Raisa - Next Singer from YouTube

Last month, maybe Raisa was nobody, only a Youtube member who likes to post her video, singing in her room, but few days ago, one of famous Indonesian band, RAN, found Raisa and interested in her beautiful voice. Below is the video of Raisa with her first single.

RAN decided to make Raisa the next singer in Indonesia. I think it's not impossible. Raisa has amazing voice, yet beautiful. In the video above, Raisa looks really confident and enjoy singing so much. She has jazzy and a little bit R'nB style in her voice. Hmmm I can't wait to see her next single :) I love her voice
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Why People Choose to Stay in Merapi and Not Flee

Until today, Mount Merapi still erupting, burst lava, stone, rock, and ashes. Few days ago, when I had a conversation with friend of mine, I said, "Look, later they (victims) will go back to Merapi, open a new field, farm, buy new livestocks, and start live there again like nothing happened." My friend, who is a foreigner, seems surprised and said, "What?? Are they dumb or what??"

That conversation was simple, only 2 sentences, but enough to gave me a plenty food of thought. Foreigner, usually see Indonesian people as a fatalistic, a trait believed to be behind their “silly decisions.” The myth of Indonesians as people driven by destiny has been confirmed for many by the notion that their behavior is driven by superstition and mysticism. The death of Mbah Maridjan, spiritual guardian of Merapi supports the assumption of that "silly".

Beside death, volcanic eruption also has another dangerous effects such as, ash particles are minute and can easily get into the lungs, volcanic ash can cause serious and lasting pulmonary conditions. Inhaled, they can make even the healthiest people fall ill. And they make those who suffer from asthma prone to experiencing severe shortness of breath and coughing fits. So Why People Choose to Stay in Merapi and not Flee?

There are factors, that if we look deeper, can explain everything. First, believe it or not, when you live in a country for years where natural disasters can happen anytime and where the resulting death tolls are often high, the concept of fatalism in your mind will be different. Example, traffic issue in New York. You who's living or ever lived in New York know how bad the traffic is. You won't be surprised about bad traffic anymore because you've known worse. See below news I got from an online magazine

A Portuguese psychology student of Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta who visited an Indonesian evacuee camp to help the people deal with the psychological impact of the catastrophe, expressed shock at how the victims all seemed to be “fine.” They had been displaced by a major disaster and many had lost everything, but they weren’t crying as he had thought they would.

They just lost everything, belongings, homes, families, but I’m not sure they need me here,” he said.(Jakarta Globe)

Another factor, which is for me is the most important, most of Indonesian people believe in the afterlife. There are more believers than Europeans and Americans. We (I use "we" because I'm an Indonesian) believe that death is just a door to another phase of (eternal) life. We believe that there's nothing compared to God and He is so powerful that when He says, "Up", we'll be up and when He says, "Down", we'll be down. Maybe not all the victims think like that. It's just what most of Indonesians believe between human and God.

The last factor why they keep stay and go back to Merapi, and for me is the most logical, is vulcanic area is the most fertile land. especially after an eruption. Hot lava burn the soil, produce many oxygen, carbon, and many other substance that will make any plant that grow on it has top quality. Economically, it has more benefits and money than taking a job in a city. Water quality in vulcanic area also greater and purer than other place. Fresh, cool, and healthy. And one more, Mount Merapi doesn't erupt once a month. That's also an important thing that we have to start thinking of. Mount Merapi erupts once every 2-3 decade or more. Between that time, people can start a new life, run a family, have kids, build a new business, and more.

In my opinion, these people (victims) are not completely "fatalistic, a trait believed to be behind their silly decisions". They have their own reason that maybe not really fit with us but completely fit for them. The matter is just the way we look and analyze it, whether we are able to look deeper and stand on their position or not. Interesting, isn't it? Read more!

Pride Over Mount Merapi Eruption and Loss

Three days ago, my friend surprised me with a link about Mount Merapi that has been erupting since 5 days ago. It's about Pride, Victims, and Loss.

Lava and hot smoke from Mt. Merapi has flew 20 kms far. It washes away many villages and killed many people and livestocks. Many people go there to help and distribute donations, do everything what they can. Citizens open their door to stranger, cook food, give place to sleep, including church. Ganjuran Church in Bantul also open its door as many victims came asked for shelter and food, even though most of the victims are not christian.

Unfortunately, later some people with white long blouse and turban came, entered the church without permission and drove away victims out of the church just because it's a church, not a mosque ! The victims who were already so tired physically and mentally refused to go. They prefer stayed there, but this "unbelieveable-pride" people keep tried drove victims away. They almost had a fighting until Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X (Governor of Yogyakarta) came. Funny thing is, Sri Sultan asked victims to move away. "Better we move then have a fight in this situation", said Sri Sultan.

