The Journey Of My Life

Yeah, I think all of us must have hopes, dreams…or whatever it called…(only dead people don’t :D)
We always set our hopes as high as possible, altough we know that we can’t always achieve it all…be optimistic, isn’t it?

The main problem is, what will we do when we can’t get our hope?

crying?
mourning?
hopeless?
wanna die? NOOO!!! :o, don’t even think about that…!!

heheh…for me, when it’s happened…it’s like a giant walls was surrounded upon me…i can’t go forward, backward, up, down, or left, or right…simply…I can’t move…or in fact…I don’t want to move…:(

I’m blaming, feeling pity of myself (this is the right time to play blues, just kidding :p)…I feel useless, and I often complained God in my pray: "God, i have a very, very big problem right now…I need Your help! Please help me!" (notify the exclamation mark…yeah! i dictated God…how ironic)

But, what a lovely God I have…He don’t mind it, instead He gave me the answer…unfortunately, I can’t heard it.

He answered again…heard nothing…
He answered again…still can’t heard…
He answered again…oh my God! am I deaf? :O

No! It was because of my sin, so it’s like He was far, far away, whereas He’s always near from the very beginning.

End of the world? hmm, don’t forget that He’s very faithful…
He answered in another ways that I didn’t ever imagined before (of course…)

How? Mostly He answers by the peoples around me, such as my mother, my friends, etc…after i realized it…that God gave me answers, I can’t refrain to bow down, crying and pray: "Thank You, God. Why You’re so kind to me…?"

Oftenly, I remember this song:

Here I am, humbled by Your Majesty
Covered by Your grace so free
Here I am, knowing I’m a sinful man
Covered by the blood of the Lamb

Majesty, Majesty
Your grace has found me just as I am
Empty handed but alive in Your Hands
[Majesty, by: Delirious?]

And I didn’t say again: "God, I have a very big problem",
but I said: "Hey problem! I have a very big God!"

Again, thank You God, my pleasure to have Lord like You…

GBU.
D.R.

test..test..

hurray, it’s still alive…..my blog :p

hehehe, it’s been a long time…days? weeks? months?
i can excuse that i was too busy, no time, slow
connections…etceterah..blah.blah.blah..the facts is…i’m just too
lazy to write, and i’m not in a good mood…:D…even now…but i push
myself to write because i’m still in the memento

sorry for my English, especially my tenses, grammar, etc…i know it’s
somehow wrong here & wrong there, but i’m sure you can understand

first of all, thank you my Lord…i’m graduated (again)..well…it was
a very hard process i must faced, especially at the thesis phase, but
because of You i can pass it all…dang! if i remember how i must work
overtime from night till dawn, stop my work, losing my social
interactions, the time overdue so i have to pay for another semester…and…i’m
become fatter :D, i feel like i want to give up…but…thank
you…again…thank you Jesus, thank you for everyone that encouraged and supported me…it’s over…plus, i got bonus…i
graduated Cum Laude….yeah…a close-limit Cum Laude actually :p,
but…it’s still a bonus

i can’t describe how happy i am…make my parents proud…got my "life" back, i can concentrate to work again…etc.
well…the graduation may just be a formally ceremonial (another
ceremony that i’ve experienced before), hence i can share happiness with
my colleagues, it was an unvaluable joy..it’s mean everything…it’s
one-in-a-life-time memory that i couldn’t ever have again….and i
can’t stop to grateful…thank you Lord..thank you Jesus..thank you
Holy Spirit…it’s all because of You, and this is for You, for the
glorify of Your name…

now, the ceremony is over…the euphoria almost gone, but there’s another story that still remains…

i have this feeling again…the feeling which i haven’t experienced
since years ago…(am my feeling dead? :?)…the feeling of the joy
mixed up with palpitates, hankering, and haze…yes..the feeling of
crush…i’m in crush with someone…someone that i never think about
before…someone…that’s when she near me, it’s seems far away…now when
i’m realized that i’m in crush….ZAP! i went crazy…:O

oh God, please help me…keep my heart and mind pure…i don’t want to
fall with the wrong crush again…not without You…make me stay calm…
yes, i know that i desire someone, but let me know if it’s Your wish or
not…if it is, then You’ll make everything clear to me, make this
crush into love, but if it is not…let’s this feeling pass away with
the time…and it’s just another story in my live…let Your will be
done…

Well, girl, you may be read this (or not?)…i just want you to know,
that you woke up the "giant" in my heart…i read your
signal…honestly…i want to response it and i’m very happy if i can make it with you,
but…i just don’t want to go in a rush…let the time and the Holy
Spirit show us the way…
it may be seems too religious…wheter you believe it or not…it’s just…i don’t want to take the wrong decision again…

GBU.
D.R.

