Lively Day

I’ve seen this japanese show depicting people from various occupations and their success stories.
But from all the series everyone in that show always had their own definition of success, which not necessarily involved in amount of money or wealth.
And the letter above is one of my favorite,

” never run away from hardship “

First of all, if you “lucky” enough being an indonesian and watching an afternoon news you may and certainly will find news about people wrongfully and unjustly became victims of biased and imperfect laws.
Sometime I read digg and found out these kind of cases cause public unrest and anger. But here , it’s just an afternoon news . Something that make you have the same reaction when hearing the news about accident in some railroad or some flood in southern Jakarta.
Here are some of that kind of stories that I watch in yesterday news :
1. Despite of resenment of some fans , Indonesian singer Ariel peterpan was charged with immoral conduct as public figure, alledgedly distributing inapropriate video and could face 12 years in prison ( well FYI you could kill or rape people in broad day light here and serve only 4 or 5 years or even walk out free if you did it along with angry mob )
2. Three widows of national war heroes got evicted from their home despite two of them were lying in their sickbed. The house were granted to them by the government years ago and for some reason the legality of the grants were in question by the current government .
3. An elderly lady was evicted from her house by the court because she lost the trial over the house ownership, the irony was the man who filed the suit over her house turn out being a conman. He forged the paper and her signature and were sentenced four month in prison. And for unknown reason the court still evict her for the lawsuit.

That is just one day , maybe someday I’ll try to take note of this kind of stories as I was saying that these kind of thing happen in daily basis.

May God have mercy for our sins

Since I foolishly upgraded the wordpress and forgot to back up my database , this blog in the verge of an oblivion .
luckily I still got an old database that I manage to import … so the old posts still remains.
But the photos page and some post remains unseen.

So last week my wife and I took little trip back to her home town , Tulung Agung. It’s a small town in east java. It’s known by its product of granite and sugar refinery.
Life here is simple and subtle , but just the same like everywhere else in this world.
I took this picture at morning , and the trees in nearby rice field was amazing. Too bad it was cloudy so the sun would not appear till noon

I’ve always thought I was the one who would first leave my current job, there so many things that I want it to do in my fading youth.
I always wanted to be involved in humanitarian movement, wanted to see the humpback whale , or visiting Tibet.
But years gone by, and i found struggling through life necessities was enough cause to postpone your dreams.
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finally we’re moving to our new home ..
still with a leaky bathroom and working progress on buying the furniture
but we’ll survive

since we’re one of the earliest resident here, there were much empty land to cherish here. Vast savanna with breathtaking view in the morning was ours .
But the contractor said in few month there will be another housing complex and apartments here.
Somewhere in my heart I don’t want that to happen, the view is just too good to true.
I took the picture above in one glorious morning in front of our house,
don’t you agree with me ?