Hari gini, semester 3 udah mo abis, satu semester tinggal…woaaaaaaa
Blom punya paper published, blom punya conference, blum nulis thesis, gmn mo nulis data ajah blom lengkap….woaaaaaaaaaaaaa…blom belajar, blom nyiapin toefl…tauk ah….
I remember when I was child, my parents used to take me to the Ragunan zoo (lucky me, not so far from my house) together with my bro n sis, cousins or my some neighbors. I always love it, to see all kinds or animals. I growth in a house with lots of plants and animals, like chicken, fishes, duck, swan, birds, Yakop (my cockatoo that loves to shout out every time..miss u..) 
, turtles (I have 13 in my home), cat (jeliteng, siti, lagi ngapain yah..). All these things make me likes animals and realize that we have so many kinds of interesting living creature in the world (alahhh..). By knowing kinds of animals, it makes me realize that my country Indonesia has sooooooooo many kinds of animals/fauna.
One of my favorite animal that I can see in that zoo is (mostly in almost all zoo in Indonesia) is orangutan.. wanna take their pics so much.. I will tell you a little bit about orangutan here. This creature always catch my interest, even I was thinking to have one in my house, but I think it would be not possible, and the reason you will see later.
Talking about my lovely country, Indonesia,…..
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a country comprise around 17,000 island that make it as the largest archipelagic country in the world. The five largest islands are Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of Borneo), New Guinea (shared with Papua New Guinea), and Sulawesi. Indonesia has tropical climate, with forest almost covers 60% of the country, and its flora and fauna is a mixture of Asian and Australasian species. Sumatra and Kalimantan (Borneo) are predominantly of Asian species.
Orangutan is one of the Asian fauna species in Indonesia. Wikipedia says orangutan is a species of great apes known for their intelligence, long arms and reddish-brown hair. In fact, the name orangutan comes from “orang” = person/man and “utan/hutan” = forest, so orang utan means “man of the forest”. I think orang utan is very clever as an apes..;P Orangutans are native animal to Indonesia and Malaysia, they are currently found only in rainforest on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. They spend most of their time in trees, moving from tree to tree by climbing and or swinging. 
Their hands are twice longer than their legs and allow them to move about in the rainforest canopy with ease, or to hang from branches eating fruit and leaves. Some might say orangutans have four hands instead of two hands and two feet. Females orang utan can grow to around 127 centimetres and weight 45 kg, adult males can reach 175 centimetres in height and weight over 118 kg. They live solitary, particularly for adults male who only associate with others during mating, which happens throughout the year…(haha!). The average lifes for an orangutan is 30 years, and maturity is reached at seven to 10 years of age. Females typically give birth one baby and always take care of their young until up to six years..good mother huh!. 
When I came to zoo or national park in Indonesia, I like to see orangutan acting like a man or human. how they act, drink, eat, just similar like us. We can play with them, they are so friendly as long as you do not disturb them, but be careful they like to grab foods from our hands. As mentioned before, orangutan known for its intelligence. Recent research by the psychologist Robert Deaner and his colleagues, orangutans are the world’s most intelligent animal other than humans, with higher learning and problem solving ability than chimpanzees. Another research found that they are capable of tasks well beyond chimpanzees’ abilities such as using leaves to make rain hats and leakproof roofs over their sleeping nests….so clever isn’t it?? Well no need feel treated by them, coz’ they are so smart..;P I wish I had one in my home..;P must be very fun playing with them.
How many numbers of orangutan that still exist in the world??? Orangutans spent most of their time living alone in tree, since that it makes difficult to calculate the number of orangutans in the world. From the source that I got from WWF, suggest that less than 30,000 orangutans exist in the world today (what small amount I guess..). The largest amount of them are found in Borneo island (about 24,000) with very small amount in Sumatra. It is reported that over the past 100 years orangutans have lost 91% of their population… (what a sad..!!!).
According to IUCN Red List, orangutan status is critically endangered and listed as Appendix I of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), means these species are threatened with extinction and are or may be affected by trade. The sharp decreasing number of orangutan in the world has occurred mostly due to human activities and development. Do you think human and orangutan can live side by side?? I bet it is hardly to do.
In the last 20 years about 80% of orangutans’ habitat has disappeared and 2% of remains is legally protected. This all because of commercial logging, clearance for agriculture, and conversion to plantations. WWF’s Indonesia Progamme estimates that in 1997 around 10 million hectares of land were burned in Indonesia. When areas of forest are destroyed, orangutans lose both their home and source of food. There is also problem with hunting and illegal pet trade that makes orangutan are starting to disappear. So having orangutan as pet in home is illegal!!! That’s why I can’t have it in my home… Orangutan are often killed for their meat, their slow movements make them easy targets…When adult females are killed, the babies can be sold, and the skulls of the dead may be used to create souvenirs that are sold illegally throughout Borneo (hate it so much, cruel human!!!). 
