i just got this message on my facebook. i just don’t know that “i do 30″ has done this far! in December they will go to UN Climate Change Conference and they will present what they have done so far and how big the impact “i do 30″ has affected in reducing carbon emission. Sebastian has chosen best statement to be showed at statement board and one of them is mine 
. I’m so proud of that, i hope that the statements could be widely spread and all of the people are inspired to do this simple thing and realize how big it will help us to have a better planet to live.
last week i uploaded my song i made -in collaboration with the one i miss so much. i made this song due to joining a competition namely “deine stimme” which is held from Goethe Institut all over the world and the winners are able to go to germany in January 2010!!!! The prerequisites are quite easy, All the participants are required to write a lyrics in German and combine it with the music given. I have written “Guckt mal unsere Mutter Erde an” which means “Look at our Mother Earth”. This song was made obviously to warn all the people to stop environmental destruction and degradation, if we don’t want to see more people are injured because of natural disasters. If you wanna hear it you can click here , comments and stars are always warmly welcomed
Uh-oh these entire weeks are super tiring but i hope i could get some virtues from it.
fuer meine Maedels
wie gehts euch? ich vermisse euch ganz ganz sehr.
Gerade habe ich an die Nachricht geguckt, dass schon wieder Erdbeben in Indonesien gab und das ist mehr kraeftig. Letzten Monat habe ich solche Erfahrung gehabt, ich war in meiner Physik klasse als Erdbeben passiert ist. Das ist einfach fuer mich ganz traumatisch und ich habe einfach nur Angst, Angst , und Angst davor jeden Tag. Ich kann nicht gut schlafen, denn ich habe Angst vor Erdbeben, dass er ploetzlich wieder kommt, als ich schlafe.
Manchmal, wenn ich Angst habe, ich errinere mich an unsere schoene Zeit. Das finde ich eine gute Erholung fuer mich. Ich errinere mich an unseren Mittwochabend zum desperate Housewife gucken und Spaghetti kochen, und auch an unseren Freitagabend zum Party gehen. Machmal liest ich auch ein schoenes Buch, das Ihr mir gegeben habt. Ich habe auch es meinen Freunden gezeigt, und es gefaellt Sie.
Gerade habe ich auch mit Kaory geskypt, wir haben so viele ueber Deutschland geredet (gelabert vielleicht?hehehe) und wir vermissen Deutschland echt sehr. und euch genauso, fuer uns Ihr seid einen guten Gastgeber . Wir wuenschen, dass wir uns irgendwann mit euch wieder treffen koennen. wieder desperate Housewife gucken und vielleicht sushi abend machen (obwohl nicht alle von euch sushi moegen).
Na ja meine Maedels. ich hoffe das euch gehts gut und viel Erfolg in der Schule. ich weiss ,dass 12. Klasse sehr schwer geworden ist aber ich wusste auch ja schon, dass Ihr eine Super maedels seid und Ich vertraue dass Ihr alles schaffen koennt.
Bitte drueckt mir die Daumen. Hoffentlich kann ich euch naechstes Jahr besuchen.
Ich denke an euch ganz oft
deine Muti Schnutti
1) bicycle
I was on the-peak-of-mountain-condition. As i was coming back to Indonesia. Since my hosting city in Germany is very well-known for its typical riding bicycle, one thing that is stuck in my mind is : i want to ride my bike from my kostan to my campus and from my campus to my kostan back and when i am lucky enough, i want to make one club named Bike to Campus due to save our environment. Actually, to ride a bicycle is such an easy stuff, but the problem is, in Indonesia we have no Bicycle race! I think from the Biker’s point of view, Bicycle race is a crucial thing to all bikers because it shows that actually we have a right to ride our bike on the street and most important is to make sure that we are quite safe on the road.
Waiting something to change will never run smoothly. I have to try another way. People said there are thousand ways to Rome and one of my realistic way to save our environment (besides try to separate garbage) is doing what they called “i do 30″.
