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16.12.13

Ayorek! SUB Festive & SUB Versi Book and Web's Launching

Welcomed by Post A Place #2!
Welcome to Ayorek! SUB Festive 2013 at Balai Pemuda. The event was held next to Surabaya Tourism Information Center (TIC), it is also part of Surabaya Spectacular Night. While, Surabaya Spectacular Night is usually held every Sunday. I think Balai Pemuda should provide more space for youth events like this, since it is derived literally from the name of the building, haha you're welcome :D

There were many fun things and talks that can brighten up your mind. The event started with the screening of Surabaya AnimNation, Cak Ikin as the founder always provides cool animation nutrition for Surabaya people. Surabaya AnimNation closed by a short animation film by Cak Waw that getting hypes from Festival Film Indonesia. Indeed, it's cool and funny. Everyone's enjoying the show by the burst of laughters. Surabaya was colder that day, the influence of west monsoon which always pours more rains in December. Then, there were also brief talks with Kak Kathleen about Ayorek! website, SUB versi book, and Ayorek! Treasure Hunting. Literally, Ayorek is two phrases in Surabaya's language, ayo means come on or invitation, while rek is the term used in our every day language to call our friends. It is also derived from budaya arek or the spirit of youth in our culture especially in some parts of East Java including Surabaya. It can be an invitation for everyone to participate since "Ayorek is a platform to record, connect, and enable the city and the people of Surabaya". Now, everyone can contribute to the knowledge about Surabaya by posting your ideas, articles, videos, audios and photos on Ayorek! website. Ayorek! can be a platfrom that pretty much like the combination of narrative.ly and visualized like They Draw and Travel for the mapping. Yes, I love c2o and Ayorek! Check out their web to gain knowledge and story about our super hometown, Surabaya! 

A Sunday talk was about creativity, media, commons, community & participation by Mrs. Sirikit Syah from Media Watch and featuring a talk about creative commons. If you have any blog, videos on vimeo or youtube, photographs on flickr, you should know about what creative commons license is to protect and spread knowledge from your works. For further search, just click and go visit their site or read a book entitled Free Culture/ Budaya Bebas by Lawrence Lessig which you can get or borrow C2O Library & Collabtive. If you're an Airlangga University's student, you can borrow it from American Corner Library. I'd found that book a long time ago before I knew about what creative commons is from Amcor Library. 

Meanwhile, we were in love with sambosa, traditional food from Kampung Arab that similar to pastry filled with ground lamb, onions and spices, ultra delicious! There were also Arabian coffee, that also tastes like mixed with ginger extract. I didn't know how many glasses I drank, hihihi. In this event, there were also an exhibition of Post A Place #2 that shows DIY postcards about Surabaya, it can be  in a form of sketch, doodle, or photograph. I made seven postcards for them. There were also treasure hunting by STD or Surabaya Tempo Dulu, a community of old Surabaya enthusiasts. They provided many trivial questions about Balai Pemuda and Surabaya in Dutch colonization era. Inyongski and me curious about one question, where is the mirror in Balai Pemuda that can reflect a Dutchman's ghost, and mostly they answered "in Tourism Information Center". Finally, the event was perfectly closed by local bands performances. Get the SUB/SIDE CD featuring some local bands on the event, only on C2O Library & Collabtive Surabaya for IDR 15k and Ayorek! journal about Kampung Arab for IDR 5k. ;)

Kak Kathleen explained about Ayorek! and SUB Versi
Sambosa and Arabian Coffee, sponsored by Mas Adhiel. Favorite! I drank about I don't know how many sips. 

Treasure Hunting by STD
For Sale, IDR 15k only! COD by Inyongski :D
Pop-Up Library
Pasar Gembong! Written & illustrated by Inyongski & me, featured in SUB Versi book.
Debby confused about what to draw for the post card
Screening of Akumassa Video by Kinetik UPN. I think cinematographers are supposed to contribute for the city's knowledge sometimes. more about Akumassa.
This is Vina, She's from Melbourne. We talked a bit about Surabaya and Laneway :D The background is sketches from Surabaya Sketch War by Orange House Studio.
the crowds
I've read the journal this morning, and it's awesome. Now I'm curious where to buy that pencil, or a kind of that, because it's actually IKEA's
Hi Mom! and Pathetic Experience. As cool as always and I forgot to take a snap of Alepak, huhu, they are super funny!

