The Aroengbinang ProjectThe Aroengbinang ProjectThe blog documented my ignorance, silly observations, amateur photos and belated findings on knowledge, wisdom, life. Link exchange is welcome. Articles
Deavies Sanggar Matahari
2008-05-29 16:56:00 I got a text message last week reminding me to go to Graha Bhakti Budaya TIM on Saturday, May 24, to see a concert by Deavies Sanggar Matahari and Komunitas Musikalisasi Puisi Indonesia. Devie, one of LKers female singers, is the lead vocal at Sanggar Matahari, and she personally invited LKers to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Culture
On the Hardship
2008-05-25 04:34:00 The recent sharp increase in global oil and commodity prices had affected the life of many people, in both positive and negative ways. As for Indonesians, after days of uncertainties, the government of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had finally announced the increase of fuel prices by an average of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Life
Leo Kristi - LKers Performance
2008-05-22 15:23:00 Teater Studio, Taman Ismail Marzuki, on May 20 evening was fully packed by Leo Kristi's enthusiasts who came from various cities across the country and from overseas just to witness Leo Kristi's rare performance in conjunction with the commemoration of the 100 Years of National Awakening that fell... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Entertainment , Performance
Link of Indonesian Blogs 1
2008-05-21 00:03:00 The links to Indonesian Blogs had been moved to this post and Link of Indonesian Blogs 2, on knowing that Google may consider a blog as a link farm when there's more than 100 outgoing links in a single page. If your Blog is written in English, here is the links to English Blogs. Please leave a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Blogging
The Stopping Point
2008-05-17 00:57:00 One of the basic and yet inspiring lessons I got from physics is Newton's first law of motion, or sometimes referred to as the law of inertia. It says that an object will remain at rest, or continue in motion at a constant velocity and in the same direction, unless an outside force acts upon it.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Politics , Point
Leo Kristi - LKers at TIM
2008-05-16 12:28:00 Leo Imam Soekarno, better known as Leo Kristi, is going to commemorate the 100 years of the National Awakening with his die-hard fans in a live performance at Teater Studio, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Cikini, Jakarta, on May 20 evening, starting at around 7.30 until 11 p.m. The concert is fully... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Entertainment
DoFollow Blog
2008-05-10 01:28:00 It seems that there's a silent revolution in blogosphere that has been going on for a while that I was not aware of. It's called DoFollow blog. I have seen signs such as "You comment, I follow", but I thought it was like if I left a comment then the blog owner will reply it, or will visit my blog... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Blogging , Blog
The Phelan Legacy
2008-05-06 00:05:00 A person can decide to donate time, efforts, goods, or money to support variety of causes or simply for the sake of giving things away. Small or big, a gift may leave a legacy that exceeds the person life span. Having said that, when I was driving by Saratoga, California, cruising by the hills of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Life , Legacy
Author below Post Title
2008-05-03 02:27:00 After reading SBoentaran first posting in TAP (The Aroengbinang Project) and the comments posted, I saw the need to move author's name from the bottom of the article to the top of the post, right below the post title, as this will provide clearer information to the readers. It took me sometime to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Blogging , Post , Author , Title
Movements and Prosperity
2008-04-29 14:00:00 The essence of business is movements. Movements of people, goods, information, money. Even in this modern era where people can place orders of goods and services through Internet, by fax, email, or phone, there will still be movements of raw materials to factories or centers of production, finished... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Politics , Prosperity
Books should not be cheap
2008-04-26 06:01:00 Agnes Winarti wrote a report at the Jakarta Post yesterday that book publishers and literature advocates demand the government to support the book industry with cheaper paper price, and to give more lenient tax on printing, sales and royalties that will enable readers to get cheaper quality... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Books , Learning , Cheap
Treasuring Friendship
2008-04-19 13:37:00 Greetings. Unlike regular mornings, I woke up without an alarm clock that Sunday morning. Grateful for a good sleep, I rolled over to reach my phone on the bedside. My Sunday morning ritual was about to start, making calls to my love ones far away from where I am, when I realized that my calf was a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Friendship , Learning
TAP Contributor
2008-04-19 09:13:00 It's been a while that I have been thinking of inviting friends to be contributors of TAP (The Aroengbinang Project). For some reasons, I haven't found one, until recently, when a new friend has accepted the invitation. Some friends may have plenty wonderful stories to share, but have no time to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Life
Statues at Soekarno Hatta
2008-04-16 16:08:00 I'm an Indonesian of Javanese descent, and a citizen of the universe. That's one of my 'oaths' that I wrote in Sumpah Aroengbinang. I didn't ask to be born as a Javanese or Indonesian, and hence I just accept it as fact of my life, and fact is neutral. As an Indonesian from Javanese origin I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Photos , Jakarta , Statues
Heaven for All
2008-04-12 14:32:00 It is human when people praise a hero and condemn the villain, admire a saint and despise evil doer. It is also equally human, however, to act the other way around. Good and evil persons are often products of times and positions, either from the point of view of just a gang of people or allies of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Life , Heaven
