5 Things that Will Change Your Life!

Have bored life, Stuck on daily routine, Stay in comfort zone. 

I used to had these down moment. When these things happen to me; Its like the end of world is coming soon! But now imma try to get my real life back! and ready for happier life. Here's something that I want to share and hopefully your life will change to be better yahh!Check these out :p 

1. Set your goal 

Its not hard to set your own goal! Gampang-gampang susah sih tapi its really fun when you do brainstorming abt your life.Just ask your self and know what you want to achieve. I love to do it! that's why notebook gue banyak banget gambar-gambar ngak jelas bentuknya tapi jelas pathway-nya (amin semoga aja sesuai dengan jalan Tuhan juga) 

2. Time management is important 

I'm so so so bad in time management! even I missed my flight! hahaha but I'm willing to set my time management. Now or later is the matter of time; but it'll be better if we know which one is your priority. Up till now; gue kadang mis-manage; yang bukan priority gue malah di prioritized and it messes up everything. At the end; the regret always comes last lah yaaa. That's why, TIME MANAGEMENT IS IMPORTANT :) 

3. Learn New Things 

You know! I got my dad' DNA, dia suka coba hal-hal yang kadang-kadang terlalu new things for his generations. Gue cobain selagi itu make sense and enrich my knowledge and experience. Akhir-akhir ini gue suka baca and baca random information hahaha,its kinda fun oi! Coba deh kalian learn something new and find your self into it. 

4. Give Your Life to Have Creative Thinking 

You can think whatever you want! have creative mind and be free of it! I know, to get creative thinking is not easy; buy you can let your life enjoy every single creative music or film and then find your self being creative unintentionally. You know what, I found a facts (hana's fact that perhaps occurs on hana's life hahaha) We have unlimited creative thinking, just use it for purpose and it'll turn to life changing.  






 5. Explore and Go Out!!! 

Explore what you have learned; the new things or your creative thinking. Its like you take an action! kalau gue baru nonton action movie neh, pengen nya  coba nembak di senayan hahaha and I did it! for several times gue nembak di senayan; lumayan lho untuk melatih konsentrasi (BELAJAR FOKUS) dan fisik. And Go out! make a new friend will be more awesome. Idw; kalau ketemu orang baru I'm super exciting to know their story; it doesn't mean gue kepo ya! but I want to be a good listener; so I can listen people life' story and I can learn from it. One more things! Go and do something out of your comfort zone. 


Just Share and I'm keep learning everything; sorry if you feel bad of it or it doesn't work on you. Please try another way! hehehe 
GOOD LUCK BRO & SIST! 


                     HHM

Toraja Escape

Hi Readers! Finally I'm back :> (Back ke jalan yang benar hoho). Gue kangen banget ngepost! kemarin-kemarin ini, mau ngepost ngak sempet karena gue kelabakan nge-manage waktu gue antara study, intern, JJS (jalan-jalan sendiri) dan me time! biasa orang sok sibuk hahaha (sumpah gue songgong banget ini, ok balik ke topic) Alrite! Gue ngak sabar mau share my journey in TORAJA!! di bulan yang penuh dengan canda tawa ini; bulan maret yeayyyyy !!!

ok, sebelum gue share lebih jauh, gue mau confess dulu :( I made a big big big huge mistake!! OMG this's my first time, I missed my flight T.T!! even though there were 15 mins left before take off!!!!!!!!!!! The L*on airline staff didn't allow me, even though I already done website check-in. Its because the flight document already hold and signed by stewardess.  FML! I kept blame my self. Maaf lebaii tapi It hurts for me because I paid my bill with my saving, and when I misses the flight; ahh sakit nya thu di sini, di dompetttt!!!!! even gue nangis pun ngak   akan ngembayar ticket yang hangus dan terpaksa beli ticket baru huhuhu. 

its such a learning for me to be more and more ONE TIME and of course TIME MANAGEMENT should be arranged. (but actually time management untuk orang yang tinggal di jakarta, hmmmm its kinda hard rite? due to the traffic is getting worst these days) Ok, never mind; this's can be a learning too for you who are reading this :) 

Well, continue; 

