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Apple iPhone 4S

2012-01-11T16:17:00.000+07:00

Apple iPhone 4S - You can check this gadget before buying on the store. This is the latest version of iPhone from Apple before iPhone 5 release. iPhone 4S have many features inside. Just by one simple touch you can explore the gadget. With its features you can control your business within.

Google News

2011-09-20T21:28:00.001+07:00

What is Google News? According to Wikipedia, Google News is an automated news aggregator provided by Google Inc. The initial idea, StoryRank—related to Google's PageRank formula—was developed by Krishna Bharat in 2001, the Principal Research Scientist of Google. No person is involved in the altering of the front page or story promotion, beyond tweaking the aggregation algorithm. Google News left beta in January 2006.^[1] The service covers news articles appearing within the past 30 days on various news websites. For this reason, links to the site will find the target article only within that 30-day window.

Introduced as a beta release in March 2002, the Google News service came out of beta on January 23, 2006. Different versions of the aggregator are available for more than 40 regions in 19 languages (as of July 31, 2008), with continuing development ongoing. Currently, service in the following languages is offered: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu and Turkish.
The service covers news articles appearing within the past 30 days on various news websites. In total, Google News aggregates content from more than 25,000 publishers.^[2] For the English language it covers about 4,500 sites^{[citation needed]}; for other languages, fewer. Its front page provides roughly the first 200 characters of the article and a link to its larger content. Websites may or may not require a subscription; sites requiring subscription are noted in the article description.^[3]
The layout of Google News underwent a major revision on May 16, 2011.
On July 14, 2011, Google introduced "Google News Badges" and split up the Sci/Tech section into 2 sections: Science and Technology.

Creating privacy policy for Blogger

2009-09-15T06:43:00.004+07:00

To create a page for privacy policy, you can use a privacy policy generator. Just open this site http://www.serprank.com/privacy-policy-generator/index.php . In order for Blogger at Google free account can use steps like this:

Prepare your blog
Open privacy policy generator's website
Put in the box your URL blog name and email
Copy paste result of privacy policy to your blog posting
Set the date for old posting
Make link for the privacy policy posting
That's all.

How to upload Blogger templates

2009-09-07T08:26:00.006+07:00

How to upload Blogger templates
Here is the guide to upload a new blog template.
Download your Blogger XML template from free web template. The template is contained in a zip file, ensure you have extracted the XML template.

Log in to your Blogger dashboard and go to Layout > Edit HTML
Remember to back up your old template. To do this, click on the "download full template" link and save the file to your hard drive.
Look for the section near the top where you can browse for your XML template
Enter the location of your template and press "upload".
The HTML of your new template will now appear in the box below. You can preview your template or simply save to start using it!
Enjoy!

You Are

2007-08-31T10:26:00.001+07:00

By: Dolly Parton

Sometimes I try to count the ways and reasons that I love you
But I can't ever seem to count that far
I love you in a million ways and for a million reasons
More than this I love you as you are
More than this I love you as you are
Chorus:

You are my inspiration, you are the song I sing
You are what makes me happy, you are my everything
You are my daily sunshine, you are my ev'ning star
Ev'rything I'll ever need or want, that's what you are
Ev'rything I'll ever need or want is what you are

You are my thoughts when I'm awake, my dreams when I'm asleep
You are the reason for my smile, you are the words I speak
Every role I play in life you play the leading part
Ev'rything I'd ever hope to find is what you are
Ev'rything I'd ever hope to find is what you are

Repeat Chorus

Tag:

You are...
You are

Khalil Gibran

2007-08-03T10:06:00.001+07:00

Gibran Khalil Gibran was born on January 6, 1883, to the Maronite family of Gibran in Bsharri, a mountainous area in Northern Lebanon.
His mother Kamila Rahmeh was thirty when she begot Gibran from her third husband Khalil Gibran, who proved to be an irresponsible husband leading the family to poverty. Gibran had a half-brother six years older than him called Peter and two younger sisters, Mariana and Sultana, whom he was deeply attached to throughout his life, along with his mother. Kamila’s family came from a prestigious religious background, which imbued the uneducated mother with a strong will and later on helped her raise up the family on her own in the U.S.
Growing up in the lush region of Bsharri, Gibran proved to be a solitary and pensive child who relished the natural surroundings of the cascading falls, the rugged cliffs and the neighboring green cedars, the beauty of which emerged as a dramatic and symbolic influence to his drawings and writings. Being laden with poverty, he did not receive any formal education or learning, which was limited to regular visits to a village priest who doctrined him with the essentials of religion and the Bible, alongside Syriac and Arabic languages. Recognizing Gibran’s inquisitive and alert nature, the priest began teaching him the rudiments of alphabet and language, opening up to Gibran the world of history, science, and language. At the age of ten, Gibran fell off a cliff, wounding his left shoulder, which remained weak for the rest of his life ever since this incident. To relocate the shoulder, his family strapped it to a cross and wrapped it up for forty days, a symbolic incident reminiscent of Christ’s wanderings in the wilderness and which remained etched in Gibran’s memory.

