24th SSYEAP International General Assembly SIGA JAPAN 2012

EXITING TRIP TO JAPAN 2021

It was really exiting being invited as the Foster Parents by SIGA Japan 2012, who held the 24th Ship for South East Asia Youth Program ("SSYEAP") International General Assembly  in Tokyo at Hotel New Otani, Tokyo. 

All the Participant stayed in Hotel New Otani Tokyo; During this Visit  besides attending this International General Assembly,  we visited Mount Fuji and also Tokyo Tower. 

• The season was spring so the temperature was not so cold  outside the Hotel. 

 

• My wife, me and my son was invited as Foster families, where in this SSYEAP,  each and every Year since the Year of  2007, our family  as Foster Parents and Foster family had been receiving several youths from different countries of Japan and South East Asia staying in our house

These Youths traveled  with Fujimaru Ship and stop over in Jakarta Indonesia; 

 

This  Fujimaru Ship was  carrying around  350  Youths from Japan and South East Asia Youth from Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Laos, Philipines, Kambodja.

 

• SAILING 50 (Fifty) DAYS

 They saled for around 50 Days and visited Japan and this South East Asia Countries.  

 

This Program was  held by the Japanese Government and the South East Asia Government where the Youths expose  exchanging their culture (cross culture), communications skill, and experienced  the way of life of the families of the Home,  where they stayed for 3 days in each country during the 50 days trip.    

      

• For me it was actually the second time  to visit Tokyo, which my first visit was back in 1970, when my father (who had passed away) as a diplomat went back to Indonesia from Argentina with our family, and stopped over in Tokyo where we visited Tokyo Tower; 

• SECOND TIME TRIP  TO JAPAN 

• Thanks to ALLAH, in this Year, April  2012  my wife  me and  my son  had the opportunity to visit Tokyo Tower.

•  I am very great full and thank full  to ALLAH  who has given the chance  to my  dearest wife, to be active  in participating in the role as Foster parents in this SSYEAP venue. 

 SIGA JAPAN 2012

• The Indonesian Participating Youth  and  the  Foster Parents and Foster Families from Indonesia representing the Indonesian Delegates  were invited by SIGA Japan 2012 to attend this General Assembly; 

 

• This Year the Malaysian Delegates were the largest delegation where around 100 Participants were attending this occasion.   

• SUBWAY TRAIN 

• Glance picture  in the Public Transportation, we  observed that  the Subway train is really very efficient and effective way to travel in Tokyo.

 MAPS AVAILABLE

•   Maps are available to be taken by us  showing the name of the Station and with numbering system, where we can view that many Japanese workers are taking this subway train to go their office and back home. 
•  GRAB MAPS IN SUBWAY
  

We can always grap a map in the subway station  and also can see inside the train  the electronic board sign which shows the next train stop over or station that we are heading. 

 

On the first day there were 2 guides from  the Indonesian delegation who is staying in Japan or coming back and forth to Japan and Indonesia. 

 

On the Second day, me and my wife and Lia  had tried to take the Subway by ourselves where we can asked the Station Officers  our way and by looking at the map and the electronic  board sign in the train;  

 

• JAKARTA CAN LEARN FROM TOKYO

Jakarta  which every day experienced heavy traffic jam can really learn from Japan how to manage a modern, manageable, efficient and effective  mass public transportation. 

 

Well this is just a glance view of my visit to Tokyo this April 2012;

 

Jakarta, May 07, 2012

Agung S.Suleiman   

End Year 2009 Travel

Wow. Its already the end year of 2009. 

 

Are you planning to travel somewhere this Year End. 

 

For you who have lots of monies and End Year Bonuses you may have many and a lot of plans in your mind to start Your Travel. 

 

However, how about for you who are are not lucky enough to gain Bonuses in this Year End of 2009. 

 

Well, I do not thing that you can not plan to travel in this End Year 2009. Money is not everything. Money cannot buy happiness. Happiness is actually in your mind. Money can buy House, but money cannot buy Home.

