Indonesian Salad

It is called ‘PECEL’. all the vegetables like spinach, cabbage, carrot, bean-sprouts are boiled. Pecel is served with peanut sauce.

Vredeburg Fort, Yogyakarta

It is located on Jalan A.Yani no.6, near Bringharjo traditional market. It is a Dutch-era fort that is restored into a museum. It shows the history of the independence movement in Yogya.

Sono Budoyo Unit I Museum, Yogyakarta

This museum is located on Jalan Kauman, opposite alun-alun. In this museum you can see historical collections like coins, masks, silver jewelry, batik, keris, arca and many more. Those collections reflect the cultural process in Java, Bali, Lombok and Madura. The entrance ticket is only Rp.3000.

Cinema Paradiso

A friend lent me the dvd. Because it’s difficult to get the original dvd here, in Indonesia, he downloaded scene per scene from internet. Now, I can see why he would bother his time to get the whole scenes of the movie.

This Italian movie is an old movie released in 1988. The movie directed by Giuseppe Tornatore is fantastic. I like every part of it: the storyline, the cast, the setting, the language (even though I don‘t understand Italian). I read the English subtitle, but kept my ears listening to the way Italian speak. Such a beautiful language.

It’s about a Sicilian boy named Salvatore (played by Salvatore Cascio and Marco Leonardi) who is amazed by American movies shown at the local theater. He and the projectionist of the local theater becomes friends. Salvatore grows up to be a famous movie producer who never forgets his roots.

Through the movie I could also see the beauty of Giancaldo village in Sicily shortly after World War II. The movie won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1989.

You may know the new version of this movie. It was released in 2002. It’s known in the US as Cinema Paradiso:The New Version.

what tomorrow will bring

Would we appreciate life even more if we knew what tomorrow will bring?
Would we be wiser if we knew what tomorrow will bring?
Would we be more gracious in our manners to others if we knew what tomorrow will bring?
Would it be frightening if we knew what tomorrow will bring?
Would it be releasing if we knew what tomorrow will bring?

Would we hope we never knew what tomorrow will bring if we knew what tomorrow will bring?

one day,
out of darkness,
we shall meet,
and read life’s meaning in each other’s eyes,.
Source Susan Mara Spalding, submitted by T.L.K (www.loving you.com)

A tiring weekend

i hurt someone's feeling the other day. real bad i think. i know that i should send him an apology note or something that says how sorry i am, but i don't have a gut to do so.

here i am ......now......wondering what the h*** actually hit my head. i don't even know how i really felt for the last couple of days. everything, i've said and done, seemed not right.

guess, i've got to sit back for a while and wait until the water runs dry. hope to see a crystal perspective at the end of this contemplation, hope to make a right move after this tiring weekend.

Chinese Temples in Jakarta City

look what daylight reveals

Bank Mandiri Museum

 
This 10,039m2 museum was built as Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij (NHM) or Factorji Batavia in 1929 by three architects: J.J.J de Bruyn, A.P.Smits and C.Van de Linde. NHM was officially opened by C.J Karel Van Aalst, the 10th President of NHM, on January 14, 1933. NHM was taken over as Bank Koperasi Tani dan Nelayan (BKTN) in 1960. It then become the Head Office of Indonesian Bank of Export and Import (EXIM Bank) in 1968. In 1999, after the merger of Exim Bank with Mandiri Bank, this building turned out to be one of Mandiri Bank assets.