15.12.13

Snapshots for "Trip to Historical Site For ASEAN Unity 2013"

A week full of awesomeness ever! This week I became a liaison officer for ASEAN event "Trip to Historical Site For ASEAN Unity 2013", FYI this is their first time! This is also the first time for me as liaison officer. I've got so many things to learn, and I think it'll change my perspective about many things after our daily conversations with all LOs, Pak La Ode, Mas Arya, Mas Ryan, Mas Rojil (who looks like Ramon Y. Tungka.... wait for it.... from distance! :D and combination with Mas Breng's face, our senior at English Department) and all the extraordinary things that we experienced everyday and also learn about how to handle an event that might gone out of expectation. I learned a lot especially from Pak La Ode who deserves great gratitude for saving this event. I couldn't imagine how this event turned out to be without him. Well, he's really a funny person and calm, he's a history lecturer at our campus and so is Mas Arya while Mas Rojil is a lecturer at Ciputra. Suddenly I remember, before I decided to choose English Department as second choice in university, I really wanted to learn history and my parents wasn't really agree about me study in history major, but then my father always supports me to find history books I want to read or just having such talk. My father was born in the very late 40s, so he often tells me about many things. This event is perfectly right for me since I love history. Unfortunately, I couldn't attend the lecturing session because it was only for the delegates. Well, here are just some snapshots that I took.

Well, the very first briefing was on Sunday and I had no idea we were going to Trowulan sub-district, Mojokerto. So, yaayyy! First time I went there with my father when my lecturer gave final assignment about Majapahit Empire. I was so excited and I asked my father to go with me. I couldn't imagine about their life or appearance in Majapahit era until I went to the museum. I was speechless, my imagination went through how they dress, their activities, their ceremony, etc by looking at the collection of the museum. Lately I can picture it more by reading Pram's Arok Dedes (not yet finished reading it!) about the life of East Java's kingdoms. I like how people called our province as mystical, indeed. So, this is my second time to went there, and everything seems better. There is a renovation by building a roof for the remaining trace of Majapahit site near the museum, so that the tourist can see better from the height. Although the guide said that it wasn't fully 100% yet and still in a process.

Trowulan is the former capital city of Majapahit Empire. The territory of the empire were including Malay Peninsula and some part of Phillipine's territory (they are all now Singapore, Brunei, Phillipines, Malaysia, and Thailand). Well, the popular trivial thing about the name of the empire is, maja is a fruit, and pahit means bitter. Maja is a typical fruit that grows in Mojokerto. The establishment of the empire itself started from Raden Wijaya who was given a territory in Tarik Forest, Mojokerto. Then, he established a village named Majapahit which the territory was increasingly widespread under the throne of Hayam Wuruk and assisted by Gadjah Mada as his chief minister. Majapahit was also considered as wealthy trading state that took control over the trade in the South East Asian's well-known and influential strait of Malacca. We also visited some sites like temples that spread near the museum.

Trowulan Museum, Mojokerto
We can see the site of Majapahit Empire from such height
Arca from Majapahit Era
Gapura Bajang Ratu
Some historians believe that this temple was the main gateway to enter an important building in Majapahit Empire 
Actually the Reog and Jaranan dance wasn't performed as complete as in the annual Faculty of Humanities Airlangga University's Culture Festival.
Reog, although it is originated from Ponorogo, East Java, sometimes it is showed along with Jaranan or Javanese traditional horse dancing
Candi Tikus
It was a 'pertirtaan' or ritual pool bathing, the concept of this temple, there is several filter as they believed that it made water became pure and holy.
Candi Brahu
This temple was believed as cremation place of Majapahit's kings
Gapura Wringin Lawang
gapura: gateway, wringin= banyan, lawang= gateway

After visited Trowulan Museum and Majapahit sites in Mojokerto, the next day we explored some historical places in Surabaya. Before that, we also went to Porong, saw the Lapindo mud flow. When I go to Malang or anywhere else via Surabaya-Gempol Freeway where the center of explosion is near to the freeway. I see high mound next to the railway but I've never gone up stair to see the mud behind the mound. It really in vast area and also terrifying. I also talked to some inhabitants that selling some documentary CD of Lapindo mud flow. The ironic part is, according to them, the government has already provided settlement for them as long as they pay for about 200 million Rupiahs. There are about 16 villages, 3 sub-districts and more than 10 millions units of house drowned. Since the area was dominated by factories and became the inhabitants' livelihood, when it's gone, so is their job. But I think it cause more troubles because they only eking a living by selling documentary CDs, ojek or take tourist around the site by motorcycle, and also beggar :( 

