July 30, 2009

Most Important Language

No wonder people 'round the globe agree that english is the lucky number 1 language of the world. But meanwhile, a doctor namely Dr. Argilleas told that an educated person should masters at least 6 language! O my...
So, what's the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and so on?
The category likeky fall into "most important" & "most used" language. For the last one, of course it'll very relate to the dweller amount of certain language speaking countries that means the more inhabitant the higher rank. In this case even English beated by Chinese with 3 billion speaker widely spread over continens. The 2nd chart sure placed by English.
Well, I think it isn't interesting to look at that point of view. So let's check it with "most important" approach. According to some sources, English will still lead the way as an international language even 'till 2025, or more. Majority say that the 2nd place would taken by Mandarin due to the rapid economic growth & remarkable population. Then, for the next 3, I'm sure there's no absolute answer. Almost all assumtion range between Spanish, French, & Japanese. Some also mull about Germany, Arabic, Hindi and several other.

To choose which is suit us. Let see remark of main assumption. Out there, are exist approximately 21 Spanish speaking countries. Tens of them are in Europe and other in North America (Mexico, Peru), Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador), and more. Spanish just like 2nd language in USA. If you understand Spanish, just try out Latin & Italian, because it so similiar. Learn it not as difficult as other, we just read the words as what we see, don't need certain technique or accent like French, Mandarin, & the weird Russian.

But we also have to consider French, the softes & romantic language, also tourism language.What Napoleon did made French being the official language in about 30 countries encompassing Europe, Africa and America. For example Switzerland, Belgium & Canada. French native speaker called francophonie. Perhap the difficult thing 'bout French is to adapt our tongue to form the accent.

Ok. The next is Japanese. Many opinion write that perhap Japanese is the most atracting & curious to learn. Individual passion. Hmm, influenced by manga & RPG game maybe? :-)
Overall 130 million people speak japanese and the leading technology Japan is the one and only country that speaks Japanese.

Well yeah, it's so sick to know that I'm only fluent in Bahasa Indonesia.. and Javanese. Hiks.
:: cry out lout ::

July 27, 2009

Beat The Depth!

My blogwalking hobby shows many of famous geologist's blogs that lead me to know that geologist used to travel around the planet and majority has side activities such as photography & diving. Both are costly because good photograph needs good camera, diving trainee & it's equipments also not cheap.

I'm not that attracted to both, howefer from the articles I realize & conclude something, that be able to swim is a must! Fact that an accident sometime occure in offshore oil rig that could requires us to jump or not to jump to the deep-dark-cold sea. The Piper Alpha accident already proove it with 167 people die, I saw on TV. And that issue become the worst offshore accident & biggest attack to Britis oil industry that period.
I know other several smaller cases. And be able to swim defenetely much help. It doesn't means that I'll work at that kinda industry anyway, it's just.. not that easy, moreover in...offshore??
Sure I don't hoping something terribble to be happen, it just kinda my prevention action, better prepare your umbrella before it's raining, right?

So that's the background.. which apparently not strong enough to keep my body slides freely on the water. After long time no contact with pool, yesterday I dismissed my boredom by practicing swim with my brothers.
Well, I just curious, how to make my body moving on water.
Why it so difficult to stay floating and breathing?
I should have learn it since I was a child. That's the point. I didn't though that it'll be critical by now. Come on!

Hmm, Water...the fourth holy element after earth, air and fire, it has a strong power to cure... Ups! What a Dan Brown influence!
Ahaha..
Basically I've never exactly learn to swim. But able to swim make us either looks cool or healthy, isn't it?
Somebody just teach me how to do that sucks!
It's okay if the water surface is under my nose, unfortunately the situation is totally different start from 2 m depht or deeper. So scary, I can't imagine If I swim 'till the center of pool, then I lost my breath and my energy is used up to keep me floating. Once more, horrible! I've to beat my paranoia first I think before I could go any further.
Meanwhile, dealing with the nature is what geologist do. Nature keep numerous incredible lake, swamp, river, lagune, beach and ocean. So what will it be if I can't swim? feels uncomplete 'coz a puzzle's lost. Hoho, one of my stupidnes. Next day probably I'll try it out again, perhaps better luck next time!!
:-)

