Malino

Located at Tingimoncong Sub district, Gowa District 1500 m above sea level. 90 km away to south, about three hours from Makassar, the capital city of south Celebes. The malino sites can be reach using mass transportation such as bus, colt or taxi.

With mountains that rich of karst and pine trees view. Many of the tropical plant beautifully growth there. Beside that, Malino also produce many fruits and vegetables that growth in the slope of Mount Bawakaraeng. Most of the people there, assumed Mount Bawakaraeng as holy and sacred place. I ever watched some tv show abaout pilgrim of bawakaraeng. Like the moslem goes to Mecca for pilgrimage, some of the moslem surround the Bawakaraeng, had their own believe if they could hiking to the top of Bawakaraeng is the same with the pilgrimage journey already. And whom already applying that ritual has their statuss as Haji Bawakaraeng.

In Malino of course there’s a lot of place to fulfill the passion for recreation, as far as I know and I ever been there was, hutan wisata malino (Malino recreation forest) or well known with hutan pinus (pine forest). In this forest you can meet animal like burung nuri (Trichaglossus flavoridis), kera hitam (Macaca maura), biawak (Varanus salvator), jalak kerbau (Acridatheres sp), raja udang (Halcyon sp), and burung gelatik (Padda oryzofora). And also there’s a lot of plant such as pohon pinus/pine tree (Pinus merkusi) wich dominated the whole site, akasia (Acasia auriculiformis), jabon (Anthocepthalus cadamba), beringin (Ficus benjamina), ekaliptus (Eucalyptus sp), edelweis (Edelwesy sp), rotan (Calamus sp), kenanga (Cananga ordorata) and some bushes plant.

Also there's a waterfall named air tejun seribu tangga (thousand stairs fall’s), wich has a lot of stairs to reach to the fall. And the view so beautifull. I’ve been there with my high schoolmate, unfortunately that time everyone was so busy to go to the toilet, they make line of waiting, I don’t know why, but everyone got stomache. So just few of us that can catch the beauty of the fall. Nice place, nice memory.

Since the dutch colonialize Indonesia, the beauty of Malino has attract them also. That’s why they held a conference that named Malino conference in July 16th – 22nd 1946. To discuss about the idea of East Indonesia Country (Negara Indonesia Timur / NIT). Wich take place in Malino.

Malino also famous with the edelweis, the eternal flower and also the turi tree that has beautiful orange flower. When they bloom, it was so beautifull, you can see fantastic view from the air or from far distance. That’s why the city also well known with the flower city of south Celebes.

there are also tea, vegetables and fruits plantation in some area of Malino. The most fruits that very famous of Malino is Markisa, thas why in the Makassar city we can found a lot of markisa juice in the market sale for the souvenir of Celebes.

I love Malino so much, cause one of my best two day happened there. When I met my orange prince.

sebuah tempat damai, di matamu

A peacefull place that I missed a lot, exist in your eyes

I’ve been there, and out of my conscious love and hate bring in many things

Change, turn one another

Happy, unhappy

Eye met eye, and all those words fly

Just that harmony tone burst out, reality knock the door

Turn to different ways,

I take my punishment singing and crying

You turn mute in sadness,

Oh life that only casting world

I’m playing what, you cast as whom

Good night love,

These restless need to take break

(inspired by MP, Kya yehi pyaar hai???)

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Silent Nigth

Silent nigth,

Slank still kept their mouth open on tv

After sutiyoso spoke topic on something, that just bout arogansi and his defense

Silent nigth,

Gita gutawa has no tired to keep singing from my computer speaker

And the radio still loyal to sing some “I don’t know” song,

That sometimes I like and I don’t like

Silent nigth,

And the pointer on the screen still bipping

Confused to move

I can not loose things I never have…., (from the movie “how to loose guy in ten days”)

What is lost I don’t know, cause I never have it

So what I’ve been waiting for…..

Silent nigth

Make it worth,

Placed stars to the empty dark sky

Placed clouds to the big blue sky

I have the magic wand, my ten beauty fingers

So, cast the spell and let the miracle work

Silent nigth, silent nigth

Hold me tight

To my beautifull ten fingers, put some strength on ur sight

Keep this eyes bright, Make me keep on figth

And reach wonderful ligth

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Liquid are forbidden in the plane, liquid are forbidden sent trough post

an ironi….., my country government, my Indonesi, my homeland.

A very smart country, teaches the people to find way out, alternative way out, to breaking the law.

This case only a little example, but for me it’s not pleasant enough.

One afternoon, I acompanied my friend to the post office. Some medicine for the dentist therapy has been requested by a friend in Borneo Island, and need to be sent that day. One of those medicine were liquid. From some years ago, I’ve known already, that liquid thing are forbidden to be sent by post. But I think if I can make sure that the liquid were packed in some ways that it wouldn’t leak out. But “no way”, said the post man, no way!!!!.

I was verry dissapointed, can anyone imagine, post office said no, other delivery service also said no, and no permit to brought it with airplane. So should I, my self, row boat, only to send a bottle of medicine. Fuckin crazy country..!!!

Made rule, without thinking the long impact, wich create problems, that in some undirect way saying to the people, lets us togheter use our brain to find alternative way to pass the rule, not for something bad, but for something that we need. Seems like government of this country are much happy if the citizens do mass illegally. Just see the prove, the legal way of things are so hard to being trough iffen sometimes there is no legal way for what we need.

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About me and coffe

First time I drink coffe, it’s when I was at my sixth grade on my elementary school. I forgot what causing me bougth a sachet of coffe (kapal api, I guess), it’s probably because some interesting coffe advertisement. I made one full big glasses of this black coffe. My first swallow of that thing, was so aweful. I split them out and decided not to continue my crazy experiment.

Few years later, I really forget, since when I became so in love with coffe. Till now, still explore the beauty of it. Still curious the taste of all it’s varian, modification, and other stuff about coffe. But the most I consumed is the instant coffe. And my most favourite is capuchino. But I have one taste that I like, not only cause the taste but also the mood it brings, and also it was so rare in the market, iffen I thougt it’s already extinct, it’s the Orange Coffe. It’s an instant coffe, good day branded.

This Orange Coffe are so great. There are two opposite taste here. The coffe and the orange. Awesome!!!!. They mixed together. When both of them met in a cup, surely yea.., none happened on me, but emotion irrationnal deadly.

Yea…, sure it did. Every coffe create it’s own mood, feeling, world. That only us, the coffe drinker who can feel it, can judge, can describe it.

I love coffe. And my deadly orange coffe, are something that always make me reminds one thing that could kill me, as the emotion irrational deadly.

There’s one my fave coffe, on Pak To, the restaurant near the Selokan Mataram. It’s a Mocachino Juice. But everyone in my dormitory known it as Es Awan (The Cloud Ice). Why..?, cause I named so. How can I don’t name it so, cause everytime I drink this coffe, feels like I had swallow the cloud. So soft, cool, spongy, humm…, feels like really eats the clouds. With notes, ofcourse, do not shake it, when they served it, just spooned the top layer of the juice. And you feel the cloud.

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