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This afternoon ( at 13. 18 pm ) I have a phone call from the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Mrs. Dian phone me and tell that I won VOA Special English quiz with 9 other listener from several countries. What a surprise I have !.
Ms. Dian ask me some question about my job, my age and my experience listen to VOA Special English. I said that I listen to VOA Indonesia more than 30 years ago when I was a student in Junior high school level 3
and still listening until now and for VOA Special English is more than 20 years ago until now.
Mrs. Dian ask me how do I want to take my prize ? at my house or I take at the Embassy or else ?, if I prefer to take my prize at my house they want to come here, I said : No, don' t at my house, my house is not able to live, my house is not beautiful, please I' m shamed if you see / know my house ! - really , so it will be better I think if I go to you / the Embassy then I said.
And Mrs. Dian invite me to the Embassy to take my Prize as soon as possible then we agree to meet tomorrow at about 1. 30 pm, Mrs. Dian ask my ID card number to fill the register guest ( for security guard information / protocol services ) who will come to the Embassy next day.
This morning ( March 4 ) I go to KPP ( Kantor Pelayanan Pajak / Tax Services Office ) to make a report of my annual report Tax 2009, this is the first year I do report tax; For several days I make this report with help from an official tax in KPP office.
When I arrive in KPP I see some people are talking with the officials with some papers in their hand, I ask one of the official and he points to another table for me to report my tax, and I meet the mentioned official, I give my report and after she read / check a while she give back to me to sign my signature on my report, then she give me a receive note which said that the tax office received my complete report ( SPT / Surat Pemberitahuan Tahunan / the Annual Announcement Letter ), the note have a serial number : 003-01-0 0002665.
Meanwhile I see some people are writing, asking and counting, sit in front of the officials at the other desk, I knew then that they are having consultation about their tax, how to report, write and count their tax, it' s free consultation by the tax official.
And at the other site I can see one of representative Bank ready to receive cash payment from tax payer.
The end of time to give this annual report tax is March 31 every year ( for company and personal ), if you late to report your tax, you will get a penalty - payment penalty as the regulation says.
This day ( March 2nd ) is the 15th birthday of Yahoo site, the early internet search engine, Jerry Yang at age of 27 and his partner David Filo begin with World Wide Web works in March 1995, they are Stanford University doctoral students, they created a program that would allow them to group website into subject categories, they begin indexing all sites on the web.
Yahoo Corporation formed in April 1995, after a year operation Yahoo held its IPO in April 1996, selling 2, 3 million shares at $13 per share on the NASDAQ and rise up gain after that. Happy birthday to Yahoo !.
Yesterday ( March 1 ) United Kingdom' s Prudential PLC buy AIG' s Asia unit for about $ 35, 5 billion. This deal call for Prudential to pay government $ 25 billion in cash, $ 8, 5 billion in equity and $ 2 billion in preferred stock AIA' s unit ( American International Assurance Ltd. ).
The US government bailouts for AIG totaling $ 182, 3 billion, AIG is working to repay about $ 97 billion, $ 50 billion would go to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and $ 47 billion to the Treasury Department. An additional $ 33 billion is to be paid off from AIG related mortgage assets.
AIG is insurance and financial services company and plans to keep a global property and casualty insurance businesses called Chartis, and its domestic life insurance and retirement services business, recently rebranded as SunAmerica Financial Group said Under Chief Executive Robert Benmosche.
This afternoon I heard ( via short wave radio ) the snow storm will come and strike again several states in US in a few days come, in here this day we have bright Sunshine and hot temperature from morning until I write this post at night ( 23.08 local time ); The sky' s clear, I can see the Moon is shining, several stars sparkling, so we will approaching new ice storm and we will have another hot days in front. We got rain as usual but now we will have another extreme days. ........... Phew !, what a strange weather we had.
Yesterday afternoon ( Saturday, February 20 ) after I usually attending a seminar, when I walk on the cross bridge near Dukuh Atas train station, I meet some WWF Indonesia crews, one of them ( Mr. Eros ) stop me by and have communication / interview with me about Earth Day - Earth Hour in the next month ( March 27 ), after he knows that I know about Earth Hour he' s very happy, before ending our communication Mr. Eros give me a gift from WWF Indonesia, it' s a book page separator cartoon and its picture is a baby turtle on the beach sand.
After that I continue to walk to the bus way station and wait for a special bus which will take me go to home.
This post is for WWF Indonesia, I would like to say : Thank you very much for your works, may your effort can make our world better for our living.
I hear from many radio station that in the US there' re a lot of snow storm' s coming, in Washington DC many objects like buildings, road, houses, trains, etc. get struck by this snow / winter season, many schools are closed and students can' nt study as usual from last Friday to next Wednesday, but ........... in our country there' re a lot of Sun shine ( I get perspiration if I go out work ) and this condition are not normal because in this month we should have rainy season and we should be in the middle of rainy weather, possibly almost everyday, but ............. from last week we do not have any rain either.
Cold over there and hot over here, dark condition over there but bright over here ............. have we live in climate change now ?............... and how about our world ?, are there any good life prospect in future time ?.....................
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