Since i live alone and responsible to wash my clothes by myself. I thought that actually washing my clothes by myself needs a lot of sacrifices (errr you name it). One of them is an extra cost because i wash it automatically. I thought it over and over, i hope i could find a proper solution. Suddenly came a pop up from H&M on facebook (i’m fans from H&M) it stated that H&M supported “I do 30″. I was so curious at that time so i clicked “i do 30 page” and i was so impressed. It simply inspired me because it has big impacts but easy to do. “I do 30” is simply about turning down the heat on our washing machines from 60o C to 30o C. They said that it would work to save the earth because doing laundry is one of the most energy consuming processes in our households. In Europe, alone, if every household turns its washing temperature down from 60 or 40 °C to 30 °C, we can actually save 12 million tons of CO2 a year, this corresponds to the annual emissions from three million cars!! It would still mean we can get clean clothes and the most beneficial : We could save money on our electricity bill as well.
I have tried it like since a month ago and it’s work like what i expected, although i can’t count how much CO2 i have saved (but at least i knew how much rupiahs i have saved lol). But i do believe it affects a lot when you all want to try this. It is easy and simple dude!
i think my ears are the most sensitive part in my body. i mean i could remember moment a way better through what i heard exactly at the moment. lately i have never listened to my iPod because i am so busy and right now, i prefer watching abundant of International channels to listening music.
i thought the last time i listened some musics from my iPod was on my way home from Germany so its atmosphere still keep standing inside my iPod. Not only those memories, my iPod brings almost every memories recorded in some particular album. For instance, i listened to Daniel Sahuleka’s songs from his live concert album. I suddenly remembered the time i went to SSC for having an additional class after school to prepare college entrance test. I also remembered the time i was going there in a rainy day. I could see the rain touched the car’s windows softly and then disappeared because the wind blew and swept all that. I witnessed kota Depok was so crowded and surrounded by a lot of people searching for a place that could resist themselves from the rain. This album is so chilling for sort of people who fond of old heavenly music. I keen on all the songs.
Another album i have in my ipod is Earth, Wind, and Fire. its name indicates some elements of earth, but its lyrics have nothing to do with that. Like another normal albums. it must be about love and life, but however i like this album very much because it is also easy listening and quite old. Why i like old music? i don’t have any exact explanation for this, but one thing you have to know is that i am sort of person who likes to avoid what people tend to keen on that in the status quo so people said i’m old-fashioned very often, for example as i was in the primary school, my friends loved to hear some famous band at that time like SO7, Linkin Park, Blink 182, etc. But i rather started to love Maksim Mrvica at the very very first sight. Back to Earth, Wind, and Fire. i was living in a dormitory and sometimes my friends prefer to go back home when weekend comes but i didn’t. because when i’m alone i could be more productive since no one could disturb me. so for this case,I like being alone and doing things on my way. In the time of silence i liked to hear this album while i was writing some argument for building a case (i was high school debater). It has great arrangement so far and it relaxes me and the best companion in my silences. My favorites are After the love has gone, September, and Reason.
I like traveling and it’s like a lot. One of my greatest journey this year is Scandinavia Propaganda Tour. i was visiting Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. the most unforgettable time was when i had to fly from Germany to Norway and because i used a low fare air flight so i was landing on Sandefjord Torp Airport and it’s like 90 km away from the city of Oslo. After landing i had to take a shuttle bus to Oslo Stasjon and it needed 90 minutes long to go. During the time i was hearing King of Convenience. I could feel Norwegian Atmosphere surrounded me at the moment. Not only because this group comes from Norway, But also because right there i could see really Norwegian scenery, like the great mountainous, ships, seas, green and green everywhere. very beautiful indeed. The musics kept on playing until i arrived in Oslo Stasjon and met my partner there. My favorites are Cayman Islands, Homesick, and Losing the war winning the battle.
i think i still have a lot of memories i wanna share with you but it will be too many so i classify that to the most current memories i have been thinking of. Maybe the more i explore my ipod the more things i can write. let me begin a daydreaming through those albums from now on and bring the memories all back. I hope there is no song could reincarnate sad moments. Ah ja mal gucken…
ich moechte jetzt ein Posting auf Deutsch schreiben. als ich hier angekommen bin, Ich habe fast gar nicht Deutsch gesprochen. In meiner uni, ich bin sehr froh weil Ich jemanden kenne, die auch austauschschuelerin war. Sie heisst Nia, sie war 1 Jahr in Belgien aber trozdem sie spricht auch kein Deutsch, sie spricht Niederlaendisch. Also jetzt moechte ich etwas auf Deutsch schreiben ich hoffe dass mein Deutsch noch prima ist.