At the age of eight, Khalil Gibran, Gibran's father, was accused of tax evasion and was sent to prison as the Ottomon authorities confiscated the Gibrans’ property and left them homeless. The family went to live with relatives for a while; however, the strong-willed mother decided that the family should immigrate to the U.S., seeking a better life and following in suit to Gibran’s uncle who immigrated earlier. The father was released in 1894, but being an irresponsible head of the family he was undecided about immigration and remained behind in Lebanon.

On June 25, 1895, the Gibrans embarked on a voyage to the American shores of New York.

At the time the second largest Lebanese-American community was in Boston's South End, so the Gibrans decided to settle there. His mother began working as a peddler to bring in money for the family, and Gibran started school on September 30, 1895. Since he had had no formal schooling in Lebanon, school officials placed him in a special class for immigrants to learn English. Gibran's English teacher suggested that he Anglicise the spelling of his name in order to make it more acceptable to American society. Kahlil Gibran was the result.

In his early teens, the artistry of Gibran's drawings caught the eye of his teachers and he was introduced to the avant-garde Boston artist, photographer, and publisher Fred Holland Day, who encouraged and supported Gibran in his creative endeavors.

A publisher used some of Gibran's drawings for book covers in 1898, and Gibran held his first art exhibition in 1904 in Boston. During this exhibition, Gibran met Mary Elizabeth Haskell, a respected headmistress ten years his senior. The two formed an important friendship that lasted the rest of Gibran's life. Though publicly discreet, their correspondence reveals an exalted intimacy. Haskell influenced not only Gibran's personal life, but also his career. In 1908, Gibran went to study art with Auguste Rodin in Paris for two years. This is where he met his art study partner and lifelong friend Youssef Howayek. He later studied art in Boston.

While most of Gibran's early writings were in Syriac and Arabic, most of his work published after 1918 was in English. Gibran also took part in the New York Pen League, also known as the "immigrant poets", alongside other important Lebanese American authors such as Ameen Rihani ("the father of Lebanese American literature"), Mikhael Naimy and Elia Abu Madi.

Much of Gibran's writings deal with Christianity, mostly condemning the corrupt practices of the Eastern churches and their clergies during that era. His poetry is notable for its use of formal language, as well as insights on topics of life using spiritual terms.

Gibran's best-known work is The Prophet, a book composed of 26 poetic essays. During the 1960s, The Prophet became especially popular with the American counterculture and New Age movements. The Prophet remains famous to this day, having been translated into more than 20 languages.

One of his most notable lines of poetry in the English speaking world is from 'Sand and Foam' (1926), which reads : 'Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you'. This was taken by John Lennon and placed, though in a slightly altered form, into the song Julia from The Beatles' 1968 album The Beatles (a.k.a. The White Album).Gibran also inspired John F. Kennedy's often quoted sentence in the 1961 inaugural address with his 1925 article, "The New Frontier," which contained the epigrammatic : "Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in a desert."

Juliet Thompson, one of Khalil Gibran's acquaintances, said that Gibran told her that he thought of `Abdu'l-Bahá, the divine leader of the Bahá'í Faith in his lifetime, all the way through writing The Prophet. `Abdu'l-Bahá's personage also influenced Jesus, The Son of Man, another book by Gibran. It is certain that Gibran did two portraits of him during this period.

Gibran died in New York City on April 10, 1931: the cause was determined to be cirrhosis of the liver and tuberculosis. Before his death, Gibran expressed the wish that he be buried in Lebanon. This wish was fulfilled in 1932, when Mary Haskell and his sister Mariana purchased the Mar Sarkis Monastery in Lebanon. Gibran remains the most popular Lebanese-American writer ever.

Gibran willed the contents of his studio to Mary Haskell. There she discovered her letters to him spanning 23 years. She initially agreed to burn them because of their intimacy, but recognizing their historical value she saved them. She gave them, along with his letters to her which she had also saved, to the University of North Carolina Library before she died in 1964. Excerpts of the over six hundred letters were published in "Beloved Prophet" in 1972.

