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books... books... books...
movies... movies... movies...
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you'll learn something from show bussiness. if someone is on the floor, kick him.
-- simon cowell, telling one of the contestant in american idol 2007 |
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with the spirit of practicing my french, one night, when i was jumping from one channel to the other, i dropped by at tv5.
actually i felt a bit useless because i could understand maybe only 30% of it.
mais ça m'est égal.
it was a quiz program.
question: which countries have boundary with 2 oceans?
answer: canada, usa, mexico, panama, indonesia, australia, and south africa.
the question excited me so much because:
 i could understand!!
i could answer the question!!
i think it's the first time in my life to have a great time with tv5. i'll visit you again sometimes, tv5.
á bientot.
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when people usually have soundtrack everytime they're on travelling, i usually carry around books to read. maybe because i travel mostly alone.
here are some books that i kept as company during the trips i made last year:
i believe beside the stories inside the book, usually i got stories outside the book like, "i read that while waiting for my delayed airplane in da nang."
or "i almost left this book at tanjung mas. luckily a friend found it."
or "this one is drenched because of the rain for the whole day in bandung."
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danny archer : sometimes i wonder if god ever forgive us for what we've done to each other...
then i look around and i realize... god left this place a long time ago.
-- from blood diamond |
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It's a story of a wealthy family, who lost everything and the one son who had no choice, but to keep them all together.
kinda late, i'm watching arrested development now *after adhit recommended me this serial*.
so far, i'm still in season 2.
the first time i saw the trailer in star world, i wasn't interested at all. but after i gave the second chance, i found the serial is hillarious, smart, bizarre and different  . |
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in case you didn't know, it's about a dysfunctional
rich family who lost everything after their dad went to prison because of cheating the government.
dysfunctional family is like the family in little miss sunshine, so just imagine if little miss sunshine is made into a serial.
arrested development won many awards including emmy and golden globe awards, but too bad, after season 3, it's cancelled  because of the low rating.
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i was asking direction in bukittinggi to a lady.
the lady: where are you from?
me: jakarta
the lady: no. i mean are you indonesian?
me: yes
the lady: are you sure?
me: yes, i'm indonesian
the lady: no, you just lied.
me: gkgkgkgkgkgk.... |
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we were in bukittinggi, waiting for our bus to prapat when we met this boy, who was waiting for his bus to jakarta. he was totally alone, looks so young and even looks younger because he was reading bobo.
me: how long does it take from here to jakarta?
him: don't know
me: is it your first time?
him: no, my second time, but my first time was when i was 4 years-old.
our buses were desperately late, but it was fun to know him. we played card together, and it was my lucky day, so i kept winning  .
finally his bus came and he left.
this is one thing about traveling i love. you just accidentally met new people.
it was nice to know him. too bad i didn't take his picture. |
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after the trip with an extrem limit of padang food and batak music. here is some stuffs to share...
padang was not too interesting  for me. we were there for only a couple of hours before we continued the journey to bukittinggi.
bukittinggi is clean, beautiful, and cold.
the city is full of dutch colonial buildings with most of tourism places are well maintenance  . it's easy to get around and people are friendly to show you directions.
the only pissed off  thing was when we couldn't get bus to prapat (the port city to samosir). it was hi season, all buses were departed from padang and they were full. we finally took travel but stranded in padang sidempuan for a couple of hours before reached prapat.
jam gadang
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at fort the kock
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ngarai sihanouk
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lake maninjau
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taman budaya in padang
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lake toba is one of the biggest lake on earth, created by volcanic eruption.
i never know before that it's about 900m above sea level so the temperature around the lake is COLD!! 
we crossed the lake to get to samosir island. most hotels are in a place called tuk tuk. there several tiny villages scattered on the island and some people still do living in the traditional house!
we explored the island: around the water, up on the mountain until we realized that we were lost in the forest up on the mountain. it was extremly cold, no one around, it started to rain, and like in horror movie, we were surrounded by fog  .
we had a handmade map from hotel but it wasn't really helpful at all. we found so many intersection roads with no signage (it wasn't really road just someone has been there and created a gap between the woods).
finally we met one person that make sure that we were really lost and instead of getting closer to tuk tuk, we took the wrong way!!
traditional batak house
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a church
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prehistoric gate
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the flower can be found
everywhere in sumatra
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at 
for helping me, you know who you are*.
for sending me the book*. after reading 
they should do it here in jakarta too... 
