The last two days news was mainly about Rompuy and Karzai, the EU President and the president of Afghanistan.
The Belgian is “well known as a consensus builder,” said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who added the selection was unanimous. And Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission — the executive arm of the EU — called Van Rompuy’s selection “a tribute to Belgium,” the EU’s host country. Strangely, another news said that Rompuy was a “reluctant” prime minister of Belgium. One also said that it was an unexpected first President of the European Union.
Meanwhile, Afghanistan inaugurated Hamid Karzai in a full tension ceremony. The ceremony is fraught with potential danger and will be held inside the presidential palace with tight restrictions on who is allowed in. Even journalists are banned from the actual ceremony. Since an assassination attempt on Mr. Karzai at a public parade in 2008, he has stayed away from large public appearances. The government has declared Thursday a national holiday and has asked people to stay home to minimize traffic on the capital’s clogged roads, while regular flights to and from Kabul airport will be cancelled for the day. A number of neighbourhoods in Kabul have been closed completely to traffic, with exceptions made for ambulances. Helicopters circled the city Wednesday.
Let’s hope all the best for them for a better world.
aku ada di balik tegarnya dinding
pertemuan ketika kedua mata ini tak berkedip
yang mengingatkanku akan peliknya waktu
saat dimana aku tak berkutik dan berkuasa
akan pertanyaan-pertanyaan kehidupan
yang tampaknya biasa
pun sekarang
ku di sini kau di sana
sambil mengharap selamat tinggal
yang kita ingin sepakat katakan
ketahuilah,
sampai seluruh angin pun tahu
bahwa penundaan bukanlah solusi
kerasnya waktu harus kita arungi, sendiri
tanpa harus saling bergandeng berpadu
tetapi aku sedang duduk diam
bersama baris puisi ini
yang tak sudi tuk diakhiri
In fact, Singapore is not that boring as I usually think. It’s about whether we can to see and find a big thing inside a small little thing. Singapore has only malls, some parks, but no mountain, no beautiful beach but we can always create warmth everywhere, right? In the middle of boredom of taking a walk in malls or having no time to travel around parks, having a supper with our close friends (or with not so close friends then become closer after supper) is one thing. There are numerous places or such hawker centers in Singapore which we can eat for 24/7. Even, when you don’t have time to go there but you have many friends around and no food to eat, you can just call 67773777. It proves me that McD is the saviour for the hungry stomach. Last but not least, I wanna share one funny video about supper.
ketika tunas ini tumbuh
serupa tubuh yang mengakar
setiap nafas yang terhembus adalah kata
angan, debur, dan emosi
bersatu dalam jubah terpautan
tangan kita terikat
lidah kita menyatu
maka apa terucap adalah sabda pendita ratu
ah…di luar itu pasir
di luar itu debu
hanya angin meniup saja
lalu terbang hilang tak ada
tapi kita tetap menari
menari, cuma kita yang tahu
jiwa ini tandu
maka duduk saja
maka akan kita bawa semua
karena kita adalah satu
by : Rako Prijanto
I think it’s important to extend the “heaven” to the older generation. As my friend said, older is wiser seemed to be true yesterday. I had a chance to have a dinner and (a cheap chic) coffee time in Old Town White Coffee (Jurong Point) with some staffs from Esther Network last night. The obvious difference lies on the conversation topic itself. They don’t talk about PDKT, career after graduation, or school work, but it was a higher level of them instead i.e. matchmaking, career in Indonesia, and the complexity of life. For example, they talked about matching some partners (I was just silent and listening and pretended not listening but I know who they were, LoL), then even about the view of a Christian in their mailing list who viewed that those working in Indonesia had a lower class (and one of the staff criticized it and emotionally argued) and lastly about the female doctor in Mt. Alvernia Hospital who was in comma because of brain cancer for three years but her husband hasn’t had the willingness to let her go with the consideration of their two little children.
Hmm… however, I was grateful to have those conversations with them in the middle of exam stressfulness. At least, I know that sometimes I’m not wise enough in thinking the simple thing. Moreover, I could catch a glimpse of how the oldies live actually.
mengapa Tuhan mempertemukan kita?
engkau membelah antara dua
dunia yang sebenarnya tak harus ada
tangan-tangan besi di seberangmu
cahaya-cahaya harap di sebelah kananmu
namun engkau tetap diam
sekaligus mengalirkan perahu-perahu
yang hilir mudik menyapamu
Marc Sageman, the CENS distinguished visiting fellow of RSIS has been in Singapore in three weeks time and this “The Turn to Political Violence” public lecture was his last lecture held in NTU. Having read his biography, in fact, he used to work in CIA and what came to mind was the secret agency that kind of thing. However, my assumption was somewhat correct, may be. It seems that he uses this “secret agency” facility in his research, which was exactly delivered today.
The public lecture this afternoon was a little bit theoretical, I guess. It mainly talked about what happened in Europe especially how actually the extremist and anarchist who mostly are the Muslim immigrants from South Asia (Pakistan) were formed in Europe. He mentioned that actually the violence was rooted by the flaw in the society itself. The discrimination and rejection felt by the immigrants had created the solid and exclusive group of those immigrants. Then, there were crazy ideas from that group to create chaos, terrors, anarchy, and problems in the society as their expression of that rejection and those social disorders they create can of course influence the political stability in a country. This lecture is basically his research result. Till now, I wonder how he got all of the information. Well, he’s a CIA though. He had a thousand way, I guess.
I think the lecture was quite interesting. It’s not only about the knowledge of what he said but also about how rejections and discrimination are killing someone’s heart and mind and can turn someone to be vengeful. Besides, there’s possibility for those rejected and discriminated people to harm the society. Well, thanks Mr. Sageman.
