Rabu, 30 November 2016

Gate of Boarding in the Istanbul Ataturk Airport

Nowadays screen monitor are available for the passenger in the airport, it shows many information, some of it displays about the flight and boarding information. Boarding gate information sometimes available in less then one hours before boarding time:

Boarding Gate Information for the Flight

Big Screen shows "Wait for Gate"

For a big Airport that has so many flight in it, organize the gate is not an easy job, there are so many gate and so many flight, and off course so many passenger and workers that should be managed nicely.....Have a nice flight.........

Direction Sign in the Airport



Selasa, 29 November 2016

Allianz Arena in Autumn

Here view of Alianz Arena in Autumn (end November 2016), the trees around the stadium is falling to the ground:

Allianz Arena in Autumn

Alianz Arena is not a strange name for you that like football very much, it's the place where Bayern Munchen Football team headquaters, off course as it named, it located in the Munchen or Munich city - Germany.

I took the picture from the train from the Marienplatz (St. Peter) train station to Garching Forschungszentrum train station.

inside the train in Munich

inside the train in Munich

Senin, 28 November 2016

Mosque at Istanbul Ataturk Airport

We can find Mosque at Istanbul Ataturk Airport, here are some picture of the mosque:

Ablution Places

Ablution places is located out side the Mosque, there are two places, one for Men and one for Women.

Inside the Mosque

Mosque Location

Mosque for Man and Women are separated nearby.

Mosque Sign

Mosque Sign

Comming in the winter, in month of November, in the earliy morning, around 4 a.m. I have to wait the dawn time coming at about 5:40 in the morning. The mosque is convenient, some people pray, read Koran or Sleeping inside the Mosque.

Minggu, 27 November 2016

Facing Direction - Google Maps

Seeing  Google Maps in my smartphone today, I just realized that google has added new features on the google maps, by using GPS and Compass, Google Maps shows smartphone direction:

Facing North (smartphone)

Facing South (smartphone)

It would be very helpful when we are in new places and we confuse about direction, we do not need to see compass and maps, we just need the map.

Sabtu, 26 November 2016

Google Exchange Rate

Google exchange rate is provided by google, I prefer use the rate from google when I exchange my money to another currency, especially with my friends. Because as we know the rate is better than in the "money changer", some time for rare currency the difference is a lot. for example for my country currency Indonesian Rupiah (IDR).

exchange rate euro to rupiah
Exchange Rate Euro (EUR) to Indonesia Rupiah (IDR)

exchange rate us dollar to euro
Exchange Rate US Dollar (USD) to Euro (EUR)

when you exchange money between rare money in "money changer" usually is better to exhange them first to US Dollar (USD) or Euro (EUR) or another most used global currency. it would be very different with Google exchange rate. for example Korean Won (KRW) to Indonesian Rupiah (IDR), Korean Won (KRW) to  Philippine Peso (PHP).

exchange rate korean won to indonesian rupiah
Korean Won (KRW) to Indonesian Rupiah (IDR)



Jumat, 25 November 2016

Offline Maps (Google Maps vs Maps.me)

When traveling, especially in another country, we will find difficulties to get internet connection. If we lucky, we will get free wifi. Using international roaming for internet connection will be very costly. for that reason I prefer to use offline maps, because for a new people in new place maps will be very helpfull. I like to use Google Maps Offline and Maps.me on my smartphone (Android). which one is better?

Google Maps

Google Maps is very common maps that most people use it.

Google Maps  -  Munich Germany.



we can download this map for offline use. chose Offline areas in the Google Maps Menu, the bad things about this offline maps is not all areas is available (permitted) to be download, for example some area in south korea.

Download offline maps in Google Maps


MAPS.ME

Another my favorite offline maps is Maps.me, we can download it in the Google Play.

Maps.me

we can chose area (city/country) that we want to download, for example Germany.

Germany offline Maps

We will need 2.5 GB disk space to donwload all of Germany Maps, if we have limited space on our smartphone, we can choose which region (town) that we can donwload:

Germany Area in Offline Map (Maps.me)

Some time the detail maps (Maps.me) is not as good as in the Google Maps.


Kamis, 24 November 2016

From Munich International Airport to Garching

This November (2016) may be the first time I will come to Munich-Germany, In the cold weather as predicted:

Munchen Temperature at End November

Loking at the Google Maps, I plan to go by train. Google Maps recomend me to go to Marienplatz (St. Peter) train station and change another train to Garching Forschungszentrum train station.

Train route from Munchen International Airport to Garching Forschungszentrum.

This Train route may be little bit funny, I will go to south (long way), after that I will go to north again. I we want to go directly may be we can chose Taxi or Uber Car.

