<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513</id><updated>2024-10-07T11:26:27.281+07:00</updated><category term="My Experience"/><category term="Random Thoughts"/><category term="International Politics"/><category term="The Thinker"/><category term="Music"/><category term="My Papers and Tasks"/><category term="The Department"/><category term="Debate"/><category term="Jakarta"/><category term="America"/><category term="Asia Timur"/><category term="Computer and Internet"/><category term="East Java"/><category term="Environmental Moves"/><category term="Food"/><category term="Java"/><category term="Javanese"/><category term="Malang"/><category term="Mercosur"/><category term="Yogyakarta"/><category term="film"/><category term="holiday"/><category term="movies"/><category term="superhero"/><title type='text'>--[[ the adventure of mind  ]]--</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>47</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-4159804647852991527</id><published>2013-10-28T10:34:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2013-10-28T10:53:17.822+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="My Experience"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Random Thoughts"/><title type='text'>Panas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Pagi yang selalu terburu-buru. Setelah dua tahun berlalu saya menemukan bahwa saya bukanlah manusia pagi lagi.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Tidak sempat mencari nikmatnya udara pagi yang selalu diidamkan ketika saya belum kembali ke sini. Jangankan bersemangat, ingin saja tidak, untuk bangun dan bekerja. Karena pada dasarnya saya suka sekali suasana pagi. Tapi tidak dengan suasana biasa. Dingin dan sambil lalu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Saya benci rutinitas. Oh, bukan rutinitasnya.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Mereka dan apa-apa yang membuatnya rutin.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Ini buruk sekali untuk proses pembelajaran. Masa anak muda mau dibentuk dengan monoton. Seperti ceret yang cuma dipakai merebus air.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Awet. Tapi hanya begitu saja. Dipanaskan untuk ditunggu dingin kembali. Dicuci. Diisi air mentah. Lalu dipanaskan lagi.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Uh.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Saya menolak hidup demikian.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Saya emoh dipanaskan saja. Saya ingin membara.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHRw2IWWTzTRbYtPm0xVgXec91G1czNP1Xvvak3F5A_Q2eb_y3OawbFXm6a3w3jdf6w81m6NO_pHt1keASzmwb_Y1PdaWv5ZIoATqIqYUJLS_C0OCOBtmlq-xB51ku-FRs-kfdVA/s1600/3Datu-020.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;133&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHRw2IWWTzTRbYtPm0xVgXec91G1czNP1Xvvak3F5A_Q2eb_y3OawbFXm6a3w3jdf6w81m6NO_pHt1keASzmwb_Y1PdaWv5ZIoATqIqYUJLS_C0OCOBtmlq-xB51ku-FRs-kfdVA/s200/3Datu-020.JPG&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Kalau urusan mikir pagi siang sore malem sampai pagi lagi, tentang uang dan makanan, you boleh adu kuat sama saya. Tapi saya pastikan kalau saya tidak hanya memikirkan untuk diri sendiri. Kadang saya menerawang apa yang sebenarnya terjadi, apa makna di balik jalan susah payahnya saya berjuang hidup, sehingga saya sangat peduli dengan hal itu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Menjadi anak kos selama lebih dari 6 tahun tidak lantas membuat saya pintar mengatur kedua hal itu. Dengan berbagai cobaan yang dihadapi, dana dan makanan seakan tidak pernah aman bagi saya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Padahal, saya juga sangat waspada akan semua pengeluaran, soalnya bapak saya pernah bilang, kalau untuk sekolah dan makan, harusnya dananya nggak terbatas. Saya juga nggak gengsian, kalo harus berhemat di tengah teman-teman yang lagi kebanjiran duit ya santai, kalo lagi ingin beli baju atau buku ya beli aja. Lebih-lebih lagi, saya masih ada sisa uang. Untungnya saya nggak suka ngemil. Tulis majalah keuangan populer, salah satu sumber pengeluaran wanita terbesar itu ada di....&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;...cemilan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Ah sepertinya saya terlalu banyak baca Forb*s Asia dan Bl**mberg Businesweek (baca : gegayaan beli majalah bekas berboso Enggres yang sudah lewat 3 bulan lebih). Soalnya saya hafal banget frasa ini, dan rasanya sudah jadi ayat suci : &quot;Menabung itu suatu kebodohan, dan berinvestasi itu baru tindakan cerdas.&quot; Seingat saya itu kata-kata konsultan yang pernah ditayangkan majalah di atas, deh.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;My God, i can&#39;t stand being stupid, walaupun emang selama ini bodohnya banyak juga. Sering kali banyak merasa hari-hari saya dan keuangan saya kurang efektif dan saya seorang pemboros. Bagi saya pemboros itu dosa banget, dan saya takut jadi cewek pemboros. Lagi pula, setiap bulan pasti ada plafon pengeluaran yang harus dipatuhi. Dengan usia yang produktif, prinsip saya juga adalah mengurangi dependensi sama orang tua.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Frasa di atas sudah saya anut entah mulai kapan. Saya selalu merasa ada penyesalan setiap kali membeli sesuatu, meskipun itu memang perlu. Urusan makan pun demikian, saya nggak mau bilang kalau saya tidak sedang diet, tapi sekarang lagi membatasi banyak makan di malam hari. Secara tidak sadar saya juga berhitung di setiap kali transaksi makanan, karena untuk makan kan sifatnya fixed cost, punya uang atau enggak, kebutuhan makanan harus tetap dipasok.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Menghadapi kelangkaan bahan pangan bukan hal baru bagi saya juga. Dan kalau diperhatikan, setiap tahun belakangan ini krisis pangan dan impor-imporan makin sering terjadi, baik bumbu dapur sampai gula dan garam. Yang disebut terakhir itu sungguh konyol, lihat berapa panjangnya garis pantai Indonesia yang bisa buat bikin garem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Dari berbagai even yang terjadi seputar uang dan pangan, saya ingin sekali bisa jadi seorang yang mampu menjelaskan keruwetan di dalamnya, utamanya bagi saya. Krisis keuangan dan pangan itu sangat menyeramkan bagi saya dan akan memicu banyak hal yang lebih membuat bergidik. Perlahan keprihatinan saya pun berubah menjadi kepedulian.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Dengan kegelisahan ini, saya menjadi paham kalau rakyat kecil seperti saya ini harus ikut berjuang, karena ini masalah bersama. Privilege saya sebagai seorang akademia lulusan perguruan tinggi juga harusnya diiringi dengan kewajiban &quot;ikut urun mikir&quot; buat kemajuan orang banyak. Hingga sampai nanti saya tidak mikir lagi, mau keluar uang berapa untuk ini-itu, saya mau total membantu, bukan hanya sekedar berwacana untuk kesejahteraan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Semoga ada jalan bagi kaum yang katanya &quot;kelas menengah&quot; seperti saya ini yang masih bergulat dengan hal-hal dasar untuk bertahan. Saat ini saya sedang belajar meneliti tentang politik keuangan dan politik-ekonomi pertanian, di balik tembok kampus. Meski dananya tidak selancar semangat tim peneliti, semoga setelah waktu diseminasi tiba saya bisa menuliskan sesuatu yang lebih penting di sini dan di tempat lain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Berharap kecemasan kita semua cepat berhenti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Saya&amp;nbsp;sempat&amp;nbsp;melihat-lihat&amp;nbsp;situs&amp;nbsp;internet&amp;nbsp;amatiran&amp;nbsp;buatan&amp;nbsp;seorang&amp;nbsp;bule&amp;nbsp;tentang&amp;nbsp;tips&amp;nbsp;dan&amp;nbsp;trik&amp;nbsp;berwisata&amp;nbsp;ke&amp;nbsp;Indonesia.&amp;nbsp;Entah&amp;nbsp;apa&amp;nbsp;nama&amp;nbsp;web&amp;nbsp;nya,&amp;nbsp;saya&amp;nbsp;sudah&amp;nbsp;lupa,&amp;nbsp;dan&amp;nbsp;memang&amp;nbsp;malas&amp;nbsp;mengingat&amp;nbsp;ingat.&amp;nbsp;Terlepas&amp;nbsp;dari&amp;nbsp;tampilan&amp;nbsp;situsnya&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;rada&amp;nbsp;agak-agak&amp;nbsp;diluar&amp;nbsp;kaidah&amp;nbsp;kerapian&amp;nbsp;gitu.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Ada&amp;nbsp;salah&amp;nbsp;satu&amp;nbsp;kolom&amp;nbsp;tentang&amp;nbsp;bagaimana&amp;nbsp;cara&amp;nbsp;bertingkah&amp;nbsp;laku&amp;nbsp;dan&amp;nbsp;menjawab&amp;nbsp;pertanyaan&amp;nbsp;orang&amp;nbsp;Indonesia,&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;mungkin&amp;nbsp;bagi&amp;nbsp;mereka&amp;nbsp;nyeleneh.&amp;nbsp;Tips&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;didaftarkan&amp;nbsp;di&amp;nbsp;urutan&amp;nbsp;pertama&amp;nbsp;ternyata&amp;nbsp;bukan&amp;nbsp;bagaimana&amp;nbsp;cara&amp;nbsp;basa-basi&amp;nbsp;dengan&amp;nbsp;penduduk&amp;nbsp;lokal,&amp;nbsp;dan&amp;nbsp;cukup&amp;nbsp;menggelitik&amp;nbsp;saya.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;Aloneness&quot;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Yup,&amp;nbsp;topik&amp;nbsp;tentang&amp;nbsp;kesendirian&amp;nbsp;kita&amp;nbsp;dalam&amp;nbsp;menjelajah.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Maksudnya&amp;nbsp;begini,&amp;nbsp;kan&amp;nbsp;bule&amp;nbsp;memang&amp;nbsp;kadang-kadang&amp;nbsp;berangkat&amp;nbsp;jalan-jalan&amp;nbsp;secara&amp;nbsp;solo&amp;nbsp;trip,&amp;nbsp;atau&amp;nbsp;kalau&amp;nbsp;bareng&amp;nbsp;pun,&amp;nbsp;ada&amp;nbsp;kalanya&amp;nbsp;mereka&amp;nbsp;pergi&amp;nbsp;sendiri&amp;nbsp;ke&amp;nbsp;tempat&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;diminati.&amp;nbsp;Nah,&amp;nbsp;pertanyaan&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;sering&amp;nbsp;dilontarkan&amp;nbsp;orang&amp;nbsp;lokal&amp;nbsp;ketika&amp;nbsp;si&amp;nbsp;bule&amp;nbsp;beli&amp;nbsp;rokok&amp;nbsp;di&amp;nbsp;warung&amp;nbsp;atau&amp;nbsp;sekedar&amp;nbsp;lihat-lihat&amp;nbsp;di&amp;nbsp;art&amp;nbsp;shop,&amp;nbsp;ialah,&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;Kok&amp;nbsp;sendirian?&quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;yang&amp;nbsp;diterjemahkan&amp;nbsp;ke&amp;nbsp;dalam&amp;nbsp;bahasa&amp;nbsp;Inggris&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&quot;Why&amp;nbsp;are&amp;nbsp;you&amp;nbsp;by&amp;nbsp;yourself?&quot;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Rupanya&amp;nbsp;si&amp;nbsp;bule&amp;nbsp;ini&amp;nbsp;agak&amp;nbsp;terganggu&amp;nbsp;dengan&amp;nbsp;pertanyaan&amp;nbsp;seperti&amp;nbsp;itu&amp;nbsp;selama&amp;nbsp;ia&amp;nbsp;jalan-jalan&amp;nbsp;di&amp;nbsp;Indonesia.&amp;nbsp;Ia&amp;nbsp;menyarankan&amp;nbsp;agar&amp;nbsp;tersenyum&amp;nbsp;saja&amp;nbsp;kalau&amp;nbsp;ditanya,&amp;nbsp;atau&amp;nbsp;bilang&amp;nbsp;langsung&amp;nbsp;kalau&amp;nbsp;memang&amp;nbsp;suka&amp;nbsp;sendirian,&amp;nbsp;karena&amp;nbsp;nanti&amp;nbsp;kalau&amp;nbsp;dijawab&amp;nbsp;pasti&amp;nbsp;muncul&amp;nbsp;pertanyaan&amp;nbsp;susulan&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;lebih&amp;nbsp;annoying.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Entah,&amp;nbsp;mungkin&amp;nbsp;sang&amp;nbsp;turis&amp;nbsp;tidak&amp;nbsp;suka&amp;nbsp;bersosialisasi,&amp;nbsp;secara&amp;nbsp;tidak&amp;nbsp;semua&amp;nbsp;bule&amp;nbsp;seperti&amp;nbsp;itu.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Saya&amp;nbsp;tidak&amp;nbsp;tahu&amp;nbsp;di&amp;nbsp;Indonesia&amp;nbsp;dia&amp;nbsp;ke&amp;nbsp;mana&amp;nbsp;saja,&amp;nbsp;tapi&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;menarik&amp;nbsp;bagi&amp;nbsp;saya&amp;nbsp;itu&amp;nbsp;bahwa&amp;nbsp;kemana-mana&amp;nbsp;sendirian&amp;nbsp;itu&amp;nbsp;masih&amp;nbsp;tidak&amp;nbsp;umum&amp;nbsp;di&amp;nbsp;Indonesia.&amp;nbsp;Paling&amp;nbsp;tidak&amp;nbsp;di&amp;nbsp;lingkungan&amp;nbsp;saya&amp;nbsp;hidup.&amp;nbsp;Apalagi&amp;nbsp;perempuan&amp;nbsp;dan&amp;nbsp;kalau&amp;nbsp;sudah&amp;nbsp;kelewat&amp;nbsp;malam.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Lepas&amp;nbsp;dari&amp;nbsp;masalah&amp;nbsp;aman&amp;nbsp;atau&amp;nbsp;tidak,&amp;nbsp;&quot;aloneness&quot;&amp;nbsp;ini&amp;nbsp;suka&amp;nbsp;bikin&amp;nbsp;tidak&amp;nbsp;nyaman,&amp;nbsp;karena&amp;nbsp;orang&amp;nbsp;lain&amp;nbsp;rasanya&amp;nbsp;memandang&amp;nbsp;aneh.&amp;nbsp;Saya&amp;nbsp;sendiri&amp;nbsp;suka&amp;nbsp;pergi&amp;nbsp;belanja&amp;nbsp;sendiri,&amp;nbsp;beli&amp;nbsp;ini-itu,&amp;nbsp;bukan&amp;nbsp;karena&amp;nbsp;tidak&amp;nbsp;punya&amp;nbsp;teman&amp;nbsp;atau&amp;nbsp;anti&amp;nbsp;sosial,&amp;nbsp;tidak.&amp;nbsp;Rasanya&amp;nbsp;lebih&amp;nbsp;nyaman&amp;nbsp;saja&amp;nbsp;kalau&amp;nbsp;tidak&amp;nbsp;ada&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;menunggu&amp;nbsp;dan&amp;nbsp;mengajak&amp;nbsp;pulang&amp;nbsp;duluan,&amp;nbsp;tidak&amp;nbsp;perlu&amp;nbsp;banyak&amp;nbsp;menyesuaikan&amp;nbsp;diri&amp;nbsp;dan&amp;nbsp;benar-benar&amp;nbsp;menikmati&amp;nbsp;waktu.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Kalau&amp;nbsp;harus&amp;nbsp;makan&amp;nbsp;sendiri&amp;nbsp;di&amp;nbsp;tempat&amp;nbsp;makan&amp;nbsp;atau&amp;nbsp;kantin,&amp;nbsp;orang&amp;nbsp;suka&amp;nbsp;malas&amp;nbsp;karena&amp;nbsp;rasanya&amp;nbsp;makan&amp;nbsp;sendiri&amp;nbsp;di&amp;nbsp;tempat&amp;nbsp;rame&amp;nbsp;itu&amp;nbsp;aneh.&amp;nbsp;Saya&amp;nbsp;juga&amp;nbsp;kadang-kadang&amp;nbsp;begitu.&amp;nbsp;Tapi&amp;nbsp;kalau&amp;nbsp;di&amp;nbsp;daerah&amp;nbsp;di&amp;nbsp;mana&amp;nbsp;lebih&amp;nbsp;sedikit&amp;nbsp;orang&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;mengenal&amp;nbsp;saya,&amp;nbsp;ya&amp;nbsp;tidak&amp;nbsp;begitu&amp;nbsp;masalah,&amp;nbsp;selama&amp;nbsp;saya&amp;nbsp;masih&amp;nbsp;disibukkan&amp;nbsp;dengan&amp;nbsp;hape,&amp;nbsp;buku,&amp;nbsp;atau&amp;nbsp;laptop.&amp;nbsp;Pokoknya&amp;nbsp;selama&amp;nbsp;tidak&amp;nbsp;mati&amp;nbsp;gaya&amp;nbsp;aja&amp;nbsp;okelah.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Yang&amp;nbsp;belum&amp;nbsp;pernah&amp;nbsp;itu&amp;nbsp;nonton&amp;nbsp;bioskop&amp;nbsp;sendiri.&amp;nbsp;Beberapa&amp;nbsp;teman&amp;nbsp;kuliah&amp;nbsp;cewek&amp;nbsp;dulu&amp;nbsp;pernah&amp;nbsp;cerita&amp;nbsp;nonton&amp;nbsp;bioskop&amp;nbsp;sendirian,&amp;nbsp;nonton&amp;nbsp;film&amp;nbsp;apa&amp;nbsp;gitu&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;agak&amp;nbsp;gore,&amp;nbsp;dan&amp;nbsp;dasar&amp;nbsp;anaknya&amp;nbsp;pecinta&amp;nbsp;film&amp;nbsp;begituan,&amp;nbsp;dia&amp;nbsp;santai-santai&amp;nbsp;aja.&amp;nbsp;Tapi&amp;nbsp;kayaknya&amp;nbsp;saya&amp;nbsp;tak&amp;nbsp;bakal&amp;nbsp;bisa&amp;nbsp;nonton&amp;nbsp;sendirian&amp;nbsp;di&amp;nbsp;bioskop,&amp;nbsp;garing&amp;nbsp;banget,&amp;nbsp;bleh.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;p0&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Beberapa&amp;nbsp;orang&amp;nbsp;pergi&amp;nbsp;sendiri&amp;nbsp;karena&amp;nbsp;butuh&amp;nbsp;banyak&amp;nbsp;privasi.&amp;nbsp;Salah&amp;nbsp;satunya&amp;nbsp;saya,&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;kadang&amp;nbsp;sengaja&amp;nbsp;matikan&amp;nbsp;telepon&amp;nbsp;biar&amp;nbsp;tidak&amp;nbsp;diganggu,&amp;nbsp;berkata&amp;nbsp;kasar&amp;nbsp;kepada&amp;nbsp;mas-mas&amp;nbsp;waitress&amp;nbsp;supermarket&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;sok&amp;nbsp;godain&amp;nbsp;saya,&amp;nbsp;dan&amp;nbsp;semua&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;saya&amp;nbsp;damprat&amp;nbsp;karena&amp;nbsp;mengganggu&amp;nbsp;&quot;aloneness&quot;&amp;nbsp;saya&amp;nbsp;termasuk&amp;nbsp;bapak&amp;nbsp;saya.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Semakin&amp;nbsp;dewasa,&amp;nbsp;saya&amp;nbsp;makin&amp;nbsp;membuat&amp;nbsp;jarak&amp;nbsp;dengan&amp;nbsp;banyak&amp;nbsp;orang.