Yes, We Still Care Each Other: Australian Bushfire Tradegy

“The seventh of February 2009 will now be remembered as one of the darkest days in Australia’s peacetime history.” This remark from Julia Gillard – Deputy Prime Minister emphasized how devastated the nation is with this bushfire tragedy. More than 180 people lost their live , hundreds were injured, at least 750 family become homeless and nothing less than 330,000 hectares (3,300 square kilometer) of forest and rural city area were burnt. ( That area is almost 5 times larger than Singapore).

‘Bushfire’ is Australian term for what known as wild fire or forest fire. So, although the name is “Bushfire” (bush ~ scrubs) and imply small fire, it is not. This is massive fire where people fleeing with car still got burnt as the fire is faster than the acceleration of the car. If you browse many news site you will see a lot of those car just charred on the side of the road losing the race… To make it even worse, due to the large area and sudden change of wind, the small rural city affected were almost got no warning and literally only within minutes the damages and fatality were maximum. The most ironic thing is that exactly the same time, the north of the country in North Queensland, heavy flooding have ravaged the area and 62% of the sunshine state has been declared disaster area. But gladfully no fatality has occured.

Sydney Olympic Park’s Aquatic Center: Great Fun Without Price Tag

For the second time in this holiday season, our family spent another great day in Sydney Olympic Park’s Aquatic Center at Homebush, Sydney. Well, actually I don’t mind either, but this time I equip myself with my full weapon to produce this onsite blog entry. If you want to drive here, don’t worry about the [...]

Covered Call & Suspension: Does ACH Know What They Are Doing?

The decision from Australian Clearing House, the clearing house for Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to reject the security as collateral for its own option has shown to the world that perhaps ACH does not know the real effect of what they are doing. If you are option trader, in particular doing this covered call aka buy write aka share renting, or option broker or anybody else that understand option, you will need to know this bungle and found out that the solution is pretty damn simple. Keep reading.

Avoiding Recession and the 10 Billion Dollar stimulus…

Have you ever given money from someone just for you to spend whatever you want ? Well, probably yes. Most of us would have that experience courtesy of our parent. But could you imagine if that someone is the government? Have you ever dream about your government give you free money – cold hard cash – no string attach – tax free – deliver to your bank account free of charge ? Well, here is another reason why it’s nice to be an Aussie.

The Power of Technical Analysis: ASX Beats Dow Jones

How technical analysis pull a significant bounce in the shadow of sharp Dow Jones fall.

Go for iPhone: Three Desperate bid!

The desperate attempt for Three to get some quote of newly release iPhone

Annunciation: Anthony Francis Kristanda

Having a new member in the family is always exciting. We just have one. A big little baby called Tony has just join our family. Here is the first glimps of him.

Ultimate Solution to Minimize (If not Eliminate) Speeding Problem

Speeding is major problem. Not only causing death but also burden the economy with all the cost to handle speeding incident. Here is the ultimate solution to tackle speeding problem that will work.

Denis Kristanda “The Smiling Investor”

A poem about The Smiling Investor a.k.a The Smiling Engineer.

Credit card payment: 1 time is not enough

I have been one of millions customer of bank “C”. One of the product that I use is their credit card and saving account. Then I link them together so that the auto-payment can take some money to pay the credit card when it is due. (Yes, fully paid your credit card every month is [...]

UYMG Sydney: Sorry, No bandwidth!

“Yes, we will provide you with your own dedicated internet connection. But we did not specify how much the bandwidth is, isn’t it ?” – D’oh! Unleashed Your Marketing Genius (UYMG – PDF dump, 276k) is one of the signature event from the great Stephen Pierce. With proud, yes, I am one of his disciples. [...]

“Problem with your credit card”

My mobile rang: – “Hello ?” – I greet the unknown caller “Oh, hello. Is this Mr Kristanda ?” – a pretty voice on the other side. “Mr. Kristanda, we have a problem with your credit card, sir …” This big international seminar promoter “Empowernet” who carry some big name such Anthonny Robbins on their [...]