattle.  And when he had the opportunity to buy and grow Starbucks, he was passionate enough to spend a year trying to raise $1.25 Million.  And it was his passion for his vision that led him to pitch the concept to potential investors 242 times, just to have 217 say no.  But in the end it didn't matter that 217 said no, it mattered that about 30 said yes.  (Source)

What happens if you are possessed by a bad idea?  I don't know, and sometimes people do just need to learn to give up, but next time you are in a plane, reach in the seatback in front of you and read the SkyMall magazine.  It's full of them, and it goes to show that even some bad ideas can still make some money (assuming that people buy anything out of there).

We, at SmithsonianStore.com, would like to thank you for your business and patience. You haven't heard from us in a while because our outside service provider, which performed a variety of functions critical to our day-to-day operations, suddenly and unexpectedly closed its doors. Consequently, we cannot accept any orders at this time.

We want you to know that we are working very hard to return to full service and expect to be back to serve our customers by mid-summer. In the meantime, we're busy searching for new and interesting products from around the world that we hope you will find irresistible.

Watch for our famous storewide sale that will celebrate our return!

How screwed are they? They are losing revenues every day for MONTHS plus they will have to discount everything when they re-open to stimulate sales. Who know how much money they spent and are not getting back from the outside provider. I wonder if it was really a surprise or if the signs were there, the financials ignored and the mistake made. Hmmm.

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AIR MATA RASULULLAH SAW...

Tiba-tiba dari luar pintu terdengar seorang yang berseru mengucapkan salam.

Tapi Fatimah tidak mengizinkannya masuk,

Kemudian ia kembali menemani ayahnya yang ternyata sudah membuka mata dan bertanya pada fatimah,

Lalu, Rasulullah menatap puterinya itu dengan pandangan yang menggetarkan. Seolah-olah bagian demi bagian wajah anaknya itu hendak dikenang.

Fatimah pun menahan ledakkan tangisnya.

Malaikat maut datang menghampiri, tapi Rasulullah menanyakan kenapa Jibril tidak ikut sama menyertainya.
Kemudian dipanggilah Jibril yang sebelumnya sudah bersiap di atas langit dunia menyambut ruh kekasih Allah dan penghulu dunia ini.

Tapi itu ternyata tidak membuatkan Rasulullah lega, matanya masih penuh kecemasan.

Detik-detik semakin dekat, saatnya Izrail melakukan tugas. Perlahan ruh Rasulullah ditarik.
Nampak seluruh tubuh Rasulullah bersimbah peluh, urat-urat lehernya menegang.

Perlahan Rasulullah mengaduh. Fatimah terpejam, Ali yang di sampingnya menunduk semakin dalam dan Jibril memalingkan muka.

Sebentar kemudian terdengar Rasulullah mengaduh, karena sakit yang tidak tertahankan lagi.

Di luar pintu tangis mulai terdengar bersahutan, sahabat saling berpelukan. Fatimah menutupkan tangan di wajahnya, dan Ali kembali melekatkan telinganya ke bibir Rasulullah yang mulai kebiruan.

Dan, berakhirlah hidup manusia mulia yang memberi sinaran itu.

Kini, mampukah kita mencintai sepertinya?
Allahumma sholli 'ala Muhammad wa baarik wa salim 'alaihi
Betapa cintanya Rasulullah kepada kita.

Usah gelisah apabila dibenci manusia karena masih banyak yang menyayangimu di dunia tapi gelisahlah apabila dibenci Allah karena tiada lagi yang mengasihmu di akhir...

Just remember Allah

When you feel happy
Smile is on your face
You have love around you
The day is so bright

Just remember Allah

Because without Allah…
You don’t have a guide
Because without Allah…
You don’t have a life

Allah’s love can make us peace…
Allah’s love can make us strong…

So, you just remember Allah
Every day every time

Allah will be by your side
Allah the only guide

No matter what you think
No matter what you feel

Just remember Allah

Sarah Jessica Parker was born March 25, 1965, in Nelsonville, Ohio, to parents Stephen Parker and Barbra Forste (who remarried Paul Forste afterwards divorcing Sarah's father). Sarah Jessica Parker like horse as I stated from yahoo answers. Afterwards her mother wed Forste, she had four added children, bringing the absolute to eight. Sarah Jessica now had 3 abounding ancestors and 4 bisected siblings. Trained in singing and ballet, Sarah was casting in the Broadway assembly of "The Innocents", which prompted her ancestors to backpack to New Jersey. Already a able aerialist (she advised at the American Ballet School and the Able Children's School), Sarah was casting in "The Sound of Music" (along with four of her siblings), and landed the advance in the Broadway run of "Annie". Afterwards a year as the able orphan, Sarah abounding Dwight Morrow High School, while continuing to add added credits to her acting resume. She landed a role in the made-for-TV cine My Body, My Child (1982) (TV), afore actuality casting as one of the advance roles in the 1982 ball "Square Pegs" (1982), as high-schooler Patty Green. Once a graduate, Sarah absitively to accompany a full-time acting career rather than added her education. Back "Square Pegs" (1982) didn't aftermost added than a year, Sarah confused on to acknowledging blur roles in movies such as Footloose (1984), Firstborn (1984), and the advance role in the boyish blur Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985). Sarah was accepting lots of fun, although she had yet to acreage a star-turning role. Afterwards added television appearances in alternation and made-for-TV movies including "A Year in the Life" (1986) (mini), The Room Upstairs (1987) (TV) and Dadah Is Death (1988) (TV), Sarah assuredly landed the role of Steve Martin's aerated lover in the 1991 ball L.A. Story (1991). Added abundant blur roles anon followed, starting with a role adverse Nicolas Cage in Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) (which adumbrated her comedic talent), Hocus Pocus (1993) and Ed Wood (1994). A big Woody Allen fan, she starred adverse the acclaimed filmmaker in the TV cine The Sunshine Boys (1995) (TV), and that aforementioned year, she landed a starring role in Miami Rhapsody (1995). 1996 was a blur accelerated year with roles in The First Wives Club (1996), If Lucy Fell (1996), and Mars Attacks! (1996). All the while authoritative a name for herself in film, Sarah was accepting account as a amphitheater actress, with her advance role as a dog (hard to imagine, but true) in the off-Broadway "Sylvia," and her Broadway roles in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (starring her present husband, Matthew Broderick), and the Tony-Award nominated "Once Upon a Mattress." But Sarah's brilliant has attempt up back her assuming of Manhattan sex-columnist Carrie Bradshaw in the HBO alternation "Sex and the City" (1998). Sarah's Golden Globe Best Extra achievement in 2000 alone underscores the actuality that she plays the role of Carrie as admitting it were actually accounting for her. Sarah has been appropriately affiliated to adolescent amateur Matthew Broderick for absolutely a while now. Afore the marriage, she anachronous Robert Downey Jr. (who she additionally lived with), and the backward John Kennedy Jr. When not confined as advance extra and ambassador of "Sex and the City" (1998), Sarah is a affiliate of Hollywood's Women's Political Committee, and is UNICEF's adumbrative for the Performing Arts.