Why, can I say that.

This is because if  your are self employed, which I experience  for 11 1/2 Years since June 1998,  there are times there are lots of cash in but there are also times where your are out of cash.

In each and every situation of such cash flows, you really can learn a lot from such situation. Nobody can force you how to set up your minds and feelings. Feeling and set up of mind is actually controlled by ourselves through all the challenges in life.     

Thus you can  plan your travel based on your limited budgets which shall be really challenging and exiting. You can take a bus, bicycle, or just walk and travel in the neighborhood which you have never visited  and use your mind set and heart to control your feelings. 

 

You can also travel  on the sites of Blogs of your networks or fans and friends or listen to songs in the radio while you are writing and traveling with your ideas and mind in your blog.

Remember Happiness is in your mind and heart and nobody can steal that precious gift from you.

Cheers.

Jakarta 26 December 2009
Agung Supomo Suleiman

Adventure taking a boat at BANGKA Island

INTERESTING BOAT TRIP  IN BANGKA

   It was really an adventure taking a boat at the Bangka Island South Sumatera with all our friends, going to the sea and eating fresh sea foods.

 

Indonesia consists of thousands of Islands where one of the beautiful Island is found in Bangka Island, South Sumatera, where the sea is blue as long as your eyes can see.

We took this type of wooden boat which is motored with the following show picture below.   

This adventure for us who leaves in Jakarta,  is really  most exiting and is an escape from our  routine daily work at the city.

It will ease your stress and refresh your minds and mental. Human beings needs to have friends and make some adventure trip once in a while outside its place of work.

 ENJOY TRAVELLING IN BANGKA

It was really fun, travelling and taking a Boat in Bangka.

The wheather is quite hot, but it is rather windy.

We really enjoyed gathering and taking Boat in the Bangka Waters.

•  EATING SEA FOODS 
  

We ate sea food since Bangka is an Island where there are many kinds of sea fishes, crabs, shrimps that we can eat.    

It was really an exiting and enjoying boat trip with all our friends as shown in the Photos.

 

 

   

If you are interested to travel to Bangka you may see the following site:

Cheers
Jakarta, 28 October 2009
Agung Supomo Suleiman

BANDARA SUKARNO HATTA GETWAY TO INDONESIA JAKARTA

International Airport BANDARA SUKARNO HATTA 

The GETWAY 

TO 

INDONESIA from JAKARTA. 

Yes Visit Indonesia the thousand Islands Archipelago  stretching from Aceh to Papua   with  many ethnics either from the mainland of Indonesia or ethnics from Arab, China, India who 

   

became Indonesian,  which makes and blends Indonesia to be a Rich Culture Society

 

 

The Name of this Airport is taken from the First President Sukarno and the First Vice President M. Hatta who had proclaimed the Independence Day of The Republic of Indonesia  

• Once you landed in this International Airport you noticed   the building is designed to meet the traditional Indonesian taste    so that you can feel that you  have landed in Indonesia, a country  who is rich with its various traditional culture and arts.    
• You may see the traditional Lamps hanging from the Ceilings of this Airport as shown in the below picture.      

Travel to Bogor Indonesia

Well, Bogor is a small but beautiful city located between Jakarta and Puncak. You can found the Presidential Bogor Palace and Kebun Raya Bogor ( Botanical Garden)  where  you may found  many species of Trees in side such Park. I experienced  leaving in Bogor during my childhood for over 9 months, where we stayed at Hotel Salak Bogor.

It was quite interesting staying in Bogor because you may found many bats hanging on the trees at the Botanical Garden. When I was childhood we usually took  the rubbers from the Rubber Trees and made rubber balls,  so that we can play footballs with such rubber balls. It was  really fun and enjoying.  Now a days, I do not know whether  there are children taking the rubbers from the Rubber Tress.

My school was not so far from Hotel Salak. According to the information we found from the website of Hotel Salak http://www.hotelsalak.co.idHotel Salak you may noticed that this hotel was built in 1856 during the Dutch colonial era and was originally named Binnenhoff Hotel and since September 1998 was  refurnished and reopened with modern colonial style.    


