Vegetarian... Why Not?

I just wanna share my impression about being a vegetarian. I don't understand why some people keep saying something non-sense consequence about being a vegetarian. My friend said, she can't being a vegetarian caused her family are afraid about her growth. Hmm, I don't think so. Come on.... Let's clear this opinion.

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What is Vegetarian?

Vegetarian, is kind of diet method   No, I won't say that it's a diet method, I prefer say being a vegetarian is a life style. A life style that you don't eat any food which contain meat, seafood or anythig that related to animal products. To be honest , there are many kinds of vegetarianism, such as Ovo vegetarianism (eat such as egg product but not dairy product, Lacto vegetarianism (eat such as dairy product but not egg product), Vegan (doesn't eat any egg, dairy, honey and anything which comes from animal), Buddhist Vegetarianism (For this one, I'll tell from Maitreya Buddhism's point of view. In here, there's 3 steps of vegetarian. First is learning, in the learning part. You still allowed to eat allium family (garlic, onion, shallots, chives, scallions, etc), egg products (biscuits, cakes) and dairy products (milk). The second part, you'll learn to avoid any of allium family products, less eggs and less dairy product. The last part is try to become a vegan).

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Why vegetarian?

I've been a vegetarian since I was 11 y.o. FYI, before i learned to being a vegetarian. I dislike any kind of vegetables. Seriously... I hate any kind vegetables especially green vegetables. Its tasted weird on my tongue.. :p

Till one day, my mom gave me green eggplant to be eat. I tried it, then I realised that's delicious.. :). Since then I tried to eat more vegetables, I tried to eat no meat twice a week for the first 6 months, 3 times a week for next 6 months, and keep on till finally I don't eat any meat or animal (fish, seafood, etc) anymore or I can say that finally, I can be a vegetarian. Yeah , may be I'm still in the first part on learning part, I still eat onion, eggs, and milk product. If you ask the reason why I can being a vegetarian... Let me tell you then..

Simply, the main reason is a love. Everybody, No every creature has a main right is called Life, which it's a gift from God. You have family right? Animal also has family. How do you feel if you lost one of your family members? Sad, pain right? Animal also has the same feel as us. It can feels sad, pain, angry, afraid. However, what can they do? When they see us (human) took one of their family, they're become angry, they will do strange movements also some of them scream on their own languages also cry, but we don't know it. We think they're angry to us (Yeah, that's true if they're angry to us) and that's make we're quickly to took their life asap before something unwillingness happened.
Don't you feel guilty by doing that? they were killed then you eat them. You might feel guilty when you stole something, sad when you lost something precious, right? However, what have you done now? After you killed them, you ate them, means you've stolen their precious life for satisfying your tongue only.

How do you feel, don't you feel poor to the animal? Have you seen killing process in slaughther house (butcher)? They're afraid, they cry... But nobody care.. They have a big pain in their heart, but nobody know. We only know to get money from selling them. We only know how delicious them of being a food. We only think that they're life for us.

Please, don't be like that. They also have a life. They want to have a free life, not live in a narrow stalls like this. You can see, there's no happy feel in their faces . All only pain, fear and sadness.. :'( They only hope, please don't take my life... :(

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Non-sense fact about being a Vegetarian

I wanna make clear some people's opinion about weird consequence for being a vegetarian.

- A vegetarian person can't have male child?

No, child, no matter female or male. It's all come from God. It's a gift and only God know about it

- A vegetarian person can't grows properly. Kinda short.

No, I'm vegetarian, and I grow properly. My height is 162 cm. That's average for asian female person. So, dunno from where this kind of opinion comes. Height is influenced by biologic (generation) factor.

- A vegetarian child can't be clever

A research told that  Eskimo people (who eat meat, etc) has shorter life than Hun Za people (who are mostly vegetarian). Albert Einstein also a vegetarian, and he isn't a stupid person. Phytagoras also a vegetarian. He was smart right? Btw, we can't count the sideway of triangle without his theorem.. :p

- Is that safe (healthy) enough for being a vegetarian?

Of course, I almost never come to a hospital for a serious disease. People who did vegetarian's life style properly has fewer risk for getting any disease than them who doesn't.

