May 2012
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April 2012
2 posts
February 2012
3 posts
20most beautiful bookstore in the world →
“Tuhan menjawab doa dengan cara-Nya sendiri, bukan cara kita.”
– 152 Kata-Kata Bijak Gandhi ~ Richard Attenborough
(via gramedia)
December 2011
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November 2011
2 posts
September 2011
5 posts
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August 2011
3 posts
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Hide and seek.: Indonesia, The Islands of Heaven →
seekinghide:
Indonesia comprises 17,508 - 18,306 islands and 8,844 that have been named according to estimates made by the Government of Indonesia, with 922 of those permanently inhabited. The islands span 5,400 kilometres (3,400 mi) eastward from Sabang in northern Sumatra to Merauke in Irian Jaya.
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The Greatest
Wa anaa ‘alaa ‘ahdika wa wa’dika mas-tatho’tu, Dan aku masih (berusaha untuk selalu) berpegang pada janji MU, sekuat yang aku mampu.
Doa yang kutempel di kubikel kantor, yang setiap kali dibaca, hampir selalu bikin berkaca-kaca.
everyone has its own miracle story. One of our miracles was given to us (at least we found out about our miracle) on July 17th, two days before...
July 2011
4 posts
June 2011
2 posts
“Google’ is not a synonym for ‘research’.”
– Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol (via makelovetothemoon)
May 2011
4 posts
April 2011
6 posts
“Please don’t hate me just because I am lucky ….”
– a colleague
“Kesetiaan seorang istri bisa dibuktikan ketika suami terjatuh ke titik terendah...”
– ps. turns out it has been a “trending topic” for few weeks..we just didn’t notice this :-)
Patra, colleague friend (via shallowobsession)
March 2011
1 post
Mimi Bo and The Missing Diary, by Raisa Affandi →
Jakarta Post’s review on Raisa’s book. Raisa is an 11 yo girl. Keren banget bisa nulis buku kaya gini!!!
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
6 posts
why being "a good wife" is overrated →
Women are strong, I agree. And we can overcome anything by ourselves. But why choose to suffer when we have a chance to be, well, not suffering?
I disagree with marital perspective where a wife must listen to her husband all the times, or otherwise will be considered as “disrespectful.” We’re humans, we forget things, we need someone to constantly remind us to get back on the right track. If...
Undangan Menulis... sharing for 1000Guru.net →
Salah satu kunci utama dari pendidikan menengah adalah motivasi untuk belajar. Sayangnya ini juga yang menjadi salah satu masalah krusial dari pendidikan menengah di tanah air. Hal ini karena tidak jelasnya hubungan apa yang mereka pelajari disekolah dengan masalah-masalah yang menarik di dunia profesi maupun di kehidupan secara umum. Masalah semacam ini tentu lebih kelihatan nyata di daerah,...
40 things to do in Indonesia before you die →
From “Tempo Dulu” blog
1. snorkel a coral reef
2. watch the kecak dance live in bali
3. take a trio to Bangkok from Jakarta (without flying)
4. stay with an indonesia dukun ..
5, 6, 7 ….39.
40. watch a football match
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cerita pengajar muda .. →
Surat Singkat dari Hutan Samak, Pulau Rupat. (ditulis oleh Agus Rachmanto untuk teman-temannya di UGM, almamaternya. Agus adalah Pengajar Muda yang bertugas di Pulau Rupat, Bengkalis) ———- Hutan Samak, Pulau Rupat. Dibutuhkan enam jam perjalanan darat dari Pekanbaru ke Dumai untuk kemudian melanjutkan dengan kapal kayu selama lima jam atau dengan kapal cepat (speedboat)...
on lulus ujian sertifikasi →
this story is about diijinkan dan ditakdirkan Tuhan. Diijinkan means kalo kita mengerjakan hal-hal dengan benar (belajar bener, usaha bener, kerja bener, and the best that we could), Insya Allah tercapai yang kita tuju. Ditakdirkan means emang dari sono nya Tuhan udah menggariskan bahwa itu kejadiannya begitu (misal, orangnya ga suka lembur-lembur kerjanya, biasanya aja tapi bisa kaya,...
December 2010
3 posts
exercising before breakfast →
Run or bicycle before breakfast. Exercising in the morning, before eating, the study results show, seems to significantly lessen the ill effects of holiday Bacchanalias
..The men who ate breakfast before exercising gained weight..
…the group that exercised before breakfast gained almost no weight and showed no signs of insulin resistance. They also burned the fat they were taking in more...
November 2010
6 posts
From reformasi to institutional transformation... →
A strategic assessment of Indonesia’s prospects for growth, equity and democratic governance.
an interesting and yet an exhaustive 105 pages article about Indonesia, not an optimistic view about Indonesia’s growth.
….time is one thing that Indonesia does not have in abundance. the world is changing, and while Indonesia deals with its political and institutional legacy, the...