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1. Ploughback and reserves

After deduction of all expenses, including taxes, the net profits of a company are split into two parts - dividends and ploughback.

Dividend is that portion of a company’s profits which is distributed to its shareholders, whereas ploughback is the portion that the company retains and gets added to its reserves.

The figures for ploughback and reserves of any company can be obtained by a cursory glance at its balance sheet and profit and loss account.

Ploughback is important because it not only increases the reserves of a company but also provides the company with funds required for its growth and expansion. All growth companies maintain a high level of ploughback. So if you are looking for a growth company to invest in, you should examine its ploughback figures.

Companies that have no intention of expanding are unlikely to plough back a large portion of their profits.

Reserves constitute the accumulated retained profits of a company. It is important to compare the size of a company’s reserves with the size of its equity capital. This will indicate whether the company is in a position to issue bonus shares.

As a rule-of-thumb, a company whose reserves are double that of its equity capital should be in a position to make a liberal bonus issue.

Retained profits also belong to the shareholders. This is why reserves are often referred to as shareholders’ funds. Therefore, any addition to the reserves of a company will normally lead to a corresponding an increase in the price of your shares.

The higher the reserves, the greater will be the value of your shareholding. Retained profits (ploughback) may not come to you in the form of cash, but they benefit you by pushing up the price of your shares.

2. Book value per share

You will come across this term very often in investment discussions. Book value per share indicates what each share of a company is worth according to the company’s books of accounts.

The company’s books of account maintain a record of what the company owns (assets), and what it owes to its creditors (liabilities). If you subtract the total liabilities of a company from its total assets, then what is left belongs to the shareholders, called the shareholders’ funds.

If you divide shareholders’ funds by the total number of equity shares issued by the company, the figure that you get will be the book value per share.

Book Value per share = Shareholders’ funds / Total number of equity shares issued

The figure for shareholders’ funds can also be obtained by adding the equity capital and reserves of the company.

Book value is a historical record based on the original prices at which assets of the company were originally purchased. It doesn’t reflect the current market value of the company’s assets.

Therefore, book value per share has limited usage as a tool for evaluating the market value or price of a company’s shares. It can, at best, give you a rough idea of what a company’s shares should at least be worth.

The market prices of shares are generally much higher than what their book values indicate. Therefore, if you come across a share whose market price is around its book value, the chances are that it is under-priced. This is one way in which the book value per share ratio can prove useful to you while assessing whether a particular share is over- or under-priced.

3. Earnings per share (EPS)

EPS is a well-known and widely used investment ratio. It is calculated as:

Earnings Per Share (EPS) = Profit After Tax / Total number of equity shares issued

This ratio gives the earnings of a company on a per share basis. In order to get a clear idea of what this ratio signifies, let us assume that you possess 100 shares with a face value of VND 10 000 each in XYZ Ltd. Suppose the earnings per share of XYZ Ltd. is VND 6 000 per share and the dividend declared by it is 20 per cent, or VND 2 000 per share. This means that each share of XYZ Ltd. earns VND 6 000 every year, even though you receive only VND 2 000 out of it as dividend.

The remaining amount, VND 4 000 per share, constitutes the ploughback or retained earnings. If you had bought these shares at par, it would mean a 60 per cent return on your investment, out of which you would receive 20 per cent as dividend and 40 per cent would be the ploughback. This ploughback of 40 per cent would benefit you by pushing up the market price of your shares. Ideally speaking, your shares should appreciate by 40 per cent from VND 10 000 to VND 14 000 per share.

This illustration serves to drive home a basic investment lesson. You should evaluate your investment returns not on the basis of the dividend you receive, but on the basis of the earnings per share. Earnings per share is the true indicator of the returns on your share investments.

Suppose you had bought shares in XYZ Ltd at double their face value, i.e. at VND 20 000 per share. Then an EPS of VND 6 000 per share would mean a 30 per cent return on your investment, of which 10 per cent (VND 2 000 per share) is dividend, and 20 per cent (VND 4 000 per share) the ploughback.

Under ideal conditions, ploughback should push up the price of your shares by 20 per cent, i.e. from VND 20 000 to 24 000 per share. Therefore, irrespective of what price you buy a particular company’s shares at its EPS will provide you with an invaluable tool for calculating the returns on your investment.

