Its a busy weeks for me, because im having exam.
Huff luckily i've read notes pieces by pieces a week before.
Some said "Repetition is king"
Well, this time i'll going to prove it.
Btw, actually i already have drafts for another blogpost, but still...
Due to the exam, it should be postponed untill this weekend.
Well, happy waiting then.
Senin, 11 Juni 2012
Sabtu, 02 Juni 2012
Greek Coffee
Greek coffee, I don't know about it until I saw it on the supermarket shelves. I forgot about the price, I think its below $10 for this size (500 grams).
Price came first for buying preference hehehe...
In spite curiosity also.
So, how to enjoy it? The is instruction on back side of the packing, enjoy not by brewing it with a hot water, but boil it with a Briki (a small pot). Add water, sugar and coffee on a pot and then put it on a stove until its boiling.
The texture of the coffee powder is fine grinded.
This is what a kind of Briki looks like.
This is what a kind of Briki looks like.
Hows bout taste?
The taste is actually shocking! It tastes bold like chocolate as my first impression. If you ever tried Balinese Coffee, both taste quite similar.
After consumes it many times, I can taste the sour of the bean, but its not as strong as the choco-taste.
For the best sip experience, I recommend you to add less sugar on it.
Happy sipping! ☕
NB: One thing that I've learned from brewing this coffee is that should be keep in mind if you want to buy a coffee, try to buy it in small amount, although its more expensive. Why?
Because the more you bought lot amount of coffee, the more you drink it like an ordinary beverages. Sipping coffee is not like that, it is a lifestyle and there's a ritual inside it.
Because the more you bought lot amount of coffee, the more you drink it like an ordinary beverages. Sipping coffee is not like that, it is a lifestyle and there's a ritual inside it.
Sabtu, 26 Mei 2012
Melbourne Street Festival (Kartini's Day) 2012
Kartini's day is a day where Indonesia celebrate the birth day of Kartini, Indonesia's emancipation heroine. The celebration is held every 21st of April.
In Melbourne, Kartini's day is celebrated in a different manner like in Indonesia. 29 April 2012 was hold Indonesia Street Festival. The event was held in Queen Victoria market, Melbourne.
How to understand a culture in an quick way? By a culinary experience.
Stands sell foods like sate, Empek-empek and beverages like Teh Tarik.
Visitors seems very exited with sate by the Indonesia Moslem Community Victoria, lots of people queue to get their order.
There were also other fellow southeast Asian countries like Malaysia and Singapore presenting Nasi Lemak and Chicken Rice.
Theres also a live performance on stage. When I first arrived, the sound mixer was playing Mulan Jameela :p
When somebody does a performance, he sang an english pop song.
When I was walking around, I saw a advertisement of Indonesia Satay Festival for couple of weeks ahead.
Well, you just wait for the coverage from me. :)
And the post has finished (hell yeah!) See the post through this link .
Minggu, 15 April 2012
Questionnaire Publication II: The Tiger of Asia
How to measure country
development level is by compare it with other country.
This blog is the
second part from the “Questionnaire Publication”
The Tiger
of Asia.
I think
every magazine always compare countries in Asia,
“Here is
the tiger of Asia”
“Here is
rising tiger of Asia”
“This was
the tiger of Asia”
I think
that there is three ways for any country to become the tiger of Asia,
First is to
have a strong-semi authoritarian government, or
second, has willingness to step further or
third, do both.
If we
monitor Southeast Asia, all the great 3 countries (Thailand, Malaysia and
Singapore) have strong-semi authoritarian government. Although Thailand was shaken
by the red-shirt movement to shake the current prime minister, Thailand’s monarchy stand still and with the military forces backed up. In case of Malaysia’s government,
it’s dominated by the UMNO.
Both
Malaysia and Singapore is backed up with Internal Security Act that allows the
police to arrest person or a group up to 30 days (Singapore) or 60 days
(Malaysia), to counter any Coup
de etat or terrorism action. Seems that’s not humane, but that’s country
prerogative.
Those southeast
Asian countries has semi-authoritarian government and succeeded lead the nation
as the tigers of (southeast) Asia.
