Where the sky meets the earth
Time flies, so does technology. From the era of Netscape until Chrome, from mIRC until WhatsApp, internet does drastically evolve. Ten years ago we can still find many choices for the same service provided on Internet. However, it’s undeniable that most of Internet service we find now are provided and owned by these two companies: Google…
And though where the road then takes me, I cannot tell We came all this way But now comes the day To bid you farewell I bid you all a very fond farewell It was a very emotional song from Billy Boyd that ended the movie–“The Last Goodbye”. As his voice flew, a series of…
Januari 2015 selesai sudah. Bulan yang super hectic. Padahal Lent Term baru berjalan 3 minggu (sekarang lagi masuk minggu ke-4)! Tapi semester ini emang bagaikan “diuber setan”. Senin – Jumat full kuliah, tugas, kerja kelompok, dan tidur 4 jam sehari di saat deadline menjelang. Apalagi nilai-nilai semester lalu masih kurang memuaskan. Saya merasa nggak berusaha…
Twenty fifteen. I tried to remember all the things I’ve been through in 2014, and suddenly it has been 2015. Twenty fourteen was very important for me. It was a transition year, when I tried to cope myself with all the changes happened in 2013. Now that I looked back again, I feel relieved that I (seemingly)…
To read before: Part 2 Day 4 (16 December 2014) After 2 days fully exploring the city center, we decided to see another part of Edinburgh. We went to coastal area of this city where there lay “Britannia” royal yacht, a vessel that used to sail around the world by British royal family. My classmate, Lukas from…
To read before: Part 1 Day 3 (15 December 2014) One thing I really wanted to do in Edinburgh was: hiking! Yes, there’s a hill in the middle of city named Arthur’s Seat, where you can see all the city view from this top. It wasn’t really a difficult route, just take around 2-3 hours…
Day 1 (13 December 2014) As I walked down the street in that biting cold evening, the shrilly sound of bagpipes vaguely reached my ears. I speeded up my steps to look for the source of the sound, and surprisingly found a young man wearing that traditional tartan kilt in front of a hotel’s gate….
What comes to your mind when you hear those words of ‘social business’, ‘corporate social responsibility’, or any other noble things that seem too idealistic to do? The middle line between business and social charity?The marriage between capitalism and socialism? Since CSR term coined years ago, it suddenly became such a ‘happening trend’. Corporations started…
Aroma ikan cakalang asap menyeruak di tengah malam yang dingin. Tiga pemuda dan seorang pria paruh baya duduk lesehan di pelataran kelas sebuah sekolah. Dengan wajah ramah, Pak Nurul, pria paruh baya itu, mempersilakan para tamunya untuk menikmati hidangan lezat yang dimasak istrinya. “Sambalnya ini yang mantap,” ujarnya setengah promosi sambil menyodorkan sepiring sambal kacang…
Empat November dua ribu empat belas. Dua puluh empat. Mungkin angka keramat. Pada usia 24, Mark Zuckerberg jadi bilyuner. Pada usia 24, ibu saya menikah. Pada usia 24, saya terdampar di sebuah desa di barat laut Inggris bernama Lancaster. Dua puluh empat, dulu terasa jauh dan terasa tua. Kini setelah mengalaminya, dua puluh empat terasa…