4. Price earnings ratio (P/E)

The price earnings ratio (P/E) expresses the relationship between the market price of a company’s share and its earnings per share:

Price/Earnings Ratio (P/E) = Price of the share / Earnings per share

This ratio indicates the extent to which earnings of a share are covered by its price. If P/E is 5, it means that the price of a share is 5 times its earnings. In other words, the company’s EPS remaining constant, it will take you approximately five years through dividends plus capital appreciation to recover the cost of buying the share. The lower the P/E, lesser the time it will take for you to recover your investment.

P/E ratio is a reflection of the market’s opinion of the earnings capacity and future business prospects of a company. Companies which enjoy the confidence of investors and have a higher market standing usually command high P/E ratios.

For example, blue chip companies often have P/E ratios that are as high as 20 to 60. However, most other companies in India have P/E ratios ranging between 5 and 20.

On the face of it, it would seem that companies with low P/E ratios would offer the most attractive investment opportunities. This is not always true. Companies with high current earnings but dim future prospects often have low P/E ratios.

Obviously such companies are not good investments, notwithstanding their P/E ratios. As an investor your primary concern is with the future prospects of a company and not so much with its present performance. This is the main reason why companies with low current earnings but bright future prospects usually command high P/E ratios.

To a great extent, the present price of a share, discounts, i.e. anticipates, its future earnings.

All this may seem very perplexing to you because it leaves the basic question unanswered: How does one use the P/E ratio for making sound investment decisions?

The answer lies in utilising the P/E ratio in conjunction with your assessment of the future earnings and growth prospects of a company. You have to judge the extent to which its P/E ratio reflects the company’s future prospects.

If it is low compared to the future prospects of a company, then the company’s shares are good for investment. Therefore, even if you come across a company with a high P/E ratio of 25 or 30 don’t summarily reject it because even this level of P/E ratio may actually be low if the company is poised for meteoric future growth. On the other hand, a low P/E ratio of 4 or 5 may actually be high if your assessment of the company’s future indicates sharply declining sales and large losses.

5. Dividend and yield

There are many investors who buy shares with the objective of earning a regular income from their investment. Their primary concern is with the amount that a company gives as dividends - capital appreciation being only a secondary consideration. For such investors, dividends obviously play a crucial role in their investment calculations.

It is illogical to draw a distinction between capital appreciation and dividends. Money is money - it doesn’t really matter whether it comes from capital appreciation or from dividends.

A wise investor is primarily concerned with the total returns on his investment - he doesn’t really care whether these returns come from capital appreciation or dividends, or through varying combinations of both. In fact, investors in high tax brackets prefer to get most of their returns through long-term capital appreciation because of tax considerations.

Companies that give high dividends not only have a poor growth record but often also poor future growth prospects. If a company distributes the bulk of its earnings in the form of dividends, there will not be enough ploughback for financing future growth.

On the other hand, high growth companies generally have a poor dividend record. This is because such companies use only a relatively small proportion of their earnings to pay dividends. In the long run, however, high growth companies not only offer steep capital appreciation but also end up paying higher dividends.

On the whole, therefore, you are likely to get much higher total returns on your investment if you invest for capital appreciation rather than for dividends. In short, it all boils down to whether you are prepared to sacrifice a part of your immediate dividend income in the expectation of greater capital appreciation and higher dividends in the years to come and the whole issue is basically a trade-off between capital appreciation and income.

Investors are not really interested in dividends but in the relationship that dividends bear to the market price of the company’s shares. This relationship is best expressed by the ratio called yield or dividend yield:

Yield = (Dividend per share / market price per share) x 100

Yield indicates the percentage of return that you can expect by way of dividends on your investment made at the prevailing market price. The concept of yield is best clarified by the following illustration.

Let us suppose you have invested VND 2 000 000 in buying 100 shares of XYZ Ltd at VND 20 000 per share with a face value of VND 10 000 each.

If XYZ announces a dividend of 20 per cent (VND 2 000 per share), then you stand to get a total dividend of VND 200 000. Since you bought these shares at VND 20 000 per share, the yield on your investment is 10 per cent (Yield = 2/20 x 100). Thus, while the dividend was 20 per cent; but your yield is actually 10 per cent.

The concept of yield is of far greater practical utility than dividends. It gives you an idea of what you are earning through dividends on the current market price of your shares.

Average yield figures in our market vary around 5 per cent of the market value of the shares. If you have a share portfolio consisting of shares belonging to a large number of both high-growth and high-dividend companies, then on an average your dividend in-come is likely to be around 5 per cent of the total market value of your portfolio.

6. Return on Capital Employed (ROCE), and

7. Return on Net Worth (RONW)

While analysing a company, the most important thing you would like to know is whether the company is efficiently using the capital (shareholders’ funds plus borrowed funds) entrusted to it.

While valuing the efficiency and worth of companies, we need to know the return that a company is able to earn on its capital, namely its equity plus debt. A company that earns a higher return on the capital it employs is more valuable than one which earns a lower return on its capital. The tools for measuring these returns are:

1. Return on Capital Employed (ROCE), and

2. Return on Net Worth (RONW).

Return on Capital Employed and Return on Net Worth (shareholders funds) are valuable financial ratios for evaluating a company’s efficiency and the quality of its management. The figures for these ratios are commonly available in business magazines, annual reports and economic newspapers and financial Web sites.

Return on capital employed

Return on capital employed (ROCE) is best defined as operating profit divided by capital employed (net worth plus debt).

The figure for operating profit is arrived at after adding back taxes paid, depreciation, extraordinary one-time expenses, and deducting extraordinary one-time income and other income (income not earned through mainline operations), to the net profit figure.

The operating profit of a company is a better indicator of the profits earned by it than is the net profit.

ROCE thus reflects the overall earnings performance and operational efficiency of a company’s business. It is an important basic ratio that permits an investor to make inter-company comparisons.

