“Satu daerah selayaknya mempunyai satu tetenger (landmark) yang patut dibanggakan.” Mimpi bisa melintasi jembatan kaca? Ke Cina? Jauh…Berat di ongkos pesawat, visa dan tetek bengek lainnya! Sementara untuk mampir ke Jembatan Kaca di Kampung Warna Jodipan Malang juga jauh dan tunggu musim liburan (kecuali yang tinggal di Malang dan sekitarnya jangan ditanya juga, bisa berkali2…
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(New Post) : Since I left Noodles
Hi, I am back from taking a break. It’s been almost seven months since I left noodles. I quitted almost all kinds of high-carbohydrate foods and beverages. 7 months ago, I still had various kinds of noodles, from angel hair, vermicelli, spaghetti, egg noodles, kwetiau (chinese flat noodles), until surely any types of instant noodles…
The Most Multilingual Countries?
How many languages can you speak? How many languages your country speak? Okay, keep it by yourself I believe most of world’s people are at least bilingual, either naturally or academically, even many are also polyglots. You can speak two, three or more languages depend on individual basis. Some are monolingual by various reasons, such as,…
(Holiday Blog) : How Portuguese influences us?
Portuguese is a Romance branch language spoken originally in westernmost edge of Iberia peninsula. It looks like sister language with Galician/Galego, great similarities to Spanish (as many similar spellings but different pronunciations) and distant similarities to other Romance languages. The Portuguese language is spoken as mother tongue by 215 million people and totally 250 million…
(Sunday Reflection) : Talking about My Alter-ego (Esperanto) blog
It’s been more than 12 years when I started blogging. From merely idol’s forum, starting writing was extremely hard for me at the time. Then I found a media for expressing myself from just gunshot poems, it means what I think then I write it directly. No concept, spontaneous one. I found so hard to change…
(Monday Reflection) : Si je rencontrais M.Paxman
I was surprised when someone shared in his facebook a news from Standard.co.uk and found an interesting, but at the same time irritating news. The news itself described about Jeremy Paxman, a former Newsnight presenter and now the quizmaster on University Challenge, who attacked French in the Financial Times. He described that French is “useless”…
Trilanda Kongreso de Esperanto Story (Part 1-The Course)
Honestly, La Trilanda Kongreso de Esperanto in Bandung which has been over several days ago is my first international congress I ever attended so far. I never meet many people from various countries directly and interacting with new people, having new friends as well as practicing Esperanto at the same time. Actually the congress had…
(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…
(Birthday Reflection) : Writing in Other Languages…Fun and Hard
I started my writing ‘career’ in 2004. Before, I couldn’t even write every single word. I just merely wrote some short poem, and it took hours for expressing it into typing or handwriting versions. It took hard efforts and times for me to create even one short paragraph as basically I was not into writing…
(Eid-Ul-Fitr Celebration) : Our Lovely Eid Dishes
Assalamualaikum Wr.Wb Eid Mubarak for all Muslims in the world! I have already returned from my Eid vacation. Just one week, but it’s nice because I could meet all my big family members as for this year, my home was the host for Eid, next year will be my aunt’s house. Eid-ul-Fitr or Idul Fitri…
(Monday Reflection) : Having a big feet is not so easy
Do you have big feet? What is your size? Is that easy to find the proper shoes or slippers in the nearby shops? In the past, when you ask it here, people will look at you strangely, especially if you have uncommon size. It is about my personal experience when looking for shoes for my…
(Cerita Kilat) : Kandang Fatimah
Note: I wrote this story in Bahasa Indonesia, I’ll anglicise it later on. KANDANG FATIMAH Bambang Priantono Malam itu hujan turun begitu deras, diselingi kilat dan gemuruh petir yang sesekali membahana, dan seluruh penduduk Desa Rojokoyopun memilih tinggal dirumahnya masing-masing. Suasana begitu mencekam, meskipun hujan mulai perlahan menghentikan aktivitasnya. Namun di rumah Mbah Roso, terjadi…
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