Scarlet Letter

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Saturday, November 25, 2006

Aneh tapi Langka :D

Chatting Jadi Penyebab Utama Perceraian di Saudi

Angka perceraian di Arab Saudi termasuk tertinggi di dunia Arab, mencapai 20-22 persen dari angka pernikahan. Dengan kata lain, 20-22 persen dari pernikahan berakhir dengan talak.
Kutipan hasil penelitian terbaru Putri Dr Jauharah binti Fahd bin Al-Saud, yang disiarkan sejumlah media setempat, Selasa, menyebutkan bahwa al-dardashah alias chatting (mengobrol via internet) sebagai penyebab urutan pertama.
Hasil penelitian wanita peneliti dari keluarga kerajaan itu menyebutkan bahwa 57,2 persen dari duda cerai dan 63 persen dari janda cerai mengakui bahwa chatting di alam maya sebagai penyebab keretakan rumah tangga, yang berahir dengan perceraian.
Dalam penelitian bertajuk "Saudi, Internet Penyebab Perceraian" itu disebutkan juga bahwa ibukota Riyadh berada di urutan teratas untuk angka perceraian. Bahkan, 42,6 persen dari perceraian di kota itu terjadi pada pasangan suami-istri belum genap setahun menikah. [TMA, Ant] (dikutip dari Majalahnya Contong lanang heuheuheu)

Saturday, November 11, 2006

For Whom The Bell Tolls

This phrase lately so often glimpsed in my head.. then I started to picking up by pieces all puzzles about this phrase just to feed my curiousity and satisfaction.

It was the famous line from a metaphysical poem by John Donne (1572-1631), "Meditation XVII":

No man is an island, entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.

My additional information : This phrase basically means 'for whom the bell rings' but generally in a church because the word 'toll' implies that the bell is large and making a louder sound than a smaller bell ringing

In Europe, they used to ring a bell to announce a death. So the point of the line was, don't look around wondering whose death the bell is signalling; we are all going to die, including you.

Donne lived in Tudor and Stewart England, and at that time the tolling of church bells, to mark various events, was an important feature of daily life.

When Donne writes of the tolling bell, he is, of course, speaking of the funeral bell. It was traditionally rung three times for a man and two times for a woman followed by a pause and then a toll for every year of age for the deceased.

At 1940 the phrase taken by Ernest Hemingway for his novel´s tittle, It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains during the Spanish Civil War. As an expert in the use of explosives, he is given an assignment to blow up a bridge to accompany a simultaneous attack on the city of Segovia

In 1943 a film based on the Ernest Hemingway´s novel made. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou. Directed by Sam Wood. Great attention to detail in keeping with the accurate depiction and the novel's successful translation to film was aided by Hemingway himself, who was present on the set during filming.

For Whom the Bell Tolls" also taken for the first single from the Bee Gees, album Size Isn't Everything. It peaked at #4 on the UK Charts. Composed by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb.

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" a song by Metallica released 1984, the third track from their second album Ride the Lightning. The song is about a section of the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, where five republican soldiers of the Spanish Civil War attempt to escape the fascists with their stolen horses and are killed by enemy aircraft on a hill on which they were surrounded.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Muaaalleesss


Duh...males banget mo posting laporan pandangan mata liburan gue. Gara2 sms yg datang ditengah2 liburan, boro2 mo mikir nerusin jalan2 kemana2 lagi.

Mana kaga bawa laptop, desperate banget. Pengen ngintip status di account dia :D apa kah sudah.....

Eniwe, ada perasaan haru juga, nengokin kota dimana gue sempet bbrp saat tinggal. Setelah ampir 2 th, ketemu lagi temen2 baek yg mpe skrg tetep kontak, jenguk sodara yg selama gue disana takut gue numpang ahahahha, nemuin suster2 dan dokter waktu gue dirawat di Rumah Sakit sebulan penuh. Skalian liat Rumah Sakit tempat gue dirawat yg udah di ratain ama tanah buat perumahan huhuhuhu, ngintip Rumah sakit baru yg gue sempet rasain juga, lewatin kampus gue yg gue ga sempet kelarin skolah kburu DO heuheuhu.

Nyesel jg kenapa cuman bentar, hanya karena gue males ngurus perpanjangan visa gue buat kesana, padahal sehari kelar grrrhh...keburu ngejar masuk skola lagi yg molai tanggal 6 kemaren, ini gara2 nunda2 dan mualeess.

Mudah2an ga males utk posting jajanan kesayangan gue disana, keburu gue santap habis dan ga sempet gue poto. Penyakit lama......suka nunda dan muaaaleeesss.