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Leo Kristi - LKers at Wapres 2008-02-21 18:31:47 Sunday evening, February 17, 2008, a historic moments had been written in the musical journey of Leo Kristi and LKers Community. A live concert was successfully organized by LKers Community at Wapres (Warung Apresiasi) Bulungan, Jakarta, featuring the legendary troubadour Leo Kristi and a euphoric...
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The Forbidden City 2008-02-14 20:33:45 The last tourist spot that I visited in Beijing was the Forbidden
City, the world's largest 74 hectares palace complex, which is located to the north of Tiananmen Square. The rectangular shape complex has a gate on each side. The distance between north and south gates is 960 meters, while the...
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Tiananmen Square 2008-02-12 10:16:48 Slow but sure, my memory of the bloody military crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square
in 1989 had faded away. The June-Fourth Incident was a painful dramatic results of series of rallies led by activists which was started in April 15, 1989.
Whilst the crackdown claimed between 200 to 3,000...
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Streets of Beijing 2008-02-11 19:57:57 I had a lovely chance to join a one-day tour around the city of Beijing
on January 22 targeting two main tourist destinations, the Tian An Men Square and the Forbidden City. We left Jing Jin City around 8 a.m. for a two-hour drive through highways. I immediately occupied the co-pilot seat beside...
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The Freezing Jing Jin City 2008-02-07 00:08:13 My flight from Hong Kong landed smoothly in a freezing weather of Beijing Airport at about 8.10 pm local time. Beijing time is an hour earlier than Jakarta. I have already put on everything that would keep my body warm in a temperature below freezing point, including a thick jacket that I bought...
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Welcome back Floods 2008-02-05 05:52:01 I was in Semarang when Dewi called me at about 3 pm, Friday February 1. She told me that heavy rain was pouring Jakarta since early morning and had caused floods in many parts of the city, including the main thoroughfare and toll road towards Soekarno-Hatta airport.
Jakarta was again in complete...
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Farewell Pak Harto 2008-01-30 09:32:00 Bapak Soeharto, the second President of the Republic of Indonesia had passed away today at 1.10 pm, January 27, 2008, at Pertamina Hospital, Jakarta. He was 86. May he rests in peace.
Heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family, relatives, friends, Indonesian people, us, for the loss of one of...
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Above The Clouds 2008-01-27 09:12:05 It starts with an electrical spark inside the grey substance of the head that gives a birth of an idea. It maybe triggered by observing or sensing the surroundings, reading and interpreting the omens, contemplating and activating the mihes (the mind, the heart and the soul). Pick things from the...
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The Alchemist 2008-01-25 17:46:43 It's been a while that I didn't go to a local bookstore to buy a book. I haven't been to Gramedia Matraman either, ever since it's been renovated and dubbed as the biggest bookstore in Southeast Asia, with an opening ceremony that clogged the street and attended by President SBY last month.
I did...
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View of Cipularang 2008-01-15 09:29:47 It's been quite a while that I wanted to take photos of Cipularang (Cikampek-Purwakarta-Padalarang) turnpikes. There are a couple of sections of the turnpikes that look quite good. The problem is that, by rule, I shouldn't make a stop just to take photos, and I normally stuck in the driver's...
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To Forgive and to Forget 2008-01-11 17:30:24 It's like a ritual for politicians, activists and the media. Whenever the ex-President was rushed to Pertamina hospital to get super-special treatments for his recurring critical conditions, these group of people refresh the endless debates on issue whether the government and the attorney general...
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Closing Ceremony of FTJ 2007 2008-01-06 02:28:27 We arrived at Teater Studio Taman Ismail Marzuki at around 8 p.m., in the wet New Year's Eve to see the closing ceremony of Festival Teater Jakarta 2007, and to witness the announcement of the winners of the annual festival held by Dewan Kesenian Jakarta. We were 30 minutes late, and hence we...
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Penagih Hutang Komunitas K5 2007-12-31 23:13:49 Happy New Year dear bloggers and friends. Trust that you all enjoyed the New Year's Eve. I'll tell you in the next posting of what we've done that made us went bed after 2 a.m. Well, this is the first posting for 2008! It's not a new year resolutions, things that I seldom do, but a remnant report...
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Criticism and Dried Well 2007-12-29 09:56:34 It needs not even a single sweat drop to criticize on things that bothered us, things that against our view or values, whilst it can be a hell of a job to fix or improve it for those who are inside the circle, the box, especially when it's related with paradigm, attitude, habit, politics, money,...
