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“The problem with many Muslims in Indonesia is that they don’t think for themselves,” he told The Jakarta Post. “They just follow whatever the leader says.

“They stand in the mosque and mumble, but they don’t understand what the clerics are saying because they don’t know Arabic. What’s the problem with using Indonesian? God understands everything we think and say whatever the language.”

FIGHTING TO PRAY IN PEACE © Duncan Graham 2006 [source]

Interesting article of Yusman Roy’s struggle to stand by his interesting point of view.

This may have nothing to do with the above article, but sometimes I wish that a law is made to have all clerics to have to go to a special school before they are all able to preach. Just to divide between the ones that actually know what they’re talking about and the ones whose brains are up their ass.. pardon my language.. it’s just that I find way too many Muslim leaders in Indonesia that are not leading us to move forward, instead with their narrow mindedness caused by their lack of knowledge and ignorance, they are leading more and more people toward destruction, worse violence.

Waktu gue kecil dulu.. gue dan sepupu2 yang lain suka ngata2in sepupu gue yg paling kecil.. Aca… karena ada kisah lucu.. Jadi waktu itu mungkin Aca ini baru kelas 1 atau 2 SD.. nah dia punya anak kucing kesayangan.. suatu hari.. entah karena penasaran.. atau iseng.. atau emang polos.. nah anak kucing itu dipegang2 sama Aca..terus Aca pikir.. loh kok badannya panas yaaah.. karena memang lagi ga ada yang perhatiin si Aca ini.. dan Aca emang lagi kreatif2nya.. dimasukin deh anak kucingnya ke kulkas.. maksudnya sih baik.. biar badannya dingin lagi.. tapi kayaknya dia kelupaan.. keasikan main.. jadilah beku.. dan bernasib tragis deh kucingnya..

Duh waktu itu kita shock2.. sedih.. tapi akhirnya ketawa2 dan jadi nyela2in Aca.. sampe sekarang pun kayaknya ga ada diantara kita yang bisa lupa kejadian itu..

Cuman mungkin kejadian itu bisa dibilang lucu karena yah pada saat itu Acanya juga masih anak kecil.. yang kalo dipikir2 sekarang mungkin bisa dibilang keluguan anak kecil.. (walaupun kayaknya smua pasti lebih mikih lo badung dan emang iseng ya ca huehuehue)..

Tapi, kalo kejadiannya dilakukan sama seorang laki2 dewasa.. dan yang dimasukin ke kulkas (lebih parah lagi malah ini freezer!) itu seorang bayi.. waduh kejadiannya jadi gak lucu lagi kayaknya yah..

Seorang pria Kanada bingung menghadapi bayi perempuan yang sedang demam. Bayi itu adalah putri pacarnya. Pria itu kemudian memasukkan bayi perempuan itu ke dalam lemari es agar suhu tubuhnya turun. Gara-gara perbuatannya, Derrick Hardy, pria itu, dituduh bertindak ceroboh dan membahayakan anak-anak. [source: Kompas]

Sabine Kuegler has a luxurious existence in Germany, so why does she long for the jungle where she spent her childhood, asks Elizabeth Grice

It is an account of her fabulous childhood in a remote jungle area of West Papua, Indonesia, where she and her family lived among a warmongering tribe untouched by modern civilisation. The stuff of adventure storybooks and the National Geographic. She ate roast bat, crocodile and fat white grubs and hunted birds and wild pig with a bow and arrow. She learnt how to kill poisonous snakes and shared her house with rats, flying cockroaches and spiders as big as dinner plates. Until she was 17, the jungle and its timeless ways were all she knew.

read the story… [source:telegraph.co.uk]

LAPORAN MAJALAH TIME - 24 MEI 1999

MENGENAI HARTA JARAHAN KELUARGA SUHARTO

Penyelidikan TIME ke dalam kekayaan keluarga Suharto dan anak-anaknya menemukan harta jarahan sebesar $ 15 milyar dalam bentuk uang tunai, properti, barang-barang seni, perhiasan dan pesawat-pesawat jet pribadi

Oleh: JOHN COLMEY dan DAVID LIEBHOLD Jakarta

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[picture source: Wikipedia.com]

Amazing two young girls. Incredible parents. A beautiful story:

THE MOST INTIMATE BOND
CONJOINED FOR LIFE, THE HENSEL TWINS ARE A MEDICAL MYSTERY AND A LESSON IN COOPERATION FOR US ALL. [source: Time.com]

A little bit of fun to spice up the day.. try this flash generated palm reading!! huehue..

So these are my readings:

The Life Line
A fork at the end of this line is a sign that you will persue a completley new direction in life. This could mean a change of profession, partner or that you will move abroad…

The Health Line
Lucky you! Its absence is the sign that you are not hampered by those annoying health problems in life.

So, what’s yours?

Ps: ingeeet buat seneng2 aja.. jangan terlalu percaya.. dosa euuy.. huehueuhe..

My grandma’s giving her stuffs away.. which made me the proud owner of two beautiful shawls.. one black and one white.. what made them beautiful is the fact that she made them with her bare hands.. way before she starts loosing her sights to concentrate on tiny details.. way before her hands starts trembling when they are forced to create little knots.. what made them beautiful is the fact that I’ve seen her worn them once too many times back in all of her “going abroad” pictures.. pictures dated from back in the 70s.. in her europe trips.. and oz trips..

Its spring time here.. which is the perfect time for me to start wearing them.. they go well with all kind of outfits.. dressy nor casual.. i can throw in big belts on top of them to make me feel fancy.. i can wear a nice summer dress underneath them to make me look girly.. or even put a vintage twist on top of a rocker outfit.. the most important thing of all is the fact that whenever I wore them, I feel like she’s giving me this big big huge warm hug..

Poso…