Living as A Global Citizen

Today is the 1st of Ramadan and It is very close to the middle of the night. I should go to sleep, but I'm not sleepy yet. My body clock is still configured to the regular days. Need to adapt it with a new rhythm as I need to wake up very early this month. I had a good jogging this afternoon, just a while before I break my fasting.  For some reasons, I'm feeling fresher after sport, instead of tired. It makes more difficult for me to force myself to go to bed earlier. Writing this blog in the middle of the night is actually purposed to make me tired. If the theory works, it could help me to solve the other problem, i.e: changing my sleeping time. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work. I'm still feeling fresh, despite of not knowing what to write on this blog. Luckily, It was not the only reason I'm writing this blog now. The more important reason is that I'm forcing myself to improve my skill of storytelling. I believe that improvement can be gained by pr

I used to be very confident in my ability to deliver a speech. I could even take an opportunity when I was asked to conduct my speech on the spot. I didn't need to have significant amount of preparation in order to be a speaker. Recently, I figured out that It is not true anymore. COVID-19 had punched me in a hard way. I had to convert any lecture that I had into online sessions. Not really sure what was the difference, but I don't like my performance when I did the online teaching.  Many times I trapped in using the same words again and again. Even worse, I sometimes forget everything. I've never seen myself as bad as this before. What could be the difference? What am I so bad nowadays? As always,  interesting questions should lead to an interesting answers. One of the answer was the fact that I used to deliver my speech in my native language. There were no language barriers. I could say anything I wanted to say without even thinking. But now, I kind of need to transla

It's been a while that we are living in the COVID-19 days now. Most people are staying at home. All students have to study from home. Workers are doing the same too. Only the ones considered as doing vital jobs can leave their house. It sounds like a temporary solution before. It was purposed to slow down the spreading of the virus. Many days have been passed, It doesn't feel like a temporary anymore. I feels more like the living style has to be changed. I spent many hours of watching movie nowadays. Today, I figured out that I have watched all of the movie that I thought I would watch. Need to search more to find out if I will like some others. I may find ones, but probably not too. It's an indication that I need to find other activity to spend my times. May be it is a good time to start blogging again as the old days before the COVID-19. Starting a new activity like blogging is not that easy for me. There are many blockers that I need to pass but I'm taking the

One of the interesting feature that I discovered on Blogger is the possibility of inserting a google photos into a post without any hassle. There is no easy way to do that with other blog - as far as I know. This post is just a test, to see how it looks like

Everything has a history, including this blog. A disaster on my Wordpress blog , was the trigger. I was unable to access my blog.  Without any explanation, Wordpress decided to suspend my blog. I was really upset at that time. Not only because the blog was suspended, but in addition to that, I was in the middle of reviewing the blog . It was not a good time for downtime. It destroyed my mood and ring a bell on my head that I needed a disaster recovery plan. Luckily, Wordpress gave me a chance to export the post and comments hence I could import my posts into a new blog, which then became this blog. It wasn't that easy to restore it though, since Wordpress and Blogspot have different data format. Extra effort was required to migrate the contents. The next day, I got a reply from Wordpress that the suspension happened due to incorrect behavior of their anti spam. For some reason my blog was judged as a spammer. Something that I couldn't believe since I had been maintaining

Hari ini aku sedang iseng mengunjungi beberapa blog sambil mencari ide tentang apa yang ingin aku tulis hari ini di blog ini. Salah satu blog yang terlintas di kepala adalah blog Mas Rovicky . Dongeng Geologi ternyata masih dilanjutkan oleh pendongeng-pendongeng penerus. Gaya penulisan tampaknya diusahakan mirip dengan gaya Mas Rovicky dulu.  Namun sebagai sahabat dan penggemar Mas Vicky, gaya itu tetap tak sama. Rasa blog itu tak lagi sama. Wajar saja, karena memang jiwa penulisnya sudah berbeda.  Blog satu lagi yang aku kunjungi adalah blog Ivan Lanin .  Kok Ivan? Apakah karena aku penggemar Bahasa Indonesia? Tentu saja tidak. Aku bukan penggemar aturan baku dalam berbahasa. Tulisanku bercampur-campur bahasanya. Kadang ada kosakata Inggris, Jawa atau bahasa-bahasa lain. Semua aku biarkan mengalir saja seperti bagaimana aku bicara sehari-hari, yang juga bercampur-campur tak patuh hanya pada satu struktur dan kosakata satu bahasa. Kunjunganku pada kedua blog di atas sebenarnya j