4000 hits!! November 10, 2009
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this blog officially got its 4000th hit yesterday…i’m very sorry if i didn’t update it regularly, but i’ll try to write again…
maybe i’ll try to write something from movies i watch again, because the statistics shown that the most popular post is the Bridge to Terabithia…well, actually i got a lot of things from the movies i watch, but i was too lazy to write something…hahaha…but yeah, i’ll try…
thanks to all of the visitors and keep enjoying my blog…God bless!!
my spiritual life journal November 2, 2009
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i just wrote a new blog about my spiritual life journal, please visit: http://itsjustlight.wordpress.com/
stay in the process October 31, 2009
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almost half a year since my last post, and for some reasons i think i will try to write again here…
huff…actually i don’t have any topics to write here right now, but i just feel like writing…maybe because i’m not in a very good mood today *since yesterday to be exact* because of several things…it’s like a lot of things is in my head and it’s almost full, but i don’t know where to put it out…so here i am ended up writing here…
recently i think God is trying to process me again and again…i’m not really sure what He is up to, but things coming are quite bothering me, and i don’t think i can endure this alone…yeah, but i have to get through this…I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME!!
so where does it come from?? May 18, 2009
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last saturday i went to yoyogi koen to see a thai festival because my classmate (a thai) worked part-time there…seeing a lot of durians there made me want to eat them, but unfortunately it’s too expensive, compared to the price in indonesia…i also saw a booth selling rambutan…and then some things came to my thought…
the word ‘durian’ and ‘rambutan’ come from indonesian vocabulary (or is it malay?)…’duri’ means ’spike’, and ‘rambut’ means ‘hair’, so they mean ’spiky’ and ‘hairy’, just as their physical appearance…
so where do they actually come from??in know that thai’s durian is famous, also in indonesia, i like the monthong durian, it’s expensive though (still not as expensive as it is here ^^), and i also heard that in other countries there are also durian and rambutan (my friend from srilanka told me so)…
there was also a sepak takraw exhibition and booth in the festival, and i also wondered…’takraw’ is thai language i think, but ’sepak’ means ‘kick’ in indonesian…so i just wondered, if takraw is from thailand, then why it’s more well-known as ’sepak takraw’, a mixture of words of indonesian and thai…
so what do you think??
10 things I hate about Japan April 27, 2009
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1. most Japanese people can’t speak English!! and everything here is in Japanese…so it’s hard to do things if you don’t understand Japanese…
2. although some people may be able to speak English, their pronunciation is very bad, so it’s still ununderstandable…
3. a lot of people do suicide by letting themselves hit by train, and that makes the train late (well, I’ve never been affected so much, but my friends have ^^)
4. Japanese people are too shy that makes them kinda introvert, and when they want to ask for something they don’t look us in the eyes (me and my friends experienced it today…that’s impolite for Indonesian, right?)
5. the food is fine, but not as tasteful as Indonesian food…
6. I can’t download torrent from my dorm or campus!! (and my cousin said that his friend had an intel come to his house because he downloaded lots of movies and games ^^)
7. the cinema is expensive, and new movies show late here, and most of them are in japanese >___<
8. well, actually everything is expensive here…foods are expensive…a bowl of ramen, costs about 400 yen (a cheap one)…you can get more than 5 bowls of noodles in Indonesia…books are also expensive…the Japanese language book that I was using, which only cost less than Rp.40000 (about 400 yen), is also published and sold here with a price of 2000 yen (5 times higher!!)
