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Over the past couple of months, I’ve noticed with some alarm that my assignments is need a full attention. With every passing days, with all hellishly busy things, I’m getting a little insomnia also get a little wider body as well. Hohoho.. *drooling eyes*

Okay, let’s back to the topic -Time to Nostalgia. Overall, I am highly nostalgic when it comes to a school teacher, Mr. Yana, from my childhood when I was about 10th years old in elementary school at SDN Depok Baru 03. It wasn’t a good one, mine were horrible and mostly because of my teacher who got me through execrable days. I think he spent much time to insult me as a spoilt child or whatever in front of the class. I saw his face very “smugness in hell” after he said something terrible about me. It really suc**! Sadly, don’t know why! I’m just a kid, at that time. I wasn’t a mischievous kid anyways. *sigh*

Did he know Child Psychology? Hmm..Probably not! Yes, he was too intelligent enough to understand child psychology (heh? wasn’t he?).

You know, children are innocent and when they do mistakes in their innocency, adult people (parents or maybe teachers) will insult or even spank them by thinking they won’t do the same mistakes again. This has developed depression or grief for kids -maybe worse- a typical trauma, which when originating in childhood. Of course it is difficult to erase trauma from one’s mind completely even after the reality of this life becomes clear. There is yet one more reason. Some semblance of privacy as the child begins to become conscious of the need for it. Just allow the growing child “his/her” moments of privacy. Teaching the child the enjoyment of his/her certain convenient moments of privacy is one of those factors which determine the extent to which the child develops independent personality. The need for their moments of common privacy should be respected.

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Discipline to a child should not mean punishment. It is about teaching him right from wrong. Emphasizing the positives gives a child something to look forward too and be respectful. For younger children several positive approaches seem to work best. First is the ‘do as I do’ routine. Children love to imitate adults and by modeling good behavior, you are showing them how to do it. If you expect good manners from your child, show him that they are important by using them yourself. Speak in a normal, respectful tone and look them in the eye. This tends to make the child listen to what you are saying instead of how you are saying it. Tell him what you expect or want instead of what not to do.

Let me end with this note:

Children are human beings and deserve to be respected as a person. It is up to the adult people to find positive ways of helping children grow up to be respectful and responsible adults. Insulting or spanking teaches children that they can get their way using violence, and most parents really do not want that lesson learned. For all teachers or parents who are still using this methods to children, d’oh! “get real” and “get into your head”, this will lead to worse children’s behavior.. Pay attention please!

Ho boy! Not a good childhood nostalgic at all.

Umm.. actually I’m always inspired to do more in architectural stuff when I get back from “blogging” (*grin). Last days, I found an interesting new architectural building based on Dynamic Architecture, a rotating skyscraper that is to be built in Dubai, U.A.E.

A new skyscraper that will be ‘the world’s first building in motion,’ a tower with revolving floors that give it an ever-shifting shape. Yes, one of the future architecture; it moves, it rotates, it is sustainable and of course it will be green too. Each floor rotates separately by time and rotates around a central axis powered by the sun and wind, meaning the shape of building will constantly change. Well, it’s mean that you can take breakfast facing sunrise and having dinner enjoying sunlight without moving from your room. It is phenomenally idea. This Dynamic Architecture concept (named as Rotating Tower) was introduced by Florentine-Italian architect David Fisher. According to Fisher, the building ensures a very high resistance to earthquakes as each floor rotates independently.

For a quick look at the skyscraper, take a look at this video.

As you can see in the video, each individual floor is able to rotate. Note that the rotation of the floors is slow and uses power – the rotation of the floors does not produce power.

But that’s not all. The tower is also a ‘green’ building that generates electricity for itself and five other equivalent buildings. The secret is 58 wind turbines mounted horizontally between one floor and the next, and the photovoltaic cells located on the roofs of the individual apartments. Never before has a building been designed to produce so much more energy than it consumes.

Rotating skyscrapers get their power from wind turbines that are placed between floors and which rotate freely with the wind. (The above illustration shows the only part of the occupied floors to emphasize the turbines.) Additional power is provided from solar cells on the tops of the individual floors.

Construction dates for the first building have not yet been announced (dunno yet), but the first one will be built in Dubai. Pre-fabricated units for the tower will be produced in a facility set up in Jebel Ali (a port 35 kilometers southwest of Dubai). The same units will then be shipped to eleven other major cities, including Moscow, Milan, New York and Tokyo, where similar towers will rise.

More details from the architects:

Our Architecture employs wind turbines, positioned horizontally between each floors, which will produce energy to the building itself and will supply as well energy for several other buildings. A tower of 59 floors will have 58 wind turbines, making the building to be also a Power Station producing Green Energy in the city. Because if tomorrow is the time where we all are going to live the rest of our lives, we want it to be a really better place.