I had flight to Makassar bareng Sysca (one and only temen yang paling jago tidur AKA pelor banget. Dimanapun kapanmu bareng siapapun keadaan apapun dia bisa tidur!! luar biasa bukan temen gue yang satu ini ) hahahahah! It's compliment dear :p Sedangkan gue selama di pesawat gue ngak bisa tidur! mau tau kenapa???? karena mbak-mbak pramugari yang cantik ngak bisa diem. Padahal gue duduk di row 8C dan gue masi bisa denger mbak-mbaknya ketawa. (mungkin mereka lelah) Ok, boleh mbak ketawa tapi jangan sampai kedengaran sama penumpang. Anw, yang denger bukan hanya gue aja tapi di sebrang gue ada old guy mid 40's juga bereaksi yang sama. Pokoknya perjuangan bangetlah gue ke toraja ini huhuhu! udah ketinggalan pesawat, dapet flight yang berisik banget, lagi diare pulak !!!! 

Nyampai di makassar, kita di jemput dari Bernard and Ronald. (Intermezzo) Ronald ini koko terhits se-makassar lah pokoknya. Bagi yang jomblo, silakan contact gue nanti gue kenalin hahahaha (@Ronald: ingat komisi 25% ya hahaha) Balik lagi ke cerita; touched down di Makassar kita ngemil pisang ape dulu di pantai losari dan keesokan harinya kita baru lanjut ke toraja. 

Ronald, Me, Sysca, Bernard

Ok! jujur aja gue kira Makassar - Toraja palingan 200an KM lah ya, ternyata kita harus melewati jalur darat  -/+ 350 KM!! yang kondisi jalan-nya berombak-ombak, bolong dan gitu deh lu bayangin sendiri. Normally, it takes around 8 hours if you go straight w/out transit ya. Tapi ya karena kami manusia biasa dan lemah (#apaansihhana) kita mampir dulu di kota pare-pare, ngisi nyawa dan lurusin tulang ekor, at least we already halfway there :>. Well, sepanjang perjalanan Makassar ke Pare-Pare we enjoyed rice field and hill view. Landscape nya ok banget! (maklum gue anak belitung, anak pesisir; jadi kalau ketemu sawah-sawah jadi udik to the max hahahaha) tapi ironisnya di belakang permandangan itu, ada pertambangan marmer dan semen haiyaaa (welcome to Indonesia ya bapak ibu) 

Sampai di kota pare-pare, we had dinner at asia restaurant punya temen ronald; named Puji. WAH WAH WAH WAH! itu ayam goreng tanpa tulangnya SABI bangetttt. Bahkan gue yang lagi diare, bodo amat; gue hajar aja terus!! Tolong di note ya, kalau ke pare-pare mampir ke sini!! (INI BUKAN ENDORSEMENT or PIAD PROMOTION KOK, ini rekomendasi atas dasar ikhlas dan pertemanan asal nanti kalau gue ke sono tolong disiapkan ayam nya lagi ya Puji hahahaha Ok, gue mulai engga tau diri #bye) 

Bukit Nona 

Ok, keesokan harinya kita melanjutkan perjalanan kita yang kurang lebih 170 km lagi!!! Huff (kalau di belitung neh 170km udah muter belitung trus balik lagi malah hahaha). Mau tau selama 170km gue ngapain aja? tidur, ngemil, benggong, mancing keributan, and repeat! Gila sangking jauhnya man, ngak ngerti lagi mau ngapain lagi hahahaha. Kita sempet lewatin bukit nona, kata si ronald sih dibilang nona karena mirip Mrs. V dan sampai detik ini gue masih mencerna  mirip dari bagian mananya hahahaha 

Setelah melewati ratusan km, akhirnya kita sampai di gerbang TANA TORAJA!!!! Ughh LALALALA. Baru sampai gerbangnya aja, kita langsung kesenangan; langsung ambil hp - Gopro mau photo gerbangnya hahahaha (Indonesian style banget yaaa, apapun di photo). Sepanjang perjalanan memasuki Tana Toraja, I pay attention to unfamiliar things. Ehmm, I'm actually a detail person; apapun gue perhatiin penting atau engga urusan belakang yang penting gue pengen tau. Banyak hal di Tana Toraja yang stuck di kepala gue and keep questioning. Kata Ronald, pas masuk ke Tana Toraja, lu bakal nemu salib dimana-mana. Dan ternyata benar oi! banyak banget gereja-gereja, based on my eyes ya; setiap 500m kayaknya ada gereja dan setiap gereja punya masing-masing jemaat berdasarkan  nama area dan keluarga. Misalnya Gereja Jemaat Rama Rante Mambo.

