Dirty & Dreams : Life Survival in Between

After the conference in Bengkulu, I had the opportunity to sleep overnight in J*karta and did the sightseeing the next morning before taking flight back home at that night (again flight was delayed almost 2 hours). In a day, i explored a city with 12 millions people if I'm not mistaken. I know it is unfair to judge based on one day experience but from what I observed the city is packed, jammed and the basic facilities is also an issue. On the other hand, the thing I amazed most of some people here were their hardwork, the competitiveness and spirit to survive. They do all kind of jobs for the life survival. I was told most of them came from other parts of the country with the dreams to change their lives. So I shall leave the pictures do the talking;












P/s The quality of the pictures are not really good, I think I need a new camera.

A transit, A Presentation & An Experience

I just came back from Bengkulu. When I said I wanted to go to Bengkulu to present my paper a lot of friends asked why Bengkulu? Even me myself had a doubt when at that time there were news about the crashed of airplane and tremor in Bali (i know Bali is far away from Bengkulu). It was not like other trip which I always excited to go, this time was half heartedly. Not just because of the place but also I have low confidence on my paper.

I thought I had time to blog or doing my work during the transit in Sokearno Hatta Airport, but the condition in the airport didn't allow me. Time did permit me to do a lot of things and infact I had ample time since our flight was delayed from 6 hours transit to 8 hours transit. I had nothing to do. The airport was really crowded and people were buzzing around and very stuffy. I had to sit on the floor, sleepy and tired. On the top of that, Internet access was limited and I was out of idea to kill my time while waiting for the flight and it was really tiring. By the time of plane boarding I was utterly exhausted and care no more about other things.I slept all the way to Bengkulu. There was dinner welcoming us in the governor's hall which I supposed to attend but I missed it due the flight delay.

My presentation was on the next day. It was just Ok. What else I can say with my low level of confidence on my own paper. My 2 SVs were there too and put me in more uncomfortable situation. I was like pompuan melayu terakhir as my friend said and could not merapu or kelentong banyak2.

I didn't explore much of Bengkulu but in my obsrvation it is like Bandar Kuala Terengganu in 80s. There are few historical sites and beautiful beaches. Sometimes the beaches remind me of Dungun Terengganu. People whom I met here were very nice too and soft spoken. Maybe that is the beauty of Bengkulu. I didn't spend my rupiah here as not many things interest me and a lot of people said things in Jakarta are much cheaper. Here are some pictures I managed to capture in Bengkulu

Rambling at the Airport

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle." - Steve Jobs

I’m at the airport waiting for the flight to Soekarna Hatta International Airport. There, I will be wandering for another 6 hours waiting for another connecting flight. Hopefully I have time to blog. Life has been really upside down and hectic lately.

I never know who was Steve Jobs ( I told you I’m really buta IT, buta all those IT new gadgets and people who involve in inventing all those gadgets). Thank goodness at least I know how to use my cabuk handphone and my computer. As I am browsing internet I read something about him and in his quote really caught my eyes

Then I remember a friend posted in my facebook: Sometimes life will be easier if apple and blackberry are only fruits.As or me I use neither Apple nor BlackBerry but I eat both of them. He3x