underwater

spending some times surfing the net with the students earlier today.
without expectation, without planning, but turned to a BIG awe......!!!!
coz we found this amazing thing underwater.

still believe in the magic of believing and the power of dream???
let's put the following hotel in our next holiday trip.

Currently under construction in Dubai, Hydropolis will be the world's first luxury underwater hotel. It will include three elements: the land station, where guests will be welcomed, the connecting tunnel, which will transport people by train to the main area of the hotel, and the 220 suites within the submarine leisure complex. It is one of the largest contemporary construction projects in the world, covering an area of 260 hectares, about the size of London's Hyde Park.
"Hydropolis is not a project; it's a passion," enthuses Joachim Hauser, the developer and designer of the hotel. His futuristic vision is about to take shape 20m below the surface of the Persian Gulf, just off the Jumeirah Beach coastline in Dubai.

The £300m, 220-suite hotel was due to open by the end of 2006 but has experienced delays and is now scheduled to open in 2009.

The original idea for Hydropolis developed out of Hauser's passion for water and the sea, and goes much deeper than just building a hotel underwater. More than just curiosity, it is a commitment to a more far-reaching philosophy. "Once you start digging deeper and deeper into the subject, you can't help being fascinated and you start caring about all the associated issues," he explains. "Humans consist of 80% water, the earth consists of 80% water; without water there is no life."
Hydropolis reproduces the human organism in an architectural design. There is a direct analogy between the physiology of man and the architecture. The geometrical element is a figure eight lying on its side and inscribed in a circle. The spaces created in the basin will contain function areas, such as restaurants, bars, meeting rooms and theme suites. These can be compared to the components of the human organism: the motor functions and the nervous and cardiovascular systems, with the central sinus knot representing the pulse of all life.
The ballroom, located at this nerve centre, will have asymmetrical pathways connecting the different storeys along ramps. A large, petal-like retracting roof will enable the staging of open-sky events. Staircases, lifts and ramps will provide access to the ballroom, while flanking catering areas will supply banquets and receptions.

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-dwizan_

In My Prayer/ Dalam Doaku

(taken from "Hujan Bulan Juni" 1989)

in my prayer this morning you became the sky that the whole night did not close its eyes, a spotted spread ready to receive the first light, a curve of silence in wait of sound/

Dalam doaku subuh ini kau menjelma langit yang semalaman tak memejamkan mata, yang meluas bening siap menerima cahaya pertama, yang melengkung hening karena akan menerima suara-suara

as the sun drifted above my head, you became in my prayer the tips of pines, eternally green and forever provoking abstruse  questions to the wind that hisses from direction unknown/

Ketika matahari mengambang tenang di atas kepala, dalam doaku kau menjelma pucuk-pucuk cemara yang hijau senantiasa, yang tak henti-hentinya mengajukan pertanyaan muskil kepada angin yang mendesau entah dari mana

in my prayer at dusk you become the sparrow that fluffed its feathers in the mist, alighted on the branch and felled the tassel of guava flowers, that in sudden excitement flew away to alight on the mango branch/

Dalam doaku sore ini kau menjelma seekor burung gereja yang mengibas-ibaskan bulunya dalam gerimis, yang hinggap di ranting dan menggugurkan bulu-bulu bunga jambu, yang tiba-tiba gelisah dan terbang lalu hinggap di dahan mangga itu

this evening in my prayer you become the distant wind that descended ever so slowly, tiptoed down the path and slipped through the cracks of the panes and door to press its cheeks and lips against my hair, chin and eyelashes/

Maghrib ini  dalam doaku kau menjelma angin yang turun sangat perlahan dari nun di sana, bersijingkat di jalan dan menyentuh-nyentuhkan pipi dan bibirnya di rambut, dahi, dan bulu-bulu mataku

in my prayer tonight you become the beating of my heart that has so patiently endured what seems limitless pain and faithfully revealed one secret after another, the unending song of my life/

Dalam doa malamku kau menjelma denyut jantungku, yang dengan sabar bersitahan terhadap rasa sakit yang entah batasnya, yang setia mengusut rahasia demi rahasia, yang tak putus-putusnya bernyanyi bagi kehidupanku

i love you, and for that reason, will never stop praying for your well being/

Aku mencintaimu. Itu sebabnya aku takkan pernah selesai mendoakan keselamatanmu

 *given by pak iyan "the inspiring teacher"
-dwizan- 

About Teacher

need to rekindle my spirit of teaching
and i found the following quotes
reassure me about walking the right path
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work.  It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.  ~Jacques Barzun

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.  ~Author Unknown


If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.  ~Donald D. Quinn

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.  ~Henry Brooks Adams


A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.  ~Author Unknown


The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.  He inspires self-distrust.  He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him.  He will have no disciple.  ~Amos Bronson Alcott


A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.  ~Louis A. Berman

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.  ~Bob Talbert


The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires.  ~William Arthur Ward


The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.  ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton


A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.  ~Author Unknown


What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.  ~Karl Menninger


Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.  ~Author Unknown


A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at.  ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902


Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another.  And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.  ~Eugene P. Bertin

Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us.  They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.  ~Author Unknown


Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.  ~Jacques Barzun

To teach is to learn twice.  ~Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842


The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.  ~Author Unknown


Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first.  The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.  When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.  ~Marva Collins


The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.  ~Elbert Hubbard

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.  The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.  ~Haim G. Ginott

retrieved from: teacher quotes

http://www.quotegarden.com/teachers.html

curcol

came home after a long day of working.
i didn't even see the sunset. just knew it from the darken shadow through the widows.
i saw my mom and dad had fallen a sleep.
what a scene.

mom, who'd just hospitalized looked so pale and powerless. and dad who laid down not far from her seemed so peace and soundly.
they looked like two people hold on tight to the promise they made thirty years ago. of being "together in sickness and health, till death do as apart."

what did i miss?
so much..
that i cried in silence.

three years ago, when i let go my master degree, my dream of becoming a lecturer, and went back to my hometown. i made promise to spend more time with my parents.
but now, i keep busy mending my own business. i work from dawn till dusk.
when i'm home, i still busy doing my office tasks.
i barely spend time just to talk about my day with mom and dad.

what did i miss?
a lot...
that i'm thinking of quitting the job.

i will never have enough time to pay back all they gave to me
i will never have enough money to buy even just a second of our time together

"If today was your last day
Would you make your mark by mending a broken heart?
You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars
Regardless of who you are

So do whatever it takes
'Cause you can't rewind a moment in this life
Let nothing stand in your way
'Cause the hands of time are never on your side"

-Nickelback: If Today Was Your Last Day-

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love you mom&dad

-dwizan-