July 20, 2009

Breakaway

This blog title taken from Kelly Clarckson's inspiring song "Breakaway" wrote by Mathew Gerard; Bridget Benenate; and Avril lavigne.
An old song actually. It remark about a process to reach a dream really start from the bottom. Anyway I bluetooth this song to mine somewhere in Patuk during the rest of mapping.
We were tired and trying to sleep a minute in a mosque.
It's kinda fun, I just deeply heard the song, carefully listen to every sentence and sudendly my mind disolved into the words mixture. I stare out of my window, dreaming of what could be, and imaging if it end up happy, yeah that just alike the lyric. That's the point, I love the spirit-pomping lyric wich I want it to be my real self reflection.

The song always succed to make me musing a while thinking that What I've doing is not enough yet and I MUST NOT give up no matter how depressing my situation is.

Alright, check the lyric out:

Grew up in a small town
And when the rain would fall down
I'd just stare out of my window
Dreaming of what could be
And if I'd end up happy
I will pray
Wanna to belong here
But something felt so wrong here
So I pray
I could breakaway


I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it take till I touch the sky
I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change and breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget all the ones that I loved
I'll take a risk, take a chance, make a change and breakaway

Wanna feel the warm breeze
Sleep under a palm tree
Feel the rush of the ocean
Get onboard a fast train
Travel on a jet plane
Far away, and breakaway

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it take till I touch the sky
I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change and breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget all the ones that I loved
I gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change and breakaway

Building with a hundred floors (exxon?chevron? Hihi..)
Swinging 'round revolving door
Maybe I don't know where they'll take me
Gotta keep moving on, moving on
Fly away, breakaway

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
Though it's not easy to tell you goodbye
I gotta make a wish, take a chance, make a change and breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget the place I come from.

July 16, 2009

Behind the Scene : Geologic Mapping

One new thing I got last semester is geologic mapping.I'll write it down everything about and involved on, including laugh and tears during the long process wich take approximately 3 months(march to may).
Professionaly geologic mapping is a highly interpretives scientific process that produce geologic mapwith certain simbols and colour, used for overwhelming geoscience work such as coal mining;characterizing oil and gas source;predicting earthquacke, vulcanoand lindslide hazard; and much more.And the mapping I did quite good exercise to reachthat level. My geomorphologic and structural geologic mapping united as one and my group located in Patuk, Gunung Kidul, it's about One hour from UGM. We're devides into 1 groups. Important note that your mapping could be heaven or hell extremely depends on Who's your group mate.Some show their frustating bad attitude that made others mad, stress, or cry.Sounds dramatic? That's what surely happend.Luckyly mine's "heaven".
Honestly after several time field survey finnaly I got the field taste, strangely I felt comfort, it's like pretend to be real geologist exploring the field browsing for either outcrops or geologic structure without being bothered by procedures and ruleslike in official fieldtrip. We're lonely, free, wild and ready to reveal the nature's secrets! Haha. There splashing feeling to come back again and again nevertheless the fields incredibly hot, or sometimes raining hard without bring any raincoat! A geologic spirit guess so, I don't know where it from.
Every field visiting cost about Rp. 15.000 for consumtion and gasoline charge. In order to collect the data we must observed to Patuk EVERY spare time we had that means I couldn't back home (for 2 month!) easily like I used to, that's the annoying part of mapping probably. I didn't even electing for legislative candidate due to our first mapping! What a trully bad politic awarness(Ups!).
We ride our motorcycle slowly, moving arround our eyesto found someting like fault, joint, bedding then measured the dip-strike.
It's knda funny interacting with local dweller in our 3 x 4 km lot since they're remarkably polite. Those traditional old people used to say hi and asked us to take a sit or drank for a while in their simple house even we're strangers. My rich non javanese group mates wondering and pleased to saw that kinda attitude. Well, it is Javanese.
If we done with the fiel, after 3 months, the next chalenge is making the mapping poster in full computerize format, but none of us masters corel draw. That's a hell. Every groups confused, frusstate, and stressed of how to make the right poster, we're newbie right? To accomplish the poster we forced to work hard, we went home very late until about 2 am everyday an a week!!Even, could sleep for 2 hours felt like a big gift from God. It is Geology. Everyone's tired, some cry. All curious about the mapping presentation, the next step after create poster. Some say it's the time to beat us withsuch difficult questions concerning our poster. Well, I guess it's true, becauze my group was horribly beated with no mercy.
It's fine, the point is about exercise our self for KL next year...

