Michael Jackson Legacy : THIS IS IT (Spoiler Warning!)

9 11 2009
Akhirnya bisa juga nonton This Is It setelah, nelp hampir semua 21 di Jakarta, saya dan pacar memutuskan untuk nonton di Teras Kota BSD. kenapa? karena satu2nya tempat yang ada tempat duduk di tengahnya masih kosong hihi. can you imagine, PS, Senayan City,Citos, Pim 2, dan lain2 itu sisa tinggal 4 baris di depan! Untuk nonton filmnya Michael Jackson dokumenter, kita maunya di tempat duduk yang enak apalagi ini minggu terakhir..! THIS-IS-IT-THE-MOVIEDari menit pertama film THIS IS IT diputar, saya terbengong2 melihat profesionalitas yang ditunjukkan para profesional dancers yang mengiringi Michael Jackson rehearsal! its a world class dancer,guys! kualitasnya gila banget dan punya power yg sangat tinggi! Michael Jackson sendiri digambarkan sebagai sosok yang sangat perfeksionis dalam segala hal untuk pementasan konser THIS IS IT ini, dari lighting yang sangat super gila, pemilihan penari latar yg dipilih dari ribuan penari terbaik dari belasan negara hingga koreografer dan nada-nada musik yang akan dimainkan..kita bisa lihat bhw Michael Jackson punya Feel musik yang sangat tinggi, everythings according to him! I mean Every single thing! di film ini bisa kita jg lihat betapa silly dan humble-nya MJ namun dia juga org yg sangat tegas,kalau sudah berhubungan dengan musik! kalau dia bilang ga suka,dia akan jujur blg ga suka..kalau suka,dia akan memuji org itu! salah satu sikap into detailnya adl ,dia sangat hafal not2 per lagu yg dimainkan serta aba2 musik yg akan masuk! sementara,sang sutradara Kenny Ortega ternyata sangat respect dengan semua keputusan MJ, ia selalu menanyakan apakah MJ nyaman dg lighting atau musik yg sudah diaransemen bahkan ia terkadang memanggil MJ dg sebutan “Sir”, well we know immediately who’s the boss was! Kenny sgt memberikan kebebasan yg tinggi untuk MJ melakukan apapun yg dia mau! sebagai salah satu penyanyi papan atas,ternyata MJ ga se-demanding yg gue kira,bahkan sebaliknya.He’s not that type! lalu adegan favorit saya adalah saat MJ menyanyikan lagu slow – lupa saya judulnya huhu – dan ia menari secara solo! disitu, kamera menyorot penonton yaitu kru dan penari latarnya yg terlihat sgt menikmati menonton MJ secara langsung menyanyikan lagu itu! berdasarkan testimoni seluruh kru yg diseling2i per adegan, terlihat jelas bahwa mereka sangat mencintai MJ dan fans berat sejak lama! its like a kids who dying for candies! Di film ini terlihat jelas,bahwa ia sangat dicintai bahkan oleh seluruh teman dan kru-kru konser ini.

Melihat persiapan konser THIS IS IT sendiri, yg sudah sangat matang utk tampil,menurut saya jika konser itu terlaksana,akan jadi konser terkeren abad ini. Background layar MJ per lagu itu keren abis, contohnya di salah satu adegan lagu Thriller yg dilatar belakangi dengan film horor 3D..yess,i just said its a 3D pieces! dan tali2 hantu yg melayang..itu kereeeeeennn bangeet!! sayang banget ini semua ga kesampean buat disaksikan sama seluruh penggemarnya di 50 negara! (Sayangnya Indonesia ga termasuk :p) bahkan menurut wiki ini adalah “The Greatest Concert That Never Happened!”

Sebenernya ada bbrp fakta tentang film ini yg mungkin tdk diketahui penonton, salah satunya adalah sebetulnya melalui MJ’s official website dijual pre-order ticket utk konser ini, gilanya yaa,ga sampai semenit 16,000 orang udah mesen dan dalam sehari, 1 juta orang!padahal belum ada tanggal pastinya bo!Gokil yee…mungkin MJ udh terlalu lama ya ga konser,jadi sesuai judul konsernya THIS IS IT, semua orang sangat menantikan performance Mr.Moonwalker! dan penjualan albumnya,langsung meningkat jadi Off the Wall rose 200%, Bad rose 110%, Dangerous rose 165% dan Thriller 25 rose 155%! (Sumber:Wikipedia)

