Gratitude for those who responded my question :)

Hello guys. Thank you for responding my questions. I just wanna say Hello to each of you. Hope the world gets connected easily by this way. I received comments from people all around the world, i.e. Canada, USA, Indonesia, so on and so forth.
The basic idea of this question is that we can learn history from other people without reading boring thick books. Maybe there are some people thinking that it's just my way to get readership. That isn't necessarily wrong but there is a lot more behind it. What can i say? People have different opinion.
Thanks for Mark Thomas who had this idea. Take care, y'all :)

If you could meet any person in history...

Simple question:
If you could meet any person in history, who would it be and why?
Cheers..

Another hero comes along

Few hours ago, one of the best Indonesian boxers, Chrisjon, succesfully retained his title, which is WBA Featherweight world champion. He defeated Tommy Browne in Sydney, Australia. I was wondering whether Chris will get any decent ovation from Indonesian people when he comes back. As I recall, when he got the title, there was no Indonesian news station at all which broadcasted his fight. Hopefully, this time, Indonesian people would respect their heroes more than the other nation do. Bravo, Chrisjon! We're proud of you.
pic: www.dnet.net.id

Saturday a.k.a Sabtu a.k.a Sabado

Oh it's so nice to be on Saturday again. Saturday means chillin' time ;) It also means not doing anything related to study. The sad thing is that i don't have anything exciting to do besides weekly shopping (food shopping :)
So being couch potato is not a bad thing :) I know it sounds lazy but after rough weekdays, I think I deserve some leisure time.
By the way, some time in this week, I read news in the Internet that South Korean researchers successfully cloned a dog. After tadpole, sheep, goat, cow, mice, pig, cat, rabbit, gaur, and now a dog, do you think the researchers will clone human successfully? Next question is whether human cloning is ethical. Some people argue that cloning can be used in efforts of finding cure for rare disease. From the other standpoint, it is unethical because it threatens human individuality, deliberately saddling the clone with the genetic makeup of a person who has already lived (www.nrlc.org/news/2002/NRL03/ex.html). What's your opinion about it?
pic: bioteach.ubc.ca

If you were.....

Maybe you have a thought about this :)

If you were a ruler of a country, what would be the first thing from it you want to change?

If you are confused, you might want to borrow the thinking cap for a while ^_^

pic: www.mysterynet.mb.ca

Half way through

These past four days would probably be the busiest days in Summer. I am taking class on the 4th block of Summer session. It only lasts for 2 weeks. Apparently it's not a 2-weeks-class, instead of 8-days-class. Can you imagine how to finish a class within 8 days? It's not easy for the students as well as the teacher. We have case studies everyday. In the end of the class, there will be group cases and individual cases to be presented infront of class.
Despite the density, this class doesn't have any exams. Yippi !!! Still, I want to finish it as good as I could do. Hang on there, Andhyka. It's 4 days left and you'll be done this summer. Colorado, here I come :)

Unpopular hero

Have you ever heard this name, Agung Etti Hendrawati? Maybe few of us heard of her but I am sure not too many people know her. She is one of the marvelous athletes that Indonesia ever have. Etti recently just set a new WORLD record of Speed Rock Climbing in Italy in 2005. What made it more astonishing is that the old world record was also HERS.
I know that rock climbing is not a popular sport in Indonesia. Soccer and badminton are the most dominant sport played. Many people are so into those sports. Unfortunately, our national soccer and badminton atlhetes are not in their best form these recent years. That condition creates an image of the fall of Indonesian sports. Eventually it leads to the declining of confidence of the athletes in particular, the nation in general.
Nonetheless, there are still some athletes that makes remarkable achievements. Thus, in lieu of complaining about our soccer national team's weakness, why don't we support or at least pay attention to other athletes, for instance Etti, Chrisjon, so on and so forth?
Personally, I still believe that our national atheletes will again make great achievements. I could be wrong. But if there is no one supports them, how can we expect them to win and make us proud? It won't happen if we always complain about them without any solution. Viva Indonesian athletes...!
pic: www.theage.com.au

One of the historical coins

This coin was very popular in 1995 (if I'm not mistaken). Actually it's just an ordinary coin but rumours about this coin was so incredible. At that time, it was believed that 100 Rupiah coin made in 1991 contained valuable metal. Some people changed it into a ring. Believe it or not, they sold the ring with way up high price (much more than Rp.100). Unbelievable.....
Some of you probably would say I just made the story. Nope, this is true.

This is even cooler....:)

Do you know what the postcard looked like in the late 1800's? The pic above is a postcard sent from Yokohama, Japan to Buitenzorg, Indonesia. Buitenzorg now is called Bogor a.k.a the "Rain City."

Have you ever seen these? (cont'd)