I chopped off my hair, twice in a month.

One I did in Jambi and another one in Bandung. I cut it off from my waist-length hair back to my chin.....

I miss my long hair but it will grow anyway......

Mark Zuckerberg and Pricilla Chan just married

KENDATI  tercatat sebagai salah seorang terkaya dunia, gaya hidup pendiri Facebook Mark Zuckerberg (28) sangat sederhana. Bahkan saat melangsungkan pernikahannya Sabtu (19/5) dengan Priscilla Chan (27), mantan pacarnya selama 10 tahun terakhir ini, Zuck merayakan momen spesial tersebut dengan sederhana.Mereka menikah di halaman belakang rumah Zuck di Palo Alto. Tamu yang hadir pun sebagian besar adalah keluarga dan sahabat kedua mempelai.
Kabar pernikahan Zuck dan Chan ini sangat mengejutkan dunia karena lolos dari publikasi media. Padahal Zuck dan kekasihnya sudah merencanakan itu sejak lama.

Saat ini mata dunia memang sedang tertuju pada IPO Facebook yang  belangsung sehari sebelumnya. Bahkan, sejumlah sahabat yang diundang dalam acara pernikahan tersebut, semula mengira diundang untuk merayakan IPO Facebook. Ternyata, Zuck justru mengatakan kepada para tamunya bahwa mereka diundang bukan untuk merayakan pesta IPO Facebook, melainkan pernikahannya dengan sang kekasih yang baru saja lulus sebagai dokter anak.  Zuck sendiri dua hari lalu baru saja merayakan ulalng tahun yang ke-28 .

Seperti dilaporkan Yahoo News, Minggu (20/5), media baru mengetahui Zuck telah menikah dengan Cilla saat status Facebook  pasangan tersebut berubah dari semula "menjalin hubungan" menjadi "menikah".
Menurut salah seorang tamu yang hadir dalam pernikahan tersebut, acara berlangsung dengan sederhana, hanya dihadiri keluarga dan sahabat.
Pada acara tersebut, menurut keterangan sejumlah tamu yang minta identitasnya tidak disebut, Zuck dan Cilla tampil sederhana. Cilla menggunakan gaun pengantin tradisional berwarna putih, sedangkan Zuck menggunakan setelah jas berwarna gelap. Zuck tampak berbeda karena sehari-hari sangat berpenampilan casual, menggunakan T-shirt, hoodie, dan jeans.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: from Harvard hijinks to hoodie billionaire

This guy is so humble....

Source; guardian.co.uk

The social network's stock market debut has made Zuckerberg the 23rd wealthiest person on earth but he's no evil genius

Thursday night was just like any other for Mark Zuckerberg. On the eve of his company's dizzying stock market debut, the 28-year-old gave his weekly address to Facebook engineers and opened its "hackathon" jamboree of computer code, caffeine and Chinese food.

Zuckerberg did not stay long into the night, leaving his company's campus-style headquarters in Menlo Park, San Francisco, to be with his girlfriend Cilla and their fluffy Hungarian sheepdog, Beast.

His modest way of life has been described as monastic by some commentators, who contrast it with the lavish extravagances enjoyed by other self-made billionaires. On Friday he became the 23rd wealthiest person on earth, according to Forbes magazine.

But Zuckerberg does not own a super-yacht or a mansion. He is rarely seen out of his trademark navy hoodie, and last year the Harvard dropout drove around San Francisco in a discreet $30,000 (£18,995) Acura TSX.

Those who have worked with Zuckerberg over the past four years describe an earnest and unassuming young developer whose social network has grown to connect one-eighth of humanity.

"He's not off on himself about how this whole thing has happened," one of these people said. "He's just earnest about developers and the product; he's definitely not some kind of evil genius. It's easy to make a caricature of him, but he's not a caricature – he's a good guy, and it could have been so easy for him to be a dick."

Much has been made of Zuckerberg's apparently awkward social manner. Technology news sites are awash with videos of early interviews showing an unblinking, dry-mouthed 20-something struggling to explain his quasi-religious belief in engineering and openness.

But those who worked with Zuckerberg say he has gone "way out of his comfort zone" to improve on his press relations, guided by his widely admired No 2, Sheryl Sandberg. "Mark is clearly gifted, but he doesn't make others feel small or flaunt his success. There is no 'I'm the boy genius wonder, where's my Gatorade?'" said one person.

