Chief of the Boat .. on the 1MC, Dive !! Dive !!

Usually announced by 1st Officer on board a submarine when they're about to execute a dive. The Helmsman then shift his steer forward after the Chief opened up the vents allowing sea water flood the bulk so the submarine dives.

Unlike Diesel-Electric submarines, nuclear powered steel sharks could dive within days or even weeks under water -well unless the ship needs to breathe for its crew-. While Diesel-Electric submarines could only dive and run underwater for certain period until she needs to surface for batteries charging. And with the new air conditioning system, the crew in nuclear sharks could feel relieved within, there were no air conditioning systems available during WW II and early 60's.

Well okay, the point is modern submarines powered by nuclear replacing the older Diesel-Electrics. Right now new developed submarines are using fiber optic technology for computational purposes ... *whistle* optic goes to underwater vehicle :D.

All armed forces branches are still expose their own ego.

Army is the best .. the navy are fags, Marines is the top the other stands small, etc. As a matter of fact all branches no matter what their duties are .. supporting each other. No green berets could break through the enemy defense line if they aren't supported by Air Force, no Marines could reach beacheads if they aren't supported by naval artillery fire, etc. So ... why do they think they're better than others ?

I don't stand on the Navy side, but I think Navy compared to other branches is the only branch which has a high appreciation on humanity -they sank battleships .. BUT they have a code of ethics to rescue enemy sailors overboard after their battleships were scored-. Not only during naval warfare, in the normal condition they also do social duties like when Tsunami swept most of NAD late last year they sent LST's to support the disaster recovery effort for example.

Oh there's another thing related to this well-mannered branch.

Have you ever seen Crimson Tide played by Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington ?

It's a fictive story however but somehow Tom Clancy had another consideration. It's not only exposing the tension between 2 high level officers on board a SSBN which carried nuclear ballistic missiles but the story is -if I am to say about this movie- related to breaking down racism down.

Captain Ramsey (Gene Hackman) played a role as a flamboyant submarine CO who sailed many times and had the field experiences. Commander Hunter (Denzel Washington) is a new assigned XO whose lack of field experiences but expert in theory. Their mission was to launch nuclear missile over rebel forces. Captain Ramsey takes the boat, Hunter examines the theoritical aspects. The tension between two minds occured when there was a communication disorder -the radio was damaged during a chase with the Akula- whereas before the transmission they had an order to launch the missiles. Captain Ramsey insist they should launch but Hunter decided to confirm the broken message before they launch the missiles, because nuclear is a mass of destruction weapon ... one false move could cause chain reaction to other things.

The main idea from this movie is that before taking appropriate actions on something, think wisely before you done.

"You understand with that policy, sailor ?"

"Aye, sir!"

The Jackal

Dr Azahari's dead ...

So I heard on the news, his crew somehow blew the bomb killing him and the mastermind behind all chaoses he made in our country.

He was a genius, took his Ph.D in UK, lectured in UTM, he studied bomb howto's in Kandahar, etc but early 2000's he went to Indonesia to converge power. In malaysia itself, he was hunted together with his companion Noordin M Top.

There were some bombings he made including Bali I Oct 2002, JW Marriot Aug 2003, Australian Embassy 2004, and now back to Bali early Oct 2005. Killing most of innocent people and leaving hate among the heart of each Indonesians who either read the news or even became the casualties.

When he was alive, it was so hard for the authorities to grab and bring him into justice. He was as slick as eel; able to camouflage with different identities, moved from town to town .. and perhaps brainwashed some of his sympathisms. So it takes 4 years since his first action to bring him to his knee -well, not knee since he's already gone-. It reminds me on The Jackal .. a terrorist who was very hard to identify, but caused many casualties undetected.

The Jackal itself is a nickname of Ramirez Sanchez; a Venezuelan born person who was the FBI top list of most wanted person; caused significant casualties -most of his targets were VIPs and he dared to kill innocent people in his path in cold ways- His real identity was never known, and like Azahari, camouflaged himself and used different ID's so nobody knows who he really was even to FBI which had a modern method and technology. I forgot either he was captured by certain method or using a person who knew his behaviors, targets, methods, and actions but he's over.

The death of Azahari could cause demoralize to his followers and his actions. But some said one dead come thousands. This is obviously a must to consider, who knows there would be another deadly threats causing not only tens but perhaps hundreds ... Wallahu Alam bishawab.

So long my MOTO T720 ...

I gave my T720 to my sister replacing her old cellphone which is about 6 years old.

I bought a new MOTO E398 which has many advantages comparing to SAMSUNG, NOKIA, SONY ERICCSON, etc in its class. Well I'm back to MOTO once more ... according to some telecommunication experts Motorola is one of the toughest communication device ever built. Relialable in any weather conditions and terrains. But this is a cellphone ... obviously different from portable comm devices, well it is portable but it isn't designed to tackle such conditions because it is meant for citizen use not for field engineers or some sort.

Unfortunately, some security experts said that American made comm devices are hiddenly tapped by either an electrical device or encrypted with certain algorithm no one could crack. So whenever someone's using American made devices, the DoD perhaps could listen what they're talking to ... this method is the cause on how FBI grabbed high class criminals. Their ears are everywhere ...

