Thursday, May 14, 2015

Bandung Spot - Tebing Keraton

Hello guys! This time I wanna tell you some beautiful place in my lovely hometown, Bandung. I know, Bandung has many beautiful spots that we can visit them. That probably makes us puzzled where we will go if we spent holiday in this beautiful city. But now I'll tell you one of the beautiful spot in Bandung, called " Tebing Keraton".

Tebing Keraton is located in Cibural, the north of Bandung. This place was founded by the hiker that were going around that place. He found the beautiful place to see the view, so he were initiative to build some place for many peoples to see the magnificent of this place just like him. And why it is named "Tebing Keraton"? Well, the residents around said there was a supernatural palace on that cliff. That was so creepy, so don't do any inappropiate things there. But don't worry, now the place is safe to be visited.

This place was very high, you must go up for 10 kilometers from "Taman Hutan Raya Bandung". The way to there was so rough and narrow, so you must go with a well-sized car that can fit with the rocky road. At some place that near the destination, there was a bikers that offer you to transport you to the top. But I recommend you DON'T use them, because that was very expensive with the charge around 50.000 rupiahs. If your transporation is enough for climbing on final stage, just use yours and ignore their offers.

After the roughness of the way to get there, you'll see the beautifulness from one of "heaven" in this world. Just with a cost of 10.000 per person, you can enjoy the fatastic point of view from the north of Bandung. You can see the pine forest, cliffs, river, and the mountain there in one pack. I recommend you to get there on the sunset, when you can see the sun goes down with the gorgeus view of nature. But remember, don't go back too late beacuse there was no traffic light on the way. Oh yes, don't forget to bring a camera to take some photos, like me that take this photos just with a handphone camera.

Hope this helps you to find some cool spots on Bandung :)


Saturday, May 9, 2015

Song - Beautiful Life (Maliq & d'essentials)

Hello everyone! Now I wanna tell you some song that sung by Indonesian jazzy band, Maliq & d'Essentials. This is the first song at their album "The Beginning Of A Beautiful Life" that contributed at 2010. Now let's see the lyrics and enjoy the music.

 

Lyrics:

If we believe in something and we just keep on trying
We will survive We will survive
If we believe in something and we just keep on trying
We will survive We will survive

This is what I named a beautiful life
Where we visualize the dreams we had
There’s no wrong or right when it come from the heart
Just be thankful God for what we’ve shared

Let’s go back to one night it was
on Wednesday as I remembered it was 15th of May
I sang Badu and some Maxwell too
We played a repertoire that others don’t do
Thought we got no money and still doing it for free
For the sake of Music And Live Instrument Quality
Didn’t think the would love it or even understand it
But they actually sang and danced long as we kicked it

This is what I named a beautiful life
Where we visualize the dreams we had
There’s no wrong or right when it come from the heart
Just be thankful God for what we’ve shared

From bar to bar or a café Every Friday or sometime on weekdays
I sing like a bird at night until 2
Never get tired for this something true
It’s been our intention to shared our experiences
For you and I to find our path to self realization
Now I’m grateful for all the struggles
Cause through it all we become strong fighters

This is what I named a beautiful life
Where we visualize the dreams we had
There’s no wrong or right when it come from the heart
Just be thankful God for what we’ve shared

It’s a beautiful life Act from the heart when you play your part
It’s a beautiful life When you survive and everything is alright
It’s a new beginning of a beautiful life

It’s a beautiful life When you survive and everything is alright
and it's alright 

Lyrics: http://lirik.kapanlagi.com/artis/maliq_and_d_essentials/beautiful_life

Review:

This song has the meaningful lyrics. They told "If we believe in something and we just keep on trying
We will survive" , And then also "It’s a beautiful life When you survive and everything is alright". That means if we believe in something (God) we will can survive living in this world. When we can survive, everything's gonna be alright, and then you'll get the meaning of the "Beautiful Life". So, this song tells us to enjoy the life that made our life feels beautiful. But don't forget that the beautiful life is the bless of the God. Like as they said, "Just be thankful God for what we’ve shared"

Besides of the meaning, this song has a nice music arrangement that had the genre of Jazz (my favorite genre of music,tho). The singer (Indah, the female singer of Maliq & d'Essentials) voice and the music was very match, so this song heard very colorful like a beautiful of the life. Cool, isn't it?





Saturday, February 28, 2015

Dewa Athena VII

   Hey yo bro&sis! I would like to post some story about Dewa Athena. This is the seventh of Dewa Athena series, which was started from seven years ago. I hope this seventh Dewa Athena will be an amazing story.


   At here, I was chosen to be in a documentary team. This is because my extraculiculler Movie Production 3 or MP3 for short must take some videos of this event. We start filming from the "Running Around Indonesia" event which we were being seperated to some spots around the track. I think that's a cool job, but I am a little disappointed that I can't join that amazing running. But luckily at the end of the track they were being colorful and dirty, where the documentary team was totally clean lol.