Due to all these, many conservations are built to protect the live of orangutans. Major conservation centers in Indonesia include those at Tanjung Puting National Park in Central Borneo, Kutai in East Borneo, Gunung Palung National Park in West Borneo, and Bukit Lawang in the Gunung Leuser National Park on the border of Aceh and North Sumatra. In Malaysia, conservation areas include Semenggoh Wildlife Center in and Matang Wildlife Center in Sarawak, and the Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary near Sandakan in Sabah. My question is, if there are many conservation and ways to protect orangutans, but why the population keep decreasing??? Maybe we need to ask ourself (especially us, Indonesian..) what things that we should or avoid to protect and keep this cute, clever mammals exist in this world. I hope I still can see them in the zoo or much better in wildlife.
Orangutans are one of the most critically endangered of the great apes, due to poaching and habitat loss. Based on the World Bank’s estimation that mechanized logging in the Kalimantan forest, (Indonesian Borneo), will result in its total loss by 2010, and other statistics stating that wild orangutans are disappearing at a rate of 2,000 orangutans per year, optimistic predictions give the orangutan ten more years before extinction in the wild (Hooper 2002).
Since I have my Nikon D40x that I bought last year, my passion of taking picture become more more and more.. until I made an account in Flickr.
I like to browse other users’ pictures to learn about taking pic, style, etc. Flickr mixr is a group meeting of Flickr members with the same part area of where they live. I can find this event in other country, even many in State. In this meeting we can just gather, spend time together for coffee, sharing knowledge (not only about photography), and also hunt for pictures together. I used to wish I had that kind of group in Seoul, until I found it (yeaaa!!!). The name is Flickr in Seoul (FIS). It is a Flickr group for Flickr member in Seoul.
Eric, one of Flickr members introduced me this FIS. They always have meeting 2 times in a month, and last Sunday was the meeting time. That meeting was my first coming to that group. I meet new people there, means new friend for me, and Derek is the coordinator of this group. Our meeting was in 63 building. Too bad that day the weather unfriendly..hiks..it was raining whole day. So we couldn’t go out to take pictures. We were planning to go to aquarium or theater inside the building and after that boat trip in Han river. BUT….sure we couldn’t do the boat trip in raining. Since some people were late for coming, so we spent sometime in coffee shop inside the building, it’s the time for us (especially me, since I’m new here). I knew some of them only by chatting in messenger or email, and now I could meet them. And there we took pictures of each other..(ya thats good thing).
That day, hehehe..all of the schedules were canceled, we just spent our time in coffeshop, and foodcourt, but its like a never ending story when people with same interest get together.. 
I got new friends, new information, new knowledges, improving my English ;P, and of course so much fun!!!
Wait to see u again all..
This food is inspired by my roommate when I used to live in dormitory. Raehyun ( I miss u!) is her name, her mother used to send this food for her.
Let me tell u little bit about “kim”, Checking out from wikipedia.. Nori (Japanesse: 海苔) (Chinesse: 海苔, pinyin; Korean: 김, kim or gim) is the Japanese name for various edible seaweed species of the red alga. Since I live in Korea so I will call it “kim”. In Japan, kim is commonly used as wrap of sushi or onigiri. In Korea, they use it as wrap or gimbab, some kind of roll food similar like roll sushi… Gim has high content ofmineral salts. It is prepared into very thin, dried square sheets, seasoned with sesame oil and salt.
Last saturday, I just remember that I still kept some kim on my kitchen, and it’s been while I put it there..;P and yes I still have it. Its kinda boring for me to eat kim only plain as usual ( since i can’t make my own kimbab), so I decided to modify it. As I told u in first line of this blog, Raehyun’s mother used to fried kim with some flour, and it’s very delicious. And I tried to make it by myself, but I now It won’t have same taste as Rae’s mom’s tough…;P
Here what I did: (its very easy)
I used the sliced salty kim that already cut, egg, wheat flour, salt, and pepper ( how many spoon?? as u wish..;P)
1. smash the egg,
2. mixed flour, salt and pepper, do it well..;P
3. cover up all parts of kim with the egg.
4. pour the kim with mixed flour.
5. Fried it with hot oil (this one takes very short time, so I have to be very careful and fast) until the flour’s color change into little bit brown.
