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midnight in Jogja (1)

I was hurry to catch up a flight to Jogja, after receiving a call to meet a person that I wanted to meet. A person whom I want to learn on his business strategy in running on bookstore. A business that our institution wanted to run in this year. He, whose name won't disclose in this blog, is running a number of successful bookstores in several cities and planning to broaden his business in Jakarta and Bandung in this year. His bookstores are now apparently competitor for two leading 'mainstream' bookstores in the country, at least in central and eastern Java, to my knowledge. It was a gambling to have a ticket from Jakarta to Jogja at the weekend which is a peak season. But, I was quite sure I could have it since many maatschappij is growing nowadays. And in turns give consumers many choices with a competitive price. My feeling was right, as I had the lowest price after a little effort, of course. It was Garuda Airways, a good one, still, for me. Well, I could have taken a ...

Verjaardag groetjes

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Hey honey, Van harte gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag! Ik hoop dat je een leuke dag hebt. May your future be happy as happy as can be. yours, 12 Januari 2006

Father and son

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Pertama kali melihat videoclip lagu ini waktu bulan Ramadhan tahun kemarin di O channel . Familiar dan nyaman di telinga. Menarik, karena yang pertama -mungkin- Ronan Keating, yang kedua Yusuf Islam d/h Cat Steven dan yang ketiga lagunya. Ronan Keating, karena lagunya ' When you say nothing at all ' yaitu lagu yang kami senangi waktu kami baru menikah. Jangan tanya kenapa? Frekuensi lagu seringkali sama dengan frekuensi di tubuhmu. Juga dia adalah an Irish . Typical-nya temperament, gigih, keras pendirian, juga agak pemberontak. Liat saja Roy Keane, kapten MU. Mungkin juga berkaitan dengan sejarah masa lalu mereka yg pernah dijajah Inggris dan kemudian berpisah menjadi Republik Irlandia. Ini juga terwakili dari grup-grup band asal negara ini. Sebut saja U2, the Cranberries, dan tentu saja The Corrs. Selain lirik2 mereka tajam dan dalem mereka juga memasukkan unsur2 alat musik tradisional mereka, menjadi komposisi yang unik. Yang kedua, Yusuf Islam. Sejak pertama kenal sejarah...

Life is chasing a rainbow?

Two friends of mine will get married in these two current weeks, respectively. This' just a penny for them: Hi broers, You eventually have a courage -enough- to take a big step in your life, as a man. You might find yourself despondent, restless, anxious or might not so patiently enough to wait for the 'H' day. You will bring somebody into your life. Once in a night, you will be shocked at that somebody lays on beside you. Everything's different, everything's changed. Some said that a marriage is about to take a step into a fortress. Then they fell trapped. But if it were a fortress, why are many hastily to take into it? It's a mystery that you will experience it. A marriage is a bound between two people that commit to share their life, their dreams. Put a half and a half to become one. You may have experienced it while you both were a fiancee. But it's really different. Once you only saw at her best, and then a bit by bit you'll find her whom all she i...

Photos of the greatness of God's creation

While surfing this morning, I came across to this website showing photos of the greatness of Allah has created an unlogically such creatures: Have a look at the following sites: Mesjid-mesjid penuh Mukjizat Koleksi Photo Kebesaran Alloh SWT (update)

Ketika musim haji tiba

” Air laut menguap dan terangkat ke awan. Saat menguap, air itu kehilangan rasa pahitnya, dan menjadi murni dan segar kembali. Itulah sebabnya saat naik haji lebih baik berangkat jalan kaki daripada naik kuda, lebih baik naik kuda daripada naik mobil, lebih baik naik mobil daripada naik kapal, dan lebih baik naik kapal daripada naik pesawat .” Itulah kutipan film Le Grand Voyage, karya Ismael Ferroukhi (Perancis-Maroko) yang sedang diputar di JiFFest 2005 (Jakarta International Festival) di Taman Ismail Marzuki. Film ini mengisahkan perjalanan haji seorang warga Perancis keturunan Maroko lewat jalan darat. Bapak yang menjelang tua itu minta diantarkan oleh anaknya, seorang pemuda yang sedang maceuh-maceuh- nya, yang hidup di Perancis dan 'sedikit' tercerabut dari akarnya. Baca resensinya di Kompas, 9/12 ). Biasanya musim haji, atau lebaran haji, terlewatkan begitu saja. Yang ada di ingatan hanyalah sate kambing atau sapi. Tapi tahun ini agak berbeda. Karena ibuk...

marital rape

In these recent days, we often hear the term of 'domestic violence' and 'marital rape'. We might have been familiar with the term of domestic violence, even we've seen it in our daily life at home. A husband to slap around or verbally abuse his wife, like that of appearing in a soap-opera TV. But what is 'marital rape'? It literally means rape in a marriage? Wow ... ain't it that means if we were getting married, a wife were legal to have sex with his husband, and vice versa? Let me take an example on the two Indonesian well-known actress who filed a lawsuit for divorce. According to the infotainment, it just because they suffer from sexual harrassement, to be precisely marital rape, in their domestic life. What was that? It hearsay that they dissented with their spouse to have an anal sex - sorry. We don't know exactly what the real problem was. But, if it was true, I'm curious to know about it. Is that Islam regulates that kind of matter, beari...