I do not quite remember whether this Hotel was renovated during our stay at this Hotel for 9 months in around 1963. But the important thing,  is that I really enjoyed my staying at Bogor, West Java, Indonesia   because we frequently watched   the deers  which you may found them in the Park or garden of the Presidential Park of Bogor.

According to the information which we may found in one of the blogs http://kampungturis.blogspot.com/2008/11/amusement-park-in-bogor-west-java.html

we obtained the information that Bogor  was the capital of Indonesia during the British occupation under Stamford Raffles and was used as the capital by the Dutch during the dry season, then known as Buitenzorg (meaning "beyond worry").

I took this photo beautiful  photo from
http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Java/Bogor

Bogor Botanical Garde

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Jakarta, 26 October 2009
Agung Supomo Suleiman

Remembering the Beautiful Country of China

• I was still at the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Grade in the Elementary School at the Sacred Heart School in Peking China,  in the early 1959 -1962,  when I and my family  stayed in China, during my father's post as the Indonesian Diplomat in China.
• During those period of time all the Chinese people were wearing blue color Cloths, but for me as the son of a foreign diplomat posted in China, Peking was really my interesting part of my children experience. Every afternoon we ice skated at the International Club which was really very exiting for us. I have many friends from such international school coming from various countries such as Burma his name was Kenneth and Charles, from Srilanka his name was Anil, from Yugoslavia his name was Goran, from India his name was Balan, and from Nepal  their names were Rabindra and Jitendra. Well at the Sacred  Heart School playing music was an obligatory and I had picked  violin lesson for 3 years. During my stay in Peking we went to the Tianamen Square and the Great Wall.
   
• I have quoted some writing articles  from
• http://www.villadeayora.com/blog/2009/07/14/the-great-wall-of-china/  
  Quote :
  There are three sections of the Great Wall of China that are well preserved: the Badaling, which is reached by bus or car from Beijing, the Simatai and Mutianyu in. The best views are to Simatai, where from its vantage points will be lost in the distance, between the mountains curve the trail of the Great Wall of China. 7300 kilometers of stone leading from the coast of the Yellow Sea to venture into the Gobi desert. 135 watchtowers and three steps: those of Shanghai, Juyong and Niángzi.
  
  
  
  
  Today, more than 2000 years later, he acknowledged the great merit of this work of art by giving it the honor of being considered one of the New 7 Wonders of the World.
  
  UNQUOTE 
  
  
  
• We also went to many places where there were many Budha Temples such as the sleeping Budha etc, and we also went to the Summer Palace where I remember there was a lake there. It was really very enjoying for me during that  time, since I was just in the elementary school, and thus  there was really no burden to me as a child, where  we just learn a lot and play a lot with my international friends from  various countries among others Yugoslavia, Burma, India, Srilanka  during such childhood stage . 
• There was this Store called Pai Ho Tallo, where diplomats usually went there, since it is sort of a Free Duty Store,  but I do not know whether it is still there now. My parents rented sort of a small Bajaj ( I forget the name ), for us as the children to go to our school at the Sacred Heart School Peking.  Well that was a brief  remembering stories staying in Peking China during  my childhood, and   I hope that at one time I may have the time to visit China, Peking again.
• If you are interested to go to Peking or Beijing, China you may see it at the below Blog/Website  
• travelchinaguide 
• Cheers 
• Agung Supomo Suleiman
• Jakarta 25 Octtober
  

Snapshots High Rise Buildings in Jakarta

   

If you walk in Jakarta the capital city of Indonesia, you might be interesting in making snapshots  photos of the High Rise Building in Jakarta. You just carry your camera and make the photos of such High Rise Buildings. It is enjoying especially if you are below the building and you are trying to get a snapshot from a certain angle. It can ease your tension because by making such photos you can put and expose such photos in your Travel Blog which for me is called AGUNGSS TRAVEL BLOG.