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PASSION

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LIVING WITH VALUES

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Living with values is not only a slogan for hidden message. It is part of local character. There are many cities living with values as they are able to maintain identity. Local identity which defines the people and their life. The strong local identity can be found in some historical buildings. They are part of the history. It will not be easy to eliminate ideas of local-oriented eagerness when materialism becomes dominant. Hence, the compromise approach could be alternative for peaceful reconciliation between eagerness to have identity and pressure of materialism ego. Living with values means living with identity. Proud to be myself with colorful uniqueness and optimism of idealism. Identity brings attributes which are rooted from the experience. I am what I experience. I am with ambition that leads me to the direction of meaning. Everything is calculated accurately. Details of each parts are clearly stated. The form, size and color of each parts are storyteller, a witness of process.

TRANS-TOYING

What is trans-toying? It's an industry term for taking everyday utilitarian objects and turning them into toys. It's turning a shampoo container into a toy by putting a character on top or on a toothbrush. It's turning a Band-Aid into a tattoo, a food into a toy. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,995267,00.html#ixzz0ggtzzYdZ

S'PORE INC.

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Singapore Inc. is working with efficiency by raising productivity and relying less on foreign labour. This strategy will cause the Singapore Inc. become a business entity in which the role of human with his intellectual asset will put in the priority. Less dependency on foreign labour within business context could be interpretated as to give more opportunity for locals to be more concern with their own home. But, this will give price to the existence of market mechanism. The market regime will always make equilibrium between supply and demand. It means that market will look for the most efficient place to live and grow. The competition is not between locals and foreigners but mainly between the most efficient and the less one. In other words, it's about the skills, labour skills. The skillfull individuals will be the winner. This is not the end. Definition of "skilled" individuals is market orientation. Market will define or give the definition. But. this might be a very

MESSAGE FROM FLOWER

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Each flowers have their own colour which means a message. Find, feel and experience it, therefore you will have passion. Think critically that each message is a sign for certain direction. Experience seriously then you will be able to choose. Really it is a guarantee. Each flowers are made different. The size, shape, height, weight, and ....colour are not enough. Look at them in details, there you will find the meaning. It is not the beauty of colourful creature, it is the un-answered creativity. How nature works for them creatively and ....timely. Each flowers bring eagerness and motivation. Make it into your wholeness. Do it for you will be driven by their spirit. They will tell you many things. Just wait and move. You have it now.....! flower_ipoh2010

Misogyny and Materialism

A Steady Stream Of Misogyny And Materialism I was very disappointed with "Can MTV stay cool?" (Cover Story, Feb. 20). While MTV Networks (VIA ) may be a leader in reinventing its brand, your story made little mention of MTV's dark side, which includes regularly playing music videos that largely feature misogynistic images and lyrics and espouse the "virtues" of materialism. MTV has taken the strategy of appealing to the "lowest common denominator" in order to obtain its widest reach. Jeffrey Podoshen Assistant Professor of Marketing Franklin & Marshall College Lancaster, Pa.

Konsumen Pembelajar

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Konsumen pembelajar dalam masyarakat pembelajar adalah perubahan revolusioner yang ditandai oleh kreatifitas berkelanjutan. Ditandai oleh munculnya berbagai macam terminologi. Berkaitan dengan terminologi, Paul Greenberg (2010) dalam buku terbarunya Customer Relationship Management at the Speed of Light mengatakan bahwa struktur terminologi membawa konten yang berbeda. Era perubahan itu adalah perubahan terminologi, perubahan yang semakin mengembalikan kepentingan konsumen berikut sistem yang memfasilitasi berbagai macam perilakunya. Perubahan terminologi adalah indikasi proses pembelajaran. Melalui “kosa kata” baru konsumen difasilitasi sekaligus dikondisikan untuk belajar. Apa yang dikatakan Hollis Thomases (2010) dalam Twitter Marketing adalah bahwa atas nama “kecepatan” yang bernilai ekonomis, maka pembelajaran itu adalah belajar untuk berkomunikasi secara efektif, pandai meringkas informasi sampai pada “inti persoalan”. Semua dipahami secara ekonomis, memberi yang terbaik bagi ora

STORY FROM "THE RICH"

Karl Rabeder grew up poor and thought that life would be wonderful if he had money. But when he got rich, Karl discovered that he was unhappy … so he decided to give away every penny of his £3 million fortune: "My idea is to have nothing left. Absolutely nothing," he told The Daily Telegraph. "Money is counterproductive – it prevents happiness to come." Instead, he will move out of his luxury Alpine retreat into a small wooden hut in the mountains or a simple bedsit in Innsbruck. His entire proceeds are going to charities he set up in Central and Latin America, but he will not even take a salary from these. "For a long time I believed that more wealth and luxury automatically meant more happiness," he said. "I come from a very poor family where the rules were to work more to achieve more material things, and I applied this for many years," said Mr Rabeder. But over time, he had another, conflicting feeling. "More and more I hear

THE WORLD OF IMAGE

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It is interesting to discuss the end “direction” of the world of image. When the cycle of the world of image could be well-maintained for the reason of market mechanism, within the perspective that the presence of the world of image is necessary and consumable for the rationality of supply-demand relation, there will never be “extreme point” for the presence of the world of image. As an authorative spirit, the world of image will never be die. It will continuously evolve into new “faces”. (from "The World of Image" by Ign_Heri_SW)

YOUNG PEOPLE AND EASINESS

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Young and easy are two keywords which have complementary relationship, a relation to be complement. Young within the perspective of young people is a dynamic spirit. An energic creature who are filled with passion to have conflict with himself. Many challenges come out, all are eager to be gone through and dominated. Terminology of “easy” refers to medium which contains meaningfully on timeless. Easiness brings the spirit of in-essence which need less of critical thinking. Easiness is meaningless symbolizing the effort to shorten the “distance” between absolute ego and idealism, the idealism which proceeds in relatively short time because of timeless character. Therefore, easiness usually refers to conceptual meaning of instant. When easy and instant culture have become an orientation of thought and behavior, there will be a culture. Instant culture has the same meaning with culture of easiness, a culture which fails to recognize process and time, a culture which is process-less and t