Saung Udjo Angklung, Indonesian Traditional Music (サウンウッジョアンクルン、インドネシア伝統音楽)

The place is so nice, comfortable, and uniquely traditional. Located in Jl. Padasuka no. 118, Bandung. The show was started on 15.30 WIB-17.30 WIB everyday. It was built on 1966 by Udjo Ngalagena (Alm) that was usually called with Mang Udjo. He had a wife named Uum Sumiati. Saung Angklung Udjo (SAU) was a place for music performances, education center, and vacation place for culture as well. It has tradition culture of West Java. SAU tried to goals Abah Udjo’s dream where he was known as Legend of Angklung, they wanted to make Angklung as an art and a culture identity that can be proud of. “Saya mendapat pesan dari Bapak Angklung Dunia, Daeng Soetigna (Alm), untuk meneruskan misinya memperkenakan ANGKLUNG ke semua orang di seluruh dunia agar dikenal dimana-mana, dengan sebuah gagasan bahwa melalui penampilan kesenian musik ANGKLUNG, akan dapat membantu mendorong terciptanya kedamaian di dunia, yang kita cintai dan kita tinggali ini” Their show seperated in 11 parts. There are:

1. Wayang Golek Demonstration. It was a Sunda culture than show a drama of wood dool that tells about ceremonies happen in Indonesia. In each Wayang show, it will reflect moral so that we will always obey Him and be good for others.
2. Helaran. An Angklung show that usually played in traditional ceremony khitanan or even the ceremony of planting seed. It shows the thankfullness to God for all of His blessings given to us.
3. Traditional Dances. In each traditional dances will have a story in it. Legend story or traditional story. Depends on the show. Such as:
4. Topeng Dances. The mask itself represent the character of human that refers to tempramental, unpatient, slooby.
5. Merak Dances. It is a traditional dance from West Java to show the beauty of Peacock and tells about the beauty of color.
6. Calung
7. Arumba
8. Mini Angklung
9. Padaeng Angklung
10. Combine Rehearsal Angklung
11. Here, we, the audience have an opportunity to play Angklung. Each of us will get an angklung and the host will take a hugh paper shows 1-7. Where 1=C, 2=D, 3=E, 4=F, 5=G, 6=A, and 7=B. And we will play together there.

C59

Familiar with it? It was a popular silk-screening in Bandung. They chooses this name because C stands for the first alphabet of the owner’s street house and 59 is the owner’s house number. He said that we have to make a unique and an easy-remembered name for a brand. Sometimes it may mean for an individual problem like Amanda Bakery. It is a famous brownies bakery that had branches in many other places. And so, Amanda itself stands for Anak MANtu DAmai (Peaceful Brother in Law).They choosed it because when they want to start the business, their family was in chaos. What is good in C 59? They have the same price for center store or branches stores. They were creative, inovative, and well communicated. Here, we saw the process to silk-screening and cloth making. They taught us how to do it and allowed us to try it as well. The place for silk-screening was not an exclusive air-conditioner room. They use traditional way. They have fan everywhere and half-opened room to allow the sun light goes in. The silk-screening procedure have to be done color per color. When they made one color, they’ll fan it with hairdryer and waited for 5-10 minutes, then continue with the next color. They can make the pattern and colour by themself. The owner of C 59 is graduated from French. He flew back to Indonesia and one day when he wanted to buy clothes, he thought that he did not want this stripes, he want another colour of patterns, and so on. From that day, he got an idea, “why don’t I made clothes that people can ask for the colour, patterns, and pictures?” So then, C 59 was stand proudly and is still successful until now. For an information, the owner of C 59 and the owner of a distro named Evil is siblings.

Museum of Geology (地質学博物館)

It is a museum that have a lot of geological things. There are stones, bones, world maps, etc. We looked around here and took photos. I interviewed 2 people here. First was an elementary student from PPK Penabur School, Bandung. His name is Andrew and he was still in the second grade. He doesn’t have any expectations from the museum, he just wanted to look around. His favourite place is the second floor because it was more interesting and fun. But he have a suggestion for the museum, he said, “maybe it will nicer if they clean it everyday and keep the cleanliess well.” The second lucky person was the worker there. His name is Lutfi. He was from Bandung and had worked there for 2 years. He said that this Museum was built from 1928 and finished on 16 of May 1929. It het renovated on 1998 and got last-finishing-touched by Ibu Mega on August 22nd 2000. This place was used for vacation spot, education center, and also observation center.

Distro God Inc. (ディストロ God Inc.)

In Bandung, there are a street that have a lot of distros. We even can’t go there for a day. So that each group of grade 10 Cita Hati student are divided into different distros. My friends and I got this distro named God Inc. It was spooky, black-dominant colors, metals, and most of all it was for boys. The people inside was also wear spooky-thingy. I realized the whole store is targeted for GOTHS! EMOS! AND PROBABLY THE UNDEAD! It was quite funny how they build such store beside a kitty-kitty-looked store that colored calm and pink :3. It was exactly like heaven and hell. This distro’s actual name was not “God” but they write it as a short-name for Godzilla. It is because the owner love godzilla. He also love black and band stuffs, that is why this store is more for boys. This store have a unique and interesting color for stuffs. Then, we looked around, and we can see that it was actually not boy’s stuffs. We saw stuffs for babies, even couples of cute-colored mini dress and blouse! They sell complete stuffs from top to below. From clothes, shorts, jeans, jackets, buckles, sandals, shoes, bags, accessories, socks, even I saw some CD’s there too! Their motto is just smile and they did not make any huge advertisement. It just known from mouth-to-mouth. Their special appearance are black, cute, old-classic, and unique. But their weakness is their product for girls is limited. They don’t have branch in anywhere else, but they have ‘branch’ in Jakarta. But not their own store, they just put their clothes in other store and so that the profit will be halve. Quite unique isnt, it? And the personnels turned to be kind. THEY WERE ANGELS IN DISGUISE.

