Travelling West Borneo - Tayan Island Beach

Here panoramic photos taken at Tayan Island Beach, inner West Borneo. It 's an "island" inside a land.

This photos is not taken via expensive DSLR but just a cheap Nikon pocket camera, three pictures are merged into one, Photoshop use extensively here ;)

Empat Pandangan Millenium di Eskatologi

Berikut translate Bahasa Indonesia dari beberapa sumber mengenai empat pandangan study Eskatologi mengenai masa Millenium. Sebagian besar adalah berasal dari rangkuman Dr. David R. Reagan dalam website lamblion.com.

Di akhir ringkasannya Dr David menekankan dua hal yang perlu diimani setiap peneliti Kitab Wahyu / Revelation Book:

1. All agree that Jesus is coming back for His saints. / Semua setuju bahwa Yesus akan kembali.


2. All agree that the redeemed will spend eternity in the presence of God. / Semua setuju bahwa yang ditebus (oleh Yesus) akan menikmati hidup yang kekal bersama Tuhan.
 

dari berbagai sumber, terutama dari
http://www.lamblion.com/articles/articles_millennium1.php

Paganini 24th Caprice Madness

Have learn Paganinis's 24th Caprice in Am with your Ibanez? And think you want to show off a bit? I'm afraid these videos will demoralized you down.... LOL   (j/k)

Awesomes Paganini Caprice on different music instruments:

Standard Classical Guitar, blend perfectly:

Saxophone, did it suddenly become jazzy?:

In standard classical flute (I try to find the Dizi or other exotic wind instrument but couldn't find any):

Paganini on less string? No problem, here played with Er Hu, eat that metalheads!

And, did Paganini the synonym for neo-classic shredder? \m/

And for bandwidth saver, here more videos with stunning instruments:
with Cimbalom : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDQvE5pc8Jw
with Marimba : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qN_FG1WqdQ

And finally, play by the master himself:

Pontianak City for Backpacker

Pontianak is the largest city in West Kalimantan, province in Indonesia. It is one of lesser known destination in this archipelago nation, but worth traveling to. In recent days, I begin to see a lot of Western travelers storming the city. Most of them look like a travelers in "backpacking genre" aka. the backpackers. They are budget travelers and trying to reach as many place but with as minimun as possible in cost. I think this is quite a good sign that this little capital of province begin to emerge as one of the route for Backpacking travelers.

Pontianak is a good stopping route for two reasons:
1. Its has a land transport that goes to Kuching, capital of Sarawak (Malaysia). The travel time is approx. 6-8 hours daily, and in quite a number of bus company running the route. The cost is around Rp. 130,000 per person.

2. Its has a direct air transport to Singapore, via Batavia Air at around Rp. 900,000. The travel time is approx. 1 hours and air tickets around Rp. 900,000. As well air transport to Kuching in half the travelling time and cost to Singapore.

If you like to land yourself to the third largest island on Earth, Western Kalimantan should be a better choice rather than go to the Eastern for those both reason above. It can direct you to Sarawak, which is a better organized site for tourism.

Now, after you landed on Pontianak airport, Supadio, the only transport reliable to back to the CBD of Pontianak is via airport taxi, which is around Rp. 50,000/trip. In the CBD the standard hotel will be cost very cheap due to IDR against your western currency. Pontianak don't have the vibe of backpacking hostel style accomodation yet, (it has, but mainly a homestay or for business salesman from other island of Indonesia, mean it can not accomodate even an English speaking services).

The public transportation is quite an amaze, for it's almost will not serves foreigner/outsider well. This is due to the lack of information on the public transportation without asking around. The city commuting transport is a small colorful mini van, which is named as "Penjara", "Gajahmada", "Jawi" route rather than numbered. And most of it differentiated by its color. So if you plan to travel via this mini van, try to research by asking around. The cost is very cheap.

The other alternatives is travelling a short distances via the tricycle, or "becak". The concept is similar to a taxi, which you can ask to transport you to your destined addresses. And finally a city cab is available as well.

Now, what should you do in Pontianak. While the beauty of Western Kalimantan mostly can be enjoyed outside Pontianak (the western coastal site is the recomendation), the city itself is a small busy in economic activities. So less tourism site around, .... but , if you enjoy street walk, and cuisine (mostly Chinese cuisine is well representated here), try to walk around the Jalan Gajahmada , Jalan Tanjung Pura dan Jalan Pattimura for city viewing. These roads will have lots of street food that cook original and authentic local foods.

And if you really get lost in the city (or doesn't even understand what I'm writing), just type in a comments, and I will answer for you. Or even organized a city viewing..... for foreigner only.