This blog was dedicated to my psychiatrist, Abraham "Babam" Jonathan…..huahaha…i’m not crazy that i need a psychiatrist my friend, it’s just that he was a friend of mine and he felt dissapointed because i didn’t mention his name in the previous blog…hehehe….

Okay….back to the laptop (Tukul style TM)….i feel depresed because my thesis deadline was only a week left, in exact it’s on April 2nd, 2007, and i haven’t finished yet…

i’m stucked on the 4th chapter and my lecturer adding some more topics…hiks…

huhuhu….i’ve already feel tired because i didn’t have enough sleep for i’m always sleep at dawn for this lately few months…

OMG….i just realized that it’s just only 5 days left from this day…. and what am i doing here writing a blog……goosh…., back to the work, quick….

I’ve failed to fulfilled the due date before, and because of that i have to paid some amount of money that isn’t cheap……i don’t want to be late again…

okay, let’s make it quick….i need all your prays…all your supports….and whatever…so i can make it in time…

Friends….without Him and you i’m nothing, and this was seem like an impossible mission, but i put my trust in Him, and i know someday i can facing the best tomorrow with Him..

(over cool mode=on, but the "things" about Him was true…)

Thanks for your time

GBU.

D.R.

Waw, it has been a long time since i wrote my last blog, i wan’t to share many things, but this time i’ll wrote it in Indonesian, because i was too lazy to translating :D.

Hari Minggu 10 Desember 2006 kemaren, aku baru balik dari Jakarta, itu adalah "pelarian" dari segala masalah yg kuhadapi akhir2 ini, mulai masalah deadline pekerjaan yg edan2an, trus tesis yg telat akhirnya harus bayar lagi untuk perpanjangan, sampe masalah intern di gereja….duh!!! bener2 puyenk…!!

Di Jakarta selain sebagai "pelarian", sekalian aku ikut acara gathering Gitaris.com yang diadakan tanggal 9 Desember, juga mengunjungi teman2 lama & pengen dateng lagi ke JPCC

Ngomong2 masalah gathering, sebenernya aku juga ingin ikut gathering Guitar Forum, sekalian nge-jam bareng anggota yang lain, sayang acaranya bebarengan dan lokasinya terpisah cukup jauh, sehingga aku hanya dapat datang ke salah satunya saja.
Entah barengan itu disengaja atau tidak, atau mungkin terkait "perseteruan" kedua forum, terlepas siapa yang salah…kenapa harus ribut & mengungkit2 "perseteruan" itu terus sih? Ga bosen apa, tiap hari mengingat2 hal itu…?
Iya aku tahu kita pernah ribut2 gara2 masalah itu dan kalian sudah "made your point", tapi yang aku heran orang2 yang sebenarnya punya "masalah" malah tidak terlalu ambil pusing, paling nyinggung2 doang, justru yang lain itu yang "memanas-manasi" dan "mengkompori" hingga semua ribut………sadarkah kalau ada pihak2 yang sepertinya berusaha "mengadu domba"?
(i know you guys read this…come on, let’s just live peacefully)
Okay, gak perlu meributkan hal itu di sini, aku akan melanjutkan dengan topik lain…

Aku berangkat tanggal 8 Desember malem, naik Air Asia…sengaja aku sebut namanya, karena aku punya uneg2 dengan mereka….rencananya pesawat berangkat pukul 19:50 WIB, tetapi pada waktu aku ke ruang tunggu keberangkatan ada begitu banyak orang disana, ternyata pesawat ini sudah delay sejak siang tadi….waks!!

"Ah, pesawat delay itu sih biasa", pikirku, tetapi ternyata sampai jam 00:00 hari berikutnya aku belum diberangkatkan, suasana di ruang tunggu sudah mulai ribut, banyak bapak2 yang marah2, gebrak2 meja & kaca, bahkan memaki2 pegawai & manajernya (manajer regionalnya sampai turun tangan…), karena mereka membawa anak balita bahkan bayi serta orang tua, kasihan dari siang sampai malam disuruh menunggu terus…….singkat cerita setelah terjadi "kerusuhan" yang sangat hebat, pukul 01:30 pesawatku diberangkatkan, aku sampai di jakarta pukul 02:30 dan naik mobil carteran ke kost’an Danny Baskara (thx berat ya Dan, sori dah ngrepotin).