- Vegetables also creature, why we can eat that but not with animal?

hmm, kinda stupid question. Okay, you can plant vegetables right? That's mean you make a life for plants, you create it, not give the life. Plants can't move likes animals do, also actually, plant is made as food sources (Herbivore). However, Can you make a life for animal? Animals got their life from God like us. They can feel pain, sad, happy, afraid. The same feeling as us can feel too.

- How about carnivore animal, they're allowed to eat meat, why we can't?

Seriously, do you want to be like animal?? -__-

Conclusion: I'm not saying all of you must become vegetarian directly. At least try to safe animal life with being a vegetarian. Try to eat less meat twice a week first, then try to increase the times to be a vegetarian. Being a vegetarian won't bring negative effects for your life. I've proved it and I really enjoy my life for being a vegetarian. That's an easiest way to safe animal's life. Being a lovely person guys, bring happines to all the creature in the world. Because we are family. Being a vegetarian also safe the world from Global Warming

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Why We Should Post an App Review on AppStore/ GooglePlay Using Our Native Language

Hello everyone, suddenly want to post something ;)

After, I read an article on makemac.com about why we must post review with our native language. I got an inspiration to re-post it here. However, I won't just copy-paste it right here. That's just not my style. So, for my post today. I'll post in Indonesian Language. For you who curious about to read the article, just click the change language button. Hope Google translate can do the translation well for this time :) If it doesn't work properly, don't hestitate to drop your question :)

Anyway, I have a bit information why I love to post using English language. Firstly, that's caused by English is an International language, though my grammar isn't perfect, but I still keep learning. So, for you who read my posts. If you find something wrong with my grammar. Don't hestitate to correct my mistakes. I really appreciate that.

Secondly, sometimes Google Translate gone drunk... lol I mean Google Translate doesn't translate the Indonesian based text 100% correctly, and that's make the word has mistranslation with different meaning in other languages. Those my reasons, why I like to write using English language.

FYI,currently, I'm living on Indonesia. So this article is based to Indonesian AppStore. I used android phone too, however I only use it for sending sms or calling only. ;) for this time, the main target here is AppStore only.

Oke, menurut artikel yang saya baca dari makemac.com sudah seharusnya kita meninggalkan review di AppStore setelah kamu mendownload/ membeli suatu app/lagu. Kenapa?

Sama seperti yang dikatakan di makemac, ada beberapa alasan:

- Yang pertama ini alasannya mungkin sedikit konyol, untuk mendapatkan jempol pada reviewmu. Jika kamu meninggalkan review pada AppStore, akan ada pertanyaan di bawah review yang berbunyi "Is this review helpful?" Sebuah jempol dari orang lain akan membuatmu senang atas penghargaan yang orang itu berikan untukmu, apalagi jika yang memberi jempol lebih dari 5 orang, bangga pasti rasanya... Hehehe..

- Kedua, menyelamatkan orang lain dari app penipu. Setahu saya Apple memang bisa merefund uang kita kembali jika app yang kita beli tidak sesuai dengan apa yang dideskripsikan atau bersifat menipu. Andai kata hal itu terjadi pada kita, jangan biarkan orang lain mengalami hal yang sama... Jangan bilang "Biar tahu rasa juga mereka, mengalami hal yang serupa kaya gue... wkwkwk"" Ga boleh ya :P segera tinggalkan review pada app tersebut, dan untuk kasus ini jangan tinggalkan nilai rate bintangnya saja tanpa meninggalkan sepatah kata pun pada kolom review. Hanya mengklik 1 bintang, selesai.... NO NO BIG BIG NO! Perlu diketahui rating bintang hanya akan ditampilkan jika app tersebut mendapatkan setidaknya 5 rating dari para reviewer. Kalau begitu secara tidak langsung, akan ada 4 orang lagi yang tertipu untuk bisa membuktikan bahwa app tersebut palsu. Namun jika kamu meninggalkan review bintang yang disertai kata-kata, reviewmu akan segera tampil dalam waktu kurang lebih 24 jam. Walaupun hanya ada 1... Keren kan sendirian nongkrong di bagian review... Kalo bahasa kerennya pertamax gan :P