Percaya ato ngga, it was “The fastest ticket sales in history”! Namun banyak jg yg pro kontra dgn film ini,Menurut mereka, pihak AEG Live selaku pembuat film disebut mencari profit dengan kematian Michael Jackson sesaat setelah kematiannya.Kalo menurut saya sih,bisa aja ya..mungkin aja kalo mereka oportunis mengingat apapun yg dilempar ke pasar dengan label Michael Jackson pasti laku, kenapa ga jual footagenya juga?Sementara pihak keluarga The Jackson’s cenderung menolak buat nonton film ini soalnya beberapa adegan menggunakan stuntman MJ. suara sih asli,tapi pemerannya ada beberapa yg ga asli. Nah kalo tentang ini saya bisa mengerti pemikiran kedua belah pihak,The Jackson’s pikir kan ini pembohongan publik, karena pihak pembuat film tidak terbuka ke publik bahwa mereka pake stuntman! Nah sedangkan dari pihak pembuat film,mereka ingin membuat cerita lebih utuh tidak sepotong-sepotong,ini menurut saya yah..karena kalo memang Kenny Ortega dan kawan2 membohongi publik dan mencari profit, kematian MJ dan reaksi teman2nya tentu akan dieksploitasi di film ini dimana kenyataannya tidak! Dan masih banyak kontroversi lain yg mengiringi konser ini,persis seperti masa hidup dan pasca kematian MJ hingga sekarang..

Namun ada quotes yang saya sukaaa banget dari film ini!

1. . “Remember It’s ALL for LOVE…L-O-V-E) (Tiap MJ koreksi pemain bandnya he always says : Do it with love!)
2. Tiap dia abis dipuji gitu,dia pasti bilang “God Bless You”
3. Kenny Ortega to dancers ” You are the extensions of Michael”
4. Pas koreksi lagu Black and White ” “It’s Your Time to Shine… Remember We’ll Be Right There With You” ini pas dia sarannin ke gitaris Orianthi Panagaris,the sexy guitarist!
5. And…this one is my favorite of all ” I really feel that nature is trying to compensate for man’s mismanagement of the planet. The planet is sick – like a fever. If we dont fix it now its at the point of no return. This is our last chance to fix this problem that we have or its like a runaway train. The time has come “This is It”. People are always saying.. “Oh they- they’ll take care of it.” “The government will d-they’ll” They who? It starts with us. US. Or else it’ll never be done”
intinya : If you want to change your self, starts with you first! ini sangat Michael Jackson..! seperti lagu di Earth Song, Man in The Mirror!
Bagus banget ya maknanya :)
Long-Live MJ’s!we’re gonna miss you forever! :(







My Favourable Quote based on Predictably Irrational

28 08 2009

The more we have the more we want. and the only cure is to break the cycle of relationship

i dont want to live the live of boxster,” he told the New York Times, “because when you get a boxster you wish you had a 911, and you know what people who have 911s wish they had? they wish they had a ferrari. (James Hong, Co-Founder Hotornot.com)

RIch Now envy the Super rich!

Thinking broadly like this is not easy because making relative judgements is the natural way we think.






My Fashion Inspiration of the month.yihaa!

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Vintage Fashion Photos..Yihaa!

28 08 2009

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I love the color and the expression of the models.  vintage themes always captured my attention! love this one! sooo much..! x-p

(image belongs to www.ericdoverstudio.com/editorial/image/voguejoyas.html)





40 FACTS ABOUT SLEEP YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW… (OR WERE TOO TIRED TO THINK ABOUT)

20 08 2009

-The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. The record holder reported hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech and memory and concentration lapses.

- It’s impossible to tell if someone is really awake without close medical supervision. People can take cat naps with their eyes open without even being aware of it.

- Anything less than five minutes to fall asleep at night means you’re sleep deprived. The ideal is between 10 and 15 minutes, meaning you’re still tired enough to sleep deeply, but not so exhausted you feel sleepy by day.

- A new baby typically results in 400-750 hours lost sleep for parents in the first year

- One of the best predictors of insomnia later in life is the development of bad habits from having sleep disturbed by young children.

- The continuous brain recordings that led to the discovery of REM (rapid eye-movement) sleep were not done until 1953, partly because the scientists involved were concerned about wasting paper.

- REM sleep occurs in bursts totalling about 2 hours a night, usually beginning about 90 minutes after falling asleep.