Actually, who are these "unbelieveable-pride" people?
These people call themselves FJI = Front Jihad Indonesia (Indonesia Jihadd Committe). They think that let moslems entering church is a sin although they are victims and need shelter, food, etc to live.

For me, what this FJI did is so unbelieveable ridiculous and strange. Why?? Because the victims even not entered the church building ! Church asked the victims first whether they want to go in or not. Victims chose to stay outside the building, at church terrace and front yard. So why this FJI had to drove away them like that? Last one that made me felt sorry is, this FJI didn't even try to provide them shelter or food! They just tried to drove victims away. Isn't that sad?

I'm not saying that moslem is bad. Most of my friends are moslem also so I know that moslem is not like that. Yeah, like I've ever said in my previous posts, there's nothing wrong with the religion, but the people are.

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Mentawai Tsunami and Merapi Eruption in 2 days in Indonesia

From sea to mountain. After a great earthquake (7.2 SR) and tsunami (4-6 meters high) washed Mentawai, West Sumatra, Indonesia in Monday, October 25th 2010 at 9.40 pm, yesterday Great Merapi Volcano in Central Java, Indonesia erupted.

16 people died in Merapi Eruption while thousand people from 3 district of Central Java, Klaten, Boyolali, and Magelang has been evacuated. One of the victims is Azza, 6 month old baby. In Mentawai, until this post is written, 122 people died and 502 people lost. They might be has been swept away by tsunami which was occured 2 hours after earthquake

Additional information :
- There were 47 aftershocks happened in Mentawai, one of them rocked 5.4 Scale Richer, before Tsunami happened
- Many people died and lost because Local Meteorology Department has made a mistake by announced that there wouldn't be a Tsunami (even though at that time,the sea level had decreased drastically by 10 meters height and earthquake happened). People believed in it, do activity like usual, and sleeping peacefully when Tsunami came
- Mbah Maridjan (Mr. Maridjan) who worked as Merapi keeper found dead in mosque near his home in praying position. At night when Merapi Volcano was erupting, some rescue team has tried to evacuate him, but he refused. He believed that he would be saved by Merapi's Spirit as long as he prayed. However, God has different plan...
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Share-Things goes to PR 4 !

This is an awesome surprise from Google. Almost 1 month I didn't post any but Google increase my Page Rank to 4 (from PR 2) ! Thanks for everyone who's support this blog and I'm sorry I can't update this blog too often. I'm doing my final project now...



Thanks for everyone ^_^

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Mercedes Benz "Batik" Edition

After talk about how to get money, let's talk about this limited edition stuff.

For long time a go, Batik’s method or technique does not changing. You can find so many Batik product spread at all Indonesia regions with many patterns and colors which able to generate impressively style. But, today, not only cloth use this pattern, but car also. Yes! A car!.

What is Batik ? >>

Batik is typical way of making pattern for dress or cloth. According to an article at Wikipedia Indonesia, making of batik can refer to two things.  

First : the technique of coloring cloth using the wax to prevent only part coloring of the fabric. In the international literature, this technique is known as a wax-resist dyeing.  

Second : a cloth or clothing made with these techniques, including the use of certain motifs that have specificity. Indonesian Batik (batik dress), as the overall technique , technology, development and cultural motives related, defined by UNESCO as a Cultural Heritage for Humanity Oral and Nonbendawi (Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity) since October 2, 2009.

A luxurious Mercedes Benz C250 Avant Garde was successfully modified by applied Batik pattern into all of its body. Of course it's not easy. Batik have complex pattern, which have its own proportion rule. But there's a woman that succeed applied this enormous pattern on this 3-layer-skin car !

Carmanita, a woman who able to conjure a car worth 670 Million IDR ($ 72.8 K) to be a masterpiece, is a daughter of Mrs. Sud, famous Batik's artist in Indonesia. Actually this is a joint project from Mercedes Benz Indonesia to realize Batik at this car. Then, she got a trust and had been chosen to handle the project. Really a difficult project, but with her whole ability and efforts, she can complete the project perfectly. The pattern was designed by her own imagination together with her expert team (5 air-brush winner for national competition). It was truly amazing, Mercedes Benz C250 finally sold 1 Billion IDR ($ 108.7 K) in charity auction event at Jakarta. Maybe later, we can applied this "Batik" to all stuffs

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Updated Article

Realize that most of my visitor come from my beloved country, Indonesia, I'm planning to put Indonesian translation on my article. But I don't want to use Google Translator widget. Why? Because it make a mess.