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A view from Argo Anggrek 2008-03-12 05:50:53 It was February 3, when Jakarta was heavily flooded due to torrential rain, and the day before the airport was closed down because of poor visual visibility. I was in Semarang on that day, was not sure whether I could fly back to Jakarta, and hence finally I went to Tawang railway station to...
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Top Commenter Widget 2008-03-14 18:15:03 It's been sometimes that I gave up looking for a widget that can display the top commenters in TAP (The Aroengbinang Project), as a form of appreciation to those who frequently click the "Post a Comment" link at the bottom of an article and took the time to compose and post their comments in...
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The Quest for Quality Teachers 2008-03-21 22:16:41 We may all agree that only by investing heavily, smartly and consistently on education that this country will have a much better chance to prosper, and that people's prosperity shall be one of the main objectives of all country's leaders.
Quality
education shall produce quality people who will,...
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The Law of Scarcity 2008-03-29 05:47:05 A few weeks ago when I was ready to leave home for Cibubur on a Saturday morning, all of sudden I felt very cold and my body started to shiver. I got high fever. I already knew since the night before that I was contracted with flu and a bad cough, but I didn't know it was that bad. It took three...
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The Pagoda of Semarang 2008-03-31 08:09:48 Pagoda Avalokitesvara Buddhagaya Watugong was another place of interest that I visited during my stay in Semarang
a few weeks back, following advise from Senja. The location is a little bit far from the center of the city, on one of the highest hills in Semarang, exactly in front of Diponegoro...
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The Witch of Portobello 2008-04-03 22:27:50 The Witch
of Portobello, another fascinating book by Paulo Coelho, greeted me at a small bookstore at Soekarno Hatta airport last week. It immediately landed in my hand for an exchange with a couple of banknotes equal to IDR.90,000.
It was a perfect companion to liven up the time during a three...
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Sam Poo Kong Temple 2008-04-07 21:43:27 How long will likely people remember our names and things we did, good or evil, when we are no longer exist physically on this old fragile earth. Three generations at most for the majority of us, if we married and blessed with offspring, and less if we didn't. Life's short, whilst memories stay...
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Heaven for All 2008-04-12 07:51:25 It is human when people praise a hero and condemn the villain, admire a saint and despise evil doer. It is also equally human, however, to act the other way around. Good and evil persons are often products of times and positions, either from the point of view of just a gang of people or allies of...
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TAP PageRank Slashed 2008-04-11 22:36:25 I woke up quite early this morning, and instead of going back to sleep, I decided to open my notebook computer, checked email, released comment from Manler, and opened blogger to continue working on an article that I wanted to post this morning.
I had no problem to log in into blogger and could...
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Statues at Soekarno Hatta 2008-04-17 09:26:32 I'm an Indonesian of Javanese descent, and a citizen of the universe. That's one of my 'oaths' that I wrote in Sumpah Aroengbinang. I didn't ask to be born as a Javanese or Indonesian, and hence I just accept it as fact of my life, and fact is neutral.
As an Indonesian from Javanese origin I...
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Treasuring Friendship 2008-04-21 07:34:16 Greetings. Unlike regular mornings, I woke up without an alarm clock that Sunday morning. Grateful for a good sleep, I rolled over to reach my phone on the bedside. My Sunday morning ritual was about to start, making calls to my love ones far away from where I am, when I realized that my calf was a...
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TAP Contributor 2008-04-21 07:14:04 It's been a while that I have been thinking of inviting friends to be contributors of TAP (The Aroengbinang Project). For some reasons, I haven't found one, until recently, when a new friend has accepted the invitation.
Some friends may have plenty wonderful stories to share, but have no time to...
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Books shouldn't be cheap 2008-04-26 03:00:32 Agnes Winarti wrote a report in the Jakarta Post yesterday that book publishers and literature advocates demand the government to support the book industry with cheaper paper price, and to give more lenient tax on printing, sales and royalties that will enable readers to get cheaper quality...
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Movements and Prosperity 2008-04-29 07:07:47 The essence of business is movements. Movements
of people, goods, information, money. Even in this modern era where people can place orders of goods and services through Internet, by fax, email, or phone, there will still be movements of raw materials to factories or centers of production, finished...
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Author below Post Title 2008-05-03 04:25:49 After reading SBoentaran first posting in TAP (The Aroengbinang Project) and the comments posted, I saw the need to move author's name from the bottom of the article to the top of the post, right below the post title, as this will provide clearer information to the readers.
It took me sometime to...
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The Phelan Legacy 2008-05-05 17:25:35 A person can decide to donate time, efforts, goods, or money to support variety of causes or simply for the sake of giving things away. Small or big, a gift may leave a legacy that exceeds the person life span.
Having said that, when I was driving by Saratoga, California, cruising by the hills of...
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