After a sad story, we moved to the north part of Surabaya! I love these part, it's like we're trapped in the past. The first destination in Surabaya was Hong Tiek Hian temple. It is the oldest temple or kelenteng in Surabaya. Located near Kembang Jepun's Chinatown, the temple is also near to inhabitant's houses. It is considered as Ku Bhi Lai Khan's inheritance, it was built by his troops called Tar-Tar. First we entered the kelenteng, we were welcomed by Hio's aroma, statues and huge candles. The main building is actually divided in to two by a small alley. This alley connects the main street to inhabitants' settlement. We were welcomed by the performance of Wayang Potehi or Potehi Puppet on stage. This performance is originally derived from China. The word Potehi comes from poo-tay-hie, poo: fabrictay: pocket or pouch and hie: puppet. Overall, the meaning of Potehi is a puppet from fabric clothe and has a pocket played by the puppeteer. If there's no special visit, the Potehi Puppet Show usually performed in the afternoon. Sometimes we can find funny things inside the kelenteng too, such as laundry or sun-dried clothes, magic jar (jar to cook rice), but most of people who live there are not Chinese. 

Kelenteng Hong Tiek Hian, Surabaya's Chinatown
The oldest klenteng in Surabaya! Klenteng in English means worship place or temple of Confucianism, Buddhist, and Taoism's adherents
There are many altars in this temple

Dragon becomes symbol of demon repellent

Next, we visited Ampel as one of historical site in Surabaya and influential as the starting-point of the Islamic spread in East-Java. Before entering the area of Ampel Mosque, there is a long road of market that sells equipment of worship, clothes, foods. When I was in Junior High School, there were still many Arabians in the market sold perfumes, but I think there were none of them last week in this trip, or probably because it's a weekday. Unfortunately, we couldn't have the chance to walk around Kampung Arab. Kampung in Surabaya is a typical of neighborhood that live very close, side by side. My last walk in Kampung Arab was with Manic Street Walkers (a street walkers community in Surabaya) in collaboration with House of Sampoerna's program. There is a tradition in Kampung Arab's house that they need to apply sun-shade in front of their door so that strangers can not see inside the house. For further info about Kampung Arab near Ampel area, you can read some articles from Ayorek! project by hitting these links about An Afternoon Walk in Pasar Pabean and Kampung Arab and One Morning in Kampung Arab.

And those trip and sleepless nights was super awesome! 
My Selfie, 9th Floor  (literally it's 4th!) of The Empire Palace Hotel
This is how to drying up wet sneakers in your hotel room using the air conditioning's breeze  #lifeguide :))
Meanwhile, last night I went to C2O Library & Collabtive since today Ayorek! SUB Festive is held at Balai Pemuda, a festival to celebrate Surabaya's people, culture, uniqueness, places, and everything! Super excited, last year there was Ayorek! Treasure Hunting, kinda' collaboration research about Surabaya citizen. Inyongski and me wrote about Pasar Gembong, we also made some doodles like the maps, the people, and things you can find there, the concept is pretty much like They Draw & Travel. It will be published as a book entitled SUB Versi! :D Well, I'll tell you more about it later, the festival and launching will be held today! 

14.10.13

DIY Fair

DIY Fair (13/10 at Surabaya Town Square) is part of DIY (Design-It-Yourself) "Prototips" by c2o library and collabtive and also collaborating with Action Sunday by Soledad & the Sisters Co., the creator of Sunday Market. DIY itself is held annually about design conference, there are many kinds of activites at DIY, such as workshop, dialogue, and festival. Meanwhile, this DIY Fair consists of festival featuring art + design market, exhibition, and music performance by Altarise, Humi Dumi, and White Shoes and The Couples Company.

For further info and more upcoming activities by DIY, click: http://diysub.com

Well, I took some snaps before the music performance. 




Post A Place (share your favorite place in Surabaya via artworks on postcards)



 

Some Cool 'Lapaks' (and believe me, there are many more!)