&amp;nbsp;Mungkin&amp;nbsp;sifat&amp;nbsp;saya&amp;nbsp;seperti&amp;nbsp;si&amp;nbsp;bule&amp;nbsp;pembuat&amp;nbsp;situs&amp;nbsp;tadi&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;cukup&amp;nbsp;menikmati&amp;nbsp;aloneness&amp;nbsp;nya&amp;nbsp;tanpa&amp;nbsp;alasan,&amp;nbsp;laiknya&amp;nbsp;penjelajah&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;sedang&amp;nbsp;ingin&amp;nbsp;melepas&amp;nbsp;penat&amp;nbsp;dari&amp;nbsp;terlalu&amp;nbsp;banyak&amp;nbsp;kontak&amp;nbsp;dengan&amp;nbsp;orang&amp;nbsp;lain.&amp;nbsp;Apalagi&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;menyebalkan&amp;nbsp;dan&amp;nbsp;sok&amp;nbsp;akrab.&amp;nbsp;Yang&amp;nbsp;lebih&amp;nbsp;parah,&amp;nbsp;ketika&amp;nbsp;kita&amp;nbsp;lagi&amp;nbsp;capek,&amp;nbsp;pengen&amp;nbsp;santai&amp;nbsp;sendirian,&amp;nbsp;terus&amp;nbsp;tiba-tiba&amp;nbsp;ada&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;nyerocos&amp;nbsp;curhat.&amp;nbsp;Konslet&amp;nbsp;sudah&amp;nbsp;otak&amp;nbsp;saya.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Tapi&amp;nbsp;orang&amp;nbsp;tua&amp;nbsp;saya&amp;nbsp;sering&amp;nbsp;kali&amp;nbsp;langsung&amp;nbsp;gelagapan&amp;nbsp;ketika&amp;nbsp;tahu&amp;nbsp;saya&amp;nbsp;pergi&amp;nbsp;sendiri,&amp;nbsp;meskipun&amp;nbsp;itu&amp;nbsp;hanya&amp;nbsp;ke&amp;nbsp;minimarket&amp;nbsp;dekat&amp;nbsp;kos,&amp;nbsp;terus&amp;nbsp;disuruh&amp;nbsp;cepat-cepat&amp;nbsp;pulang&amp;nbsp;supaya&amp;nbsp;aman.&amp;nbsp;Meh, capek&amp;nbsp;sekali&amp;nbsp;kalau&amp;nbsp;harus&amp;nbsp;menjelaskan,&amp;nbsp;bahwa&amp;nbsp;saya&amp;nbsp;bukan&amp;nbsp;orang&amp;nbsp;yang&amp;nbsp;harus&amp;nbsp;nunggu&amp;nbsp;teman&amp;nbsp;dulu&amp;nbsp;baru&amp;nbsp;berangkat&amp;nbsp;ke&amp;nbsp;sana-sini.&amp;nbsp;Rasanya&amp;nbsp;kemayu&amp;nbsp;banget&amp;nbsp;kalau&amp;nbsp;kemana-mana&amp;nbsp;harus&amp;nbsp;sama&amp;nbsp;dayang&amp;nbsp;dan&amp;nbsp;pengawal&amp;nbsp;yak.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/3444322330522026205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/3444322330522026205' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/3444322330522026205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/3444322330522026205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2013/04/i-might-be-alone-but-im-not-lonely.html' title='I Might Be Alone, but I&#39;m not Lonely'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-3378394089079183989</id><published>2013-03-15T23:28:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2013-03-15T23:28:45.608+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Music"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Random Thoughts"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="The Thinker"/><title type='text'>Suatu Pengalaman dengan Boyband (Indonesia)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;
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Pernah dalam suatu hari saya naik kereta Gajayana relasi Malang-Jakarta sendirian, kira-kira pada masa saya sedang kuliah untuk gelar saya yang terakhir saya sabet ini. &lt;/div&gt;
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Dalam kereta eksekutif ini, saya duduk, yang kebetulan menghadap layar Tv kereta meski ada beberapa saf penumpang lain di depan. Muncullah beberapa sosok pemuda yang sangat &lt;i&gt;well-groomed, &lt;/i&gt;menari dan meliuk dengan kompak bersamaan. Saat saya tahu bahwa kelompok &lt;i&gt;cowok &lt;/i&gt;ini ialah &lt;i&gt;boyband &lt;/i&gt;bertitel XO-*IX, dengan sangat tidak harmonis membawakan ulang lagu Dewa yang judulnya &lt;i&gt;Cinta &#39;kan Membawamu, &lt;/i&gt;saya jadi semakin tidak bisa tidur, padahal jam sudah lewat pukul 21.00.&lt;/div&gt;
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Apa pasal?&lt;/div&gt;
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Dengan gaya tipikal &lt;i&gt;boyband &lt;/i&gt;a la Korea yang demen berpakaian &lt;i&gt;kinky&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;overdone make-up&lt;/i&gt;, dan agak &lt;i&gt;maksa &lt;/i&gt;sedikit cengkok bernyanyinya, mata saya juga seperti sedang nonton sesuatu yang lebih aneh dari lawakan garing OVJ. Seingat saya, &quot;seragam&quot; mereka dalam video klip tersebut ialah paduan hitam-berkilau dan nuansa keperakan. Lalu tatanan rambut jabrik dan ada juga yang sepintas a-la Rihanna, serta gaya koreografinya yang sepertinya punya maksud menggabungkan nuansa seksi dengan misterius. Tapi entah ya.&lt;/div&gt;
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Namun bukan penampilan mereka yang membuat saya agak mabuk darat, meski saya sebelumnya sudah kebal sekali naik kendaraan yang goyangannya agak mahadahsyat.&lt;/div&gt;
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Tapi simply karena mereka tidak bisa membawakan keagungan dan rasa dari lagu itu. Dari segi musikalitas, banyak sekali detil ketukan perkusi yang tidak perlu, serta sepintas sahut-menyahut lirik antar personelnya membuat lagu bagus ini menjadi turun derajat.&lt;/div&gt;
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Padahal dengan kesederhanaan komposisi Dewa, lagu ini bisa terdengar syahdu.&lt;/div&gt;
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Saya lalu mengirimkan post ke twitter yang mengkritik ketidaksukaan saya pada grup ini. Dan secara mengejutkan, muncul &lt;i&gt;retweet &lt;/i&gt;dari seorang fansnya yang dengan sengit mendiskreditkan komentar saya. Oh ya, fans ini juga sepertinya masih SMA. saya membalasnya dengan menulis bahwa itu penilaian saya, terserah jika ada pendapat yang lain. &lt;/div&gt;
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Ia tetap tak terima, dan mengatakan bahwa lagu yang mereka bawakan bagus, terbukti dari keberhasilan pemuda-pemuda klimis tersebut menancapkan lagu itu pada top-chart salah satu stasiun radio di Solo.&lt;/div&gt;
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Lalu, ia dengan menakjubkannya meretweet saya kepada akun salah satu personel &lt;i&gt;boyband&lt;/i&gt; nya, dan setelah saya tengok lagi timeline nya dalam beberapa hari, tak ada tanggapan dari idolanya itu dan ia pun &quot;mengadukan&quot; tentang saya pada teman-temannya yang lain. Mungkin sesama fans.&lt;/div&gt;
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Oh, what a teen.&lt;/div&gt;
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Saya generasi 90-an, dan saya juga suka beberapa boyband barat dan Asia. Ya, tetapi &lt;i&gt;nggak &lt;/i&gt;segitunya &lt;i&gt;bela-belain&lt;/i&gt; menjadi penggemar yang labil, yang kelihatannya harga dirinya ikut tercabik ketika idolanya dikritik. Kalau kalian (yang memang sudah dewasa lho, ya) lihat sendiri twit jaman kapan itu, pasti ngakak sendiri.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Untung saya cepat sadar tidak untuk meladeni balasannya yang makin tak rasional dan akhirnya mem-blok akunnya. Ah, remaja jaman sekarang.Seleranya perlu dibetulin mengikuti standar kualitas konten dan musikalitas.&lt;/div&gt;
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Bagus lagi kalau ada misinya. Ada pesan penyadaran.&lt;/div&gt;
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Tampaknya industri musik tak butuh hal-hal begitu. One-hit maker sudah terlalu menjamur di pasaran, dan trik aji-mumpung juga menjadi sarana selebritis yang tidak bisa nyanyi untuk menaikkan popularitas. Nampaknya barat juga lagi kehilangan inspirasi. Banyak lagu bertema hura-hura, seks, dan percintaan yang dangkal menghiasi berbagai sajian hiburan &lt;i&gt;on-air&lt;/i&gt; maupun &lt;i&gt;off-air&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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Saya sendiri, &lt;i&gt;nggak &lt;/i&gt;butuh barang tak berbobot apalagi tak bermakna. Tidak selalu berat, banyak musik &lt;i&gt;easy listening &lt;/i&gt;berlirik dalam, menggugah, dan lebih &quot;bercerita&quot; seperti Endah N Rhesa, Zee Avi, atau coba saja ziarahi kembali beberapa lagu Michael Jackson.&lt;/div&gt;
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Oh ya, bagi saya musik bagus itu, paling tidak, memanjakan pendengaran, otak, dan menimbulkan pelepasan dan kepuasan. &lt;/div&gt;
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Yang saya ingat dari perjalanan selama kurang lebih 15 jam itu, ialah kuping saya capek mendengarkan beberapa lagu dan iklan yang terus diulang-ulang dari sore sampai pagi.&lt;/div&gt;
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Betul-betul malam yang panjang, jika harus diiringi suasana begitu.&lt;/div&gt;
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</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/3378394089079183989/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/3378394089079183989' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/3378394089079183989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/3378394089079183989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2013/03/ekonomi-politik-boyband-indonesia.html' title='Suatu Pengalaman dengan Boyband (Indonesia)'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-3201172903823777045</id><published>2013-01-19T22:19:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2013-01-19T22:19:42.022+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Random Thoughts"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="The Thinker"/><title type='text'>Fakir Sinyal </title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;sepertinya hape itu harus dilempar ke muka provider. alasannya memiliki nilai legitimasi kuat.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;bagaimana tidak.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;eh sayang. masih garansi apalagi.&lt;br&gt;
seorang bocah, yang sudah mau habis masa remajanya, punya dua hape yang punya nomor penyedia layanan, yakni si biru dan si merah. kau-tahu-apa-saja-mereka itu. dan kedua-duanya mengalami masalah jaringan di kala hujan. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;hujan yang seharusnya memiliki muatan romantis malah berkhianat dengan menghadang sinyal hape, satu-satunya alasan untuk tetap terhubung.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;tak elok mengutuki hujan karena ia takdir tuhan. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;indonesia sudah merdeka. namun ia tetap dirantai batasan untuk sekedar bercakap denganku disini.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;angkatan &#39;45 pun hanya punya radio transistor, namun cukup buat Bung Tomo mengobarkan semangat arek-arek suroboyo untuk menyerbu hotel Yamato.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;kembali pada saat ini. ia tinggal di desa,&amp;#160; kebanyakan warga sudah mampu membeli hape, membeli pulsa. namun tidak untuk membeli sinyalnya.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;pengemis tunawisma di jembatan halte busway masih dapat mengais receh,paling tidak untuk beli nasi sayur bungkus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;lha, bagaimana dengan dia, bocah kampung yang hendak mengucap sekedar selamat tidur buat wanitanya di kota?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ke mana harus mengemis sinyal?&lt;/p&gt;
</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/3201172903823777045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/3201172903823777045' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/3201172903823777045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/3201172903823777045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2013/01/fakir-sinyal.html' title='Fakir Sinyal '/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total><georss:featurename>Tebet, Tebet</georss:featurename><georss:point>-6.225843 106.85681</georss:point></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-2556909008347049373</id><published>2012-11-27T00:58:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2012-11-27T00:58:19.555+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Random Thoughts"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="The Thinker"/><title type='text'>Menjadi Sadar</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;
Saya tak pernah benar menyimpan ekspektasi, hingga beberapa lompatan waktu terakhir.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Saya sudah agak lupa bagaimana caranya bersenang-senang secara maksimal, lupa bagaimana menjerit ketika sedang nonton film seram, lupa bagaimana harus memberi mahasiswa waktu berpikir ketika saya bertanya, lupa juga bagaimana jalan dengan santai saja.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Semua karena target yang menumpuk. lalu target tersebut membuat kita tak menikmati diri sendiri apa adanya. Bisakah kita lalu berhenti berharap yang terbaik ?&lt;/div&gt;
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Ini pertama kalinya saya ingin menjadi seseorang. Seorang yang &lt;i&gt;notable&lt;/i&gt;, baik, memiliki jiwa yang kuat, sadar akan kosmos, serta memiliki jalur hidup. Benar saja, sekarang saya telah menemukan dunia di mana saya agak kuatir jika dipisahkan darinya. Saya ingin begini saja, tidak mengganggu siapapun, namun bisa menjadi diri sendiri. &lt;/div&gt;
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Soal karir, sungguh saya ingin menjadi seorang yang kontributif, bukan hanya pintar untuk kepuasan dirinya saja. Makin sulit bagi saya untuk membaur di tempat baru, jangankan tempat baru, berbicara pada orang yang baru dikenal pun jadi agak kikuk, tak seperti ketika dulu menjadi seorang mahasiswa baru. Menyerap tambahan ilmu rupanya membuat saya jadi orang yang terlalu hati-hati sehingga tidak lepas lagi dalam bergaul. Oh ya, saya juga sudah buat resolusi untuk baca jurnal, satu judul dua hari. Biar tidak terlalu revolusioner dan kelihatan sok. &lt;/div&gt;
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Tapi sungguh saya ingin menjadi orang yang bisa mengembangkan sebuah ilmu. Apapun yang berjalan saat ini, kepedulian saya terasa terpanggil dengan sendirinya. Makin sering saya berfikir terlalu dalam tentang sesuatu. Mungkin saya harus jadi filsuf?&lt;/div&gt;
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Filsuf, cocok untuk membahas perkara asmara. Ah, saya tak pernah mengalami yang namanya putus sambung, dibohongi pacar, apalagi diselingkuhi. Saya benar-benar sadar pentingnya memahami esensi hubungan antar manusia ketika saya sungguh jatuh cinta seperti sekarang. Membuat kita selalu ingin mencari kekasih, dan ketika telah bersamanya ia akan kita jadikan kebanggaan.&lt;/div&gt;
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Entah kata siapa, bahwa manusia ialah makhluk yang mencari makna. Ada bahasa latinnya, kok. Sehingga muncullah ilmu semiotika itu dan saudara-saudaranya.&lt;/div&gt;
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Saya ingin sekali mencari makna. Bersama semua jurnal ini, bersamanya, dan bersama kalian juga. Saya hanya ingin bisa memercayai diri sendiri dan yakin akan kekuatan hati dan jiwa ini.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/2556909008347049373/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/2556909008347049373' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/2556909008347049373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/2556909008347049373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2012/11/menjadi-sadar.html' title='Menjadi Sadar'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Tebet, Jakarta, Indonesia</georss:featurename><georss:point>-6.225843 106.856809</georss:point><georss:box>-6.2574130000000006 106.81732699999999 -6.194273 106.896291</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-5898172646391751690</id><published>2012-09-25T10:33:00.004+07:00</published><updated>2012-09-25T10:34:27.016+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Random Thoughts"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="The Thinker"/><title type='text'>Piece of Absurdity</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Selamat
datang absurditas.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Itulah sepenggal deskripsi mengenai keseharian saya