- Dreams, once thought to occur only during REM sleep, also occur (but to a lesser extent) in non-REM sleep phases. It’s possible there may not be a single moment of our sleep when we are actually dreamless.

- REM dreams are characterised by bizarre plots, but non-REM dreams are repetitive and thought-like, with little imagery – obsessively returning to a suspicion you left your mobile phone somewhere, for example.

- Certain types of eye movements during REM sleep correspond to specific movements in dreams, suggesting at least part of the dreaming process is analagous to watching a film

- No-one knows for sure if other species dream but some do have sleep cycles similar to humans.

- Elephants sleep standing up during non-REM sleep, but lie down for REM sleep.

- Some scientists believe we dream to fix experiences in long-term memory, that is, we dream about things worth remembering. Others reckon we dream about things worth forgetting – to eliminate overlapping memories that would otherwise clog up our brains.

- Dreams may not serve any purpose at all but be merely a meaningless byproduct of two evolutionary adaptations – sleep and consciousness.

- REM sleep may help developing brains mature. Premature babies have 75 per cent REM sleep, 10 per cent more than full-term bubs. Similarly, a newborn kitten puppy rat or hampster experiences only REM sleep, while a newborn guinea pig (which is much more developed at birth) has almost no REM sleep at all.

- Scientists have not been able to explain a 1998 study showing a bright light shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain’s sleep-wake clock.

- British Ministry of Defence researchers have been able to reset soldiers’ body clocks so they can go without sleep for up to 36 hrs. Tiny optical fibres embedded in special spectacles project a ring of bright white light (with a spectrum identical to a sunrise) around the edge of soldiers’ retinas, fooling them into thinking they have just woken up. The system was first used on US pilots during the bombing of Kosovo.

- Seventeen hours of sustained wakefulness leads to a decrease in performance equivalent to a blood alcohol-level of 0.05%.

– The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, the Challenger space shuttle disaster and the Chernobyl nuclear accident have all been attributed to human errors in which sleep-deprivation played a role.

- The NRMA estimates fatigue is involved in one in 6 fatal road accidents.

- Exposure to noise at night can suppress immune function even if the sleeper doesn’t wake. Unfamiliar noise, and noise during the first and last two hours of sleep, has the greatest disruptive effect on the sleep cycle.

- The “natural alarm clock” which enables some people to wake up more or less when they want to is caused by a burst of the stress hormone adrenocorticotropin. Researchers say this reflects an unconscious anticipation of the stress of waking up.

- Some sleeping tablets, such as barbiturates suppress REM sleep, which can be harmful over a long period.

- In insomnia following bereavement, sleeping pills can disrupt grieving.

- Tiny luminous rays from a digital alarm clock can be enough to disrupt the sleep cycle even if you do not fully wake. The light turns off a “neural switch” in the brain, causing levels of a key sleep chemical to decline within minutes.

- To drop off we must cool off; body temperature and the brain’s sleep-wake cycle are closely linked. That’s why hot summer nights can cause a restless sleep. The blood flow mechanism that transfers core body heat to the skin works best between 18 and 30 degrees. But later in life, the comfort zone shrinks to between 23 and 25 degrees – one reason why older people have more sleep disorders.

- A night on the grog will help you get to sleep but it will be a light slumber and you won’t dream much.

- After five nights of partial sleep deprivation, three drinks will have the same effect on your body as six would when you’ve slept enough.

- Humans sleep on average around three hours less than other primates like chimps, rhesus monkeys, squirrel monkeys and baboons, all of whom sleep for 10 hours.

- Ducks at risk of attack by predators are able to balance the need for sleep and survival, keeping one half of the brain awake while the other slips into sleep mode.

- Ten per cent of snorers have sleep apnoea, a disorder which causes sufferers to stop breathing up to 300 times a night and significantly increases the risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke.

- Snoring occurs only in non-REM sleep

- Teenagers need as much sleep as small children (about 10 hrs) while those over 65 need the least of all (about six hours). For the average adult aged 25-55, eight hours is considered optimal

- Some studies suggest women need up to an hour’s extra sleep a night compared to men, and not getting it may be one reason women are much more susceptible to depression than men.

- Feeling tired can feel normal after a short time. Those deliberately deprived of sleep for research initially noticed greatly the effects on their alertness, mood and physical performance, but the awareness dropped off after the first few days.

- Diaries from the pre-electric-light-globe Victorian era show adults slept nine to 10 hours a night with periods of rest changing with the seasons in line with sunrise and sunsets.

