The Journey That Teach Me How To Value Life

Hello everyone, first please forgive this long pause of blogging. It's been my second weeks in Lima again after 8 days staying with people in Alcamenca, small district in a highland-2 hours road trip by local mini bus from Ayacucho, Peru. I feel blessed for the opportunity that been given to me lately. It is not about how many places I have been to, but how many stories I can keep and share to other people in the future.

As a human, I have been living my life mostly in a big cities. Born and raised in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, the very first time I stayed outside of this town was when I enrolled Universitas Gadjah Mada, government's university located in Central Java spesifically in a city named Yogyakarta.

I always know that I won't be able to live in remote areas, the only reason probably because I couldn't imagine myself (ME) without magazines, newspapers, internet (the most important of all), et cetera.. et cetera. When I was trying to finish my thesis back in last year, I was very confuse about the option 'to go' or 'not to go' to Papua Island, the poor area in east part of the country. My thesis was about Freeport Company's contract and it's relevances with environmental protection in the Papua Island (where the company's based it's main mining activities). After loong considerations, I decided not to go to Papua (one of my life's decision that I probably will regret the most).

Zooey Deschanel's Letter to Vogue

This is... Interesting. 

Well, fashion and beauty world is not my things, hahaha. But found a piece of Zooey Deschanel's letter to Vogue Magazine back when the actress/independent label singer still 17 years old, I'm surprised.

I never become a huge fan of certain actor/actrees/singer/band/ whoever they are as labelled as public figures in entertainment world, but reading this short bold statement-letter from someone who earn life from beauty products dominancy like Zooey, I'm now questioning: So actress like Zooey does not agree with the typical stupidity that Anna Wintour's magazine always try to 'teach' to teenagers and women in the world named 'Perfect Beauty' (?)

Pale and white skin, those 'flying legs' people can see during the runways, straight hair, bla bla bla....

If she really meant every words she wrote, so I should say that I give my two thumbs up for this (500) Days of Summer actress. I hope her lattest ad with Rimmel UK (which many people believe involving lots of photo shop works due to the perfection of her beauty face in the picture) will not limit the spectrum of beauty, just like what she told Vogue in her letter:

"As American women, we dont need discouragement, but inspiration." Well noted, Anna Wintour? :)

What Happen To This World?

What happen to this world? 

Scarcity is everywhere.

Poverty is a word for Africa.

Education become a commodity.

Economy are more into getting profit than profitable share equality.

What happen to this world?

Civil and tribal wars are daily show in TV.

Climate change seen as a part of business opportunity.

Indigenous people live under poverty.

Burberry, Gucci, and LV's ad campaigns costs more than daily income for 1000 Haitians.

What happen to this world?

Ivy League become a label for educated and fortunate student.

Under developed countries receive financial aid with 70% goes to the local governments.

Humanitarian intervention is a new social vehicles for North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Peace in diversity is just a part of lullaby.

What happen to this world?

Nobody's answering.

Persepsi Mengenai Keberadaan "Ley 1492" di Kolombia

Berhentilah memandang Kolombia (hanya) sebagai pasar narkotika dunia meskipun The Revolutionary  Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) masih terus berjaya lewat penyelundupan kokain di negara ini. Setelah Juan Pablo Montoya kehilangan kedigdayaannya di arena balap formula satu, kini muncul cara baru untuk memandang negara yang terletak di bagian utara kawasan regional Amerika Selatan ini, yakni lewat Undang-undang Ketenagakerjaan yang disahkan oleh Kongres Kolombia pada akhir Desember tahun 2010 silam.

Undang-undang Ketenagakerjaan yang dinamakan "Ley 1492" atau "la ley de formalización y generación de empleo" ini merupakan bentuk terobosan baru yang dihasilkan pemerintahan Presiden terpilih pada Agustus 2010 lalu, Juan Manuel Santos Calderon (Mantan Menteri Perdagangan Asing, mantan Menteri Keuangan, dan sekaligus mantan Menteri Pertahanan dan Keamanan Kolombia dalam beberapa periode kepresidenan Alvaro Uribe).

Tujuan utama dari pengesahan Ley 1492 adalah untuk mengeliminir penyebaran jumlah pengangguran usia muda (15 hingga 24 tahun) di Kolombia yang pada tahun 2010 mencapai angka  persentase sebesar 24%. 

International Women's Day 2011

This is the day when I woke up this morning celebrated by my boyfriend through text message in my cell simply with "Happy International Women's Day" words. When I logged on to my twitter account, it was full with several top notch people congratulated Women all over the world as well. One of the most active account in Twitter with Happy International Women Day (IWD) tweets was Helen Clark's, the Head of United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Once, Mrs. Clark tweeted "Education is life changing - Women need equal opportunity to access it."

Equal opportunity.