6. If u wanna eat it soon then its good, but if not keep it in tight cover place.
I like it… 
To have someone
Is not about going to the mall by holding hand
Is not about going to cinema and buy two tickets
The same goes as a well of ordering table for two at restaurant
To have someone
Is about sharing your day and dream
To do the hearing and to be heard
To know that you can smile and eventually cry
To feel blessed of having it and cursed when lost it
Ultimately is to say
After you’ve been through these all
You hardly stop saying
Thank you God
By: he
I love arts very much even since I was child, I used to participate on painting or drawing competition or somethin’ related that (menang ga menang yg penting ikutan..). Even until now, arts always become my obsession. Since maybe junior high until highschool, I used to make some designs of house including the interior stuff though I was planning to take design school after graduate highschool. But then..I didn’t make it, chemistry become my bachelor school (what the hell!) just by being lucky to get the university that I want at that time. I dropped all my obsession for arts just become my hobbies. And since that ya…I become science girl!!! Imagine my life with chemistry…people might say wow…but some say euhhh science girl!!…
And now, again I’m taking graduate school in science continuing my degree before. Even though it is so hard but I’m still doin’ it..ya maybe just the way of mylife (nothing’s wrong with science girl right??!!..). I remember last month while I was goin’ home (lab actually..) from my internship program in one of the famous university in Korea, I meet two students there and they were asking little bit about me start from how ru, where u from, what ru doin here, where ru goin..etc, then “what is your major here?”. I answered them, “chemical engineering”, then they were like surprise..n just said “aaaaa (with Korean style)..science girl”..holy crap what is wrong with that??? I’m not exactly sure what does their expression mean, is it somethin good or bad about science girl…(so all u science girl, what do u think??).
But maybe some people might think science girl related with boring, serious, pimples (euh..coz don’t have time to take care their own body), unsocialized, walk straight, glasses (thank God I don’t use glasses until now), and other things that people think unpleasant or make you wanna stay far from it…Well it’s people choice to make their own opinion (even me sometime I see some of that unpleasant thing on science girl;P) but believe me, There are not always true!!! but mostly right!!..hahahaha…And try to figure it out by yourself and let me know..
*Joshua maybe ur right..I’m a lab ratty.. 
When I hang around with some of my friends (Martin n RaJ, hey guys..when r we gonna meet again), it was like a first semester of me staying in Seoul, Martin was figuring out why most of those Korean guys act like they were not men but more girly ( I agree with u Martin)…
When ur in Seoul, u can see here lots of young men holding hand each other between them (gosh!), carrying handbag (sometimes with shinny color) not backpack. They also use feminine cosmetics (yeah my hub also use but only body lotion to prevent drying skin dear..). Tightly clothes become their choice, even the clothes slightly feminine (again feminine!). More feminine, it will be better…Pink color will be so nice for them. 
U know here, u can find Converse sneakers with all that crazy colors n design. They fix their hair at any time during the day when they can find a mirror or even a reflection of theirself. Even though I think since they left their house it’s still the same. 
I’m just figuring, what are they thinking about this kind of style, and where did they get this. But all this things become something that very interesting here..;P U go guys!!!!
Cerita tentang seorang bapak, besar di sebuah kota kecil di Jawa Timur bersama seorang kakak dan adik laki-lakinya. Pensiunan pegawai swasta yang masa mudanya dihabiskan dikapal dan singgah di negara-negara orang. Ia hanya orang biasa, setelah pensiun waktunya dihabiskan dengan memelihara ayam, burung, ikan dan merawat tanaman dirumahnya yang cukup sederhana.
Ia bukan orang kaya, bukan seseorang yang memiliki jabatan tinggi, bukan orang terkenal, bukan juga seorang pemuka agama ataupun imam ketika menjalankan sholat berjamaah.. Ia hanya orang biasa.
Ia adalah orang yang tidak banyak berbicara. Ia orang yang dikenal dengan kebijakan dan kesabarannya di mata orang lain. Ketika orang lain menghampiri untuk bercerita atau meminta pendapatnya, ia tidak akan membalas dengan kata-kata menggurui, namun dia akan membalas dengan membagi cerita atau pengalaman yang bisa diambil hikmahnya yang tersirat.
Ia memang tidak banyak berkata, namun ia tetap berteman dengan siapa saja. Ketika waktunya untuk berbicara ia akan berbicara, namun tindakan lebih dominan didalam kesehariannya. Sepertinya ia hanya orang biasa yang hanya berusaha menjalankan hidupnya bersama keluarganya.
Semakin tua usianya semakin banyak orang yang menjadikannya tempat untuk bercerita, berbagi, meminta pendapat ataupun hanya sekedar beramah tamah. Sepertinya semakin banyak orang yang menyukainya. Semakin tua usianya tidak hanya semakin dituakan dirinya tetapi juga semakin dihormati dan semakin banyak orang yang peduli padanya. Namun ia hanya orang biasa….
Hingga sampai waktunya ia menjalankan ibadah ke tanah suci dengan hasil tabungan dari istri dan anak-anaknya…Hingga sampai pula waktu baginya untuk menutup usianya pada umur 62 tahun. Ia pergi di tanah suci, pergi dalam tidurnya, 3 hari sebelum kepulangannya ke tanah air untuk menemui keluarganya kembali. Ia pergi tanpa pesan apapun. Kepergiannya hari itu membuat kesedihan pada banyak orang.
Kepergiannya hari itu membuatku….berada dalam posisi terendah didalam hidupku…
Ia hanya orang biasa…Seseorang yang sederhana dengan segala kerendahan hatinya…
Love u always Dad…