Mary Haskell Minis (she wed Jacob Florance Minis after moving to Savannah, Georgia in 1923) donated her personal collection of nearly one hundred original works of art by Gibran to the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah in 1950. Haskell had been thinking of placing her collection at the Telfair as early as 1914. In a letter to Gibran, she explained, "...I am thinking of other museums...the unique little Telfair Gallery in Savannah, Ga., that Gari Melchers chooses pictures for. There when I was a visiting child, form burst upon my astonished little soul." Haskell's extraordinary gift to the Telfair is the largest public collection of Kahlil Gibran’s visual art in the country, consisting of five oils and numerous works on paper rendered in the artist’s lyrical style, which reflects the influence of symbolism.

Source:
1. http://www.poemhunter.com/khalil-gibran/biography/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalil_Gibran

Home schooling

2007-06-09T17:17:00.001+07:00

There something wrong with home schooling? Nothing wrong about that. Good education is not only for rich people. There is many way to create something new about education. Indonesia has many people doesn't have any basic education. You can see at the street, many children getting work to have more money for their life. It is not their false why they didn't go to school. They parents doesn't have money for paying the school, event that is government school.
Education is expensive, isn't it? It's cause many people says that. Education is become a business with high profit. You can see, every year parent trying to get good school for their children. It's take million rupiah for paying the school at beginning of education year. From kindergarten until university. For rich people its doesn't matter how much they paying school, cause they want the good school for their children.

There is an alternative we have for children. People says that "home schooling". That 's mean "school at home". It is not take high cost. Little cost just for books and teacher. Children have rights to get good education. Government must concern about this. Their education is for country's future. How can we improve our nation if there is no concern about education?

Don't judge home schooling is bad for children. It is good for them to face the truth about life.

Poetry #1

2007-06-08T08:33:00.001+07:00

The world is not enough

No, its not for me
nor for you
its for our mind

we can fly at the moon
or another planet
you can send your mind
wherever you want

but still at the ground
cos it doesn't reach the truth
you can't put your mind after death
your mind stuck at the world

use your mind whenever you want
wherever you live
whatever you do

but don't you forget
who made you

New Inspiration

2007-06-07T07:23:00.001+07:00

Wow, early morning in Bandung is very cold. I have to wearing my jacket. It's cold out here. Wake up in the morning is really good, we have fresh air. My mind ready to go. I have new inspiration for today. I am ready to work right now. Still got the move.
I don't know how many I was late for wakeup. I always sleep at midnight, after eleven pm at clock. I always surf on internet for many hours. I like collecting some information from around the world. Or just playing online game, like Gunbound. It's my favorite game, cos no other game that I playing on :D.

I have to learn internet marketing cos there is a goal for me to makes my self as an entrepreneur. I don't want to be a worker, I want to be a businessman. Cos if we just a worker, our mind doesn't grow like others. Not creative, just follow the rule, that's the worker. No inspiration to getting the move for action. Act to free yourself, your mind from pressure. Let's get the inspiration

Controlling High Blood Pressure Effectively

2007-06-06T00:29:00.000+07:00

High blood pressure, or the hypertension, as it is commonly named, is a condition that can affect us without even knowing its specific symptoms, because there are none. The silent killer can be controlled with the proper medicated treatment and by following the doctor advises. The first thing you have to do after you have been diagnosed with hypertension, is to be aware and to learn how to live with it, because the faster you take some measures, the faster you can stop it from threatening your life.

Being a chronic disease, there is nothing yet that can cure it. We can only try to ameliorate it and to control it by making drastic changes in our lives. Begin with changing the way you eat, change the lifestyle you have and make sure you follow the medicated treatment prescribed by your doctor: these are the right steps towards healing hypertension.

Hypertension can lead to major breakdowns of our body's systems if we do not take the right measures and the consequences are very serious: complicated heart attacks, strokes or the failure of your kidneys.

This article will provide you with a simple 3-steps program that can help you reduce and regulate your high blood pressure and prevent it from taking over your life.

Step 1: Eat Healthy!

Eating healthy might seem easy for someone who hasn't tried it yet. It involves changing your whole way of life and you must forget and put away your old eating habits and apply the new rules of healthy eating. You can begin with a small step, like reducing the quantity of salt you used to prepare the meals. A higher quantity of salt can produce edema, the retention of water. Normally, the water from our body must be eliminated through the urine. The salt interferes in the process and a big part of the water that should be eliminated is blocked within our bodies, creating excess. This will cause a pressure on the walls of the blood vessels, the main reason for the occurrence of hypertension.

If you feel you can't live without salt, you can replace it with salt substitutes or tasty combinations of other seasonings. The taste of the food might not be the same as before, but your hypertension will slowly lose its power.

Changing the way you eat and the things you eat, will determine you to begin lose the excess of weight too. It is a common fact that hypertension is caused by obesity, by the fat accumulated in our body which thickens the walls of the blood vessels and increases the blood pressure as a consequence.

