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So far, COVID-19 is found not airborne. But, it is aerosol. It means it can attach itself on small particles on air. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v1.full.pdf It seems the only solution for this virus spread is to not touch your face. You don't know what your hands been touching. COVID-19 may survived on surfaces in varied time. Far more than that, we are suggested to create social distancing. Avoid the masses! This is important as there are people that still ignorance about the danger. Like that one church in South Korea, religious people may have the best ignorance and hoax eater . Indonesia may have the wise decision. Backed by major religious organisations, we put all of the masses on-hold. This Friday the mosques are empty. Amazing how they, the Moslem, can come up with relevant Koran scriptures and Hadits to backup that. The Hindu also preparing their holy ground for Day of Silence by prohibiting people to come. Some Christian churches ma...

Covid-19

There is a new variant of Corona virus called Covid-19. This time it beats every Corona virus that already exist, e.g. Influenza, Ebola, Sara and Mers combined in fame. Everyone in all countries panicked. In Indonesia, panic buying made mask and hand sanitizer gone. Some food ingredients gone or have skyrocketed price. Now on every building in Jakarta, the security also check the body temperature of each person that goes in. People also used mask everywhere. Which according to Singapore's spokeperson not necessary. You put mask if you are sick. The sad thing is, people started prejudice against Chinese person. This is because the epidemic was discovered from Wuhan, China. Blah! When SARS showed up, people just chill. I mean, at the time, many chicken farmers burned their chicken. It was more impactful and more dangerous than Covid-19, but we chilled. Why aren't we now? From the statistics, Covid-19 would probably killed most whom at the age of 50 or more. And ...

Jakarta Flood

This is a picture of Cikampek highway on Tuesday. The picture taken from elevated road that leads to Kalimalang road. The part flooded with water is entry point to enter the highway. It usually never flood. This year, however, we have several flood incidents. Which is weird! We usually have 5 years cycle of great flood. Once every 5 years there would be a big flood. What makes this year special is we got great flood more than once. Usually, we got a big flood once and that's it. Now, however, every heavy rain guarantee flood will happen. The biggest hit were on Bekasi, Jakarta's neighbor. My friend got his car flooded up to the roof. His neighbors also got the same. They were unprepared.  Their area never have flood before. It seems something change. There were constructions everywhere. This makes some water flows stopped. The epic thing is there are cases of elite housing made their neighbors getting flooded. It seems the developer didn't build the necessar...

Laugh at Misser

Believe it or not, we are more desensitized by the Internet. We can now laugh at dark jokes. Jokes that would be inappropriate in real life. We can now laugh at these bad days. However, can this made us psychopathic? Thank God, we still disconnect from Internet. We still feel that Internet is a simulacrum. We can differentiate which is in the Net and which on the real life. We can joke about it anonymously on the Internet while behave on the real life. We still have generations of people that older and have traditional value over these wacky Internet culture. At least, we would be warned if we leak some of the Internet culture. But, what about the generation after us? The one that grew up with the Internet? The one that spend most of their time in the Net? We might think the real world is different because our conscious is not integrated with the Internet. At least, we grew up in an offline world. We still have moral compass taught from real interaction and tra...

Praise and Worship Songs

As a Pentecost, I get a lot of critics from many preachers about how we sing our songs. These people, usually Lutheran people, criticising us for using contemporary band in our place of worship. They said, our worship is not legit. It is only for entertainment only, not worship. For background, in Christian Contemporary Music (CCM) music, we usually have bands and one singer as a Worship Leader. This singer have the most voice out of all. Plus, the lights, the environment and the big projector making the church looks like a concert. What's wrong with the concert look? What's so sacred about a liturgy? It isn't in the Bible. I mean, if you want to stick with the correct liturgy, then you should follow Didache . That's the authoritative source for the liturgy. It is a book straight from the Apostle's era. I don't see any of those protester using that. If we look into the Moses time, the Israelite worship God with dancing and singing. In that time, God didn...

New Ministries under Jokowi 2nd Election

Jokowi already made new team to lead Indonesia. So many surprise. Lol. The big surprise is Wiranto no longer in the Coordinator of Politics, Law and Human Right Ministry. After his stunt of getting stab and exagerated the story, nothing happened. I'm not against him or anything, but I hate many sources tell different stories about that. Like many, I'm doubting that incident as staged. Meh... I don't dwell too much into that. I think the new law about KPK (an adhoc departement specialize to combat corruption) is what we need to get attention. The revision of KUHP (a Napolean law that still used in Indonesia since Dutch-Hindi age) that contains so many flaw and rubber. I don't like that Yasonna being a Law and Human Rights minister again. It seems Jokowi don't listen to the recent student protests?   May be some political deals happens behind the public. I don't know! I'm just glad that Mahfud MD kicking Wiranto out of office. I hope he as the former...

Free Speech

This site is not dead yet. But, I'm more hesitant to talk and publish the entries. Indonesia is more sensitive than before. I see sometimes gives "you-know-who" info that obfuscated to the public. I don't want to start a polemic. Jokowi was elected as a president without any back up from any senior parties. He is like a startup company disrupting status quo. This also comes with a price, he have a weak leg in Indonesian politics. Sadly, because of that, he comes to the Generals. Thus, you see names of former-military heads on his cabinets. More over, his former-military ministries had red mark some Human Right issues list. Hmm... may be. I'll just write spiritual messages? Lol.