Kapuas River, one of sceneries to look up in Pontianak

Penghormatanku PPK314 - Chord

Lagu PPK yang cukup seru untuk dimainkan dengan solo piano. Berikut chord dan text terjemahan Indonesianya.

Penghormatanku PPK 314 (My Tribute)
keyboard transpose -2 C=1
Andrae Crouch - original in Bb



C               Em   Gm                A7
Bagaimanakah Kuucap Syukur Pada-Mu,

  Dm        F#dim7      Dm7                  G7

Aku Tak Layak, Namun Kau Mengasihi Daku.

      C                  Am                            F#dim7 F maj7

Pujian Ribuan Malaikat Tak Cukup Nyatakan Syukurku.

    C A7                    Edim7 Dm    C G7       C


Aku Jadi S'bagaimana Diriku, S'mua Itu Karya-Mu.



     C Em7 A7           Dm       G7

Mulia Bagi Allah, Mulia Bagi Allah,

   Bm7 E7 Abdim7 Am    D7     G7

Mulia Bagi Allah, Untuk S'mua Karya-Mu

            C Em7      A7              Dm         G7

Darah-Mu S'lamatkanku, Kuasa-Mu Bangkitkanku,

 Bm7 E7 Abdim7 Am         D7       G7

Mulia Bagi Allah, Untuk S'mua Karya-Mu



          Bm E7                               Am         (E7)

Biar hidupku, slalu menyenangkan Mu Tuhan ku

            F             Am                 D7 G7

Sgala puji bagi karya yang gnap di Kalvari

           C Em7 A7                        Dm                 G7

Darah-Mu S'lamatkanku, Kuasa-Mu Bangkitkanku,

Bm7 E7 Abdim7 Am         D7          G7

Mulia Bagi Allah, Untuk S'mua Karya-Mu

dan for real, see this video:

Patung Kamen Rider di tengah Gempa Jepang

Kamen Rider adalah tokoh pahlawan televisi anak-anak Jepang yang sudah ada sejak 30 tahun silam. Kang Kamen Rider ini adalah tokoh "tokusatsu (special effect)" paling senior, kalau dibanding Ultraman, Super Sentai (alias Power Ranger) dan Metal Heroes (Gavan, Sharivan, Shaider cs.).

Di kota Ishinomaki prefectur Miyagi, di tengah reruntuhan kota akibat terjangan tsunami dan gempa, sebuah patung Kamen Rider tetap berdiri selayaknya pahlawan. Di kota ini terletak stasiun KA yang dihiasi patung-patung superhero, nama jalannya adalah Manga Road dan di sinilah patung Kamen Rider standing still undefeated by the tsunami.

Di tengah berita kurang menyenangkan akibat bencana ini, masyarakat Jepang memberi banyak pelajaran berharga untuk dunia. Pelajaran bagaimana sebuah bangsa metropolitan harus berdiri kembali setelah diterjang tsunami, pelajaran bagaimana harus menghadapi musibah nuklir abad XXI, tapi pelajaran terpenting adalah, bagaimana harus tabah menghadapi cobaan gempa. Anak-anak dan orang tua berbaris rapi menanti antrian bahan baku dan makanan. Tidak ada jarahan, amarah (cuma dipendam) dan politikus saling mendukung. Kata orang inilah contoh hasil mental masyarakat yang sudah terdidik selama ratusan tahun. Bangsa Jepang adalah salah satu dari pemilik rata-rata IQ tertinggi di dunia.

Mari kita mengamati dari jauh, di tanah nusantara yang katanya pertemuan dua lempeng tektonik, serta ada baiknya segera memungut sedikit-sedikit pelajaran dari negeri matahari terbit. Dan yang paling penting mencontoh bagaimana harus bertabah ... ala Kamen Rider.

Album Baru Stryper The Covering 2011

UFO, Iron Maiden and Van Halen in one album? That's right, it's all in Stryper's new album, The Covering. Surprise little for a Christian Metal Band also covering Black Sabbath 'Heaven and Hell', no other reason because it is more Metal and kick X>< classic. Songs are very close to original, but with re vocal by Michael Sweet it is sound Stryper as usual.

See Stryper The Covering here.



Band:

Michael Sweet (vocals)
Robert Sweet (guitars)
Oz Fox (drums)
Timothy Gaines (bass)

Track listing:
1. Set Me Free (Sweet)
2. Blackout (Scorpions)
3. Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath)
4. Lights Out (UFO)
5. Carry on Wayward Son (Kansas)
6. Highway Star (Deep Purple)
7. Shout it Out Loud (Kiss)
8. Over the Mountain (Ozzy Osbourne)
9. The Trooper (Iron Maiden)
10. Breaking the Law (Judas Priest)
11. On Fire (Van Halen)
12. Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin)
13. God (new studio track)