Month: February 2016

(Monday Reflection) : Lion Dance/Barongsai/舞獅


In China it’s called 舞獅 Pronounced differently in Chinese languages. Mandarin will say wǔshī Cantonese will say mou5 si1 Southern Min/Hokkien will say it as 跳獅 (thiau sai) Vietnamese will say múa lân Korean will say sajachum Japanese will say it as shishimai Malaysian will say literally as ‘tari singa’ and Indonesian adopts barongsai (the word ‘sai’ is clearly…

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(Weekly Photo Challenge) : State of Mind-Historical and Peaceful


My state of mind Historical, peaceful and other indescribable feelings when I visited one of the oldest temple in my hometown last year. I love seeing something from the darkness to to brightness as it represents promising, lighter, and more optimistic future. I imagined what happened in front of me more than 1300 years ago…

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(Weekly Photo Challenge) : Musim/Seasons


  This photo was taken on December 2015 when I returned home for spending long holiday. I went to my favourite spot, townhall with my niece and nephew. It was so hot and clear, whereas it was supposed to be rainy season, but for weeks…no rain at all. It’s caused of El Nino anomaly? Maybe…

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(Tuesday Reflection) : Happy International Mother Language Day, Everyone!


Next Sunday actually we will celebrate The International Mother Language Day, the day which is intended to commemorate and encourage all people who still have mother language (out of international or nationally official languages). After Bengali students demonstrated in Dhaka for defending Bangla as one of Pakistani’s official languages on 21 February 1952 and claimed…

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(Weekly Photo Challenge) : Imitating Doraemon, or Pocong?


For this week, it is so intriguing for me as I have to find out some photos related to this theme. These photos were taken near Bundaran HI (HI roundabout) Jakarta, where some people mimicked anything (such as famous cartoon characters) for getting some money. It’s creative and lovely, though some are little bit scary…

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(Linguistica Reflection) : From Asu, We’re Brothers


I found this meme picture from social media. It sounded funny as it told about how similar we are as Austronesian language family. Austronesian itself means ‘southern lands’ which stretched from Taiwan in the north to New Zealand in the south and from Madagascar in the west to Rapa Nui in the east. The largest…

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(Tuesday Reflection) : Chinese influences in our languages


I think there have already been many articles or posts about this topic, but sometimes I still want to talk about it more, at least in my point of view. Since hundred years, Chinese have spread to around the world, through trading and immigration. Its culture and terminologies also followed especially in South East Asia…

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(Monday Reflection) : Sticky Sweet Life as Kue Keranjang (Nian Gao-年糕)


Sweet but sticky Sticky and sweet Sweet things are always part of any celebrations. Such sweets as dried dates, snow white, nastar (pineapple filled bites), rose biscuits, candies, dodol and much more in Eid Celebration. While the same things are also available in Christmas celebrations. Sweets are everywhere since it’s invented centuries ago. Dodol (or Javanese…

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(Sunday Reflection) : Happy Chinese New Year


Happy Chinese New Year for those who celebrate it tonight! It’s already been the 17th years after the day is allowed for celebration after 32 years New Order regime. This year is called year of monkey (tahun monyet, or colloquially called Lebaran Monyet). The temples are full of people who want to pray and wish…

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(Weekly Photo Challenge) : Time is Money?-Literally


Time is money? How much money do you spend in your time? Millions? Billions? Trillion? or Uncountable? Uncountable! Use your time Use your money wisely Be on time *But being on time in many cultures is not customs* Taken time : just now Location : home Tangerang, 6 February 2016