   After that,The game is started! All of the people scream out loud for supporting their classes. My class was get three games at that day, which was sprint run, tug of war, and female football. We were prepared of them from a long time.
  
    Sprint run was starting our struggle. The opponent of this game now is X-7 which is the strong competitor. But don't worry, we were selected four fast runners for this. Because of the relay system, they ran alternately. At first and second turn, we were on the equal position with the opponent. But unluckily, at the third turn one of our runners had a wrong shoes and make her slick. So, we must lose at this game because of that
accident.

  

        The second one is "tug of war", which two teams pull at opposite ends of a rope until one drags the other over a central line. The opponent was very hard through, because they are from XI-4 that has a big body and muscles. At here I was requested to play, so I used some of my power here. We were give out of our powers, but sadly we lose again at this game because we facing a hard opponent. Ya, that's OK.


  And finally the female football was started. This is closing the event for that day. At here, we must fight again with XI-4, so I hope our class can revenge them here. We are the boys supporting the girls, and give some lessons about football basics. So, they played the game nice. The first goal is from XI-4, but we make one fantastic goal after that,too. But at the near of the end we must getting pieried by them, so we can't chase the score anymore becuase of the time. We must lose again with the score 2-1, but that's not a bad score and because the group system so we still have a chance to win.

  But don't give up, there are still many games that we can won. I hope at next games we will be more strong and unbeatable.
   

  

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Natural Phenomenon - How The Bees Make Their Hives Symmetrically

   Hey guys, what's going on? Now I'd like to describe something natural. Did you know about "Beehives" or "Honeycomb" ? Did you think that was amazing? look at all of hexagons, they were all symmertical! But how to they made them without the difference? Check this out.

  Well, this is a very old question. More than 2,000 years ago, in 36 B.C., a Roman soldier/scholar/writer, Marcus Terentius Varro, proposed an answer, which ever since has been called "The Honeybee Conjecture." Varro thought there might be a deep reason for this bee behavior. Maybe a honeycomb built of hexagons can hold more honey. Maybe hexagons require less building wax. Maybe there's a hidden logic here.

   Honeycombs, we all know, store honey. Honey is obviously valuable to bees. It feeds their young. It sustains the hive. It makes the wax that holds the honeycomb together. It takes thousands and thousands of bee hours, tens of thousands of flights across the meadow, to gather nectar from flower after flower after flower, so it's reasonable to suppose that back at the hive, bees want a tight, secure storage structure that is as simple to build as possible.

   So how to build it? Well, suppose you start your honeycomb with a cell like a totally random shape, no equal sides, just a squiggle.  If you start this way, what will your next cell look like? Well, you don't want big gaps between cells. You want the structure tight. So the next cell will have to be customized to cling to the first. And the third cell, once again, will have to be designed to fit the first two. Each cell would be a little different. For More illustration, you can see the picture here.





 So a "squiggle cell plan" creates idle bees. It wastes time. For bees to assemble a honeycomb the way bees actually do it, it's simpler for each cell to be exactly the same. If the sides are all equal — "perfectly" hexagonal — every cell fits tight with every other cell. Everybody can pitch in. That way, a honeycomb is basically an easy jigsaw puzzle. All the parts fit. OK, that explains why honeycomb cells are same-sized.


source : http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/05/13/183704091/what-is-it-about-bees-and-hexagons

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What is Paman Gober? That is an amazing event that our school presents once a year. And we're so.glad that we can present this planting and cycling event again this year!


As you can see the world is not healthy again now. Why don't you to make them fresh again? It doesn't matter how much the plants that you plant, it will safe our earth! And why don't you going to be healthy? So ride your bike together with us!

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Culinary From Bandung - Tridaya Cafetaria

     



     Hello guys! Now I want to tell some culinary things from my lovely city. I'd like to describe some cafetaria near my school named Tridaya Cafetaria. It is located at Kalimantan way Bandung, which is integrated with Tridaya learning centre and "Pak Kumis" restaurant. Maybe this thing is not unique at all, but I love to eat here because it has many interesting delicious food for students at very affordable prices! Plus, it is near from the school so it's easy to get there after the school time was end.

 

  You can see we can get so many variation of food to be ordered here. From the famous local food like Fried Rice , Tutug Oncom , Rawon, until the oriental food like chicken katsu, burger, and yamien you can buy here at "student's budget". Cool, isn't it? Now let's check the beverages of this cafetaria.


 




     The first one you can see while you getting in, you can see "Lotek Karedok Rujak" counter. Like it's title, they sell some traditional food lotek, karedok, and rujak there. But not just that, they also sell seblak basah which it can be added with egg, and some baked rice family. I think this is the reccomended one, because the food was nice and cheap. Plus, you will get some free tea if you buy some food there. The price of the foods is around 4.000 until 18.000 rupiah.