To guide the people in finding the right way to control hypertension through healthy eating, in 1997, the Journal of Medicine from New England published a work that was lately approved by the US government as an excellent method to prevent hypertension. This amazing writing was the DASH diet, which means Dietary Approaches To Stop Hypertension. This is a diet based on healthy food, tasty and beneficial for our body too, including all the proteins, vitamins, fibers and minerals necessary to our body.

Step 2: Quit Smoking And Reduce The Amount Of Alcohol!

If you are a smoker or you are used to have more than a couple of drinks daily, you might take a minute and think about how this affects your health. It is hard to leave behind those nasty habits, and the best way to do it isn't to go through it by yourself. You will not make it. Search for advice and counselling in your personal physician and you will have professional support while you will improve your life.

Step 3: Be Active!

A sedentary way of life will certainly not help you in reducing the risqu of hypertension. Our busy schedules don't leave us much choice when it comes to our free time. We prefer to relax and watch a movie instead of exercising our bodies. Do not worry; you do not have to spend hours at the gym. Ten minutes a day can work wonders on your blood circulation, by reducing the negative effect of hypertension on our bodies.

There is the case though, when we inherit hypertension. At the periodic check-up, tell your doctor if you ever had a history of hypertension in your family; it is possible that you might have it too. The only thing you can do is to protect yourself by avoiding the things that allow the hypertension to become serious in the first place. There are also drugs included in the category of antihypertensive; not every one of them might work for your type of body, and you will have to try a whole list of drugs until you find the one that works on your hypertension. Pay attention, though! If you take the drugs and still go on with your old lifestyle, do not expect any results! The right combination of hypertension inhibitors includes: healthy food, exercises and a healthy way of life (no cigarettes or alcohol).

by Clive Jenkins

City mascot returns to Jakarta

2007-06-02T14:51:00.000+07:00

High above the local government office in east Jakarta, a massive bird spreads its frozen wings over the flowerbeds and gazes down, with its hard bronzed eyes, on hurrying uniformed officials.

I have read this news from BBC News by Lucy Williamson. I was lived in Jakarta for many years. Jakarta was not big like now, but still busy. OK, let see what she write about.

This is a Brahminy Kite, Jakarta's city mascot - a reminder of the city's native kite population.

But the only place you will catch a glimpse of one nowadays is on a statue, or perhaps on the side of a city bus.

Jakarta's kite population has been hunted to extinction by illegal traders.

Having a caged bird of prey in your house is something of a status symbol here, and one by one all the city's birds have been captured and sold as pets.

But one organisation is trying to bring them back.

Off the coast of the capital, a small team funded by the UK charity International Animal Rescue has been quietly battling the illegal trade to repopulate the area.

Population re-born

Getting to Kotok Island means sailing a couple of hours out into the Java Sea.

As the boat pulls into the wooden landing stage, tiny fish dart away under the clear water, and a sandy shore, thick with coconut palms, opens up.

Jakarta bus
The birds are still more commonly sighted on the sides of buses

Hidden inside the tangle of tropical shrubs, at the heart of the island, sit a series of large wire cages.

This is where Jakarta's new kite population is being born. Or rather, rehabilitated.

Every one of the birds in these cages has been wrested back from illegal traders or from private houses.

All have had their wings clipped, and some will never fly again. But those with a chance spend months here learning again how to survive in the wild.

That's a part of article that I was read about. That's very interesting for me.

Writing again

2007-06-01T09:56:00.000+07:00

Ah, dapet lagi ide mo nulis. Abis baca berita sih, hehehe. Biasanya gitu, kalo ada berita, yah langsung bisa ngasih opini. Nah, ini kelanjutan IPDN, itu tuh soal gugatan praja kepada Inu Kencana, soal buku IPDN Undercover. Kata Pak Inu, ada praja perempuan yang memberitahu kepadanya bahwa mereka menggugat atas perintah Sekjen Depdagri. Nah loh, gimana tuh.

Wah ga tau terusannya nih, katanya sih, Sekjennya tidak mengakui hal tersebut. Katanya wong ga pernah menginjak kampus IPDN kok. Lha, masalah suruh menyuruh mah, bisa lewat telpon, surat menyurat, memo, ga harus ada di kampus kan? Aneh, alibi yang dapat dimentahkan. Kita liat aja kelanjutannya. Tidak mau berasumsi dulu terhadap seseorang. Ntar dah dapet info, dilanjut. Atau mau cari sendiri beritanya yah, ndak apa-apa kok. Hehehe.