- Most of what we know about sleep we’ve learned in the past 25 years.

- As a group, 18 to 24 year-olds deprived of sleep suffer more from impaired performance than older adults.

- Experts say one of the most alluring sleep distractions is the 24-hour accessibility of the internet.

- The extra-hour of sleep received when clocks are put back at the start of daylight in Canada has been found to coincide with a fall in the number of road accidents.





What are they Doing? waahhahah!

10 07 2009

What are they doing?!





25 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Your Body and Health

31 05 2009

In the spirit of those annoying, addictive, you-know-you’re-reading-them-even-though-you-wish-you-weren’t Facebook notes popping up everywhere, Health.com presents its list of 25 random things you might not know about the human body, nutrition and exercise, sex, sickness, and health. Go ahead: Pass it on to your friends.

1. Rinsing your nose with salt water can help keep you healthy and ward off allergy symptoms. Nasal irrigation is a cheap and easy way to find relief if you have spring allergies, nasal congestion, stuffy noses or post-nasal drip, says Dr. Melissa Pynnonen, co-director of the Michigan Sinus Center and an assistant professor in the University of Michigan’s department of otolaryngology.

2. Dogs can smell cancer and low blood sugar. The Pine Street Foundation, a cancer-education and research center in San Anselmo, Calif., published a study showing it was possible to train dogs to identify, based on breath samples, which patients had lung and breast cancer. Now the organization is recruiting ovarian cancer patients and dogs for a new study. In diabetics, the presence of ketones—substances made by the body during the metabolic process—can be smelled in urine and on the breath when blood sugars are high. Dogs can pick up on other smells that humans can’t when glucose levels drop.

3. Researchers at Cornell University found that people who pass through an entryway near the kitchen tend to eat 15 percent more than those who use the front door.

4. You’re more likely to have a heart attack on a Monday, or up to three days after you’ve been diagnosed with the flu or a respiratory tract infection. The risk of dying from a heart attack increases by a third during outbreaks of the flu and related respiratory diseases, found researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The study authors estimate that 90,000 coronary deaths could be prevented a year in the United States if more heart patients simply got a flu shot.

5. You can’t get a tan from your computer screen. The Computer Tan Web site was created as a hoax to raise awareness about skin cancer.

6. Obese people spend approximately $485 more on clothing, $828 on extra plane seats, and $36 more on gas each year than their thinner counterparts. Researchers say an overweight driver burns about 18 additional gallons of gas a year. Plus-sized clothing costs 10 percent to 15 percent more than smaller-sized clothes. When it comes to jet fuel, a recent issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine estimated that the extra weight of obese Americans caused airlines to spend $275 million to burn 350 million more gallons of fuel.

7. Smokers are four times as likely to report feeling unrested after a night’s sleep than nonsmokers. Smokers often experience withdrawal symptoms at night, thus causing periods of restlessness and waking. Smokers were also 1.69 times as likely to develop hearing loss than non-smokers, as smoking may affect antioxidative mechanisms or the blood vessels that feed the auditory system.1

8. Eating fruits and vegetables may help the human body make its own aspirin. Findings from the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistryindicate that study participants who received benzoic acid, a natural substance in fruits and vegetables, could make their own salicylic acid, the key component that gives aspirin its anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties.

9. A 20-minute nap can improve your overall alertness, boost your mood, and increase productivity. William Anthony, co-author of The Art of Napping at Work (Larson Publications, 1999),says the post-nap boost can last for several hours. In addition, your heart may reap benefits from napping. In a six-year study of Greek adults, researchers found that that men who took naps at least three times a week had a 37 percent lower risk of heart-related death.

10. Your kitchen sink is dirtier than your bathroom: There are typically more than 500,000 bacteria per square inch in its drain. The faucet, basin, and sponge are crawling with germs as well. Bacteria colonies with a total population exceeding 50 million can live on a single dirty sponge. And just think—that’s what you use to wipe down countertops, forks and drinking glasses.

11. Four out of five doctors in the UK don’t work out enough. Heavy workloads, lack of time and poor motivation contributed to the lack of exercise.2

12. Baking soda can whiten teeth, garlic can help treat athlete’s foot, and honey can soothe a hangover.

13. Using a food diary can double a person’s weight-loss efforts. Your food diary makes you accountable to yourself and provides you with clues on where the extra calories are sneaking in.