belakangan ini. Tak ada liburan yang memuaskan, juga tak ada kesempatan untuk
rehat. Ada beberapa tugas dan target-target pribadi yang terselubung dalam aktivitas
kerja, ehem, semoga tidak mengontaminasi spirit kerja itu sendiri.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Payah.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Berkecimpung lebih dalam di dunia akademik tak lantas
membuat saya makin cerdik cendekia memandang suatu dilema, malah semakin
emosional. Ditambah lagi, umur yang seperempat abad ini memang terasa tawar
karena kurangnya rasa tenang dan ikhlas. Namun semua ini tertolong dengan
rekan-rekan yang selalu mendukung dan kadang suka melempar &lt;i&gt;joke &lt;/i&gt;sembarangan
tanpa lihat-lihat perasaan.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Saya ini ada sifat melankolisnya sedikit, ternyata ya.
Suka memantau perasaan sekali-kali.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Disiplin itu cara utama menghargai diri sendiri. Dalam
hemat saya, disiplin malah kadang membikin kesepian, tidak menikmati hidup. Ada
kalanya ketar-ketir menjalani hidup yang terus berceceran dan kurang inspirasi,
namun menjadi orang bebas sepertinya bisa melepas penat. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Ya, untuk apa menjadi sempurna, kalau terjebak dalam
absurditas. Tapi saya suka sekali lho kalau lihat orang teratur, serba
terorganisasi, karena itu sebuah seni tersendiri. Saya berharap bisa jadi
seperti itu, dan saya sedang belajar ke arah situ.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Dengan bantuan kolega yang semuanya lebih senior dari
saya di sebuah --atau dua buah universitas-- saya harap saya bisa lebih
&quot;menunduk&quot; dan mengembangkan &lt;i&gt;unggah ungguh &lt;/i&gt;alias etika saya
dalam menelusuri dunia pendidikan. Alasan utamanya, saya harus mendidik diri
dulu sebelum mengarahkan orang lain. Ya, saya juga sekarang bekerja sebagai
pengajar, untungnya di bidang ilmu yang saya tekuni juga.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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satu alasan saya hijrah ke ibukota dan lebih mementingkan menemukan pekerjaan
dibanding mendidik diri. Keinginan untuk mandiri mengalahkan keinginan untuk
terjun ke dunia intelektualita, menggerus semangat pengabdian. Tapi, saya masih
tak tahu caranya. Kalah dengan buramnya otak saya.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Namun itulah kita semua. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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banyak ikut mereka-mereka ini. Biar saya &lt;i&gt;ngaku &lt;/i&gt;saja di sini kalau saya &lt;i&gt;malu-maluin&lt;/i&gt;,
suka bosan, dan harus banyak baca dan mendengarkan orang bicara. Tidak perlu
buat resolusi, karena pasti saya langgar. Saran untuk kalian yang ingin
belajar, cari figur yang tepat untuk dicontoh, dan belajarlah dengan dituntun.
Jangan pernah sombong dan tidak adaptif, nanti sifat itu membunuh logika kalian
sendiri.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Jangan lupa temukan tujuan hidup kalian. Dan kasih
tahu saya kalau sudah ketemu. Mungkin itu jalan saya juga.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/5898172646391751690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/5898172646391751690' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/5898172646391751690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/5898172646391751690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2012/09/piece-of-absurdity.html' title='Piece of Absurdity'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-1735335258995751561</id><published>2012-08-05T02:50:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2012-08-05T03:24:39.674+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="America"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="film"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="movies"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Random Thoughts"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="superhero"/><title type='text'>Di Tengah Kebosanan Suguhan Film Superhero</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Kesalahan menonton film adalah ketika anda terlalu banyak nonton film superhero dari Nagari Amriki dan fairytale a la barat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Entah film itu seperti The Avengers atau The Dark Knight Rises yang berhasil mengantongi banyak duit, atau film Spiderman yang masih abege dan ababil masalah cewek. Saya tidak begitu suka dengan produk Marvel dan DC Comics, yang mengupas seorang &quot;hero&quot; utama berlatar belakang mengenaskan, gelap, yang terkadang perlu dikasihani.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Poinnya ialah, seorang yang mengenaskan dan ababil itu bisa menjadi superhero karena bakat terpendam yang dimilikinya. Di kesempatan lain, kekuatan amarah dan terkadang determinasi kekuatan hati bisa menjadi peletup kekuatan super si pahlawan. Saya tidak melawan konsep ini, hanya saja ketika karakter tokoh utama ini dipertahankan terus, penonton skeptis seperti saya bisa bosan. Tidak bisakah seorang yang mapan lalu memperlihatkan kepahlawanan yang spektakuler? Jawabannya tentu nilai kepahlawanannya akan tidak begitu punya &lt;i&gt;wow effect&lt;/i&gt;. Bahkan bisa dibilang sudah sepantasnya. Karakter ini mungkin hanya sebagai peran pendukung si tokoh utama yang kesepian, berkepribadian ganda, dan banyak berjibaku dengan masalah dirinya sendiri.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Dengan bumbu intrik dan misteri, cerita kepahlawanan ini terus berlanjut hingga beberapa sekuel. Apalagi jika menampilkan pemeran rupawan dan klimis macam hero-nya Superman Returns, si Brandon Routh. Yang membosankan ialah ketika ia berada dalam topeng, menanggung bebannya sendiri, dan ketika ia jaya, kemenangan adalah untuk nama besarnya sendiri, atau yang keroyokan seperti Avengers itu sendiri. Kelihatannya setelah menghabisi lawannya mereka nongkrong dulu beli kopi murah di semacam K-Mart sambil nunggu panggilan dari Zordon, atau markas besarnya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Musuh atau lawan sang superhero juga seringkali merupakan pihak-pihak yang dikecewakan, yang selalu ditempatkan secara antagonistik dengan si hero. Mulai dari orang psikopat, ilmuwan edan, sampai monster yang kata orang Jawa &lt;i&gt;njijiki. &lt;/i&gt;Cara untuk mengatasi masalah atau ketidakteraturan ya adalah dengan menghancurkannya, bukan dengan menyadarkannya atau memurnikannya atau ya, apalah namanya. Mungkin &lt;i&gt;converting&lt;/i&gt;. Tapi kalau sadar akan kesalahannya, sering pas si lawan itu hampir mati.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Konsep &lt;i&gt;zero-sum &lt;/i&gt;ini yang membuat film superhero monoton. Cara instan mengalahkan musuh ya justru mengeliminasinya. Atau sengaja dibuat begitu untuk memupuk dendam si penerus musuhnya, agar bisa dibuat sekuelnya. Sudut pandang menang-kalah ini yang saya tidak acungi jempol dalam film-film pahlawan bertopeng. Ya, kenapa pula dia harus bertopeng? Anda tahu jawabannya lah. Tidak ada banyak variasi &lt;i&gt;ending&lt;/i&gt; yang tidak &lt;i&gt;zero-sum&lt;/i&gt;. Lawannya pasti mati atau telak tersungkur, entah berapa lanjutan filmnya dibuat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Jadi ingat pepatah Jawa : &quot;&lt;i&gt;menang tanpa ngasorake&lt;/i&gt;&quot; atau menang tanpa mengalahkan.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Kelihatannya cita rasa superhero Amriki ini bukan yang seperti itu, mengasihi lawannya. Siapa berbeda, maka dihabisi. Salah atau benar ialah melalui perspektif yang telah dibangun karakter protagonis yang latarbelakangnya mendayu-dayu dan perlu dikasihani itu. Alasan mereka &lt;i&gt;fight back&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;ialah menjadi penjaga perdamaian kontra ideologi &lt;i&gt;superficial &lt;/i&gt;dan ekspansif (pokoknya intinya menguasai dunia, kalau nggak ya menghancurkan dunia). Dan sepertinya begitulah kepribadian Amriki itu sendiri. Penjaga perdamaian satu-satunya dan tidak bisa membikin musuh jadi kawan kita. Sekali musuh selamanya musuh.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Cerita yang agak berat bahkan lain lagi. Marc DiPaolo bahkan menggambarkan bahwa terdapat propaganda tersebut dalam cerita-cerita superhero di layar lebar. Pasca peristiwa 11 September, propaganda karakter ketangguhan Amriki dalam komik dan film superhero terus dibangun, bahkan alur ceritanya merupakan refleksi historis politik Amriki yang sedang berlangsung di tingkat nasional maupun percaturan global.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;DiPaolo dalam bukunya&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.co.id/books/about/War_Politics_and_Superheroes.html?id=K8uZGWxFtC0C&amp;amp;redir_esc=y&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;war, politics, and superhero&lt;/a&gt;, menjabarkan bahwa karakter&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;Batman, Wonder Woman, Spiderman, Superman, the Fantastic Four dan the X-Men juga mencerminkan peperangan yang pernah dilalui, kebijakan pemerintah, serta tentunya produk-produk &lt;i&gt;apparel&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;yang bakalan ngetren segera sesudah premiere-nya diputar.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Tapi kalau disuruh memilih, saya bisa kok diajak nonton film begitu. Seru juga kalau &lt;i&gt;script-&lt;/i&gt;nya bagus.&amp;nbsp;Asal bukan pilihan pertama saja deh.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Sesungguhnya saya menanti ada film superhero yang tidak &lt;i&gt;mainstream, &lt;/i&gt;semacam film superhero lain yang menjadi pembendung dari apa yang disiratkan oleh film-film pahlawan fantasi itu. Superhero kulit hitam, mungkin? Atau superhero ibu-ibu yang tidak seksi seperti Wonder Woman?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Ya maaf kalau saya belum tahu, ya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/1735335258995751561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/1735335258995751561' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/1735335258995751561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/1735335258995751561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2012/08/di-tengah-kebosanan-suguhan-film.html' title='Di Tengah Kebosanan Suguhan Film Superhero'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-6053861227610737399</id><published>2012-08-02T22:51:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2012-08-02T22:51:07.064+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="holiday"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Jakarta"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="My Experience"/><title type='text'>Jakarta and Holiday : Wrong Pair of Shoes?</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s a huge village of total intergalactic boredom. Also a home to parade of moaning drifters and homeless dudes. Flashy city malls, jammed intersections, sewage dirt on the street, shabby passers-by, midnight parking-lot-criminals, limitless queue lines. All you&#39;d ever seen of a never-changing city, is just a piece of land you don&#39;t wish to live in. At least from the sight of a middle-class lady student over here.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s been almost two years that I continue to pursue a postgraduate degree in political science in Jakarta. I met new people, new experiences, and brand new stuns and awe. As a postgrad student, I only have to attend  for about 10 hours of a week in maximum. But that doesn&#39;t always mean that I&#39;ve got a lot of spare time to rest my butt out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I&#39;d been in classroom bench too long, so that I decided to make some arrangements to enjoy life. I went to the nearby cities, I traveled the city roads and gutters, watching mentally half-paralyzed drivers while rushed along with my steps. I lived in bad tastes since I don&#39;t always know how to make fun of the situation.&lt;/div&gt;
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When it comes to holiday season, it&#39;s an escape route for almost anyone, except the god damned-money-robber traffic police officers, to hang around the city. However, there aren&#39;t too much options. Jakarta, after all, is home to shopping squares. From Tanah Abang and Asemka Groceries to the amusing malls around Sudirman Business District or Senayan; we will certainly have the picture of &amp;nbsp;the biggest capital circulation in the country.&lt;br /&gt;
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In short, getting through the holiday in Jakarta would mean shopping, if not just culinary adventure. Here we have The Jakarta fair (sort of huge festival bazaar), Jakarta Great Sale, or live music on the street and sometimes on Seven Eleven shops. Well at least on family getaway, you will at most would drive to north Jakarta&#39;s Ancol and Dufan, or end up in Ragunan zoo.&lt;br /&gt;
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Personally, I am not a frequent money spender, while basically I don&#39;t feel like relieved in the&amp;nbsp;midst of&amp;nbsp;the crowd. Shopping is not my thingy. My fatigue suddenly taking me over if I look around shopping squares too much. I simply could not stand the noise. Live music, yes, but not of them who performed on the &amp;nbsp;pavement of convenient stores. In the midyear and school holidays like those days passed, it&#39;s getting boring. Especially when you don&#39;t have any friends to roam around, any sweet smelling cafes in Kemang will turn out very lonesome.&lt;br /&gt;
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But sometimes things can be different if you are&amp;nbsp;enlightened&amp;nbsp;by some&amp;nbsp;creativeness, nice mates to substitute the boredom. Jakarta can be fun, but at least for me, I definitely won&#39;t waste my holiday here. An adequately sane people would do the same too, if chances are on side. The point is, that the city is at its length, no matter what creativity involves in it, it&#39;s not original, immature and fake. There is nothing natural here, everything is artificial as an imagined metropolis. Another point is that reality can&#39;t take the expectation of wonder&amp;nbsp;skyscrapers&amp;nbsp;anymore. The environment sucks, the once-great-river Ciliwung is on its edge; then the town parks are almost no shelter of cool air anymore. The city is the most polluted capital in Southeast Asia, what is worse than that? Too much load and contradiction of landscapes that I cannot love, it even breaks my heart that needy folks on the kampongs and under-nourished guys recite their own entertainment of playing ukulele and monkey circus under flyovers and city bridges (that was my view when I took the Bajaj ride).&lt;br /&gt;
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Great for doing business, but not for leisure. We should all admit that this is &amp;nbsp;a town of no joy, don&#39;t even push yourselves to enjoy. My advise is don&#39;t come near there when you have holiday, with all respects, I hope all parents take their children outta the city for awhile, just to experience nature. For youngsters and socialites as well, feel the showers of glamorous disco lamps as you like. But don&#39;t forget to balance this to meet the fantasy of clear blue skies, or just to strolling around the tea plantation before you go further climbing a mountain.&lt;br /&gt;