Motivation

2007-05-14T17:46:00.000+07:00

Last few days I have a little stress about myself. I felt like a looser. I didn't have power to solve the problem. Last night when I was praying, I am remained myself that I must be strong, be kind, be confidence to solve that problem. Then when I woke up in the morning, I feel good. I am feel there is no problem with myself. Why? Cos I am sure there is many way to get better. Now I am ready with new motivation, to live better than yesterday.
Just to be a little dust in the world.

Self Confidence

2007-05-04T10:24:00.000+07:00

How to success? From many list that I have, self confidence is most important thing to be a successful person. Many people think they different with another. Ugly, stupid, jobless, poor, and many other words that become a reason to be not confidence. Nobody's perfect, many people says. Yes, we have to realize that no body perfect, they have weakness. Just be yourself. Respect yourself.

Positive Thinking

2007-05-04T09:29:00.000+07:00

Don't judge the book by its cover. Many people say that. What should we do with that?
Life is too short, so we must manage our time and our mind to create something nice. Mind is relevant with our healthy. I got a few point to manage our mind and healthy :

Positive thinking
Care with other people
Control your anger
Pray

That's the point. I just learning from myself cos I am a overprotected person. I am too careful with something. I am sensitive man, easy to be angry. Bad habit yeah.
Just little of me. :)

Education

2007-05-03T11:53:00.000+07:00

People need education, but most of them didn't realize how important is it. I won't talk about others country, just my country. Here, in Indonesia, education is still expensive. Government seems didn't have much concern about this. Many children didn't pass elementary school. There is many people who can't reading and writing. Education for other people is being a part of business. So, they can take advantage from there. No free government school here. Except scholarship program for excellent people.
How we can be a great country if there is no more concern about education? Just dream?

Writing article

2007-05-01T18:11:00.000+07:00

It's need skill to writing an article. We have to focus our mind with the idea that we have. Some people need to stay alone to get inspiration, some other doesn't need that. I could think that writing article is difficult, but other people say, "it's easy to write". The hardest way is to match your idea with your words. That what I am thinking about. We may feel something, but we can't write it. That a reason why in the world we don't have much good writer. People can write, but they can't be different with others.
The originality idea that we have write about, it's make we have different, special writer.
That's enough for this time. I have no idea to write again. :)

History of Jakarta

2007-04-28T13:27:00.000+07:00

Jakarta, the capital city of the Republic of Indonesia, is a special territory enjoying the status of a province, consisting of Greater Jakarta, covering an area of 637.44 square km. Located on the northern coast of West Java, it is the center of government, commerce and industry and as such has an extensive communications network with the rest of the country and the outside world. As Indonesia's main gateway, the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport serves a growing number of international airlines and domestic flights. Jakarta is a city of contrasts; the traditional and the modern, the rich and the poor, the sacral and the worldly, often stand side by side in this bustling metropolis. Even its population, gathered from all those diverse ethnic and cultural groups which compose Indonesia, are constantly juxtaposed as an ever- present reminder of the national motto; Unity in Diversity.

Finding its origin in the small early 16th century harbor town of Sunda Kelapa, Jakarta's founding is thought to have taken place on June 22, 1527, when it was re-named Jayakarta, meaning

Glorious Victory by the conquering Prince Fatahillah from neighboring Cirebon. The Dutch East Indies Company which captured the town and destroyed it in 1619, changed its name into Batavia and made it the center for the expansion of their power in the East Indies. Shortly after the outbreak of World War II, Batavia fell into the hands of the invading Japanese forces who changed the name of the city into Jakarta as a gesture aimed at winning the sympathy of the Indonesians.

The name was retained after Indonesia achieved national independence after the war's end.

The ethnic Jakartan called "Orang Betawi" speaks Betawi Malay, spoken as well in the surrounding towns such as Bekasi and Tangerang. This language has two variations: the conventional Betawi Malay and the modern Jakarta Malay. While the first is spoken by the elder people, born and bred in Jakarta, the second is spoken by the younger generation and migrants.

History of Bandung

2007-04-27T19:55:00.000+07:00

The map of Ancient Bandung as Pre-historical Lake.

The city history dates from 1488 when the first reference to Bandung exists. But from ancient archeological finds, we know the city was home to Australopithecus, Java Man. These people lived on the banks of the Cikapundung in north Bandung, and on the shores of the Great Lake of Bandung. Flint artifacts can still be found in the Upper Dago area and the Geological Museum has displays and fragments of skeletal remains and artifacts.

The Sundanese were a pastoral people farming the fertile regions of Bandung. They developed a lively oral tradition which includes the still practiced Wayang Golek puppet theatre, and many musical forms. "There is a city called Bandung, comprising 25 to 30 houses," wrote Juliaen de Silva in 1614.