14. Regular exercise can lower a woman’s cancer risk—but only if she’s getting enough sleep. The National Cancer Institute followed 5,968 women for almost 10 years, during which 604 of them developed some form of cancer. Women in the top half of physical activity levels showed an approximate 20 percent reduction in cancer risk compared to those who exercised less. For a segment of those women, sleeping less than seven hours per night had a decreased benefit to exercise. Their cancer risk was greater than those who exercised but slept more—but still lower than those who exercised the least.

15.Watching yourself run in a mirror can make a treadmill workout go by faster and feel easier.

16. Third-hand smoke—the particles that cling to smokers’ hair and clothing and linger in a room long after they’ve left—is a cancer risk to young children (and pets).

17. Walking against the wind, in the water, or while wearing a backpack burns about 50 more calories per hour than walking with no resistance. People who wear pedometers also tend to burn more calories and lose more weight.

18. Trained sexologists can infer a woman’s orgasm history by observing the way she walks.3 In other research news, men find women who wear red sexier than those who wear “cool” colors such as blue and green.

19.Foreign accent syndrome and exploding head syndrome are real (but very rare) medical conditions. The American Sleep Association explains that a person with exploding head syndrome experiences a a loud, indecipherable noise that seems to originate from inside the head.

20. Vitamins don’t seem to help older women guard against cancer or heart disease.

21. Some men experience pain, headaches, or sneezing as a result of ejaculation. The increased activity in the nervous system during orgasm may be the culprit in triggering headaches.

22. Germ-killing wipes can spread bacteria from one spot to another if you reuse them. Researchers at the Welsh School of Pharmacy at Cardiff University in Wales issued their concern on the use of the wipes in hospitals and the importance of a routine surveillance program in reducing risks of infection to patients.

23. Oatmeal, citrus fruits, and honey can boost your sex drive and improve fertility. Oats produce a chemical that releases testosterone into the blood supply, increasing sex drive and orgasm strength. Vitamin C found in citrus fruits improves sperm count and motility, while vitamin B from honey helps the body use estrogen, a key factor in blood flow and arousal.

24. Twenty-nine percent of Americans say they have skipped filling a prescription due to the cost, and 23 percent use pill splitting as a way to save money.

25. Facebook may be good for your health: Studies show that staying in touch with family and friends can ward off memory loss and help you live longer

Source : (http://health.msn.com/health-topics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100233156&page=2)





facebookan hihihi ;p

13 05 2009

facebookan hihihi ;p





What I’ve Learned from Mark H. McCormack (Favorite Quotes)

