What would I like to say about Bill Gates’ visit to Indonesia ? Well, it is widely known that here is where Microsoft Office software’s mostly pirated..ouch. But let those guys of Roy Suryo team (ha ha!) go dealing about that with him.
For me the most interesting part of Mr Gates is his fashion consciousness. Thanks to him, Silicon Valley and the genk have promoted the “sweater suit” as a more-friendly-and -gue banget- career look for our generation.
And, during his visit here in Jakarta, he finally agreed to don a batik attire,made by batik guru Iwan Tirta called batik pisang Bali manggar, an ornament originally made by artist from Mangkunegaran Palace in Solo, Central Java. My lousy president who went on the same venue later had to change his dark suit with a tie into a long sleeved red batik to honor Pak Bill’s nice courtesy. Well done, Pak Gates!
BTW, Pak Gates, I am waiting for your next windows “for free” edition, …, don’t you agree, that it’s about time? heh heh heh…
photo : detik.com
Monster of software wears batik
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RITA : It made Linux simply more popular here in Indonesia
I remember when I still lived in my kampoeng, everytime somebody(mainly men) wearing batik, the neighbours will ask with curiousity,”Kok bathikan to pak, badhe tindak pundi?
That means everytime you wearing batik you will go somewhere or to see somebody ‘important’
So when pak SBY just wearing non batik clothes ( whether suits, plain shirts, safari or whatever ), he did not meet somebody important. But pak Bill was, and because pak Bill wore batik too. Hik… hik… hik
RITA : ha ha, I agree, Bill would do anything coz your president Sby was giving him chance to be much richer (yikes!) with his decision to turn into Microsoft for all government works in this country, instead of backing any people-friendly’s opensource like Linux.