Siangnya aku berangkat ke gathering bareng Danny, di sana ketemu banyak temen2…Insan, Reffys, Andre Ale2mo, Diaz, Boy, waaah!! Banyak deh kalo disebutin satu2…..gile yang dateng aja ratusan….untungnya sempet foto sama Balawan & oom Jopie Item

Habis acara, malemnya aku ke rumah kontrakan Hendrik…akhirnya bisa ketemu lagi sama Hendrik, Gani, Mario & Dharmawan setelah sekian tahun cuma bisa ketemu di messenger….:)

Besoknya aku berencana ke JPCC di Hotel Nikko depan Plaza Indonesia, naik busway dari Harmoni, tapi dasar dudul…..aku kira terminalnya bernama "Plaza Indonesia", ternyata "Bunderan HI", alhasil aku duduk nungguin kok ga nyampe2? sampe ada pengumuman "Kita sampai di terminal terakhir Blom M", waks!!! Aku nyasar sampe Blok M, akhirnya harus beli karcis lagi balik ke Bunderan HI, hehehehehe….:D

Gara2 itu aku sampe di JPCC telat, mana aku ga tau ruangannya, jadi muter2 deh…sampe keringetan, trus setelah ketemu sudah masuk firman, trus kok kerasa ada yang janggal? ternyata aku lupa bawa alkitab….huahahahahahaha….paraah!
Tapi firmannya bener2 bagus, mengenai keluarga, yaitu bagaimana seorang suami & istri bersikap.

Temenku dikit banget di JPCC, yg aku inget itu Triphossa Devi & Jopie, tapi si Devi sudah ke Australia, sedangkan Jopie aku sms ternyata sedang tepar (sakit), udah deh, habis acara aku langsung pulang…:p

Siangnya ke Glodok bareng Danny lagi, biasa….hunting DVD konser…:D

Trus malemnya aku pulang ke bandara dianterin Danny naik motor…….bener2 perjalanan yang jauh, muter2 masuk ke desa, eeeh…ternyata ketemunya di pintu gerbang bandara :D. Thx berat lho Dan! that was very very tough journey :p

Akhirnya pulang deh aku ke Surabaya, dijemput papa-mama tercinta…

oleh2 dari Jakarta? Aku masuk angin, soalnya selama dua hari kurang tidur & ke mana2 naik motor….hehehehehe

Thank’s dah baca blog ku yang panjang ini.

GBU.
D.R.

I’ve just watched the GMB 10th Anniversary Concert, in Surabaya Supermal Convention Centre. As expected from every GMB concerts….nice songs plus encore with amazing praises & worships. The ticket fee was only 40 thousand rupiah and for me it was too cheap…..i don’t know, i can’t say why, but i feel i get much annointings, musics, happinesses, joys also new friends from every of their concerts i watched, and it’s just for 40 thousand rupiah….again 40 thousand rupiah…Compare it with the Fourplay concert which was 75 thousand rupiah for the back class & more price for the VIP class, and i only got the musics….., yeah, i know i can get the different atmosphere there and new friends too, but the GMB concerts gave me more things that very-very uncomparable with the usual concert.

Sidney Mohede as the worship leader bring the great atmosphere to the show, supported by the excelent band-mates, name it: Daniel Sigarlaki, Jeffry Hermanto, Pongki Prasetyo, Amos Cahyadi and not-to-forgot (or  hard-to-forgot) Adi Prasojo . They bring the superb nuance…….uah! can’t say it, you’ve to feel it yourself…..you have to come next year or you missing the best concert….

Now i talk about the technical things:
First, the committee were worked all-out at their very best, from the ticketing, security, operational, etc. even most of them was felt very-very tired because they did their best, including my brother
The opening act was did by Rocky Ventury (eh, am i wrote it right?), i think he wasn’t too bad, but pitily his song wasn’t very popular so he doesn’t got many responses from the audiences…..hmm minus point   (or maybe this was usually happened to the opening act performances??)
The sound system was average, it was already use two 3×3 hanged-speakers (larger than the first concert in the Plaza Tunjungan), but since the room was very large and the reverb of the room was pretty bad, so the sound bounced everywhere in the room and made the sound product wasn’t at the very best condition, even at the opening act, the sound was distorted very bad…another minus point , but from the middle to the end of the show, the GMB’s soundman can handle this problem…i can hear them clearly…that’s the professional hands effect
The lighting…….what can i say….this is the best part….i can’t explain it in details, just look at my pics below and you can feel what i mean…

Still about the room, it was too big for approximately 2 or 3 thousand and more audiences, so there was still many empty spaces..too bad…maybe you wan’t to fill it next year or maybe your friends/families/relatives??? i hope so
The audiences….like always…most of them can’t freely express their feelings, because they’re affraid it would make them look weird….so the "shy-factor" was very dominant LOL.

