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I just found this image in my computer. I don’t remember where I got this image. One thing for sure is that the image depicts the internet speeds and costs around the world. I am not sure in which year the graphic was created. It was probably around 2008-2009. The graphic contains top 20 Nations in ITIF Broadband Rankings.

What I can understand from the image is that Japan has been penetrated with 61mbps internet connection and the cost is only $0.27/month. YES, IT’S TRUE. WOWWWW!!!!. Well, sorry for my hysterical response. I couldn’t help it. Indonesia is not even in the top 20, not to mention the internet cost.

I thought The Netherlands would be in the top 5 countries for Internet speed and costs (I lived in The Netherlands for 3 years), but I was wrong. The Top 5 countries were Japan, Korea, Finland, Sweden, and France (61mbps, 46mbps, 22mbps, 18.2mbps, and 17.6mbps, respectively). Netherlands was in sixth position. How about USA? Uncle Sam was behind Iceland and Germany (4.8mbps). In the 20th position was Greece.

I almost forgot to mention that about 60% of Japanese (approximately 76 million people out of 125 million people, data 2009) has access to this broadband internet connection. In USA, only about 8%-10% of American (approximately 27 million people out of 308 million people, estimated data 2010) has the access to the broadband internet connection.

I hope the cheap and fast broadband internet connection will penetrate Indonesia in near future.

Well, I just realized that I only posted one article after I delivered my Happy New Year 2009 message last year. Pathetic right? Not really an example of a discipline blogger. Well, everyone has their time for that.

Quoting from Charles Dickens (English novelist (1812 - 1870))’ book, A Tale of Two Cities:

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only”

What can I say, 2009 maybe one case of the worst of times and lack of wisdom :D.
It’s 2010 now. Before talking about this year, I want to congratulate you with Merry Christmas 2009 and Happy New Year 2010. It’s not late to say Merry Christmas, in fact, I’ll have my first Christmas celebration this year in my place (last year Christmas is sometimes celebrated after 25th of December and in January the next year here). I can only wish that 2010 will be a great year for us, in respect of love, economic, work, relationship with family, friends, colleague, study or whatever thing you want to achieve this year.

Last but not the least, keep visiting my website, please don’t hesitate to comment. Okay?

It’s been more than 3 days in 2009, yet, I haven’t made any remarks about it. It’s not that it is a necessary thing to do. Nah, I am kidding. Of course this is necessary:)). Though, it’s quite traditional to make remarks about this occasion.

The first thing I thought about New Year was that I am very grateful that I can enter this year 2009. I remembered a preacher told me that we have to give thanks to be able entering new year, because not many people can have the opportunity. This sounds positive rather than skeptical for me.

Well, many things can be put in to review from 2008, but I am rather tired now. I don’t want to talk about it here right now, instead, I just want to wish you:

Happy New Year 2009

May this year be prosperous and more importantly, we are blessed with healthiness

About my resolution, I have many lists to accomplish this year. Hopefully, all them can be fulfilled. Good luck with your resolution too.