Return on net worth

Return on net worth (RONW) is defined as net profit divided by net worth. It is a basic ratio that tells a shareholder what he is getting out of his investment in the company.

ROCE is a better measure to get an idea of the overall profitability of the company’s operations, while RONW is a better measure for judging the returns that a shareholder gets on his investment.

The use of both these ratios will give you a broad picture of a company’s efficiency, financial viability and its ability to earn returns on shareholders’ funds and capital employed.

8. PEG ratio

PEG is an important and widely used ratio for forming an estimate of the intrinsic value of a share. It tells you whether the share that you are interested in buying or selling is under-priced, fully priced or over-priced.

For this you need to link the P/E ratio discussed earlier to the future growth rate of the company. This is based on the assumption that the higher the expected growth rate of the company, the higher will be the P/E ratio that the company’s share commands in the market.

The reverse is equally true. The P/E ratio cannot be viewed in isolation. It has to be viewed in the context of the company’s future growth rate. The PEG is calculated by dividing the P/E by the forecasted growth rate in the EPS (earnings per share) of the company.

As a broad rule of the thumb, a PEG value below 0.5 indicates a very attractive buying opportunity, whereas a selling opportunity emerges when the PEG crosses 1.5, or even 2 for that matter.

The catch here is to accurately calculate the future growth rate of earnings (EPS) of the company. Wide and intensive reading of investment and business news and analysis, combined with experience will certainly help you to make more accurate forecasts of company earnings.

(Source: Excerpt from Profitable Investment in Shares: A Beginner's Guide by S S Grewal and Navjot Grewal)

MySpace has launched a data-sharing project in which the social networking site will open up its code to partner sites Photobucket, Twitter, eBay and Yahoo. The MySpace Data Availability Initiative will involve the creation of a new section of the site which will manage the data sharing. Users will access the system and share data on an ‘opt-in’ basis, meaning that only information which the user has chosen to share will be viewable by others. The information will then be available for use on other sites, allowing users to display MySpace profile information along with photos and video files on other participating sites.

All user data will remain hosted on MySpace, allowing the information to be updated as users change their profile information. “The walls around the garden are coming down, and the implementation of Data Availability injects a new layer of social activity and creates a more dynamic internet,” said Chris DeWolfe, chief executive and co-founder of MySpace. The move is designed to complement Yahoo’s open strategy initiative, in which the company offered to open its own applications to outside developers. The two sites are also working together as part of the OpenSocial project. “Yahoo believes in an open internet that gives users the flexibility to make their web experiences as relevant, social and personalised as they can,” said Ash Patel, executive vice president of platforms at Yahoo. I’m looking forward to first lawsuits where people complain about their personal data being shared all over the internet…

Source: Vnunet, Martin

Pagi ini males banget menulis, abis mulut serasa ga enak karena semalam ga gosok gigi. Pulang jalan saya my LJ langsung breg.. ! tidur..

Ga langsung banget sebenarnya, ketahan gara-gara ada film I Know what you did last Summer. Film yang dibintangi Jennifer Love Hewitt. Ketahan gara-gara pesaran awal film nya gimana, soalnya dari dulu saya nonton selalu udah ujung-ujungnya doang, dan seringnya nonton yang sekuel kedua I Still know what you did last summer. Tapi seperti halnya drama menegangkan lainnya, film ini selalu menyajikan ketegangan, walau udah ditonton berulang-ulang. Satu yang aga mengganggu sebenarnya, pas liat Ray, mantan co nya jennifer dalam film tersebut, setelah lulus sekolah jadi seorang nelayan.. tapi tampangnya itu, mulus banget, ga menggambarin nelayan sebenarnya huuuu.. Bagi saya, film menegangkan paling top tetap Silent of the Lamb dan teman-temannya.. ukhhh semuanya bikin kengerian tapi tetap ditonton. Overall film semalam asyik juga siy, berhenti nonton karena akhirnya saya ketiduran dalam kelaparan gara-gara blum makan malam.

Dan pagi ini, akh mulut  ga enak banget. Saya suka gitu, kalau yang namanya males, itu ga bisa ditolak. Kayak semalam itu males banget ke kamar mandi berbasah-basah walau sekedar gosok gigi. Dah tau siy paginya mulut bakal ga enak, tapi tetap yang namanya males.. ga bisa ditolak.

Daaannn..

enaknya pagi ini baca Joke nya Mas Koen aja.

Ini kisah saat Einstein masih aktif mengajar. Saat ujian, seorang mahasiswa memprotes:

“Profesor, saya lihat soal ujiannya sama dengan tahun lalu.”

Dan Einstein menjawab:

“Jangan khawatir. Jawaban yang benar berbeda dengan tahun lalu.”

Dasar edun.. prof yang satu ini emang sedeng, tapi sedeng-sedeng gitu dia dapet 3 nobel fisika. Intelegensia itu seperti lingkaran, kegilaan dan genius itu bersinggungan disatu titik, dan disana Einstein berada.. makasih mas Koen untuk kutipan Joke-joke nya yang segar :D

This Amy, who emailed me, lived with me for our last two years of college, in a tiny house we rented with a different roommate each year. Picture three girls living in a tiny three-bedroom (we were lucky there) house, with an airplane-sized bathroom - it even had the airplane sized metal sink. Seriously. I so wish I could find my pictures I took of that house - I think I took one of that sink, knowing my friends from home would never believe me, but it was the size of a small bar sink, only not as deep.

Anyhow, we lived about a block off of campus - a sweet location, really, except for the issues with parking, since we shared the driveway with the boys living in the house next door. And those boys - rugby players and rowdy as all get-out. Our first week there, we decided we didn't like them. At all.