The achievements of European adventurers to try their luck in the fertile and prosperous Bandung area, led eventually to 1786 when a road was built connecting Jakarta, Bogor, Cianjur and Bandung. This flow was increased when in 1809 Louis Napoleon, the ruler of the Netherlands, ordered Governor General H.W. Daendels, to increase defences in Java against English. The vision was a chain of military defense units and a supply road between Batavia and Cirebon. But this coastal area was marsh and swamp, and it was easier to construct the road further south, across the Priangan highlands.

The Grote Postweg (Great Post Road) was built 11 miles north of the then capital of Bandung. With his usual terseness, Daendels ordered the capital to be relocated to the road. Bupati Wiranatakusumah II chose a site south of the road on the western bank of the Cikapundung, near a pair of holy wells, Sumur Bandung, supposedly protected by the ancient goddess Nyi Kentring Manik. On this site he built his dalem (palace) and the alun-alun (city square). Following traditional orientations, Mesjid Agung (The Grand Mosque) was placed on the western side, and the public market on the east. His residence and Pendopo (meeting place) was on the south facing the mystical mountain of Tangkuban Perahu. Thus was The Flower City born.

Around the middle of the l9th Century, South American cinchona (quinine), Assam tea, and coffee was introduced to the highlands. By the end of the century Priangan was registered as the most prosperous plantation area of the province. In 1880 the rail line connecting Jakarta and Bandung was completed, and promised a 2 1/2 hour trip from the blistering capital in Jakarta to Bandung.

With this life changed in Bandung, hotels, cafes, shops sprouted up to serve the planters who either came down from their highland plantations or up from the capital to frolic in Bandung. The Concordia Society was formed and with its large ballroom was the social magnet for weekend activities in the city. The Preanger Hotel and the Savoy Homann were the hotels of choice. The Braga became the promenade, lined with exclusive Europeans shops.

With the railroad, light industry flourished. Once raw plantation crops were sent directly to Jakarta for shipment to Europe, now primary processing could be done efficiently in Bandung. The Chinese who had never lived in Bandung in any number came to help run the facilities and vendor machines and services to the new industries. Chinatown dates from this period.

In the first years of the present century, Pax Neerlandica was proclaimed, resulting in the passing of military government to a civilian one. With this came the policy of decentralization to lighten the administrative burden of the central government. And so Bandung became a municipality in 1906.

This turn of events left a great impact on the city. City Hall was built at the north end of Braga to accommodate the new government, separate from the original native system. This was soon followed by a larger scale development when the military headquarters was moved from Batavia to Bandung around 1920. The chosen site was east of City Hall, and consisted of a residence for the Commander in Chief, offices, barracks and military housing.

By the early 20's the need for skilled professionals drove the establishment of the technical high school that was sponsored by the citizens of Bandung. At the same time the plan to move the capital of the Netherlands Indies from Batavia to Bandung was already mature, the city was to be extended to the north. The capital district was placed in the northeast, an area that had formerly been rice fields, and a grand avenue was planned to run for about 2.5 kilometers facing the fabled Tangkuban Perahu volcano with Gedung Sate at the south end, and a colossal monument at the other. on both sides of this grand boulevard buildings would house the various offices of the massive colonial government.

Along the east bank of the Cikapundung River amidst natural scenery was the campus of the Technische Hoogeschool, dormitories and staff housing. The old campus buildings and its original landscaping reflect the genius of its architect Henri Maclain Pont. The southwestern section was reserved for the municipal hospital and the Pasteur Institute, in the neighborhood of the old quinine factory. These developments were carefully planned down to the architectural and maintenance details. These years shortly before World War II were the golden ones in Bandung and those alluded to today as Bandung Tempoe Doeloe.

The war years did little to change the city of Bandung, but in 1946, facing the return of the Colonial Dutch to Indonesia, citizens chose to burn down their beloved Bandung in what has become known as Bandung Lautan Api, Bandung Ocean of Fire. Citizens fled to the southern hills and overlooking the "ocean of flames" penned "Halo Halo Bandung," the anthem promising their return. Political unrest colored the early years of Independence and consequently people flocked to Bandung where safety was. The population skyrocketed from 230,000 in 1940 to 1 million by 1961. Economic prosperity following the oil boom in the 70's pushed this further so that by 1990 there were 2 million inhabitants.

Present day Bandung is thriving. As home to more than 35 schools of higher education, there is a vibrant collegiate atmosphere. The excellent fine arts offerings have produced an artist colony of great repute and excitement. The textile industry is the largest in the country and contributes to a vigorous business climate.

