Tegel on fire

LOL, ada kejadian unik dan menarik di Flughafen Tegel, Berlin. Hmm unik ga ya? dari sudut pandang gua se unik, soalnya gua br sekali ini liat yang kaya gini. Kalo menarik? Buktinya semua orang yang ada pada saat itu, termasuk saya, sampai asik memperhatikan (menonton) kejadian itu. Menarik donk!

Apakah yang unik dan menarik itu? Kebakaran sodara sodari! Iya, kebakaran di Flughafen tegel. Bukan Main Hall nya sih, kalo main hall mah mana sempet nonton, kabur dulu lah! Setelah tanya punya tanya kepada yang patut di tanya, yakni petugas bandara la, ternyata yang kebakaran itu bukan pesawat seperti yang saya dan bapak2 yang ikut nonton di samping saya duga sebelumnya. Melainkan sebua gedung sodara sodari! Gedung quarantin tepatnya. Kalau yang ga tau apa itu gedung quarantine, itu lo, gedungnya sutradara terkenal itu, yang nyuting kill bill.  xD

Nein. Gedung quarantine tuh buat tempat naro2 binatang selundupan (illegal) dan orang2 yang di duga berpenyakit! Nah kabar baik nya, menurut berita disini, pas terjadi kebakaran ini untung saja tidak ada korban jiwa! Atawa lebih tepatnya lagi pas kebakar, gedungnya kosong malahan. Masih pagi kali ye? Jadi belum ada binatang selundupan dan orang2 berpenyakit? hihihi. Yah, lumayan la, alhasil ada tontonan kan. Tontonan yang di bayar dengan di delay-nya jadwal keberangkatan pesawat2. Cingcai laaa

Large Hadrons Collider

or short: LHC, is now the world's largest particle accelerator, built by Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) or European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Maybe some of you have already read or heard of it in the news from the past few Weeks (or months), it was operated on September 10^th this year but due to some technical problems the LHC was shut down for maintenance on September 19^th(source)

I heard about this project about two years ago, read it from a magazine, and my thought at that time is, 'why would someone built things like that'. If you haven't seen the 'thing'; Google it! It is a mega-gigantic-huge ring, with a total distance of 27 kilometers! And that is all for one purpose: they want to explain how the Universe was created. At first I don't get it, how can you find answer of such big questions by colliding particles?

They want to 'recreate' a big bang they said. Well I'm not very good at Teilchenphysik (particle Physics), but I am a huge fan of Universe (I used to have a dream to be an 'Angkasawan'), so I read (or better heard) about this theory. But still I don't get it? Can they answer it all? Just by colliding it? Wouldn't it mean, if they succeed to recreate the big bang would be the end of the world? Because you know, this is BIG BANG!

Eager to know the answer of my questions, yesterday I attended the 'Weltmaschine'. It is an exhibition held by German Ministerial for Research, and it was mainly about LHC.

There I learned that true purpose of colliding the particles (mainly hydrogen particles, but they also colliding lead particles) is to answer another question, which is: how the matters are created? Or what built the matters?

As we learn in school, everything has a smaller component which built it. We know everything built by the atoms, but we also know that atom is not the smallest 'unit' that built the entire thing. Atom is built by even smaller components, called neutron, proton and electron. And maybe some of us know that the proton and neutron aren't the basic components. They are built by what called quarks. (By the way, in the exhibition I learned that the name quark is actually taken from some novel or something similar and not by the founders name like usual. Funny huh?) There are many types of quarks (I can't recall all) and these quarks together with electron and muon (it is similar to electron, but with higher mass) and the forces are the fundamental things that built all the matter in the universe. With this experiment (colliding particles) they want to see which fundamental (or elementary) matter build by the collision, and so they can proved that the theories they invented are true.

Now the next question is? Is the creation of matter really important? Hmm, in my opinion: maybe it is! Let's track back the chronological order from big bang to the present state of universe. Right after the big bang, some quarks bound together to build neutrons and protons. After a while the electromagnetic forces bind the electron together with proton and neutron to build an atom. Two or more atoms, build a molecule. And more molecules build a larger matter, in a scale of a dust. A vast amount of this 'dust' spins together to build a star, planet, asteroids. Together they build a Solar System. More Solar System build galaxy, and so on. And of course all of this took place in a very looong time. Well we know that matter is also a form of energy, according to Einstein's famous equation. Since there is no larger matter at the beginning of time, the other form of energy must be provided in a vast amount, but what type of energy? And which atoms are built at the first time? (This is most possibly hydrogen, because it is the simplest and the most common element in universe.) If the LHC can answer this question, so they can simulated how the big bang was like and answer the other questions.

