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Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Je ne suis pas ici!

Saja lagi liburan dan nggak akan ada disini mulai 1 Juli 2004 sampe 14 Juli 2004.
Makasih sudah datang kesini ya

I am on vacation and will be out for 2 weeks starting from July 1, 2004 - July 14, 2004.
Thanks for coming!

Estoy el vacaciones y estare hacia fuera por 2 semanas que empiezan del de julio 1 de 2004 - de julio el 14 de 2004.
Gracias por venir!

(susah amat ngomongnya ya? :p
terserah mo ngomong pake bahasa apa pokoke
saja mah L-I-B-U-R euiy)

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

AIDS 2004 - XV
International AIDS Conference

Hari ini dapat imel dari teman tentang aktifis HIV/AIDS yang rupanya mo ngadain konfrensi di Bangkok, Juli 2004 nanti.
Konferensi internasional bertajuk AIDS 2004 - XV ini nantinya akan diramaikan acara long march untuk menuntut akuntabilitas dan aksi nyata terhadap penanggulangan AIDS. Yang lagi di Bangkok dan sekitarnya, kalo pengen terlibat silahkan catet yang dibawah ini deh:

CALL TO ACTION:

AIDS 2004 - XV International AIDS Conference:
Thai AIDS Treatment Activists Invite Allies to Join a March and Protest to Demand Accountability and Action on AIDS


SAVE THE DATE:

July 11, 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand
(The Opening day of the XV International AIDS Conference)
The theme of the XV International AIDS Conference theme is "Access for All"
We, Thai people living with HIV/AIDS and NGO allies, send a call to action to the international community to join a movement at the upcoming International AIDS Conference (Bangkok, July 2004) demanding accountability from heads of states, agencies, and individuals obstructing or failing to effectively address the gaps and inequities in HIV/AIDS treatment access, and demand real access for all.

BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE DYING NEEDLESSLY

- 3 million people died of AIDS in 2003 but it's STILL BUSINESS AS USUAL worldwide
- 6 million people of the 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide need ARV treatment NOW - but only 400,000 have access

BECAUSE WE DO NOT ACCEPT BROKEN PROMISES

More than 5.5 million PLWHA(People Living With HIV/AIDS) are without access to treatment because:
- National governments refuse to prioritize the fight against AIDS, and refuse to transform their rhetoric into concrete economic and political action;

- Rich donor countries that have broken their promises to spend $10 billion annually fighting global AIDS by 2005;

- International agencies have not made good on the promise to fill the deadly gap in access to treatment. By 2005, by the most optimistic estimates, only 240,000 additional people, or 4% of the total need, will access HIV/AIDS treatment through financing from

the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM)-- the "principle funding vehicle" for the WHO's '3 x 5' treatment access initiative;


BECAUSE WE KNOW HIV/AIDS CAN BE TREATED AND AFFORDABLE MEDICINES EXIST.


- Thai people living with HIV/AIDS and NGO allies, successfully lobbied and worked with our government to produce generic anti-retroviral drugs cheaply and developed comprehensive, community-based care programs so that universal access could be effectively delivered.

- Today, through a government program aiming to treat 50,000 people by 2005, we have already seen AIDS-related mortality drop by over 50%;


BECAUSE REAL ACCESS TO LIVE-SAVING TREATMENT AND PREVENTION IS NEEDED FOR ALL!


- PLWHA around the world are struggling to prevent national treatment programs from duplicating the social and economic inequities that put marginalized people, including rural people, women, children, men who have sex with men, and drug users last in line for life saving treatment;

- PLWHA around the world are threatened by ideologues attempting to thwart access to basic HIV prevention tools, particularly for the most vulnerable groups including women, men who have sex with men, migrant workers, prisoners, and injecting drug users;

- PLWHA face human rights violations in the form of repressive drug wars and policies, although 1 in 3 new infections outside Africa are the result of sharing of injecting equipment, and needle exchange has been proven to save lives without increasing rates of drug use;

BECAUSE EFFORTS TO FIGHT AIDS ARE UNDER ATTACK

- PLWHA around the world face bilateral donor programs that force treatment and prevention programs to abandon science and best practice, blocking life saving HIV prevention efforts, and blocking purchase of quality, low cost generic medicines;

- PLWHA around the world face barriers to access to affordable generic medicines as a result of regional and bilateral trade agreements with the U.S., undermining national sovereignty and capacity to address public health priorities such as HIV/AIDS;

BECAUSE WE KNOW WE CAN WIN AND THERE IS STILL MUCH MORE WORK TO BE DONE

- Even in Thailand, sometimes called the "next Brazil" in terms of treatment victories, where generic HIV/AIDS drugs are as cheap as USD $0.96 per day, deadly foreign policies threaten to undermine access to quality generic medicine, through efforts such as the U.S. government's proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Thailand.