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Jakarta is not for a perfect holiday. They are not a pair of shoes. When you try to walk on them, you&#39;ll likely feel uncomfortable in no time.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/6053861227610737399/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/6053861227610737399' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/6053861227610737399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/6053861227610737399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2012/08/jakarta-and-holiday-wrong-pair-of-shoes.html' title='Jakarta and Holiday : Wrong Pair of Shoes?'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-6547317273353410770</id><published>2011-11-26T01:08:00.003+07:00</published><updated>2011-11-26T01:18:24.160+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Asia Timur"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="International Politics"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mercosur"/><title type='text'>Integrasi Ekonomi Asia Timur : Meraba Bentuk Dalam Temaram</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://library.thinkquest.org/26026/World_Outlook/MapOfEasternAsia.jpg&quot; onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 313px;&quot; src=&quot;http://library.thinkquest.org/26026/World_Outlook/MapOfEasternAsia.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;Asia Timur merupakan kawasan yang sangat heterogen, baik dari sisi komposisi demografis, kemajuan pembangunan, maupun variasi sistem ekonomi domestik negara-negara di dalamnya. Hal tersebut sedikit banyak memengaruhi proses integrasi kawasan ini. Karakteristik pembangunan kawasan pun ditentukan oleh negara yang paling maju secara ekonomi sebagai episentrumnya, atau disebut &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;flying geese&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;. Selain itu, peran pemerintah yang sentral juga menandai &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;economic governance &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;di kawasan baik secara domestik maupun kerja sama regional. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;            Telah lama, integrasi ekonomi ditandai dengan kerja sama perdagangan bebas, namun koordinasi ekonomi menjadi tantangan bagi negara sedang berkembang dalam menghadapinya. Kebutuhan akan sumber daya manusia dan infrastruktur memadai, seringkali menjadi hambatan terbesar. Masalah yang relevan untuk diangkat dalam kondisi seperti ini bukan lagi bagaimana negara harus menyesuaikan diri terhadap regionalisme ekonomi, namun bagaimana suatu kawasan harus mampu membentuk pola kerja sama regional yang sesuai dengan karakter kawasan tersebut, bukan hanya imitasi dari sistem integrasi yang telah ada sebelumnya.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;            Permasalahan tersebut esensial, terutama dalam menghadapi struktur kerja sama ekonomi Asia Timur yang lebih banyak memiliki institusi maupun bentuk kerja sama yang dilaksanakan di Asia Timur. Banyaknya jumlah kerja sama ini tentunya menguntungkan posisi tawar negara sedang berkembang layaknya negara anggota ASEAN, namun juga menyisakan masalah &lt;i&gt;institutional order&lt;/i&gt;. Di Asia Timur tidak dapat ditemukan adanya suprastruktur yang megimplementasikan aturan interaksi antar aktor, baik negara maupun non negara.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://library.thinkquest.org/26026/World_Outlook/MapOfEasternAsia.jpg&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; text-align: left; &quot; onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/economy/mercosur.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 284px; &quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space:pre&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Hal tersebut dipertegas oleh Baer, et. al. (2002) yang mencontohkan evolusi Mercosur di Amerika Latin yang sangat kurang dalam kebijakan koordinasi. Koordinasi sangat penting sebagai tonggak institusi yang mapan. Hampir pasti faktor kepemimpinan sangat berperan dalam menjalankannya. Namun perebutan posisi “pemimpin” ini kadang menimbulkan ketegangan. Di Amerika Latin, Brazil dan Argentina menampilkan persaingan dagang yang terlalu ketat, serta mengalami divergensi yang terlampau besar dari segi makro-ekonomi. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;            Brazil sebagai salah satu kelompok BRIC cukup berperan signifikan dalam memainkan mata uang &lt;i&gt;Real&lt;/i&gt; sehingga volume perdagangannya dengan anggota Mercosur lain dapat direkayasa.  Di sisi lain, peran Brazil terlihat lebih mengutamakan stabilitas makro-ekonomi kawasan daripada integrasi kawasan. Hal serupa terjadi di Asia Timur, di mana China merupakan negara yang relatif dominan dalam makroekonomi hingga ke sektor riil dengan memainkan kurs &lt;i&gt;Yuan&lt;/i&gt;. Namun di Mercosur, proteksi terhadap komoditi utama masih boleh diberlakukan, serta perdagangan dengan pihak luar-Mercosur masih terhambat karena persoalan kurs uang.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 150%; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;            Membandingkan pola kerja sama ekonomi di kedua kawasan, dapat terlihat bahwa selalu terdapat aktor negara terpenting dalam mengarahkan integrasi kawasan. &lt;i&gt;Political will &lt;/i&gt;sangat berperan dalam membentuk integrasi tersebut, dan hal ini kadang harus melalui proses tekanan politik yang kolektif. Asia timur yang lebih heterogen dari Amerika Latin harus mampu membendung China dengan upaya-upaya kolektif untuk tercapainya integrasi. ASEAN juga harus mampu meningkatkan perdagangan di antara mereka sebelum mulai berdagang dengan negara lain di kawasan Asia Timur. Namun bukan berarti tidak diperlukan kesepakatan dan tindakan bersama dalam menghadapi krisis. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 115%; &quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;Secara institusional, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;open regionalism&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt; menjadi suatu bentuk kerja sama ekonomi yang mungkin, jika tak hendak menafikan situasi heterogen sistem politik dan ekonomi di kawasan. Serta, sekaligus menghindari ketergantungan ekonomi berlebihan yang mungkin terjadi di masa depan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/6547317273353410770/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/6547317273353410770' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/6547317273353410770'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/6547317273353410770'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2011/11/integrasi-ekonomi-asia-timur-meraba.html' title='Integrasi Ekonomi Asia Timur : Meraba Bentuk Dalam Temaram'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-2016199238721704312</id><published>2011-10-11T16:39:00.003+07:00</published><updated>2011-10-11T16:49:11.608+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="My Experience"/><title type='text'>Maju Terus Pantang Mundur</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;Dengan mudahnya saya melakukan hal-hal bodoh semingguan ini. mungkin kepala saya sudah &lt;i&gt;overloaded&lt;/i&gt;. Memang sebaiknya istirahat dulu, mumpung kuliah cuma dua kali saja minggu ini. tapi beruntungnya, teman-teman lama mengajak saya bercengkrama. Kantor kami, beruntungnya, hanya terpisah satu hingga dua blok saja. Namun kadang saya menikmati keletihan dan benar-benar ingin menghayatinya. Tapi sebaiknya hal-hal bodoh yang saya lakukan segera diperbaiki, meskipun tidak akan ada orang yang benar-benar sempurna. Pilihan yang baik adalah dengan terus maju, seberapa pun jauhnya, seberapapun banyaknya duri ranjau yang tertanam di jalan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/wUOcQnWbk_U&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: medium; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/2016199238721704312/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/2016199238721704312' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/2016199238721704312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/2016199238721704312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2011/10/maju-terus-pantang-mundur.html' title='Maju Terus Pantang Mundur'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/wUOcQnWbk_U/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-8980942608250088894</id><published>2011-09-30T20:36:00.003+07:00</published><updated>2011-09-30T21:11:48.732+07:00</updated><title type='text'>Too Exhausted to Relax</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;Damn, I am getting busier. I feel like I&#39;m obsessed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;It&#39;s not that I hate it, it&#39;s just enthralling that I am developing, through the deathly streets and jerky roams in Jakarta. It&#39;s lucky to get past those whoever stood in my way, since everything starts to go smoothly in its path. I was plucked to join a gang of research monsters who&#39;d do anything to post their best piece of mind to be admitted by &lt;a href=&quot;http://research.ui.ac.id/&quot;&gt;uni&#39;s research dept.&lt;/a&gt; I also kicked myself through the gate of United Nations&#39; Indonesia Country Representative to be a labor under the suppresion of neo-liberalism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;Consequently, it&#39;s rare to find myself relaxed, sleeping soundly. I had became a part of Jakartans now, who&#39;s always in a hurry and doubt.Then in this weekend I don&#39;t feel like going somewhere, and choose to linger on my bed. Crap, this is Korean Week, where my colleague &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000560568433&quot;&gt;Kim Ho Il&lt;/a&gt; passed me four cinema tickets, he said it&#39;s an event for Korean Film Festival in Jakarta. But still, my mind wanders everywhere and i couldn&#39;t even move my ass to hang around a party, holy cow. Yeah, but the cool breeze came around when my beloved guy was also coming to town. *grin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;Hmm but that&#39;s the price to pay for saving my time until the next holiday. I wonder if I finished the proposal this semester, I will be able to go on a real vacation. I almost have no time, no blink for just enjoying the air of youth. I work like a horse until daybreak. But that&#39;s how I want it. I&#39;ve been in a state where I got nothing to do and it was killing my sanity. Better live this way, it&#39;s simply productive. That&#39;s what youth is.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/8980942608250088894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/8980942608250088894' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/8980942608250088894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/8980942608250088894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2011/09/too-exhausted-to-relax.html' title='Too Exhausted to Relax'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-3699559782837168628</id><published>2011-08-06T20:17:00.004+07:00</published><updated>2011-09-09T23:30:21.730+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Random Thoughts"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="The Thinker"/><title type='text'>Text Me When You Get Home</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Kirimi saya pesan saat kamu sampai di rumah.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;Belakangan ini orang tua saya begitu khawatir karena saya sering &lt;i&gt;ngelencer&lt;/i&gt; alias bepergian selama beberapa hari terakhir ini. Saya juga teramat penasaran di mana kekasih saya berada ketika ia melakukan perjalanan bolak balik dari rumahnya ke tempat lain yang cukup jauh, apalagi sendirian saja. Persamaan dari dua keadaan di atas hanya satu : ingin supaya orang yang lagi dipedulikan itu segera sampai ke rumah, agar si pencemas dapat menghela nafas lega dan melemaskan otot lehernya yang tegang.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;Ujung-ujungnya terkirimlah pesan pendek lewat telepon selular yang berisi makna yang sama dengan kalimat baris pertama di atas. Ya, di rumahlah kita bisa terlindung dari udara pancaroba biang penyakit, dari godaan mas-mas yang tidak pernah bosan menyiuli saya di jalan, jambret, copet kereta &lt;i&gt;commuter line&lt;/i&gt;, dan tawuran rakyat tertindas gara-gara tidak dapat tempat jualan. Rumah, yang kata orang berisi keramahan dan kasih sayang, lebih tepat untuk disinggahi daripada mengembara tak kenal henti. Rumah saya &lt;i&gt;sih, &lt;/i&gt;terletak di jalan yang cukup strategis, berada hanya sekitar satu kilometer dari pusat kota. Walaupun sederhana, rumah ini lumayan enak ditinggali, banyak makanan, serta saking nyamannya saya bisa tertidur di mana saja, termasuk di depan papan seterika. Asyik kan?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;Tapi saya juga ingin singgah ke rumah-rumah yang lain. Ingin mencari tahu apa yang tetangga kerjakan, berapa kucing mereka, dan apa kamar mandinya berisi sabun serta pasta gigi yang juga saya pakai. Bukan untuk membandingkan, bukan untuk menyesali apa yang saya punya. Hasrat saya hanya ingin mengeksplorasi, menjelajah, dan yang terpenting BELAJAR. Bukan hanya rumah tetangga. Rumah ibadah, rumah sakit, rumah jompo, dan juga rumah pohon. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;Bukan, bukan rumah buatan manusia yang saya maksud. Maksud lebih dalam dari ini adalah menyinggahi rumah di hati dan pikiran tiap orang. Sebuah konstruksi dunia yang mereka ciptakan dari proses memahami hidup mereka sehari-hari. &lt;i&gt;The home they expect to see. &lt;/i&gt;Saya rasa terkadang saya terlalu ingin tahu ketika saya menemukan hidup orang lebih fantastik dari yang saya jalankan. Apa yang mereka lakukan sehingga dengan kerennya mereka bisa mencapai hal yang cukup dramatis? Lalu saya berkontemplasi dan mulai juga meragu, apakah ketika saya lakukan hal yang sama dengan mereka, saya juga akan mendapatkan hasil yang diimpikan. Realita memang mahal, sedangkan mimpi itu murah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;Adrenalin masa muda saya, yang nampaknya bertanggung jawab saat saya memutuskan menjelajahi &quot;rumah-rumah&quot; yang lain, sambil dengan curiga melongok ke setiap detilnya. Ada yang terletak di puncak bukit, ada pula yang berdiri tak jauh di balik tanggul pemecah ombak di tepi pantai. Mendirikan rumah untuk menetap pasti memilih lokasi yang paling mantap bagi kita dan sesuai kemampuan kita, dan di dalamnya terdapat liku-liku ornamen keindahan yang menyamankan. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; &quot;&gt;Karena saya lumayan egosentris, saya mau rumah saya tidak bisa dimasuki sembarang orang. Lebih cocok lagi kalau pagarnya bisa menyetrum sendiri peminta sumbangan, maling, rampok, atau pengamen. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; &quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: arial; &quot;&gt;Rumahnya harus ditinggali dan didatangi hanya oleh mereka yang saya cintai. Yang mengerti bahwa saya butuh ramai dalam kerinduan dan doa, dan sepi dalam selamatan tak bermakna.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;Saya hanya mencoba mengutarakan, tanpa mampu menelusuri jalan, bukit, dan pikiran manusia lain, sungguh sulit menemukan diri kita. Harus menjadi apa agar menjadi ada, serta dimana harus berumah. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/3699559782837168628/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/3699559782837168628' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/3699559782837168628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/3699559782837168628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2011/08/text-me-when-you-get-home.html' title='Text Me When You Get Home'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-5020925672412298632</id><published>2011-07-22T13:38:00.005+07:00</published><updated>2011-07-22T14:25:50.194+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Malang"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="My Experience"/><title type='text'>Jum&#39;at Bukan Hari Pustaka</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;Tengok kanan kiri, pengunjung perpustakaan terlihat agak sepi. Ya iyalah, rata-rata orang lebih suka melepas penat menjelang Jum&#39;at malam dengan keluar mengayun kaki ke pusat perbelanjaan, taman, ataupun sekedar mencoba menu baru di kafe pojok kota. Beberapa dari kami warga kota teladan dan kutu buku masih mampu membolak balik halaman buku di perpustakaan kota, sambil pula berselancar di komputer dengan akses internet gratis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;Saya beberapa kali terakhir ini berkunjung kembali ke &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.malangkota.go.id/index2.php?id=16060741&quot;&gt;Perpustakaan Kota&lt;/a&gt; untuk mencari bacaan asyik. Walau bukan kota pendidikan besar seperti di Jogja, perpus di sini jaaauuuuhhh lebih lengkap dan &lt;i&gt;cozy &lt;/i&gt;daripada punyanya orang Jogja. Cuma saya ke sana tidak pas hari Jum&#39;at. Ya memang karena lebih enak jika akhir pekan diramaikan dengan kegaduhan dan bukan baca-baca. Hmm ini menurut kebanyakan orang ya. Saya juga bukan &lt;i&gt;geek&lt;/i&gt;, bukan cewek anti-sosial. Tapi memang tersangkut di perpustakaan kala Jum&#39;at sore terdengar seperti kesepian.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;Kalau sekarang saya di Jakarta, mungkin sudah ada jadwal bercengkrama dengan keponakan saya yang baru berulang tahun ke 2, atau menerobos jalan bersama teman-teman sambil mengomentari kemacetan. Mungkin pula merencanakan&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;bermain &lt;i&gt;paintball&lt;/i&gt; dengan teman kuliah yang juga sedang suntuk, dan bertanya-tanya kapan rencana itu di-jadi-kan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;Dan ceritanya adalah, saya di sini mencari pelengkap untuk &lt;i&gt;master piece&lt;/i&gt; saya yang saya selalu angankan akan selesai Mei tahun depan. Ingin sekali melakukan penelitian lapangan, namun nampaknya hal tersebut kurang relevan dengan target saya untuk sekedar menjaga agar kewarasan tetap di kepala. Namun saya juga berusaha agar usaha saya ini membuahkan sesuatu yang layak dibaca dan bukan hanya sekedar diselesaikan. Buku-buku yang saya cari adalah mengenai ekonomi makro, sambil kembali mencari-cari kesalahan para pengambil kebijakan yang terlalu maniak dengan angka-angka yang dihadirkannya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;Namun ah, sudahlah, toh perpustakaan tak pernah sepi juga, siapa tahu ini hanya sewaktu saya datang saja hari ini. Jika saya melihat sekeliling, saya dapat melihat ekspresi yang menggelitik. Dua orang laki-laki muda beradu bisik tentang suatu buku, mungkin sebagai pengganti perdebatan a la mimbar yang harusnya lantang. Seorang pembaca wanita berkerudung oranye terkikik membaca buku entah apa. Ada pula pemuda berkulit gelap yang mengantuk di depan tumpukan buku yang ia pilih dari rak. Pengelola perpustakaan berseragam batik pun terlihat sangat profesional  dalam memperbaiki sambungan instalasi listrik ke AC yang nampaknya bermasalah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  &gt;Jika santai saja sambil membaca buku, saya pikir sudah merupakan wahana berjalan-jalan juga,karena kita menemukan dunia baru di dalam bacaan. Orang bilang namanya eksplorasi pikiran, soalnya bisa merangsang kita untuk berpikir, berfantasi, dan menjadi bijak. Jadi oke juga kan, ketika akhir pekan dihabiskan di perpustakaan?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/5020925672412298632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/5020925672412298632' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/5020925672412298632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/5020925672412298632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2011/07/jumat-bukan-hari-pustaka.html' title='Jum&#39;at Bukan Hari Pustaka'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-8844661521919362901</id><published>2011-07-12T14:49:00.005+07:00</published><updated>2011-07-22T14:23:56.344+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="East Java"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Java"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Javanese"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Random Thoughts"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Yogyakarta"/><title type='text'>The Boso Jowo Slang Continuum</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;Parental advisory : explicit content.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;Suddenly today I missed my hometown in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.id/url?sa=t&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;sqi=2&amp;amp;ved=0CCcQFjAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMalang&amp;amp;ei=-_0bTpWYJYHjrAfY4ITfCw&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFUFAJetNXB7Ifhzv6KbC6BgddV9Q&amp;amp;sig2=uvqCO1eETDyAoIuVxbSQWw&quot;&gt;Malang&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.id/url?sa=t&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=3&amp;amp;sqi=2&amp;amp;ved=0CE0QFjAC&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FEast_Java&amp;amp;ei=y_0bTreOFo7PrQf1gv3eCw&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHR4H8rVUhnWGKE_lPWeAbUgaYdsg&amp;amp;sig2=ZM2dBulHJCS6XLPVYhIEhg&quot;&gt;East Java&lt;/a&gt;, and started to be in awe why are its people are so thick-headed and they love to pitch on swear words (&lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;&gt;misuh&lt;/i&gt;) in Javanese language or “&lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;&gt;Boso Jowo&lt;/i&gt;”. Perhaps not everyone has the trait, but a large portion of us surely do. A high tension, right before your eyes while their eyes open wide , and with monstrous tone, they bluntly shout the words to you. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;“Jancuk koen kirik..!!” You f**kin puppy…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;“Pancen nggapleki koen cuk!!!” You certainly act like a b*tch…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;“Nggatheli tenan iku lik….” It’s totally idiotic, dude…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;“Makmu!!!” hmm it means that we are as bad as our mother… *sigh* &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;Those are the common phrases that are used in common youngsters’ conversation in Malang and also Surabaya, especially those who came from some under nourished ugly gangs who often roam around the street to get some entertainment, or just to be disobedient. Particularly, the elders, the drivers of &lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;&gt;mikrolet&lt;/i&gt; (some sort of public transportation) and the illegal parking helpers are the most common users of those lines. This was probably due to traffic tangles. Not to mention the students too. And none other than most of the Arema football hooligans who are most likely responsible for the massive use of those “curse” sentences. That was why my parents were being so cautious that they didn’t want me to have a bad mouth and turn out to have bad conduct. They always persuaded me to study hard so that I could be admitted into notable state schools, which they believed the environment is rather clean. To some extent, it’s true. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;But not until my 17&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; birthday that I landed in Yogyakarta to become skilled at tricking people, I found that the &lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;Boso Jowo &lt;/i&gt;there was very different. Yes, although Yogyakarta is also a piece of the Java cake, the language tasted sweeter than &lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;Boso Jowo &lt;/i&gt;in East Java. The people’s gesture was very courteous, not like some of the ill-bred fellow of Malang who stares frankly at you when they think you got bad taste of fashion, or when they just dislike you. A low tune with appreciation often came from several guys like those of local street food vendors, who served you with hospitality. So far, I only found one word that most possibly the roughest swear word in Yogyakarta : BAJIGUR. It might be a deviation to hide the exact word aspired to be spoken that is BAJINGAN &lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;&gt;(criminal)&lt;/i&gt;. I guess that Bajigur is also a sort of a beverage I think. &lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun:yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Yogyakarta version :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;“Bajigur, manuke ucul…” Dammit, my bird flees…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;“Walah, aku telat iki, wasemik, bajigur…” Oh, I am late, darn..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;“Wong kuwi bajigur tenan nilep dhuwitku..” That guy is so-going-to-hell to steal my money&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;“Bajigur, kopine kemanisen je..” Crap, the coffee is too sweet dude…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;“Bajigur..”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;I don’t understand exactly why there are differences between &lt;i style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;Boso Jowo &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.id/url?sa=t&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=3&amp;amp;sqi=2&amp;amp;ved=0CD8QFjAC&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fid.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDaerah_Istimewa_Yogyakarta&amp;amp;ei=Gv4bTuPHB4rrrQe75pCVDg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFPBNVc6gT0KCsWvopENPYcPQAAIg&amp;amp;sig2=kyujlyHPXYL_ZOQNN5f8sg&quot;&gt;Yogyakarta&lt;/a&gt; style and East Java Mode, although there are also some variety inside the latter province. I presume Yogyakarta people tend to keep low tuned even they are being freaked out. But that’s the essence of the culture, to be polite and act well mannerly. And another hypothese is that we, the East Javanese kids are the descendants of Ken Arok, was the King of Singosari who once justified all means to get crowned. He also told to be arrogant, rough, and chaotic. While in Yogyakarta, the kingdom of once established as Mataram still portrays the grace of living in the realm of the King as the resemblance of order. &lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun:yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNoSpacing&quot; style=&quot;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;And without realizing it, my &lt;i&gt;Boso Jowo&lt;/i&gt; had become more into that of the mannerly one, and my friends in Malang keep boo-ing me about this. Thanks to four years and a month living in Yogyakarta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/8844661521919362901/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/8844661521919362901' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/8844661521919362901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/8844661521919362901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2011/07/boso-jowo-slang-continuum.html' title='The Boso Jowo Slang Continuum'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-1170668277262510846</id><published>2011-06-08T00:23:00.010+07:00</published><updated>2011-06-08T00:58:18.940+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Jakarta"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Music"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="My Experience"/><title type='text'>Tengah Malam</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre; &quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Jadi malam ini saya tidak bisa tidur lagi, lalu saya menonton filem berpakem perang-perangan di &lt;i&gt;netbook&lt;/i&gt; (menyedihkan ya) dan melanjutkan beberapa &lt;i&gt;e-mail&lt;/i&gt; yang harus saya kirim segera. Kamar saya belum disapu dari kemarin, baju belum dicuci tapi oh, lihat saja besok semua ini bisa diatur lah. Kipas angin menyala, dengan setelan ukuran kekuatan angin di angka satu, dari skala tiga. Arah anginnya statis menghadap meja belajar, yang letaknya persis menghadap jendela kamar berteralis yang cukup lebar. Bukan dengan maksud mengeringkan buku yang ada di atasnya, ataupun mejanya, namun karena saya tidak begitu suka angin kipas yang langsung mengarah ke saya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space:pre&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Saya juga baru &lt;i&gt;nyemil &lt;/i&gt;mi instan berkuah, karena lapar. Saya makan di kamar, di atas meja belajar dengan gaya santun seperti presidennya bangsa &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia&quot;&gt;Indonesia&lt;/a&gt;. Sesekali saya menengok dan mengintip ke luar rumah dari balik jendela, karena cukup tertarik dengan suara-suara yang tidak lazim. Atau mungkin terlalu sensitif, tertulis di buku-buku biologi bahwa indera manusia memang lebih &quot;menyala&quot; ketika terjaga di malam hari. Harapan saya sih semoga wilayah Paseban tetap aman siang malam dari segala mara bahaya dan penyakit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; &gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space:pre&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Setidaknya besok harus lebih produktif dari hari ini. Bukan hanya makan dan jalan-jalan saja, namun juga memikirkan dan melakukan sesuatu untuk hidup saya yang lebih yahud kedepannya. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;Puncak malam ini akhirnya ditutup dengan alunan gitar klasik &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jubing.net/&quot;&gt;Jubing Kristianto&lt;/a&gt; yang memainkan lagu &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.billyjoel.com/&quot;&gt;Billy Joel&lt;/a&gt; yang bertajuk &lt;i&gt;She&#39;s Always A Woman &lt;/i&gt;sambil berharap besok tidak ada lagi hati wanita yang disakiti, biarpun disini wanita dituduh biang keladi derita. Semoga.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/1170668277262510846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/1170668277262510846' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/1170668277262510846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/1170668277262510846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2011/06/tengah-malam.html' title='Tengah Malam'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-2246032850920973790</id><published>2009-01-09T17:57:00.007+07:00</published><updated>2009-01-09T18:25:20.377+07:00</updated><title type='text'>Holiday Tipping Point</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate=&quot;false&quot; latentstylecount=&quot;156&quot;&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:&quot;&quot;;  margin:0in;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;  mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;} @page Section1  {size:8.5in 11.0in;  margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;  mso-header-margin:.5in;  mso-footer-margin:.5in;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:&quot;Table Normal&quot;;  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:&quot;&quot;;  mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0in;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;  mso-ansi-language:#0400;  mso-fareast-language:#0400;  mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The next trip of my holiday then was to Surabaya and Sidoarjo. I went to follow my parent’s suggestion to meet our relatives and greet them Christmas. So on December 27 we dashed through an alternative eastern Malang to reach Surabaya by car. We were in the course of an escape route from the traffic jam and enrolled Pandaan-Gempol road, it was little bit raining though. I saw so many changes in people’s daily lives on the street, there were so many drifter and homeless along the street bank of Gempol, district of Pasuruan; and the traditional market was getting hectic as there were not many goods could be sold. I heard from my friend who is native to the vicinity before, that the gasoline was running out and it caused low productivity therefore lowering the living standards of the people around there. Housewives were not used to single out the LPG stove for cooking, and losing gasoline was a terrifying event for them, as they were lacking of information of the LPG stove distribution by government as an energy conversion program, not to mention the instruction of the usage is less than expected. But I couldn’t say much as I was following the road.