- Membantu pengembang aplikasi, nah developer itu manusia biasa lo, manusia mana yang ga senang kalau dipuji. Tinggalkan review yang baik, jika memang gamenya kurang bagus jangan langsung dicela. Ingat tidak ada hal yang sempurna di dunia ini. Tinggalkan review dengan kata-kata yang sopan, berikan kritik dan saran yang membangun agar ke depannya game tersebut bisa diperbaiki. Jika rating app tersebut tinggi, maka penjualannya bertambah. Developer pun semakin semangat membuat games/ aplikasi baru. Kalau developer banyak dicela lalu ngambek, AppStore bakal sepi lho... :P ntar mau main apa??!!?

Nah kalo yang ini tips-tips meninggalkan review yang baik:

- Selama ini saya memang sering meninggalkan review saya di AppStore dengan bahasa Inggris, karena dulu saya pikir developer bisa membaca review dari saya #lol #konyol. Nyatanya memang bisa jika developer tersebut menswitch (merubah) region AppStorenya ke region kita Indonesia. Tentunya agak mustahil, mengingat biasanya developer-developer menggunakan US AppStore (ini juga yang mengganggu saat ada pembagian giveaway US iTunes Gift Card >o< ga punya US account ToT) kecuali untuk developer lokal.

Kesimpulannya, yang akan membaca ya sesama komunitas pengguna AppStore Indonesia juga. Jadi kalau bisa pakai saja bahasa Indonesia, amat membantu untuk orang tua yang ga ngerti bahasa Inggris kalau kalau mereka juga ingin beli di AppStore, mungkin saja mereka bingung saat membaca deskripsinya namun setelah membaca review mu mereka menjadi sangat terbantu. Lebih berjasa dari pada spiderman... *Lho?

- Kedua, tanpa menyinggung perasaan para pembaca, tolong jangan tinggalkan review hanya sepatah dua patah kata saja seperti mantab, nice, oke nih! Itu bukan review :P itu sama sekali tidak membantu menjelaskan seperti apa game/ apps yang kamu pakai. Memang menulis review tidak harus panjang, yang penting singkat padat dan menjelaskan. Jangan lupa ucapkan terima kasih pada developer yang sudah bekerja keras membuat app tersebut

Contoh review yang baik:

- Apps ini bagus, kamu akan bermain sebagai pangeran yang menyelamatkan putri yang diculik. Rintangan-rintangannya amat seru dan menantang. Grafisnya juga menarik walaupun bergaya retro. Soundnya juga enak didengar. Overall, good job developer. Waiting for the next update.

- Apps ini membantu saya menyusun daily journal, pekerjaan saya tidak lagi terbengkalai karena adanya apps ini. Fitur reminder dan alarm membuat saya selalu tepat waktu. Apalagi apps ini juga sudah terhubung ke dropbox dan google docs. Dengan harga yang cukup murah saya bisa mendapatkan aplikasi yang amat bermanfaat. Good job, developer. Thanks

UI (User Interface): 4/5

Feature: 4.5/5

Value: 4/5

Contoh review yang kurang baik:

Bagus!

(Ah... bagus di mananya?? tolong jelaskan donk... nulis review di AppStore ga perlu panjang-panjang kok... 3-4 kalimat saja sudah cukup asal menjelaskan, ga akan sampai 5 menit juga selesai)

Bah... Jelek amat nih app! 

(Tolong dijaga kata-katanya, belum tentu anda bisa membuat seperti itu. Jika anda yang menjadi developernya dan mendapat pencelaan yang kasar, apa yang anda rasakan?)

5 Bintang asal no IAP

(Developer juga manusia dan butuh makan.... Mendevelop suatu app sampai bisa masuk ke jajaran pasar AppStore bukan perkara mudah yang hanya sehari dua hari selesai. Jangan tulis di review kaya gitu donk.. kesannya ga ikhlas.. :p Developer membuat app free to play dengan alasan agar semua orang bisa ikut main, ketika terdapat IAP belilah sesekali. Jika belum terlalu mampu belilah IAP termurah untuk support developer hanya 9500 sama seperti semangkok mie ayam, apalagi jika itu developer lokal support ya. Kalau ga punya kartu kredit ya berdoa saja, kasih semangat ke developernya... XD .Dan jika ada iklan klik lah sesekali. 