They partied until all hours, yelled at each other and they DIDN'T INVITE US! (Okay, in all seriousness, they partied more than any of us, and we had been asked to come over when they met us.)

That first year, our other roommate, Lori, and I, were watching a movie late one night, when there was a huge crash that we could feel throughout the house. Two of the guys were fighting on their back deck (they were having a party again, go figure...), and this argument was pretty intense. We didn't know if they had slammed something into our house (a car, a person?), or if someone had tried to get in.

We called the cops. And we made fun of them through our kitchen window, as the nice police officers stopped by for a visit.

And then Amy met one of our neighbor boys, Josh, and they began hanging out together. That relationship grew and now, all these years later, they are married. They still live in our college town, but not in our college houses.

Josh had a lot of friends, especially other friends who played rugby. One friend, Patrick Lybert, is the reason Amy was contacting me. Pat lost his life in June, of 2006, in Afghanistan.

Here is how Amy described Pat:

(Pat) always wanted to be in the army.

(His) mom convinced him to go to college first in the hopes he'd outgrow it, so he actually finished college first and then came 9-11. (He) joined shortly after our wedding in 2002.

(Pat was) always a very outgoing guy, told the worst jokes ever, but you'd always end up in tears laughing at the stories he told.

(He) did a year long tour in Fallujah, Iraq - heavy combat. The army MADE him take his two-week leave during that time, so we got to visit with him. We'd get the occasional email or phone call while he was over there, and he always tried to sound like himself and not make anyone worry - but of course we always were (worried).

When he got home though you could tell war had changed him - (he was) quieter, more reserved. He had a lot of pictures and stories, but of course he left a lot of the horrors out. After talking to some of his unit at the funeral, I can't even imagine what they go through on a daily basis.

Seriously, (he was) the type of guy that would do anything for a friend. After a year back in the States, he volunteered to go with a unit to Afghanistan.

Personally I figured he'd made it through Fallujah, Afghanistan would be "safer." So wrong!

It's not talked about as much, but the conditions are so much worse there. They didn't have as much opportunity for internet or phone access, but the emails we did get didn't sound as upbeat. The last one we got from him (about a month before he was killed) even used the phrase "if I get home." He'd NEVER said that in Iraq.

From all accounts from the guys he was with that day, he saved the majority of his unit with his actions. They had been totally ambushed.

He had gotten engaged before he left, and was very close with his family. Just one of the most honest, loyal, down to earth, funny people I have ever met.

A couple of weeks ago, his mom emailed a request.

There is a country singer, Keni Thomas, who is having a contest to see where he should play a concert this summer. Pat's mom is trying to get him to come to Ladysmith, WI, and play after the motorcycle ride for Pat's memorial fund, in June.

A little background on Keni Thomas (I didn't know who he was). He has a couple country CDs out, but he also is a former army ranger. So anyway - as I was forwarding this on, I thought maybe you could post the link on your blog- every vote for Ladysmith will help!

Here's the link:
http://eventful.com/demand/D0-001-001713333-2

Now, I don't want to make this post and the comments about personal feelings on the war. This is just a request from a mom who has lost her son, passed on to me by a friend.

If you are able, please put in a vote to help them out.

And Amy and Josh, so glad we lived next to that "crazy rugby house," so you two could live happily ever after! And, so sorry for the loss of your friend.

(Pat is the one "licking" Amy's foot, in this 2002 wedding picture. He was an usher at their wedding.)

Firma Eye-Fi rozszerzyła swoją ofertę kart SD, które dodają funkcje Wi-Fi do każdego aparatu cyfrowego, w którym zostały zainstalowane.

Dostępne będą trzy nowe produkty: Eye-Fi Explore, Eye-Fi Share oraz Eye-Fi Home. Największą nowością jest obsługa hot spotów oraz geotaggingu (dodawanie do informacji o zdjęciu koordynatów miejsca, w którym zostało wykonane). Wszystkie modele kart są identyczne pod względem sprzętowym. Różnica będzie polegała na funkcjonalności.

Eye-Fi Explore pozwoli użytkownikowi na dostęp do hot spotów Wayport (ok. 10 tysięcy punktów w USA) oraz usługi geotaggingu Wi-Fi Skyhook. W modelu Share użytkownik otrzyma możliwość automatycznej synchronizacji z komputerem PC oraz serwisem Flickr. Natomiast model Home jest skierowany do użytkownika, który nie potrzebuje integracji z siecią, tylko ułatwień w przeniesieniu zdjęć na dysk twardy komputera.

Wszystkie karty będą dostępne od 6 czerwca w następujących cenach: Eye-Fi Explore – 129$, Eye-Fi Share - 99$, a Eye-Fi Home – 79$. Oferowana pojemność pamięci to 2GB.

Źródło & Obrazek: 4press.pl

By Raymond & Breann Lengtat

It was stated in a recent issue of Candles that the divorce rate in India is at 1.1%. Sadly, it is known that the divorce rate in the United States is at 50%! These numbers are astounding. It is our belief that the main cause of divorce and what is at the heart of the family condition today can be summed up in one word BUSY.

Families are busy. As educators in the United States, we have been in heavy contact with many different families, seeing the condition through the eyes of our students.

Families have many different things pulling at them, conflicting with the need to be unified and cohesive. Usually both parents have demanding jobs that require long hours and busy schedules; children have school requirements, sports activities, friends, and family demands. This creates an atmosphere of chaos. Many families do not even take the time to eat a family meal together. Parents grab something quickly as they run out of the door, and children are asked to feed themselves. This “busy-ness” has created the “Fast Food Nation” people too busy to cook a meal at home hurriedly drive through a fast food restaurant for quick food eaten in the car while on the go. Such a situation continues the idea of chaos within the family.