Another thing I learned is the fact that, if we weighed all the 'visible' matter in universe, it still only about 5% of the total Energy of the universe. By visible I mean all matter that generates radiation. FYI, all matters radiate amount of energy, in form of electromagnetic waves. The rest 25%, according to them, is so called black matters. That is the hypothetical matter that doesn't interact with electromagnetic waves, so they can't be 'sensed' by us, human. The other 70% is dark energy (this thing reminds me to star wars! lol). What is this? I don't know, and I don't think they know either.

Huh, it seems that the more we learn about the universe the less we know about it, because solving one puzzle only lead to another puzzle. I would like to quote Werner Heisenberg, which is one of my favourite quote "Der erste Schluck aus dem Becher der Naturwissenschaft führt zum Atheismus, jedoch am Grunde des Bechers wartet Gott." (One will experience atheism by the first sip from the cup of science, but at the bottom of the cup we'll found god.)

'Maybe this dark matter thing is really god?' A friend joked. Well, who knows? xD

 

What goes around comes around

This sentence really makes me scared. Why? I tell you why.

I always have the same problem, every semester, great motivation that didn't last long. As for this semester, my plan was sooo good, almost perfect. Apply for a (better) job, come to every lecture every week the whole semester, pass the exams at the end of the semester, deepen my relationship with my gf, make biodiesel and enjoy life.

So? What happened? As I mentioned above, lack of action ruined it all. As for applying job, I was planning to get another job, a better one. I was applying to a small–mid company; it is a consultant company for energy. I always wanted to know how the 'working-world' in the branch looked like. Well I can see me working in this area in the future, that's why.

Well, I guess it didn't go so well. I wasn't got rejected; they didn't reply, even a word!! I guess now I know how its feel being stood up. xD

And then the new semester begin, (omg I can't believe I've been studied for almost five years; and more to come). Well it's okay. Well it isn't, actually. Friends back in Indo, and of course mom and dad, always asked me, how come it took me so long to graduate. Well, I know it's not normal to 'them', and for most of student throughout the entire planet earth (am I beginning to exaggerate?), but in Germany, the rules is different, and it's called freedom =D
Well I'm not trying to defend myself, and neither am I try to say that just because the environment allows it and then it's okay to do so. No! The point is, the educational system in Germany, I admit, is a little bit chaotic. The University didn't care much (sometimes, at all) whether the students come to the lectures or not. You won't get any warning even if you are not coming the whole year, or more. They don't care.
I was working yesterday and on the way back home, I chatted with fellow workers. One of them is a first semester student. She asked me, whether it is okay, not to take any of exam in the semester. Of course it's okay. And I'm beginning to wonder, is this kind of policy good or bad?

Well the point is, everything has bad side and good side. Two sided coin. The students in DE have more option to take whatever they want, whatever they're interested in; we got freedom here, and the one who control this freedom is only our self. As I started as first semester, I was so naïve; enjoying life too much. Way too much. I fell on a pit. Ouch.
Only the one with the strong determination can survive this attempt. (exaggerating?)

Well, back to the topic. Do I manage to come to every lecture every week until now? The answer is : No. Why?

Beside lack of determination, I also got another problem. I have sleeping disorder. I don't think it is insomnia, but I have difficulty to sleep in time when I should sleep. Errr, I'm not making it very clear, am I? Well, let say today I sleep at 11pm. Regardless of the wake up time, I can't sleep at 11pm the day after, only later of 11pm. Ehm, maybe I do feel sleepy before 11 pm, but if I am not sleep in about 1 hour or so, the sleepiness will suddenly disappear.(like right now!) And this thing sometimes disturbs me, and keeping me away to fulfill my duty. =( lazy ass , grr.

Ach, about the relationship thing. My relationship was shaken rather than deepened. Well but for now we try to build it again, brick by brick.

And the last thing, the biodiesel project, I plan to make one together with a friend, and I hope this project can boost my motivation once again. Hahaha.

And if I continued to keep these bad records going on, I am afraid I will regret it at the end, again. But more important is, I am afraid of my future. I know, I will have a bright future ahead, if I manage to change the bad habits of mine.