One “happening”
country is South Korea, from Kimchi to LG, south Korean product, food and lifestyle
is everywhere. What happened to South Korea today is not happened in the blink
of an eye.
South Korea is one
of the victim of the cold war, it’s also been into dictatorship government under
Syngman Rhee (The First Republic), The Second Republic and The Military Rule
lead by Park Chung-hee.
The third republic
established populist program in economy extended its governance up to the fourth
republic but then his government went corrupt and after 18 years, he was
murdered by Kim Jae-kyu, ended also the military rule in the fourth republic.
The fifth
republic still marked with protest, political unrest and house detention for
the opposition leader, started with Coup de etat on the current prime minister
by Chun Doo-hwan in 1979. His government promised new era of economic and
democratic justice, marked by the rise of South Korea’s economy, but also widen
the gap between the rich and poor.
The fifth republic
success marked by Asian Games 1986.
Remember back
that the fifth republic was build from Coup de etat, it means that the
government is still based on military government, not civilian. And again,
another protest occurred caused by the Gwangju Massacre in 1987.
June 1987 marked
the rise of the Republic of South Korea lead by Roh Tae-woo.
This status still
remains until now.
1988 Olympic game
was held in Seoul, after Roh Tae-woo step down, Kim Yong-sam was the first
civilian president since 30 years, he did many breakthrough in economy and law,
took former president Cun and Roh to court for bribery.
South Korea also
suffered from the 1998 economic crisis,
as a great challenge for the new president, Kim Dae-jung. The government
is doing aggresive effort in investment attracting, gold-collecting campaign
and industry cooperation. South Korea succeeded out of the crisis in a relative
short time.
In Kim’s era,
industrial reconstruction with the big conglomerates were pursued, the national
health system was introduce, education reform was introduced and the IT field
is increased. 2002 cooperate south Korea with Japan as host for FIFA World Cup.
Roh Moo-hyun took
the presidential chair in 2002, hee is succeeded to settling Korea-USA FTA
issue and launch the high-speed train system. But then he was accused in
corruption and bribery. Korean stock market was rose, but the unemployment and
the housing prices were also high.
The lawsuit ended
when he commit suicide in 2009.
Until now, the
president of South Korea is Lee Myung-bak.
(Source and summarized from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_South_Korea)
What can we learn
from South Korea’s history?
- South Korea also have the dictatorship and military era.
- What determine South Korea is that they has the continuity in its economic policy (strong government determination since 1960 until now), although each government era was the opposition that took place.
- The suppressive power cannot hold the people, corrupt government will force the people of South Korea to have another demonstration.
Sabtu, 14 April 2012
Questionnaire Publication
I prefer to write it in English so I can reach more reader to read, reflect or took ideas from this blog.
After I’m done doing a mini research from Facebook, the question is about “Why Indonesia is least developed, compare to other countries, which internal factor that respondent think that has greatest impact to the underdevelopment of Indonesia”
From the questionnaire result above we can see that:
In English, the result translated like this:
1. 0 respondent (0%) answer “the public official is lack of professionalism”
2. 0 respondent (0%) answer “the president is always rhetorical, no action”
3. 2 respondents (22.2%) answer “the parliament is useless”
4. 2 respondents (22.2%) answer “there is no intelligent person that can lead the nation”
5. 3 respondents (33.3%) answer “systematic corruption is everywhere, the law system is disorder”
6. 1 respondent ( 11.1%) answer “it was meant to be”
7. 0 respondent (0%) answer “the dark cycle of parties money politics”
8. 0 respondent (0%) answer “terrorism”
9. 1 respondent (11.1%) answer “cultural issue”
This survey has flaws, first, it is not represent the opinion from the Indonesian, it only catch 9 respondent from number of respondents that writers think he/she is active enough in Facebook (check his/her account).
The second flaw is that this survey provided by Facebook has limited questions that can be asked, a good survey should ask respondent in systematic way.
From this questionnaire we cannot conclude any clear argument, “what caused the ‘chaos’ in Indonesia?”
If I participated in this questionnaire, I would love to blame the president for all the mess now.