Another Alternatives Train then Bus


Rabu, 23 November 2016

Playing for Childreen

Playing is the most influential factor in the development period of the child, including the physical , social, and communication.
Childreen Play Ground

Playing activities affect six aspects of child development: 


  1. aspects of cognition
  2. social
  3. emotional
  4. communication
  5. self-awareness
  6. motor skills 

Playing is an activity that is essential for the growth and development of children. Play should be done with a sense of fun, so all fun play activities that will generate the learning process for children.
Play will affect the development of children through three ways  that play can create a potential ability of children to the ability of real-time, facilitating separation (separation) thoughts of objects and actions, and develop self-control.

Goal play from the aspect of development can be optimized

A. Playing for the Development of the Child Cognition.


  1. Playing helps children to build concepts and knowledge;  Children do not build a concept or knowledge in conditions of isolation, but through interaction with others 
  2. Play helps children develop the ability to think abstractly;  This process occurs when children play roles and pretend play.Explains that children actually do not think abstractly. Meaning and the objects they blend into one. When children play phone, children learn how to understand another person's perspective, finding strategies to play with other people and solve problems.
  3. Play encourages children to think creatively; Playing supporting the growth of the creative mind, because in the play children choose activities they enjoy learning to make the identification of many things, learn to enjoy the process of an activity, learn to control themselves and learn to recognize the social meaning and existence among peers.

B. Playing for Social-Emotional Development


  1. Play helps children develop the ability to organize and solve problems. Children who play have to think about how to organize the material in accordance with the purpose of their play. Children who play "doctor". For example, should think where the doctor's office, what is used as a stethoscope child will also think about the task of the doctor and consider certain material, such as color, size, and shape to fit the characteristics of the doctor. During play, children discover new experiences, manipulation of objects and tools, interact with other children, and began compiling knowledge about the world.
  2. Playing increase the social competence of children;  playing supporting the development of socialization, such as social interaction, cooperation, resource saving and caring terhdap others.
  3. Playing helps children to express and reduce fear; A study reported their reaction after watching a group of children in a playground accident and described how the pressure vent through play, Children in different groups, but each group expressed their fears and try to free through the game "hospital" or other games that tell people in pain.

C. Playing for Motor Development


  1. Playing helps children to control motor movement children. Through play, can control the motor. At the time of play that they can practice all gross motor movements such as running, jumping, jumping. Children are encouraged to lifting, carrying, running or jumping, turning, and turning response to rhythm.
  2. Play helps children master fine motor skills. Through play children can practice their motor skills such as sewing, arranging puzzle, nailing nails into boards, paint.

D. Playing for the Development of Language / Communication.


  1. Playing helps children improve communication skills. Play provides space and time for children to interact with others, they talk to each other, opinions, negotiate and find a middle ground for any issues that arise. Even more so in playing a role has a huge benefit especially to support children's language development and language. Even playing the role has a large contribution to the development of cognitive, emotional, and social development.
  2. Play provides a safe context and motivate children to learn a second language. Play also provides a safe context and motivating children to learn a second language, because at the time of play, children practice the splinters of another language, such as "Hello, how are you? (Hello, how are you) "Therefore splinters language giving effect pride, children are more motivated to add the second language vocabulary.

Selasa, 22 November 2016

Indonesia Tropical Country (Rainy & Dry Season)

Climate is the average weather conditions for an annual basis which includes a relatively wide area. the climate in Indonesia is tropical climate, climate of a place known from the data on average annual weather such as humidity, temperature, wind and precipitation patterns for a minimum of 10-30 years.
Cloudy Sky of Jakarta - Indonesia in November (Rainy Season)

Besides the weather (relationship of cloud and weather), another indication that can be used to determine the type of climate in the region is the natural vegetation or plants that dominate an area, for example tropical rain forest. Outline of the climate in one place can be formed because of the two things that affect, namely:

  1. Earth's rotation and revolution
  2. Differences in geographical latitude and differences in the physical environment.

Tropical Climate 

Tropical can be defined as an area that lies between the lines isotherm in the northern hemisphere and the south, or areas that are at 23.5 ° north latitude and 23.5 ° latitude south. Basically regions including tropical climate can be divided into tropical dry covering the steppe (read: biome steppe), savanna dry (read: the characteristics of savanna, biome savannah), and desert (read: biome desert) and the humid tropics which include rainforest (read: the tropical rain forest biome, the uniqueness of the tropical rain forests), regions with a wet season and moist savanna.

