Wednesday, January 24, 2007

China The Series #4

Flash back to Nanjing :)


*A Master is doing his job, making an artistic glass painting at his shop in Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge


*Night view of Fu Zi Miao (Confucius Temple)

I stayed in Mandarin Garden Hotel during trip to Nanjing. And Fu Zi Miao is a shopping area. Yes, a temple in the middle of shopping area :P You'll feel the same when visiting Yu Yuan Garden in Shanghai. Almost mighnight, less people walking around the area, weather below 0 degree celcius. Phew ...

Sunday, January 14, 2007

China the Series #3


Me & Aang, duo Arema lost in translation at China :P
Actually trio Arema, Dadik is not in the picture

* #1 is Nanjing, #2 is Beijing :P

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Beijing

Leaving Nanjing this afternoon. Arrive at Beijing, -2 celcius outside the airport. Well still OK.
Go straight to A Fun Ti for dinner and watching show from Xinjiang people. It's Friday, traffic jam is everywhere. No much different with Jakarta :P
Lucky got table in the restaurant and order some Xinjiang food. It's crowded inside. Maybe because it's Friday night, weekend. So ppl choose to spent the night in restaurant or other similar places along with their friends.
The food was so good, the show also. Start from traditional music, kungfu and very very pretty dancers :P Lucky me, i brought Decy's handycam with me so i could take some shoots :P One of the pretty dancer try to put a big snake in my shoulder. HUaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, I hate any kind of reptils. Please.
So an old mand win the prize, going to the stage with the pretty snake dancer and got Xinjiang hat + tshirt :P
Went to hotel around 10pm. one hour later i went outside with Yuan Chen, Hu Sin and Aang for a walk. Getting colder and windy in the street ... brrrrrrr, -6 in a sudden. Huaaaaaa, forgot to bring scarf but thanks to my 'astronout' jacket for keeping me alive :P
Brrrrr.....

Monday, January 08, 2007

Trip to Nanjing

Yup, today I'm leaving Hong Kong to Nanjing via KA 812. It's a breezy day in Hong Kong and I hope Nanjing weather will not be worse :P (Checked in net a while a go, almost 0 degree there ... pheww). I'll doing some system testing there.
Ah, and I also plan to go to Beijing. It's snowing there, and I never saw snow whole of my life :P I hope the test will go smoothly, finished all reports and i can be relax for a while :P
I'll write again after arriving on Nanjing. Hope can be online from there :P

Cya

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Met Taon Baru 2007

Happy New Year
Met Taon Baru
Sugeng Tahun Enggal

Nah, di tahun 2007 tang baru berjalan belum sampe 40 jam ini, Indonesia sudah diwarnai oleh peristiwa spektakuler. Sebelum tahun baru, KM Senopati Nusantara jurusan Dumai-Semarang karam di laut Jawa akibat terjangan ombak raksasa. Simpang siur jumlah penumpang ada yang bilang 540 ada yang bilang 640 makin membuat keluarga korban kalut karena ketidakjelasan informasi mengenai status korban dari pihak terkait. Korban mulai ditemukan, dengan posisi penemuan bergeser hingga lebih dari 100 mil ke arah Gresik.
Malam tahun baru di Maluku, seorang oknum polisi beserta beberapa temannya menganiaya sipil hingga cidera cukup parah. Emang tugas sampingan mereka itu menganiaya yah? Jadi mana tuh semboyan yang nirip 911 nya amrik, To Serve and Protect ? Melayani dan Melindungi? Memang sih ini cuman katakanlah 3 orang oknum, tapi kalo ditotal dari Sabang sampe Merauke, total oknum bang**t kayanya gini buanyak banget. Dah rahasia umum lah.
Di Pontiakan, seorang oknum Polri mati dianiaya 7 oknum TNI gara-gara wanita. Ternyata oknum TNI itu pengecut yah ? Bisanya keroyokan, kalo di suruh perang beneran paling dah terkencing-kencing di celana dan membelot ke musuh. Oh iya, ini bukan kali pertama di Pontianak, taon 1998 lalu kalo ga salah malah markas polisi di sana diserbu dengan kendaraan lapis baja. So pathetic .... komandannya ga becus bina anak buah.
Berita menyedihkan tentang kecelakaan kembali menyentak. Saya yang terkapar karena batuk berat ga bisa ngapa-ngapain selain mantengin tipi dan laptop!. Hehehehe, jalur internet dah rada sembuh. Pesawat Adam Air Jakarta-Surabaya-Manado hilang kontak dengan pihak bandara diseputaran Sulawesi Barat. Kontak terakhir dilakukan dengan checkpoint Makassar. Pesawat Boeing 747-400 dengan nomor penerbangan KI 574 ini membawa sekitar 96 penumpang. Awalnya saya berharap semoga pesawatnya nyasar ajah kaya yang pernah dilakukan awal tahun 2006 lalu (inget ga AdamAir melenceng seharusnya flight ke Makassar kok landingnya malah di NTT dan sampai sekarang kasusnya sepertinya menguap). Sampai tadi pagi katanya pesawat dipastikan jatuh. Mengingat dia cuman bawa bahan bakar untuk 4 jam penerbangan.
Barusan baca di detik.com, pesawat jatuh di pegunungan daerah Sulawesi Barat. Sementara ini baru 12 penumpang dinyatakan selamat. Saya turut berduka cita untuk keluarga korban.
Rangkaian Adzab untuk bangsaku tercinta yang penuh koruptor ini rupanya masih belum berakhir .....