Indonesia's Listrik Negara Seeks $625 Million Funding for 2008

Link to the news at Bloomberg.com

Here is an interesting story, the state-owned electricity company has been losing money (since I don't know when). The 2003 report taken from their website shows a loss of 1.4e12 rupiah (equivalent to approximately 140e6 US dollars). Interestingly the report shows an expense of 2.165.000e6 rupiah (= 217e6 US dollars) labeled as "lain-lain". To me, labeling something as "miscellaneous" should raise concerns, especially when the amount shown is 1.5 times of the reported loss. Who in their right mind would invest in a company like this?

TXU and Reliant might be scratching their heads as to how an effectively monopolist loses money in the electricity business. Maybe PLN just does not charge their consumers enough to recover their costs, or maybe, just maybe it is an 'accounting glitch'.

Missing Umbilical Cord

This morning we went to the pediatrician for Jonathan's second check-up visit. It's amazing how he is calm in the car and at the doctor's office while he was crying left-and-right just when we left home. I guess a sense of preserving good image is there at early age.

Interesting things I learned from the doctor:

• Baby is producing breast milk because of hormone transferred by breastfeeding. Gratefully, the doctor assured me that it would stop at some point.
• Bottlefeeding: Soy milk gives more gas to baby compared to regular lactose-milk. In contrast, mommy that drinks cow's milk (which is lactose) and breastfeed will give more gas to the baby.
• You can never overdose the baby with Mylicon

The doctor showed baby's umbilical cord was hanging by a thread. Sure enough, the next time we changed baby's diaper, the umbilical cord was gone.

Baby weighs 8lbs 2oz. and he has grown by 1in since his birth to 22in.

Future Engineer

or future football player, basketball player, swimming olympian, ...

The "Friend of Alec" sent me that cute t-shirt.

Baby Jonathan Maxwell Sutjandra

Little baby Jonathan Maxwell Sutjandra was born on Aug 6, 2007. Praise the Lord God, he answers all our prayers. Baby is healthy and responding well to his surroundings. Debbie is recovering well.

Day 1:

Day 2:

Day 3:

Baby is 7lbs 8oz (3.402kg) and 21 inch (53.34 cm)

What a joy to both of us...

Shine on 'Em by Nas

They wanna shine on 'em
Shine on 'em X 7
Yeah

They dug me out the soil in the Mines of the Motherland
Now I'm misplaced, one hand to another hand
Illegal smugglin', people strugglin'
Wish they could just throw me back in the mud again
Yeah, guess that's how we got here
Slave Trade then the Diamond Trade
Every child's afraid
When his Mother and Father get sprayed
Forced in the Army, young killer Brigade
Gets a new name and then he give his nose glue
Til' his mind can't take what he's gon' through
Lookin' in that dirt for that ice so blue
Then The Royal Family, the ice goes to
And this thing has to change, feelin' half-ashamed
As I rap with my Platinum chain
When you shop for a gift for me
You think about the misery?
The same way we made Apartheid History
We can do the same thing to the conflict ice
But everybody wanna shine, right?

Everybody wants Heaven but nobody wants dead
Everybody wants Diamonds without the Bloodshed
Everybody wants Heaven but nobody wants dead
Everybody wants Diamonds without the Bloodshed
They wanna Shine on 'em
Shine on 'em X 7

My VVS glimmers on my chest
200-thou-encrusted watch on my wrist
I wonder how people starve to death
When God bless the land that lacks the harvest
The stone's equality, but they homes are poverty
And the whole world ignores the robbery
Bought my girl pretty rocks when she's mad at me
Tear-drop shaped, uh, perfect Clarity
It shocks, so many are killed annually
'Cause of greed, lust, and pure Vanity
Stop talkin' and do somethin' about it
Every Holiday Season, Jewelry stores crowded
Kids snatched from their homes, Mutilated alive
Husbands separated from wives, keep a Jesus piece to be fly
But back in the day there was a time when they called us shine

Everybody wants Heaven but nobody wants dead
Everybody wants Diamonds without the Bloodshed
Everybody wants Heaven but nobody wants dead
Everybody wants Diamonds without the Bloodshed
They wanna shine on 'em
Shine on 'em X 7

It's a BOY!!!!

Snow in Austin, TX

Snow!

Icy Car

Icy Apartment

Baby's Heartbeat

A Little Kick