Midori Story

Dear my grandchild... I actually promised  to make a birthday writing for myself  every 2nd December however this year I skipped it, intentionally. Perhaps you will ask `` Why granny??? ``...well...there were many blue stories that i got towards my birthday and so hard for me to share. Nevertheless, I should share.. at least briefly, for your reference in the future. Towards 2nd December 2013... My lovely Eyang had passed away. She was born on the same month with me, December 15th. She is such a lovely granny, ever. She could remember all of her children, grandchild and her close family birthday. Not only family, eyang even sent a birthday message to someone that used to be my ta`aruf partner. That man was so mesmerized with eyang unfortunately he wasn`t just into me :P Oftenly, eyang was the first one who gave me a birthday compliment and do`a...because I have lived with her and Puang Kakek since my 14th years old. Then when I left to Japan two years ago, she kept sent m

Konbanwaa, good evening my dearest grandchild ... Really sorry for being absence writing in a such long long period,  hope you guyz still love me <3 Granny has soooooo many jealousy  about  Fukuoka and the citizen. Eitts..no worries, granny could turn that negative feeling into positive one since granny intend to share their outstanding points to all of you and for the people in our lovely country. The first jealousy is related to my daily activity here as a researcher. This lovely city has an Urban Research Center (URC) and it`s different compared to others research center based on my opinion. It was last year when I started connecting with URC. My supervisor invited us to attend the presentation which topic about ``Urbanization in Asian Countries`` and we should register in advance through email to URC.  From that moment, seemed the URC saved our email address and share any information whenever they held an event.  The first event of URC that i attended

Assalamualaikum my dear, Missing me? hehehe...sorry, lately I couldn`t updating my blog regurlarly therefore i`m trying to summary the stories that enlighten my days. In the last two weeks i found that Allah had spoiled me, Alhamdulillah...Many good things happened which was beyond of my expectation. Let me share it then October 9th, 2013 It`s been ten days since i sent an email to Yamaguchi San, a Japanese man that I`ve met at the entepreurship workshop on September. He was offered a business collaboration in fishery. I thought he won`t reply it but what a surprise...he replied and asked me to have a business dinner meeting on 6.30 pm at Hakata Station. I did some preparation in the afternoon while thinking of someone that I didn`t met for almost a month. Kind of missing him ...heyyy come on, I am just a normal girl (not yet a woman :p). Really hope i could meet him somewhere today although it`s impossibble.  Luckily, I arrived on time at the shinkansen entrance of Hakata

Assalamualaikum sayang.... Tahun ini merupakan ramadhan dan idul fitri kedua granny di Jepang. Jika dibandingkan tahun lalu, tahun ini kayaknya lebih berat. Suhu panas bisa mencapai 37  derajat atau lebih, dengan real feel di kisaran 43 derajat. Ditambah lagi  ada deadline untuk submit paper (publikasi ilmiah ) kedua dan perlu kalian tau, untuk menulis paper itu granny bisanya sambil ngemil supaya idenya lancar. Tapi, alhamdulillah...semuanya bisa terlalui bahkan taun ini, granny malah lebih semangat dan sering ke mesjid untuk buka puasa, tarawih hingga i`tikaf (kalo yang ini hanya dua kali :p ) Suasana saat buka puasa di mesjid Seperti ramadhan tahun kemarin, di setiap akhir pekan dilaksanakan grand ifthar yakni buka puasa bersama yang di koordinir oleh komunitas muslim per negara. Saat grand ifthar , jumlah jamaah yang datang ke mesjid meningkat drastis. Indonesia mendapat giliran pertama menyediakan makanan dan mengatur segala keperluan buka puasa, sayang banget saa

Assalamualaikum sayangku, bagaimana kabar kalian hari ini ? Semoga sehat yaaa Terhitung sudah tiga hari granny menempuh jarak sekitar 1-2km (pergi pulang)  mesjid dengan berjalan kaki agar bisa merasakan atmosfer ramadhan di Fukuoka.  Granny sangat menikmati perjalanan menuju mesjid karena langit masih terang meski waktu telah menunjukkan pukul 19.00pm. Beragam pemandangan menarik bisa granny abadikan lewat kamera hp... Let`s take a look on these  ] Ini nih tipikal private apato yang berada disekitar tempat tinggal granny. Berhubung harga tanah untuk membangun rumah di Jepang mahalnya selangit jadi apato, mansion atau apalah namanya merupakan pilihan yang paling rasional bagi warga lokal. Merupakan fasilitas standar tiap apato atau sekitarnya dilengkapi dengan lahan parkir,  nah si penghuni apato biasanya bayar fee parkirnya per bulan atau per tahun. Namun bagi mereka yang bukan penghuni, charge nya bisa dari 100 Jpy/menit bahkan lebih mahal tergantung loka

Summer telah tiba...summer telah tiba... hurray hurray hurrayyyy !! Hampir semua Z-Lab member menyambut summer vacation dengan suka cita. Kenapa ? karena di setiap summer ada program lab trip yang tujuan utamanya selain untuk refreshing juga sebagai moment menjalin kedekatan dengan seluruh anggota lab termasuk sensei. Tahun lalu granny memutuskan tidak ikut setelah dapat bocoran info dari organizer (mahasiswa S2) bahwa mereka bakal ke pantai, wuihhhhh gak kuat ngebayangin panasnya dan saat itu bertepatan dengan ramadhan.  Destinasi lab trip di tahun 2013 ini cukup menggoda granny untuk segera mendaftarkan diri begitu mendapatkan email dari organizer (masih tetap master student tapi tentu saja orang yang berbeda), ``We will visit some interesting places in Oita City``. Yippiiie...Oita itu kan pegunungan yah, jadi granny yakin banget gak bakal sepanas kalo mengunjungi pantai. Ok, register !!!  Sesuai dengan itinerary yang telah kami dapatkan seminggu sebelumnya, pagi itu tangga