Yesterday, I use Google Translation to translate History Of Valentine from wikipedia to Indonesian. You can guess the result. The meaning of  that history is a mess. Most of the sentences have different meaning. Google Translation is good for translate phrase but not for 1 long sentence or more sentences (more than 7 words). 

Right now, I will not make more blog in Indonesian. Two blogs have already consumed my time. So I'll just make new article in Indonesian or just give additional information on my previous article.

How can we know which article is updated in Indonesian?? 
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Google Hacked by A Girl from China

Google's recently expressed readiness to withdraw from China and to close all their operations there. The reason, the search engine giant has not put up with waves of attacks launched by hackers from the bamboo curtain country.



David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer of Google says, it found a "very sophisticated attack" that comes from China on Google's infrastructure.

"The attacks made us decide to review the feasibility of our business operations in China," Drummond called Google's official blog, January 12, 2010.

Google to choose step back from China showed the enormity hacker community in the country.

Until July 2008, an estimated 4 million people have joined in hacker communities hackers. One of them is a special group of hackers who call themselves women Cn Girl Security Team.

This hacker group led by the Hunan-born girl, 6 September 1989 named Xiao Tian.

In mind, we might imagine that a hacker is a typical teenager growing up, with improvised performances - if not exactly a bad way - with thick glasses, a heavy smoker, unkempt hair unkempt and rarely shower for most of his life in front of the computer .

Apparently not the case with Xiao Tian. Although she mentions often stay up and the occasional smoke, but it looks very neat. At a glance, see the appearance, you may be surprised that he was a leader of a group of hackers whose members reach more than 2,200 people hackers women.

Xiao Tian said, she made the group because she feels that there needs to be a place for teenage girls like, who feel left out of the crowded world of hackers by hackers man who thinks that hackers women do not have enough skills.

Slowly but surely, Xiao Tian and the group began to break hackernya male dominance in the world of hacking. They aimed for celebrity status that carried by the hackers in China and opened up opportunities 'career' which is available tempting for a hacker who has a high reputation.

Although hackers club members Xiao Tian still relatively small compared with the population of hackers in China, but the 'organization' hackernya may be one of the biggest female group of hackers in China.

Scott Henderson, a retired U.S. soldier who is an observer and author of The Dark Visitor: Inside the World of Chinese Hackers never mentioned in the Indian DNA. "Unique Aspects of China's hackers sense of nationalism and collectivism. This contrasts with the western stereotype that hackers are generally independent and working individually in the basement of their residence, "he said.

However, lately, a trend that happens is 'cyber army' is fragmented and form a criminal capitalists and began to leave their sense of nationalism.

However, Henderson said, a time when there is a conflict involving China, the hacker would have to mobilize their groups and engage in a virtual world wars. And when the time comes, 'general' Xiao Tian will probably be one of China's leaders the army.

Original Post by : http://speechyourm1nd.blogspot.com/

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ShareThings goes to PR 2 !

Woohooooo !!!

Thanks God, Google, and my beloved readers, now my blog has PR 2 ! few minutes ago I saw many friends of mine got their PR increase. So I decided to see my PR button on my blog. "PR 1/10". Hmm.. nothing change. So I thought, okay, this is not my luck. I need to post more and get more visitor. Theeennnn... I visited one of my friend's blog and see that he got PR 2 but his PR button doesn't change at all. First thing come on my mind was "I should check my PR !"

Go to http://prchecker.info, I type my blog address and waiting in curiousity.. And.. Tadaa.. "PR 2/10" ! Big smile crafted on my face. I began to click "next", "next", and "next" to get this updated PR button and put it on my blog ! Woohoooooo !! *dancing dancing dancing dancing"

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New design from Blogger

just realized today, 20 October 2009 (UTC+7) 9:00 a.m, that blogger has bring new design in "posting" section. You will see fresh layout when you are writing or editing post. The toolbar is not brown anymore but white. See the picture below...

Not only that, when you upload image, instead of square brown box, you'll see wide white-blue box as you can see on following picture

It become easier to upload your picture ! You don't have to click "OK" or "SUBMIT" anymore ! Just wait and feel free to upload more images because your picture will be automatically uploaded right after you put image link :)

Do you see picture below? YAP ! Before, you have to set your picture first before upload it. And if you don't like it, you have to upload it again. Let's forget about that. With this new blogger design, you can edit it after you upload it. Do you see that? You can change the size, position, and simply remove it by click.

