love thy self
well turns out I.ve been neglecting this blog for quite some time now, not that I wanted to. But things got a little overwhelmed .. you know life, family matters, everything outside the online world.
But lucky for me I found a very reliving thought, last week I discover secret to my happier life …
you should love yourself more
so I’m doing things that I would not think I would be doing years ago, I ran every morning ( running is a fun and relaxing sports ), I’m buying new pair of pants and shoes for myself, taking photographs more often, talk to people more polite, smile more, eat healthier food, and exactly anything that I could think to make this life more fulfilling.
I took the pictures in Kuta bali, its located south of my hometown. The rain just pouring hard but I just knew when the rain stop the sky will emits its beauty and I was right.
the verdict
only here in Indonesia
the prosecutor charge you with death sentence for conspiracy for murder … they say they have proof of threatening short message that you sent from your mobile.
You asked if the short messages be shown in court
the prosecutor never revealed such crucial evidence only saying that such thing was exist
and so forth with the trial
Judge think maybe death sentence is too extreme since there’s no strong evidence
and you’re granted with 18 years of imprisonment
kind word
what are the things that Indonesian really needed to learn ?
I must say : kind word
We must learn how to say sorry and thank you properly,
“Sorry” in Indonesian is a rare word , you seldom see it in TV show , sinetrons ( Indonesian telenovela ) , film, and it was extinct years ago in politics .
sri mulyani
I don’t understand anything about this strange case ( i’m not sure I wanted too though )
but a friend of mine actually knew sri mulyani , she was his professor in Economy faculty in prestigious Universitas Indonesia . Even working for her for a couple of years.
I think how cool was that …
I’m not sure how would the case turns out but it’s weird to held her responsible for everything ,
I say just find whoever got the money and there you have , the thief !.
one idea at the time
As much as I want to write something right now, I just seems to be out of the creative worlds lately. But I have to moving on and just got an idea
why don’t I create illustration from wise quote that I encounter today ?
seems like an awesome idea isn’t ?
I don’t have to think about something wise ( like I could anyway ) , i Just have to think something that would depict that words .
For now I got this quote from a song
” it’s easy to love the rains when you’re not wet “
it really got me thinking how true this one is.
We almost immediately thinking that we’re sorry when something less that fortunate happen to people around us , we were sympathetic when there was a disaster in foreign country. We were sad when somebody die , lose their job, lose their house, failing the exam, not getting a promotion etc .
Anyway it’s probably our darkest secret as human, that we sometime use it as an excuse to be grateful that it doesn’t happen to us ( but sometime it will, God forbid ).
But that’s just my crazy talk , meanwhile Ill start looking for another quote to illustrate and maybe i’ll able to do better illustration than this one.
here’s an example
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indonesian version of avatar
maybe all of you have already seen movie ” Avatar ”
great movie right ?
But I wouldn’t talk about what’s the noble message in it that some people talk about,
no ,, why ?
because I think I am part of the problems that movie was talking about, I never take part of environment action or donate money to WWF funds ( maybe i should ) . My only so called environmental attitude is to throw my garbage in the garbage bin, falsely believing it wouldn’t ends up in some garbage dump ( what a naive thought… all garbage goes to some place ).
the movie reminds me a lot of Kalimantan ( borneo ), whose forest are being destroyed and sold for commodities. And the Omaticayan ( blue people in avatar ) somehow resemble people of Dayak kayan who were wise and just in treating and preserving the forest. And yet the government ( in new orde era ) always quick to blame them for deforestation.
But in Borneo the human prevail and the spirit of the forest were crushed . The spirit were restless and occasionally sending its wrath through flood and landslide , even so the human hold its stubborn and selfish behavior.
on a totally unrelated event there was an articles here about a discovery of vast amount of lithium in Bolivia .
Is it ours (human ) for taking ? or it should remain intake for something that we didn’t fully understand yet
B & W photography #2
just another photos from last year vacation in Bali , but the place was just a shopping mall with lots of painting in its parking lot. Maybe this picture is the only picture that I think has good composition.
I found a website run by a young women with so much talent in photography that could blow your mind.
here is the link
it’s fascinating to see young people these day. with endless possibility to convey and learn to create something beautiful. I remember having a friend back in high school with dreams of becoming an photographer,forcing himself studying how to shoot pictures and spending a lot of money in films (no digital cam back then). Now he is one of top photographer in Indonesia.
I guess perseverance and action could take you anywhere
it’s just so happen I got a list from communication arts of world’s artist of photographers,
see them for inspiration
1. andre kopac
2. peter leverman
3.Cade martin
4. Michael grecco
5. Paolo Marchesi
6.David Schinman
7. Deborah jones
8.Patrick Nichols
9.Claire Bock
10. Nick vedros
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