Dear Allah,

made it this afternoon

".......
'Cause I'm lonely and I'm tired
I'm missing You again oh no
Once again
......"

hmm, have you ever felt like...somehow - you're far from Allah? Iyaa, Allah itu emang selalu ada dan memantau kita dari Arsy-Nya. Tapi, kitanya gitu yang lagi ngejauh dari-Nya. I've felt it, many times.  Dan ketika kondisi seperti itu datang, rasanya seperti ada bagian dari dalam diri saya yang kurang. Seperti apa yang sedang sayajalanin itu kurang bermakna, kurang berbobot, kurang berlandasan, dan sama sekali tidak bertujuan. And it doesn't feel good at all..

Saya juga gaktau kenapa this kind of situation masih bisa datang, padahal saya tau sendiri kalo saya sedang berada pada situasi seperti ini, itu akan membuat saya merasa gak benar, sedih, dan paint a deeply hole dalam hati saya. It impacts me a lot, sort of:

•  ibadah saya kurang berkualitas. Sudah sholat, doa, mengaji, dan setelahnya, yaudah bless... balik lagi ngerasa, awang-awang
•  apa yang saya kerjain itu, gatau mau diarahkan kemana. Seperti, iya saya tau, saya habis ini harus ngerjakan tugas, makan, tidur, pergi, dan lain-lain. Tetapi dalam benak saya, saya bertanya-tanya, "ini buat apa sih sebenernya?" 
•  saya merasa menjadi manusia paling berdosa,tapi saya gak mau melakukan perbaikan untuk hal itu. Tetep aja, ibadah saya jalanin sekedar sarana untuk nggugurin kewajiban. 
•  dan masih banyak hal mengganjal lain yang bikin saya trapped dalam keadaan emosional yang kurang baik. Uring-uringan, diem, atau melongo aja.  padahal sebenernya saya cuman lagi ngerasain lelah sama ramainya dunia.

Dan sadly, setiap bulan saya harus mengalami fase ini. Since, I'm already baligh. I should through a period when i can't connect with Allah intensely. Ibadahku menjadi terbatas. Dan akhirnya, poin pertama yang aku ceritakan terjadi dan terulang kembali dalam diri saya :-(

Ya saya sendiri sangat menyadari kalo saya ini masih jauh dari kata baik dan sempurna. karena, memang kan kesempurnaan hanya milik Allah SWT seorang. Dan ya seperti ini lah.. saya juga bisa tergoda dengan buaian dan keindahan dunia yang padahal sifatnya hanyalah ilusi dan sementara. Menomor sekiankan kepentingan agama dibawah kepentingan lain.

Menurut saya, memang kesadaran akan pentingnya untuk "berkoneksi" dengan Sang Pencipta itu timbul dari dorongan naluri dalam diri kita sendiri, kalau ya memang kita butuh Dia untuk menunjukkan mana yang benar dan mana yang salah. kalau ya memang kita butuh uluran tangan-Nya untuk dapat menjalani hidup kita dengan baik. Dan membangun koneksi itu kadang bukanlah hal yang mudah ketika kita sudah terpaut dengan jarak. dianalogikan sebuah koneksi (sinyal) hape, ketika kita sedang berada jauh dari pancaran sinyal tentu sinyal kita akan menjadi lemah, buruk, atau malah  tiada kan? namun berbeda lagi apabila kita berada didekat kawasan pancaran sumber sinyalnya, tentu status sinyal di hape kita akan menjadi bagus dan kecepatan koneksinya menjadi cepat. Dan menurut saya seperti itu juga sistim kerja koneksi kita dengan Tuhan kita.

Bila kita sudah berada dekat dengan Sumber kita, tentu kita akan merasakan betapa cepat sinyalnya dapat dimanfaatkan. Ketenangan, kualitas ibadah dan lain-lain. Oleh karena itulah, kita harus memaintain koneksi itu agar selalu baik.. dengan tidak meninggalkan ibadah yang Allah perintahkan kepada kita.

Dari sebuah tulisan yang pernah saya baca.
"Ketika kita berjalan untuk mendekatkan diri kepada Allah, maka Allah akan berlari untuk mendekati kita" Subhanallah, in shaa Allah, aamiin

and yes, God, I'm missing You again.