And, what a concert without a photographs?? Here’s my pics (in particular order) with Sindey Mohede, Daniel Sigarlaki, Jeffry Hermanto, Pongky Prasetyo, and Adi Prasojo. Too bad i didn’t get the photo with Amos Cahyadi.

note: that’s my brother

note: Daniel + Daniel = Daniels

note: douch! I was very fat lately

Oh, yeah, i want to say to Mr.Amos Cahyadi & Mr. Adi Prasojo, may God bless you always..

Last but not least, here is my pics with Benny, the promotor of this show and my good friend & brother in God. Thx Ben, you did a great job. God bless you in the next year concert.

In the end, i want to say thank you all for reading my blog.

GBU.

D.R.

Pheww! i just done the modification on my guitar.
I replaced my three old-standard pickups….mmm btw, did you know what guitar pickup is?
It’s some electrical components (actually it was a coil with something that i don’t know) located on the main guitar body, under the guitar strings, to "pick up" the sound produced from the strings resonance.
You can barely see it in most of electrical guitars in the world, only the models were different.
It’s divided by "single" (S) pickups and "humbucker" (H) pickups. Normally, the "humbucker" pickups was bigger than "single" because there’s two coils instead of one, but with the current technology, there exist "single-sized-humbucker" pickups.
Okay, enough talking about the pickups, you’ll see what i’m talking later.

My old-standard guitar pickups cofiguration was "Single-Single-Single" or sometimes written "S-S-S".
This was the standard pickups configuration for "Stratocaster"-model guitar like mine. The old look was like this:

Well, actually not all in the pic were the same with mine, the diffrent was in the headstock, mine was wood-like color instead of black, but the rest were the same. I took this pic from the CARVIN website.

fyi, "Stratocaster" or "Strato" term was first used by one of the biggest guitar factory: Fender. I bet most of you know this name, if not, then you have to read more :p.
There’s also many other models, such as: "Telecaster", "Les Paul", "PRS", etc, but we won’t talk about it.

I want to change it to H-S-H configuration.
Why i change it?
Well, first reason:
After some years of playing, the sound produced by my old pickups was very weak and very thin, so if i lowered the volume, i can’t clearly hear the note, but when i turn up the volume, i got feedback from the speaker. Bah! That’s horrible.
Second reason: I can’t afford a new guitar..he..he..he

But to change the pickups was not a cheap and easy thing.
For the good sound sake, i ran a money saving from my income from few months ago (about 4-5 months ago)…… *** oh my income :`( hiks, hiks, sniff ***, and finally i can bought it. Yeah!
A humbucker pickup cost about USD$ 85-99 in the overseas (approximately Rp.700,000.- to 1,500,000.- in Indonesia), and for the single pickup was about USD$ 45-60 (approximately Rp.500,000.- to 800,000.- in Indonesia). Notice that the Indonesia price were more expensive.
I bought two humbucker and a single new pickups, so you can count it by yourself!
But thank’s God, i didn’t get the maximum price, i spend about Rp.2,100,000.- overall. But it wasn’t included the pickguards, potentiometers, switches, knobs, spotlight stickers, etc, so it cost nearly Rp.3,000,000-. Wow! Quite a price for me!
Oh, yeah, the brand was Dimarzio if you want to know.

I did the wiring by myself and it took me about 2 days to did that. Thank’s God, i got many informations from the internet.
If i only wired the pickups to work independently, it was just easy then, but i want every pickups to work in series, parallel, and even the humbuckers to work in single coil only instead of two and there’s more….the electricity flow can be in phase or out of phase, so i can get many sound combinations. What a work?! :p
I won’t explain the wiring here, because it’ll need very long explanations.
You can call me personally if you were interested, or you can search in the internet.
If you curious about it, then i gave you a sneak peek what it’s look like inside my guitar:

Complicated huh?!
But, don’t worry. The important thing is what’s look outside (see pic below) and how was the sound like :).