 

Dan ini interesting banget neh, even thought I'm christian, I dunno the meaning of rooster on the top of church roof. Saat itu juga gue langsung kepo, dan ternyata ayam jago menyimbolkan banyak hal salah satu nya bentuk penyakalan petrus kepada Tuhan Yesus dan perintah untuk hidup berjaga-jaga dan penuh dengan kewaspadaan. Untuk orang toraja, Simbol ayam jago bukan hanya di gereja tapi juga selalu nampak pada ukiran rumah adat masyarakat Toraja. Padahal segala bentuk simbol yang diukirkan di rumah adat Toraja hanyalah simbol yang penting dan memiliki makna tersendiri bagi kehidupan masyarakat Toraja, yang hanya dimengerti oleh mereka saja.  Ukiran ayam jago yang diterapkan di kesenian ukiran rumah adat Toraja disebut Pa’manuk Londong, yang wajib ada dalam ragam ukiran rumah adat. Ditambah lagi, jenis ukiran ini letaknya selalu diukirkan pada dinding depan dan belakang paling atas dari rumah adat, yaitu di bagian longa, dan terletak paling diatas dari ukiran-ukiran yang lain.  Bahkan diukirkan  sebagai pasangan salah satu ukiran yang disebut pa’barre allo, yang memiliki arti sebagai simbol pemersatu masyarakat Toraja.[1]

At LEMO

Well, satu pertanyaan sudah terjawab tapi I still have hundreds of questions hahaha. Back to story, first destionation adalah LEMO. Konon katanya ini adalah makam para kepala suku. Tadinya gue kira, badan yang ada di dinding makan ini adalah tubuh asli almarhum ternyata itu hanya patung yang terbuat dari kayu untuk mewadahi spirit atau roh si almarhum. Setelah dari LEMO, Kita menuju ke LONDA yang merupakan sebuah goa yang dijadikan makam. Kita kali ini pakai guide dan guidenya adalah anak kecil, Luar biasa!

Pas masuk ke dalam goa, atmofsternya langsung beda (atau perasaan gue aja ya) tapi yang pasti tempatnya sejuk dan dinding goa nya dingin banget. Setiap peti mati ada semacam sesajen berupa; rokok, uang koin dan air mineral. Dan gue lupa tanya kenapa 3 macam ini yang dijadikan sesajen. Masuk lebih dalam lagi ke goa nya, ternyata ada cerita Romeo and Juliet versi Toraja. Kita melihat makam sepasang kekasih yang cintanya engga di restui karena salah satunya merupakan keturusan bangsawan and at the end mereka memilih untuk gantung diri 70 tahun yang lalu.

At Kete Kesu

4 KM dari Londa, kita mampir ke Kete Kesu yang merupakan sebuah desa wisata dan isinya rumah khas Tana Toraja. Keren banget! Ukiran-ukiran rumahnya ternyata ada cerita dan arti, setiap rumah pasti ada symbol ayam jagonya. Kita juga jalan ke belakang ke makam juga dan beli batik toraja. Dan kita juga lihat KERBAU yang harganya melampaui harga NEW CRV! Which is Rp 450millions. Ini gila!

Senja pun tiba, saatnya kita menuju hotel. Kita nginap di heritage hotel, yang kamar-kamarnya berbentuk rumah adat Toraja. Unique sih tapi sepi banget pengunjungnya. Dan yang lebih dahsyatnya lagi!!!!!! Pas Ronald lagi ngerokok di teras kamar, dia ngelihat yang putih-putih. Ok, ngak perlu di lanjutkan ya man-teman, udah pada tau kan??!?!?!?!

We-fie sebelum rafting! 