Namun, jika iklannya pop ups terus menerus memang kesal sih (1 menit pop ups sampai 10x, dan pop ups di tengah2 game berlangsung dan game yang lagi kamu mainkan adalah endless runner atau tap tap rhythm... *Arrghhh... Oke, untuk kasus ini pengecualian, biasanya pada update selanjutnya developer akan mengurangi durasi ads, karena ads terlalu banyak juga mengurangi jumlah download)

Kalian tentunya ingin mobile gaming di Indonesia berkembang kan? Kalau iya lakukanlah, support dan pujian yang membangun akan menjadikan developer lebih semangat untuk berkarya )

Ih, appnya ripped off nih, bagusan juga game x daripada game ini udah gitu crash terus-terusan. Payah!

(Aduh-aduh ini lebih-lebih lagi No no no, jangan membandingkan 2 app yang ada, sekalipun terlihat mirip namun pasti ada perbedaan, pujilah yang menjadi kelebihan dari apps tersebut. Jika apps tersebut mengalami crash, tidak apa-apa ditulis dalam review, tulis juga di mana letak crashnya, (crash pada saat.... ) sehingga user lain bisa mengetahui hal itu dan ikut melaporkan dengan menggunakan App Support. Kemudian, gunakan tombol App Support yang akan menghubungkan situs resmi developer app tersebut. Gunakan fasilitas contact us pada web tersebut untuk memberitahukan keluhanmu. Developer akan sangat senang dan menghargai hal itu, mereka juga merasa terbantu sekali. Itu menunjukkan bahwa apresiasi pengguna pada app mereka cukup bagus. Selain itu biasanya laporan yang ditujukan langsung pada developer akan lebih cepat ditanggapi dan versi update (fixing the bug) muncul lebih cepat. Saya sendiri sudah mencobanya, dan hanya satu hari update perbaikan crash sudah keluar.. :)

Wah ribet amat sih, cuma tulis review aja banyak aturannya. Ngga lah, semua ini demi kebaikan kita bersama. O, ya jangan karena kelihatan ribet karena acara nulis review segala kalian jadi jailbreak iDevices kalian lho... *Kan gampang ga perlu nulis review2 segala kalo jailbreak* | *-_- ga harus segitunya lah

Ingat hargailah karya orang lain, mungkin kamu belum merasakan, tapi suatu saat kalian akan tahu pahit rasanya mengetahui karya kalian dibajak oleh orang lain.. :) 

Dan terima kasih karena sudah mau membaca postingan saya kali ini. . . Happy reviewing!

O, ya kalau kalian bingung mencari referensi games yang bagus di AppStore silakan kunjungi GameSaku

Tidak hanya iOS games saja, ada juga review untuk Android games.. Try to visit ya!

Stay tune juga buat artikel-artikel blog ini selanjutnya.... :D

Note: I'm not a developer, but I really appreciate and honor other people's works. First time I bought my iPad, the seller also jailbroken it too. I was too newbie and I didn't know how to use AppStore. The seller told me to download the apps from installous, and I agreed that. Few months later, I learned anything that related into iPad, Apple, AppStore and Jailbroken devices properly, and then I knew that's not good to jaibroken a device also illegal too. So, I decided to upgrade my iOS into iOS 5.1 at that time, n began to buy the apps from AppStore and never think to jailbreak my device again. For you who has jailbroken your devices, it's your decision and up to you to jailbreak your devices or not, but at least keep buying the apps from AppStore for supporting the developer, use the installous for trying an app only.

Top 5 Photo Editor for your Phone

Hey... Hey... This time I will post top 5 Photo Editor for your phone, especially for iOS devices.. I have so many photography apps in my iPad, almost 40 photograph's apps. However, i must decide which one will become the top 5 app. Alright, FYI, these apps below based by my personal experiments, and here we go..