The Dynamic Architecture building, which will be constantly in motion changing its shape, will be able to generate electric energy for itself as well as for other buildings. Forty-eight wind turbines fitted between each rotating floors as well as the solar panels positioned on the roof of the building will produce energy from wind and the sunlight, with no risk of pollution.

The total energy produced by this inbuilt ‘powerhouse’ every year will be worth approximately seven million dollars. Each turbine can produce 0.3 megawatt of electricity, compared to 1-1.5 megawatt generated by a normal vertical turbine (windmill).

Considering that Dubai gets 4,000 wind hours annually, the turbines incorporated into the building can generate 1,200,000 kilowatt-hour of energy.
As average annual power consumption of a family is estimated to be 24,000 kilowatt-hour, each turbine can supply energy for about 50 families. The Dynamic Architecture tower in Dubai will be having 200 apartments and hence four turbines can take care of their energy needs.

The surplus clean energy produced by the remaining 44 turbines can light up the neighborhood of the building. However, taking into consideration that the average wind speed in Dubai is of only 16 km/h the architects may need to double the number of turbines to light up the building to eight. Still there will be 40 free turbines, good enough to supply power for five skyscrapers of the same size.

The horizontal turbines of the Dynamic Architecture building are simply inserted between the floors, practically invisible. They neither need a pole nor a concrete foundation. In addition, they are at zero distance from the consumer, which makes maintenance easier. The modern design of the building and the carbon fiber special shape of the wings take care of the acoustics issues.

Producing that much electric energy without any implication on the aesthetic aspect of the building is a revolutionary step in tapping alternative energy sources. Furthermore, this energy will have a positive impact on the environment and economy.

This architecture is revolutionary even in the way it’s built. It is in fact the first building produced in a factory, apart from the concrete core. It’s produced of complete luxury units in a factory, including all plumbing, electrical, air conditioning and installed on the concrete core right on location.

This ready made implementation offers high quality finishing, high quality control and the use of a very few workers on site, with a real cost, life risks and time savings. Besides, this architecture, made of single separated floors offer higher seismic resistance than any other normal building. Dynamic Architecture is designed for better living even before it’s finished.

Thanks to the fact that it’s built in a factory and just assembled on site, the number of workers on site is reduced from 2000 to 90. The ready made technology allows a revolutionary implementation which is the quickest way to build a tower: building time is reduced from 30 to 18 months. The revolutionary ready made technology, plus the fact that it moves to the wind, allows the building to be 1.3 times more resistant to earthquakes.

Well this is the first time for me to post a bizzare thing like this which is an American man, Thomas Beatie, 34, of Bend, Oregon who claims he is six months pregnant. However, he used to be a woman before undergoing gender reassignment surgery.

Check this : ‘Pregnant man’ goes on Oprah Winfrey show.

Speaking on Oprah Winfrey’s Show, he said: “Different is normal and love makes a family. And that’s all that matters.”

Beatie appeared with his wife, Nancy, for the interview. The audience was shown footage of his ultrasound scan and heard the sound of a heartbeat. As he saw the scan on the monitor, Beatie told the doctor: “She’s kicking. I can’t believe it. I can’t believe she’s inside me. This is a miracle. We see this as a miracle.”

How does it feel to be a pregnant man? “Incredible. Despite the fact that my belly is growing with a new life inside me, I am stable and confident being the man that I am. In a technical sense I see myself as my own surrogate, though my gender identity as male is constant. To Nancy, I am her husband carrying our child—I am so lucky to have such a loving, supportive wife. I will be my daughter’s father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family.

Outside the local medical community, people don’t know I’m five months’ pregnant. But our situation ultimately will ask everyone to embrace the gamut of human possibility and to define for themselves what is normal.

He described pregnancy as a “human desire”, not limited to women. “I’m a person and I have the right to have my own biological child,” he said. Beatie said pregnancy did not make him feel more feminine.

“It doesn’t make me want to go and shave my legs or something,” he said. “I’m a man, I just happen to be a pregnant man.” He told Winfrey he had had a sex change but had not altered his reproductive organs because he wanted to have a child.

Is society ready for this pregnant husband?

Anyway, now that pregnant men becomes a reality in life, RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center, for male pregnancy is still in its experimental stage. In this case their research is experimented in Mr. Lee Mingwei, artist who has had solo exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Cleveland Museum of Art and, of course, became the first human man to successfully become pregnant. He will be the first human male to ever birth a baby from his own body.

Based on RYT researched, in vitro fertilization (IVF) techniques were used to induce an ectopic pregnancy by implanting an embryo and placenta into the abdominal cavity, just under the peritoneum (the surrounding lining). Please read below for the step-by-step process.