With this atmosphere being the status of our families in the US, it is no wonder that families are eroding. It becomes apparent why the divorce rate is so high. People simply do not have the time for others, including their spouses and their children. Children become independent in the sense that they must take care of themselves mothers are too busy to be nurturing. Students miss education opportunities because parents are too busy to be involved at school. Parents miss the development and growth of their children because they are too busy to notice that their child is quickly growing up. This is truly a disgrace to the institution of family that God has created.

We have been blessed by our time in India by many things, but one thing stands out. The pace of life is much different than the US. This is critical to maintaining a family unit. Taking time to notice things and relate to people is so valuable. It is, in fact, what the Lord called us to do. He commanded that we “love one another, as I have loved you” (John 15:12). In obedience to this command, we must take the TIME to love our family and others around us. We would like to encourage all readers of Candles to take some time to consider the business of your own life. Are you too busy to spend time with your own family? And more importantly, are you too busy to spend time with God?

Spending personal time with God is something that will inspire us to realize the importance of family. The more we get to know Him, the more we will realize just how much He loves our families. We will realize through time with God that His desire is for us to grow as a unified, cohesive family that works together to serve Him and bring glory to His name. We will learn what He is like. And we will learn that He calls us to be like Him. We are to love as He loves. Time spent with God will lead to the desire to spend more time with family. This time spent together will strengthen the bond and bring families closer together.

We often get “too busy” for our families. We must see this trend change, or the divorce rate will continue to rise throughout the world.

Okay, ladies—let’s get real. When most of us gals over fifty say we’re “hanging loose,” the phrase has taken on an entirely new meaning. Yes, I must confess that a lot of me has morphed into flesh that settles into loose folds whenever I sit, bend, or button a waistband. I do try to keep up with my aerobics and even lift weights a couple of times a week. Yet, despite my efforts, gravity seems to be tugging extra hard these days.

Thankfully, the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in American authors and they are writing a number of books to cash in on aging boomers and our worries over the visible signs of growing older. Not long ago, I came across an article in USA Today that discussed the latest crop of anti-aging books filled with dos and don’ts for the mature woman. Each of them looks interesting to me as I’m hoping to hang on to whatever looks I have left. But, I do have my limits!

The article suggests that a woman in her fifties or sixties is pleased to be alive (rather than dead by this age of decrepitude) but that she can’t pass a mirror without averting her eyes. Now, maybe my vision is going faster than I’d thought but I can still look myself in the mirror without gagging or fleeing the scene totally repulsed by the appallingly wizened reflection.

Shockingly, I like myself better now than when I was younger and so do most of my friends. Why not write a book about that? Yes, it may be important to look our best at any age. And, yes, looks do affect our self-esteem but so does a lifetime of growth and development. I may not wear my wrinkles proudly but I don’t despise them either. A lifetime of friends and laughter, memories and family, and challenges and triumphs more than makes up for a few lines. And, no one need avert her eyes at that!

Buwat yang belum kenal aku, mungkin kalian penasaran ya, kayak apa seh Citra itu? Hehehe.....

Umm... I'm just an ordinary girl, guys... Hehe... ^^
Aku gak cantik, aku gak kaya, aku gak pinter, aku gak punya apa-apa, en aku maci punya banyaaaaakk sekali kelemahan en kekurangan..... Tapi tenang,, semua itu gak bikin aku minder kok... ^^ Malah, semua itu justru jadi alasan kenapa aku gak isa berhenti bersyukur ma Tuhan setiap harinya.....

Aku selalu bilang ma Tuhan...
Tuhan, Terima kasih karena aku ini gak cantik, supaya saat ada orang yang bilang aku cantik, aku tau kecantikan itu datangnya dari kemuliaanMu...
Tuhan, Terima kasih karena aku gak kaya, supaya setiap kali aku mau makan, aku tau kalo Tuhanlah yang menyediakannya untukku...
Tuhan, Terima kasih karena aku gak pintar, supaya setiap kali aku menerima KHS di akhir semester, aku tau kalo nilai 3 koma yang aku dapatkan itu bukan hasil hikmat manusia semata...
Tuhan, Terima kasih karena aku gak punya apa-apa, supaya saat aku punya banyak hal, aku tau itu semua adalah kasih karunia...
Tuhan, Terima kasih karena aku masih punya banyak kelemahan, supaya saat aku kuat, aku tau kalo kekuatan itu berasal dariMu...
Dan terima kasih Tuhan karena aku masih punya banyak kekurangan, supaya aku selalu ingat darimana aku berasal... Dari debu tanah... ^^

Teman-teman, sebenarnya, aku punya banyaaaaaaaaaakkk sekali alasan untuk tidak mengucap syukur, untuk mengeluh, untuk bersungut-sungut...
Tapi saat aku pengen melakukannya, Tuhan selalu ingatkan aku, "Citra, cost your blessing one by one right now..."
Dan saat aku mulai menghitung, aku jadi sadar, ternyata aku punya banyak sekali hal yang isa aku syukuri... Lebih banyak dari yang isa aku keluhkan... ^^

Pengen tau contoh nyatanya? ^^ Umm.....
Hari-hari ini aku pengeeeeenn banget isa beli laptop buwat TA semester depan nanti... Tapi papa ku belum isa beli'in... ^^
Sebenernya itu isa aza seh jadi alasan untuk aku bersungut-sungut ato protes ke Tuhan, "Tuhan, mengapa to Tuhan gak kasik papa ku berkat lebih aza supaya aku isa beli laptop? Mengapa to untuk punya sebuah laptop aza aku sampe harus pake semua imanku?"
Mungkin seperti itu... ^^ Tapi aku gak melakukannya... ^^ Beberapa waktu yang lalu aku sudah menyerahkan hak ku untuk bertanya "Mengapa?" ke Tuhan, jadi aku dah gak isa protes apa-apa lagi... Hehehe...