So I guess I have to cut the – enjoy life – part a bit.

What goes around comes around.

 

Perihal Tulis Menulis

Nah, setelah sekian lama tidak ngeblog, karena males dan banyak tugas dan tidak ada bahan tulisan dan kebanyakan maen game online dan lain lain, akhirnya saya memutuskan untuk kembali lagi menyoretkan pena di blog ini. Ya ga harfia nyoret kali, maksudnya menulis, gitu.

 

Tentang coret pena nih, hmm mungkin ga yah, masih ada orang2 di luar sana yang suka ngeblog (blogger, red.), yang nge-draft tulisannya nya pake nulis2 di kertas ato di notizbuch (saya pake bahasa german, soalnya englishnya rancu; notebook bisa juga berarti laptop) sebelum d posting di dunia maya ini. Jarang kali yah?

 

Mungkin kebanyakan orang langsung ngetik2 di notebook  kali ya? Kalau saya sih, begitu. Cuman untuk posting-an kali ini saya menggunakan "sarana" baru, namanya Adobe Buzzword. Ada yang tahu? Saya sih baru 3 hari ini tahu tentang layanan ini. Pertama-tama saya kecantolnya sih sama Adobe Meet Now sih. Mungkin masih baru, soalnya dua dua-nya masi BETA. Nah yang Adobe Meet Now ini, bener2 keren, kita . Para pengguna layanan ini bisa meeting di dunia maya, dan yang kerennya adalah kita bisa share desktop kita ama pengguna yang lainnya. Jadi semisal saya liat apa sana juga bisa liat. Begitula intinya.

 

Yah benernya sih ga mo nulis tentang ini, tapi kok malah ngalor ngidul kesini yah. Whatever.

Yang mau saya sampaikan, adalah perihal tulis menulis itu tadi. Karena saya ada pengalaman saya dan dari teman saya, yang kebetulan menuntut ilmu di negara yang tulisannya pake sandi-sandi, kaya menggambar. Cina. Menurut dia, internet bikin dia jadi kurang "mahir" dalam menulis. Pasalnya, saking seringnya dia menggunakan sarana chit chat seperti msn, dll, dia jadi kurang bisa dalam menulis (yah, kalo bahasa mandarin, input di komputernya pake pinyin, lalu kanji nya otomatis keluar).

 

 Masalah saya kurang lebih sama. Di kuliahan saya semua bahan di sajikan dalam bentuk foto-copy-an, kalau ngga dalam format elektronik (pdf, dl.), dan emang pada dasarnya ga suka nyatet guru ngomong apa (bukan karena males, tapi saya lebih ke type Audio, ciehh), jadinya kesempatan untuk menulis sangat sedikit. Alhasil, di saat menulis di butuhkan - misalnya pas ujian tertulis - saya merasa malessssssssh banget nulis. Dan tulisan pun jadi jelek! (dari dulu juga udah jelek sih, coba bayangin sekarang!)

Terus fenomena tulisan jelek ini juga saya liat di sini, di germany. Entah karena faktor jarang nulis tadi, ato hal yang lain, tapi saya merasa bahwa tulisan teman teman german saya sangatlah jelek! Kalo di indonesia pasti langsung d sangka tulisan dokter, hehehe. (btw dokter2 kok jelek2 sih tulisannya?)

 

Terus, inti dari tulisan ini apa? Ya ga ada. Iseng aja. Sekedar mencoretkan pena lalu lari ke laut. (????)

God Grew Tired of Us

http://www.godgrewtiredofus.com/


This film really open my eyes; that life, that I live, You live right now, is really really wonderful, in their eyes.

This is the Story of the lost boys of sudan, who forced to flee away from their homeland because of the civil war. The arabian government of Sudan hunted them down, kill every southern Sudanese (which is Christian and other non Moslem) man and woman, regardless adult or child.

They left with nothing to eat, nothing to drink. Walk throughout the Land of Sudan towards the refugee Camp in Ethiopia and Kenya, bare foot!
Most of them, as they wandered, were only child from 5 to 11 years old.

This is the story of John Dul, one of the few of the Lost Boys, who has been given opportunity to go to United State, to get a better life.

I personally really like the emotion, that run through the film. I can feel their sadness, their joy.
In some scene you can totally laugh your ass off. Imagine these people, who suffer of the war, never had enough foot, no electricity, suddenly go to U.S!

