This video is a MUST WATCH for anyone living in Indonesia.





This is a video aired by UK's BBC2. It's called "Toughest Place to be a Bin Man" (trans: Tempat Paling Sulit Sebagai Tukang Sampah). Sorry for my bad translation ...

For some time now, I have started noticing the tukang sampah (bin men) in Jakarta. This city is split into two groups - very rich and very poor. Middle-class consists of just a few of the population. My father is a hard worker and thanks to him, I have always lived a comfortable life with everything I need. Every night in my prayers I always thank God for having blessed me with this life that lacks nothing.

I would like to personally thank BBC for making this video. I think a lot of Chinese-Indo kids, including me, have no idea about the life of the poor in Jakarta. We have seen the carton houses, the skinny tukang sampah, but we knew little about them. In fact, I was even contemplating making my personal investigation on them and making a movie out of it. lol! Anyway, that is why I am so grateful this video is out. I hope we can understand each other a little bit better.

Labels: bbc, bbc2, bin man, Indonesia, jakarta, the toughest place to be, tukang sampah

Iiiit's me!!!
I'm back in blogging~
I still don't have photoshop on my laptop so I'm using my computer instead ;p
So this is what happened last Saturday...



My Aunt, Betty, (we call her Kuku Pei Wen), came from LA with her husband Peter. They are both very entertaining people xD I enjoyed their company a lot, unlike other Aunts and Uncles.

So we had dinner at Ancol... They had a beach-theme sweet 17 party by some strangers...




After dining, we went to Pasar Seni (Art Market). I found the place very interesting!
Here are some pics:






This below, is actually wood, sculpted into little engraved houses, painted w black in some areas.



Sculptures made of rope!



Sculptures of styrofoam!



My bro posing with his fave painting:



This picture really REALLY gets me. The girl's eyes seemed to be looking straight at me, and I really liked the black on the left. Though... I wouldn't want this painting hanging around my house :S it's too depressing



An artist's workplace:




Following that, we had durian :D





I start to appreciate our country a bit more because of the things we did that night. Indonesia sure is a country with a wide variety of...everything =D And that's something we should be proud of.

Labels: Ancol, Indonesia, Pasar Seni