During Ramadhan, relatively many more prayers come to the “Subuh Jamaah” (early morning prayers) in the mosque. Ramadhan actually teaches us that if we have the will, we can start the good habits and leave the bad one. One may wonder, if we can go to mosque everyday in Ramadhan, why can’t we do this…
Category: Snapshots of Indonesia
Inside Metromini – Jakarta Metro Bus
Metromini, the orange bus, is notorious in Jakarta. Most of its drivers do not follow road codes, they can speed and stop instantly with very short notice. They will continously overtake the other Metromini in the same route, as if the next passenger is their finish line. Riding inside the bus can grow from thrilling…
First Tarawih is Always Packed
As in previous years, the first Shalat Tarawih always draw the most crowd. The over-capacity crowd often spill over outside the mosque area, as what happened to me and Rafif tonight 🙂
And then… I took the Paper & Pencil Test :)
The waste of high-tech facility was confirmed. I was asked to do the paper & pencil test. When I asked why don’t we use the computer-based instead, the answer was “it is faster and easier” using the traditional method. You can guess what it means. 🙂 The test itself is very passable. Some of the…
Computer-based Driving License Test Room
I’m in ‘Kantor Pengurusan SIM Polda Metro Jaya Daan Mogot’ again! I can’t believe myself, for the past 1 month, I visited this place 3 times. First for replacement of my car driving license, second for my car insurance purpose, and today, for my motorcycle driving license. To get driving license in Indonesia, you should…