Posts Tagged ‘ west java ’

Re-appreciate Jaipong Dance

August 12, 2010
By Rie Yanti
Re-appreciate Jaipong Dance

When I was a child, I desired to learn pendet, a dance from Bali. I liked the dancers’ eyes. They open wide and wild. It is very different with a dance from my region, jaipong. This dance looks bored, old-fashioned, hick, and the dancers sometimes has to do some movement with her hip or...
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Bandung Has Lansia Park Too

June 28, 2010
By Rie Yanti
Bandung Has Lansia Park Too

Visiting Geology Museum and Indonesian Postal Museum was exhausting enough. So I took a rest for a while. From the right yard of Gedung Sate, I crossed Cilaki Street and entered the Lansia Park, still in Bandung.
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Someone Has to Get Maluku Park Clean

June 9, 2010
By Rie Yanti
Someone Has to Get Maluku Park Clean

Last Sunday, I went to Tobucil with my friend. Before, we had some kind of business in Riau Street. Then, we went to Aceh Street on foot. We passed Maluku Park. My friend said that this place looked spooky. She is right. That is how I felt when I once visited this park before.
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Hurry at Indonesian Postal Museum

May 21, 2010
By Rie Yanti
Hurry at Indonesian Postal Museum

Gedung Sate is the icon of Bandung, we all know that. This building is the central government of West Java. If you go to Bandung without visiting Gedung Sate, it is same as go to Paris without visiting Eiffel Tower.
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Noon at the Geology Museum

May 3, 2010
By Rie Yanti
Noon at the Geology Museum

I had a business at Dipati Ukur Street that morning. I guessed it would take hours. But I was wrong. It was still 10 a.m. when I finished it. I had no plan to travel in Bandung. But I was near Gasibu, Gedung Sate, and Geology Museum. Why didn’t I visit the museum at...
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