A Trip to Bangkok - Sawasdee!

National Geographic Photo Contest 2012

Happy Couple

Photo and caption by Rendy Yuninta
This Couple are homeless drifter, the man is Chinese and the woman is Javanese, they live together to get bite of rice every day, they laugh together, they walk together, there's no burden in their life...
Location: Petak 9, Glodok, Jakarta Pusat, DKI Jakarta

The Grace

Photo and caption by Juete-Sophia Sigeneger
On a sunday afternoon this young girl performs as a tightrope dancer at the seaside promenade in Pondicherry. Her parents sitting beneath her play the drums. A magic moment.
Photo Location: Pondicherry; Tamil Nadu; India

Embera Girls Giggling

Photo and caption by Piers Calvert
Two Embera girls in the Colombian pacific coast jungles of Chocó sit in a hammock and giggle. Their torsos are painted in traditional style, the left hand one with a figure representing the boa snake, and the right hand one with an abstract curative medicinal pattern.
Photo Location: Bahia Cupica, Chocó, Colombia

Power of Last Minute

I guess each and everyone of us can relate to this Calvin and Hobbes comic. No amount of music, internet surfing, brain storming, smoking and etc are as effective as the ‘last minute mode’. There is a name for it – The Lizard Brain

A Trip to Bangkok - Prologue

I wrote my resolution this year, I would go to several countries. Not advanced country but most of developing countries. I am so interested in natural and cultural objects. Until now, I have not gone to one of my several written country list.

Here, I want to say God is good. Through our study excursion of urban planning, the committee decided Bangkok as the destination city we will study. At first, I refused the offer. Why? That time I thought Bangkok is not a typo I wished to see, especially the adultery happening there. Although I do not have chance to go to what I would like to, He pushed me to go to Bangkok.

I realized I got enlightment when God asked Isaiah who would go for His calling? Isaiah went and took the calling because (1) he was nobody, but through God's compassion and mercy, he would like to be somebody, and turned into significant when he walked for it, (2) even he disapproved the calling, God still could use a donkey to speak His words to Israelites, but God loves an ordinary man, so that through his weakness, everyone could see true person behind the work, Jesus.

I had ever prayed to God: God, use me for your glory, use me for your tool, even to people whom nobody would not like to preach, even to place where nobody would not like to go, even to time when nobody woud not like to spare, I will. This prayer came and encouraged me to go to Bangkok, the city of adultery and sex trafficking industry. God wants to heal Bangkok, as He wanted to heal Niniveh. So what would happen if I run from His calling? Read the story of Jonah and you will understand the love of God noone can avoid.

Finally today I will go to Bangkok for 4 days. Gonna share you what I experience there and spiritual fellowship God will show then. I really want to sow and shout: Bangkok for His glory!

Opinion: Modern in the Nowadays Context

I do love writing and journaling. Even in my multitasking activities, I still love to work with media because my passion is to be columnist. Lately my junior class, @JoavianMerry tweeted me a link that when I opened it, it is my interview with the popular recent topic of design.

I have more publish of my interview with media, but I think one first is enough to give a prologue for my follower ^^

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Pilih Konsep yang Minimalis atau Simplicity?

Tribun Medan - Senin, 5 November 2012 19:59 WIB

Laporan Wartawan Tribun Medan/Averiana Barus

TRIBUN-MEDAN.com, MEDAN - Modern ini banyak bangunan-bangunan yang muncul yang menamakan dirinya berkonsep minimalis. Tidak hanya rumah tinggal, restoran, hotel, dan tempat-tempat umum lainnya banyak yang mengusung nama ini untuk bangunan bahkan desain interiornya.

"Sebenarnya tidak ada kata minimalis dalam desain interior. Dalam desain dikenal kata simplicity yang berarti menyimpelkan desain sesuai fungsi dan bentuknya," ujar Edy Saputra Yu, Arsitek dari Esa Architecture dan Interior Design, Senin (5/11/2012).