   Beside the "Lotek Karedok Rujak" counter, there was "Lomie Ayam Bakso". This is all about noodles. They sell some basic noodles, lomie, and yamien which is served by swered chiken instead. You can choose basic which is only the noodles with swered chicken, with plus meatballs, and special one that filled with pangsit. Their noodles cooked well and have good taste, but served not much at one portion. But that's good enough remember you can get them just only from 7.000 - 16.000 rupiah.

   The third row is " Rawon Soto " stand. This is one of my favorite here, because I like this traditional javanese food rawon and the seler was very kind. He sells only two things, rawon and soto like it's title. He cook with heart and serve the food with big amount of rice in one portion, so the food was delighted and delicious. If you want to get some rice again or get plus boiled egg, you just pay 1.000 rupiah more to get them. The price of the food per portion is around 8.000 until 18.000 rupiah.


  The next one is " Basreng Pisang Keju" and "Sop Buah & Aneka Jus. The owners of this stand is in one family, so they cooperate so much. At Basreng stand, they also sell Indomies, the local instant noodles and some french fries . The cheese banana is also quite delicious, but i haven't tried the Basreng and french fries. But I bet that was delicious from their looks. At Sop Buah stand, there are some refreshing fruit soup and juices that served cold. This thing will be exquisite to be consumed when the sunny or hot day. My favorite from here is guava juice, because it was healthy but yummy.

   Beside of that, you can see " Sari Rasa " counter. He sells some Baso Tahu Goreng or Batagor for short, and Siomay. He cooked them with healthy oil, so we can trust that the food is safe. The taste is normally good, and has a normal price in 7.000 rupiah per portion, and 2.000 rupiah if you want to buy one-by-one. The little one counter beside of " Sari Rasa " is " Chicken Katsu " , which is speacialized Chiken Katsu and also sells some burger there. They uses some simple integredients, but usually cooked well so the taste was so good. The prices is around 5.000 until 15.000 rupiah.

 
    And but not least is " Nasi Goreng dan Kwetiauw " , they sell the things that almost we can found in all cafetarias. But it's hard to get the good taste from all cafetarias who sell this. This two "couple food" at here is one of the yummy. We can order some with some options. There is normal, plus egg, plus sausage, plus seafood, and special option. The special option is filled by all the toppings. The price of Fried rice and Kwetiauw is same. So, the normal option of them is at 8.000 rupiah, plus one topping is at 11.000 rupiah, and the special one is 15.000 rupiah.

   Now we can see how much types the culinary from Bandung. At the cheap price, you can get all these with well and not bad foods. I hope this is helping for the students which have not much budget and want to eat some good foods. Especially for who that school at the near place or Tridaya college students. Thank you for ur attention ;)

Friday, January 9, 2015

My Holiday

    Hello there! long time no post. Well, now I want to tell about my first holiday while studying at SMAN 3. I was very happy that we can get a 'free time' after we get so much tasks and exams at our school. But unfortunately, this holiday is not as beautiful as I expected. This holiday actually just like prayer-eat-play at home-sleep-repeat, and play with some friends sometimes. I was expected before this holiday gonna be exciting with going far out from the city. But that wasn't come true that makes me a little dissapointed.

   The first reason is the first day of the holiday I was sick. I got fever for 4 days, then my dad got the same fever for one week. Because of this fever, we didn't going anywhere. The second reason is my parents is going to buy some house. So, we must saving much money and notgoing somewhere far. And the final reason is my mother was very busy at work. Well, these problems makes the holiday being little boring.

     But this was not bad enough, because there are some things that makes me happy. Started from the second week of holiday, my big brother bring me some box to me. And that box are the box for Nintendo 3DS,the game console that I always wanted before. But unluckily, we got pink body color of that, altough we are all boys. But I don't really care, the main point is for playing some cool games. I really love this console and play it everyday while this holiday.

 

  
     

      Then the "new year's eve" is coming! My mom brings so many foods and drinks for celebrating the new year. We baked some corns and meats with soda and juice for the drinks. They are so delicious! so we were busy to eat them while waiting until 0.00 A.M with the crowd of beautiful fireworks colored the sky. We saw them popping out at the balcony of our house.




      And finally I and my big brother going to Jakarta. We must accompany our grandmother and grandfather there. We using some travel to get there. At Jakarta, we always eat expensive foods with grandma and grandpa. They were very happy because that we can accompany them altough there were quiet. We travel around Jakarta that makes me more happier. Plus, our cousin was there so we aren't bored and playing some games together.



  I can't describe this holiday feelings because there was little boring but exciting. But this is much better than the busy time of school (lol)