Even his own Facebook profile is unpretentious. His history timeline mentions the mammoth social network only once – when he founded it in 2004 – and otherwise charts his own personal milestones: in 2010 he started learning Mandarin Chinese (Cilla is half Chinese and a fully qualified doctor); in 2011 he became vegetarian; in April this year he joined an organ donation scheme.

The 5ft 8in New York Yankees fan lists "minimalism" and "openness" among his interests, he enjoys reading Plato, and tennis and fencing are among his favourite sports. Like your typical young American male, Jay Z and Nirvana feature heavily on his iPod. Less is known about Zuckerberg's wildly ambitious formative years.

The son of a dentist father and psychiatrist mother, Zuckerberg enjoyed a comfortable upbringing with his three sisters, Randi, Donna and Arielle. He was a voracious computer programmer, building a network for the family home dubbed "Zucknet" aged 12. Later he reportedly created a computer game version of Monopoly based on his middle school in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

A rare insight into his teenage mind came to light in 2010, when the Business Insider website published a series of instant messaging conversations between Zuckerberg and his Harvard college friends in 2004. The correspondence is notable both because it exposed a steely ambition but also because Zuckerberg's machine-gun-fire missives were remarkably close to his unusually flat way of speaking.

Zuckerberg appeared to confirm in one message that he secretly hacked into the website of the Harvard University newspaper, the Crimson, by guessing the emails and passwords of two people in the college database.

"So I want to read what they said about me before the article came out and after I complained," he told one friend. "So I'm just like trying the email/passwords of everyone who put that they're in the Crimson. I wonder if the school tracks stuff like that."

In another message, Zuckerberg joked that 4,000 people had submitted emails, pictures and addresses to his budding Harvard social network. "People just submitted it ... I don't know why ... They 'trust me' ... dumb fucks."

Zuckerberg later told the New Yorker that he regretted the exchanges and that he had since grown up and learned from his mistakes. "If you're going to go on to build a service that is influential and that a lot of people rely on, then you need to be mature, right?" he said.

The signs are that Zuckerberg, guided by his close-knit group of experienced internet executives, has grown up markedly since those Harvard hijinks. Hidden in the corner of his Facebook profile are three favourite quotations, including this from Pablo Picasso: "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up." That will no doubt resonate more strongly than ever as Zuckerberg enters a bold new chapter with his $100bn-valued social network.

Um...French President Hollande used to study McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken when he was in the US in 1974

As the meeting began, Obama referred to Hollande's youthful adventures in the United States, which he traveled in 1974 on a grant from a business school. The future president of a country famed for its food studied McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken, both unknown at the time in France. "I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics," he told the New York Times.

After offering Hollande a "hearty congratulations" on his election victory, Obama noted that his guest "actually spent some time in the United States in his youth, studying American fast food--and although he decided to go into politics, we'll be interested in his opinions of cheeseburgers in Chicago."

"I want to thank President Obama for his vast knowledge of my life before I became a politician. And I want to say nothing that might suggest that cheeseburgers might have any flaws," replied Hollande.

"I just want to remember that cheeseburgers go very well with French fries," joked Obama.

"No declaration about French fries," Hollande said, in English, as the room emptied out.

there were more minority children born in the United States than white

For the first time in history, there were more minority children born in the United States than white, according to 2011 census data released on Thursday.

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 50.4 percent of children born in a 12-month period that ended last July were Hispanic, black, Asian American or from other minorities groups, while non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in that span. In 2010, minority babies accounted for 49.5 percent of all births.

Overall, minorities in the U.S. increased 1.9 percent to become 36.6 percent of the total U.S. population (114 million). But with the weak economy resulting in fewer Hispanics entering the U.S., demographers project that the tipping point when minorities become the majority in America may not happen as early as some predicted. After the 2010 census, experts suggested it could happen by 2040.

The census report signals "the dawn of an era in which whites no longer will be in the majority," the Washington Post said.

"Such a turn has been long expected," the New York Times noted, "but no one was certain when the moment would arrive -- signaling a milestone for a nation whose government was founded by white Europeans and has wrestled mightily with issues of race, from the days of slavery, through a civil war, bitter civil rights battles and, most recently, highly charged debates over efforts to restrict immigration."
"The 2008 election of Barack Obama as America's first black president was in some ways emblematic of the nation's changing face," the Wall Street Journal said. "But as the population evolves toward a more-varied mix that includes fast-growing Asian and Hispanic populations, the black/white divide that characterized the civil-rights movement has itself become a relic."

And, as the Associated Press pointed out, the Census report comes as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on the legality of Arizona's strict immigration law, with many other states weighing similar get-tough measures.