Archive for April, 2014

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A4 – Hemingway, a name which probably (still) sounds familiar for the late generation, although additional question regarding him, will mostly lead them into a stuck of tongue, losing all the clues for the single right answer.

As a famous writer who made most of his ‘typing’ well recognized for the earlier generation, somehow ‘personal thing’ doesn’t always ‘salute’ back on Hemingway. Therefore, Hemingway personal imperfect elegy eventually did make him as a perfect figure, as a human… or specifically, a man…!

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A4 – Taking it’s predicate as one of developing country in Southeast Asia, Indonesia is never get too far from a single ‘word’ which representing much of the daily term inside a vast nation, that are ‘developing’ issues.

Emerging issues, started from economic, politics, national security, crime, social, welfare or even an escalated environment topics, quite ‘entertaining’ it’s people, as it became headlines, which are brought by an ink of daily morning paper into a digital fonts from world wide web.

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‘Burying’ Back Che…

Posted: April 23, 2014 in Person_al
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A4 –  A mirror stay intact… It ‘refused’ to be broken yet, nor ruptured… The fact, those tiny things of glass has been moving around involving thousand distances, all around the winds as the owner slip away his deepest past or peak present…

A decade counted… It looks just ordinary as before… Reflecting the ordinary me, while on top corner written a word of Che “I don’t care if I fall, as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting…”

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Tragically, a Traffic…

Posted: April 22, 2014 in NEW(e)S(t)
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A4 – Predicated as the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta is not only swarm by it’s political issues, but also surrounded by overwhelming problems as the largest main centralized city of the vast archipelago.

Offering all the luxury to be called as a world class metropolitan city in such an ‘instant’ way, Jakarta soon become disoriented by lack of adequate masterplan which arise not only a new building in every corner of it’s protocol street, but also the ‘skytall’ problems that lately ‘towering’ streets of the capital.

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A4 – As a part of nowadays frequent travelers, we will much often witnessing all the best that the modern world carried lately, started from the technology that take us all around in such efficient ways, entertaining ‘stuff’ which makes our journey much more exciting to come, or even… the very best appearance of  all the human that involved itself…

Yes… All that three things above is simply explained to be an aeroplane, a plane cabin, and… the flight crew itself, or best we called as… the female FA or flight stewardess… (Sorry for the male pilot, co & male FA), this is straight a male perspective… 🙂

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A4 – As now we’ve become more addicted for a new adventure to come, our next destination finally set a new spot on map. Close and deeper into the root of Indonesia’s own history, soon our footsteps will leaving it’s trail on a ‘mystical’ sacred ground of Dieng Plateau.

Once called as the rooftop of Java’, Dieng Plateau is well famous not only for it’s historical ‘landmark,’ such as temples which scattered all along the hideous mountain’s height, but also offering it’s cool climate which surrounded by mysteries.

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A4- This ‘piece’ of post is much personal… It’s reflecting one of the best moment which happened during the best day of the author golden age.

A love story? Perhaps… but in fact, it won’t be broken as the spell casted… A timeless love that not selling it’s romantic stories nor a personal secret, but much more represent hundred faces that redefine back love as a universal language.

The stories had it root from Yogyakarta rural area. Back in 2006, a great earthquake tear down all the surrounding area, leaving nothing but grieves and sorrow for all the growns up, but hope is not lasted… Not with those children… And this were their stories…

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A4 – Just like it’s similar neighboring Southeast Asian countries, election day in Indonesia is much more colorful than just a ‘black or white’ prediction for this nation’s future. In this 5-years annual event, all is much exciting when viewed in a cultural perspective.

For a brief history, after finally gain it’s independence back in 1945, Indonesia later transforms as a new young republic which during it’s early years hoped to practicing democracy on it bests towards their vast background of thousand islands.

Such a large country, Indonesia which separated by three time zones, symbolizing various different culture, race or even religion background which later represent by numbers of political party that somehow ‘automatically’ also symbolized by… ‘colors’.

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A4 – Busted by the law, and handed over inside cold prison bars probably a ‘sentence’ that mark as a ‘bad luck’ for the bad guys. While most prisons across Indonesia blown up the local newspaper with their ‘bad scandal’, a good positive news finally emerged from behind the one of Indonesia’s well known prison, Rutan Salemba.

‘Hotel Prodeo’, that is the ‘nickname’ for the terms of prison in Bahasa. Now, instead yelling and screaming scrambling behind the prison bars, the convicts of Salemba has their own way to make their ‘voice’ to be heard throughout the country, by amazingly sang ‘bit by bit’ of their music melody.

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A4 – Based on it’s size per square, Jakarta is far away to be called as an ‘ideal’ green environment capital. Unhealthy symptoms, such as pollutions, noises or even scattered garbages seems to merging down, bringing a ‘nightmare’ throughout the capital as people slowly tend to become adapted of it… and called it as ‘normal’.

This condition is worsened by the lack of natural protection. A fact which makes any coffee shop or mall throughout this enormous megapolitan city which offering both air conditioned and couch succesfully tempting every visitors to bought their cups of caffeine while eventually take a break from the heat.

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