Ok back to my cellphone,

Although I reckognize the hazard of taking American comm products as long as I don't interfere their business much, heck .. who cares right ? This E398 has a VGA 4x zoom inboard, java enabled, poly tones, GPRS access, and all other modern cellphones capability except that it's not combined with PDA assist.

I have a good and bad memories with T720 ... from cursing to romance saying 'good nite darling, i love you', from job interview calls to advisor call for project manager assignment, etc. Well I have to leave my beloved T720, for good or bad memories I have with you ... I'll never forget you. Let my bad memories pass away and my good memories remain intact.

For my new E398 .. I hope my good memories continue with new hope for the future, no more bad memories.

Well ... welcome aboard my E398.

Lessons in Dengue Fever ...

I got both dengue and thypus. It almost made me loss of hope to live especially when the doctor said I got both; not dengue only nor thypus only.

I spent a week exactly in hospital, today is the 2nd week I returned home.

At first I thought dengue and thypus only made my shaum even worse because I couldn't shaum while I was sick. My trombosite went down below a minimum level ie. 80K whereas 2 days before my last blood check it was about 180K. Definetely, I got a dengue ...

The sympthoms for dengue and typhus are the same so it's very hard to determine which one I got. The 1st diagnose told me I got thypus only but the 2nd diagnose I got dengue ... surprisingly I got both of them at a time. This shocked my entire family, all of them only got dengue but I was the worst. And it seemed that my medications were more intensive than my other family.

Well let's say that's an introduction ...

Regarding my words on my grief due to dengue I began to realize that I have to syukur to 4JJ1 because He gave me both dengue and thypus for certain purposes. I didn't notice this at first so by the time I got them I was just mumbling to myself why I was the one who got the worst, I even said .. dang, I wish this disease wasn't to me. I know it's not a good behavior to curse what we had in Islam but because my nature as human -we all make mistakes- I did that anyway :(.

My story about what I had experienced in hospital including my short story with nurse Elizabeth was written in previous post so I won't tell furthermore.

Recently I bagan to think that dengue and thypus was given to me because 4JJ1 loves me ... not trying to tell anyone I'm that cocky. Why ? It's because 4JJ1 knows me best even from myself. 4JJ1 gave me guidance with that but again, at first I didn't notice as much. And now ... I got the idea. I spent my time few times to think why I got both diseases, I noticed what Aa Gym said -I frankly forgot what exactly he said- but the point is that when Muslims experiencing difficulties in life perhaps that's the way 4JJ1 spares their sins so they learn their mistakes and do more better in the future. Yeah ... that's absolutely right, I did made mistakes to anyone and even to my former beloved ex. Now I see that by sickness I got more closer to 4JJ1, ask forgiveness to Him, and do'a may He guides me to Jannah He promised to Muslims who dedicated their life for Him. That's why I thought I need to ask forgiveness to whom I hurt either accidently or by chance.

Not only that ...

When I was about to pick my maid who also got influenced by dengue, I saw some people and even children had the same thing as us -not me who got 2 :D- but what attracted me more was a child who was on a bed in a 3rd class drank a small pack of guava juice -this is proven to increase trombosite- I noticed in a trash can there were packs of guava juice nearby while his mother sat beside him with a sad mimic; the kid was sweating which I believed because of the heat from outside -there were no A/C in 3rd class- I thought they were from a less-wealthy family based on their appearance, 4JJ1 ... I felt sad that time. I know how it feels when I get dengue, but this is a kid I'm talking about here ... while I'm a young adult which perhaps have more immunity. I could feel what he felt ... pain ? real pain. I saw a bottle of liquid hanging injected through his right arm. I was like him as well, injected through my left arm .. and every time the liquid's ran out I belled the nurse to change the bottle. Mistakenly I ever left the bottle empty and the liquid was about a half hose -it's very dangerous if air is injected through ven it could cause death-.

That time I syukur to 4JJ1 because I could get a 1st class which has A/C, TV, internal sink, alone, etc. While that kid was lying on a bed together with 4 other patients separated by a curtain. But there's something uncommon that time, I was feeling very sad. I thought if I could help that family with all I might I would but since I am a student, unemployed, and haven't got fixed earnings there's nothing I can do but to doa for his health. He was sick like me, ever crossed into my mind to talk or at least doa for him directly but I thought I would bother them because I'm a stranger so I didn't take the chance.

Lessons I got from dengue and thypus are a very precious treasure given from 4JJ1. If I weren't sick perhaps I would've not thinking about my neighbouring community, ignorant, arrogant. So by this 4JJ1 quickly corrected my behavior by giving me dengue and thypus.,

O 4JJ1, without Your givings .. what would I be ? Subhanallah walhamdulillah walailahaillallah wallahu akhbar.

O 4JJ1, whoever Muslim got sick from any diseases especially dengue and die because of it please give them the Jannah, spare their sins, and please ease their business when malaikat Munkar & Nakir interview them.

O 4JJ1, whoever that kid was ... please give him health so he could enjoy the sunshine You gave to us all and do his businesses.

O 4JJ1, I thank to You for giving me lessons I won't forget in life ...

O 4JJ1, I thank to You for what my ex did to me so I learn ...

O 4JJ1, I thank to You I am still alive now ...

--Dimas