July 14, 2009

A Heartbreaking Review

Now, it's time for me to review my study on last second semester. Although it tragically end. Not all of the test result has launch yet, but I've feeling my bad instinct after undergo that heartbreaking final semester test. No problem. Thankfull to Allah. Morover I've thousands
time apologize to family, nature and Allah of my shelfishness, lazyness and stupidness. Whether they hear me or not I don't know.

I wish I could memorize all the knowledge I got forever. Eight lessons on my list colouring my days last semester. I love several of them. They're petrology, geomorfology, structural geology, environment science, physycal chemistry, macropaleontology, mathematic 2, and physic 2.

Well, let's begin from petrology, the next step of crystallography & mineralogy. Encompass about rocks (petro) and it's occurence, whether igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic. We're rock eater!
Understanding kinds of rocks really important, can be applied in many technical geoscience work. I'm trully bad in this case. I mean, what's rock about rock? Dirty hard thing from the ground..?just kidding. Better atracting crystal mineral than rock. Nevertheless I quite into carbonate rock, whose fosil on it. Economycally better. The lecture? I don't wanna talk about it.

Geomorphology. I learn geomorphology with spirit & eye-popping, seeing the lecture is so impressing, profesional and easy understanding. A doctor from university in Brunay. Geomorf concern on the earth relief & it's occurence, wich caused by exogenic & endogenic force. Earth's so shapely. Before, all I know the earth landform's just mountain and sea. Listen, have you ever heard about cuesta, bajada, butte and submarine fan? There are hundreds of other uniquely shaped earth morphology we'll know when studying this eyecatcing subject.

Structural geology. Learning 'bout earth structure & the developer force. This the most chalenging, imaginating and coolest lesson in 2nd semt packet. Geostruct asissts must be very smart. Everybody know it. Mr. Darno, the lecture, is my favourite lecture ever. He teach patiently, make sure everyone get what he say, although not all pay attention. I see in his eye a light of cleverness and high dedication. Hi's no doubt a good role model. I'm not that good in geostruct yet at least I love it a bunch. It focus on studying joint, fault, fold and unconformity. I used to hate them but not now.

Environmental science. Every work must pay attention on environmental affect. Quite important for such engineering student. During the class the situation not better than in the traditional market, yes, Mr. Wawan is tipycal 'not dangengeous' lecture. It's fine, his Japan education background could a little cover that susceptibility.

Physical chemistry (PC). Lesson about matery in solid, liquid, gas and the mixturing process between them. I'm not sure what exactly it about. After 6 month presence, I know NOTHING 'bout Physical Chemistry. I mean, really nothing, due to the super weird lecture. We didn't even got every sentence he said and even what's the topic of the day.

Macropaleontology. Dealling with thousands year death macroscopic creatures, this a jumping point to the next stage micropaleontology wich more economycally benefitable. All invertebrate fosil to be described here each week. The most disiplin lecture Mr. Kandar handle this subject and succeed to made me woke up earlier.

Mathemathic 2. Fascinating hyperactive lecture Mrs. Hanung didn't help anything easier, instead, it seems like watcing circus show in class. It's main topyc is indefinite integral. A hopeless subject.

Physics 2. I found it more complicated than 1st semester since it talk about electricity and capasitor, also magnet. Unfortunately, exact sciene today never as easy as what it was in senior high. Our head already fully loaded with stones!

Well, that's it. This busiest semester is over miserably messed up. Too much spoiling around and lack of hard working getting everything worse. If only I could turn back time....