13 05 2009
  1. Business demands innovation. there is a constant need to feel around the fringes, to test the edges, bus business schools, out of necessity, are condemned to teach the past.
  2. If Thomas Edison had gone to business school we would all be reading by larger candles.
  3. Correspondency forms a strong subliminal impressions about how you run your business.
  4. If you accept that you can tell a lot about people by what they’re wearing, its safe to assume they can tell the same things about you.
  5. Obviously, the more conservative your business dress, the harder you are to read.
  6. Coco Channel once said that if a woman is poorly dressed you notice her dress, and if she’s impeccably dressed you noticed the woman.
  7. The classic own-worst-enemy cases are those people who dont know the difference between honesty & tact.
  8. Getting lucky is mostly a matter of recognizing when you have been.
  9. if you are an employeer, you should be constantly trying to recognize real talent & not to be mislead by appeareances.
  10. if you are an employee, you must figue out a way to let the true decision-makers know how good you really are, without making enemies of the people in between.
  11. Not asking is such a short-sighted & narrow-minded view.
  12. Asking for help is the way you learn, expand your knowledge, your expertise & your value to the company. it also demonstrates a willingness to work with others.
  13. If you arent make mistakes, you arent trying hard enough.
  14. The good executives are right most of the time. but they also know why they are wrong & are not afraid to admit it.
  15. The people who are least secure about their abilities have the hardest time admitting their mistakes.
  16. Their insanity becomes reality.
  17. Boredom occurs when the learning curve flattens out. in fact, it occurs most often in successful people who need more challenge & stimulation than do others.
  18. If you are bored its your fault. you just arent working hard enough at making your job interesting.
  19. Historically, the quickest way to the top was through sales.
  20. Selling is what they dont teach you at Harvard Business Schools. Business Schools admit that their purpose is to train managers, thereby almost tottaly overlooking to the fact that if there are no sales there is nothing to manage.
  21. The best reaction is no reaction at all.
  22. One of the best sales techniqur that i know of is to ask when can we meet & how soon – and then show upually the farther you have to fly, the more impressive it is.
  23. By offering a choice you often help the customer focus as well on what he doesnt like about each solution.
  24. Find the jey guy & sale one to one.
  25. When one party starts out at 20 & the other party starts at 10 7 you end up on 15. thats not a negotiaton, thats splitting the difference.
  26. But corporately, i’m smart enough to know that short-term greed is one of the biggest mistakes a company can make.
  27. If you arent afraid to faild, then you probably dont care enough about success.
  28. Many ideas fail not because they are bad ideas, not because they are poorly executed but because the timing is not correct.
  29. I would guess that more deals are blown because lack of patience than for most any other reason
  30. A phone call in non business hours, late or night or over a weekend, always has greater impact.
  31. Once you sold, shut up! Just talk about the buyers game, his kids – anything but how extraordinary brillian he is for  buying your product.
  32. You have to know your customers. these are people we deal with who would just as soon add another zero & there are those who are likely to substract one.
  33. If you dont know, ask!
  34. One of the most important things anyone can do in business is consider his or her connections
  35. Positioning is a matter of determining what someone is really buying when they buy your product or services & then conveying those impressions & motivations to the buyer.
  36. Be a winner by going with a winner. it demands intelligence, know-how & forethought and its highest level becomes an art form with a tangibel pay-off : your product or services is practically pre-sold.
  37. A good salesman can take 10 facts about a product &  by stressing some & de-emphasizing others, create 10 different impressions. Thats what salesman really is : positioning the facts to get the desired response.
  38. when value is guesswork, try to protect yourself in otherways in the event of success.
  39. When you have preety good idea of value, dont be affraid to name your price.
  40. A chance encounter a non-business location can also present an opportunity. Some akwrdness usually accompanies their experience because both parties want to avoid talking business like the plague.
  41. Creating the right impressions can be as simple as treating people the way they want to be treated.
  42. Like it or not, your boss is judging you by these criteria : commitment, attention to detail, immediate follow up.
  43. Found out what you love to do & you will be successful at it.
  44. Fear is the single biggest problem people have with selling : fear of rejection, fear of failure.
  45. But what many people dont appreciate is that fear of failure is one of the greatest positive motivators in business.
  46. if you arent afraid to fail, then you probably dont care enough about success.
  47. One of the most subtle forms of marketability is building the perceptions into the product it self, of doing everything one can to make the product is buyable.
  48. Know your product, believe in your product & sell it with enthusiasm.
  49. These are the fundamental selling truths. if you dont know your product, people will resent your efforts to sell, if you dont believe in it, no amount of personality & technique will cover that fact, if you cant sell it with enthusiasm, the lack of it will be infectious.
  50. Knowing your product also means understanding the idea behind it-its purpose, how it is perceived- the relationship between it & what someone wants to buy!

this is the tips to be success, so learn it guys!





Twittering and watching YouTube videos ‘makes workers more productive’

22 04 2009

Have you been caught Twittering or on Facebook at work? Well now you can tell your manager it actually makes you a harder worker.

An Australian study found surfing the internet for fun during office hours actually increased employees productivity by nine per cent.

Study author Brent Coker, from the University of Melbourne said ‘workplace internet leisure browsing,’ or WILB, helped to sharpen workers’ concentration.

‘People need to zone out for a bit to get back their concentration,’ he said.

‘Short and unobtrusive breaks, such as a quick surf of the internet, enables the mind to rest itself, leading to a higher total net concentration for a days’ work, and as a result, increased productivity.’

According to the study of 300 workers, 70 per cent of people who go online at work engage in WILB.

Among the most popular activities are reading online news website, playing online games and watching videos on YouTube.

‘Firms spend millions on software to block their employees from watching videos, using social networking sites or shopping online under the pretence that it costs millions in lost productivity,’ said Mr Coker.

‘That’s not always the case.’

However, Coker said the study looked at people who browsed in moderation, or were online for less than 20 per cent of their total time in the office.

‘Those who behave with Internet addiction tendencies will have a lower productivity than those without,’ he said.

courtessy : (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1166634/Twittering-watching-YouTube-videos-makes-workers-productive.html)

*i couldnt agree more. its also digg and facebooking because its like refreshing our brain. we cannot do the same thing for the next 6 hours. it will be damned boring & depressing*