Indonesian Culture

Indonesia is a country that is very rich in diversity. I Remember my friend’s story when he accompanied a Bule to eat (Bule is a call for foreigners in Indonesia). After a long time, that Bule didn’t touch the food, then my friend asked to him, "Why don’t you eat?". Then that Bule replied, "I read on the internet that the culture in Indonesia has priority over the host to eat first”. Nah lo… wich culture is it?

 Reog in Tengger

It seems that Mr. Bule didn’t know if Indonesia has diverse cultures ^_^. Me in my village sometimes still often miscommunication with my friend in another village due to language and ‘unggah ungguh’ (manners) that are different.

So if you want to learn Indonesian, it's better if you come directly to the tribe that you really want to go. Because custom prevailing in the tribe can be very different from one tribe to another, something that is considered taboo in a region could be even something that very polite in other areas. Amazingly, Indonesia can still be united today. For example, intercultural marriages can be held well, even the culture in their custom areas can be very different and even contradictory.

Hopefully Indonesia can become BALDATUN THOYYIBATUN WA ROBBUN GHOFUR, aamiin

The Danger of Antibiotic

As a drug warehouse keeper, somebody often ask me to give them some kind of medicine. Actually, it is not a problem for me to give what they’ve asked, but sometimes I have to refuse the request if I’m not so sure if the drugs that they have been asked is safe to be consumed freely without a prescription.

Even though I’m not a pharmacist or a doctor, I know a bit about medicine. I know that in addition to the benefits, medicines have some side effects that are sometimes too dangerous. It makes me so careful to not giving medicine freely to everyone. I always say if they can bear the pain it is better to not consuming drugs. I give them another alternative such as keep the diet, or another therapy that I know can reduce the pain without medicine. 

Sometimes I’m afraid if they said I’m stingy because don’t give the medicine that they want. But I have to do that if I don’t want them being worst because of the side effect of the medicine.

One kind of drug that I can’t give freely is Antibiotic. Consuming Antibiotics can increase the risk of antibiotic resistance later. That is why, more often consuming antibiotics is possible more often getting illness. From some articles that I’ve read, antibiotic can’t kill viruses or accelerate healing virus infection. Antibiotic just kill or weaken microorganism (bacteria / parasites). Even, excessive Antibiotic usage will kill the good bacterias in our bodies that are useful for our body.

-use medications wisely-

 

Again, rather than exposed to the side effects of drugs

IT IS BETTER TO PREVENT THAN CURE!!!

Nodame Cantabile

I like this dorama very much. The whole story is not too different with another Japanese Dorama/J-Dorama that tells about a girl that fall in love with a cool and popular boy. But I become interest in this dorama since I knew that beside that love story, this dorama also show us about orchestra.

This is a very sort summary for that film that i took from wikipedia :

Megumi Noda, or "Nodame", is a piano student at Momogaoka, notorious for messiness and eccentric behavior. Despite being very talented, Nodame prefers to play by ear rather than according to the musical score; thus, she is regarded as sloppy and playful.

Shinichi Chiaki, an arrogant, multilingual, perfectionist, is the top student at Momogaoka College of Music and has secret ambitions to become a conductor.

When they meet by accident, Nodame quickly falls in love, but it takes much longer for Chiaki to even begin to appreciate Nodame's unusual qualities. Their relationship causes them both to develop and grow. Because of Nodame, Chiaki gets the opportunity to lead a student orchestra and begins to have a broader appreciation of people's musical abilities. Because of Chiaki, Nodame faces her fears and enters a piano competition.And soon :D

I begin curious about what the meaning of Cantabile. Before, I thought it was Nodame's name ^_^. But finally I found the definition of it. Cantabile is a musical term that means playing with a heave / the singing (canta = singing).

Violin, guitar, piano, I want to be able to play at least one of those instrument. Music can hypnotize me. Music often makes me inspired, happy, or even makes my mood more troubled. But I have to control myself to not too often listening music and make it balance by listening the most beautiful harmony and verse, My Holy Qur'an, it is guidance, science, cure, warning, the manual book for our life on earth. 

TT Immunization

My friend suddenly complained of pain. When I asked her, she said that she just had been immunized with TT. Next week she will get married, I remember that I had told him to not injected with TT. But she said KUA wouldn’t pass the requirements of marriage if the bride has not been injected with TT.

TT stands for Tetanus toxoid, it is a vaccine that is used to prevent tetanus infection. Tetanus is a disease caused by the bacterium Clostridium tetani. This bacteria enter through open wounds and produces toxin then attacks the central nervous system. These bacteria are commonly found in soil, so it can be found in dust, fertilizer, animal waste, and garbage.

TT immunization is a requirement that is highly recommended to do before the wedding in Indonesia. It is said that this immunization is encouraged because of the scourge of infant mortality in Indonesia.

Tetanus affects infants called Tetanus neonatorum. Tetanus usually affects babies that are born in the place that is not clean and don’t use a sterile tools for childbirth. It can also caused by a history of the pregnant women who may be hurt before the birth that the wound contains tetanus bacteria.

But apparently, immunization is not free of the side effects. The symptoms are such as fatigue, redness at the injection site, and sometimes fever. Those had been experienced by my friend. But it just happened for 1 until 3 days.

TT does not need?

