Diou in a Journey

It is a big surprise when the first time see this video on Youtube. Finally Suciyati, a girl from nowhere now turn her life as a new "Idol". Well, maybe so many people doubt her talent as a singer, however she is a truly entertainer.

I know she has a unique thing that others do not have, She won a poetry writing competition long time ago, it was my honor to write her a poem about Palestine, that came in the first position that time. She appears in an Indie movie, in which i directed my self. Do your best Icus, who knows you can make your dreams come true. I remember she sings a KD’s song in my B’day party, it was the same song she sang in the Indonesian Idol result and reunion last July on RCTI. Good Luck and take care Cus…

Yes, this is a good news for Indonesian Badminton. Sony Dwi Kuncoro and friends won 4 out of 5 Championship category. Despite the absent of Chinese team counterpart due to political reason, and only Chen Hong present his country in Taiwan, yet Indonesia can play better than Japan Super Series earlier this month.

Here you are the result of the Taiwan Super Series :

Sonny Dwi Kuncoro (Indonesia) v Taufik Hidayat (Indonesia): 18-21, 21-6, 21-13

Markis Kido/Hendra Setiawan (Indonesia) v Lars Paaske/Jonas Rasmussen (Denmark) 21-17, 21-12.

Flandy Limpele/Vita Marissa (Indonesia) v Thomas Laybourn/Kamilla Rytter Juhl (Denmark) 21-18, 25-23

Chien Yu Chin/Cheng Wen Hsing (Taiwan) v Vita Marissa/Lilyana Natsir (Indonesia) 15-21, 21-17, 18-21

Wang Chen (Hongkong) v Pi Hongyan (Prancis) 21-18, 14-21, 26-24

So only from the women single Indonesia can not dominate, while the rest is true. A note Taufiq Hidayat beat by Sony in this championship and Vita marisa/Natsir becomes the best in the women double. Thanks guys…

Source: Suara Merdeka & Jawa Pos

Here we go with something that always eye catching when we drop in someone else friendster, myspace, Hi5 or Facebook profile. Yups what is her/his relationship status.

Obviously, we might think that someone who is single is a better person to built a friendship with and not with those who is married, complicated, engage or even the one who has label "Domestic Partnership". The last status i mention maybe should be understood in a better logic though, why? please look up your dictionary soon.

Usually, someone who claims his/her status it’s complicated, he or she actually already in a serious relationship, yet come under serious obstacles. What if single? come on it’s rare to see these single friends in friendster for whatever reason is really single in this era, they just not out spoken,,,i might be wrong about this,,,but may be true.

Today i experienced one funny thing. hmm how to say that, when we were listening to the speech for this Friday pray. One little dog enters the praying area. Don’t know what really happening, so this dog surprises all the people who sit near the door.

People start to stand up, run, and look ignorance to the dog, one lady enter the place and get the dog out to play with her again. Fortunately, one guy brave enough to take the dog away. Funny though, but that’s true no pets allow in the praying area. He he once in a live time.

Pic Source: Google image

When most of people find difficult to speak because of traditional reasons such as coy and lack of confident. There is something that potentially be more difficult than speaking in front of public, which is listening.

Listening although seems more passive in the process of conversation but requires more skills than speaking. When listen to a lecture for examples, we tend to concentrate in the first 15 minutes of the lecture while the rest we just ignore the lecture. Yups Listening also important to show that we care the speaker, it is difficult though.

Because, conversation is two way communication so that as listener we must be proactive and aware that by listening carefully and respectfully to the speaker then the message can be transfered better. One evidence shows that the result of IELTS test achieved by students usually higher in speaking but less in listening test.

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Life is a learning journey, even vast majority of expert in motivation agree that opportunity to learn from daily routine is one of tools to motivate people.

What else motivate people who dis motivated? well, there is what expert call with challenges and dare to make mistakes. When you are challenged to do something better or to achieve a specific target you short of willing to give more efforts though.

There are two obvious options in this journey, let ourselves sink or swim, which one we choose if we only have these two. Sink to loose or swim to reach your target. Just stay awake,,do not give up.

Pic: Google Image

Poor people in Jakarta need to re-think about their future in this Ramadhan month. The new local authority rule to ban all beggars from the street and sanction for other who give them charity in the street directly.

It is sad story of Jakarta, in which enjoy the privilege of Indonesian development. As quote from the Age 15 September 2007, there are around 2 million poor people around Jakarta who must join a quarantine program before sent back to their original home in the country side.

What about the 1945 bills about the poor, the government protect and care the poor. This is ironic, in this Ramadhan month, the rich more concern on the stability and the cleanness of the city, tidy and beautiful. however the rich put this matter under the carpet, i think Jakarta is belong to both the rich and the poor.

This is Kolak, a traditional food for breaking fast during Ramadhan. The core ingredient is bananas.

Meanwhile, this picture depicts someone plays Badminton during the sunset.

So what is the link between these two, 3-4 years back in Malang some Badminton fanatic try to mix between Kolak and Badminton to a part of their routine during Ramadhan. Yups some of Badminton association members, including me sell Kolak as a Takjil for breaking fast along Veteran Road in Malang. We never know that someday we gonna miss what we did before, like me today, i miss to taste Kolak as Takjil again, moreover i miss you all my Badminton friends.

To conclude, I just want to let you know that, today in Japan Super Series. Indonesian Badminton Atlethes such as Taufik Hidayat will face Lee Chong Wei, Nova/Lilyana against the number one mix double Gao/Bao from China, then Alvent/Luluk is Challenged by Chandra/Tony in the Final Stage of the Tournament. Let’s pray for them, so that they can win the Championship, amien.

Pic: Google Image

This picture is taken from the Google image. I was surprise to see the latest fashion style around the world. The usage of "Surban" is becoming common for fashion followers, not only for those people in the Middle Eastern Nations but also in a country like Australia especially in the city like Sydney and Melbourne.

In Indonesia "Surban" only common for people to go to the praying places, or for those who just doing Hajj. This fenomena is clearly a fashion, however some people think that "Surban" is the symbol of un-agreement or rebelism against the status quo. No worder that we can easily see young people like to use "Surban" as accesories, the lates APEC demonstration also proves that "Surban" is for everyone not the monopoly of the Middle Eastern people, or is it the impact of Globalization? no clue for that.

Money for many people is the most important thing in the word, perhaps not all of us agree with that. There are, however some things that we can not buy with money. Yes we can have a good house, a nice car, a modern laptop and so on.

Unfortunately, money can not buy happiness, friends, love and heaven. Therefore, the wise way to view money is just supplement in this life not everything though.