A hectic week

My life this week in black & white

Hey blog... I guess this is the place where I end up when I reach my lowest point. Sorry, blog... that's why you're rather gloomy and mellow-drama lately hehehe but I tend to seek for relieve by writing here only or mostly when I get stuck, sad, tired, or terribly bored.

Look, I don't mean to complain, I think Allah has always been soo good to me. I know many people will switch place with where I am now. But there's always this one point when you're not satisfied, and that's what makes us human, right?

But, I must admit it, that this week was one of those tiring weeks ever. Due to many things that I should have done in 7 days. Not only consumed my thoughts but also lots of my energies.

Reversing time back into 7 days ago, after cycling  in the morning, I was getting an accident near my house. I fall and got some wound, gladly it wasn't that bad. Monday to Friday, I never got home earlier than 9-10PM, I drove to here and there.. I ran for this and that.. And plus.. My school's stuffs. Task, exam, etc. Which are never stop coming and coming like the water flows.. 

And, it's Sunday, which means tomorrow is already monday again. Like, "hheu.."  I know, I better take a rest or doing my homework or read some books instead of grumbling here, but i just feel like, I need a little escape now.. I've been going to a bookstore yesterday, but it doesn't help much. I still feel need sort of a little pause, such as have a school's day off, or going to somewhere, or simply writing here, maybe?

But then, I was companying my mom and my grammy to fresh market yesterday. In there i found how life was so opposite between one person to another, including me. And I should be thankful to Allah for His blessing.. I should reminding myself however I'm in bad condition that there're still many people out there who's in worse condition than me..  and my life that I have doesn't that hard to compare with theirs.

This's part of my journey to be someone who i wish i eventually turned out in the future. And I should fight for it. This's the war that never going to stop between me and my own self. I may feeling this in one time, but i must not let it control me all the time. Being a moody person is really a bad thing..hzz :''|

That is a video which's a compilation of videos that I took during this week when I was going to many places. I collage it into one and give it a soundtrack. That's the song that I mostly listening to lately.  KITA BISA by RAN ft. Tulus, it's a beautiful song, right? :)

Teman Hidup

 

lagi seneng banget nih, tadi baru aja dapet telpon dari temen. Demi apa kaget banget, lagi enak-enak ndengerin lagu, nyaris ga nyadar kalo ada telpon masuk, heran juga tadi kok ada suara yang ga nyambung dari lagunya, eh ternyata hape uda kedap kedip. Lebih kaget lagi pas mbaca nama yang nelpon "Redi sipil" :O Pas aku angkattttt, langsung

"ACIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL"

gilak gilak rame banget, guys kalian kaya gatau aja aku ini anak melankolis :') :') Gampang terharu :')

Entah niatnya apa, bikin iri ato gimana, tapi mesti sukses ngunyu :') Ga jarang juga mereka nelpon aku, ketika hapeku nyambung ke speakernya mobil,dan di mobil itu ada ayah, mama, mas, adek, hahaaha bener-bener ya :) 

Suayang wes sama kalian

Makasi banyak temen2, mesti baik sama acil, despite so many of my flaws :')

Terimakasi sudah selalu dukung acil buat jadi baik dan baik. Ngingetin acil untuk ga poker'an. Nyemangatin acil waktu kemarin acil njemput hidayah buat pake rok, selalu ngerti betapa perfeksionisnya aku kalo lagi ngerjain tugas (meskipun srg juga ngebully-,-), selalu ada biar kita rajin bareng-bareng, pinter bareng-bareng... Jangan bosen-bosen ya sama aku... Plis jangan!! :<

Kemarin juga, adelzy :'')

Padahal niatnya cuman bercanda, ternyata sungguhan dateng ke rumah, terus kita berenang, terus ternyata baju renangnya adel ga lengkap, tapi adele dengan baiknya tetep nemenin dan nungguin aku berenang! Selalu pek adele ini, baiknya ekkssstrim, i nya 1000x!! :') terus abis renang kita mamam, sambil cerita-cerita.

You're my number 1 inspiration!

