ReBorn

Several days ago, I post something concerning household, specifically about table lamp (see my post at November 26th). Today, I’ll talk concerning household again. If you asked me, why posting about household? Maybe I just want to get married and take care of my own house. *lol* hahaha, I’m just kidding.
Back to the topic, one thing that you should have to beautify your house is Rugs. When you talk about rugs, you should check Superior Rugs. Here, one can get the best possible area rugs at very effective inexpensive price. One can get the best as well as Cheap Rugs with superior quality. If you are not sure what you are looking for just give they a call anytime to ask how to buy a Rug. A rug should harmonize with a room’s decor and bring everything together. The most powerful decorative component in setting the mood of a room is color. Therefore, the color scheme you choose for your rug is also very important.
Another factor why you should check Superior Rugs is because Superior Rugs have many different shapes; rectangular, oval, round, and runners are just to name a few. Why rug shape is important? Remember, you should measure which rug is better with the space you have. Also keep in mind that the easiest way to liven up a room or hide that dingy carpet is with a beautiful area rug.
They also had the experience; Superior Rugs have been standing and manufacturing high quality area rugs for over 20 years and stand behind every area rug they sell. Superior Rugs is a division of Superior Importers Co, one of the biggest manufacturers of Oriental Rugs and Persian Area rugs in and around the world. Most online web sites only back their rugs for 15 days; however Superior Rugs backs all our area rugs for a full 30 days plus an additional 60 days for manufacturer defects.
So, what you’re waiting for? Just headed to the Superior Rugs, a great place to buy Rugs.

I just realize today that after living in South Korea for about 3 months, but I only shared a few about this country (including stupid video of me and my friend playing at subway.. hehehe ). And because of that, starting today, I’ll try to share more. Okay, the first one is about Subway Transportation System.

Korean Subway, especially Seoul Metropolitan Subway, considered as one of the most heavily used rapid transit system in the world, Seoul Metro itself, consist of 11 different lines, and 2 more is under construction. If you wondering how big it is, this is the map of the Seoul Metro.

I usually used Seoul Metro Line 1 to go to The Indonesian Embassy near Daebang Station. For further information about the subway, please see Wikipedia.

Seoul Metro is very convenience, the information shows in three different languages: English, Korean and Chinese.

They also have some indicator that shows the current positions of the Train.

red means the station already passed, and green for the upcoming stations.

I really hate being in this kind of situation. Please, why people always really want to get involved in other people business!!
urus aja urusan lo sendiri!!

Need to repair your house? Or just need lamps for your room? I think you should check this out. Farrey’s is a store in which you can purchase household electrical appliances such as ceiling fans, kitchenware, Lighting, ventilation equipment, door wear and bath equipment.

With over 84 years of experience business, Farrey’s prides itself in providing high quality products and professional service to home builders and homeowners alike. One of their most famous products is lighting fixtures for both indoor (for example: desk lamps) and outdoor (lanterns) use.

The good news is they have online shop for their product now. Farreys.com offers an easy way to shop. You may shop by light fixture brand or by light fixture application or by style. Their lighting product search tool quickly helps find the perfect lights for your application. In my case, they found great deal on table lamps with iPod speaker.

I know this song about two weeks ago in my Korean language class. This song was really fun!! I think I’m addicted to it, because the song keep repeated on and on in my mind *lol*

This is the lyrics (from http://cix.co.kr/), Enjoy!!:

Last month I was participating on a youth camp in Kwangju, and the camp was talking about Climate Changes Effects on our life and environment. And in the end of the camp we talking about what solutions could we do. One of them is self-action based, like reduce our CO2 production by using bicycle to work or plant more trees. Come to think of it, I haven’t done any of those two. Using bicycle at this temperature is quite impossible for me, so the other option is plant more trees. But how can I do this? I only live in a small dormitory in our campus.

I was still confused until I read about Planter. Planter is a box or pot for plants, usually large and standing on the floor also known as a “jardinière”. With planter I can plant some little trees, and put them in my room. So I start searching about planter and ended up in here.

I think this site is very helpful, because they sold any kind of planters, like indoor planters, outdoor planters, garden planters, decorative planters, even window box planters. I think the most suitable for my dormitory room is one kind of Indoor Planters like this one:

With this planter I can create my own indoor garden.

After considering some reasons..
yang tentunya tidak perlu dijelaskan disini
akhirnya, memutuskan untuk..

menghapus account plurk saya..

yah, sekian kisah saya didunia Plurk, i’m officially
put my life, off the line :p

I just read an article about Indonesian Football National Team, or more known as “Timnas”… *sigh*…
the title was: “Dipermak Myanmar, Indonesia Gagal Juara”. The story was about result of Final Match Grand Royal Challenge 2008 between Indonesia and Myanmar…, it’s just like small competition in South East Asia. Sadly Indonesia Lost in the final…
And then, I start wondering about “Timnas”…

Back in 70’s Indonesia was a major power team in South East Asia, Competing really hard with Thailand to be the number one… but now, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam seems better by far… Indonesia is more like second class team, in South East Asia! not even in Asia,, just, what the heck are the Football Association do?? Ah, yeah, I forgot, they didn’t even have a leader!!
*sigh*

Fighting Against Corruption with Cultural Reformation

Ahmad Zamakhsyari Sidiq
Informatics Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung
ahmad.zamakhsyari@gmail.com
+62-8170242322

Indonesia is one of the countries in the world where corruption is widespread and has become a significant contributor to the fragility of the country’s economy. In 2007, Indonesia ranked 143rd and improved to ranks 126th in 2008 in the 2008 perception of corruption index according to Transparency International.
The government shows the willingness to fight against Corruption by established a state Commission to Combat Corruption (KPK) based on a national legislation. After the establishment of KPK, Anti-corruption prosecutions are having some effect. But Indonesia is still far from “corruption-free-state”, because the real problem is Indonesian people’s way of thinking. Indonesian people have lived in corrupted system since the VOC is still on the charge. Corruption is very common so people would think something like bribery as everyday things.
We have to stop the spreading of this “Culture” called corruption to the next generation. In order to stop this from spreading and becoming “culture” in the youth, we should do some cultural reformation. What kind of cultural reformation? As simple as the famous quote from Aa Gym: “Start from ourselves, Start from the simple things, Start now”.
Start from eliminating the simple kind of corruption like cheating on the exam, cut the lines, cut the traffic light, or bribing for driving license. Start from ourselves, trying to live by the rules and obey them and start from now.
This message has one vital point. That is Self-Integrity. Indonesian people now lack of self-integrity. It shows on how law and policy can be easily ignored with some rupiahs.
These acts is also aimed to bring back the social awareness about law enforcement because the problem wasn’t only the system, but mostly on the people run the system.

Keyword: self-integrity, corruption, cultural reformation, Indonesia, youth

Shopping online can really time consuming even annoying sometimes, especially for people like me who rarely shop online. Luckily, I found this site. This site is really helpful, because it works as search engine as Google do, but only for Online Stores.

For example, I want to search some winter coat (clearly because winter is approaching now, Brrr…) and they will show me tons of online stores that sell winter coat. I can choose some specification too, like color, brand, and price.

But the best advantage we can get is the ability to compare products just in one click! We also can see all stores that sell the product with just one query entry. Not only that, they also provide the possibility for us to make a review to any product, such as pets. So it is like combining the power of Google and Wiki at the same site. In short, you can compare online stores and get products review from other consumers at the same time

This is the Article I sent to the AYCC committee for the 2008 AYCC Book:

Short Brief of AYCC

Asian Youth Culture Camp (AYCC) held by The Office for Hub City of Asian Culture, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Republic of Korea, and this 2008 AYCC is the 3rd AYCC. For this 3rd AYCC, The Office for Hub City of Asian Culture, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism collaborated with Gwangju International Center, United Nations Environment Program National Committee for the Republic of Korea (UNEP) and Chonnam National University as the host.
The participant came from Cambodia, China, Denmark, Indonesia (including me ), India, South Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Tanzania divided into seven group. The camp was held from October 30th to November 2nd, 2008 and divided into three group discussion session, one group presentation and a mission impossible. Even before we actually meet each other, we already involved in the online discussion. I think the idea was brilliant, because we need some kind of “warm-up” before the camp because the participant comes from various academic backgrounds.

The Camp

In the first discussion session, we asked to present about individual proposal that we made before the camp. So after some short introduction we started to present each proposal. I tried to address an issue about one of my country’s World Heritages that endangered by Climate Changes, that is the Komodo National Park, home of the unique Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis). The proposals from other participant were very interesting and have unique point of view. In the second session the observer from AYCC committee give us a topic to discuss. We only have short time for the discussion but we can freely expressing our idea. And as the discussion go on in my group, we talk more about damage on World Cultural Heritages and the causes.
The last intra-group session was to summarize the previous discussions. Its quite tough discussion because too many things to consider while so little time we had. But that is the challenges of discussion. And I’m really nervous because every move was taped by television broadcaster (I didn’t remember the name, maybe it’s Arirang).
The discussion in our group consume so much time, so we didn’t have the time to create the report. As the solution we take some times from our sleep time to finishing the report.
The next day, we had rare opportunity to joined 2008 Asian Culture Forum which was organized by Korea’s Global TV Arirang and hosted by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism at Hotel Ramada Plaza Kwangju. It is invited many fantastic speakers from good organizations like Director of Liverpool Biennale (United Kingdom) and Director of National Art Center, Tokyo (Japan).
After the Asia Culture Forum, we return to Chonnam University and we gathered at the hall to present the group report. My group presenter was Chang Min and he did great job for us, even we receive The Best Team Award. In order to refresh our mind, we go to eat dinner together and play some Korean game. I really like the time when we playing together, because it shows that there is no barrier between us.
Last day was an outdoor trip called “The Mission Impossible”. All participants were assigned into new groups so each of us can interact more among participants. Each group has different mission to accomplish and after the first mission at Kwangju Biennale, All groups were separated to different places. And my team got the Kwangju River Bike Mission. We had to take the Bike tour, take pictures as evidence of task completion and draw a map of Kwangju River. I feel so lucky to get this mission because I love riding a bike and Kwangju River is really nice place for biking and jogging. Kwangju River can be a perfect example for riverside management. Not only provide clean river but also a place for entertainment. We also had lunch in Korean traditional restaurant (really old one, just like in the countryside of Korea). I really had a great time during “The Mission Impossible” task.
Closing Ceremonies
Every group presented their travel time by showing some pictures taken at the mission with short explanation. And then winner announcement held followed by music performances. I really happy because both of my group get “The Best Team Award” (Presentation group and Tour group).
Suggestion
Overall, the camp is a huge success. The participants had valuable experiences of working with together on environmental issues and exchange our cultures. I have some suggestion for future camp. It is not about the camp itself, but the promotion and post-camp actions.
I think for the next camp the promotion should be more incessant. In order to bring more youth to experience the great time in the camp. Independent website definitely needed to maintain the post-camp actions and maintain the relations between the participants. This is also easing the participant candidates to review about previous camp. Last but not least, I hope AYCC will hold again next year.

Hmm.. lately, there’s one song keep repeating inside my head..
and i don’t even know why.. hahaha..
wierd huh?

anyway, this is the song..

kemaren kami berempat (mike, unggul, mas sidum, megan) berangkat ke KRBI karena ada syukuran/selametan staff KBRI yang akan melaksanakan ibadah haji, kalau kata megan mah, walimatussafar..

acara berlangsung dengan lancar dan tertib (baca: kenyang )

nah, yang seru pas kita pulang..
saya dan megan yang merasa kurang kerjaan..
melakukan beberapa “aksi”:

Attempt no 1:

Attempt no 2:

yah, sekian saja.. hehehe

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Don’t try this at home!! Try this at subway line, it’s really fun!

2.3  Change of Sea Level

The increasing of the mean temperature causes the melting of polar ice caps. The mean sea level in the Jakarta Bay will increase as high as 0.57 centimeters (cm) per year [1].