tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256194952010-01-14T18:52:23.611Z"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." Norman Mac Ewanmatahari-mataharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14316151885405845321noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25619495.post-71466433306928957072008-12-22T20:55:00.002Z2008-12-22T21:07:21.712Z

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I didn't up date this blog for long time, no excuses other than busy. I have been visiting my birth country Indonesia. Of course there are lots of story I can write here but thought for this time I just want to write a litle bit about my journey back to the country where I was born.Bitung-Manado-TomohonIt’s been 3 years since my last visit, there are lots things has change, the public sectors has

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This file has been sitting in my old folder for two years, I was amazed to found this accidentally while I was searching for other file.This is a very good imaginary chatting that I have translated from Bahasa Indonesia and modified a litle bit into English. I don’t know who the original author is, I wish I knew.....whoever she/he was, I would like to say thank you for enhanced my spirit.Hope you

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It’s been long time since my last posting in September; I have been busy lately, and thought to publish something for Christmas in this Christmas eve. So, I came out with this video that I filmed in September when I visited my Indonesian friends who are living in Germany, I have the permission to talk about my visit in their house.They both are good friends of mine, we met long time ago, more

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Last Friday, my daughter and I had the pleasure of having the taste of the 60’s night party, the party was organised by the people from the church, and the dress code was of course the 60’ style. After carefully choose an outfit and shoes to match with the 60’s style I came out with this black dress and the boots, I don’t even know if that 60’s style or not, I just hope that outfit not offending

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Picture this; I was on the bus on my way home after teaching, the bus was full, when I step inside, I saw 7 or 8 pupils age range 12 to 15, boys and girls were sitting at the back of the bus proudly smoking, chatting loudly, laughing and giggling, I immediately recognized them as the pupils from my school from the uniform they are wearing, having been just sent two pupils to detention centre

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With the horrific news that 11 year-old child returning from football training has been shot dead in Liverpool, the shooting in Nothing Hill carnival, kids shooting kids, it seems the serious crime in Britain is truly out of control, it happens almost everyday and we have become used to this kind of unwelcome news. Gun crime, gangland killings are so commonplace, and how the government responds

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I almost forgot!....today is the Indonesia Independent’s day, I used to have tears whenever I heard this national anthem in my first year here in UK, but now listening to the lyrics and analyzed through my head it make me laugh, don't get me wrong..., I still love Indonesia, I have lots of relatives and friends over there, it’s just the situation after the 62 years of Independent and the system

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Some moments mean so much to us that we wish we could preserve them unchanged so that the happiness they bring never fades. I just returned from Wales, I had a fantastic time with my relative and her little boy, my friend and her two children and of course my beautiful daughter.We driving everyday all day through the Welsh mountains and Lakes just to enjoy the beauty of the nature, we stop in

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I took my daughter and her 2 of Hong Kong team from her youth exchange program who stayed over the weekend with us, thought to take them around to have the taste of Cheshire, we meant to go to Cheshire Ice Cream farm where the visitors can watch the ice cream is made with the milk from the herd of over 300 cows present on the farm, (you can even watch them being milked), but we then saw the sign

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Indonesia has suffered a great number of insults to its pride and integrity recently.A revised European Union airline blacklist includes all 51 Indonesian airlines, including national carrier Garuda. The list was put together by an EU air safety committee, which was approved on 6th July.Now the Arabs and the Korean are threatening to follow the EU, to ban the Indonesian Airlines. No Indonesian

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Saturday, went to Chester zoo, got invitation for the launching of "Orang utans", unfortunately, was raining all day, what an awfull weather! was not a pleasant day to explored the zoo, fortunately, I had anticipated by bringing my umbrella in my bag.There were few celebrities and some dignitaries including "Birute Galdikas", she is the president of orang utan and very well known in Indonesia, I

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I'am still recovery from the eatalthon event in Ika's, I think I have put extra kilos..(thx to Ika for not giving us the change to rest out tummy...ha..ha..ha...). also my memory still full of the beautiful moments that we have had in Ika's and her family (thx again for your hospitality).

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I took this photos when I visited the Indo's friend who lives by the River Dee in Chester City.Watching the pigeons being feed by the visitors (including our group) and to watch how their wings were open, how the group of hundreds of pigeons suddenly flew away by the distractions of the visitors and how they landed together from the blue sky, was a different experience.

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Feeling let down by close ones lately?, do you know how to get to your “destination” safely? This is probably a good guide for you.The road way to success is not always smoothThere are bends called “Failure”There are roundabout called “Confusions”There are humps called “Friends”There are amber lights called “Family”There are red traffic lights called “Enemy”You will go through tire deflated; it's

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This story came from a forwarding email some years ago, I thought to extrated and translated in English and publish onto my blog.There was a story of a young gentleman who live and studied in the US and have returned to his country, when he arrived home he asked his parents to find a priest or whoever could answer his three important questions that bothered him a lot.Long story short, the

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Easter supposed to be a religious event, but I guessed not in this country anymore, Easter here is more and more commercial.Shops are decorates with Easter bunny, no one greets people Happy Easter and even worst Friday is open as usual, there isn’t any indication that this country is celebrate true Easter other than the churches, although 40 million people in this country declared or claimed to

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I don’t have teaching schedule today, I was like huraaay, so I have free time to do number of things.I was planning to do some house works before I go on the computer, then came the mails, one of them from Victoria Australia,…..it was from the 6 years old twins Nic and Becca, (they are the children of my good friends), ......I was exited and like huraaay..., was very happy to get mail from them…

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Have you ever had lunch entertained by the chef? Well if you haven’t then try Sapporo.While we having our starter which was Sushi, we were entertained by the Chef who is cooking our main meal in front of us (eight of us, the table is in U shape and the Chef is inside the U shape with his cooking gears).The entertainment begin with showing his skills by threw an egg on the air and guess what?....

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(resource of this picture is unknown)What is the joy of smoking if all these poisonous stuffes and accumulate in your body? how long you gonna be around in this world?.There are lots of research about the impact of smoking on human health, and I believed most of the smokers are fully aware about this. I've got friends who are smoking (not heavily), most of them wanted to stop smoking, one of

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Went to Liverpool on Sunday to Chinatown for the Chinese Year of the Pig celebration, was just too packed to enjoy the proceedings as crowd everywhere and rerun of previous one we attended, with fire crackers and two lions and dragon doing their thing.Apparantly this golden pig only appear every 60 years according to Chinese Calender, and according to their Feng Sui is the good year to have

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Have you installed this software in your heart..? if you haven’t then please observe attentively the dialogue between the customer and the software operator.I've got this from the discussion forum online that I have involved in 2003, unfortunately, I don't have the author's name as I only copy and paste it and kept it in my folder, and here is the dialogue that I have translated.C : Hallo....!O :

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Height fear known as Acrophobia defined as "a persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of heights or high levels" according to changethatsrightnow.com (2006)Fear of height was really affecting my life, especially my leisure life, but the strange thing is I don’t have fear of flying with airplane.I don’t quite remember when and how it started, as far as I can remember back to 6 or 7 years ago,

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This letter came from an email by a friend a year ago, I was trying to clean some old emails and found this in my inbox and thought to publish in my blog, is touching me a lot, this letter is very familiar in the world that we are living today.Dear All,As you well know, we are getting closer to my birthday. Every year there is a celebration in my honor and I think that this year the celebration

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