Hmmmmmm... I found some couple sketches that I made, long time ago. I also read some of my old drafts. Then It made me realize jussssssst how productive I could be when I...have someone who inspire me. I can draw, I can sing, i can make a handy craft, i write poems, i write stories, simply because I have someone that can be a character inside my imagination. And i think i like it ;)

You know, I portrait how world will be so much prettier, easier, and other better things when we could simply inspire each other. When we share positive vibes each other. HA HA HA  like when we're falling in love, maybe? HA HA HA we all know how people say that love is blind. yes, you only see the good things from someone that you fall in love with, no matter how actually bad are they, but they just look ok for you ;)

Katanya RAN siiiihhhh

".....Tunjukkanlah rasa cintamu,

 coba buat mereka tahu, 

betapa indahnya dunia,

 bila engkau sedang jatuh cintaaa....."

It's not always means love to someone. Love is an universal thing. Maybe loving our job. Maybe loving what's we're currently studying, maybe loving our friends then we plan to do something positive together,  maybe loving our religion, our Allah, and there're still so many things that we can fall in love with which means there're so many things that can inspire us to do something good ! <3

“You might feel worthless toone person, but you are
priceless to another.”

x)

It comes to my imagination. When I could finally being your best friend, closest friend, or whatever as long as we're friend. I like the idea when i can share my dreams with you, then we have to fight for it together, since we had the same vision in so many ways. Idk, what the description on finding a good soul mate, but in this very second i'm wishing that i could finally found somebody who can suits well in every bits of me. Simply, because most time..... i just don't want to be alone anymore x)

A short trip to London!

3R went to London ^^

Yesterday me and my two friends, Rizky and Riky were going to an UK education expo that held by SUN, placed at Ballroom JW Marriot Surabaya, started from 10am to 6pm. And I didn't regret a bit for coming there! We got some packaged which contain of a guide book for study overseas in some countries and pen. Also, we could take a pict (and got the printed of it) with the background and properties of famous things in London, and it was free! :P

What we Got! :)

Then, we entered the auditorium. There were various desks based on the university with two tutors. Some is a foreigner, and you could choose which university you would like to know and asked there anything! Whether about the major, the cost, the locations, the things you need to prepare, etc. Since Me and my friends are still in first year, we didn't ask things that "muluk-muluk".. at least, we knew what things we should prepare from now if we really want to go there someday (aamiin).

Here're some important  info that I got if you want to apply for school at London, especially S2 programs:

1. Transcript in English, min. IP 3.

2. IELTS min. 6, TOEFL IBT min. 90

3. Reference from two college lecturers! 

4. Passport, visa, and lots of money (if you don't get a scholarship, you need to prepare money around Rp 290 million for the study cost per semester)

Okay that's all what I can share to you :3

By the way, today I came to a (real)-graduation at Graha ITS, it's kind of farewell party for some of my seniors that finally can wear a Toga and make their parents proud of them. I heard the speaker calling their name and said "LULUS DENGAN PUJIAN". Subbhanallah, hopefully me and all of my friends could hear that 3 years from now.. 

I know, the road is still long way to go. So, just keep the spirit up! May Allah always copes all of our dreams :)

Kapan bisa berpikir lebih mahasiswa-is?

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Judul di atas dipersembahkan buat diri saya sendiri. Kapan bisa berpikir lebih mahasiswa-is?

Baru saja melanglang buana di beberapa blog, yang penulisnya adalah seorang mahasiswa. Cuman ada dua hal yang sering saya lakukan ketika membaca tulisan-tulisan mereka, 1. berdecak kagum 2. manggut-manggut. Intinya, tulisan mereka terlalu luar biasa, banyak benernya, dan yang paling penting mahasiswa banget. 

Tapi, sebelumnya, saya mau jelasin dulu, gimana sih definisi tulisan yang mahasiswa banget buat saya?