In 1987 the city extended its administrative boundaries toward a Greater Bandung Plan (Bandung Raya) Plans for the city include higher concentrations of development outside the current city centre, in an attempt to dilute some of the population density in the old core. These days Bandung Raya is still years ahead, yet the land has suffered deeply. Commercial activities run amok, God only knows who can take control. The city core is practically uprooted, old faces are torn down, lot sizes regrouped, and what was idyllic residence is now bustling chain supermarkets and rich banks.

Source: LSAI

Photo Invitation

2007-04-27T09:32:00.000+07:00

Kemarin waktu buka-buka email, eh saya baca tuh email dari mbak Jennie, salah satu isinya ngundang kita-kita neh yang kenal ma dia buat ngirimin foto aksi kita hehe. Ga taunya nama ai ada disitu, jadi mesti kirim-kirim nih. Tapi lum ada yang aksi nih. Ntar deh dicari dulu yang rada-rada culun, hehehe. Pingin nulis tiap hari susah yah, inspirasinya ga tiap hari dateng, apalagi kalo kerjaan numpuk, cape aja yang ada.
Hari ini lagi nyantai, jadi bisa nulis di blog deh. I am newbie, makanya lom banyak tulisan orisinal dari ai sendiri. Sambil belajar aja dari blogger yang lain, baca-baca artikelnya, sapa tau dapet inspirasi juga. Kan malu judulnya inspirasi tiap hari, tapi nulisnya banyak libur hehehe.
Nah gitu dulu deh, abis ini mw coba nulis dalam bahasa Inggris, biar orang bule bisa baca juga hehehe.

Trying to write in English

2007-04-24T17:52:00.000+07:00

Well, English language is the most popular language in the world. In this time, to join internet community we must learn to write and read in English. Okay, I will try it.

Darwinism’s Unscientific Formula by Harun Yahya

2007-04-20T10:19:00.000+07:00

Plentiful Muddy Water + A Long Time + Many Coincidences = Civilization

When the subject of evolution comes up, many people imagine that this is a scientific problem—and that for anyone less knowledgeable than scientists, Darwinism is impossible to understand. They assume it’s pointless to argue the issue, one way or the other. Indeed, Darwinists employ Latin words and scientific terms generally unfamiliar to the public in order to encourage this mistaken idea. They engage in complicated descriptions and frequently resort to demagoguery and hollow slogans in order to give the impression they are discussing a highly scientific matter.

In fact, however, Darwinism’s basic claim is completely unscientific, and its logical poverty is so obvious that even primary school age children can see it. According to Darwinism, in some unexplained manner, the first cell supposedly formed in the Earth’s primeval environment, in a pool of muddy water. And out of that single cell, a literally endless series of coincidences later gave rise to animals, plants, human beings and civilizations. In other words, all of mankind, as well as the entire plant and animal kingdoms, are supposedly the work of an ideal quantity of mud, a long period of time and plentiful coincidences.

One would have to lack any facility to understand and reason in order to believe that through coincidences, mud eventually gave rise to civilizations. Anyone capable of thinking and drawing appropriate conclusions can’t possibly be taken in by Darwinist errors.

According to Darwinists, who are suffering from an obvious logical deficiency, these materials, each one of which is unconscious, gave rise to human beings possessed of reason and conscience, who think, love, feel compassion, possess sound judgment, produce paintings and statues, compose symphonies, write novels, build skyscrapers, construct nuclear reactors, discover the causes of diseases and manufacture drugs to cure them, or engage in politics. They claim that when sufficient time had passed, lions, tigers, rabbits, deer, elephants, cats, dogs, moths, flies, crocodiles and birds all evolved by chance from muddy water.

A whole range of fruits and vegetables, with their own unique tastes and smells—oranges, strawberries, bananas, apples, grapes, tomatoes, peppers—flowers with their matchless appearances and other plants all emerged from that same mud. In short, ever since Darwin’s time, countless articles, papers, films, newspaper reports, magazine articles and television programs have repeated the evolutionist scenario in which all of life emerged by chance from mud.

In other words, if you ask a Darwinist “How did our civilization arise?” or, “How did such a wide range of life forms come into being?” or, “How did mankind come into existence?” the essential answer you will receive is this: Coincidences gave rise to all these things from mud, over the course of time.

The Darwinist scenario of “life emerging from mud” can no longer deceive people. Any rational person can immediately see the nonsensical premise of the theory of evolution.

One would doubtless need to be devoid of reason or lack any facility for understanding in order to believe such a tale. Yet surprisingly, that very irrational and illogical theory has had its adherents for many years and is still being propagated constantly under a scientific guise.

