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To add some colors to this blog, here is a photo from Indonesia Arts Festival 2010:

In addition, my solo performance of Dutilleux's Au Gre Des Ondes will be broadcasted live this Sunday, 4th of March, 6pm (GMT) from Royal College of Music.

Thankful for the Day of Salvation

Yes I know, I am just an outcast.

But still, there has never been a warmer greeting than a "Happy Easter" from my close friends :)

Seating Plan for Concerto

Concerto in G major for Piano and Orchestra

II. Adagio Assai

by Maurice Ravel

transcribed for piano, wind ensemble and keyboard (Strings)

Seating plan:

Piano : Aditya Permana (soloist)

Flute : Ferdy Iskandar

Clarinet : Andy Pranata

Alto Saxophone : Nugraha Arief Kesuma

Tenor Saxophone : Stephanus Andrianto Soendjojo

Trumpet : Fero Aldiansya

Trombone : Medwin Setia

Keyboard : Adrian Susanto

A shot by Sidjabat from the concert (visit my facebook for larger image):

Indonesia wins golds in men's dragonboat race

The contingent of Indonesia in Asian Games 2010 has a reason to celebrate now that the Indonesia's male dragon boat team earned 3 gold medals (1000m, 500m, 250m events) for the country.

Meanwhile, the women's team won the silver medals for those events.

Their triumph followed what had been a success in clean-sweeping the gold medals in inaugural Asian Beach Games in 2008. The victory also casted away the hesitation of sending the dragon boat team to the multi-event which was mentioned before "involving too many members with low chance of earning medal" and proved the team's result of hardwork.

Each member of the team who earned gold will receive Rp 400 million (US$ 45000) and Rp 200 million is given for silver. The Office of the State Minister of Youth and Sports Affairs had mentioned that it would not be a burden for them to reward it, moreover a total joy and shared happiness for the athletes' success.

Always keep improving, my fellow countrymen, and congratulations for this great achievements!

The Gifts

A reading adapted from the Gospel of Saint John (John 8: 2-11):

---At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the g

roup and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?"

Reacting to it, Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. Then he raised himself up and said to them, "If any one

of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

Those who heard this, being convicted by their conscience,leave away one at a time, the older ones first,until Jesus was the only one left with the woman.

Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

"No one, sir," she said.

"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared.---

Only God knows best about each and every human's heart. I seek the kingdom of Heaven and therefore my faith, hope and love remain.

Trust

How do you think LOVE can be apparent? The heart always comes first.

And we've made it clear and certain for us. Monogamous relationship.

2010 Music Team Members Announced

Heading to this year's NAFA Fun Day for the Beach Volleyball tournament...

The Cheaters

The team of Music Department

Aditya Permana (captain) -- Pianist

Li Yongrui -- Double Bassist

Low Jinhong -- Pianist

Sanche Jagatheesan -- Double Bassist

Kan Chuan -- Vocalist

...fresh from the century when Basso Continuo became a trend.

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Wootz, time for some update.

Despite a shaky start and some errors due to pressure and lack of experience, The Cheaters played well as a team and all the members showed a great courage. It was a great time that we spent together as a team, good effort from everyone and I personally enjoyed the support from the crowd as well. Making it to the finals was really wonderful and we gave a bold fight to the strong opposing team as we saved 3 match points (well, if you are involved in sports, you know well about "not everyday you get to save a match point").

The team eventually won a SILVER medal.

Thank you for all the support (including the smile by the girl behind us)! :D

End of Year 2010

I am back in my hometown to celebrate the days of Christmas and New Year. I gather

with my church friends to do our carolling and celebrate the new year's eve together, under the flash of fireworks, hang out with my close friends to celebrate Angelo's 18th birthday and go for good food, our bowling game and also watched Sherlock Holmes together with them (although I have been reading the novel on the same title every single day, as I'm only left with this legendary book to read at home!).

Here is added later after the new year:

I also went to Lembang, Bandung, West Java with my family. I was breathing the "totally different air" and experiencing the "totally awakening atmosphere". Needless to say, we had our good food and good sceneries.

I love the feeling of vacation after so much hardwork during the semester. I would like to thank my mom, dad and sis, my relatives, my teachers (yes, none of you are a "former teacher" of mine) and my friends who had been supporting me through the year.

Some of the photos are right here. Enjoy your last days of the year, everyone! :D

Sports, Education, Arts

One day during my lunchtime, I sat on a chair in some food court, waiting for my lunch to be served. As I was holding my wallet and saw it from its top, I could see different colors of the banknotes that I had. 2 dollars, 10, and 50. I only intended to take a glance on each note, and as I started with the $10, I found what was printed more interesting than merely its color.

On the reverse side of the $10 note, I found 5 people, each of them doing different kinds of activities: sailing, swimming, soccer, badminton and running. On the bottom-left of the note was printed in capitals "Sports".

Now let's take a look on Indonesia's own banknote. We can find Maitara and Tidore Islands on the Rp 1.000 note, along with Pattimura, and it shows how we, as a nation, appreciate the Islands of Maluku. It works the same for Singapore. The people here appreciate Sports very much. Many times the media mentioned the country's vision of being one of the top 10 sporting nations in Asia by 2010. We can also see the lifestyle of the citizens here has a lot of sports activities. Seeing the five different sports on one frame made me proud of being here.

Next I took the $2 note, and it has "Education". Considering the fact that $2 notes are the smallest amount and oftenly seen (well, perhaps I'm saying from the "not-so-high" class point of view), the importance of education seems to be highly regarded by the people here. And yes, I would mention that Singapore has one of the best education in Southeast Asia.

The last banknote that was in my wallet was the $50 note. It was "Arts". Again this fact shows how the people here appreciate arts. Came into our mind easily would be Esplanade, where Phantom of The Opera and CATS, as well as Turandot and La Traviatta had been performed before. I always appreciate arts on the same level as sports; the balanced portion of the two will shape a good character of a man, but of course it is not for me to argue why "Arts" is presented on a higher amount of banknote.

Sports, Education and Arts. All of us should realize that they are equally important for the future of any country.

I have been searching to find the different banknotes of this country. You should know why I am checking them out after reading up to this point. For those who are curious, $5 turns out to be "Garden City". Recently I also found a $100 dollar note, and curiously checked out what was printed there... and when I flipped it...

"Youth"

Wow, wow, wow. This country is truly amazing.

Short Escape

Today I went to Johor Bahru with my friends - my first oversea trip since the new academic year as well as my first trip to Malaysia - and watched a movie that had not even been released in Singapore or Indonesia: "The Proposal". The ticket costs much cheaper than those in Singapore cinemas. I really loved the way Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock acted.

There are always things to learn when we visit another country. We ate good food (again in lower price), had so much fun and I felt glad to have my break today. When I arrived back in my room, I said to myself, "Welcome back to reality. You are in your final year of study."

Rested for a while, then went to practice again.