found out

i just found out.. here at korea.. that i am short enough.. hehe.. :p

archery class - last day

It was the Day..

after 3 months learning 국궁 (korean archery), we graduated.. ^^

so happy..! and also a bit sad, because we might bussy and not able to come so often there..

me and korean sasang district traditional archery's athletes

this is our teachers, with sasang distrik governer (the woman with vest-infront)

private time

merasa jengah di kamar..

musim panas ini udara selain terasa sangat hangat, juga terasa sangat lembab.

sambil mencari udara segar, aku pergi ke taman "eco park" di dalam kampus ku, dengan membawa sebotol air putih, novel, topi pet, dan tidak lupa.. kamera digital pocket ku. Berharap ada objek yang baik untuk di foto..

inilah, beberapa dari sekian objek yang ku foto..

di bawah langit cerah, dilindungi canopy pohon2 ini...

duduk di taman "eco park", yang berada di dalam kampus ku

segarnya...

saat itu hampir tidak ada orang di sana..

seorang ibu serta anak perempuannya, dan sepasang paruh baya yang sedang melepas lelah setelah mendaki gunung Baekyang yang jalan masuk setapaknya dapat di tempuh dari belakang asrama kami..

sungai kecil.. mengalir dari atas gunung Baekyang..

danau kecil yang ada di tengah taman

santai..

learning archery

our practice field (낙동장, 사상구-부산)

where we practice twice a week

it's already 3 months, we learned korean traditional archery (국궁)..

(this picture was taken by carlos, my friend. cool!!!..)

they won the first prize..!

our archery teachers won the first prize..!!!

for this year south korean archery competition. they competed with about 100 more competitor.. waa.. we are lucky to have them as our teacher..

and we were invited to join their party.. :)

the buffet.. so delicious..

with our teachers and 선수 (player/athlete)

us and teachers.. ^^

no pain no gain..

after a few weeks learn korean traditional archery, i got this mark. I hurt my arm.. hehe.

but, it wasn't hurt. just a few pain.. very small..

but th wound, might be marked a bit longer.. :)

hehe..

well,

no pain no gain..

but, until now, still not good at archery.. need more practice. to aim.. hehe..

still no gain (yet)

purpose in life

"what is your purpose in life?"

the question struck me more often than i can remember. my dear wife also ask me the same question undirectly, when she asked me "what's your future plan?" prior to our marriage. i remember a person said that when he discovered his life plan. he wanted to be a doctor, but what he really wanted, was to help others. so he became a volunteer in several organization. he was there when the tsunami strikes aceh, he was in borneo, teaching tribesmen to learn to cultivate their food.

so i reflected in mine. what i really want? i wish i could be a teacher. but very often those calling are meant, that i wanted to share what i know, empowering people through their knowledge, and with the power at their own hand, they be able to liberate themselves...

so much abstract pictures in my mind, and may i describe them vary among times. but the pictures stand still..

purpose

when you have a good purpose,..

no matter what the obstacle in front of you..

you'll come over it..

even when it is just have a little faith..

expectation

When you give something,..

the more you expect of something,

the more you have to be ready to feel disappointed..

less expectation,

less disappointed.

...

already knew

In a room of an apartment, Holmes and Watson were doing what they always do. Holmes was googling a person that related with his new case and Watson was busy arranging his desk. That morning, Watson looked so neat. He started to grabed his sleeve bag, and wore his sneakers, walked towards the door..

Holmes was siting on his chair, and starred at his laptop on the desk. Through a glance he found out that his friends were walking toward the door.

After saw his friend finished with the shoes, then he asked,"where are you going?"

"out side.."

"going for eat?"..

"...."

Holmes already knew that his friend doesn't interested on having conversation.. but wasting his time, he still tried to asked his friend..

while opened the door, "I go.. bye", Watson said.

without watched Watson walked outside, Holmes answered, "yea.."

and the door closed.

crossroads

Today, our teacher said that start from tomorrow, we will have afternoon class. Unlucky, at that time i supposed to attend archery class.. even though teachers said that this afternoon class isn't mandatory, but my self conscious said that I need to go to class. But, after having several injury during archery class, I feel such a waste if I not come to archery class..

what will you do?

Between lines...

adil sejak dalam pikiran

"seorang terpelajar harus sudah berbuat adil sejak dalam pikiran apalagi dalam perbuatan"

Pramoedya Ananta Toer (This earth of mand kind)

Life

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude toward us..

-Earl Nightingale-

Kiss **

gravity

i think the only thing that keep us in obeying the law of gravity is our own body-mass. but even so, we face two options in dealing with that: to have no mass; or to loose gravitation by getting off from it's field of gravity

not like gravity, many things occured in our daily lives are happen because we allowed them to be. our believe, our value, our culture, and much more things in our daily lives are occured, and therefore we are in it, because we allowed them to be as they are.

there are too many things that we allowed to happen, beyond our discursive consiousness - borrowing Giddens' phrase, of how things works, and why they work as they are now and not the other way arround.

start the day

weekend,..

wake up late,..

have breakfast late..

Already one month since summer season began. Today is not as hot as used to.. almost no wind.. The sky is grey.. cloudy. The sun is slowly appear. It's a good sign, cause I'm planning to wash my convers. I hope it would be dry in at least in 3 days.

I'm enjoying a cup of coffee and buns, sit on 3rd floor veranda, watching peoples walking pass with pine forest across the building.

While my room mate walk out from room to start doing her Yoga..

I am still enjoying my late breakfast..

ceteris paribus

a group of executor line up in front of a blindfolded man. only one of their rifles which is loaded with a real bullet. the rest are empty.

lets say that these men are a good shooter. the wind is hard, and they are shooting from a long range. the only chance the blindfolded man has, is when the wind blows so hard, it could spare him the bullet from drilling his heart to death.

the company doesnt really wanted to execute the man. just by chance. by fate, as you faithful said.

what if..the wind doesnt blow hard in the right time..? the man would drop off.
ceteris paribus.

a plan was set up to set pristine forest to be chopped off.. but the planner doesnt really means to chopped it down. the heated debate comes across. what if your hope is fail...? "we hope that it wont happened."

ceteris paribus.

if you fail to plan, you planned to fail.
ceteris paribus.