Next day, kita rafting dialiran sungai Mai’ting! Gila gue beneran kampungan banget sih, enggak pernah rafting man! Jadi mohon maaf kalau gue norak pas cerita keseruannya hahahahaha. Kita jalan ke lokasi sekitar 1 jam menggunakan mobil, lanjut lagi jalan kaki sekitar 30 menitan dan baru sampai di titik raftingnya. Wah! Gue berasa lagi di zaman-zaman dinosaurus gitu (#lebai), ngelihat tebing-tebing tinggi, burung lewat kesana kemari, dan kita bisa lihat langsung IGUANA! Aduh gue baru pertama kali juga lihat iguana yang bisa terbang. Terus kita main-main di air terjun (padahal air terjunnya warna cokelat gitu hahahaha) Terus lunch di pinggiran sungai sambil menikmati indahnya alam, gue senengnya to the max! gue engga boong. Gue bisa aja duduk di atas batu, sendirian dan benggong. GILA! akhirnya gue bisa menikmati alam tanpa harus ngecheck path, twitter, dll. INI namanya baru REFRESHING!!!

Take me Back to Here!!!!!

Sepertinya selama rafting, teriakan gue paling lebai hohoho. Secara gue duduk paling depan dan berasa kalau gue udah mau nyungsep ke depan hahahahaha Sumpah! itu seru banget (bikin nagih). Terus kita basah-basah nanggung gitu, mau berenang tapi pikiran gue aneh-aneh mulu takut ada buaya lah atau anaconda lah, so kita ngechill lagi di pinggiran sungai yang didepan nya ada air terjun lagi hahahahaha. WAH! Kalau hidup gue kayak gini terus, dijamin awet muda dan panjang umur hahahaha.

Semua keseruan di Toraja mau gue tutup dengan sharing fun facts seputar Toraja!

1.    Semua orang di Toraja menganut agama Kristen dan mereka masih berpegang erat kepada hukum adat dan kental akan kepercayaan mistis.

2.  KERBAU merupakan hewan yang paling sangat teramat mahal! Apalagi kerbau yang albino harganya bisa mencapai 1M!!!!! Orang Toraja mempercayai apabila keluarga almarhum menyembeli kerbau albino untuk almarhum. Kerbau itu akan menuntunnya dan memimpin kerbau-kerbau lainya untuk melindungi almarhum sampai ke alam baka maupun siang atau malam.  Karena mata kerbau albino dipercayai dapat melihat dalam keadaan apapun.

3.    Rumah adat toraja tidak menggunakan PAKU!!!!!! Ini kedahsyatan orang zaman dulu yang sudah mengerjakan konstruksi rumah secara sederhana!

4.  Orang toraja sangat erat kekeluargaanya! Ini disampaikan oleh guide-nya, apabila akan merayakan kematian seseorang. Semua anggota keluarga akan di minta kontribusinya dan diharapkan terlibat dalam prosesnya. 

5.     Orang-orang Toraja juga demam BATU AKIK! Hahahaha ini lucu sih, pas kita rafting setiap batu sungai yang kita lihat, kita anggap bisa dijadikan batu akik 

6.   Membangkitkan mayat atau yang di sebut manene memang ada, namun sekarang cuma ada di beberapa tempat saja (udah ngak semua daerah toraja melakukan ini). Dan hanya diadakan pada peringatan hari-hari tertentu. (Padahal gue pengen banget lihat LIVE!)

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7.     Last fun facts nya adalah, GUE BANGGA JADI ORANG INDONESIA. Gue engga lebai, I just admit kalau gue amaze aja sama budaya Indonesia yang beraneka ragam. Apalagi landscape yang LUAR BIASA. 

Walaupun berita-berita selalu menyudutkan Indonesia sebagai Negara penuh dengan corruption case, criminal, etc. Ada sisi lain dari Indonesia yang bikin gue semakin bangga jadi seorang warga INDONESIA. Hopefully, Tuhan kasih gue kesempatan untuk menjelajah budaya-budaya Indonesia lainnya :) 

Thanks for reading!

XOXO,

HHM

28 Feb – 4 March 2015  

[1] Abdul Azis Said, Toraja; Simbolisme Unsur Visual Rumah Tradisional, Yogyakarta: Penerbit Ombak, 2004, p. 133.