1. HORMONES

Oral doses of female hormones were administered to Mr. Lee, to make him receptive to the pregnancy. The following graphs of his hormone treatment were prepared by Simone M. Lowell, M.D., Ph.D., Attending Physician and Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Reproductive Medicine at RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center. Dr. Lowell’s research is one of the primary reasons that this clinical procedure is now possible.

2. IMPLANTATION

IVF techniques were used to induce an ectopic pregnancy by implanting an embryo and placenta into the abdominal cavity, just under or into the peritoneum (the surrounding lining). There is a severe risk of massive hemorrhage when the ectopic ruptures; this is also the most common cause of women dying in pregnancy.

3. EMBRYO GROWTH

Once implantation was complete, Mr. Lee stopped taking hormones, because the pregnancy itself, as expected, took over. The embryo secretes sufficient hormones to maintain its own growth and development.

In the years since the first “test tube baby” was born in 1978, physicians and scientists from RYT Hospital have been working to develop a viable technique for the successful impregnation of male individuals. Illustrated to the right is a recent radiographic image of Mr. Lee, the first human subject to attempt this procedure, which shows the healthy fetus developing in his abdominal cavity.

4. GROWTH OF THE FETUS

The duration of the pregnancy has been surprisingly normal, i.e. fetal heart monitoring, chorionic villus sampling, ultrasound scanning (as seen on this web site), and a constant watch over Mr. Lee’s health and his enlarging stomach. “Men, as they grow older,” Dr. Winston of London’s Hammersmith Hospital observed playfully, “have already learned to cope with a steadily expanding waistline. Granted, well, this is a bit different.”

5. DELIVERY

The delivery will requires open surgery (Cesarean section) to remove the baby and the placenta. Removal of the placenta is the real danger because it forms such intimate connections with surrounding vessels that massive hemorrhage is likely. Implantation may have also involved other structures in the abdomen, including the bowel and it is possible that parts of other organs may need to be removed. Several physicians who are well-accustomed to advanced and dangerous forms of ectopic pregnancies will be on-hand to handle any complications.

Last days I saw in TV, actually one of my favorite movies in childhood, BACK TO THE FUTURE trilogy. Do you remember that movies / have ever seen it? Back to the Future is a 1985 science fiction–comedy film Starring by Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. The film’s basic storyline involves the premise of time travel being used to breach the generation gap.

What do you want to do, if you can back in time – past or future? Imagine that you could use a time machine to journey back in time.. Ever wish you could reach back in time and change the past? Just Imagining..

Bandung?! Check this out!

However, Bandung (City of Flowers), is the provincial capital of West Java and Indonesia’ s fourth largest city – host to the historic Asia Africa conference in 1955. Bandung known in colonial times as the “Paris van Java”, was a name which means approximately the Paris from Indonesia, deserves this name because it has a number of interesting tourism objects, namely natural tourism, shopping tourism, artificial tourism, religious tourism and also various special snacks and foods offered in food stall, café, even restaurant – well, actually we can say because of its European ambiance and sophistication for sure.

(old time clip, 1912)

Bandung shares with Miami a fine legacy of Tropical Deco architecture dating from the 1920’s. Situated on a plateau in the beautiful Parahayangan mountains, Bandung’s pleasant climate and lush surroundings have offered an escape from the heat of the lowlands since the mid 19th century when it was the heart of the region’s most prosperous plantation area.

(Hotel Homann, 1880)

This is the view of the old Grand Hotel Homann and surroundings. Hotel Homann was founded around 1870 on the Groote Postweg (now Asia Africa Street) as a simple hotel, but grew to be the most popular hotel of Bandung. Many famous people stayed there (Charlie Chaplin stayed in 1925, Mary Pickford and many of the Third World leaders), but besides that it was very well known for its rice-table. In 1938 / 1939 the old hotel was replaced by a modern Indonesian new-business-style (art deco style) building by a design of architect Aalbers, with the new name Hotel Savoy Homann.

(Hotel Savoy Homann, present)

Fokker airplanes of the KNIL (Dutch Army) airforce are flying above the Department of Government Buildings (Gouvernements Bedrijven) in 1925, betterknown as Gedung Sate. North of this area are no buildings on the picture, only the Geological Laboratory, beside which the Geological Museum later was to be built, is already completed. This city-district mainly was reserved as an building-area for other departments from Batavia (Jakarta), but those transfer-plans were cancelled. South of the Gedung Sate roads are built and the first country-houses are to be seen.

(1925)

(Gedung Sate, present)

(Clip of tourist tour in bandung, 1993)

Some contents are taken from Bandung City & Indahnesia.