The Lies of Darwinism Have Been Unmasked

Scientific evidence has revealed that the “sequence” of equine evolution, long portrayed as one of the strongest pieces of evidence for evolution, is untrue—and wholly imaginary.

The theory of evolution, first proposed under the primitive conditions of the 19th century, has been disproved by advances in science and technology. It has been recognized that Darwin’s claims are totally unrealistic: Natural selection and mutations, cited as the mechanisms that drive the process of evolution, have no effects of the kind envisaged by Darwinists. In short, it is impossible for them to give rise to new species.

The final death blow to Darwinism was dealt by the fossil record. Darwin claimed that all the millions of different life forms had come into being through descent from a supposed single common ancestor.

In order for his claim to be verified, there should be traces in the fossil record—an irrefutable document of natural history—of this supposed primitive ancestor and of the various life forms that developed from it. For example, if all mammals were descended from reptiles, as evolutionists maintain, then there would have to be fossil remains of a series of half-mammalian, half-reptilian life forms.

To date, millions of fossils, belonging to a great many species, have been unearthed during excavations. Yet not a single one showing a transition between species has ever been found. Every fossil ever found shows that each living thing emerged suddenly, with all its characteristics complete. In other words, every species of plant and animal was created.

Confronted by this fact, evolutionists have resorted to various falsehoods. They have produced hoaxes—counterfeit, artificial fossils that have come to be regarded as disgraces to paleontology. They have tried to deceive the lay public by tampering with genuine fossils of extinct life forms and inventing a series of imaginary scenarios. One of the best known of them is the so-called “evolution of the horse.”

Fossils belonging to entirely different species that once lived in India, South America, North America and Europe were arranged in order of size—from small to large—in the light of evolutionist imaginations. So far, different researchers have come up with more than 20 different equine evolution scenarios. There is no agreement among them regarding all these completely different family trees. The one point they commonly agree upon is their belief that a dog-like creature known as Eohippus (or Hyracotherium) that lived in the Eocene epoch (54 to 37 million years ago) was the very first ancestor of today’s horses. However, Eohippus—portrayed as the ancestor of the horse and that became extinct millions of years ago—is almost identical to the present-day animal known as the hyrax, which looks nothing like a horse and is totally unrelated to that species.

Moreover, it has been established that breeds of horse living today have also been discovered in the same rock strata as Eohippus. (See Francis Hitching’s The Neck of the Giraffe: Where Darwin Went Wrong, New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1982, pp. 30-31.) This means that the horse and its supposed ancestor were both living at the same time, which proves that the horse never underwent any such process as evolution.

The invalidity of the “equine series” proposed by evolutionists also applies to birds, fish, reptiles and mammals, in short, to all living things, to their supposedly common ancestors and supposed family trees. It has been determined that every fossil species suggested as being the ancestor of some other living thing either belongs to an independent extinct life form or is the result of evolutionists tampering with fossils of the species in question.

Darwinism has been exposed as the most wide-ranging and astonishing deception in the world’s history. That millions have been taken in by this deception, as if hypnotized, and have been influenced by all of Darwinism’s illogical claims, is truly miraculous. The support lent to the theory of evolution and the acceptance it has enjoyed up to now are the result of tricks played on mankind by satan, who urges vast numbers of people towards Darwinism.

Until recently, no one had the courage to unmask this ruse of satan’s and to publicize the true facts. But in the present century, the response to this deception has finally been laid out in full detail, and the public has been made fully aware of the state of affairs. By the will of God, the collapse of Darwinism has advanced beyond any point of recovery. Indeed, that is the fundamental reason for the panic in the Darwinian global empire.

Source: www.harunyahya.com

1906 San Francisco earthquake

2007-04-18T12:35:00.000+07:00

San Francisco lies in ruins on May 28, 1906, about six weeks after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The photo was taken from a camera suspended on a kite 2,000 feet above the city. It is one of the most well-known photographs of George R. Lawrence. The tower of the Ferry Building can be seen at the bay end of Market Street, which can be clearly seen all the way to the foothills of Twin Peaks. The water in the foreground is San Francisco Bay, with the Golden Gate to the right, rear. Photo credit: George R. Lawrence
www.wikipedia.org

Mindset Sukses: Jalur Cepat Menuju Kebebasan Finansial

2007-04-11T07:49:00.000+07:00

Akhirnya, …..

Saya dapat email hari ini, dari Jennie S. Bev bahwa e-book gratisnya sudah bisa didownload. Saya copy kan emailnya yah….

Silakan masuk ke blognya yah. Ada di blogroll sebelah kanan.

http://www.jennieforindonesia.com/

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2007-04-10T14:38:00.000+07:00

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