Banyak hunian yang mengklaim konsep mereka minimalis namun ketika dilihat lebih dekat malah jauh dari konsep minimalis berdasarkan fungsi atau bentuknya. "Minimalis atau dalam bahasa desain simplicity berarti mengkreasi bentukan sesuai fungsinya. Misalnya sebuah meja dikreasi pertama berdasarkan fungsinya baru kemudian bentuknya. Yang tidak perlu ya dibuang," ujarnya.

Hal ini mengingatkan kita pada meja makan klasik jaman Victoria yang panjangnya hampir 10 meter tapi yang makan hanya raja dan permai surinya. "Dari minimalisasi bentuk, harusnya minimal juga cost. Harusnya rumah yang didesain simpel tentu memotong biaya pula," ujarnya.

Namun tidak demikian kenyataannya. Rumah-rumah yang kebanyakan perumahan dengan konsep minimalis malah cukup mahal dibanding dengan konsep klasik atau etnik. Hal itu menurut Edy bergantung lagi pada lokasi dan akses. Namun katanya, jika kita membangun sendiri rumah dengan konsep simplicity, penghematan-penghematan tentu saja dapat dirasakan. (cr2/tribun-medan.com)

Penulis : Averiana Barus

Editor : Muhammad Tazli

Sumber : Tribun Medan

With You All The Time

I face a situation that I have to submit with God's deliverance. Our business partnership between my senior and me had experienced unwell to each other. I learn to forgive in a new level. Something inside me encouraging me to see that it's not the end. It's God's favor day by day can live walking with Him. I released FAVOUR to God's hands and chase what God's has provided today.

Thank you for Lina Maria for this incredible message. She refered me this song.
And I will never walk alone ^^

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With You All The Time

I live beneath the heart
I watch you from the dark
I'm every breath I'm every dream
I've known you forever
I've followed you everywhere
I'm every scar I'm who you are
When you think you're alone
When you cry cos the world's unfair
You can rest assured I'm always there

Even when you feel like you don't belong
Even when you fall and it all goes wrong
You know that I'm with you
That I'm with you all the time

Say a little prayer for the restless heart
We shall never ever drift apart
Know that I'm with you
Know that I'm with you
With you all the time

I'm walking round the room
I'm laughing when you smile
And when you cry I cry too
I made you a promise
That I shall forever keep
You're on your own but not alone
When you're down and you're out
And the world tells you no-one cares
You can rest assured I'm always there

Even when you feel like you dont belong
Even when you fall and it all goes wrong
You know that I'm with you
That I'm with you all the time

Say a little prayer for the restless heart
We shall never ever drift apart
Know that I'm with you
Know that I'm with you
With you all the time

Save a little love for me
You'll see
Save a little love for me
You'll see
Save a little love for me
You'll see
And you'll see

Even when you feel like you dont belong
Even when you fall and it all goes wrong
You know that I'm with you
That I'm with you all the time

Say a little prayer for the restless heart
We shall never ever drift apar
Know that I'm with you
Know that I'm with you
With you all the time

You know that I'm with you
That I'm with you all the time

Say a little prayer for the restless heart
We shall never ever drift apart
Know that I'm with you
Know that I'm with you
With you all the time

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Nakagin Capsule Tower - Kisho Kurokawa

source here

Tamiya’s ‘Tadao Ando Koshino House’ Architectural Edition

 

Ghost Building

Photograph Source and Copyright by Marcus Buck

What do you call this? Archaeology or Archi-aeology? The guys from Pruned thinks it is a ‘Ghost House‘. Some refer to it as Medianeras. This ‘building fossil’ is an amazing piece of art, I guess anything created or discovered with a subconscious mind are beautiful. Come to think of it, architecture is like a diary that is written in mud and timber, in brick and stone, in iron and steel, in concrete and glass.