In the 5th place we have

5. FotoRus

A free photo app for your iPhone also available for android too. It has quite nice photo effects, such as basic editing like crop, changing brightness, contrast, and some basic filtering also standard borders. Not just like that, it also has Pic in Pic, I like this feature, it makes a picture inside a picture, unfortunately the template is still few for me.
FotoRus also has collage feature, but the photos is limited for 7 photos only. However, it has filter, border and lighting editor for make your collage pic more beautiful.
Overall, FotoRus is a one app with rich feature, not too rich, but enough to make a pretty simple photograph of yours.
Oh, almost forget, it's also can be used to make GIF animation.. :)
FYI, this app is compatible with iPad but not universal so the screen come smaller on your big iPad screen, but don't worry, that doesn't decrease the quality of your photos.
See some screen shots below about FotoRus

Download FotoRus for iOS

Download FotoRus for Android

4. Camera 360

This one is come as a free beautiful photo app... So many filter effects which u can try.. There are 14 main filter category such as Magic Skin, LOMO, Retro, HDR, Enhance, BnW, Ghost, Magic Color, etc. the basic photo editor also available. The best thing from all the filters is Magic Skin filter. It removes all pimples or red spot on your face, make your skin looks smooth without blurring.. So pretty...
You can use this app as simple as you want, one more it has cloud service too, you can back up your photos to cloud360 and it's totally free. Camera 360 also has collage feature, which can used photos up to 9 photos, better than Foto Rus. Camera 360 also has some borders but in a scenes, such as your portrait on the wall, canvas, glasses, etc. Unfortunately, you must have Internet connection to use this feature, also the pic only can be taken from your direct photograph,can't be from your gallery..

Like Foto Rus, this app is available on android and iOS, but not universal for iPad. Don't worry, though the screen come smaller on iPad screen but the photo's quality is still high. So, this app is must have on your iPad too.

Download Camera360 for Android

Download Camera360 for iOS

For the third one I have 3 candidates, all of them are the best from each single category..

3A. Photo Slice

If you like to make a collage for one photo only. I bet you will love Photo Splice. This app did great with one photo splicing... The basic themes are unique also you can make your own template too. Photo filter available to make your photo more interesting.
See some photos below using photo splice editor

Download Photo Slice HD for iPad

Download Photo Slice Free for iPhone

Download Photo Slice Pro for iPhone

3B. Diptic

If Photo Slice can be used only for one photo only, you can use Diptic for make an interesting collage photo. Diptic is used with at least 2 photos up to 9 photos. Different from the collage feature inside both apps which I mention before, Diptic has more shapes, from classic, jumbo , fancy, until fresh. The shape such as heart until PacMan is available in this app. Make your collage photo different from others.
Diptic is the best choice for the one who love to blogging too.. :D

Ps: I have add some filter into the photos using Instagram filters. However, Diptic also provides some nice filter and basic editor.

Download Diptic for iOS

Download Diptic for Android

3C. Perfect 365

For this one, is suitable for who doesn't have enough time to put some make up on her faces. You can become prettier less than 5 minutes. Start from putting the eyeliner, mascara, lipstick till decrease your face size (make your face smaller), you can do those all in one app.
You just need to set some points of your face, such as eye corners and lip corners.
You can edit by selecting the default templates or create your own one.
See the comparison before - after photo below...

Download Perfect365 for iPad

Download Perfect365 for iPhone

2. Pixlr Express

Actually, this app kinda similar with other photo editor app. However, the best thing from this app, it's rich of features, quite complete. It has many features, filter is contains by default, creative, vintage, color, etc. Overlay mode comes with many packages, like firework, bokeh, lightning, vignette, etc. the last one is border, it has so many kinds to be chosen.
Overall, I'll give this score 4.5/5 , basic features (crop, redeye, brightness, etc) are good as other.

Download Pixlr Express for iOS

Download Pixlr Express Plus for iOS

Download Pixlr Express for Android

1. Blux Camera

The last one, I decide to choose Blux as the winner.... Congratz.. :)
I like how focus worked in this app, also the HDR did well using this app. i don't need to write about this app again, all the basic editor features are provided by this app. So, let my photos below explain how the Blux Camera impress me.. ;D
Ps: Sorry, for the low resolution , all taken using iPad 2 camera.. :)

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Daemon Amor: Nice game for your valentine day...