The KAA Museum （KAA 博物館）

KAA stands for Konferensi Asia-Africa.

It is a conference that happen in the past, aim for spread the world about the independence. It happened 10 years after our independence on 1945 exactly on 18-24 of April. But Indonesia had already told the idea since 1933. It happened because of colonialism and imperialism that gone to colonization and cold wars and turbulance of weapon and racism between west block and east block. It was included as an international level and was build on April 24 1980. Soeharto was the one who dedicated it to immortalize them the meaning and story of KAA. This building then used for education center, observation, and vacation spot. Their tables and chairs are still fresh from 1955. It was pure of Jati Tree, it was very strong and still looks new. Why does our president wanted to locate this building in Bandung? Not in Jakarta? He said because Bandung have a nice weather and it have good security to protect the building. It was followed by 106 countries around the world. The place is still good and there are a lot of history things there. It was so fun.

The Garuda Journey - Garuda Training Center（ガルだの旅行 - ガルーダ研修所）

GMT stands for Garuda Training Center. It is a place where they train evacuation when emergencies happen, training and test to those who wants to be a stewardess. Unfortunately we cannot use the evacuation simulation because there were people having test inside. So, I looked around their room. There was a training there, they got a lot of mirrors, catwalk path in the middle, and they were listening to a instructor at that time. They have to learn about clothes, gestures, classes, verbal language, voice, expressions, eye contact, walk, and how to comfort and serve people in the plane. I met a young woman named Mira. She was already a stewardess. She said that it was her dream to be a stewardess. The main thing is not just giving food, but how to help and serve people. She is not scared, she reallly enjoyed it. The procedure is a little bit complex and complicated, because they have to learn the details also. And to be a stewardess is not easy, AT ALL. She had to pass the TOEFL, minimum height of 165 centimeters, have a good health, and many others. I tried the aircraft simulator, but I can't even get the plane to take off. The number of buttons and the number of information which needs to be processed is overwhelming.

The Garuda Journey - Aerofood Catering Service（ガルだの旅行 - アエロフッドのケータリングサービス）

February 8 2011

ACS stands for Aero Catering Service. It is a place where they provide the blankets and food that we receive everytime we sat inside a plane.

It has lots of mottos, such as: integrity, fast, reliable, efficient, excellent work, hygiene, and trust. It has branches all over Indonesia, such as:

• Surabaya
• Medan
• Balikpapan
• Jogja
• Denpasar

Their quality had been proven from a certificate they got about food safety, it was the ISO certificate. They got to audit their company every 6 months between units. It has been working since 1972 and already had 4,000 employees. It accepts hospital service also. They are Siloam, Pondok Indah, etc. Beside food in the planes and hospital service, they also did the laundry! Called with ACS Laundry.

ACS serves around 35,000 portions each day. Their beef meat is imported from Australia because it's quality and hygiene, but the chicken is still from Indonesia. They have rivals from Malaysia and Singapore, but still they compete well enough.

We went inside the process of making, packing, and delivery (to the aircraft). Before we went inside the processing plant, we need to wear a special suit and a head cap. It is compulsory because a single drop of hair will cause them over 2 million Rupiahs (200 Dollars) of penalty. So we have to be extra careful. The storage room was separated into different doors, each bearing a different temperature. The coldest one is the freezer, which is about minus 20 centigrade. We went inside and it was extremely cold.

There are rooms labelled ‘bread’, ‘japanese’, ‘asians’, and many more. There even a place for drinks, there are a lot of gallons there! They got juices, fruits, vegetables, and lots of stuff. That is why they have a lot of employees to organize it. There are rooms for plates, bowls, glasses, forks, and spoons. They separate it into many blocks, for: Mandala, Garuda, China Airlines, etc. Each block has different types of equipments, different colors and patterns also. It used to differentiate them from another plane. 5R for them are ringkas, rapi, resik, rawat, and rajin and they take it seriously.

Before we went to the third place, we had our lunch in ACS. Their food were delicious! They served Indonesian food such as sop buntut and broccoli.

The Garuda Journey - GMF Aeroasia（ガルだの旅行 - GMF アエロアジア）

Garuda – G. M. F. Aeroasia

GMF stands for Garuda Maintenance Facility

It became a company in 2002, it has a 115 hectares of land and consists of 3 airplane hangars. All hangars are designated for aircraft maintenance. We went to hangar 2 and it is designated for simple maintenance on aircraft. A plane that enters this hanger will stay about 1 to 3 days only, since this hanger is just for simple maintenance. 3 days is the maximum duration for each plane. Hangar 3 is the heavy maintenance service special for long planes such as boeing 737.

Generally, this place is available for all domestic aircraft, there are also planes from Europe and South East Asia. This place had certificates from FAA and SAA, which is known almost all over the world. It is also included the biggest Top 10 in Indonesia.

Apron is a name for plane parking lot. From a worker we interviewed there, he said that this company will do the best to serve the best maintenance and quality. They got the spare parts from French and Europe. Every 6 years, their stuff will be checked up. There were no doubt that working there was hard, but he liked it. “It was tiring, but fun”, he said.

There, we looked planes from near, we went inside and sat in the cockpit. I saw tons of aircraft equipment and instruments in the cockpit. Being a pilot requires harsh qualifications, the most notable one being to have a perfect 20/20 vision. Other than that, the person must qualify physical and mental tests