Yang pertama, menurut saya, mereka yang sudah mahasiswa-is sudah mampu mengangkat sebuah topik yang cangkupannya Nasional, disini mereka nggak mengangkat sesuatu yang individual. Mereka membahas permasalahan dalam cangkup negara. Entah dunia ekonomi, pendidikan, politik, sosial, dll. Mereka mampu menyajikan data-data ataupun informasi yang berkaitan, yang bisa bikin pembaca, "Oh ternyata ada yang kayak gitu ya." Setelahnya, mereka mulai angkat bicara, mereka sampaikan argumen-argumen mereka, poin-poin dari tulisan mereka, gimana tanggepan mereka, gimana kritik mereka, dan gimana solusi dari mereka. Mostly, semua yang mereka sampaikan, itu dalem, maksudnya, "Wow." tapi endingnya mereka juga tetep bisa kasih suatu saran, solusi, atau ide penyelesaian yang konstruktif. 

Buat saya, ya harusnya gini ini, 'mahasiswa-is' Ngga cuman komentarin, nyerca, dan hal-hal sejenisnya terhadap sebuah permasalahan. Tapi juga harus bisa menyarankan solusi yang solutif. Apalagi, umur-umurnya mahasiswa ini kan, usia-usia muda yang 'they said' lagi berada dalam zona kreatif seorang manusia. Zona dimana kita suka menghayalkan hal-hal ekstrim, bahkan harusnya ini juga sebuah zona ketika kita bisa membuat nyata hal-hal ekstrim itu. Kok bisa? Ya, mahasiswa (apalagi yang sampe kuliah S2, S3) itu kan jenjang tertinggi dari sebuah pendidikan. Mulai PG, TK, SD, SMP, SMA, dan akhirnya kuliah. Kan sayang banget gitu harusnya, kalo sejauh itu kita bersekolah, ujung-ujungnya cuman orientasi uang? Dan ilmunya dibiarin menguap. Tapi, yah.. gabisa munafik sih. Tanpa uang, somehow, kita jadi kurang punya taring

Kenapa  perlu berpikir mahasiswa-is?

Firstly, karena emang status kita adalah seorang mahasiswa, jadi udah harfiahnya kita kudu berpikiran yang lebih mahasiswa-is. Kita calon pondasi-pondasi penegak bangsa kita selanjutnya, 20 atau 30 tahun lagi. Masa depan bangsa turun ke tangan kita. Kalo, pola pikir kita masih cuman, "besok ada peer ga ya".. kan juga gimana gitu kan..

Pingin, pingin banget bisa kayak mereka-mereka yang sudah kasih kontribusi nyata buat bumi pertiwi ini, dalam cakupan mereka sebagai mahasiswa. Okelah, 'tapi kan saya masih mahasiswa tahun I. Jadi, gapapalah, masih kayak gini..' Sering-sering banget saya mengagung-agungkan mereka, terinspirasi, namun pada akhirnya saya hanya  melakukan pembelaan diri seperti itu.

Sampai suatu hari, saya menemukan sebuah kata bijak, seperti ini (dengan sedikit perubahan)

Seandainya, bila kata 'tapi' itu tidak ada
Bayangkan, ketika kata 'tapi' itu tidak ada dalam kamus kehidupan kita. Ketika kita melakukan kesalahan, kita tidak bisa mengelak, dengan kata 'tapi...tadi..' dan membuat beribu alasan, atau justru, mengambing hitamkan orang lain. 

Be someone a little braver.. 

Mulailah dengan, ketika kamu melakukan sebuah kesalahan, jangan katakan 'tapi..' dari kata itulah, dirimu memulai memaafkan dirimu dari kesalahan-kesalahan nya, dan akhirnya mengulangnya lagi di hari kedepan. Katakan, 'iya saya salah karena...saya..' 

Akui kekuranganmu. 
Supaya itu bisa menambahmu dengan hal yang lebih baik kedepannya

Memang saya punya kekurangan, saya kurang berani mengungkapkan pendapat secara langsung. Saya masih belajar, saya juga nggak tahu berapa lama waktu yang diperlukan sampai saya bisa menjadi seperti mereka yang sudah berkontribusi secara nyata. Melalui tulisan-tulisan ini dululah saya akan belajar untuk menjadi mahasiswa yang mahasiswa-is. 

