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Gentlemen, I’m afraid you might be tempted to death. That’s why I suggest that you not join these excited male audiences to rush to see the beauty of this 23-year-old Japanese star. Ha-ha-ha … Who is she anyway?

By the way, do you really wanna see her in action? No way, she’s contemplating changing any scenes of the type she is famous for.

And I suggest that you wait until the end of this year as her film is scheduled for release.
Unfortunately, right now she prefers to star in an Indonesian movie named Menculik Miyabi (Kidnapping Miyabi).

It is a movie that will probably attract a lot of hype this year. Yes, as a woman of distinctive beauty created from the mix of genes from her Japanese mother and French-Canadian father, Miyabi has risen into global stardom since she started appearing in porn movies in 2005

Calm down, rein in your imaginations. It will purely be a comedy, the Jakarta Post reports. Written by witty blogger Raditya Dika, the comedy tells the story of a man so obsessed with Miyabi that he plans to kidnap her.

Well, if you wish, you could join the people in picture above to kidnap her in advance. Ha-ha-ha …

Join Mr. Nurman learns to tickle your fancy for more ha-ha-has

Have you seen a picture of rushing people packed like sardine? From Jakarta, take the train to some destinations you prefer to go throughout Java, and automatically you will become one of them.

It is hard to make a reservation today by any means of transportation even if you are eager to, to have a convenience one. Jakartans are gearing up for the massive holy season exodus this week, when many will visit relatives mostly in small towns in Central and East java as part of the post-Ramadan festivities, the Jakarta Post reports.

Mudik as the Indonesian calls it, literally means going home or return. The phenomenon which is followed by a home-bound traffic and forces the government to brace for such problems as well, has long been lasting as a ritually annual trip; mainly concentrated in the capital city, big cities and Java in general.

According to Chaedar Alwasilah, a professor at the Indonesia University of Education (UPI) in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, the mudik phenomenon is an annual event that distinctively characterizes Indonesian Muslims as a nation. Fasting in Ramadan and celebrating Idul Fitri are commonly observed by Muslims all over the globe, yet mudik is uniquely characteristic of Indonesians. As a recurring even mudik is predictable in many aspects, and therefore it can be explained sociologically.

Predictably it entails day-long traffic jam, congestion, high-cost and risky travel, and often accidents and death.



However, home is home sweet home; everybody is longing to see his sweet home and to greet his folks. You cannot find the same occasion some other time in the same year. Mudik is not merely a cultural ceremony but must be part of hablun minannas or devotion to God by way of interpersonal commitment. Muslims who believe that Lebaran(the Feast Day of Islam known as Idul Fitri)is rahmatan lil alamin (God’s mercy on human beings) also realize that it is celebration for all: Muslims, non-Muslims, fasting ones, on-fasting ones, the haves, and the have-nots.

Therefore, put aside all anxiety on the way home, everybody can’t wait for the Feast Day to come!

I was the one among the office workers in Jakarta tall buildings who rushed outside when the earthquake started to rattle around 03:00 pm. on Wednesday (Sept 2nd). Of course, this is the best way anticipating the possible collapse of buildings. The tremor indeed sent panic across the city and we felt the jolt of a 7.3-magnitude earthquake Luckily my office was located on the 4th floor (known as 3A referring to Chinese preference number) so it didn’t take a long time for me to reach out and I didn’t have to feel exhausted after running down. But the sways left me in dizziness out there and I kept feeling sick for a couple of hours.

For me, this is the first time that I feel the tremble. Many coworkers of mine had felt the same experiences a few years before and according to them, this is the worst.

It took around one hour to bring back our guts to get back to work. And none of us had the initiative to call it a day, not even my two pregnant coworkers. We got back to work and exchanged pleasantries, instead.

However, there is an encouraging story coming along with this tragedy, to my astonishment. One of our coworkers turned out to have been trapped in the office. He had been locked in and left behind after all of the employees had run out and scrambled for their own safety. Even though the whole of the office door was covered by glass, he had not tried to break it by throwing out some chairs or tables just in case of emergency. Maybe it’s too thick to fracture.

I asked him how he had felt. As a normal person, he had been worried, of course, but this had not driven him to the frenzy of his own. He said calmly that he had totally surrendered to God, leaving all things to Him.

Of what he had done for his own sake, I concluded that he was the one to comprehend as well as to apply the religious teachings of the fasting month well. Not only he refrained from carnal desires: food, drink, smoking and sex—as every believing Muslim obliged to do so during the days of Ramadan—by the time anybody should have done an extreme for his life, he had gone back to his desk, got the Holy Book of Koran and recited it and prayed.

What a precious lesson! I wonder what and you and I would do if only we were him.

Likely this is hardly happening in any other parts of the globe as to giving alms with its own typical tradition. Ramadan, the holy month for Muslims to perform as much virtue in order to gain the spiritual title of the best quality of manhood, gives way to each other to share happiness together. One of the ways to tighten family ties is to love as well as to care for the young. And giving them small money, even though it is not a must, so far becomes a sort of obligation to celebrate the feast day ahead.



In Indonesia in some cities and towns, dozens of people line up for small change at a mobile teller counter of available Banks. The Bank provides small change to face higher demands ahead of Idul Fitri. In greater Jakarta each person is allowed to change up to Rp 200,000 (US$20)

While some people in need of change surely have savings, some others who are in need of money are not as lucky as to wish the have to give them some. The issue of seasonal beggars controlled by a ‘big boss’ forces the city administration to take action. It is not a good view to see the authority chase and net the beggars out there, especially in the holy month. But how can we Muslims who are ‘cleaning’ ourselves look at it, since the city itself has to be ‘cleaned’!