Indonesia is included in the wet tropical climate or warm humid areas characterized by:


  1. The humidity is relatively high (generally above 90%)
  2. Rainfall is high 
  3. The annual temperature above 18 ° C (and can reach 38 ° C in the dry season).
  4. The difference between seasons is not very visible, except for a period of little rain and more rain accompanied by strong winds

Indonesia has Wet Tropical Climate 

Indonesia is also located at the equator has a tropical climate, specifically a tropical wet climate. It is also influenced by the shape of the state of Indonesia as archipelagic country. Most of the mainland in Indonesia is surrounded by seas and oceans. That is why Indonesia has a marine climate that are moist and bring a lot of rain.

There are several factors that influence the formation of tropical climate in Indonesia, including:


  1. On a global scale, the Indonesian archipelago is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, is also directly adjacent to the continent of Asia and Australia.
  2. On a regional scale, the Indonesian archipelago consists of five major islands and thousands of small islands surrounded by seas and straits.
  3. On a local scale, towering mountains major may affect rainfall and temperatures as the climate itself can be affected by mountains. This is because the temperature on the mountain is lower than the temperature at the sea surface.

Senin, 21 November 2016

Jet Lag (Pengar Udara)

traveling di luar negri yang zona waktunya mirip-mirip dengan daerah asal tidak begitu membuat masalah, ritme waktu tidur dan ngantuk cenderung bisa dikendalikan. Perbedaan zona waktu Jakarta dan Korea Selatan yang hanya 2 jam tidak begitu mengganggu jam tidur.
Perbedaan waktu Jakarta dan Seoul (Korea Selatan)
Berbeda dengan waktu saya training di Chicago-USA, perbedan waktu yang mencapai 12 jam sangat membuat masalah, faktanya siang tapi alam bawah sadar saya mengatakan bahwa ini malam dan sebaliknya, bisa dibayangkan:
  1. Training di kelas dari jam 9 pagi s.d jam 4 sore di Chicago, tapi alam bawah sadar (jam biologis) menyatakan saya duduk dikelas dari jam 9 malam s.d jam 4 subuh, saya harus berjuang untuk melek. Kalau kita tidak duduk dikelas (jalan-jalan) ngantuknya lebih bisa dikendalikan.
  2. Waktu malam mau tidur, kita akan merasa bahwa kita sedang tidur siang, jadi setiap 1 atau 2 jam kita akan terbangun, dan harus berjuang lagi untuk memejamkan mata, bukan hal mudah untuk tidur lagi kalau kita merasa sedang tidur siang. Hal yang sama juga dialami seorang teman dari Malaysia, tiap malam cuma bisa tidur 1 atau 2 jam saja. 
Jet lag atau pengar udara adalah kelainan waktu tidur sementara atau merasa lelah dan kebingungan setelah perjalanan panjang dengan melintasi beberapa zona waktu menggunakan pesawat terbang. Akibat dari jet lag, gejala yang umumnya terjadi adalah gangguan pada pola tidur Anda dan membuat Anda merasa selalu mengantuk dan kelelahan.
    waktu adaptasinya bisa lebih dari 1 atau 2 minggu, tapi saya kan trainingya cuman 1 atau 2 minggu, jadi belum bisa adaptasi. Saat saya traveling ke Mannheim - Jerman saya juga merasakan jet lag. Perbedaan waktu antara Jerman - Jakarta (5 jam) membuat saya sudah ngantuk berat jam 8 malam (waktu jerman) atau jam 1 pagi (waktu jakarta).
      Jam 12 malam di Mannheim saya sudah mulai bagun/susah tidur (jam 5 di Jakarta), dan jam 1 malam perut sudah mules....waini...malem2 harus nongkrong....hehehehe......
        Saat itu, berhubung sudah susah tidur, akhirnya jam 3 an saya putuskan bangun saja sambil ngutak atik laptop, sambil menunggu kalau-kalau si ngantuk dateng lagi. btw, kalau waktunya mundur seperti ini cenderung agak nyaman, jam tidurnya bisa lebih awal, habis isya bisa langsung tidur karena dah ngantuk berat.
        Perbedaan Waktu Jakarta dan Berlin (Jerman)

        Minggu, 20 November 2016

        Buta Huruf di Negri Orang (Korea Selatan)