Mengutip kata-kata yang diucapkan oleh salah satu pembicara, yang notabene dari kalangan dosen di universitas saya, dalam sebuah acara pembukaan welpar jurnalistik universitas saya beberapa bulan yang lalu.

"Ketika kamu belum berani berbicara. Tulislah saja apa itu yang ingin kamu katakan"

Sedikit namun begitu memotivasi. Saya sangat setuju dengan beliau. Setidaknya, kata-kata beliau mampu membangkitkan semangat orang-orang yang kurang berani berbicara seperti saya ini. Kontribusi bukan hanya tentang turun ke jalan, berorasi. Dengan hanya kita ingin tahu, disitulah kita sudah berkontribusi. Buat saya, words have power. Apalagi real action. Apapun medianya, berorasi, menulis, menyumbang, kampanye, dan sebagainya. Semoga, saya bisa lebih mahasiwa-is kedepannya.

Jadi ?
Akankah kita menjadi pemuda sebagai potensi negara ?
Atau pemuda sebagai sumber permasalahan sebuah negara ?
Kita sendiri yang tentukan.
Semoga kita bisa menjadi insan yang berguna.

;)

                                           
                                                 

People say "Be with the people who bring out the best of you", and I couldn't agree more with those sentences. That's a true statement ever. Simply, because we live only once. So why we must wasting our times on someone who doesn't care with us and only make us sick?
But, however, i still do that sometimes hahaha

I just had a good conversation with someone, who I preferably call as a brother for me, and honestly deep..deep..down inside, somehow I really thankful that destiny met me up with this kind and caring brother like him. Maybe, from outside people will think, that he's someone who less concerned with things around him.. Because he keeps acting cool ._. and stays silent all the way :)) But after I got to know him, I found out that was a really wrong point of view -,- You know, he could suddenly laughing when you ain't even talking to him, just because you're saying one silly word accidentally to someone else.

I always have a good time whenever i get time to chit chat with him, he's really a good companion to talk with, because I can share so many things, whether about my college, my hobby, my lessons, etc :D He's someone who can equal my talks, my thoughts, and my jokes. He can give me an advice. A new information. A new perspective. Tell me what I should or I shouldn't do as well. And that's a good thing. Because, I like it when someone tell me directly which I should have done rather than just saying "that's up to you.." everytime I ask them :) He ever told me, to keep doing what I love. Yes, it's something I love. He said that it's kind of pity..if i stopped doing what I have an ability on, just because, I'm too lazy.

So happy to have lovely people around. For me, everyone is like a rainbow, they have their own color. Maybe sometimes, we can't be one thought with them, because, yes we have differences in every thinking point, and it's a normal thing :) Living with an understanding is a beautiful thing, despite so many differences, we learn to understand and accept others perspective. And what we mostly not realize is, when we tolerate each other, we enrich our thinking ways with that.

Can't wait to have another good time and conversation with you, bro. Especially like on that rainy afternoon. Thanks a lot for always boosted my mood up! ;)

Flood Problem in Jakarta

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Today, I'm going to talk about recent hot issue in most of Indonesia's news shows, flood problem that happens in Indonesia, mostly at Jakarta. Nowadays, flood in Jakarta happens annually, even, it's getting worse and worse - every year, who should to be blame on? Let's take a look first on what factor cause this happened, in my point of view.. 

1. Excess of Population -> too many construction -> green area decrease

As the capital city of Indonesia, where all forms of activities centered here, Jakarta become a city with the most society numbers. with total area: 664,01 km2 Jakarta has patch 9.809.857 society, and has a big differences numbers of society with another cities in Indonesia, and now Jakarta is already classified as  a megapolitan city. 

With these numbers, absolutely Jakarta should grown with many buildings to support the human's activities. Places to work, residential, Mall, stadium, apartments, etc. Which make its green area, trees, plants, forest, reduced year by year along with the increase of the population. Whereas, green areas with plants and trees in there are important place for nature balance. With the presence of trees, whenever the rainy season's coming, it could help soak the water that falling, and decrease the chance for flood disaster.

Now, the green area that available in Jakarta is only 10% of its total area, which ideally it should be 30% .

