BALI

Post pertama di tahun ini adalah tentang Bali. Suatu tempat yang udah gue anggep surga - ya, ini kedengerannya lebai- di bumi. Bali aja gua anggep surga, apalagi kalau ke Maldives ya, gatau deh bakal disebut apa sangking bagusnya. Jadi begini, ada beberapa alasan kenapa gue begitu cinta sama Bali. 

1.Gue mengibaratkan Bali itu kayak yin dan yang, mendekati sempurna karena keseimbangannya. Contoh sederhana, lo bisa dugem sampai mau mati, sampai pagi di Bali. Mau di Ku(de)ta, Hu’u Bar, Rock Bar, atau Musro Bali, tempat dugem di Bali gak akan ada matinya. Setelah dugem, lo bisa bangun siang dan yoga atau meditasi sampai sore lagi. Jadi kayak khilaf, tobat. Suasana Bali-lah yang cocok buat ngelakuin dua hal yang kontras itu; pesta dan meditasi. Inilah yang menurut gue keren #penting

2.Keindahan alam Bali gak perlu lah ya diragukan lagi. Banyak banget tempat di Bali yang perlu dijelajahi; dari Gunung Batur, trekking di hutan di Bedugul, night trekking, rafting di banyak sungai (bahkan ada banyak jenis rafting, dari yang santai sampai yang susah), jalan-jalan di hutan bakau Ngurah Rai, sepedaan santai di Ubud, diving dan snorkeling di pantai (gak usah juga ya, disebutin pantainya satu-satu), sampai ATV riding. Keren banget deh!

3.Kesenian Bali juga bisa dibilang luar binasa. Tahu kain tenun Bali? Seni ukirnya? Pembuat topengnya yang oke? Seni lukisnya? Seni tari dan musik mereka?? Cuma satu kata yang bisa menggambarkan semua itu; eksotis. Kalo perlu di bold dan di italic lah ya, eksoteess.

4.Jangan lupa juga akan sisi mistis Bali. Gue ngebet banget pengen ke kuburan di Trunyan (sayangnya untuk ke situ harus naik perahu karena letaknya di tengah danau, dan orang-orang Bali yang menyebrangkan orang-orang itu terkenal akan ketidakramahannya, yah, intinya resek lah mereka) terus nonton kecak di Uluwatu (gue gak nonton karena di Uluwatu situ banyak monyet yang terkenal agresif, dan adik gue yang rese itu takut monyet, ya begitulah..), masuk ke pura di Tanah Lot (gue berhalangan masuk karena siklus bulanan) yang ada ular putihnya, terus nonton upacara pemanggilan roh yang syaratnya adalah gak boleh meninggalkan tempat itu dari awal sampai akhir acara kalau gak mau diikuti rohnya. Mistis banget ya sodara sodari. Cool abis.

5.Woh, tempat makan di Bali gak boleh ketinggalan! Mau warung pinggir jalan sampai restoran fine dinning yang jual gado-gado seharga 60 ribu juga ada. Masakan Bali, Indonesia, Italia, Perancis, international food lainnya, tinggal pilih! :9

6.Banyak hotel dan villa yang super keren di Bali. Sumpah. Kalo uang lo pada cukup, silakan coba nginep di Bvlgari Bali, semalam disitu bisa sampai puluhan juta. Seriously. Atau coba cari villa yang keren kayak yang ditinggalin Julia Roberts di film Eat, Pray, Love. Gue ngebayanginnya aja bisa senyum-senyum sendiri hahaha

7.Bali adalah tempat belanja!! Yok ke Pasar Ubud dan Sukawati atau ke Rock Shop di depan Hard Rock Hotel. Atau belanja ke RipCurl, Surfer Girl, atau Billabong. Jangan lupa juga ke Erlangga 1 atau 2 buat cari oleh-oleh murah khas Bali, kayak baju barong atau baju bambu, dan disana banyak jepit, gelang, celana, baju batik, bahkan sabun dan minyak aromaterapi. Pabrik kata-kata Joger juga gak boleh ketinggalan! Hati-hati copet ya di Joger soalnya disitu ramai banget. Terus ada juga tempat beli kain Bali yang tipis-tipis buat selimut dan ada juga yang jual kain buat dibikin jadi rok atau baju. Bali adalah surga belanja!

