Dear Friends, I've just going back home from Angkringan, road-side food stall which are frequented visit by lower class people in Indonesia. The reason for me to come quite often there is the cheap rate of Rp 4000 [US$ 0.48] for a small, fist-sized portion of rice along with toppings and the cozy environment to be easy to talk one to another visitor even one to another is stranger :) There is no objection from each of us if suddenly we participate into another visitor conversation. Guess what happen next? We become friends. It is hard to find this opportunity in other eatery place, I believe, which is most visited by high class, busy person with high tight schedule and no spontaneous talk can come up. Do you know how I start the conversation with stranger? By seeing similarity with others. At the time I see a young woman take tofu more than once, I said,"I like tofu, too." We start friendship, get connected to another because of similarity. But what happen to o
We are on a journey but sometimes seem to have lost our way and we need a bridge. To have fragile or strong bridge depending on the man effort to maintain it. Not patronizing. Not a personal indulgence. Not disrupt the private and the public. Take the universal values that can be owned.