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Talking about cultures, Baku is one example of how different influence could lead to a varied cultural heritage. It is Azerbaijan’s most eastern point and capital city that is situated on the western shore of the Caspian Sea. As one of the cities that lies on the Great Silk Road, Baku was one busy area for it became the hub between the western and the eastern world. The fact that Baku is located 28 meters below sea level makes it the lowest lying capital city in the world. Situated at the Crossroad of Europe and Asia, throughout its development, Baku gained a lot of influences from both Europe and Asia. No wonder that it possesses a wide range of variety of cultures. Baku, The City of Winds, is one of the centers of Azerbaijan’s culture. As if it were a sea clam, Baku stores its precious hidden pearls: myriads of hidden cultures. One thing that is very interesting from Baku is how two places that seem to come from two different centuries coexisted, in one city. It feels like we are ...

Siapa yang mati gaya gara-gara berbulan-bulan di rumah terus??  * angkat tangan sendiri * Jadi kan a yah gue dulu emang sering ngerekam-rekam gitu dan rekaman-rekamannya masih ada sampe sekarang huhu terharu banget 😭 Gara-gara karantina ini belakangan hari gue jadi bongkar-bongkar rekaman  handy cam  lama dari 15 dan 16 tahunan yang lalu. Sumpah taunya gue culun maksimal dulu hahahah kacau kacau....  Gue jadi bisa liat masa kecil pas rambut gue masih rambut batok gitu lol kalo nggak ada rekamannya kan mana pernah mau ngaku kalo gue pernah seculun itu haha. Ini nih salah satu highlight rekaman gue yang bakal gue obrolin kali ini. Dulu gue sekeluarga sempet tinggal di Banjarmasin dan kalo lebaran nggak bisa balik ke Jawa akhirnya kita jalan-jalan ke kota lain di sana, kebetulan waktu itu kita mau ke Palangkaraya. Waktu gue liat videonya, ternyata hampir sepanjang rekaman tuh jalanannya dipenuhin asap gara-gara kebakaran hutan. Btw gue dulu sebenernya pal...

Aku sampe nggak tau deh udah berapa ratus kali bilang kalau 'aku suka banget masak masakk'. Akhirnya aku bener-bener nemu hobby baru!! Frankly speaking, i could say that I've developed some skills of cooking and baking thanks to this #StayatHome situation  wkwk pede. Btw fun fact, aku tu tertarik sih buat masak, tapi sumpah nggak suka banget prosesnya! Nggak enjoyable gitu lhoo. Tapi rasa satisfied kalo udah liat hasil masakannya tuh,, beda cerita lagi! Masak tuh sebenernya nggak enjoyable, iya nggak sih?? *well at least for me xixi #hashtagfact. Apalagi buat yang nggak jago-jago amat kayak aku gini. Harus nonton youtube dulu, cari-cari resep dulu, terus brainstorm resep versi aku sendiri, nulis bahan-bahan, beli groceries dulu, cari-cari tutorial (lagi) barangkali ada yang salah / kelewat, terus baru deh bisa mulai masak. Hadeh pusing duluan mikirnya kebanyakan ritual. Nah tapi tapi tapii gara gara quarantine ini aku kan jadi lebih sering eksplorasi dunia masak memasak...

Ok, i think ive reached the peak of boredom here being quarantined for weeks. I keep doing the same thing eeevery single day so i thought it would be legit if i could do something//??? else/?/?// something better than being a couch potato at the very least.  And learning new language seems cool😎 well at least for me. Yeah, new language babe!! I'm being really optimistic with this one as i still have a lot of times until my uni starts and im a total jobless right now so,,,. what else to worry? i was a little bit lost on deciding which language i should learn hence i initially did a quick research on the internet to read people's suggestions. A lot of them suggest that its best to learn one of the United Nations' official language (beside english): arabic, mandarin, french, russian, and spanish. Out of all of them, i saw people suggest Mandarin, Spanish, and French the most. Here they come my top 3 candidates!! So how did i finally choose spanish? Ez. It wasn't...

I was soo shocked i immediately turned on my laptop and wrote this blog. I just read a news saying that the number of positive cases of Covid-19 here in my country has reached up to 5000. This is c r a z y. The number escalated quickly from 4000 to 5000 in just 3 days. I don't know who to blame here as i don't have the capacity to talk about it but this increasing number of cases sure worries the hell out of me. Due to this issue, the head of my housing complex implemented a 'local lock down' as a way to help to stop the spreading of the virus. Under no circumstances are outsider allowed to enter my neighborhood, and vice versa. With this kind of situation, we often question ourselves: what can i do to help us against this virus? By simply staying at home, reducing the frequency of meeting people, washing our hand, we can contribute in fighting against the virus. But how can we help people in need -Those who suffer from the pandemic as they got an unpaid leave or b...

throughout this 2020 #stayathome i had developed some skills (cieilah) and one of them is,... gardening/?? *disclaimer*: not a professional version of gardening, of course. i first decided to do it after i saw a cute plant in front of my house. they live in groups and they look so cute. i then immediately grabbed a small plastic cup and pick some of them to later be planted in that cup. as unprofessional as it is, i managed to move the plant to the cup and this is how it looked. did a quick photo shoot bc why not it is THAT cute i even made a whole thread on twitter just for this little cutie. i love it so much. i then named it after one of the try guys' member, eugene. im not his fan though but his name just popped up in my mind when i think about it. #Day 9 Eugene gave birth to a new baby!!! welcoming a new member of the clan hello baby eugene!! #Day 22 Eugene now has 6 babies oh my God didnt expect that at all!! eugene is so fertile lmaoo #Day i...

2020 seems to be a 'bad' year for us. Lots of good figures passed away, lots of disasters happened, and this Covid-19 pandemic is the peak. I hope this is the last disaster we all have to face this year. Surprisingly, Indonesia remained calm when this virus started to spread globally, despite the big number of people we have here in our country. Some figures even welcomed foreign tourists who passed the temperature test at the airport. This news ignited our people's anger, for sure. It indeed sounded ridiculous. Several weeks passed, the number of cases and death toll increased. Of course, it shocked us.  Everyone started panic-buying. We ran out of masks, hand sanitizers, soaps. Hoaxes started to spread. And, yeah, people started to blame our government (or our president, to be specific). For me, this isnt all the fault of our government. We read news, we know exactly what is happening. Though the government should at least not being so confident about our country being ...