Your uploaded image will not be placed at top of your post but at the bottom of your post. For me, It's really nice. I don't have to scroll up to top to bring it down to the bottom. But there is disadvantages also from this new layout,
1. You cannot move your picture as free as before. It will snap only to left/center/right/before text/after text
2. Color text will not as vary as before. Blogger reduced its text color variation for post. But for me, it's still okay
3. You cannot change image size as you will. Before, you can click on the image, click and drag your mouse on image's small box to change the size, right? Now you can't. It been setting only to small/medium/large/xlarge. Otherwise, you have to put the height and width manually from "edit HTML" tab

Beside, image tab, link tab was also changed. Now you can put your email address also to your link. And you can change text for your link together. Nice, isn't it?

Other problem also occurred today, many people failed to change google adsense setting (including me). I think it is because this new script. Hope Blogger team will solve this problem ASAP

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adsense errors

Ah, I'm so depressing.... today, I tried to put google ads in this blog.. It's okay for the first time with 468x15 horisontal row between post. But I don't like it.. It doesn't look good for me, so I manage to change it. Next thing what happened is I can't change it !

"Please correct errors on form"

That sentence appeared... I've tried so many times, restart my computer, log out and log in again. Nothing works.. When I tried to change it to banner ads, it shows error

bX-slbtls

I dig in blogger help in google and seems like many people got this problem also.. Phew.. hope google will solve this problem ASAP.. Anybody know how t fix this problem??

I think this problem occured because Blogger implemented new style for Posting

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Earthquake in Ujungkulon

Today, 16th Oktober 2009, earthquake occurred again in Indonesia. Located in Ujung Kulon, West Java, this earthquake has a power about M 6.4 (medium) on Friday at 16.52 local time (UTC +7).

The temblor had its epicenter at 6.79 degrees southern latitude and 105.11 degrees eastern longitude or about 42 kilometers northwest of Ujung Kulon at a depth of 10 kilometers. The ground movement was very little. People in Bandung, capital city of West Java, Indonesia can feel the movement pretty clear and panic but nothing broken and no one died. However, In Jakarta, some people even not realized that earthquake at all.

An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale also happened in Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi, on Friday at 2.33 local time. The quake`s epicenter was located at 3.54 degrees southern latitude, and 123.27 degrees eastern longitude, at a depth of 20 kilometers, and 88 km northeast of Kendari, according to information of the meteorological and and geophysics office

The earthquake did not have the potential to trigger a tsunami. No reports of casualties or damage were as yet received.

Let's hope there will be no greater earthquake in these recent days in Indonesia. Indonesia looked like still need more time to recover from the great earthquake in Sumatra. Before, on September 30, a powerful earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck West Sumatra and surroundings. The quake which was centered 78 km northwest of Padang, the capital of West Sumatra province, at a depth of 71 km in the seabed.

It caused major damage to 101,653, moderate damage to 48,966 and minor damage to 49,026 houses. Up till now, the West Sumatra earthquake has taken more than 1,000 lives, and left hundreds of people injured, and crushed 283,067 houses.

Indonesia is prone to seismic upheavals due to its location on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin. Read more!

Google in "USA Independence Day"

In 4th July, USA celebrate its Independence Day. Google, as one of the biggest search engine celebrate it by change its logo like the picture below

Maybe not many of you noticed this because today, you can only see this logo while you do search (usually google change its homepage logo). Similiar with other countries which celebrate its Independence Day, it is holiday too in USA. shopping centers held bazaar or big sale. Parks filled with families, kids, hotdog, games, and picnic basket. Maybe that's why google decided to use "picnic" theme, instead of "heroic" theme. Everybody smile and happy~



If you want to see this logo, just type something in google's search box and press enter. After a new page appear, you'll see that "independence day-google logo" on the upper left side of the search box

------------Happy Independence Day for USA------------

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New Template !

Hi ! I changed my template to this new "Smoky" by "Free Blogger Template"

What do you think about this template?
Which one better, this new one or the old one?

I don't know about the loading time because I feel no different between this and the old one I used before.. Hope this one is faster and has clearer page than before :) I haven't finished fixed this template yet. As you may recognized that "Continue Reading" text hasn't worked properly yet. Maybe tomorrow I'll fixed that and also updated this blog with new posts ! Be Patience :) I'll post about Bandung, one of the beautiful cities in Indonesia where I traveled to last 2 weeks.

Have you heard about Bandung? Bandung is called City of Flower and also Paris Van Java. Want to know why? Wait for my next post!

...............................................Good night all

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