16.9.13

Museum Kesehatan Surabaya


Saya masih percaya, Surabaya is not all about malls and such things. Menemukan sesuatu di Surabaya itu nggak harus mahal. Ada komunitas yang dengan berjalan kaki saja bisa menikmati kota Surabaya dengan lebih seloww, pelan-pelan di tengah kecepatan jalanan ala ibukota. Kadang kita nggak menyangka dengan hal-hal yang bisa kita temukan di tempat yang kita lewati setiap hari. Kali ini saya dan kawan-kawan akan mengunjungi sebuah tempat yang setengah awesome dan setengah kemistis. Siang itu, pada hari Jemuah (sori ilat jowo) tanggal 13 September 2013, kami yang kebetulan plonga-plongo di kampus secara spontan diajak Tjetje Puspitje ke Museum Kesehatan di Jalan Indrapura. Jalan ini familiar banget buat saya, karena sudah bertahun-tahun sering diajak ayah andok mie ayam di gang sebelahnya museum persis. Kalau mau mampir lumayan juga bisa dijadikan pengucur keringat diantara panas turbo-nya Surabaya. Oiya, namanya Mie Ayam Tuban Pak Suci. Selama masih kerja di Perak, ayah saya sering makan siang disini. Tips aja, kalau jam makan siang mendingan bawa meja kursi sendiri ya, soalnya pasti bakal padat penduduk. 

Sebenernya ini mau bahas mie ayam apa museum sih. Haha, oke, karena terlanjur nganggur, kami-pun berangkat juga menuju tempat yang dituju *kebiasaan mbulet*. Kami berangkat dari kampus sekitar pukul setengah dua belas, dan panasnya berkibar di udara. Ternyata, setelah sampai lokasi, museum-nya tutup karena istirahat Soljum alias Sholat Jum'at. Bukan museum-nya yang Soljum, tapi staf-nya. Akhirnya kami kembali nganggur kayak kapstok kumbahan. Kami malah ngobrol kesana kemari sambil lompat-lompat, push up, nari remo, main lompat tali, nanem jagung, pokoknya segala macam aktivitas. Saat itu kebetulan yang berkunjung hanya kami dan beberapa butir anak-anak. Tiket masuknya lebih murah daripada karcis parkir di jobfair *eh*, cukup Rp 1500 saja. 

Ada banyak hal yang mungkin di masa modern ini, kita belum kepikiran gimana ya masyakarat Indonesia dulu bisa bertahan dengan masalah kesehatan. Di sini ada banyak pengetahuan tentang pengobatan alternatif  serta alat-alatnya yang sering ditempuh oleh masyarakat dulu, khususnya di Jawa. Jangankan dulu, sekarang saja masih banyak masyarakat yang masih percaya dengan hal-hal berbau klenik. Di museum ini dijelaskan juga beserta benda-benda yang dimaksud, mulai dari alat persantet-an, boneka jelangkung, alat-alat sangkal putung (yang biasa mengobati orang-orang yang retak atau patah tulang hanya dengan dipijit), obat-obat herbal, serta alat-alat kesehatan lainnya. Selain yang tradisional, disini juga dipajang berbagai macam alat kesehatan yang digunakan pada zaman kolonial. Di bagian ini, masyarakat mulai tersentuh teknologi kesehatan yang mutakhir pada era-nya. Disini dipajang kursi melahirkan, kursi yang di dokter gigi tapi jaman dulu, alat memeriksa mata, dan lain sebagainya. Bahkan ada juga kursi roda jaman dulu yang menurut saya, itu horor banget. Banyak banget hal yang bisa dilihat disini dan bisa bikin kita berpikir "wow, ternyata gitu ya". Untuk melihat yang wow wow lainnya serta lebih lengkapnya, silakan datang kalau lagi nganggur kayak kami, hehehe. Intinya sih, kita bisa melihat transformasi dunia medis yang terjadi di tempat kita berdiri sekarang *bahasanya*. 

oke fotonya kurang kesehatan banget, hehehe. maaf ya kalo diambil dari camera 360 :D

turn table jaman bien
botol scotch jaman bien dan super gede lebih gede dari botol kecap *Duh*

Tempat ini juga cocok buat yang suka menjelajahi tempat nan seram. Selanjutnya adalah pengalaman seram kami. Ketika memasuki ruangan besar yang berisi mesin-mesin besar alat kesehatan, saya sempat tertarik dengan salah satu benda yang ada disana. Intinya, bikin saya berpikir, kok ada benda ini di sini ya. Meskipun kalian nggak punya kelebihan untuk melihat benda halus yang imut dan bersahaja *duh*, mungkin kalian bisa merasakan sesuatu. Kalau saya sih merasa, meskipun cuma perasaan kurang nyaman. Ada banyak kejutan-kejutan yang bisa kalian temukan seiring dengan semakin kalian masuk ke dalam ruangan yang lebih sempit apalagi nanti kalian bisa menemukan sebuah ruangan bertuliskan "Ruang Dunia Lain" yang ternyata nggak ada hubungannya dengan acara dunia lain, tapi konten-nya sih sama *aduh*. Awalnya saya juga cuma menepis perasaan ndak enak itu karena mungkin saya merasa agak parno dengan benda-benda lawas atau gimana. Tapi setelah ketemu mas-mas penjaga museum, teman saya Putri nanya dan saya hanya mepet di salah satu lemari sambil garuk-garuk karena mas tersebut menceritakan hal yang sungguh kemistis mengenai tempat tersebut. Lebih jelasnya, kalau kalian berkunjung ke sana dan menemui ada staf-nya mas-mas yang masih muda, coba iseng-iseng tanya deh tentang hal-hal yang mengganjal selama berwisata melihat benda-benda lawas nan epik ini. 

