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Experience: First Time Driving on Trans Java Toll Road - Solo to Ngawi

Trans-Java toll road is toll road network that connects major cities in Java island. The total length of this road network is 1167 kilometres. It is the successor of the historical Great Post Road network (De Groote Postage) which was built two centuries ago during the Dutch colonial era by Herman Willem Daendels. The construction of Trans-Java began in 1984 during Soeharto leadership and the

Western Edge of the Village

Do you remember this old image, big brother? Of our village with endless summer. Where old farmers tenderly tending their rice fields in the evening, and lively kids flying a large kite next to a river, as the mosque howling with a call for prayer. And familiar wind blowing, stroking our hairs, as we ran toward nearby small kiosk, without care. A still movie of our day when the time were still

I'll Show You the Sea

I love the sea. It's only about 4 kilometers away from where I live, not actually a walking distance but close enough to see it quite often. The beach in here is not very pretty and the waves are often too strong so you wouldn't be able to swim. However, I can watch and listen to the waves crashing for hours. Sometimes if I got lucky, I would be able able to see small fishermen ships returning

E7-E5

/fix things up/ Looking back from 2019: The year of 2014 was a comfortable year for me, I was a senior in university and most of the classes were manageable. The end of the year was a bit tougher due to error in my attendance records, I was almost unable to take some end of semester exams. The campus was just introducing new system to record students' attendance using finger printing, I had to

Language

The most noticeable difference of this place is the language, Banyumasan dialect, or "ngapak" so they call it. I did expect that it would be a little different when I was about to live here but the real language, when they actually spoke it, is much more intense than I initially imagined. It's much faster and louder compared Yogyakartan dialect. I wonder if I'll be able to speak the dialect, but

Purwokerto

Purwokerto is one of the main city in Java Island, not too big but not too small either. The first impression when I got there was "this city is old".  Compared to Yogyakarta, this city is still developing, not too many high building around here. The weather is still fresh and rather cold compared to my hometown. Some say that this is a city of heros, I suppose it must be related to General