Aku pernah bagi'in tentang ini di pemasa, truz ada anak rohaniku yang nanyak, "Ce, napa kok cece nyerahno hak'e cece untuk bertanya 'Mengapa?' ke Tuhan? Kan jadi gak isa protes-protes lagi, ce?"
Waktu itu aku cuma jawab, "Ada 2 alasan kenapa aku melakukannya... Yang pertama, karena aku pengen menyerahkan semua hal yang berhubungan dengan hidupku sepenuhnya ke Tuhan... All out... Supaya HE can come into my life en be my all... ^^ Alasan yang kedua, karena aku gak pengen membangun hubungan cintaku ma Tuhan di atas dasar berkat... Saat aku gak membangun hubungan cintaku denganNya di atas dasar berkat, diberkati ato gak diberkati, aku tau aku akan tetap mencintaiNya... Selalu mencintaiNya... ^^

Bukti nyata bahwa kita mencintai seseorang adalah saat kita bisa mempercayainya...
Dan karena aku pengen membuktikan bahwa aku mau belajar mencintaiNya dengan sempurna hari demi hari, maka aku pun belajar untuk mempercayaiNya dari waktu ke waktu... Sekalipun kadang aku sama sekali gak punya alasan untuk aku bisa percaya... ^^

Waktu aku bilang ini ke Tuhan, Tuhan nanyak ke aku, "Citra, dengan apa kamu membuktikan kalo kamu mempercayaiKu?"
Pertama aku bingung jawabnya, tapi truz aku bilang, "Tuhan, cara tiap orang mempercayaiMu mungkin berbeda-beda, tapi kalo Tuhan nanyak ke aku, caraku mempercayaiMu adalah dengan mensyukuri semua yang dah Tuhan kasik di hidupku... Sekecil apapun itu..." =D

Lalu tiba-tiba Tuhan ingatkan aku tentang beberapa temenku yang mereka bahkan gak isa TA gara-gara gak punya uang untuk biaya kuliah, juga beberapa temenku yang harus kerja sambilan untuk bayar uang kuliah mereka sendiri... Waktu inget mereka, aku jadi sadar betapa seharusnya aku bersyukur dengan keadaanku yang sekarang... Sekalipun gak isa beli laptop, tapi paling gak papa mama maci isa nguliahin aku dengan baek, gak pernah telat bayar uang kuliah sekalipun uangnya selalu adanya pas detik-detik terakhir... Hahahahaha..... Selaen itu, paling gak aku maci isa punya computer, core 2 duo lagi! Sekalipun maci kredit juga seh... Hahahahahahaha..... ><

Maci banyak ya tho contoh-contoh lainnya... Tapi sama seperti aku gak isa habis menghitung berkat-berkat Tuhan di hidupku, aku juga gak isa habis menceritakan semua itu... ^^
Pernah denger lagu ini gak?

Jika sluruh pohon menjadi pena
Jika samudra pun menjadi tinta
Jika cakrawala jadi kertasnya
Tak kan cukup tuk memuat kasihMu Tuhan...

Jika sluruh alam turut bersaksi
Jika malaikat pun turut bernyanyi
Jika sribu lidah turut memuji
Tak kan habis ceritakan kasihMu Tuhan... ^^

Sungguhan, hari ini aku bersyukur banget jadi seorang Citra... ^^ Kalo ada orang yang lebih baek segalanya dari aku en nawari aku buwat ganti peran jadi dirinya, gak usah mikir 2x pasti aku langsung nolak...
Karena sekalipun aku gak sempurna, tapi Tuhan pake hidupku... ^^
Dengan tanganku yang gak sempurna ini, aku menumpangkan tangan ke orang sakit en orang sakit sembuh...
Dengan tanganku yang gak sempurna ini juga, aku menumpangkan tangan ke anak-anak rohaniku dan memberkati hidup mereka...
Dengan kakiku yang gak sempurna ini, aku pergi menginjil ke rumah orang-orang dan melihat mereka diselamatkan...
Dengan kakiku yang gak sempurna ini juga, tiap malam aku berlutut dan bersyafaat buwat banyak orang...

Jadi, kalo sudah sedemikian banyak hal yang Tuhan percayakan di hidupku, apa lagi yang perlu aku minta? Apa lagi yang perlu aku keluhkan? Apa lagi yang perlu aku lakukan selain hidup sesuai dengan yang Dia minta? ^^

"Sekiranya engkau memperhatikan perintah-perintahKu, maka damai sejahteramu akan seperti sungai yang tidak pernah kering, dan kebahagiaanmu akan terus berlimpah seperti gelombang laut yang tidak pernah berhenti..." Yesaya 48 : 18

Blog ini aku dedikasikan terutama buwat temen-temen yang sering curhat ke aku, menggerutu... Aku suka seh denger curhat'e kalian, tapi sekali-sekali aku juga pengen denger ucapan syukur'e kalian lho... ^^

Buwat pam-pam en mam-mam (papa mama), xie xie ya pam, mam... Sekalipun dalam kekurangan, tapi kalian tetep kasik aku yang terbaek... Selalu kasik aku the best of you... Xie xie... ='D Percayalah kalo aku chayank kalian bukan karena apa yang dapat kalian kasik ke aku, tapi aku chayank kalian karena kalian adalah papa mama ku yang terbaek di dunia ini en di surga nanti... The best for me... ='D Aku akan tetep chayank kalian sekalipun kalian gak punya apa-apa yang isa kalian kasik ke aku... Karena yang berharga buwat ku adalah pribadi kalian, bukan apa yang kalian punya... ='D