2. Disposal system 

With those high numbers of society sure it will produce massive garbage in Jakarta. With no good disposal system, it could make a worse condition for Jakarta. Garbage maybe an unimportant things in human's life, it's something that can't be used anymore, it's stink, dirty.. then people throw it away~~pew~~ anywhere, in road, in school, in river, in canal~~ without thinking what may coming up next~~ especially, in rainy season.

Government should provide a good disposal system in Jakarta. They should find most effective and quickest way to anticipate the amount of litter from the society. Government should provide numbers of trash can in ways for every some meters. in crowded place. So, society have more will to throw them in the right place. 

3. Geographical location + bad drainage system

The geographical location is one of largest cause why Jakarta gets a flood every year. Placed after Bogor which in higher level from Jakarta makes Jakarta got its descendant water flows. The bad news is, Jakarta already in bad condition with factors i earlier said. 

Actually it won't really impact to Jakarta if only Jakarta already has a good drainage systems. Every year, with the increase of population, the width of drainage canals are getting smaller and smaller while the water capacity that come's getting higher.. Plus if the drainage system in there nearly broken by ages factor, it will make the condition worse.


What should we do?
It's kind of hard question to solve. Since, we all know, how big matters that made Jakarta having this flood attack every year. We can't blame the high rain intensity, we shouldn't be, because rain is Allah's giving.. So if it becomes a disaster, who else to blame? It's ourself.. as human, who actually caused this. Jakarta already broken the nature being in there until it isn't balance anymore. Too many deforestation. Too many green area used for buildings. Not only that, I get a lil bit disappointed every time I watch a television program that reporting Flood in Jakarta, and the host said..
"Wish the Jakarta's Government could quickly overcome this problem.." 

Wait a minute. So you just hoping the Government is the one who should take an action here? and you wish this problem will be finished? How much time you wish it would take, if you're hoping like that?

Let's counting, how many Government's people that can take action? And how many Jakarta's residents that can take action? It won't ever make sense when you're wishing just The Government that should take an action to overcome this problem and the society not. You're all living in that area together. You produce the garbage, you used the land for making home, you keep coming there with hope that you'll get a better economy, life, etc and when the problem comes up..you're just hoping the Government will finished it...

We all can start helping by doing little things.. Like, don't ever throw garbage anywhere. throw it at the trash can. Or maybe reuse it for something useful again. It's only a simple thing :) 
Maybe we don't notice it, when we throw a piece of plastic in a canal.. and we think, 
"ah it's not a big thing. nothing will happen"
But, how if you keep doing it once every 5 days, multiply it into a month, and a year, and 9.809.857 head. Is it still won't make big thing happen again? 

For bigger solutions.. there're must be a lot. but i believe, most of them will take times. because, the problems're in huge scale. 

1. Do transmigration -> equalization of population -> equalization development
Indonesia is a big country. It contains of..many region. Java, Borneo, Papua, Sumatera, Sulawesi. But, all the society mostly concentrated in Java. Why? Because, the development in this country's uneven. Imagine, if every region in this country, happening an equal development's grade.. The society's numbers. The economy's growth numbers. The resources exploration rate.
Not only the flood matter that will be solved, but also the others problems, such as reduce the unemployment numbers, reduce the traffic jam in high ways, and so many else in the future.

2. Do the vertical's direct construction
One of my college's teacher, in Transportation Building major, ever told me.. as the society growth and the need of massive public facilities's getting higher. We should take an advantage of the vertical's direct construction. vertical's direct is unlimited space that we can used. Like, in developed country, as Japan, American already did. it will surely take times until Indonesia can become like this below.. but.. hey, nothing's impossible ;)
*)P.S: if you don't understand what I mean, these're the examples of vertical's direct construction

japan's highway (img src: google.com)

Dubai Marina Real Estate Apartment (img src: google.com)

Los Angeles's Highway (img src: google.com)

3. Repair/rebuild, and keep maintenance the drainage system

Since, the drainage system like, water pump, flood gate, is still human's production. Slowly, they could get broken by the time. So, people should take a serious maintenance of it. Every 3 month, every 6 month, or every year, maybe. It sure will take cost, but prevention is better than repressive, isn't it?