Ada satu hal lagi yang mengganjal di pikiran kami saat itu, dan kami sempat memperbincangkan. Di museum ini bukan hanya kesehatan yang bersifat umum saja yang dipajang, namun juga yang berhubungan dengan penyakit kelamin. Saat itu, Romce teman kami tertarik dengan sebuah album tua yang sengaja dipajang di atas meja. Karena isinya benar-benar foto lawas hitam putih, dia nggak berani. Kami-pun melihat bersama. Ternyata isinya adalah foto-foto ya tentang penyakit kelamin. Sayangnya, foto-foto itu tidak diisi dengan keterangan yang jelas tentang jenis penyakit kelamin apakah itu. Sebenarnya informasi itu perlu sih sebagai trivia. Selain itu juga dipajang beberapa alat-alat yang digunakan masturbasi pada zaman dulu, baik untuk pria maupun wanita. Nah, mengapa kami pikir museum ini butuh staf untuk mengawasi atau sekedar memberikan informasi kecil. Saat itu kami datang bersama anak-anak kecil, nggak kebayang aja bagaimana kalau mereka melihat hal-hal tadi. Untungnya, mereka pada saat itu tidak melihat keberadaan benda-benda yang dewasa itu. Sedangkan kalau ada staf yang menjaga, mereka bisa mengalihkan. Nggak harus stand by sih, cuma kalau ada anak kecil aja. 'Kan kasian, belum wayahnya. Yaudah, sekian dulu sist jalan-jalannya, akhirnya kami kembali ke kampus.

berkunjung bersama anak sekitar

amilia romce meratap
sepeda ini gede abis
personil hari ini di depan auditorium fib, menjelang halal-bihalal edsa

6.7.13

Taman Kota

It is more natural to me, lying down.
Then the sky and I are in open conversation,
And I shall be useful when I lie down finally:
The the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me.” ― Sylvia Plath
Taman kota itu selalu menyenangkan. Setidaknya itu yang kami rasakan sore itu. Rekreasi kecil di tengah hiruk pikuk selesainya deadline skripsi dan sidang yang akan menjelang. Sore itu 1 Juli, mendung tengah bergantungan dan asyik masyuk memeluk Surabaya. Niatannya sore itu bersama Puspitje akan ngurus SIM dia di Taman Bungkul. Akhirnya, setelah itu kami jalan-jalan berkeliling taman sekalian menghirup udara yang menyegarkan. To be honest, banyak orang yang bilang "Taman kota itu identik banget sama orang pacaran yang mesum gitu". Pacaran itu lebih syahdu memang sambil menikmati pepohonan, di taman, suasana tenang, tapi sayangnya imej pacaran jadi ternodai oleh para mesyum-ers taman kota. Padahal kalau nonton adegan Tom Hansen sama Summer Finn yang pacaran di taman nggelar tiker pandan kayaknya asik-asik aja, mihihi. Intinya, ruang publik ini sangat berfaedah dalam agenda asmara, namun jika bertindak sewajarnya ya ses! #tips :))

Nature is the best artwork in the universe! God is awesome, super awesome!
Taman kota mungkin miniatur alam yang bisa dinikmati di kota secara gratis. Bagian terkecil alam di dalamnya, menyembuhkan jiwa-jiwa yang terluka, ternoda, terabaikan, ter-dzolimi, terhina, tercampakkan, terdustai. Mungkin aku adalah salah satu orang yang percaya tentang kekuatan alam, pohon-pohon, rumput, langit biru, bahagialah hidup di tempat se-hijau ini. Setidaknya masih ada tempat untuk berteduh di kota ini.

Mohon maaf pamer foto dulu, biar kayak remaja masa kini. :D
setelah dimarahin satpam setempat akibat bermain-main di ayunan anak-anak. ampun cint!
duduk di bangku taman yang bimbang, satu orang kegedean dua orang kesempitan.