First, Temples

My favorite places.  First, temples.  Second, churches. Third, beaches.  Lets start from the first.  Borobudur and Prambanan, central Java, Indonesia.  I went there many times but never have enough of it. I like to see the majestic form of Borobudur, climb up to the peak of it, walk through the relief bas, see each statue...

Wedding in Theory

When attend a wedding I somehow thinking to myself: why so long and why so many people and why so complicated. Wedding start with music. For many years, I only heard piano.  This past ten years, I hear violins, sometimes clarinet add to the harmony.  What I don't like from a wedding is when the pianist was...

Makes Everybody Happy

Impossible!  you think? Our morning bus following a weird route every day. Other than following a good road to the office, it goes further to the southern part of the city through a bumpy bad road to the outer ring road connecting the area with the city.  The whole journey will take at least one hour, many times...

Miss the Place

I visited this place last in my vacation package last December, and I found this place is my most favorite one.  My first night in the city was not so nice, I stranded in a land where almost everybody I chat with speak no English, and I don't read Chinese.  I hardly find what place to...

Ibu Kita Kartini II

Every April Indonesian woman will celebrate the birthday of  Kartini. The thinker. A lady with great thought beyond her binding doors. She always wanted for woman be educated and have the freedom to decide for themselves. Hundred something years after she died, some things are changed but some remain the same. When women do has...