I also posted this news at my friendster...
My wife, Niken, is currently hospitalized at Hospital Cinere, Melati room 516 for dengue fever. She was admitted three days ago and right now her thrombocytes are continuously drops. It will be several more days until her thrombocytes to return to normal.
I’ll be staying with her until she recovers and allowed to return home. I also won’t be online for two weeks. Please pray for us!
Thank you and God bless you all!
PS: I'm writing all of our experiences during our stay in hospital. I'll post them later when we got back!
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
F@#k Up Education in Indonesia
Oops, almost forgot that now I have a blog in my hand…
Anyways, last week the whole family gathered at my parents place to celebrate my niece 11th birthday. As usual as the family gathers, we had all sort of topics flying around the conversation, from what music project I recently work on to the talk about education in Indonesia.
I found the education topic very much interesting because we all experiencing the horror of the latest Indonesian education. Not directly but through our children (I don’t have a child yet but I think of my nieces and nephews as my children as well).
The picture of the putrid of Indonesian education can be seen from the primary levels. My niece and nephews are in their elementary levels and from what I heard and saw I could tell that in the next 10 years, Indonesia will harbor a massive increase of psychopaths.
I believe as well as Einstein does that imagination is the most important thing before knowledge. It is proven by our modern life. So the primary levels of education should encourage younglings to build and explore their imagination and creativity that will make them easier to learn other things, such as math, science, etc.
But this is not happening in Indonesia; the elementary schools (and sadly the parents too) always regard high grade and having brain for numbers or science are the ultimate goal and they think that all the children are GENIUSES WITH MATH!!! That is very absurd! Once in a while an Indonesian kid won the Physic Olympic or Math Olympic, well good for them, but we can’t generalize it to other kids. This is also what’s happening in private schools. They forced second grade students to swallow subjects of higher grade, THAT’S INSANE!!!
Not to mention some people who saw the business opportunity from the chaos. They are competing to open a “Bimbingan Belajar”. It’s a place for students to get learning guidance, some sort of private instruction. BUT, business comes first and what supposed to be a private instruction, they wickedly made it into a class and put the students, sometime up to 45 to 50, packed together. Their evil does not stop there, instead of helping the students to understand the subjects, they just giving the shortcut to solve the equation and hints of how working on a massive national exam. My God, that’s so evil! One “Bimbingan Belajar” puts a sign, “Program Super Intensif”, that means they have a super intensive learning guidance program. What on earth is that? The word intensive alone has already explained the situation and now they said super intensive? Of what? Shortcuts? Hints and tips? Without imagination and creativity the kids will become either zombies or monsters. Now that how wicked is the education system in Indonesia.
Also I heard that we are celebrating 100 years of “Kebangkitan Nasional”, the national uprise…well tell me, have we risen yet or have we fallen into a deeper coma…
Anyways, last week the whole family gathered at my parents place to celebrate my niece 11th birthday. As usual as the family gathers, we had all sort of topics flying around the conversation, from what music project I recently work on to the talk about education in Indonesia.
I found the education topic very much interesting because we all experiencing the horror of the latest Indonesian education. Not directly but through our children (I don’t have a child yet but I think of my nieces and nephews as my children as well).
The picture of the putrid of Indonesian education can be seen from the primary levels. My niece and nephews are in their elementary levels and from what I heard and saw I could tell that in the next 10 years, Indonesia will harbor a massive increase of psychopaths.
I believe as well as Einstein does that imagination is the most important thing before knowledge. It is proven by our modern life. So the primary levels of education should encourage younglings to build and explore their imagination and creativity that will make them easier to learn other things, such as math, science, etc.
But this is not happening in Indonesia; the elementary schools (and sadly the parents too) always regard high grade and having brain for numbers or science are the ultimate goal and they think that all the children are GENIUSES WITH MATH!!! That is very absurd! Once in a while an Indonesian kid won the Physic Olympic or Math Olympic, well good for them, but we can’t generalize it to other kids. This is also what’s happening in private schools. They forced second grade students to swallow subjects of higher grade, THAT’S INSANE!!!
Not to mention some people who saw the business opportunity from the chaos. They are competing to open a “Bimbingan Belajar”. It’s a place for students to get learning guidance, some sort of private instruction. BUT, business comes first and what supposed to be a private instruction, they wickedly made it into a class and put the students, sometime up to 45 to 50, packed together. Their evil does not stop there, instead of helping the students to understand the subjects, they just giving the shortcut to solve the equation and hints of how working on a massive national exam. My God, that’s so evil! One “Bimbingan Belajar” puts a sign, “Program Super Intensif”, that means they have a super intensive learning guidance program. What on earth is that? The word intensive alone has already explained the situation and now they said super intensive? Of what? Shortcuts? Hints and tips? Without imagination and creativity the kids will become either zombies or monsters. Now that how wicked is the education system in Indonesia.
Also I heard that we are celebrating 100 years of “Kebangkitan Nasional”, the national uprise…well tell me, have we risen yet or have we fallen into a deeper coma…
Thursday, May 15, 2008
I'm still in Jakarta...thinking....
Well,
After some years being a reader of all the blogs from around the internet, now I decided to make one of my own...
As you may or may not know, I'm a musician and I have a prog band, Academie of FarSide. The latter has caused me headache, stress and frustration for like a year now!
How would you feel if you're leading a team on a great task and no one but you is working to achieve the target? That exactly what is happening to my band now. I was trying to dissolve the band but seems my band mates were frightened if they lost it. So now I just let them do what they want to do, I'm tired of baby sitting and I need to move forward, for I have big dreams and big plans ahead! That's not the worst thing happening in my life now.
I don't know if this is a side effect from the above mentioned problem, but since 2007 until now I couldn't compose new music and this year even got bad, I've lost my conception and understanding of what is music. In simple words, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS MUSIC ANYMORE!!!
I'm working to get myself back to top, it's not easy but I will make it done!
Also, I'd like to thank you for the people behind Shaun the Sheep. Thank you so much for bringing an exceptional and hilarious show!
I was on the verge of losing my mind and the show has helped and gave me extra strength to hold on. Thanks guys!
After some years being a reader of all the blogs from around the internet, now I decided to make one of my own...
As you may or may not know, I'm a musician and I have a prog band, Academie of FarSide. The latter has caused me headache, stress and frustration for like a year now!
How would you feel if you're leading a team on a great task and no one but you is working to achieve the target? That exactly what is happening to my band now. I was trying to dissolve the band but seems my band mates were frightened if they lost it. So now I just let them do what they want to do, I'm tired of baby sitting and I need to move forward, for I have big dreams and big plans ahead! That's not the worst thing happening in my life now.
I don't know if this is a side effect from the above mentioned problem, but since 2007 until now I couldn't compose new music and this year even got bad, I've lost my conception and understanding of what is music. In simple words, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS MUSIC ANYMORE!!!
I'm working to get myself back to top, it's not easy but I will make it done!
Also, I'd like to thank you for the people behind Shaun the Sheep. Thank you so much for bringing an exceptional and hilarious show!
I was on the verge of losing my mind and the show has helped and gave me extra strength to hold on. Thanks guys!
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