Shitsureishimasu
Konichiwa
Yoroshiku onegaishimasu
Watashiwa Septian Budi Waluyan desu
Senkowa butsuri to oyo butsuri gaku desu
Okuniwa dochira desuka?
Indonesia desu
Sorewa enpitsu desu, hon desu, borupen desu
X-san wa doko desu ka?
X-san wa koko/soko/asoko desu
Sorewa dokono ketai denwa desuka?
Nihon no ketai denwa desu
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Hers :
First, the editorial staffs have a gathering to devide each assignment. They will get different assignment to write the article. In the other hand, article also can be written by contributors and the staffs will give deadline for each submission. After that, the articles will be submitted to the editors ( lecturers) and they have to type it. Next, the article which has typed will be submitted to the layoutman. And he will make the suit design. After it, he’ll print it and see if there are some mistakes or not. After this, the article will be sent to the publisher to publish it
Mine :
First, the staffs gather to split up the writing tasks where each staff will write the different topic. Besides, the articles can also be written by the contributors and the staffs will set the deadline for each submission. After that, the typed articles will be checked and edited by the lecturers in terms of grammar and vocabulary. Then, the edited article will be passed to the layout manager who will design the layout of the magazine. The draft of the magazine will be printed and will be rechecked in case there are some grammatical errors or spelling and layout mistakes. Having been confirmed that there is no problem, finally, the soft copy of the magazine will be sent to the publisher to be published.
cinta bagai teka-teki
muncul dalam banyak sandi
cobalah artikan dengan sepenuh hati
bisa saja sampai mati
kita masih terus mencari
menemukan arti cinta adalah misteri
Saya sangat nggak setuju dengan konsep PDKT karena PDKT itu aneh. Pernah suatu ketika saya capek PKDT. Well, it really sounds strange dan pas crita ma seorang temen, dia juga ngomong aneh ke saya. Bagaimanapun juga, saya mulai sekarang benar-benar ingin hidup dalam idealisme bahwa I’m sick of PDKT. Menurut saya, those who PDKT itu adalah para orang-orang yang terjebak dalam sistem dunia.
Dulu, saya berpikir kalau cinta itu bisa dipaksakan, dan ternyata anggapan saya itu salah. Saya sudah jatuh dan gagal dalam tiga kali relationship yang more or less saya yakin kalau saya terlalu memaksakannya. So, selama ini, selama dua puluh tahun ini, hanya 1 cinta yang masih membekas dari saya yaitu cinta sejak SMP dan mungkin sampai beberapa tahun yang lalu, tetapi saya rasa, rasa ini masih ada dalam diri saya bahkan sampai sekarang ini. Dan PR saya sekarang yang cukup berat adalah bagaimana get over dari si dia ini tanpa mencari pelarian seperti yang selama ini saya lakukan. Bagaimanapun, waktu itu, cinta tumbuh secara perlahan seiring dengan waktu yang berjalan. Satu kepengurusan, bercanda dan ketawa bareng, ketawa bareng, pesta bareng, dan gila-gilaan bareng adalah hal yang sungguh tak bisa dilupakan dan cinta benar-benar bisa tumbuh waktu itu, secara normal. Tapi memang ada susahnya, yaitu rasanya susah hilang >.<
Saya benar-benar ingin hidup dalam idealisme bahwa dari teman, sahabat, pacar, istri adalah fase-fase yang sangat comfortable. Ada yang salah ketika kita kenal cewek sebulan lalu nembak dia jadi pacar, menurut saya ini sangat bodoh sekali (walaupun pernah saya lakukan tetapi at least saya belajar banyak dari situ bahwa itu salah dan tidak mau mengulanginya lagi). Tetapi, masalahnya sekarang adalah masalah umur yang mungkin nanti semakin tua dan masih jomblo sendiri ataupun setelah menghadapi dunia kerja yang kesempatannya sedikit sekali untuk mengenal dan bersahabat dengan lawan jenis.
Well, saya tidak tahu selama apa saya akan bertahan dalam idealisme ini. Yang pasti, matchmaking, blind date, online dating de el el adalah sampah. Karena pasangan hidup itu lebih dari pemuas nafsu or whatever you call it, melainkan teman hidup yang menjadi partner kita dalam glorify His name. Satu lagi, yang pasti, dengan sembari yakin, bahwa Tuhan sendirilah yang memberi, yang memberi kesempatan dan yang mengatur pasangan hidup kita. Omnia Vincit Amor.
aku hanya sinar yang melintas sekedip
bagai kuman-kuman kecil dan engkau
sayap-sayap yang meranggas seusai
sekepak kau mengudara membawa hatiku semua
kita tiada kata yang terlambat tercipta
yang semestinya tak terjadi dan cinta
ialah rasa yang pertama dan terakhir
tuk merangkum kerinduan kepasrahan dan maafku
tuk semua yang terlambat kulakukan
tuk semua yang tak sanggup kujanjikan
tuk semua
lama kucoba memandang jejak kaki kita tanpa sesal
menerimamu tanpa aku mengerti
indahnya arti hari ini
tanpa harapanku kembali
kesemua yang tak sempat kuungkapkan
kesemua yang tak tepat kukatakan
yang tak usai kujalani
yang tak ingin kuingkari
I have shouted this since about three years ago that I really hate exam hints. How come some lecturer gave us some obvious questions which may appear on the exam? I admit that it really helps in revision. However, I like Oxford system where the exam paper is not made by the lecturer. Instead, they have some faculty members who set the exam papers. So, the students really study all materials and they study for life, not merely for grade. This morning, I was quite upset in class where suddenly the 300 students were quiet by the time the lecture said about some materials which will come out in exam. Student oh student ! Lecturer oh lecturer ! NTU oh NTU !
My Family calls it resoles instead of risoles. However, I miss this food >.<
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