Well, this is a very very recomennded film! Even for non documentary lovers.

Krisis Energi di Indonesia

Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) mengingatkan tentang terbatasnya cadangan energi yang ada di Indonesia. Menurutnya, bila tidak ada penemuan baru, cadangan minyak di Indonesia hanya cukup sampai 18 tahun, sedangkan gas 60 tahun, dan batu bara 150 tahun. Oleh karena itu, presiden meminta supaya masyarakat hemat energi.
di kutip dari: http://www.pikiran-rakyat.com/cetak/2005/0905/28/0103.htm

Lol, saya selama ini menganggap SBY sebagai tokoh yang bisa mengubah masa depan Indo, membimbing indonesia keluar dari lubang hitam, tapi kok setelah membaca koment beliau ttg masa depan energi di indo yang kaya gini, saya kok jadi ragu ya, bisa ga ya beliau mengemban itu semua.
Hmm bukan sekedar mengkritik, cuma be realistic; dengan menyadari keterbatasan sumber energi kita di tanah air, harusnya d ikuti langkah2 penanggulangan, bukan hanya sekedar menasehati untuk menghemat energy. Saya kurang tahu data konsumsi listrik di Indo secara jelas, tapi saya pernah baca, konsumsi listrik d emerging country (Indo termasuk salah satu!) meningkat drastis satu dekade belakangan ini, dan kenaikan ini bakal berlangsung.
Ini wajar, sekarang hampir tiap orang menenteng minimal satu handphone, yang juga berarti sekali dalam 2 hari yang bersangkutan harus mengisi ulang batere hp nya. Belum lagi dengan maraknya acara tv. Dulu cuma ada TVRI yang cuma nayangin unyil, heeman. Sekarang, lusinan stasiun menyuguhkan acara khusus buat tiap2 anggota keluarga, seakan2 bisa baca pikiran kita!
Fazit; konsumsi energi kita secara kita tidak sadari bertambah terus, dan menurut saya penghematan bukan la satu2nya jalan keluar. Indonesia punya kekayaan yang berlimpah ruah, kalo kita manfaatkan dengan betul2 maka bisa mengantar kita ke jalan keluar masalah ini.

Pertanian, tentunya menghasilkan residu biologis, kenapa tidak d kumpulkan, bersama kayu2 tua, kayu2 bekas sisa bangunan ato apa pun itu. Bikin penampungan biologis, bangun pembangkit listrik bio mass. Atau dari peternakan; kotoran ternak bisa d manfaatkan untuk menghasilkan energy.
Indonesia adalah negara kepulauan, yang tentunya berarti perairan adalah bagian vital dari negara kita. Kenapa tidak dimanfaatkan optimal? Offshore Wind Plant? Mungkin bisa! Di perairan selatan pulau jawa, berhadap2an dengan samudra hindia, yang tentunya mempunyai potensi buat Wind plant. OTEC? Seaflow? Wavebuoy? banyak sekali alternativ yang bisa kita gunakan!
OMG, were live in the equatorial area! Intensitas matahari adalah sumber yang terjamin (setidaknya kalo di bandingin dengan umur manusia =p).

Ga usah muluk2 bikin pembangkit listrik super mega berkapasitas 200MW, bikin aja yang cukup buat nyalurin listrik ke satu desa kecil. Yang terpenting bukan bikin yang wah, gede, tapi bikin supaya energy alternativ itu menjadi bagian dari masyarakat indo. Galakkan program energy alternativ!

Dah ah, ngantuk.

Sapikurus s Pick!

Suddenly I decided to make my own yearly music playlist. On the list would be my favourite songs of the year. Hmm I mean, all songs that I like in this year, but not necessarily produced/performed in this year. Well, enjoy!

1. Twenty Something - Jamie Cullum
2. No Buses - Arctic Monkey
3. Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
4. Soul meets Body - Deathcab for Cutie
5. Barely Legal - The Strokes
6. A Certain Romance - Arctic Monkey
7. In Transit - Albert Hammond, Jr.
8. Read my Mind - The Killers
9. In the Morning - Razorlight
10. We will become Silhouettes - The Postal Service
11. Dancing with myself (Billy Idol cover) - Nouvelle Vague
12. When I'm Sixty Four - The Beatles

ps: so hard to pick , since there a bunch of choices of nice songs! >.<