9. everyone here is so workaholic…they can work until late night…even my friend in my class said that the soonest her husband come home is at 11 pm…in the lab also the students usually go home after 7 or 8 pm…seems like they can’t enjoy their life…
10. being able to understand the language is not enough…you also have to learn kanji (which I don’t like most, because I’m not good at memorizing) to read lots of things around…
10 things I love about Japan April 27, 2009
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1. high-speed internet connection (can reach about 10 Mbps download speed – measured by speedtest.net)
2. almost everything is high-tech and automated…one new thing I just knew about here is the automatic lamp…whenever there’s no one in a room for some period of time, the lamp turns off by itself, and as someone is detected entering the room, it turns itself on…looks like Indonesia’s technologies have been left several years behind…
3. pedestrians are highly appreciated…whenever a pedestrian crossing the street, cars will stop, because the driver will get a very high penalty if his/her vehicle hits a pedestrian…so contrast with Indonesia…I’ve ever had an experience where I crossed the street in a zebra cross and an angkot almost hit me >___<
4. it’s fast and easy to go to lots of places by train…
5. I got a cell phone with just 0 yen (980 yen actually because I still had to buy the charger)…and actually I can get an iPhone if I want to, but I tried it and it’s not user-friendly for typing so I decided not to take it ^^
6. Softbank cell phone provider gives unlimited free call service from 1 AM to 9 PM to another Softbank carrier (what if an Indonesian provider gave this service? ^^)
7. the bureaucracy is simple here, oppositely with Indonesia which adopts the “if-it-can-be-done-difficultly-why-does-it-have-to-be-simple” system ^^
8. people can queue here in order…no matter how long the line is, but they can wait patiently, not like in Indonesia ^^
9. a lot of interesting place here, to play or just for sightseeing…
10. you can pay for lot of things (bills, etc) just at a convenience store…
His grace is more than enough for me April 27, 2009
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here I am now, in a big famous city named Tokyo, where everything is so high-tech, everything moves so fast, feels like there’s no time to be relaxing…
a long story until I can get here, and it’s all just by His grace…and I can still feel His grace is upon me right now ever since I stepped my feet on this whole new world…
it’s been almost a month, I have seen and learned a lot of new things here, met new people, faced new problems, and yet felt His new grace every day…
I’m still adapting until now, trying to find a place, a community, where I can ‘grow’ here…sometimes I feel lonely, missing my lovely family and friends in Bandung, wanna share a lot of things with them but unfortunately they seem to be busy these days or maybe for some other reasons they can’t…but somehow I don’t lose my joy at all, I can still enjoy it…
actually I don’t know what to write here…feels like I wanna share a lot of things but the words just don’t come out…but the point is I just wanna thank Him for His grace…
“…My grace is enough; it’s all you need…” (1 Cor 12:9 – MSG)
road to Ujung Genteng February 1, 2009
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last week, i had a trip to Ujung Genteng beach…i’ve been wanting to go there since a long time ago, and when my friends told me that they wanted to go there on friday last week, i wanted to come along, but unfortunately i had an event to attend the following saturday so i couldn’t…but on thursday, i got a news that the event was canceled, and that meant i was free to go…and there i went…felt like it’s a God’s gift for me…thanks God…
i just knew that we’re going backpacking…never done it before…felt kinda nervous but also excited…
8 of us departed from bandung (leuwipanjang terminal) taking a bus to sukabumi, moved to lembur situ terminal in sukabumi, and took an elf (not elf as in fantasy tales ^^) to a small town named surade…we arrived there at about 2.30 in the morning after 3 hours of crazy ride from lembur situ…we took a rest at a mosque there because we have to wait till the morning to continue our journey…
we took a move at about 6.30 to Curug Cikaso…we thought that it’s in the same direction as Ujung Genteng, but it isn’t…but it didn’t matter…
it took about half an hour to Cikaso village…there’s two ways to reach the waterfall, crossing the river by boat or walking through the ricefield…we chose the second way…and our efforts were paid off seeing the waterfall…so AWESOME!!
after we had so much fun there, we continued our trip to Ujung Genteng beach and after we got an inn, we had lunch and all of us took some rest…not much to do for the rest of the day, we just walked down the beach, took some pictures, finding a dead little turtle, etc…
the next day, we played on the beach in the morning and found many sea creatures (including snakes)…at noon we visited the fish market and bought some fish for lunch…roasted fish!!yummy!!
in the afternoon, we walked to Pangumbahan beach, where a turtle conservatory placed…it took about 1,5 hours…there we built a tent and waited until night when the turtles come to the beach to lay eggs…finally we can see the turtle at about 9pm…
at 4 in the morning we got back to Ujung Genteng, packed our belongings, and end our journey back to bandung…
it was fun, my first time backpacking and camping…although it was very tiring but it’s a great experience for me…and i’m still amazed with the waterfall (curug cikaso) ^^
btw, total money spent: about Rp.250k for 3 days and 2 nights (cheap eh??)