        Bukan hal yang aneh bila anda berkunjung ke luar negri, anda akan merasa menjadi buta huruf, karena tidak mungkin anda mengenal semua jenis (karakter) huruf di dunia ini, ada sagat banjak jenis huruf, memang sebagian besar bahasa di dunia menggunakan latin sebagai bahasa tulisannya.
        menjadi orang yang buta huruf sangat tidak menyenangkan, kalau mau nanya-nanya orang disini juga jarang ketemu yang bisa bahasa inggris, Masih mendingan keluyuran di Eropa, walaupun kita tidak tahu arti bahasa Perancis, Spanyol, Jerman, Portugis, dkk. Minimal kita bisa membacanya, dan kalau punya aplikasi kamus di hanphone tinggal ketik dan cari artinya. Lah...kalo tulisan Korea, Jepang, China gimana ngetiknya?....
        Jadi inget, dulu saya pernah kursus bahasa mandarin, tapi nyerah cuman sampai level 1
        nulisnya susah, mbacanya susah, belom ngapalin artinya
        Menjadi buta huruf sangat bertentangan dengan:
        Iqro' bismi robbikaladzi kholaq
        Semoga saya tetep semangat belajar bahasa arab (menyemangati diri sendiri) dan setelah itu boleh bahasa lainnya

        Bendera Korea Selatan

        Running Text di Bus, bacanya bingung

        Gelas di Supermarket

        Mall, toko apa ya?

        Mesin Sewa Sepeda, bacanya bagaimana?

        Mesin Cuci, saya cuma tahu cara on dan play

        Sepertinya Peta Kereta dan Bus, bagaimana bacanya?

        Petunuk Remote TV, bacanya?

        Sepeda, Sepertinaya bisa disewa

        Toko apa ya?

        Toko apalagi?

        Gelas Made In Indonesia, cuma itu yang terbaca

        Sabtu, 19 November 2016

        Mesin Parkir Mandiri di Jakarta

        Saat mobil anda mau parkir, terutama di kota besar seperti Jakarta, anda akan menemui tempat parkir di pinggir jalan. Hari ini saya menemui sesuatu yang unik saat saya akan parkir di jalan Juanda Jakarta.

        Tukang parkirnya tanya kepada saya:
        "Pak punya kartu tol atau busway"
        sayapun tidak bisa langsung menjawab, setelah melihat suatu alat kotak di pinggir jalan saya baru tahu, kalau di situ disediakan "Mesin Parkir"

        Mesin Parkir Mobil di Jakarta

        sayapun menjawab "ada Pak e-money Mandiri"
        saya agak bingung menggunakan mesin tersebut, dan akhirnya tukang parkirnya membantu saya menggunakan mesin tersebut.
        1. Masukkan no plat mobil.
        2. Tempelkan e-money (Mandiri)
        3. Pilih jumlah jam parkir, tukang parkir sepertinya menginputnya dengan memasukkan 1 jam
        4. Struk/kuitansi parkir akan keluar dari mesin tersebut.
        Mandiri e-money

        Kuitansi Parkir Mobil di Jalan Juanda - Jakarta




        Jumat, 18 November 2016

        Jerman Sesuatu yang Beda di Sana

        Barang-barang pada suatu negri tentu akan ada yang berbeda bila dibandingkan yang ada di negeri lain, saat training di Mannheim Jerman, saya melihat beberapa barang/ hal yang berbeda bila dibandingkan dengan yang ada di Indonesia, berikut barang-barang yang berhasil saya foto:

        Truk Sampah Mercedes-Benz

        Air Soda dan Air Biasa disediakan di meja.

        Gulungan Kain Lap

        Lap yang berisi Kain bukan Tissue

        Toilet



        Kamis, 17 November 2016

        Mencuci Sendiri di Hotel (Mannheim - Jerman)

        Bila untuk training seminggu, kebanyakan orang sepertinya membawa beberapa stel baju untuk seminggu, apalagi di musim gugur menjelang dingin 4 - 15 C, keringat yang keluar cuman sedikit, kerah nggak bakalan hitam karena debu+keringat setelah baju dipakai seharian, baju bisa dipakai beberapa kali...hehehe....

        Berangkat dengan koper berisi pakaian bersih, dan pulang dengan koper penuh berisi pakaian kotor. Laundry sebenernya disediakan di hotel, tetapi tentu dengan harga yang lumayan, apalagi hotel di luar negri.

        Mengikuti beberapa artikel hasil googling, kali ini pun saya mengikuti paham "iritisme".....nyuci sendiri, Berbekal detergen, gantungan kawat, setrika, sayapun mengikuti saran situs tsb, nyuci di wastafel, awalnya saya gantung di kmr mandi...setelah tidak netes ditaruh di lemari...
        Tapi kok nggak kering2 juga setelah sehari dua malam....temen sebelah menyarankan taruh aja di pemanas ruangan..... Bener juga setelah saya taruh semaleman di pemanas ruangan pakaian langsung kering
        Deterjen

        Wastafel

        Kamar Mandi

        Jemur di sini, terus setelah tidak netes di taruh di Lemari tapi tidak kering2

        Pemanas Ruangan

        Jemur Baju di Pemanas Ruangan

        Setelan Pemanas Ruangan