Hmmm…minimalist
Notice that i changed the pickguard and added two extra knobs, also there’s a little switch under the selector.

Well, that’s all. I must continue in my thesis proposal revision.
I hope i can serve Him more with my new modification.

GBU.

God, please help me on my thesis.

I’m still on the 2nd chapter.

I know you’ll help me.

Amen.

Oh yeah! Finally, the quarter-finals of World Cup Soccer 2006.

Actually, i’m not a fan of soccer, but for World Cup, it’s worth to see, especially at the finals.

From WC 1998 at France, WC 2002 at Japan-Korea, i like to watch it, even it’s only the grand final =p (for me, the other game just to boring, well it’s just IMHO).

But this year was a little bit different, i watch it from the first-round-finals, even though i missed some of the game =). Don’t know why?!

Maybe i like it because of the world cup soccer, the war, the politics conflicts, the…..whatever not good, were stopped for a moment, and every nations from all the world fighting together for the good sake. Do you agree with me?

(Despites there’s a chance of conspirations between the soccer federations goverments & the referees)

Another thing i like to watch was each country strategies to win, wow! it’s wonderful.

My favourite teams were: Brazil & South Korea, but both were lost before the quarter-finals. (That’s sports, there always be the winner(s) and the loser(s)).

That’s all, may the best & fair team win the World Cup trophy.

GBU.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006, after all my job was done, i bought my airplane ticket, but since i bought it at the noon then i have to bought the next day ticket, and i have to return to the travel agent tomorrow morning at 6:00am WITA, because the mass transport (angkot) were only came at 6:00am WITA and 8:00am WITA everyday.

It was my habit to go at least half hour before the time to my destination and i forgot that this town was not as crowded as Surabaya especially in the morning, so because i have to arrived at the travel agent at 6:00am WITA, then i told the "ojek" driver to take me at 5:15am WITA. My calculation was: i’ll wake up at 5:00am WITA, take a bath and dressed for 15 minutes, leave at 5:20am WITA and arrived at the travel agent at 5:45am WITA, so i’ll have 15 minutes spare time.

But calculation was only a plan. Thursday, May 11, 2006, the driver came to my rent house at 5:00am WITA, so i have to take a bath and dressed in a hurry, then i leave at 5:15am WITA and it was only took 10 minutes from my rent house to the travel agent, so i arrived at 5:25am WITA. 20 minutes earlier.

The road was very dark, not much road lamp and not much vehicle passed. The monument’s torch lighted very bright in the dark. In short, it was very dark, quiet and a little bit scary =X, and it was the time for the moslem people to do their dawn praying (sholat subuh). To kill my fear, i started to pray (as a christian, i don’t want to lost my diligent from the moslem. No offence =p).

After i finished pray, i took a walk on the travel agent’s terrace, but because it was very dark, i didn’t saw that there’s a manhole for oiling the car, and also, the manhole was closed by two car. I stepped through, and i slipped. It was very fast that i didn’t remember anything. The only thing i remember was my jaw crashed very hard to the side of the hole and i shouted: "JESUS".

Well, there’s a power in the name of JESUS. After i shouted His name, i can quickly grab the side of the hole and balanced my body so i can landed firmly on the ground, and most of it, i didn’t fainted. (Normally, people will be fainted when they hurt very hard especially in the head).

Thanks God.

But, after i got out from the hole, i felt something was dropped from my body. Yes, you’re right it was my blood. I quickly went to the back of the travel agent and knocked at an opened door i saw first, and a man showed up. I’m sure it’s not openend by coincidence, but it was God who opened it.

He helped me so i can wash my body and my dirty clothes, and he also gave me some medicine and close my wounds using "betadine" and lint, not to forget, his wife also gave me a glass of tea. He (the owner) suggest me to sew my wounds in the hospital (well, actualy it’s only polyclinic) because it was very hard, but i refused it. As a sympathy, he gave me a special prize to carter his car to Banjarmasin….surprise!!! He was the owner of the travel agent, and also the owner of the hole where i slipped =p. But i know all of this was arranged by God, because He loves me =).

Oh yeah, to mention how hard my wounds were, i can touch my skull bone when i washed it….yuch! =p. I got hurt in my jaw and my left foot, under my knee.

Because i were use a car instead of mass transport, then i can arrived at Banjarmasin for only 5 hours…wow! It was 12:00pm WITA when i arrived at the Samsudin Noor Airport and my plane was still departed at 15:35pm WITA, so that’s mean i had to waited for 3 and half hours =(. But thanks God, i didn’t felt any pain in my wounds and i can endure it until i arrived at Surabaya, even though i was bleeding all over my travel.