Ich bin ja schon ungefaehr 4o Tagen in Indonesien und das ist nicht so schwer wie ich gedacht hab, ja doch das ist schwer. ich habe so viele Arbeit zu tun (Praktikum, Tutorial, usw) und ich muss sehr frueh aufstehen weil ich um 7 uhr in meiner uni da sein muss, und DAS IST EINE GROSSE KACKE IN MEINEM GANZEN LEBEN! (ich hoffe niemand hier dass es verstehen. peace !). In meiner klasse gibt es 79 Studenten und alle sind sehr schlau und…fleissig (liest : Streber). Ich komme zu meiner Uni um 6.55 uhr aber die andere sind schon seit 6 uhr da und textbook lessen! und ich habe gedacht, Sind Sie bescheuert oder was?
Als ich hier bin, ich habe so viele Dinge gesucht aber nicht gefunden. einer ist……. Marzipan! ja Marzipan, Ich moechte eigentlich ganz gerne ein Kuchen mit dem Marzipan drin backen, aber als ich ueberall in der ganz Indonesien (uebertreiben modus : on) gesucht, ich fand keiner. Ich habe keine Ahnung warum kein Marzipan hier gibt.
Jetzt ist schon wieder Ramazan, ich errinere mich noch an Ramazan in Deutschland. das war ganz scwer fuer mich zu adaptieren denn ich war so ganz ganz alleine da. Aber ich danke meiner Mutter da in Muenster, die jeden Tag mir essen zubereitet also ich musste ja nur warm machen. Das war echt praktisch fuer faules Maedchen wie ich :p. Jetzt, im Moment, der Zeit bin ich in Bandung und auch ganz alleine (meine Familie ist in Cilegon). Ich muss alles selba organizieren aber zum Glueck hier gibt muchacha (wenn du das Wort nicht verstehst, frag einfach Julian Broecheler was das meint),die auch fasten wird. Ich muss nur einkaufen und sie kocht jeden Tag.
Jetzt habe ich keine Ahnung was ich noch schreiben moechte. also wenn du Komenntare hast einfach click “Leave a Comment” tast oben. Ich werde ganz ganz gerne wissen was Ihr denkt an meinen Deutsch nach 40 Tagen von Deutschland weg. 
1. This week from Wednesday until Saturday i had what they call “PROKM”. We had to stand by in Sabuga at six flat and only could return home when our assignments are already finished. I have made lotta friends and like it so. Somepeople are quite friendly while the others don’t.
2.On Sunday i went to ITB for attending OHU (Open House Unit). There we can choose our fave co curricular unit. I have chosen SEF (Student English Forum), PSM (Paduan Suara Mahasiswa), and AIESEC (i hope next yer i will be off to Germany from this exchange program). After that i went to GKU Barat for seeing my English placement test. but i haven’t been founding mine! so tomorrow i have to go to Badan Pusat Bahasa to clarify that. I hope i won’t lose my 2 SKS Credits just because of silly mistakes.
3. I just saw video which my friend made to celebrate my Hostbrother’s birthday which was in Mexico, and my tears come down, don’t know what i feel but it is just sad because i am no more there. In that video there are my Hostmom, Hostdad, Hostsister, me, and my friends.
Take a look,
4. i am tired, sad, and pathetic because i am not really enjoying my life here and i can’t adjust the atmosphere of learning here until right now. ah ya hope it will be better.
i will be going to Bandung tomorrow to begin my college year. actually i still wanna stay home, i haven’t stayed here one month since i have arrived. still wanna enjoy life without burden. i could sleep so late night and wake up very early afternoon. i could watch TV until i am bored.
talking about enjoy life without burden. actually i had one as i was in Germany. i had no burden to learn hard thingy beside learning German. i have learned all the subjects taught like 2 years ago. In Germany i also could utter any words i want, i could be more open and have no burden in terms of chivalry and how to act and react. but, i think sometime having a live without burden is so damn boring. i have no challenge and i hate it. i thought that living in Indonesia was so damn hard, competitive, and tiring but in one side i am happy because there i know i have at least something in particular to reach.
