Sesi Pemotretan di Rawapening

Kemarin minggu ikutan KFS (Komunitas Fotografer Semarang) hunting di Rawapening, Berangkat cukup pagi, jam 03.30, kemudian ketemu dengan rekan2 di pom bensin Banyumanik. Kami tiba di lokasi (Bukit Cinta) kira-kira jam 5.00, masih sempat untuk potret sunrise, kemudian menyewa boat dan mulai potret-potret dari karamba di tengah rawa. Setelah matahari agak tinggi, kami ke tengah rawa, dan memotret nelayan (yg sudah biasa jd model neeh) menjala ikan dengan latar belakang matahari pagi. Setelah itu kami lanjut ke daerah Tuntang, kebetulan sedang ada panen, jadi dapet beberapa foto petani yang sedang panen. Beberapa hasil fotonya ada di sini:

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Humor Gokil

Seorang laki-laki masuk ke sebuah toko buku dan menanyakan buku yang
berjudul: 'Bagaimana menjadi Bos terhadap istri Anda.'
Si penjaga toko bilang: "Buku-buku yg bertema science fiction ada di lantai
2, pak..."

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Dua orang teman sedang berbincang-bincang, "Istri gue kalo nyetir kayak kilat!"
"Maksud loe cepat kayak pembalap F1 gitu?"
"Bukan, dia suka nyamber pohon!"

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Seorang laki-laki memasang iklan di koran yg bunyinya: "Mencari seorang
istri."
Keesokan harinya dia menerima ratusan surat balasan yg isinya hampir sama:
"Anda boleh ambil istri saya."

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Terdengar teriakan panik di sebuah kantor polisi:
"Pak polisi! Istri saya sudah dua jam tidak kembali! Aduh... jangan2 dia
diculik, atau kecelakaan.. .... atau sedang belanja?! Ya Tuhan! Moga2 dia tidak
sedang belanja!!!"

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Seorang suami mendekati seorang gadis cantik di sebuah supermarket dan
bilang: "Maaf, saya kehilangan istri saya di sini, bisa ngobrol sebentar barang dua
menit?"

"Kenapa?" tanya si gadis

"Karena setiap saya ngobrol sama gadis cantik, istri saya bisa tiba2 muncul
entah dari mana..."

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John menyapa temannya yg habis sakit dan menanyakan kabarnya.

"Udah baikan, thanks, tapi tau gak, waktu sakit kemarin merupakan
pengalaman yg indah buat saya."

"Pengalaman yg indah?" tanya si John bingung, "Kenapa bisa?"

"Soalnya saya baru menyadari betapa istri saya sangat mencintai saya.
Kemarin, waktu tukang koran atau tukang pos datang, istri saya buru2 ke
depan menemui mereka. Saya bisa dengar dia dgn semangat bilang 'Suami saya
ada dirumah! Suami saya ada dirumah!' "

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Tiga orang suami sedang menceritakan perselingkuhan istrinya masing2.

Suami 1: "Gile man...rasanya sih istri gue selingkuh sama tukang ledeng.
Kemaris pas pulang kantor, gue nemuin sisa pipa dan tang di kolong tempat
tidur gue."

Suami 2:"Kayaknya istri gue juga deh, dia sepertinya selingkuh sama orang
PLN. Gue juga nemuin ada kabel dan obeng yg bukan punya gue di kolong tempat
tidur!"

Suami 3 terlihat amat stress. "Guys, tau gak...kayaknya istri gue selingkuh
sama kuda!"

"Ah yg bener??!!" kata kedua temannya gak percaya.

"Beneeerr... . kemarin waktu gue pulang kerja, gue liat ada joki di kolong tempat
tidur gue!"

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Dua sahabat sedang asyik memancing. Mereka melakukannya tanpa bicara, hanya
sesekali meneguk bir sambil terus asyik dengan kail masing-masing.

Beberapa lama kemudian salah seorang pria itu berkata pelan, seolah-olah
kuatir akan membuat takut ikan-ikan, "Aku pikir aku ceraikan saja si Ani
istriku itu. Sudah 3 bulan lebih dia tidak mau bicara dengan aku."

Temannya kelihatan berpikir serius untuk beberapa lama, kemudian berkata, "Aku sarankan kamu pikirkan lagi rencanamu itu. Wanita semacam itu sulit didapat!"

Warak Carnival 2007

This carnival is one of the tradition in Semarang to mark the beginning of Ramadhan month (the fasting month of muslim people). It began a week before 'puasa', by dug der festival / market, and closed with this carnival. Believe it or not, even tough I'm native to Semarang, this is the first time I see the carnival. I saw this by chance because I'm stranded in BCA in Jalan Pemuda which is the main route of the carnival. Luckily I brought my trusty digicam, and managed to snap some pictures. Enjoy....


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Karnaval Warak 2007

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Play Ogg

How many of us love to listening music? I think most of us do. With the ubiquity of MP3 format, I doubt there's anyone who love listening music on the go didn't know this format. Unfortunately many of us doesn't realise there's a better format, legally and technically (to quote FSF foundation). That format is OGG vorbis. I doubt that this format will ever take over MP3. However for the technically inclined, and people who insist to get rid of as much corporate string as possible, here's a music format that doesn't suck. Learn about this format by clicking the button below:

Testing Flock

Currently I'm trying a new browser called Flock. Normally I use camino to browse and work in the internet, however I see flock is not bad. Unfortunately it felt slow at times

Tags: flock, browser, web, camino

Testing album Flickr

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My Album @ Flickr

Foto-foto waktu ke Bali (wedding-nya Annie).