After i arrived at Juanda at 17:00pm WITA (16:00pm WIB), my father and mother took me and ran me to the emergency unit (UGD). The hospital male nurse was shocked when i told him that i got hurt at 5:30am WITA (4:30am WIB), so it was more than 12 hours =p.

They gave me local anaesthetize and sew my wounds in the jaw and foot. Totally it was 7 stitchs in my foot, but the doctor won’t tell me the stitchs i had in my jaw, he only said that i my wound was about 3cm wide. yuch =p.

I feel better now, in fact i can post this blog. I’m sure that God had his plan through me after this occurence.

That’s all for now, GBU. D.R.

I’ve just arrived from my journey to Borneo. I got so many experiences and stories, but i’ll keep it as simple as i can =p

Monday, May 8th, 2006, 8:30am WIB, i departed from Juanda Airport, Surabaya with two of the main contractor representatives: my friend Alex as the project site manager, and other one named Mr. Adi as the main manager.

The flight required about 50 - 60 minutes from Surabaya to Banjarmasin, and at approximately (i didn’t wear any watch, and my cellphone was off because of the regulation) 9:30am WIB (10:30am WITA) i arrived at Samsudin Noor Airport, Banjarmasin. Well, there’s a different timezone between Surabaya (WIB time zone) and Banjarmasin (WITA time zone), where’s WITA was 1 hour ahead WIB.

Samsudin Noor Airport, Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan (Click the picture)

From the airport, we continued with a car from a travel agent and went to Tanjung city (Tanjung town if i can say, because it was very small town compared to the towns in Java). But before that, we went to Alex’s house at Banjarmasin.

I met Alex’s wife: Fefe, his niece: Yaya and his mother there. Well, i were surprised that Fefe was already pregnant for 8 months now, and approximately she will give a birth at June 2006. But my bad, i didn’t take any picture of them =(.

After we ate and finished some business, we continued our travel.

We were going through Banjarmasin-Banjarbaru-Martapura-Rantau-Kandangan-Barabai-Amuntai and Tanjung. (See map below)

Map of South Kalimantan (Click the picture)

Actually there’s still another towns, such as: Batulicin, but they’re to small and were not listed in the map. (fyi, the towns length was only +/- 2km each, not to mention the villages =p).

It required about 5 - 6 hours to travel from Banjarmasin to Tanjung, so we arrived there about 6:00pm WITA. There, i lived in a rent house (rumah kontrak), +/- 6km from the Tanjung town and +/- 6km from the project site.

Our rent house (Click the picture)

Most of the houses there still using wood for the structures, the walls and the partitions, some were combined it with ceramics for the facade (included our rent house) and for the roof, they use some materials called "sirap". Only few were use concrete and brick for the wall. +/- 80% of the area was still forests, still nature if i can say.

My duty there was to survey and search the materials, tools, and another equipments required for my work. Well, actually i only need 1 day to do it all, but because one and another reasons, i needed 1 and half days.

At my free time, i rent an "ojek" (you know, it’s a motorcycle that were rented for anyone who want to paid them), it’s the only main public transportation there.

At first, i tought i’ll need many time exploring the town, but, in fact i only needed less than 1 hour exploring all the city =p. But don’t think there’s nothing in this town, you won’t believe me, there’s a digital printing facility, hotel, and the most surprising, there’s a "what-they-called-mall"….wow!!

So if i can say, this is a town with the nuance of village =p.

Hahaha….i didn’t lie, but as you may know, except the digital printing, the others was only a name. The hotel was actually an inn and the what-they-called-mall was a two stories traditional market building, only at the 2nd floor they sell DVDs, VCDs, bags, t-shirts and jeans =). That’s why they named it "mall".

Another fact i got, previously this town was the base of the Pertamina oil and gas mining in Kalimantan, but as the time goes by, one by one of the mines were closed, but there’s still some were operated. There’s also a monument at the municipality (kabupaten) gate at the artery road (the main road that connected between two or more provincies) junction. There’s a text written at the monument: "Kabupaten Tabalong" (fyi, Tabalong was the municipality there) and there’s also a torch on the top of the monument. The torch was connected directly to the gas mine so the torch’s fire will always be burned, and the local people said, if it’s no longer burned that’s mean the gas is already used up. (You know the meaning).

I’ll continue in the next post.