Hello, everyone... i've been busy with my exams last in several days, but finally, its over... Yeah! Anyway, Happy Valentine all!

If you're looking for a game to accompany you on Valentine days, may be this game is quite nice for you. Alright, may be V'day is yesterday, n I just post this game today, but nevermind. I'm addicted to this game actually.. :P

Daemon Amor

An endless flying game with love theme... The story tell if one day, there's a daemon who comes from hell, and involuntary, it met with a Cupid, who's angry and decide to retired for being a Cupid.. Hmm? The Cupid throws the heart and its wings. Luckily, the daemon saw it and use the wings, also eat the heart too.
Unfortunately, daemon is still daemon, it's looks like its stomach reject the love, so the daemon needs to spread the love by spew it on sad people...

Wait? Spew? That's looks rude and impolite..
Hahaha... Come on, it just a game.. By spewing on sad people, It make them become a happy person and dancing gangnam style... LOL
The game control is so simple, the left button used to fly, and right button to spew.. Make a consecutive direct hits to gain multiplier. Be careful not hit with another Cupids, tree, powerlines, or lamp posts.

Which I love from this game is the back song... Man, it's really really a sad song at the first time playing, but after you did your first spew, the music changes into a happy song, which really really cheerful to be hear.
The graphic is a 2D graphic, not too colorful, dominant with black and white. Additional color only for happy person, the environment is simple too. However, it's all comfortable to be seen.
So, neither you're single, or in a relationship. I recommend you all to try this game... It's still free till now, and it has leaderboard also achievements on Game Center.

Graphic: 4/5 (Simple but adoring)
Sound: 5/5 (Really nice to be listen repeatedly)
Gameplay: 3/5 (Simple, I wish for some power ups)
Replay value: 4/5 (You will try to give love more and more ;D)
Overall: 4/5 (Quite fun to accompany your valentine, this will be better with some power ups or ability to customize the character)

Download Daemon Amor

Top 5 Endless Runner Games for your Phone

Hola, hmmm... Long time no posting... I've been busy with my college, and btw, Happy new year *Oh, man that's too late u know... :P it's okay, since this will be my first post in this year... LOL

A bit story, before I continuing my writing. I spent my holiday go to Trans Studio Bandung, it's kind of indoor amusement park, that's located in Trans Studio Mall. The entrance ticket cost IDR 250.000 or about $25, but dude, I went there on December 31, 2012 and you know what? It's so crowded, the queue was so loooong... Finally, I decided to upgrade the ticket into VIP class cost IDR 250.000, so total for the ticket I spent about $50.
I've tried all the games right there such as Vertigo ( it's kind of game which you will be twirled in to 360 degree in high speed to), Giant Swing (game which you will be swing into 180 degree, the wind blowed so high during this game), Freefall Ride, etc. I only didn't come to Dunia Lain (Ghost House), I just don't like kind of that game.

Alright, alright forget about that, actually, I will post some recommended games for you.. N today's topic is Endless Runner Game, so who got the first place?
Here we go...

5. One Epic Knight

Endless runner game with medieval theme...
For this one, I give score 3.75/5

Download One Epic Knight for iOS

4. Subway Surfers

Endless runner with railway station theme, escape from the grumpy Inspector and his dog. Score : 4/5

Download Subway Surfer for iOS

Download Subway Surfers for Android

3. Punch Quest

Punch Punch and Run. See my review here Download link also available
Score: 4.375/5

2. Dumb Runner

This one isn't popular as the other one, but why this game can be my second choice. Later, I'll write the review. Three words to describe this game "Simple but Tricky"
For this one, I give 4.5/5

Download Dumb Runner for iOS

1. Temple Run 2

UPDATE: Temple Run 2 DL for Android

Last one, my first choice is Temple Run 2, besides this one is an editor's choice in AppStore, for me, this one is the best sequel of Temple Run too. Better graphics, more environments, many power ups, make me definitely choice this one for the first place.
The score is 4.75/5 , I want to give this 5/5 actually, but unfortunately, my hand just typing it like that.. LOL

Download Temple Run 2 for iOS

Download Temple Run 2 for Android