- Access for all in Thailand is still not equitable; undocumented migrants, ethnic minorities denied citizenship, injecting drug users, prisoners and others still face non-medical exclusion criteria and social and economic barriers including health-care setting-based discrimination, which prevent them from accessing ARV.

- Activists in Thailand are demanding drug users worldwide get access to comprehensive prevention and treatment, not the threat of government sanctioned killing and unlawful detention;

BECAUSE SOLIDARITY AND ACTION ARE NEEDED TO WIN TREATMENT ACCESS FOR ALL, WIN THE REALIZATION OF OUR RIGHT TO HEALTH, AND TO STOP THE WAR ON HIV PREVENTION

By: Thai Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (TNP+) and the community of Thai AIDS Activists

Saturday, June 26, 2004

Who wants to Live Forever?

Bangun pagi, karena pola tidur yang kadung dirusak sama EURO 2004, akhirnya saya malah surfing internet dan nemu sitenya Troy. Ada quote menarik disitu.

"The Gods Envy Us. They Envy Us Because We're Mortal"

Baca quote ini bikin saya jadi ingat impian kanak-kanak saya dulu. Ya. Saya pengen jadi orang yang gak bisa mati. Seperti para hero lainnya.

Beranjak dewasa masih kepikiran sama impian itu. Sampai suatu masa saya nonton Highlander. Versi tivi dari kisah hidup Duncan McLeod ini dimainin sama Adrian Paul.
Wow! Impian itu makin menjadi-jadi. Bayangin kalo saya bisa hidup 400 tahun. Gak tua-tua. Bicara pengalaman; 400 tahun menapak bumi, kayaknya semua hal bisa saya coba. Bicara duit; nyimpan ceban di bank aja bisa diitung berapa bunganya 400 tahun ke depan. Bicara pengetahuan; 400 tahun belajar apa sih yang saya gak tau?
Hidup sebagai immortal emang gak ada 'mati'nya :p

Tapi lantas saya nonton Highlander versi layar lebar dan denger soundtracknya yang ditulis sama Brian May.

Who wants to live forever,
When love must die


Mendadak ada kesadaran baru. Ada sisi lain yang sama sekali gak kebayang sebelumnya. Bayangin 400 tahun melihat orang-orang terdekat kita pergi satu per satu. Jadi tua dan mati. Sementara kita tetap muda dan tak pernah mati. Living the lonely life.
Baru saya sadar bahwa bahkan mati itu pun ternyata adalah rahmat!
So ..... who wants to live forever?

Friday, June 25, 2004

Les Yeux Pour Pleurer!


Dulu sebuah penerbitan di Prancis menulis headlines seperti itu, menyusul gagalnya Les Blues ke World Cup 1994.
Les Yeux Pour Pleurer! Kedua mata ini memang diciptakan untuk menangis.
Siapa sangka hari ini, sepuluh tahun berselang,giliran saya yang mesti mengucap kalimat itu.

Inggris Takluk!
Sebagai penggemar fanatik Inggris sejak 1988 sayapun ikut hancur.
Seperti orang yang bermimpi indah lalu tiba-tiba terbangun dan melihat dunia tak seindah impiannya. Seperti itu perasaan saya sekarang. Ada rasa gamang. Seolah tak percaya! Beberapa hari lalu mereka main begitu gemilang menggulung Kroasia tanpa ampun 4-2. Begitu sempurna di semua lini. Cepat, lugas, taktis. Namun semalam segalanya berubah. Inggris tadi malam adalah Inggris dalam penampilan terburuknya. Mereka beruntung bisa menahan tuan rumah 2-2 sampai akhir 2 kali 15 menit. Tapi andaipun menang adu penalti, itu sungguh kemenangan yang tak pantas.
Dan sejarah kemudian memang tidak memihak mereka. Penalty shootout lagi-lagi mengirim St. George's Cross pulang kandang.
Inggris Takluk!
Dan saya hanya bisa mengucap lirih kalimat itu.
Les Yeux Pour Pleurer
Kedua mata ini memang diciptakan untuk menangis .........

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

So Lonely

When everybody loves you,
you can never be lonely


[Counting Crows - Mr. Jones]


I feel so lonely now
is that means no one love me???

Tuesday, June 08, 2004

Sedang Goblok? Ato Lagi Gila?

Seharusnya saya duduk maniez disana
Didepan kompie dibuai sejuknya semilir angin buatan
Menikmati jalannya hidup yang toh gak jelek-jelek amat
Diketerpencilan rig offshore nun jauh ditengah samudra

Tapi kenapa malah milih mandi keringat disini
Antri untuk melengkapi lembaran-lembaran berkas
untuk bisa jadi ce-pe-en-es
calon pegawai negeri sipil
Dengan penghasilan yang nantinya melorot drastis
Sampai sepersekian dari yang sekarang?

Ahhhhh.....!
Jujur saya pun gak tau
Barangkali saya sedang goblok?
Ato malah lagi sableng?

Ada yang bisa kasih tau??????