 image source: helsing

 image source: Bernat_83

 image source: Evan Helfrich

 image source: teachme

 image source: lots 

 image source: Gothamist

 image source: Equinox27

 image source: Equinox27

image source: evanbittner

Lyrics: Holding Hands

牵手 - 苏芮

因为爱著你的爱
因为梦著你的梦
所以悲伤著你的悲伤
幸福著你的幸福

因为路过你的路
因为苦过你的苦
所以快乐著你的快乐
追逐著你的追逐

因为誓言不敢听
因为承诺不敢信
所以放心著你的沉默
去说服明天的命运

没有风雨躲得过
没有坎坷不必走
所以安心的牵你的手
不去想该不该回头

也许牵了手的手
前生不一定好走
也许有了伴的路
今生还要更忙碌

所以牵了手的手
来生还要一起走
所以有了伴的路
没有岁月可回头

Love what you love , and dream what you dream
So sad what you're sad , and happy when you're happy
I'll go where you go, suffer when you suffer
I'll be joyful when you are joyful, pursue what you pursue

I dare not listen to pledges, I don't dare trust promises
So I set my heart at ease and trust your silence
We can't avoid storms and there is no escaping rough stretches of this path we travel
So I'm contented to hold your hands And never look back

It may not always be smooth after we'd link hands
And life might get busier as we hold hands
But still we will travel together
And we won't have time to look back.

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Halloween Fest 2012 Trick or Treat?

We just attended Halloween Fest celebrated by our youngest year class in our campus.
They made several images of ghosts and displayed them at the center of our atrium.
So many people came and gathered.
Included us, postgraduate students did not miss this chance to capture the moment.
Trick or treat? :)

 feat Scream!

 you will never know what behind you - Scream!

 trick or treat?

 where is her groom?

 i believe i can fly (with the witch) lol

 spell dementor "expecto patronum"!

feat Chucky!

Ecclesiastes 3 - A Reflection

I've made a reflection. Started with the rhytm of what I experienced in my recent days.
There's balance condition for everything. Either happiness or sadness. Either promotion or failure.
But the direction in between these different condition set my eyes back to Jesus as the center of them all.
Holy Spirit guided me to see Ecclesiastes 3 as I knew there must be special message that He would like to tell me. There is peace after all.
For my friends wherever you are, either I know or never meet before, this message is for you too. Be strong and courageous. Trust and obey for there is no other way.
=)

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	There's an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth:
	A right time for birth and another for death, A right time to plant and another to reap,
	A right time to kill and another to heal, A right time to destroy and another to construct,
	A right time to cry and another to laugh, A right time to lament and another to cheer,
	A right time to make love and another to abstain, A right time to embrace and another to part,
	A right time to search and another to count your losses, A right time to hold on and another to let go,
	A right time to rip out and another to mend, A right time to shut up and another to speak up,
	A right time to love and another to hate, A right time to wage war and another to make peace.
	But in the end, does it really make a difference what anyone does?
	I've had a good look at what God has given us to do--busywork, mostly.
	True, God made everything beautiful in itself and in its time--but he's left us in the dark, so we can never know what God is up to, whether he's coming or going.
	I've decided that there's nothing better to do than go ahead and have a good time and get the most we can out of life.
	That's it--eat, drink, and make the most of your job. It's God's gift.
	I've also concluded that whatever God does, that's the way it's going to be, always. No addition, no subtraction. God's done it and that's it. That's so we'll quit asking questions and simply worship in holy fear.
	Whatever was, is. Whatever will be, is. That's how it always is with God.
	I took another good look at what's going on: The very place of judgment--corrupt!
	The place of righteousness--corrupt! I said to myself, "God will judge righteous and wicked." There's a right time for every thing, every deed--and there's no getting around it.
	I said to myself regarding the human race, "God's testing the lot of us, showing us up as nothing but animals."
	Humans and animals come to the same end--humans die, animals die. We all breathe the same air. So there's really no advantage in being human. None. Everything's smoke.
	We all end up in the same place--we all came from dust, we all end up as dust.
	Nobody knows for sure that the human spirit rises to heaven or that the animal spirit sinks into the earth.
	So I made up my mind that there's nothing better for us men and women than to have a good time in whatever we do--that's our lot. Who knows if there's anything else to life?