Ok, now stop talking about Germany because i don’t wanna my tears come down. i wanna talk about my long term target for one year ahead, okay talk about ‘ITB’s re-registration’ first which i have to head on Wednesday, i have fulfilled all the prerequisites given accept ONLINE registration. i had tried it but it showed no result at all. Ok fuck with that.
Now about what i am gonna reach.
Talking about college actually after one year enjoying-life-without-burden my brain, mind, soul are kinda rejuvenated that is un bon début. i am pretty optimistic that i will be so enthusiast to begin this one journey. but in one side i also don’t want to expect too much. i knew that my rival there will be so evil genius and marvelous. but i will , i really will study hard this year, i don’t wanna procrastinate anymore, it is just enough.
picture from here
talking about the title of this posting “rainbow’s end”. i just heard an old song from Sergio Mendes and the lyric is so me now. Especially in the part:
I have a dream that I hold in my heart
And I won’t let go
Welcome tomorrow – I’m on my way
So goodbye yesterday… Goodbye yesterday
and yesterday means procrastinating and all its friends.
so, Goodbye
I love Germany because it’s so beautiful and i had abundant of good memories there and i love speaking German as well, i think German is so interesting, because it is structured, organized, and of course -relatively hard so i was so eager to learn it. There are 3 articles die, der, das that useful to identify whether the noun is masculine, feminine, or neutral and there are also 4 cases ; nominative, accusative, dative, genitive.
Beside that, German is so diverse one to another. For example, i was living in Muenster and there people speak hoch-deutsch (or high-german literally, in terms of the similarity what people write and how they pronounce it). But in Karlsruhe (i was there too) people speak Badisch which is a little bit different and for the most extreme is in Bavaria because people speak Bayerisch which is soooo different with German that i have learned. If you wanna see how different they are, i give you example of how they say Happy Birthday. take a look!
German: Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!
German-Badisch: Allis Guedi zu dim Fescht!
German-Bavarian: Ois Guade zu Deim Geburdstog!
German-Berlinisch: Allet Jute ooch zum Jeburtstach! or Ick wuensch da allet Jute zum Jeburtstach!
German-Bernese: Es Muentschi zum Geburri!
German-Camelottisch: Ewllews Gewtew zewm Gewbewrtstewg. Mew!
German-Frankonian: Allmecht! Iich wuensch Dir aan guuadn Gebuardsdooch!
German-Lichtenstein: Haerzliche Glueckwuensche zum Geburtstag!
German-Plattdeutsch: Ick wuensch Di allns Gode ton Geburtsdach!
German-Rhoihessisch: Ich gratelier Dir aach zum Geburtstag!
German-Saarlaendisch: Alles Gudde for dei Gebordsdaach!
German-Saechsisch: Herzlischen Gliggwunsch zum Geburdsdaach!
German-Schwaebisch: Aelles Guade zom Gebordzdag!
German-Wienerisch: Ois Guade zum Geburdsdog!
What do you think? German is interesting, isn’t it?
photo from here
maybe it is too late to talk about this stuff because it has already happened like a week ago. like you knew after my exchange year i was coming to this country with a lot of expectations. i expected the condition in Indonesia would be stable because i have told people so many things about our beautiful country and pursued them to come.
As we have already known that actually Indonesia since 2005 has tried to emphasize the world that actually we could recover. This 2009 bomb is simply unexpected and unpredicted. it should be a deepest shame for our country.
Until right now i couldn’t even imagine what inside terrorist’s mind is, why did they do that? to destroy our country’s stability ? or was that just a conspiracy to bring someone down? or maybe for the silly one you just don’t want to let Manchester United has a match with Indonesian All star?whatever your motives are, sorry to say Mr. Terrorist you wouldn’t have brought us as a nation down!