OOTD: Addicted to Black and White

Black is Such a Happy Colour! 

White is The Absence of Memory 

OOTD: It's What It's

Sunglasses: Forever 21

Necklace: Necklace Peace by Pevita Pearce

Watch: Guess 

Clutch: Palomino Collection 

Tanktop: Marks and Spencer 

Blazer: Zara 

Pants: BCBGenaration 

Heels: C&K

OOTD: Polkadot Mood

Lipstick: Max-Factor
Top & Pants: NN

OOTD: RANDOM DAY, RANDOM OUTFIT

HAT: Berskha
TOP:Vornera
SUNGLASSES: Forever 21




I just had the most random and spontaneous trip this week with this crazy girl; SYSCA! We decided to go 1am and we left at 5am!
We didn't have any preparation, just asked to random people how to get there.
But We had so much fun at Tidung Island.
Went round by using bicycle, jump down from "Jembatan Cinta" twice, and end up with Pang Ping Pong Game with New Friends!

Keep my word! I'll back again and make another story!

OOTD: Warm Inside, Cool Outside

Tanktop: Topshop

Outer: H&M 

Skirt: Private Collection by Febby 

Sunglasses: Forever 21 

Bracelet: CK 

Banjar People Towards to The Era of Globalization

 “Today in the era of globalization, there is no such issues as borders between states of the same nation” Fatos Nano

Kalimantan as the third-largest island in the world and the largest island in Indonesia, reach 5,6% of total Indonesia population. Kalimantan also contributes 8,31% of national Gross Domestic Product in second quarter of 2014[1] which is produced by potential sectors such as mining, forestry, agricultural, fishery, manufacturing, tourism, etc. This positive progress of economy gives a lot of opportunity to Kalimantan to improve. This progress also brings the globalization and social change to Kalimantan especially province capital city which developing their area like south Kalimantan.

The globalization effect and social change looks so significantly here in South Kalimantan, for example from the transportation aspect in Banjarmasin, almost every hour, there is flight to Banjarmasin and dominated by Garuda Indonesia. If take look from the passenger, mostly they are expatriate who work in mining industry. In any case, globalization also affects to society which is the presence of KFC in Banjarmasin, roughly every 3-5km, there is KFC store. It sounds interesting, because due to the fact Banjarmasin people are influence by expatriate culture that likes fast food.

If take look smaller scale or individually, globalization affects to a person characteristic, which is consumerism. Most of Banjarmasin people are in middle upper in social class. They spend their money by buying luxury car, invite famous diva to their married receptions; even though their live in sub urban area of south Kalimantan. This shows people have high level of consumerism, and I think it because they have good economy progress in their business and keep increasing. 

But unfortunately, the number of economy progress doesn’t same as the reality in riverside of south Kalimantan capital city. Lot of native Kalimantan especially Banjar people who live along Barito riverside still categorize as almost poor and poor; they live below in minimum living cost. Like this interviewee, that I met three weeks ago.

Since 30 years ago, this mid old women has been familiar with this jukung (boat in Banjar language) and Barito River. She asked by her parents to work on floating market, up until now she keeps doing it. She comes from assimilation ethnic between native Kalimantan: Dayak Ngaju and Melayu who already stereotyped as a trader. Before sunrise comes up, she paddles her jukung along to Barito River with her four years daughter. They go around floating market to do economy activities: sell and buy daily goods or even some of them still do barter or they call bapanduk, if the value of those things is same. She is not the only one who vends her goods here, but she does with others fortyish women; they do selling and buying on floating market as same as their forefather who do economy transaction as a part of their culture. 

Because of the uniqueness of floating market as product of culture and tradition, this floating market become one of top tourist destination in South Kalimantan, which have good potential in order to attract tourist. Throughout this opportunity, trader can sell their product to tourist directly and welcome the tourist warmly. In 2008, this floating market can reach 24.000 tourists but it doesn’t go well, one year later, the number decreased to 22.000 and until 2010 this tourism object only reach 19.000 tourist. [2] Currently, the presence of floating market so concerned, the cause of decrease number because the floating market does not crown as it was. The trader or women prefer to move to land market because there is opportunity get more income. And also because of the society has changes. In the past, people are using jukung or boat as their transportation to go from one point to another point but now the globalization brings the advancement of transportation. People tend to use motorcycle as their transportation because it more effective and efficient. Another reason is unequal region development; it means government only focus on land development not the floating market sector, which makes the trader force to move in order to survive.