Beside the benefits, I still support the idea that the human body already has its own immune system that can fight the foreign invaders. So,  no need to enter a foreign bacteria or viruses to our body even though they are impaired. But of course we have to keep our self healthy by doing a health lifestyle so that our immune system is able to fight the disease agents. Because, when we're not in healthy condition, many disease agents can cause illness for us.

you can visit this side for further information about natural immunization.

GALAU

I try to find word 'GALAU' in English by asking Mr. Google translation, and i find 2 words : confusion, hubbub.

Actually, word 'GALAU' is one of Indonesian people's creativity. This word is being popular in this year, but I still don't know who started using that word. When I type 'GALAU' on Google search (9/5/2012), I found 21.900.000 articles write about it, can you imagine how popular is it? If 'GALAU' is a human, may be he'll be the most popular artist of the year ^_^. This word even used by many company to promote their product, check it out !

Even, I have found 3 songs that use this word to be the title : Citra Scholastika - Galau....Galau....Galau, Five minutes - Galau, and Yovie & Nuno - Galau. Oh, it has been an endemic disease.

So, what is GALAU? may be it is a condition when some one being confuse of something, think so much about something, don't know what to do about something, suddenly being melancholy, sad, or not comfort. GALAU can be an acute illness if we don't know the right way to solve it.

I think this song can show us how to solve the endemic of GALAU. I hope my translation don't change the real meaning of this song. Thanks to OPICK for the song.

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Back to Allah

(Kembali pada Allah)

-- by Opick --

HasbunaLlah wa nikmal wakil

Nikmal mawlaa wa ni'man nashir

When your heart is anxious
no rest, no peace
When your heart is falter,
wounded, languish
 

Is my heart being far from God, from Allah
is my heart lost the remembrance of Allah, my faith

Only with Allah
Your heart will get a rest

By remembering Allah
All anxiety will be gone
Allah is enough for us
Our heart depend and surrendered to Him

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^ Let's back to Allah^

"Verily in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest!" (Ar Ro'du : 28)

Guide Me All The Way

Listening to Maher Zain's song, "Guide Me All The Way", makes me remember about Abu Bakar Ash Shiddiq ra. He ever said "O God! Let this world be in my hands, and not in my heart". 

As we know if we have learned about his story, Abu Bakar ra. is one of Khulafaur Rosyidin that means he was a Kholifah, Amir, or a President of a country. With that status, he really careful about what had been mandated to him. Some part of Jazirah Arab was in his hand, but he afraid if his power made him forget that all of power, strength, force, even he himself an his family are only belong to Allah. He afraid if that time when every body will be asked about her life, he can't account to Malaikah for what all of things that had been given to him in the word. For him, the best place is akhirat, not here in this world. So, there were no need to collect the wealth of the world, much less in a way that is not blessed by Allah, The Owner of us.

Let's pray that Allah always guide us in the whole of our activities, problems, and all. Keep Allah, then Allah will take care of you.

Guide Me All The Way Lyrics
by Maher Zain

I know that You could easily
Take away every thing You’ve given me
And I try to remember
Not to take anything for granted
‘Cause I know that one day
Suddenly this will all come to an end
So my last wish is for you to be pleased with Me

Chorus:
Allah, Ya Allah
Guide me all the way to your Jannah
Ya Allah, Ya Allah
Don’t let me go astray ’cause I need you
By my side, I wish to be close
Close to You throughout my life
Ya Allah, oh Allah!
Be with me all the way

I know that sometime I do
I do forget that my last breath could be the last
Forgive me ’cause I cant thank you enough
Forgive me when I doubt your love
Now I pray for that day
when all this stops and comes to an end
So my my last wish is for You to be pleased with me

CHORUS

Day by day passes
And I think that my time could be near
So I pray: O God let this world be in my hands
And not in my heart
‘Cause soon I’ll have to leave it [X2]

CHORUS [X3]

Guide me all the way
Don’t let me go astray

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"Guide us on the straight path, The path of those whom Thou hast favored; Not (the path) of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who go astray" (Al Fatihah : 6-7)

When Writing become Interesting

I like writing. It was start since I was in elementary school and had some interest in Bahasa Indonesia. The most favorite lesson for me is about sort story. I like reading very much, It made me interested in making that kind of writing, sort story. My interest on writing and reading become even more.

Since that time I started my debut on writing, hehe. But I usually just made unfinished writing, so if I wrote about sort story there were no one could know about the end of story. There were no one knew what will happened to the actor ^_^ in the end. But in junior high school I begin seriously write. I filled Mading (wall magazine/majalah dinding) with my poetries or sort story, but unfortunately I didn’t have an idea to collect the copy of those writing. 

On senior high school I had a goal that every years I had to finish at least one sort story. Fortunately, there was a contest every year for every classroom to submit a sort story for magazine. I always follow it although never win it J. But It made my goal achieved ^_^, beside that I knew that there were so much people that have ability to write. And writing is not just write something, but we need more knowledge from everywhere so that the reader not only read a trash thing but also an information that might be they never knew before or remind them about some important thing. So, reading is very important to make a good writing.

It was so long time I didn’t start writing again. From now, while increasing our knowledge, write down every little new thing will very helpful to memorize what we have been done, he have been known, we have been learned. And some time when we read it again may be we will surprise that we ever did, we ever knew, and we ever learned something that may be very valuable for us in the future.

 

So, let start writing!!! \^o^/