This night i just watched Metro TV and there came #indonesiaunite when you are using twitter you must be familiar with it since it has became the first trending topics there. this movement is a stand point that Indonesia is united and has no fear. Indonesia keeps on trying to stand up after falling down so many times however hard it was.
Mr. Terrorist you could kill 9 people directly at the moment and wound 55 and more other people but you can’t kill our spirit. We are not afraid!We have no fear!INDONESIAUNITE!
i have nothing to do this week. Oops! i have one actually,i have to learn chemistry because it has evaporated out of my brain since my exchange year has begun and once it comes it really racks my brain so i decided not to learn (yeah i knew that’s stupid decision). Once i had nothing to do my brain leads me to hunt a book in my old-woody-bookshelf and i found an old book namely Challenging Lateral Thinking Puzzles. I still remembered it was given by my uncle living in Australia as i was a chikeny chick.
This book is written by Paul Sloane and Des MacHale and published in 1993, Paul Sloane is a Scottish and he was studying engineering at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and graduated with a first-class honors degree. Most of Paul Sloane’s career has been in the computer industry and he is currently the European vice-president for a software company. Des Machale is an Irish and he is associate professor of Mathematics at University College in Cork.
like you see both are very keen-witted people and beside that they also like to share strong interest in jokes and puzzles and in 1991 they decided to cooperate on a book of problems and the book in my hand right now is the result.
What is actually lateral thinking? according to wikipedia lateral thinking is a term coined by Edward de Bono, for the solution of problems through an indirect and creative approach. Lateral thinking is about reasoning that is not immediately obvious and about ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.
This book divided into 3 sections which are The Puzzles, The Clues, and The Answer. The Puzzles are also classified into 4 difficulty – levels (Easy, Moderate, Difficult, and Fiendish).
Here are the examples:
Easy Puzzles
Growing Younger
Ben was 20 years old in 1980 but only 15 years old in 1985. How come?
The Two Presidents
The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States had the same mother and the same father, but were not brothers. How could this be so?
Moderate Puzzles
The Portrait
A man stands looking at a portrait and says, “Sons and brothers have i none, but this person’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the portrait?
An Early Burial
John Brown died on Thursday, December 6, and was buried the same week – on Wednesday, December 5, to be precise. How did that happen?
Difficult Puzzles
The Protagoras Paradox
Protagoras was a lawyer in ancient Greece. As an act of kindness he took on a poor but promising young man as a pupil. He agreed to teach him law but make no charge until the student had won his first case, when the student would repay his tuition fees. The young man gladly agreed to this plan. The student completed his training, then decided that he did not wish to practice law. Instead, he retired to the countryside to keep goats. Protagoras was disgusted at this waste of talent and training and dismayed that he would not be reimbursed for the tuition. He decided to sue his pupil in order to recover his fees. If the two men met in court to argue the case, who do you think would have won?
Eight Years
A girl was eight years old on her first birthday. How could that be?
Fiendish Puzzles
The Healthy Dairymaids
In the eighteen century a disease called smallpox was responsible for the deaths of millions of people worldwide. The man whom we can thank for defeating the scourge of smallpox is Edward Jenner, an English country doctor who lived from 1749 to 1823. He noticed that dairymaids never caught smallpox. From this observation he went on the develop a treatment to prevent smallpox and thereby became one of the world’s most famous doctors. Why did dairymaids never catch smallpox?
The Lake Problem
There is a large irregularly shaped lake on your estate. It is of variable and unknown depth. There are no rivers or streams entering or leaving the lake. How would you find the volume of water in the lake?
If you are interested for a clue or an answer you can email me away or comment me on this posting. Thus, i will send it to your email. Those puzzles might take you hours to figure it out but they will help you train your brain for lateral thinking and squeeze out every bit of puzzle- solving fun. You just have to hold out as long as you can to solve before you are giving in (that will do a trick ).
(P.S : i have found out the answers from the puzzles above without peek the answers given and i believe you all can do better than me, Viel Glück und Viel Spaβ!)
