“When You Change What You Believe, You Change What You Do”

The distance is 120 kilometers
Bus Speeding at 60 km/hour
3.0 - 3.5 hours
Palm Oil and Pipe laid down way a long
no other choice than sleeping …. zzzzzzzz
(thanks to Marthin for taking this candid one)

Surprised that Siak Indragiri was so famous in internet, we
went there last week. 2 hours speed boat from Pekanbaru through Siak River was so exited because we were on semi-traditional boat which was full of
shakes. By the news I heard, Siak is third richest kabupaten in Indonesia. Shouldn’t
compare Siak with the richest sister Kutai Kartanegara, Siak just to start
built its San Francisco-bridge style. Nothing special being rich, Siak doesn’t have
public transportation except becak. Back to the reason why Siak  so famous in internet is because of its
palace. Siak Palace is palace where the Sultan governed
Riau mainland before terminated in 1946 in a line with devolution of power to
Indonesia Government Authority. With good maintenance and complete collection,
please place Siak Palace in your vacation
destination.

last picture : in front of Siak Palace;p

Almost of my friends are in same generation though we were
different in university. Because of that matter, we are in common and often to
spend time together. We like to memorize our moments in pictures. Boring being
pictured in conventional, we tried something different, pictured while we were
flying. We didn’t use professional camera, just pocket camera. Here some
results:

good timing, I took the last picture;p

Being pictured is so fascinating for me, specifically in a
special occasion. I believe that the best way to memorize an event is by
picture. But don’t you realize that being captured in candid is too infrequent.
This one is my favorite candid shoot, being captured in full of laugh at my fellow
college alumni reunion which was held in one their house inside camp a month
ago.

Were laughing there : Maya (back to back with cam), me (in blue strip t-shirt),
Mas Agung (Back to back with cam, on floor), Mas Agus (loud laughing), Bayu (
busy with his cake while laughing) 

Once in
the Saturday morning, I was jogging out of my camp. The atmosphere out of camp (Duri)
is so different. Our camp lives with lot of manners awhile Duri
has crowded traffic (though Duri is a "Kecamatan"), bad roads
and there is dust everywhere. But it’s so congenial to life in Duri. I
took some pictures before back to camp. Thanks God, You’ve given me an enjoy
life in Duri.

here are some pictures taken steps away from my camp gate :

*) last picture above is in gate shelter, where we wait for Camp Taxi.

Lebih dari sebulan, niat untuk melanjutkan koleksi komik One Piece (Eiichiro Oda) tertunda. 3 toko buku di Pekanbaru memiliki kesamaan stock jump dari no.9 ke no.11. Seingat saya, saya sudah berusaha mencarinya (di Pekanbaru) sejak sebelum lebaran. Hmmm…gimana kabar Lufy sekarang ya?

More about One Piece : http://jump.shueisha.co.jp/one/

catatan kecil :

One Piece sebenarnya komik lama, sekarang di Indonesia sudah mencapai #37/#38-an.

kebijakan baru, 60 km/jam, menjadikan perjalanan ke Pekanbaru menjadi melelahkan.

Gambar di atas :

"Langit begitu gelap, angin berdesir mengencang,…. isyarat badai…

2 senyum artificial + 1 senyum original, 1 bola berebut bertiga…. tanda hati yang cerah…"

saat saya menyadari hidup tidak boleh dihentikan, dan harus bergerak melaju, saya sadari juga bahwa tiap kali terjadi hal di atas :

Badai bersanding dengan cerah…

Gelap bersanding terang benderang…

Ramai bersanding sepi…

……………….,

sebuah lagu dengan lirik menawan mengalun :

Dan aku mulai takut terbawa cinta menghirup rindu yang sesakkan dada
jalanku hampa dan kusentuh dia
terasa hangat oh didalam hati
kupegang erat dan kuhalangi waktu
tak urung jua kulihatnya pergi
tak pnah kuragu dan slalu kuingat
kerlingan matamu dan sentuhan hangat
ku saat itu mencari makna
tumbuhkan rasa yg sesakkan dada

*
kau datang dan pergi oh begitu saja
smua kutrima apa adanya
mata terpejam dan hati menggumam
di ruang rindu kita bertemu
*
bertemu

("Ruang Rindu" - Letto, from album Truth Cry and Lie)

detik ini aku ingin  mengingatmu hanya dalam doa-doaku

dalam doa-doa yang tak lain "Semoga Allah membimbingmu untuk berusaha"

karena sampai detik inipun aku masih yakin, akan keberadaanmu di sana

(di akhir doaku)

… kepedihan ini bukan karenamu, tapi karena aku terlalu menyayangimu…

…hatiku tersayat bukan karenamu, tapi karena aku terlalu yakin akan sesuatu yang benar menurutku…

"Welcome to the Dank in Tank"

sometime life goes too fast, as yesterday when i dank in Tank.

Community Center Duri, Sept 17, 2006

Work is love made visible.
And if you cannot work with love
But only with distaste,
It is better
That you should leave your work
And sit at the gate of the temple
And take alms from those
Who work with joy.

Kahlil Gibran