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happy new year 2010

2009-12-31T18:32:00.000-08:00

met tahun baru yaaaa,,

semoga jadi lebih baik, dan aku bisa meraih mimpi di tahun ini, amin.

Sad?happy? No body knows!!

2009-07-18T02:16:00.000-07:00

I don't know what should i do now.

I'm blind.
I can't find a true friend around.

I'm alone. HEY!!
listen to me!!
I'm alone!!

Right here! alone!

............

My heart tells me to be strong.
but,
but,
but,
but,
a lot of "but" in my mind!!

............

I'M TIReeeeeeeeeeeeED!!

(special for you,OX!)

DESERT!

2009-06-05T23:15:00.000-07:00

Desert
Delayota Second International Class of Yogyakarta

My beloved class.
Love my class, love my friends, love the teacher,
hope we're in the same class 'til we graduated next 2 year.

Njx, ndud, lalak, azug, diloo, icok, iang, opek, nasty, ayak, sali
Dhika, Raya, Fahmi, Ikrom, Temon, Salman, Ipul,
LOVE YOU ALL. . .

:)

How far do you think there is equality in Indonesia and other countries now in 2008?

2008-11-20T09:19:00.000-08:00

Before we talk about the equality in Indonesia and other countries, we have to know what is equality means. Equality is the idea of equal treatment. Equality addresses the fair distribution of such resources as food,housing,health care,education, job training, and proffesional opportunities.
Now, let we talk about equality in Indonesia. Equality in Indonesia haven’t fulfilled yet. From the economical side (food, housing, job training, and health care) we can find about a hundred milliond people live in unproperly life. Their salary is under $2 per day. From educational side, there are lots of Indonesian children that can’t study at school at all. Even if they can school, the facilities of the school are very unwell.
How about the other countries’s equality? I would like to use South Africa as the example. In South Africa, there still different treatment between white and black people. The black people and the white people can’t walk in the same street. They can’t choose the car that they want and every rainfall, they can’t sleep because their houses are flooded! The black people want to have same standard living.
After we talk about equality in Indonesia and other country, we can see that equality haven’t done well yet. So, we have to try build equality by ourselves. Don’t just wait the government. We have to move now!

EBOLA

2008-10-19T07:36:00.000-07:00

About the name
The virus is named after the Ebola River Valley in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ebola is the common term for a group of viruses belonging to genus Ebolavirus and family Filoviridae. The disease cause of ebola virus is ebola hemorrhagic fever.
Characteristic
Electron micrographs of members of genus Ebolavirus show them to have the characteristic thread-like structure of a filovirus. The virions are tubular in general form but variable in overall shape and may appear as eyebolt, as a U or a 6, or coiled, circular, or branched. Generally Ebola viruses has 80 nm in diameter and 1000 up to 1400 nm in length. In the center there is a structure called nucleocapsid which is formed by RNA.
Signs and Simptoms
Initial symptoms include high fever(38.8°C), severe headache, muscle, joint, or abdominal pain, severe weakness and exhaustion, sore throat, nausea, and dizziness. Ebola may progress to cause more serious symptoms, such as diarrhea, dark or bloody feces, vomiting blood, red eyes due to distension and hemorrhage of sclerotic arterioles, petechia, maculopapular rash, and purpura. Other secondary symptoms include hypotension (low blood pressure), hypovolemia, tachycardia, organ damage. Mortality rates are generally high, ranging from 50 to 90%.
Carrier
Plants, arthropods, and birds have also been considered as carriers; however, bats are considered the most likely candidate. Of 24 plant species and 19 vertebrate species experimentally inoculated with Ebolavirus, only bats became infected. In 2002-03, a survey of 1,030 animals from Gabon and the Republic of the Congo including 679 bats found Ebolavirus RNA in 13 fruit bats.
Transmission
The virus is then transmitted to other people who come into contact with infected blood and bodily fluids of the infected person, and by human contact with contaminated medical equipment such as needles. Among humans, the virus is transmitted by direct contact with infected body fluids or, to a lesser extent, skin or mucous membrane contact. The incubation period can range from 2 to 21 days, but is generally 5–10 days.
Treatmen
There is no standard treatment for Ebola HF. Treatment is primarily supportive and includes minimizing invasive procedures, balancing electrolytes since patients are frequently dehydrated, replacing lost coagulation factors to help stop bleeding, maintaining oxygen and blood levels, and treating any complicating infections.
Outbreak
Ebolavirus first came to notice in 1976 in outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Zaire and Sudan. The strain of Ebola which broke out in Zaire has one of the highest case fatality rates of any human pathogenic virus, roughly 90%. The strain which broke out later in Sudan has a case fatality rate of around 50%.

Are cultural differences beneficial or problematic in cross-cultural relations?

2008-10-08T08:55:00.000-07:00

Every particular community has a culture. The culture of each community are different. Even some community have absolute differences of culture. While in this global era, every community must be associated. The differences of culture can make some problems.

In the first place, the cultural differences can make a space between one belief with another belief. When two or more people with different belief have a meeting, it may makes a difficulty to explain an opinion because of the differences of thinking patterns that we learn. Secondly, the cultural differences also make misunderstand. For example, Tibet’s people will put out their tounge when they want to show their respect to someone. For Indonesian people, if someone put out his/her tongue, it means he/she is mocking other person. This misunderstand can be a big problem if we don’t understand the cultural differences between two or more community. Last but not least, it’s difficult to make a united world if we have some differences culture.

On the other hand, the cultural differences make our life more colorfull. We can see different ceremony in different community. It makes our world is not boring. We can adopted a good culture of other community and mix it with our community. The cultural mixed makes a better culture, but it’s not always make a better culture. Sometimes the culture mixed makes a worse culture for our community.

To sum up, the cultural differences are problematic in cross-cultural relations. Although the cultural differences have some beneficial, the cultural differences make more problems.

idul fitri sebentar lagii..

2008-09-23T21:59:00.000-07:00

Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar	الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر
la ilaha illa Allah	لا إله إلا الله
Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar	الله أكبر الله أكبر
wa li-illahi al-hamd	ولله الحمد

Allahu Akbar!!
sebentar lagii,, idul fitri dateng...
qta akan melepas kepergian bulan ramadhan...

ya,,
seperti taun2 sbelumnya,,
di Indonesia idul fitri identik dg mudik....

di rumah eyangq,,
2 hari sbelum idul fitri,, nyulam daun2 kelapa jadi berbentuk spt ketupat..
besognya(H-1),, biasanya ngisiin beras,, skalian nanak ketupatnya....
masak rame2 tuh asiikk bangeett....

biasanya malem idul fitri itu muter2 beteng(rumah eyangq di daerah kraton Yogya),
nyalain obor,,
neriakin takbir,,
dipimpin ma mas2 yg naik becak bawa sound system..

pas idul fitri biasanya makan opor ayam,,rawon,,ma minum setup jambu...
walo pun makanan2 itu gampang di dapet di luar idul fitri,,
tapi rasanya kalo dimakannya pas idul fitri tuh,, beda!!

apalagi klo uda bagian bagi2 angpo....q jugag masii dapet lhoo..
soalnya,, q masi SMa....

mungkin tradisi2 yg sperti itu lah,,
yg membuat qta jadi kangen akan datangnya hari yg suci ituu....

tapi apapun yg jadi tradisi keluarga qta,, yg penting,, jangan lupa minta maaf sama smua orang muslim yg pnah qta sakiti hatinya....
jangan sampe,, qta malah nambah sakit ati orang2 muslim yaa....

have a nice lebaran,, smuaaaa....