TAP PageRank Slashed
2008-04-12 00:11:00 I woke up quite early this morning, and instead of going back to sleep, I decided to open my notebook computer, checked email, released comment from Manler, and opened blogger to continue working on an article that I wanted to post this morning. I had no problem to log in into blogger and could... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Pagerank , Blogging
Sam Poo Kong Temple
2008-04-05 23:37:00 How long will likely people remember our names and things we did, good or evil, when we are no longer exist physically on this old fragile earth. Three generations at most for the majority of us, if we married and blessed with offspring, and less if we didn't. Life's short, whilst memories stay... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Travel , Photos , Temple
The Witch of Portobello
2008-04-02 16:09:00 The Witch of Portobello , another fascinating book by Paulo Coelho, greeted me at a small bookstore at Soekarno Hatta airport last week. It immediately landed in my hand for an exchange with a couple of banknotes equal to IDR.90,000. It was a perfect companion to liven up the time during a three... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Learning
The Pagoda of Semarang
2008-03-30 03:50:00 Pagoda Avalokitesvara Buddhagaya Watugong was another place of interest that I visited during my stay in Semarang a few weeks back, following advise from Senja. The location is a little bit far from the center of the city, on one of the highest hills in Semarang, exactly in front of Diponegoro... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Travel , Photos , Pagoda
The Law of Scarcity
2008-03-29 13:11:00 A few weeks ago when I was ready to leave home for Cibubur on a Saturday morning, all of sudden I felt very cold and my body started to shiver. I got high fever. I already knew since the night before that I was contracted with flu and a bad cough, but I didn't know it was that bad. It took three... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Life , Blogging
The Quest for Quality Teachers
2008-03-21 15:54:00 We may all agree that only by investing heavily, smartly and consistently on education that this country will have a much better chance to prosper, and that people's prosperity shall be one of the main objectives of all country's leaders. Quality education shall produce quality people who will,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Learning , Quest , Teachers
Top Commenter Widget
2008-03-14 23:15:00 It's been sometimes that I gave up looking for a widget that can display the top commenters in TAP (The Aroengbinang Project), as a form of appreciation to those who frequently click the "Post a Comment" link at the bottom of an article and took the time to compose and post their comments in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Widget , Blogging
A view from Argo Anggrek
2008-03-11 14:05:00 It was February 3, when Jakarta was heavily flooded due to torrential rain, and the day before the airport was closed down because of poor visual visibility. I was in Semarang on that day, was not sure whether I could fly back to Jakarta, and hence finally I went to Tawang railway station to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Travel , Photos , View
Lawang Sewu
2008-03-01 23:24:00 Lawang Sewu, a Javanese phrase that means a thousand doors, is an old colonial style building located at Tugu Muda roundabout, city of Semarang. I surely have passed this building many times in the past, and many blogs have published articles about this site, but only last month I had a chance to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Travel , Photos
The Rule of Four
2008-02-28 15:26:00 The book, titled The Rule of Four, was already there for quite sometimes. My daughter bought it more than 6 months ago (12 months she said). It awaited me silently and patiently on a messy table full of wires and other stuffs in our common room. Common means a shared working room for my daughter,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Books
Link of Indonesian Blogs 3
2008-02-21 23:07:00 Here's the remaining Link s of Indonesian Blogs , a continuation list from Link of Indonesian Blogs 1 and Link of Indonesian Blogs 2. Please leave a comment to confirm that you want to be in the list and that you have put backlink to Aroengbinang. Blogs primarily made for ads will not be listed. I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Blogging
Link of Indonesian Blogs 2
2008-02-21 23:04:00 Here's another post on Link s of Indonesian Blogs , a continuation list from Link of Indonesian Blogs 1. The remaining list is in Link of Indonesian Blogs 3. Please leave a comment to confirm that you want to be in the list and that you have put backlink to Aroengbinang. Blogs primarily made for ads... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Blogging
Leo Kristi - LKers at Wapres
2008-02-19 14:12:00 Sunday evening, February 17, 2008, a historic moments had been written in the musical journey of Leo Kristi and LKers Community. A live concert was successfully organized by LKers Community at Wapres (Warung Apresiasi) Bulungan, Jakarta, featuring the legendary troubadour Leo Kristi and a euphoric... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Photos , Concert
Tay Kak Sie Temple
2008-02-16 22:56:00 It was originally an intention to visit Pasar Semawis, but it was too early to be there. Only a few shops were just opened, and hence there were not much to see around the market. Accompanied patiently by Senja who was so generous and kind to guide me around while I was in Semarang, we left the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Travel , Photos , Temple
The Forbidden City
More articles from this author:2008-02-14 00:43:00 The last tourist spot that I visited in Beijing was the Forbidden City , the world's largest 74 hectares palace complex, which is located to the north of Tiananmen Square. The rectangular shape complex has a gate on each side. The distance between north and south gates is 960 meters, while the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Travel , Photos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |