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The first arrival were to my relative’s house on Sidoarjo, where we just hung around for about 1 hour and enjoy fried shrimp that was very tasty, it was so garlicious and saltious that I couldn’t get stuffed easy. Then we crossed the thoroughfare of Surabaya main highway and I went on a nostalgic spree on the road, I wonder when the last time I squander my day there was. On our route northern way, there were zoo with the Surabaya statue in the front, the Mpu Tantular Museum, Tunjungan Plaza Supermall, JW Marriot Hotel, Cito Mall, Pelita Harapan University, and a block of an industrial complex. After the passage, what was amazing me out is a multifaceted road consisted of colonial-built architecture. It took us to the colonial era all the way until we reached Jembatan Merah, a red-painted bridge where there was a fierce bloody battle between Indonesian troops and the more sophisticated NICA (Netherlands) militia that later marks the icon of the region.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwuBNql4yLufsxPWfWHaDC1vEFiarMC0KlbEAsLixr0qYBkjysTEk0jcfY6wn8uNDUlI8yXkC0YKmDig-EAsbxT5R5o-F6TAn-FBeD9q3m_NnaNq9RrfEv9ef6PIdUIS6YDLe_ag/s1600-h/dh01.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 169px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwuBNql4yLufsxPWfWHaDC1vEFiarMC0KlbEAsLixr0qYBkjysTEk0jcfY6wn8uNDUlI8yXkC0YKmDig-EAsbxT5R5o-F6TAn-FBeD9q3m_NnaNq9RrfEv9ef6PIdUIS6YDLe_ag/s400/dh01.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289249821609026514&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;There were not much recreation spot inside Surabaya except those superficial hedonic mall which were too glamour and rough as they displayed hyperbolic lifestyle. And oh, we just stopped by on Jembatan Merah Plaza to had a window shopping on the garment and footwear groceries, it was not kind of mall stuffs but it was still fun though. I’d rather call it a trade center where we could find stuffs with reasonable price. Well yeah it was hot and humid there inside, but I tried to enjoy myself and had a walk throughout the groceries. I remembered it was a 5 stories edifice with the classification of garment and textile retails, footwear retails, and tailor kiosks. Not to forget the food centre on the basement.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Tired of taking a walk around, we looked for a place to fill on our hunger. My uncle recommend such a famous eating place called Depot Tambakjoyo Asri if I’m not flawed, it could fit around 70 customers, they provided Javanese cuisine, but the eating place was too full of Chinese ornament and atmosphere, as the owner was Chinese. The fabulous thing was it displayed retro ambiance so that we could felt the old colonialized Surabaya “Surabaya tempoh doeloe”. We enjoyed our food on a long table; there were lots of incredibly huge aged photographs and figures which pictured the former Chinatown market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The journey continued on the Pura Agung Jagad Karana Hindu temple. It was situated close to the center of the town, and the temple design was so Bali-ish; it established up in a large area of the district. My family intended to have a slight worship there. My impression to the temple was it was so clean and seemed to be maintained regularly. It reflected by the regular shift of the keepers there and habitual activities of the Sunday school and religious services there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAS8LVcL8iV5ejd5bNEGeY_ihlf59-Pzveol0vRgFKLuseKz5ByCrhFobSD7Yd5xsnsZxcJZAK_txXwqMykIJ6xDiY4Ra5TiJN39exhHT8tAyjvfYVa1_JxKiHUxkwPgmA3ITGkQ/s1600-h/DSC02023.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAS8LVcL8iV5ejd5bNEGeY_ihlf59-Pzveol0vRgFKLuseKz5ByCrhFobSD7Yd5xsnsZxcJZAK_txXwqMykIJ6xDiY4Ra5TiJN39exhHT8tAyjvfYVa1_JxKiHUxkwPgmA3ITGkQ/s320/DSC02023.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289250787629433266&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The visit to the temple marked the end of our tour there, and on the way home we chose toll highway to reach Malang in a little while. We arrived then following the railway and decided to take a brief look at the location of mud-flooded county caused by the leakage of the Lapindo Corp.’s oil-drilling activities in Sidoarjo, East Java. The splash of the leakage produced a large amount of mud and so far had drowned&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:lime;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;5&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;villages since May 27 2006; and presently still continues on. On the eastern side of the Surabaya-Malang passage railway, there was a long-built stumbling block all the way of the toll to block the mud flow. The block was kept by some workers and scrutinizers there, but none of them was the expert to handle the damage that may come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Unexpectedly, the villagers who lost their homeland were picking the visitor charge if we would like to have eye on the spot. Me with my two accompanies went up the blockage construction while paid IDR 15.000 --for about one and a half US Dollar-- to the villagers as a donation. A light rain welcomed us to see the mud lake. In the spot of the smoky and humid burst, there was a forklift machine and I had no idea what the hell was the guy driving it was doing. On a sudden moment, some fellows who introduced themselves as the collapsed village member offered us some video CD for IDR 10.000 of a series of events of Lapindo oil-drilling outburst. I refused to purchase. It was such a tragic situation where they had to exploit their own ex-village to keep the source of revenue for living.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiusVuJFuVBcB9LtAmtp5FjjPMVHwur3ONC7Ip3vFjue_R2oe7C8RqPWcL0NvNbyqBwRjvuzT7Cj7rHPwPWTn7RWTVHsKh836e8uKTDEN5M4V8MD4Y5uMCxrAWtvXMdbX2bSD9otw/s1600-h/DSC02028.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiusVuJFuVBcB9LtAmtp5FjjPMVHwur3ONC7Ip3vFjue_R2oe7C8RqPWcL0NvNbyqBwRjvuzT7Cj7rHPwPWTn7RWTVHsKh836e8uKTDEN5M4V8MD4Y5uMCxrAWtvXMdbX2bSD9otw/s200/DSC02028.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289251735254914370&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The situation had become static since the first outburst, and nobody of the victims escapes time to look for alternatives of living. There are still a lot of refugees and it caused social problems. On the other side, it wrecked down the intercity traffic, where a piece of highway road had to be fallen and destroyed due to the incident. For just about 30 minutes watching the situation, we left that disastrous area and couldn’t find any idea about how this might come into account. The scenery had change much so that I could not capture to a larger extent about what it was really happened.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;So far then, I had fun all the time in my trip, I wonder what would be in those cities when I come back someday, let’s just hope Surabaya would not drown as well, I treasure lots of memories there. &lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/2246032850920973790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/2246032850920973790' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/2246032850920973790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/2246032850920973790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2009/01/holiday-tipping-point.html' title='Holiday Tipping Point'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwuBNql4yLufsxPWfWHaDC1vEFiarMC0KlbEAsLixr0qYBkjysTEk0jcfY6wn8uNDUlI8yXkC0YKmDig-EAsbxT5R5o-F6TAn-FBeD9q3m_NnaNq9RrfEv9ef6PIdUIS6YDLe_ag/s72-c/dh01.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-3589030737633095527</id><published>2009-01-09T17:36:00.006+07:00</published><updated>2009-01-09T17:57:16.214+07:00</updated><title type='text'>Chillout Break Music</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;w:ignoremixedcontent style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;&lt;/w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;&lt;w:compatibility style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;&lt;w:breakwrappedtables&gt;&lt;w:snaptogridincell&gt;&lt;w:wraptextwithpunct&gt;&lt;w:useasianbreakrules&gt;&lt;w:browserlevel&gt;&lt;/w:browserlevel&gt; &lt;/w:useasianbreakrules&gt;&lt;/w:wraptextwithpunct&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate=&quot;false&quot; latentstylecount=&quot;156&quot;&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if !mso]&gt;&lt;object classid=&quot;clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D&quot; id=&quot;ieooui&quot;&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;style&gt; st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:&quot;&quot;;  margin:0in;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;  mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;} @page Section1  {size:8.5in 11.0in;  margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;  mso-header-margin:.5in;  mso-footer-margin:.5in;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:&quot;Table Normal&quot;;  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:&quot;&quot;;  mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0in;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;  mso-ansi-language:#0400;  mso-fareast-language:#0400;  mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;/w:snaptogridincell&gt;&lt;/w:breakwrappedtables&gt;&lt;/w:compatibility&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;  style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;I left the edge of year 2008 with some invigorating chains of events. Just to hang around with my fellows have gotten my mind out of its tiresome thoughts. Before I ended up arriving at my beloved hometown –if I could said so--&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Malang&lt;/st1:city&gt;, &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;East Java&lt;/st1:place&gt;, I went to a chilling out performance of my friend’s acoustic show (her name is Nilam) at KONA resto at Kaliurang road km 6. She was surprisingly forming an acoustic band named UP2U, consist of her as vocalist and two more as the keyboardist and guitarist. I’ve known her well as I’d ever teamed up with her in an English debating team; moreover she’s my friend on the same faculty, even though she enrolled as a student of governance department.&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;On Saturday night at December 20, 2008; I and her former school buddy headed out to the spot, just to support her to death for 3 hours :D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;I spent the night listening to Nilam group’s recital, I was so excited that they played a bunch of my favorite love songs, both western and Indonesian songs. I thought the best feat was when they played “Especially for You” formerly sung by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylie_Minogue&quot;&gt;Kylie Minogue&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Donovan&quot;&gt;Jason Donovan&lt;/a&gt;. The tone was synchronizing with the composition and I never thought that she had trained a lot till her vocal reached wider range, and seemed so crunchy. I and my friend who watched her applied a song to them for a request, which was “Selamanya Cinta” by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dcinnamonsband.com/&quot;&gt;D’Cinnamons&lt;/a&gt;. They stroke it very fine.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;I thought the show would continue went on every Saturday night since then, as lots of KONA customers were contented to it. It was astounding that Nilam had developed such progress, where I thought she never found a feed to relieve her hobby. Now I’m glad she had a room for herself.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/3589030737633095527/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/3589030737633095527' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/3589030737633095527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/3589030737633095527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2009/01/chillout-break-music.html' title='Chillout Break Music'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-7185520038116340075</id><published>2008-12-10T18:48:00.003+07:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T19:01:35.262+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="My Experience"/><title type='text'>Catch A Glimpse!! Check Your Japanese Language Mastery, Officially!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;I was tickled first when the Japan Foundation announced the application for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) or else is known as &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Nihongo Nouryoku Shiken&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; at the early September this year. This is my first time enrolled in such exam. I excitedly applied for the test and had myself a test voucher to take with this month. I picked level 4 from the entire 4 levels. I just wanted to measure my capability on Japanese language and gain feedback from it in the end. The items required for the test consisted of &lt;i&gt;moji goi &lt;/i&gt;or the mastery of &lt;i&gt;kanji &lt;/i&gt;(the Chinese characters which adapted into Japanese means), &lt;i&gt;choukai&lt;/i&gt; or listening exam that was consisted of only 17 items, and the final part was about &lt;i&gt;bunpou &lt;/i&gt;or syntax and vocabulary in Japanese.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;In the meantime, I didn’t exercise much due to preceding task of my KKN and preparation of my graduation theses which was absolutely exhausting and confusing. Nevertheless, the result was beyond less expectation that I failed to make it into strategically planned. When it approached the d-day of the exam, I hurried the tempo of studying accompanied by my seniors Hamidah and Isti; they supported me in giving studying resources and taught me on how to deal with grammar items. I borrowed kanji exercise book which it eventually more suitable for expert and I got myself bewildered by the kanji strokes which exceeds 15 strokes. It really shattered my mind out, hehehe. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;My seniors told me that there was nothing to worry about, the exam would be just fine and they believed in me. What a supporting occurrence, while I was afraid to give much confidence regarding my very self. I had not greatly experienced in revising Japanese even though I had learned it since the end of my high school term. Chiefly, my aim to study foreign language is to affix my capability in literature, since I’m always interesting in writing and literature stuffs, thus I’m dreaming of translating foreign books and journalisms into Bahasa Indonesia, like the ACT bids me to join them someday. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzimsOmrgsUFJPkaakAdlAcUfRUe04p6ZSNFyBrw0lFhbxRUsj0wAPGWpEP4IWkmkM9sD2dmVJZJD79b_-9FMzi7eijSqQ0NMvSMS4GB1cWzbxLGuVMA_5m36qgPq1ha8EYh4Tmw/s1600-h/DSC00445.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 120px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzimsOmrgsUFJPkaakAdlAcUfRUe04p6ZSNFyBrw0lFhbxRUsj0wAPGWpEP4IWkmkM9sD2dmVJZJD79b_-9FMzi7eijSqQ0NMvSMS4GB1cWzbxLGuVMA_5m36qgPq1ha8EYh4Tmw/s320/DSC00445.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278128223000322530&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The test was planned to take time on 8 am, &lt;b&gt;Sunday, December 7 - 2009.&lt;/b&gt; However, there was some inconsequential fact when I prepared before the day the test was executed. I stupidly learn the expert kanji and forgot to engage myself with the simplest one I even couldn’t handle! I studied till late of the night accompanied by my friend, and we got stunned due to Spiderman 2 movie on TV. At the morning, I rised late and couldn’t make my time for breakfast. And oh, it was raining, but not hard, out there. I was dashing to catch a bus to take me to Fakultas Ilmu Budaya UGM. When I got there, I should hunt for my test location which was room D 111 of INCULS…. Oh what a tiring sprint…. And next? The test was seized late, for about 90 minutes and it just about took away all my fortitude. The class was rather small and convenient, with only 15 test participants inside it. I fortunately got to the first row of the seats and it helped me concentrate a great deal.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The test was best explained as remarkably gorgeous!!! I’m sure I’ve done well that time. During the transition among 3 sections of the exam, we the participants was given the time to take a diminutive break, and yeah I had sufficient slight break to breathe. To conclude, it ended at 12.30 pm, and well it was still raining at the faculty. But I’d rather satisfied with my work and I’m waiting for March 2009 to take delivery of my score result.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The JLPT is organized once a year, usually the end of the year. The Japan Foundation sought after institutionalizing the requirements to enter Japan by holding such test, so that they wouldn’t get “lost in translation” if coming to Japan or applying to Japanese company worldwide. This occasion also only take place in certain spots, like Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta, University of Indonesia Depok, Bandung, Makassar, etc where Japan Foundation established its representatives. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The JLPT is welcoming everyone to register, not merely those who take part in certain academic institutions but also for everyone concerned for it. The score, if we pass the exam, could be used as a value-added means of your foreign language mastery, especially for applying for institutions that concerning about foreign affairs, literature, Japanese companies and representatives, or even continuing your education overseas to Japan. After all, learning foreign language is much of an investment to yourself and don’t even lead to a waste if you really fond of it, while we could gain our knowledge and wisdom much more. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jlpt.jp/e/&quot;&gt;JLPT&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpf.or.id/&quot;&gt;Japan Foundation&lt;/a&gt; official web page. &lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/7185520038116340075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/7185520038116340075' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/7185520038116340075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/7185520038116340075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2008/12/catch-glimpse-check-your-japanese.html' title='Catch A Glimpse!! Check Your Japanese Language Mastery, Officially!'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzimsOmrgsUFJPkaakAdlAcUfRUe04p6ZSNFyBrw0lFhbxRUsj0wAPGWpEP4IWkmkM9sD2dmVJZJD79b_-9FMzi7eijSqQ0NMvSMS4GB1cWzbxLGuVMA_5m36qgPq1ha8EYh4Tmw/s72-c/DSC00445.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-7222848818674960085</id><published>2008-11-03T19:08:00.005+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-03T19:30:44.960+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Debate"/><title type='text'>Amcor&#39;s US Election Debate Slight Review</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The US Presidential Election 2008 is approaching. No wonder its echo pumps up on every corner of US allies and partner country, wishing the crisis would be wiped out by the new governing regime. The clash between Democrat and Republican had been represented by tight campaign of both parties since last 3 months on some sensitive issues. On academic level, Gadjah Mada University had responded the presidential race atmosphere by conducting English Debate Competition “US Election Debate 2008” in cooperation with American Corner and US Embassy in Indonesia. The event was held on October 31 until November 1, 2008; and it took place on the University Library and American Corner. The participants consisted of representation of the universities residing in Jogjakarta and around.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgizZTop2e8RNLggRJMUckIB-9ffKph_G8J5EO2qJ2EgU8t2whS6fp8AnUfzSkpWHuQTl71owThvIvx47rBFaYv9PfdAjuBDiVTJlOUanxi4fz8KTlWtExor91ZHw9eABWwMKpZpw/s1600-h/DSC00386.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgizZTop2e8RNLggRJMUckIB-9ffKph_G8J5EO2qJ2EgU8t2whS6fp8AnUfzSkpWHuQTl71owThvIvx47rBFaYv9PfdAjuBDiVTJlOUanxi4fz8KTlWtExor91ZHw9eABWwMKpZpw/s320/DSC00386.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264404796823890162&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;UMY speaker delivering his case&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was first of all excited to enroll on the tourney but I guess I never attain much time to prepare and to get teammates. So I kept that wish inside by telling myself that it’s time for a thorough regeneration ^^. My resignation from EDS UGM was definitely much of such regret for me, but I later began to enjoy my choice gracefully. The tourney were attended by one special adjudicator from US Embassy/ETA named Ms. Christy [sorry I forget her surname] who had surprisingly cute voice like those voice actors who dubbed for anime series…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The issues debated on the competition are related to what are being disputed inside the presidential campaign on the US recently, like the motion or topic on the quarter final round “This House Believes That Releasing State Assets to The Market Will Help Stabilizing the Economic Crisis”. The round was between UII B as the Democrat, versus UMY B as Republican senators. Lame though, but it was quite favorably when I found that they were noobs with maximum courage to grow up. A close round with margin of 1, that was just common, since both teams had provided their own determination, which was close to each other’s stance. On debating, you cannot play safe and justifying something from what is currently instable although it is feasible. Came with an idea of selling stock for 30% to the private companies wouldn’t be the answer, because you as an incumbent still get your hands dirty there. And aduh mak, they were debating about American ideology, was it capitalism or liberalism? Huhu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Another quarter final round that I was involved in as chairperson [again from the latest round], team UGM showed up, played Republican role. They were on the position of pro-life side of abortion on the debate of whether or not the reversal of Roe vs. Wade would bring a balance of human rights. This was a quite clear debate and UGM B won against Atmajaya A by proceeding with more excellent judgment on how government of the state would faithfully help raising the babies even they were undesired. And the pro-choice couldn’t make it against the affirmative team when they couldn’t provide argument on how it is justifiable to take out one’s life by certain legal bases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ4uT6hw8D8GF2LgRwaLQxD8ZCivw7vbRPDzId_vFz5oFv5iVwWGjM9nc0529kDLxDotAobLxQYLevOrOP9QrCJO4qgFz6pZvHMM4ed2woBg1Gg29XmMC4an7_pAk-NgdWhSdorQ/s1600-h/DSC00387.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ4uT6hw8D8GF2LgRwaLQxD8ZCivw7vbRPDzId_vFz5oFv5iVwWGjM9nc0529kDLxDotAobLxQYLevOrOP9QrCJO4qgFz6pZvHMM4ed2woBg1Gg29XmMC4an7_pAk-NgdWhSdorQ/s320/DSC00387.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264406073513190274&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial;font-size:85%;&quot; &gt;second speaker from Atmajaya University&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sat as chairperson on that cloudy Sunday for times, and when it came to the semi final round, UGM B met UMY if I’m not mistaken. To pierce it straight to the point, UGM B took another victory by beating them with close margin. I was kind of interesting to the motion “This House would Maintain US Military Presence in Iraq”  because I had debated about it previously with team from Akademi Militer Magelang and it recalled the funny times out there. UGM won as Republican representatives by exacting the importance of US troops to maintain transitional government and meanwhile protecting US interest in middle east.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UGM won, and UII stood as runner up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trivial moments were when I got the opportunity to hang around with my colleagues in EDS, to greet Ms. Christy from US Embassy, and to have a slight talk with Jonas, debaters from UMY team who was from East Timor. Christy was a nice girl and she thought that the competition was better on the second day. On the other side of the adjudication table, Jonas told an interesting stories to me, Satrio from UNDIP and Ascana from American Corner;  about what’s hot on his country recently. He spoke a lot about the East Timor’s Fretilin, a left-wing party which came with rather soclialist view, and also, the scandals within. We also shared thoughts on how East Timor struggled so hard in this transitional democracy state. He also had his view about developing the country to the future. Oh yeah, and I was so envious to the participants, they got books and CD about US politics to be taken with them. I just wanted one and there was no further respond from the committee ;P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFWi3rimtDMmyfrPV1HCPtZ5IZJCroot1qaFIgxen2fJ9EAa2SN3OCmxDLZcJxJFoe7PK2KiICbGovkIneMhjc7do_j61Z2MTOmWuiyebKb5u4G6wan7knI6khK_LZRy6Wxn4S8Q/s1600-h/DSC00388.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFWi3rimtDMmyfrPV1HCPtZ5IZJCroot1qaFIgxen2fJ9EAa2SN3OCmxDLZcJxJFoe7PK2KiICbGovkIneMhjc7do_j61Z2MTOmWuiyebKb5u4G6wan7knI6khK_LZRy6Wxn4S8Q/s320/DSC00388.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264406854636818242&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial;&quot;&gt;Panel Adjudicator : Ardhy from UMY, Satrio from UNDIP, and Christy from US Embassy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just felt nostalgic that I surprisingly left debate for such a long time. One year unfortunately took my skill away, while I’m now trying to embrace the feeling of winning once again. I’ve never made such a feat to be proud of on the podium, until that time I won and everybody showered me with compliment as they encouraged me to reach righer. I definitely treasure the moment.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/7222848818674960085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/7222848818674960085' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/7222848818674960085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/7222848818674960085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2008/11/amcors-us-election-debate-slight-review.html' title='Amcor&#39;s US Election Debate Slight Review'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgizZTop2e8RNLggRJMUckIB-9ffKph_G8J5EO2qJ2EgU8t2whS6fp8AnUfzSkpWHuQTl71owThvIvx47rBFaYv9PfdAjuBDiVTJlOUanxi4fz8KTlWtExor91ZHw9eABWwMKpZpw/s72-c/DSC00386.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-5241509612591385078</id><published>2008-10-27T14:08:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2008-10-27T14:16:22.376+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="My Experience"/><title type='text'>Spare Time and Weirdo Weather</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3idZ0Wrrw1mZjz_tZkrkqCVAwwD2zUAhAkchM2q8VBgtayBsSxGVh7E9zktQckJa3ZBN72o6BANR4HZDXOmxhKj8UbuMzW7IPfz-H-qFVyDHV8oJiInM6i03uB9xbZ_LyZ1X0A/s1600-h/rhan816l.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 231px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3idZ0Wrrw1mZjz_tZkrkqCVAwwD2zUAhAkchM2q8VBgtayBsSxGVh7E9zktQckJa3ZBN72o6BANR4HZDXOmxhKj8UbuMzW7IPfz-H-qFVyDHV8oJiInM6i03uB9xbZ_LyZ1X0A/s320/rhan816l.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261728826824762674&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, nothing much to say about what the last semester college student is doing. Nothing but her undergraduate theses. Apparently, there has been no interest of thinking about it, moreover, working over it all the time. I’m not the kind to do such paperwork, I’m not as rushed as expected to finish it out soon. Oh yeah, and by time I started it out, boredom also occurs when all I got left to write was nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And again, the weather currently has gone nuts. I’ve got no idea why is it so humid outside while the sunlight also stroke down the whole land. It’s like you are steamed all day even when it comes to nights that you wouldn’t keep your cooling agent away from you. Some newspaper said the temperature had reached for almost 40ºC. The most annoying part of the curse is the indiscriminate blackout policy of PLN. Thanks to PLN, my schedule of working my theses messed up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another impact of this stung weather, my defenses crumbled. I fell into murderous illness again, that surprisingly I couldn’t stand the pain as usual. The strive continued so that it really did stuck my plan. This is the end of the month, and I should resolve all my documents needed to be submitted before November, or I’ll never finish on February. Well I’ll try to loosen up my target at last.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s not like I’ll drown myself deeper into this, so I’m looking for some refreshment. Gathering with friends always put you at ease, because sharing your experiences heals the pain, for sure. Yesterday, I and my friends had a cheerful time. We forced our butts to move to the appointed location on my friend’s Darmaputra Students Dormitory UGM next to Krida Mandala stadium. We were plotting to serve ourselves “rujakan” together, but nobody knows why the pleasure came to an end while the guy who got the fruits even weren’t showing his head off.  