As rescue workers searched for survivors in the wreckage of a four-story school Thursday, Mira Utami’s mother clawed away, too  looking for the shoes missing from her daughter’s body. Mira was taking a high school English final when the quake hit, flattening the school in seconds and killing her a week before her 16th birthday.

“We had planned to celebrate … but she’s gone,” said her mother, Malina, weeping amid the wreckage where the barefoot body was found.

John Holmes, the U.N.’s humanitarian chief, set the death toll at 1,100, and the number was expected to grow. Government figures put the number of dead at 777, with at least 440 people seriously injured.

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What happened in LA gym outside Pittsburgh?, are you already know it?, What will you say?, killed at least five people and wounded several others, several? according some newspaper and other media online.

Perry Calabro of nearby Bridgeville told, he was between racquetball games at the gym when he heard screaming and multiple gunshots. He said he ran out and didn’t see the gunman or others. Other witnesses told that the lights went out before they saw flashes in dark what they later realized was gunfire.

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Actually this is a little funny, I found this news from local newspaper, but its really like a surprised I also this news from the tumblr blogging, from this site soupsoup.

here is this quote from that site.

After Facebook, NU targets mobile phone calls between sexes

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Many have been shocked to learn that 1,700 Muslim clerics of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) — the largest Muslim organization in Indonesia — have issued an edict banning communication between sexes using mobile phones, and online social networks such as Facebook. …

NU spokesman Abdul Muid Shohib said communication using mobile phones was prone to adultery, especially between the sexes.

“Communicating through mobile phones could lead to extramarital affairs,” Abdul told The Jakarta Post through his mobile.

The only communication allowed between different sexes is that which spreads Islamic teachings, he said.

“We have banned social networking such as Facebook, Friendster and others because they are not used to spread Islamic teachings, but for gossiping,” he said.

Indonesia needs more Job, Isn’t it?

Superstars of Dance begins on NBC at 9 PM, and when I try to reads and focused on it inconsistantly, I  just found one comment for this news in ones of the blog, here is the comentator said, “I have enjoyed  this fantastic dancing. The only problem that I have seen here with this program are the judges. They  seem to be very bias with certain countries. I was highly applaud at their judging with low scores to  some of the best performances that have performed compared to some that were just ok. example: USA,  South Africa and India. The judges that I feel that fall into this catorgy are Argentina, Australia,  South Africa and Ireland. The host of the show would have done a much better judging the show himself  because he knows critic when he see it. Very disappointed in the judging of this program “

I don’t know, becaused I’m not ones of the judge.

Firstly, according to my humble opinion, it just happend on the developing country only such as  Indonesia, Uh… imagine that our country join on that event. The judge bias to certain country, sounds  semm familiar in Indonesia, but its happend to int big international event such as Superstar Dance that  will be presented.

Indonesia Celebrating mother’s day on 22 Dec, and yesterday is the day for all mother in Indonesia.

Indonesia mothers day has a long historical moment, its start when Konggress Wanita Indonesia (Kowani) held on Jogjakarta from 22-25th December 1928. and the date when this congress held become the Indonesia mothers day. Hm… I don’t know, that’s why the others country have their day for this moment.

Event Indonesia have the woman organization since 1912 inspired by a lot of woman movement to achieve the Indonesia Freedom. such as M. Christina Tiahahu, Cut Nya Dien, Cut Mutiah, R.A. Kartini, Walanda Maramis, Dewi Sartika, Nyai Achmad Dahlan, Rangkayo Rasuna Said, and just around 1928 they have a kind of awareness for all woman for their future to have the same position as an Indonesian.

22 Dec established as Mothers day by Soekarno via dekrit presiden No. 316 1959

Happy Mother’s Day Mom!

It’s really interesting when my friend ask about the biggest lost in my life.

Every people ever has been in this situation, but wait…, thats not really a clear question to answer, I mean that is not a complete question. because the answer become too wide, it could be a thing that you can see or its also like an object that you can touch or feel it, isn’t it?

Let me write down as follows :

• lost the person that you really love
• Lost virginity? hm…
• Your favorite music cd collection?

Too personal? I guest!, let’s make this question become more wide, like as an Indonesia citizen, what is our biggest lost as a nation?, just let me answering, we lost our courtesy as a big nation, do you have any else? or you just disappointed with my answer?.

Let’s look with the recent happend in our country, Corruption, The goverment policy, th law reinforcement, the poverty, and another never ending biggest issue, and they said that all of this is normaly happend in the developing nation.

This is the hot issue in Indonesia, many peoples said that this is become a basic cultural, how can they say?, ones of the reason start from the empire era, in that time, there are a lot of royal empire in Indonesia, and one of the famous like Majapahit, Mataram, etc.

The one of the shape serve to the king is gift him the present, it could be crop, part of their lands or maybe they gift their girls as consort of the king without worrying. And this attitude continues to the present.

Now, it’s more complexity, together along with the modern life.

My friends said, “the good government seems like impossible to make it happened”, how can he said like that?, it’s make a sense when I seeing the recent news about the attorney general, and the corruption case with the solicitor general and the hottest happened with the KPPU case.

Ogh… I don’t know why and how it could be happened, attitude, morality or just the life style, confusing to find the way out, and confuse to continuous to post this topic. Hm…

Today is Indonesia independence day, and I used it as a first posts on my own english language blog here. And this blog is my first blog using foreign language, starting a new challenge to write.

Congratulation to Indonesia, get the future more better than yesterday.