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Wedding Ceremony

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Watermelon art in wedding ceremony The time will come, sooner or later, where one by one, the people you know are getting married. It is the time when some people might feel insecure to see them married! There are a lot of tradition that are commonly believed in the society. Sometimes people believe they should bring their significant other to their friends' weeding ceremony, while other people unlucky enough to have that significant other yet. Yes, that's me! LOL In Indonesia, the wedding ceremony is very sacred since it contains the symbol of religion and traditions (adat). The preparations also have a long story, since there are a lot of different practices even in the same tribe or local inherit. It need an intensive discussion on how the celebration should be done between the family, and that makes the preparation need a lot of head. Most of the time, there are sessions of ceremonies to be done. First is to accomplish the religion direction about the marriage....

Kit Kat Japan Special Variants!

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Kit Kat is very popular gift you may expect from people traveling to Japan. They are very unique, since they only sell some variants in some area in Japan. They don't export the special Kit Kat. It is become famous among tourists and somehow the exclusivity makes people search for them. And the last time I went to Japan, i brought home some variants which are exclusive in Japan. What a luck. I taste all of them. I felt some differences, although the main taste were all chocolate and milk. The  most interesting one, in my opinion, was the wasabi, since it was a little bit spicy. Being exclusive is one of the power of Kit Kat, not to mention about the taste of course. Since they are representing cities they were made, I remember one type of this kind in Indonesia. Yes it is exclusive from a city, yes it is well packaged, and yes it is popular among young people, It is called ALMOND CRISPY CHEESE!! It is only produced in Surabaya, East Java. Very crunchy and k...

Count Your Blessings: Rainy Season is Coming, Things are Getting Better

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Rainy season is in the town! I woke up in the morning with the sound of rain drops, cold weather & I stayed a little longer in the bedroom, since the comfy warm blanket, morning talk-show in the television, and FREElance time were all perfect combination this morning. It is all that people need recently, the rain. The heat was very horrible, with the smoke and fire-forest problems, people were hoping for the rain. Now, the smoke become less, and in near future, people will enjoy the cool air every time they go to work or go home. These days are great for cups of hot chocolate! Yummy! In my opinion, it will always about the perspective that we see the condition. Some people are stressed that in the future they will face other problems: water-flood, heavier traffic, wet clothes, or hardly bring umbrella anywhere. People can not deny, everything come in a package. since I love playing guitar, then I should accept that sometimes my fingers should bleed. I want to get a better...

Renewable Energy, Bullish Investment?

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Renewable energy is an interesting thing to be considered as working field in near future. This energy source is still undervalued, and it can be analyzed that the performance will be "BULLISH" (as what the stock traders say) in about 10 years. But why renewable energy is that important? First, a consideration of people to convert to renewable energy is about its sustainability and cleanness. Renewable energy will be sustain longer than fossil energy, and also less harm to the environment. As it can be seen, on the long term issue, renewable energy should has been the major source of energy. But back to the basic, all these energy sources are used to get profit, and this was the main disadvantage of renewable energy. Petroleum industry is more profitable than the renewable energy. It seems that the renewable energy still need some years to be considered. Moreover, there are some step before renewable energy to be considered after petroleum industry, named unconventional...

Tidung Island

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Tidung Island, a fascinating island in the north of Jakarta mainland, is a village of Kepulauan Seribu selatan, Jakarta, Indonesia. We may find a very distinctive atmosphere in Tidung Island, although it is still part of Jakarta. Just 3 hours boating from the main land, People may find time’s getting slower in Tidung Island. People will find the local works less stressfully as fishermans, and less polution too. Indeed, since the Island only has motorcycles as the main transportation mode. No car, and a lot of bicycles! A little advice to go to district “Pulau Seribu” (literally means a thousand islands), they have each island with different range of prices to stay, and also some special islands only good to do specific activities. For instance, the price range for Bidadari Island is much higher than Tidung, with different expected accommodation. But don’t expect low quality room in Tidung. The locals are really open to tourists and people will get homey houses, air conditioned room...