Inilah alasan-alasan mengapa gue yang mencintai Bali hoho jadi yang mau ke Bali mana suaranyaaa??!

i'm a fanatic of angel and wings. yeah, i do believe in guardian angel. i imagine angel as a child with no gender, no emotions, as i read jostein gaarder's book about ariel-the angel and a children (i forgot actually, who write this book) after all, i also imagine angels as tall, masculine and also feminine in the same time, with bright eyes and calm voice. this is some picts, wings accecories and arts. really cool. 

hope i  can have wings like this girl. 

ini pidato yang gue bikin sekilat 3 atau 4 hari *karena faktor ulangan yang bejibun setiap harinya* sebelum deadline. dengan bantuan Rome dan Chiara di malam sebelum deadline, akhirnya pidato ini jadi juga. thanks a lot to them. meski akhirnya gak kepilih *pasti ada rasa kecewa lah, kalo gak sih boong banget* tapi terus oke-oke aja sih. secara temen sekelas gue yang kepilih ngewakilin sekolah emang fasih banget ngomong inggrisnya, dan dia udah bener-bener prepare alias niat banget bikin pidatonya; sementara gue baru bikin di saat-saat terakhir, dia udah selesai dari kapan tau. hahaha good luck for her! semoga dia bisa ketemu dan wawancara Al Gore *aaaa keren banget* 
well, happy reading! 

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Hello, I am Natasha Feliciana, I’m 16 and I’m here to talk about my future. Just like what Severn Suzuki said in 1992, I am fighting for my future. I have no organization nor I don’t do any campaign for any organization. But with my friend Chiara Anindya, I made blogs about environmental also social facts and issues. I’m also againts bullying, abortion, and sexual abuse.  The reason why I’m speaking now is that I want to talk about our world, all biotics and abiotics  components.

It pains me when I saw many forests were cut down, changed into soybean fields for domestical animal food in Europe. We need chickens and cows,  to be given  soybeans  so they can produce meat. To get more meat, we have to destroy forests. Don’t we have enough meat to eat? Do we have to sacrifice oxygen just to satisfy our gluttony for just a few hours? Some countries have more than enough food to eat and in the same time other countries don’t have any food, so why we don’t share it with them?  I also realise that we have to cut many trees to publish books. I’m glad some authors prefer the recycled paper for their books.

Another ironic facts, is that, now people use mostly any animals are culinary. In China, monkeys are hunted, and have their heads cut off, so that people could eat their brains. Sharks and sea turtles are now hunted too, so that people could make soup from their fins. Even some people eat dogs. Don’t you ever think that this is a selfish, mindless act? Why would people taste animals that normally shouldn’t be eaten? For a new taste? For sensation? I say, it’s more like an animal torture.

My heart bleeds when I saw in a documentary film,  there’s a sea of plastic near Hawaii. Even the smallest part of the ocean is plastic. How could sea craetures live, when they can’t get enough oxygen to breath and eat plastic to exist? Plastic is also the reason why many sea turtles and albatrosses died few years ago. The sea turtles have been mistaken the plastic as sea weeds and kelps. Their stomachs will be filled up with plastics and they will die of dehydration and starvation. Soon, many animals will be extinct if we still keep throwing plastic everywhere.

When I’m about six or seven years old, everytime I go to school and see beautiful sunrise from my house. Now, every time I go to school and I rarely see the same sunrise. The sky is almost grey everyday, full of chemical dusts and smokes. Now I could barely breathe freely and get many oxygen; I take more carbondioxide  than oxygen. This is because there’s only a few trees and vehicles everywhere, producing  carbondioxides.

I keep this questions in my mind.

How do we inspire people to save the world?

How can we make people forget about their ego for a while and think about the earth?

Can we innovate something that can make an alternative to the chemical industries?

What can I say to my children when there’s no more animal to see?

I want my children to grow up happily and have no worries about their children’s future.

I don’t want my children to stand out and speak to save their environment. Because if they’re doing that, it means that their nature has been broken.

I want to see my children and all the people in the world live in a better condition.

We never stop learning. When we were babies, we started to crawl. Then we begin to walk. When we’re older, we ran. Have your parents teach you how to stop? No. We keep moving all the time yet we forget to stop. Now we have to, because we don’t know how to make a better world for everyone; for our family, children and grand children, for the one we love. If we can’t, then we must stop destroying this world we are living now.

During Earth Hour 2011, millions of people turned off the lights for an hour to save energy. “Turn off the light, turn on the future.” It’s the most successfull climate change initiatives, and show us what can be achieved when people unite with a common purpose and rally to action. I read that in The Student Globe newspaper.

It’s never too late to change. We already destroyed things too much. We already polluted our enviroment a lot. But no matter what’s your religion, skin color, culture, where do you live, or what is your language, we could put those differences aside and unite together. We’re all in this mess together, we have to fix it up together. We live in this only one Earth, breathe the same air, and get warm by the same sun. I dare all of us to stop breaking our nature.

I’m just a teenager with a dream that someday, people will have no fear about the future. I may not change the world, but I hope I can help you use your imagination. Use our briliant brain that has given to us to think about the solution of this problem together. Imagine if the money that has been corrupted by our government is used to help the needy, and used to protect forests and seas. To protect the environment. There will be no hunger,there will be no illegal logging  and there will be peace on Earth. No violence to human, animals, plants.

Well, it’s our time to make a move to stop. We need to prove that we can change by act now. Let us start to change words and toughts into real action. Thank you for your attention.