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Finding Neverland

Last weekend we went to a movie, "Finding Neverland" From the title I'm quite sure it's a peterpand story. However I didn't expect it'll be a growing up story finding a man in a boy, and the author's view about eternal childhood in a man's dream. Despite the need to face real world, Neverland is exist in one's mind. Also interesting is the view about a grown man playing with children, suspiciously commited adultery with the children's mom. Although it's repeatedly stated in the movie that he's just a family's friend I wonder what'll happen in real world if such situation happen.

My Dream ~ a tv show

17 April 2006
There's a great show on Metro TV tonight. Titled My Dreams. It's an art show by disabled persons. My aunt called and specifically told me to turn on the channel. I watched the show and it's a great one. It was opened by Dewi Yull's singing, and continued dance performance by hearing impaired person, depicting avalokitesvara's 1000 arms. Afterwards another dance performace by a person without arms. But the one moved me maybe the performance by 7 musician, they performed Do Re Mi, from the sound of music, the interesting part is when they play the tone Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, using each of the instruments. Their next song also quite interesting, they picked "Ayo Mama" (a traditional song from Ambon). It was really beautiful.

In these all disability, these people can move a lot of people, that a disabled person doesn't necessarily be a disabled citizen. During the credit list also shown the casts activity during their stay in Indonesia. I think the TV show was done very cleverly, kudos to the Metro TV's Team

Oh, for the record they're from China and came here sponsored here by Buddha Tzu Chi and Agung Sedayu Group, the perfomance was held in JITEC.

14 April 2006 A trip around

Today me, Ike, Indira, Willy, Andi, Edward, Dewi and Evelyn (friend of edward) went on a travelling spree (well, especially me, Ike, Indira, Willy and Andi). I went to Ike's houseat 6.50, since noone is available to take me there, I decided to take the public transport. Whew, it's quite a long time last time I took public transport, but everything went well. Nothing important happened this morning.

We departed at 7.30 in the morning. Originally we want to visit Getsemane Garden in Ungaran. We missed it, and decide to eat breakfast in Soto Keri. After breakfast we went to Banaran, a coffee plantation between Ungaran and Salatiga and have a cup of coffee. Initially we wished to go around the plantation (using a golf cart) after coffee. However waiting the cart is like waiting for Godot. It's never arrive. Therefore we decide to continue our Journey.

Our next stop is Gedono, near Salatiga. It's a monastery, selling a delicious Yoghurt. We bought some youghurt and visit the church (catholic) there. Today is the Good Friday. Unfortunately we missed the mass, so I made my personal prayer and took some pictures there.

Our original plan is to visit Kopeng and Ketep. However it seems that our friends still haven't finished their business, we decided to pass Kopeng and went to Ketep pass instead. The journey was quite fun, but uneventfull. I decided to do something (howl with the window open) It was around noon, however since we have our breakfast quite late, we are not hungry. The weather is cloudy, so there's not much to see in Ketep pass, since their main and only attraction is watching 5 mountain peaks around it. It supposed to be beautiful, I managed to took some picture though, but no peaks. Maybe I should visit it again sometimes in the future.

Indira decide to have lunch in Magelang, since the food in Ketep is mediocre. We had our lunch in a restaurant in Magelang, it's quite delicious, I should checked the name again with Indira, since she's the one proposed this place. Dewi & co. joined us a while later, and we continued our stop in Kyai Langgeng. We decide to go down to sit and enjoy the view for a while until someone proposed to continue our trip to Yogya <phew>.  On the way back to our car, suddenly rains pour down heavily from the sky. We took shelter in a gazebo in Puri Asri hotel. Our chances to reach our car seem so bleak, when suddenly a shuttle car (I believe belonged to the hotel) appear. Dewi quickly shouted to call the driver. The rain still pour down heavily, and one by one we enter the car, but since it got no wall, inside the car is soaked with rain water. Unfortunately I didn't take any of these events. We continue our trip using the shuttle car to parking area. Unfortunatelly the driver only able to take us to the market, there's still a couple metres to our cars. Edward and Willy decided to go and took some umbrelas from our cars. They're soaked wet, so I lend Edward my shirt, and Willy decided to buy a pair of Sandals.

Our last stop is Yogya, we went to a new mall there, Ambarukmo Plaza, I bought Voltus DVD there. Afterwards it was dinner time, We had our dinner Gudeg (a famous local cuisine) in front of a Chinese Temple in Jl. Brigjen Katamso No. 3. After our stomachs full Dewi & Co. want to continue to Saphir Square, we follow them. There's not much to see, and we're tired anyway, later we decide to have some Ice Cream in Oh La La... Cafe. Mine was Chocolate Brownies, and it's soooo sweet. We're very tired and going home at 21.00.

Einstein

Yesterday I bought Reader's Digest. A quote by Albert Einstein catches my attention. he said like this (well, more or less since I re-translate this from Indonesian):

"Madness: doing same things over and over expecting different result."

This makes me stop and think, this is oh soooo true. I should do something different to improve my biz, and myself. I cannot stop at this point, and gotta move on. The last few weeks feel so awkward and pathetic, tomorrow I'll do the Dream book thing and start over. Wish Me Luck.

Another blog

Finally I make a blog..... again. Previously I have to design the website from scratch. Imagine how easy it is now to just create the content, no need to think about the design, just follow the template, and voila..... instant web log. Anyway, I'll try to post comments, tips, anything fascinate me to share with publics.