Because of these issue, her income also decrease. She only can survive with Rp 10.000 – 15.000 every day. Because of this economy reason, she hasn’t given her daughter education; she prioritizes her son to school in order to help the family have better life. She sends her son to Islamic school, which free tuitions, than go to the government school and should pay Rp 10.000 per month.

Relate to the case, globalization is not only talking about how a region integrated to economy and socio aspect but also it tells about how the society works on development and changes, does the society ready enough to face the development or changes of economy and socio integration?

Globalization has powerful economic, cultural and social dimensions. According to world commission of ILO[3], the social dimension of globalization refers to the impact of globalization on the life and work of people, on their families, and their societies. Concerns and issues are often raised about the impact of globalization on employment like get the continuer of floating market trader, working conditions: Market is dominated by land market, income and social protection: the minimum of income. This Globalization dimensions probably contributes to the alienation of individuals from their traditions. They; Banjar people keep following the tradition which is being floating market trader but on the other hands, the society forces them to change to be trader in land market. If not, they will survive by themselves in the era of globalization. That’s why; this case is concluded as the combination of Sociocultural and economic globalization where these three things come as one big issue, which damage for Civilization of Banjar people in keep the tradition context.

 

Of course Globalization brings new potentials for development and wealth creation. But there are divergent views and perceptions among people as concerns its economic and social impact, and indeed widely varying impacts on the interests and opportunities of different sectors and economic and social actors. Globalization may allowed those poor region to increase their standards of living but it will cause massive dislocations of people as they move to find jobs in more prosperous region. There is also concern that local cultures will be lost as cross-fertilization and integration of cultures become more pronounced.

To understand these globalization effects, I apply a perspective from Global Transformations book[4]. The authors; David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton describe three perspectives on globalization which are Hyperglobalist perspective,
 Skeptical perspective,
and  Transformationalist perspective. And the most suitable perspective to this case is Transformationalist perspective. First, this perspective states that there is no single cause behind globalization. It means there are many possibilities that brings globalization to South Kalimantan like; expatriate’s lifestyle, education, government policies, economic logic and etc. secondly, this perspective assume the outcome of processes of globalization is not determined. People can’t hide or deny what outcome of globalization; it might be positive and negative, both are the consequence of doing globalization. It sounds negative if government forcedly to focus on land market development, it doesn’t mean floating market is totally end but it can be good start to improve floating market in tourism sectors. Remember people can’t determine the outcome but at least control and direct it to be positive outcomes.

Transformationalist authors believe that the same general changes have occurred from globalization but there is no direct belief in the exact direction that these changes came about. Transformationalist say the power of national governments is increasing but the nature of these national governments is changing. This perspective believes that the range of factors influencing processes of globalization is much greater, and the outcomes of globalization are very uncertain

It’s important to realize that globalization occurs in Banjar people actually it’s era where people are entering a new civilization. Where they should be open to change. But they need socialization that helps them understand and diminish the miss-interpretation of globalization effects.

I concern to those traders who surviving below twenty thousand rupiah, I think just give them a opportunity to they to be open to the social change and they will follow the globalization in good way. Personally, I agree if globalization occurs in Banjar people life, because they can improve their life better; they can get better job, better transportation (boat with machine) better education for their children, better future. They just need a process where they can adapt their culture with the change. As recommendation Governments need to prepare formulation of policies that help the economic activity between regions and build the skills of Banjar people to prepare them for entering the global market. But if not, the government will face extreme social gap between the rich and the poor or it will end as inequality prosperity.

Love, 

Hannah Manuela 

Banjarmasin - November 2014 

for Social Change and Globalisation Mid Exam 

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[1] http://www.bps.go.id/brs_file/pdb_05agus14.pdf

[2] http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasar_terapung

[3] http://www.ilo.org/public/english/wcsdg/globali/globali.htm

[4] Held, David, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt, and Jonathan Perraton. 1999. Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Introduction, pp. 32-86.