July 10, 2009

Not So Famous

Some movies usually created based on best seller books that has reached thousands or million copy of selling and shock some group of certain people with it's incredibility. That fact invite me to comment about todays new release love and religy movie 'Ketika Cinta Bertasbih' (KCB). I haven't watch the movie yet. But after read the whole novel I know that there's no need for me to watch it. Will just wasting my precious time. Why?

When I'm on my way back home by city bus number 7, close to Condong Catur intersecti I saw a big billboard figured KCB movies full complete with all the stars also a sentence below that point out that KCB is a soul inspiring and very long waited by million fan in 8 country around the globe!!
Well hey are you kidding me? Sounds so atracting. I never wathcing tv's gossips that days so I have no idea what media and public say 'bout this religious flavour movie.

Then I download the ebook of KCB and start reading it... A quarter already done and I try to find an interesting side of it. The whole novel already read and instead of amazed or somethin', I feel dissapointed & did a useless actìvity.
Let me discuss it, the novel story is so common, standart, hiperbole, easy predicted, the tragedy not strong enough to make me cry, the happy side not affect anything on my feeling, every conversation and dialog not too much worth for increasing knowledge. The only good thing is the dakwah slipped within it.

I hate the way Habiburrahman figure
the main character wich is always to much perfect like almost all religious movies describe it main player. Let say, the woman is very beautiful & loved by so many guy, tall, very smart -graduate from abroad university- kind, religious. The boy is very handsome, smart-graduate from abroad university-, kind, patien, religious. So what's the chalenging 'bout that? I mean what fun with that? Rather old fashion, isn't it?

I don't get how Habiburrahman comes to be so famous of his works. Ok, the previous novel AAC maybe strong enough, but not this one I guess. Why the producer too confidence to hiperboled campaigning and roaring that this movie will highly explode shocking entertainment realm as what the previous AAC did? if the fact is not? I see the selling not much fabulous.

KCB is there because of the religious movie trend that so highlighted these days in Indonesia. It's only trying to follow the succeed movies previously, so the quality of it be questioned and doubted.

July 06, 2009

Library in My Mobile

I love to read novel these days direcly from my mobile since I found the best mobile ebook reader a couple weeks ago, wattpad reader. Firstly I doubt that read in a little screen with little letters will going fun, but it is fun. Just lying my head on my warm pillow and start reading. And you know what? The letters is moving downward with flexible movement velocity depend on our eye's ability of scanning those sentences.

I find that there available more atractive, qulified read written in english served by wattpad. But less in indonesian. It's okay. My ability in focusing my brain scanning english is still little bit low but I can consider it as an expererience in read. Sure it'll usefull.

So far I've just read Da Vinci Code, Ketika Cinta Bertasbih and Angel and Demon. All are in Indonesian language. Little bit forced, i also read Alice in Wonderland and Twilight english version, though I haven't finish the last one yet.

These kind of free mobile ebook of course is a wonderfull thing waited by bookworms around the globe especially for such a poor country.
Like me too. I mean, well I want to buy books if they only cost cheap, perhaps Rp.3000 per book for example book of novel, self help book or else. Ok you can tell that i'm dreaming. But the government should give more subsidy for this matter so that a qualified cheap book could be reached by every people in this beautiful country.
It seems that the goverment can't do it, so thank you for the development of IT of the invention of either ebook and reader.

It so helpfull in overcome this kind of problem in diffrent way and point of view but still efective.
But whatever it be, actually conventional book will dificult to be replaced by such methode I guess. For example in ebook we often find the absence of picture or other ornementation usually we find in the book's page, we can say it refer to the art value of the book, whether from the cover, the type of paper used, the design, the ornamentation like I've mentioned above and so on, how could technology subtitute it?
It won't, I bet. But I worry about live in hightech environment somehow can erase our respect in value and culture. We don't give any damn anymore.

So yeah, that's my words 'bout ebook. So happy to read everytime I feel the right time, in the way I go to campuz, during waiting for my food order and many more. At last I've to be honest besides all the good thing this could turn you into a lazy person.