Didn’t want to be pulled away in disappointment, we just spent the time exchanging stories of holidays and stuff, it was a definitely fun breakthrough, until we all rolled on the floor laughing and shed so many tears of happiness [hehehehe….], and never forget to picture ourselves together ^o^. Halfway later, we went to have a dinner nearby, and went home exhausted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope there will be more celebration, when it would come to the Jogja Debating Forum’s [JDF] League next week. Hmm, cannot wait for the reunion, since it’s been a long while I don’t have spare time to meet my comrades, my best friends, my rivals as well, from all over backgrounds and ages. I liked competition and will always be, because that enriched my courage. The event would be held by JDF on Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, a convenient place to debate with tranquil breeze. The event would use British Parliamentary system, so that I have to get one partner to fight the enemy with. My buddy is Mr. Teddy from UNY and I could imagine what my team would be!!!! We’ll be the freakiest team as two morons consolidate to fight back “IKAN KAKAP” the big fish of JDF huhehehehhe Still I hope the weather wouldn’t breakdown for fishing. *evil laugh*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time to take my time. Ask your true heart, what should it be then. I like what I do, I do what I like, there’s no need to hurry, just relax.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/5241509612591385078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/5241509612591385078' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/5241509612591385078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/5241509612591385078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2008/10/spare-time-and-weirdo-weather.html' title='Spare Time and Weirdo Weather'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3idZ0Wrrw1mZjz_tZkrkqCVAwwD2zUAhAkchM2q8VBgtayBsSxGVh7E9zktQckJa3ZBN72o6BANR4HZDXOmxhKj8UbuMzW7IPfz-H-qFVyDHV8oJiInM6i03uB9xbZ_LyZ1X0A/s72-c/rhan816l.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-8213117300307833806</id><published>2008-10-27T14:02:00.002+07:00</published><updated>2008-10-27T14:21:20.213+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="International Politics"/><title type='text'>Yell of The Forgotten</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYTK9kzbPMlitiGHRfKkMhqDe2ZNC4a_SKnMlw18Bm8AoSCrlUciRLZmr4VdCpjhhvy54wmW5ZvsVRa1JIZ9abWIiejYHAS0934QVOJu9aJA5ufk1SyZayFO85nS5hDJtPo0Edw/s1600-h/Kurdishkids.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 206px; height: 146px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYTK9kzbPMlitiGHRfKkMhqDe2ZNC4a_SKnMlw18Bm8AoSCrlUciRLZmr4VdCpjhhvy54wmW5ZvsVRa1JIZ9abWIiejYHAS0934QVOJu9aJA5ufk1SyZayFO85nS5hDJtPo0Edw/s320/Kurdishkids.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261730086302130178&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Regarding the Government of Turkey’s long-life oppression over Kurdish minority group, the cycle of violence continues on. The secessionist movement have been organized into Kurdistan Workers’ Party (KWP) and then weakened by the “assault” of their political leader, Abdullah Occalan, since 1999. This had been Turkey’s challenge from time to time, they were proclaimed to promote democracy, while sadly they also built strong wall against the basic human rights, which still apply even inside the what-so-called-separatist to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Al-Jazeera reported on Sunday, October 19, 2008, Kurdish protesters marched on the street on the heavily populated Kurdish area in southern Turkey. They were demanding the government to treat the lifetime jailed Occalan more properly, regretting the government act during these times that said to be otherwise. On Diyarbakir, over 5000 demonstrators gathered and clashed physical contact with the police. Casualties couldn’t be hindered, and so many people detained by the government by that incident.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Kurd, and the KWP, is being considered by Turkish government as “terrorist” rather than a mere separatist group. About 44000 people have died since its conflict with the Turkish state began in 1984. Government seems not to open talks for deescalating the conflict. The use of forces is becoming the main prioritization to handle the problems. And the supports to Kurdish struggle nowadays are nothing but a peril promise, due to the lacking of international support and recognition of their rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From over the mountainous region of Kurdish residence on Middle East, the attack on the civilians began their rapid assult as the area of their homelad were divided on various Arabic Countries, such as Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and even Syria as well. Then the Kurdish was said to be “a nation without a state” as the Israel and Palestine stand now. It should explain that what the Kurdish demanding is a political landscape, which refers to the political territory which only be justifiable by the means of a sovereign state. To contrast with their colleagues in Iraq, the guys at Turkey seems to expel the Kurdish away from the nation’s progress and their rights is not given well. On Iraq, there had been a political consolidation, that by 2006 they established a united autonomous governance but still subordinated under the Iraqi regime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is such a wonder why the Kurdish minority group in Turkey failed to resist the government, just by looking on the fact that around 50% population of The Kurd all over the world is residing on Turkey itself. They should have more political and human resources to pursue their aims. By enforcing such an brutal act to stop the demonstrators like above, there could be determined that the Kurdish in Turkey are being violated, and they are just forgotten by the world. There is no doubt that the vengeance and hatred would color their realations futher.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/8213117300307833806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/8213117300307833806' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/8213117300307833806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/8213117300307833806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2008/10/yell-of-forgotten.html' title='Yell of The Forgotten'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYTK9kzbPMlitiGHRfKkMhqDe2ZNC4a_SKnMlw18Bm8AoSCrlUciRLZmr4VdCpjhhvy54wmW5ZvsVRa1JIZ9abWIiejYHAS0934QVOJu9aJA5ufk1SyZayFO85nS5hDJtPo0Edw/s72-c/Kurdishkids.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-6422702629037344191</id><published>2008-06-30T09:53:00.002+07:00</published><updated>2008-06-30T10:02:40.842+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="My Experience"/><title type='text'>Rehat Sejenak</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Wahai &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;blogwalker&lt;/span&gt; yang budiman...&lt;br /&gt;Dalam rangka mengikuti Kuliah Kerja Nyata Pembelajaran Pemberdayaan Masyarakat [KKN PPM] 2008, maka blog ini jadi ikut cuti selama dua bulan. Program yang saya ikuti adalah Pemberantasan Buta Aksara [PBA]. Kurang lebihnya begitu, meski sebenarnya bulan lalu saya tidak pernah memperbaharui &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;post&lt;/span&gt; saya, he he...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mendapatkan lokasi &lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Plotting &lt;/span&gt;di Desa Wadungan, Wonosobo, membuat saya jadi sibuk mempersiapkan barang bawaan yang sangat banyak, terlebih lagi desa tersebut letaknya di daerah pegunungan Sumbing di mana kabarnya desa tersebut merupakan desa yang lokasinya tertinggi di Wonosobo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yup, dari sini saya memohon doa bagi kelancaran KKN kami tahun ini. Semoga apa yang kami lakukan dapat memberi kontribusi yang optimal bagi masayarakat sekitar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;untuk lebih jelasnya tentang KKN-PPM UGM, silakan klik &lt;a href=&quot;http://lppm.ugm.ac.id&quot;&gt;di sini&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adios, sayonara, pareng...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/6422702629037344191/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/6422702629037344191' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/6422702629037344191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/6422702629037344191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2008/06/rehat-sejenak.html' title='Rehat Sejenak'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-6464267313376122015</id><published>2008-04-30T10:43:00.004+07:00</published><updated>2008-04-30T10:51:25.254+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Environmental Moves"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="The Department"/><title type='text'>Green Remarks [?]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Well, frankly typing, April 22 has always been a day to renowned the environmental awareness. This even called “earth day” for complimenting the earth for existing and contributing living goods for us human. Just wanted to expose the commemoration on my campus, there was activities to be done, the “no machine-equipped vehicle in earth day” campaign, wearing green-nuanced outfits, and so forth. The KPALH Setrajana, the student unit for environmental [and outdoor] activities had initiated this chain of programs and held some seminar and academic talks about the environment. It was probably just a slight euphoria, but still inspiring though. What attracting guys in there was a horribly wide white cloth for you to write comments about environment on. It was absolutely for memorable purpose, but I hope that this will be a promise to ourselves to commit environmental keeping.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;pictures...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8e5grN4cNmbJy0pSGW7QtdEvYuPaScp8FGs4Ut8JefgjSYxlbLdW3mdBJBJ_T0RATcdqdlNoFqFDAReML8lJq5z3jwvUORbk4T5Z3lVzdhx1CidBv0Nbwl5ZHbGNropRaEB_5ZA/s1600-h/dsc00165.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8e5grN4cNmbJy0pSGW7QtdEvYuPaScp8FGs4Ut8JefgjSYxlbLdW3mdBJBJ_T0RATcdqdlNoFqFDAReML8lJq5z3jwvUORbk4T5Z3lVzdhx1CidBv0Nbwl5ZHbGNropRaEB_5ZA/s320/dsc00165.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194879799755837138&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Biology Faculty&#39;s demo on sunday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwHF9j1fxE5QKdbxAw2gZmquZsyKKHTJFbSTldyD6EInlfDVlVJ2ESTdMJ4E_kYuxHOaVuBKfC6XoU-j7cWUlmfWGHurTVnxibeLB1jd6stxZl2KdHKKrliPMkBQG9SPwSFCAxRw/s1600-h/dsc00166.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwHF9j1fxE5QKdbxAw2gZmquZsyKKHTJFbSTldyD6EInlfDVlVJ2ESTdMJ4E_kYuxHOaVuBKfC6XoU-j7cWUlmfWGHurTVnxibeLB1jd6stxZl2KdHKKrliPMkBQG9SPwSFCAxRw/s320/dsc00166.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194880263612305122&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid2ihYHa3QV_sX9FFSbwgaMWSfXaRhUG5JU4SOVi7O1G4ibuJ8bavGvSQmSPCCM2O9k8Vs96Iiv4tNvBOFZJyP8hBCxDD6IxpH2LGRNwbjiVh9H6Sn5bn1AFx88VNaQxJrKMpVcg/s1600-h/dsc00167.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid2ihYHa3QV_sX9FFSbwgaMWSfXaRhUG5JU4SOVi7O1G4ibuJ8bavGvSQmSPCCM2O9k8Vs96Iiv4tNvBOFZJyP8hBCxDD6IxpH2LGRNwbjiVh9H6Sn5bn1AFx88VNaQxJrKMpVcg/s320/dsc00167.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194880637274459890&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;post your signatures&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/6464267313376122015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/6464267313376122015' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/6464267313376122015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/6464267313376122015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2008/04/green-remarks.html' title='Green Remarks [?]'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8e5grN4cNmbJy0pSGW7QtdEvYuPaScp8FGs4Ut8JefgjSYxlbLdW3mdBJBJ_T0RATcdqdlNoFqFDAReML8lJq5z3jwvUORbk4T5Z3lVzdhx1CidBv0Nbwl5ZHbGNropRaEB_5ZA/s72-c/dsc00165.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29495513.post-2190450676630370508</id><published>2008-04-09T13:40:00.003+07:00</published><updated>2008-04-09T13:45:51.520+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Music"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="The Department"/><title type='text'>Lunch Time Break Music</title><content type='html'>Well, probably the updates are on a long, long way from routines. After got caught on several bittersweet business out there, finally I begin writing on this stuff again ^-^;&lt;br /&gt;Oh yeah maybe this is relatively out of date, nevertheless, I’d like to show what they’d done in my campus during lunch time. Several months before now, possibly it’s February, a kinky-and-dandy –but-minimalist jazz group came showing up at my faculty’s canteen. This was quite amusing and entertaining, when suddenly we were being surprised with their present of enjoyment, astonished performance on the first place. &lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_EA0MyJSuTeTntOrAj0U6hIRoUtuiYvS2Sv7Hc_AUUYhUMJcyTrA-1SZ5C1mrPPTtJCOfT1kQeEkbNePLrjsZ4v7dYU1DGyCCfcgqJd3Cz4jHblydvvJdt8h3AUEv7WXHyfGAQ/s1600-h/dsc00107.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_EA0MyJSuTeTntOrAj0U6hIRoUtuiYvS2Sv7Hc_AUUYhUMJcyTrA-1SZ5C1mrPPTtJCOfT1kQeEkbNePLrjsZ4v7dYU1DGyCCfcgqJd3Cz4jHblydvvJdt8h3AUEv7WXHyfGAQ/s320/dsc00107.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187132243076713282&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The group consisted of two sub-platoons, one of them was called Andy Gomez Quintet and the other one was The Kirana Big Band. The faculty set up a small stage and band equipment on the west side of the cafeteria. As an emphasizing tune of jazz music, they were including saxophone player as well. On one part, they played instrumental jazz; another part was a vocal–lead full band format. As I recall, audiences were distracted so much, and very well relaxed by their music. I don’t get much reference on jazz, but I’m somewhat familiar with the music, maybe that’s just due to the frequent broadcast as back sounds on many TV shows or ads?? LOL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ge0aE4NhbLXKev2_b3HwnlooNqGQZB7NAPfehqi8RR0KVleA30Knh40StEohHuvhVQxuMEhLo-KXkaq1mZOe9kP2IPeumOEPTT5TMWz0AkIyrL89CN8RACZG54nRfuW-HHONsw/s1600-h/dsc00109.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ge0aE4NhbLXKev2_b3HwnlooNqGQZB7NAPfehqi8RR0KVleA30Knh40StEohHuvhVQxuMEhLo-KXkaq1mZOe9kP2IPeumOEPTT5TMWz0AkIyrL89CN8RACZG54nRfuW-HHONsw/s320/dsc00109.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187132642508671826&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; In the end, I figure out that it was a promotional attempt to gain audiences on their real commercial show the next 10 days [I’ve got the pamphlet somehow I forgot the date]. In my humble opinion, the promotion was successful and not a mere slight excitement. I bet people had gone after them to watch their show live. I supposed there should be another show next time like this, but as long as they don’t get in the lecture way inside the class to bring the noise… Even the lecturer cannot concentrate much…</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/feeds/2190450676630370508/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/29495513/2190450676630370508' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/2190450676630370508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29495513/posts/default/2190450676630370508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openeva.blogspot.com/2008/04/lunch-time-break-music.html' title='Lunch Time Break Music'/><author><name>adventura</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13189318334607957861</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYC9_wYMWXmhlQJTlBz-McvoFRP7ccyk7LjUcSM4C_Jl_sGLtudNRfignhq9-o7Tue1CzfXD0SX5gP_eiFBSJhy-WVe0kZvnEqkKY17PXdnDKbUEre_57wvIOjHq-eFdw/s220/eva.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_EA0MyJSuTeTntOrAj0U6hIRoUtuiYvS2Sv7Hc_AUUYhUMJcyTrA-1SZ5C1mrPPTtJCOfT1kQeEkbNePLrjsZ4v7dYU1DGyCCfcgqJd3Cz4jHblydvvJdt8h3AUEv7WXHyfGAQ/s72-c/dsc00107.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>