Compared with the cost that should spend for the maintenance, i'm sure it will less than the cost for keeping back the city condition. less than resident's properties that broken by the flood.

Last but not least.. let's wishing all the best for our brothers and sisters out there.. which was hit by the flood, may you all blessed in Allah's shelter and kindness.. let's save our environment since now.. we are the ones who can prevent ourself from bad things. May Every incident is in Allah's will. but we must make an effort. Take the lesson..and learn from that.. bismillahirohmanirohim.. :)

Three Gorges DAM

Hey, I Just watched National Geographic Channel. It's talking about Three Gorges DAM in China. They compare it with others barrage which already built earlier than this, such as.. Hoover DAM in USA, Krasnoyarsk DAM in Russia, etc.

I could take a summary from watching this spectacle, that, how important is it to learn from others things that has been there earlier. Yes, we should make an evaluation from things around us. We should learn, which one is good and which one is bad from that things, then.. we use and follow the good ones and we change/recycle/rearrange the bad ones. So that, we could.. produce a better thing afterwards 

In this show, NatGeo channel showed us, how.. greater is it the Three Gorges DAM at China, its strength, its making way, its used technology, its mechanism, its surplus, its different than the others dam in the world. And it is really really massive cool! This show showed us, how wisdom are the Chinese people in the making of this dam.

The Three Gorges DAM (source: wikipedia)

I can't exactly tell you what's the intention of this barrage with another barrage, since it used a higher language on Civil theory.. (especially on water construction major) So you better, find its video (I provide you one below)

What makes the Three Gorges Dam special?

1. to construct this barrage, China needs to move away numbers of its population. They migrate them to some places in country, it also impact on China's economic system for some couple times, but I guess it has been solved, since with the construction of this DAM it means that Chinese quality are raised. They somehow already in higher level. They have another facility to support their life. They have DAM which the world's largest hydro power, i mean the sacrifice they've made are paid off.

2. When DAM's already operating, its water that fall down from the barrage will have a damage power to the land below them. Slowly.. it could reduce the barrage's land power, it scrape the soil layer below the building, and make the building collapse, because they're not strong enough for keeping the pressure that keep coming from the water. So, Three Gorges used a new method which adapted from Grand Coulee DAM in US State to overcome this problem,

if the Grand Coulee make a curvature concrete below their DAM, Three Gorges build it above the water (the red ones), so after the water fall down the barrage, they splashed until around 100m up, so  it won't have a distracted power anymore, the foundation land won't be deflected

source: google.com , This's how the water splashed outside the water space

3. Since, Three Gorges DAM placed in Yangtze river, it's one of busiest river in Asia, it's really useful for the traffic. With the Three Gorges DAM construction it will destruct the traffic activity in there. So, Chinese engineer, made a similar way which used at Krasnoyarsk DAM in Russia. They made a lift which using the water power (adapt the hydraulic pump theory).. So it can lift the ships from one side to another side of the DAM. 

4. The Three Gorges DAM's engineer could find out a method to make its building material which won't lose with nature's power.

And another excess that i haven't been mentioned since i still lack on English (i wish i could increase it soon), and my civil knowledge not that much yet, but soon I will, aamiin ;) I just wanna share you an info that I just got, well, Three Gorges DAM has been produce an ultimate hydro power for China, It really give much impact on many things in China, their Economical, their transportation, their flood problems, their irrigation, their electricity) .. and so many else, which grow to better and higher level. And made China into one of developed country in the world. 

We should learn many things from this. We could see.. how Allah already provide us with things in nature, water, sunshine, which can be used for something more useful. which can produce big power to be used. We as a human..just should keep learn and learn and find a way how to make things possible..and being useful.

Allah gives us sense and mind, to safe this world, to live in this world, Bismillah may Allah shows us always the wise way..to through. it's one of human's masterpiece. it's a real evidence, that yes we're capable to make big things, whatever is that, however they seems from too impossible -> to be possible. Crazy ideas are the biggest idea. People said if your dreams aren't scared you enough... that means they're not big enough. Keep imagining, keep dreaming, and work for it. Nobody knows if one day we could make them true. The ones who success are ones that have courage and believe in their dreams.  Subbhanallah :)