Badminton World Championship 2011 Wembley England

From yesterday (8 August) to 14 August 2011, the BWC is held in Wembley, England as preparation to be host of 2012 Olympiad London.  The good news is BWF make agreement with youtube to broadcast this tournament live. woohoo. so, everybody can enjoy it all over the world (except few countries which has banned this broadcast such as USA, Malaysian, and so on). Yesterday there were many surprising match, such as Chen Long who defeated by Kevin Cordon by Guatemala, Firda defeated by Irish player, and so on.

 

You can see this tournament live on this link :

http://www.youtube.com/badmintonworldtv

The schedule for the tournament :

Day-1, Monday/8th August 2011 => starting time 10.00 local time (16.00 WIB)
Day-2, Tuesday/9th August => 11.00 local time (17.00 WIB)
Day-3, Wednesday/10th August => 11.00 local time (17.00 WIB)
Day-4, Thursday/11th August => 11.00 local time (17.00 WIB)
Day-5, Friday/12th August (QUARTERFINALS) => session 1 : 11.00 / session 2 : 17.00 (17.00 / 23.00 WIB)
Day-6, Saturday/13th August (SEMIFINALS) => session 1 : 11.00 / session 2 : 17.30 (17.00 / 23.30 WIB)
Day-7, Sunday/14th August (FINALS) => 12.00 (18.00 WIB)

So, hope you enjoy it. Don’t forget to give support to your favorite player.  By the way, the interesting to see is whether Lee Chong Wei can grab the world champion title after defeated several years in Quarterfinal or Semifinal. He is eager to prove as world 1 rank he can win big tournament like Wold Championship and Olympiad. For Indonesian, it is also interesting to watch Della/Suci play after they win in Surabaya International Challenge. Hope they can do the best in this tournament and give bright future for our women doubles. FYI, today they will face world no.2 from Japan (Miyuki Maeda/Satoko Suetsuna).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ITB : Pluralism Campus

ITB is well known as the best university for technology in Indonesia. But, beside that I am also feel that ITB has given more than the best education technology for its student. Almost 4 years I’ve been there, I feel very happy to learn about tolerance with other ethnicities and religions. I study in Chemical Engineering Faculty which I think has the most diverse people whether the lecturers either the students. There are Padang, Batak, Jawa, Tionghoa, Bugis, Sunda ethnics and also all the religions ( Islam, Buddhist, Christian, and Hindu ) in this faculty. Our harmonic life describes the meaning of pluralism itself.

I am really grateful to have this experience and I believe as Indonesians all of us will do the best for our country despite our differences of ethnics or religions. No wonder many countries has come to Indonesia to learn about the harmonic life of diversity because we have proved that the differences not becomes our weakness but actually it strengthen our country more. You can see the great video of this topic at this link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm09CizE_Aw which is made by my friend, Herdimas Anggara. Thanks to him so much.

kopaja insight

hmm. today  I have experienced many things when I use Kopaja to back home. haha. Those things made me amazed, frightening, also curious. First, I am going to talk about performance inside the Kopaja. As you know, there are a lot of singing beggars in Jakarta. So, I guess every bus definitely will have at least one singing beggars when its travels. Today, for the first time I enjoy the singing beggars performance. They are very creative to make a song about Indonesian Foreign Employee case that has been hot topic recently. FYI, one of them had been executed death in Saudi Arabia and made angry Indonesian people.

Anw, beside that they are also talented because they have pretty good voices and I wondering is there any chance of them to be a real musician. Hope the best for them. But, actually there are not only singing beggars in Kopaja. There are also people give a poetry which is mainly about the difficulties life in Jakarta and how a small amount that the passengers give will be help them so much. hemm. pretty interesting right? haha. can’t wait till some people make a drama there. It will be stunning me =D

Now move to the frightening one. Today I feel my adrenaline raised up in the bus, because I almost watch the battle between my bus’s driver and conductor of another bus. They have mentioned to take their ‘golok’ (weapon such as knife) to jab each other and I think I see the driver almost take something under his seat (guess it is his ‘golok’). This kind of situation made the passengers frightening (including me) and we try to get out of the bus as soon as possible. But, amazingly there are brave ladies who separate both of them and I amazed by their braveness. Fortunately, my bus’s conductor stayed calm and help on those ladies. After that moment, I realized that the conductor is Javanese and the driver is Bataknese. I think it’s quite good combination between them when the one is usually emotional (Bataknese) and the other is calm. So, it is good that our country has many ethnic groups because we can fulfill each other deficiency. hehe. If MU’s suporter yell glory glory man united, I’ll yell glory glory ‘bhinneka tunggal ika’ =D