This writing continue to another blog, “Questionnaire Publication II: The Tiger of Asia”
After I’m done doing a mini research from Facebook, the question is about “Why Indonesia is least developed, compare to other countries, which internal factor that respondent think that has greatest impact to the underdevelopment of Indonesia”
From the questionnaire result above we can see that:
In English, the result translated like this:
1. 0 respondent (0%) answer “the public official is lack of professionalism”
2. 0 respondent (0%) answer “the president is always rhetorical, no action”
3. 2 respondents (22.2%) answer “the parliament is useless”
4. 2 respondents (22.2%) answer “there is no intelligent person that can lead the nation”
5. 3 respondents (33.3%) answer “systematic corruption is everywhere, the law system is disorder”
6. 1 respondent ( 11.1%) answer “it was meant to be”
7. 0 respondent (0%) answer “the dark cycle of parties money politics”
8. 0 respondent (0%) answer “terrorism”
9. 1 respondent (11.1%) answer “cultural issue”
This survey has flaws, first, it is not represent the opinion from the Indonesian, it only catch 9 respondent from number of respondents that writers think he/she is active enough in Facebook (check his/her account).
The second flaw is that this survey provided by Facebook has limited questions that can be asked, a good survey should ask respondent in systematic way.
From this questionnaire we cannot conclude any clear argument, “what caused the ‘chaos’ in Indonesia?”
If I participated in this questionnaire, I would love to blame the president for all the mess now.
This writing continue to another blog, “Questionnaire Publication II: The Tiger of Asia”
Sabtu, 07 April 2012
Excellanc Armband Uhr Kunden Bewertung
Es ist schon lange Geschichte, ich glaube es noch relevant.
2009 bis 2010, Wenn ich in Deutschland geblieben, ich interessiere mich für eine Armband Uhr kaufen. Zuerst gücke ich Geschäfte, die Fossil Armband Uhr verkaufen. Schade, es kostet mehr als €60.
Währen die Zeit läuft, vergeße ich mein Ziel, Armband Uhr einzukaufen.
Und wenn ich in meine Souvenir laden eingetreten, das Geschäft steht gegenseitige von Berliner Dome, zufällig sehe ich eine Armband Uhr. Das Modell passt mir gut, mit Analoganzeige.
Jetzt habe ich eine Armband Uhr in Berlin gekauft, der Name ist Excellanc. Es kostet nur €5.
Was für mich wichtig ist, bis jetzt es noch funktioniert ist! Es ist schon zwei Jahren von Einkauf Zeit!
Der Akku ist noch nicht leer. Ich hab die einmal gefallen, und das Glas ist hat klein Gebrochen und es ist noch funktioniert.
Hier ist das letzte Bild.
Wow! Eine €5 Armband uhr geht noch bis heute.
Von 0 bis 5, meine Kunden Bewertung ist 10!
PPIA Victoria Gathering 2012
Most abroad students like to meet and greet their fellow country students, and students from some countries has a creativity, created a group to coordinate, meet, sharing and other activities.
Yup, human is an social creature, although abroad is an individual-culture countries, we still like to meet individual from same country, language and city. Around weeks ago I'm lucky to have a quick view (sorry, only a quick view) in one of their gathering activity, the community name is PPIA Victoria (Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia Australia cabang Victoria) or in English The Indonesia Students Association of Australia Victoria.
The gathering was done in The Indonesian Consulate General Republic of Indonesia front yard, Queen Rd Albert Park Melbourne.
This gathering begin with introduction from PPIA representatives from campuses in Victoria.
There are also food stall like somay, pempek and many more.
Also there art performance, mural and a mini concert. Some teens dress like an Indonesian elementary school, with red skirt and the short sleeve with OSIS badge on it.
The weather is cloudy, and a light rain occurred. But it doesn't make the guesses ran away.
You can see the banner outside, behind that was the circuit of F1 Albert Park.
From my opinion, this activity is a great idea to gather up Indonesian students in Victoria, maybe the committee to improve the rundown, to make it better. (No hurt feeling guys :) )
Actually they have a bigger events at the first week of April called Indonation, its about charity night and they invite Andra and The Back Bone have a concert in Melbourne, and I'm totally forgot about it. damn -___-
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