Buwat makhluk special di hidupku, sama seperti Tuhan terima aku apa adanya ko, aku juga mau terima koko apa adanya... Aku bahagia bersama koko... Jadi, asal koko selalu ada di sisi ku, itu cukup kok buwat aku... Gak pengen yang laen... ^^

Buwat semua orang yang ada di hidupku, thx for coming into my world en give me your love... ^^
See u on the next blog... ^^

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یکی از بهترین راههای وبگردی چیزی نیست جز استفاده از ابزارآلاتی که مطالب موردعلاقه کاربران را دسته بندی می کنند. نمونه این را قبلا در ReadBurner شاهد بودیم. ریدبرنر سایتی بود که به آنالیز لینکهای Share در Google Reader می پرداخت و یکی از بهترین دست آوردهای این کار این بود که می شد به جای خواندن لینکهای Share شده دوستان لینکهای بیشتر شیر شده را در این سرویس خواند.  

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هنوز این سرویس در مراحل بسیار ابتدایی به سر می برد. اما می توان به آن امیدوار بود. و باید هم امیدوار بود زیرا این سرویس یک پله دیگر نسبت به Read Burner به وب3 نزدیکتر است.

فرض کنید این سرویس بخش فارسی خود را راه اندازی کند. آنگاه شما نوشته بیشتر به اشتراک گذاشته را در ریدبرنر می بینید. فقط نوشته های بیشتر به اشتراک گذارده شده! اما در این سرویس می توانید از بین همه محتواهایی که در فرندفید به چشم می خورد اعم از تصاویر و گوگل ریدرهای شیر و خلاصه همه چیز که بیشتر مورد توجه کاربران فارسی زبان بوده است به گشت و گذار بپردازید.

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مشترک این وبلاگ شوید تا هیچ چیز را از دست ندهید!

Di kesempatan ini, saya akan mengajak Anda untuk mengenal Apa itu POWER  NEGOTIATING? Semoga bermanfaat .... ;)

Sebagian dari Anda mungkin pernah mendengar bahwa tujuan negosiasi adalah untuk menghasilkan solusi menang-menang atau yang biasa disebut win-win solution. Solusi menang-menang adalah cara kreatif dimana baik Anda maupun pihak lawan dapat meninggalkan meja perundingan dengan perasaan bahwa Anda telah menang. Untuk bisa memahaminya, mungkin lebih baik jika kita mengilustrasikannya dengan dua orang yang hanya memiliki satu buah jeruk namun keduanya menginginkannya.

Jadi, mereka membicarakan perihal jeruk itu untuk sementara waktu dan memutuskan bahwa cara terbaik yang dapat mereka lakukan adalah membelah jeruk itu tepat di bagian tengahnya dan masing-masing setuju mendapatkan setengah dari satu yang sebenarnya mereka harapkan. Untuk memastikan bahwa itu adil, mereka sepakat bahwa salah satu pihak membelah jeruk itu dan yang lain memilih. Saat mereka membicarakan kebutuhan-kebutuhan yang mendorong mereka melakukan negosiasi, mereka mendapati bahwa salah satu pihak ingin membuat jus jeruk dan pihak lainnya menginginkan kulitnya untuk membuat kue. Secara menakjubkan mereka telah menemukan suatu cara di mana kedua belah pihak dapat menang dan tak seorang pun harus kalah. ;)

Tentu saja! Ilustrasi diatas bisa terjadi di dunia nyata, namun itu tidaklah cukup untuk membuat konsep itu menjadi bermakna. Mmm.... kenyataan yang harus kita akui, saat Anda tengah melakukan negosiasi.. kemungkinannya adalah pihak lawan berusaha mendapatkan sesuatu yang sama seperti yang Anda inginkan. Tidak akan ada solusi menang-menang. Jika mereka membeli, mereka menginginkan harga serendah-rendahnya.. sedangkan Anda menginnginkan harga tertinggi. Jika mereka menjual, mereka menginginkan harga setinggi-tingginya sedangkan Anda menginginkan harga temurah. Ini fact! Mereka ingin menguras uang dari dompet Anda dan memasukkannya ke dalam dompet mereka.

Nah, Power Negotiating mengambil suatu ancang-ancang yang berbeda. Strategi ini mengajarkan kepada Anda bagaimana menang di meja perundingan namun pihak lawan merasa bahwa dia juga menang. Bagaimana cara sehingga pihak lain terus merasa bahwa mereka menang ? Mereka tidak akan bangun keesokan harinya sambil berpikir, "Sekarang saya tahu apa yang telah dilakukan orang itu kepada saya.. Awas ya nanti kalau ketemu lagi!" :D Tidak demikian! Mereka akan berpikir alangkah menyenangkannya bernegosiasi dengan Anda dan betapa mereka tidak sabar untuk bertemu dengan Anda lagi. :)

Kemampuan untuk membuat pihak lawan merasa menang adalah sedemikian pentingnya...sehingga Anda pantas disebut sebagai Power Negotiator. Dua orang mungkin saja masuk ke dalam suatu negosiasi dalam keadaan atau situasi yang sama. Keduanya mungkin mengakhiri negosiasi pada harga dan persayaratan yang tepat sama, namun Power Negotiator... akan meninggalkan meja perundingan dengan membuat pihak lawan merasa bahwa mereka menang. Seorang negosiator yang buruk akan meninggalkan pihak lawannya dengan perasaan kalah.
To be continue....(untuk tulisan berikutnya, saya akan mengajak Anda Bagaimana Memainkan Permainan POWER NEGOTIATING)

hmm, ada yang bisa jelasin ga.. karena Allah  disini maksudnya gimana.. karena masih bingung prakteknya gimana..

ditunggu sharingnya ya...