Monday, June 23, 2008

Papa's love

The true story about papa love..

I can not believed this story... but its true!!! An old man took 71 days.. hike.. yes.. hike.. not by car or by bike.... for visited his son.. His son is a prisoner.. He has no money.. because his pocket was stolen by a thief...

The poor old man love his son so much... He did not see his son for 2 years.. And he is so nostalgic.. he has no choice.. he was dare.. hike 600 miles.. only support by a stick.. Some time he was hungry.. he begged or reaped scraps of food...

Dad's 71-day trek to see son in prison

The man walked for 71 days from his hometown at Taihe town, Anhui province, to the prison at Lianping town, Guangdong province.

The pensioner, whose name was not disclosed by the Southern Daily, had planned to take the train but had his savings stolen shortly after leaving home. The father, who walks with a stick, says he begged all the way, and sometimes ate rotten food from bins during his two month journey.

"I didn't see him for two years. I am here to visit him and tell him not to worry about me and transform himself for good, while in prison," he said.

Prison wardens were so touched by his story that they even bent the rules to allow him to see his son.
"We usually need the visitor to show us his ID card, but his was stolen along with the money," said warden Liu Guanghui.

The son, Xie Fei, revealed that his father is actually is his adoptive father, as his real parents died when he was ten.

"He adopted me and loves me very much, but I have nothing to repay all this," said Xie.

His father made the return journey home in much less time - after wardens clubbed together to buy him a train ticket.


The story in Bahasa..

Kakek tua itu menyusuri jalan langkah demi langkah dengan tongkatnya selama 71 hari. Usia 72 tahun lengkap dengan rambut putihnya tidak menghalangi niat mengunjungi putra tercintanya di penjara.

Tidak ada pilihan selain berjalan kaki. Tukang copet telah mencuri niatnya semula untuk menumpang kereta api.

Cinta si kakek yang tinggal di Kota Taihe, Anhui, Cina, benar-benar diwujudkannya selama perjalanan. Dia rela mengemis dan mengorek makanan basi di tempat sampah agar bisa bertemu putranya di tempat yang jauhnya 600 mil di Kota Lianping, Guangdong.

"Saya sudah 2 tahun tidak melihatnya. Saya ke sini untuk bertemu dan memberitahunya agar tidak mengkhawatirkan saya dan agar berubah menjadi baik selama di penjara," kata si kakek.

Rasa haru menyelimuti petugas penjara yang mendengar kisah kakek tua itu. Akhirnya mereka melonggarkan peraturan supaya sang kakek bisa bertemu putranya.

"Kami biasanya mewajibkan pengunjung menunjukkan kartu identitasnya, tapi punya dia hilang waktu uangnya dicuri," kata petugas penjara Liu Guanghui.

Masih belum takjub? Cerita tentang si kakek belum selesai.

Anaknya, Xie Fei, ternyata bukan anak kandungnya sendiri alias hasil adopsi. Xie Fei pun mengakui betapa besar cinta si kakek pada dirinya.

"Dia mengadopsi saya dan sangat mencintai saya. Saya tidak punya apa-apa untuk membayar semua kasih sayangnya," kata Xie.

Usai menjenguk Xie, si kakek bisa pulang ke rumahnya tanpa harus bersusah payah. Petugas penjara yang bersimpati patungan untuk membeli tiket kereta buat si kakek.

Friday, June 13, 2008

Detector for your lie...

Some times you lie.. may be ..
How do I identify, thats your information is true?

Lie detection is the practice of determining whether someone is lying. Activities of the body not easily controlled by the conscious mind are compared under different circumstances. Usually this involves asking the subject control questions where the answers are known to the examiner and comparing them to questions where the answers are not known. Lie detection commonly involves the polygraph. Voice stress analysis may be also be more commonly used because it can be applied covertly to monitor voice recordings. The polygraph detects changes in body functions not easily controlled by the conscious mind. This includes bodily reactions like skin conductivity and heart rate.

An fMRI can be used to compare brain activity differences for truth and lie [1]. In episode 109 of the popular science show Mythbusters, the three members of the build team attempted to fool an fMRI test. Although two of them were unsuccessful, the third was able to successfully fool the machine, suggesting that fMRI technology still requires further development. Electroencephalography is used to detect changes in brain waves.

Brain fingerprinting uses electroencephalography to determine if an image is familiar to the subject. This could detect deception indirectly but is not a technique for lie detecting. Truth drugs such as sodium thiopental are used for the purposes of obtaining accurate information from an unwilling subject. Information obtained by publicly-disclosed truth drugs has been shown to be highly unreliable, with subjects apparently freely mixing fact and fantasy. Much of the claimed effect relies on the belief of the subject that they cannot tell a lie while under the influence of the drug. Cognitive chronometry, or the measurement of the time taken to perform mental operations, can be used to distinguish lying from truth-telling. One recent instrument using cognitive chronometry for this purpose is the Timed Antagonistic Response Alethiometer, or TARA.

Monday, June 9, 2008

Rumah Gadang

(Istana Pagaruyung 2006)


R
umah gadang sambilan ruang,
salanja kudo balari,
sapakiak budak maimbau,
sajariah kubin malayang.
Gonjongnyo rabuang mambasuik,
antiang-antiangnyo disemba alang.

Rumah gadang (Minangkabau language : 'big house') are the traditional homes (Indonesian : 'rumah adat') of the Minangkabau. The architecture, construction, internal and external decoration, and the functions of the house reflect the culture and values of the Minangkabau. A rumah gadang serves as a residence, a hall for family meetings, and for ceremonial activities. With the Minangkabau society being matrilineal, the rumah gadang is owned by the women of the family who live there - ownership is passed from mother to daughter.

The houses have dramatic curved roof structure with multi-tired, upswept gables. Shuttered windows are built into walls incised with profuse painted floral carvings. The term rumah gadang usually refers to the larger communal homes, however, smaller single residences share many of its architectural elements

Friday, June 6, 2008

Matrilineality

Matrilineality is a system in which one belongs to one's mother's lineage.

A matriline is a line of descent from a female ancestor to a descendant (of either sex) in which the individuals in all intervening generations are female. In a matrilineal descent system (uterine descent), an individual is considered to belong to the same descent group as his or her mother. This is in contrast to the more currently common pattern of patrilineal descent.

The uterine ancestry of an individual is a person's pure female ancestry, i.e. a matriline leading from a female ancestor to that individual.

Mitochondrial DNA (mt-DNA) is normally inherited exclusively from one's mother - both daughters and sons inherit it all the same. As mt-DNA are sort of "cellular power plants," one's metabolism and energy conversion are much influenced by the matrilineal descent.

In some cultures, membership of a group is inherited matrilineally; examples of this include many ancient cultures such as the Egyptians and contemporary ones such as the Minangkabau culture of West Sumatra, the Ezhava, Nairs, and Kurichiyas of Kerala, India, Bunts, Billavas and Mogaveeras of Karnataka, Pillai caste in Nagercoil District of Tamil Nadu, the Khasi and Garo of Meghalaya, India, the Naxi of China, the Gitksan of British Columbia the Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee), the Hopi, and the Tuaregs.

In the ancient kingdom of Elam, the succession to the throne was matrilineal, and a nephew would succeed his maternal uncle to the throne.

The order of succession to the position of the Rain Queen is a modern example in an African culture of matrilineal primogeniture: not only is dynastic descent reckoned through the female line, but only females, not males are eligible to inherit.

Minangkabau

The Minangkabau ethnic group (also known as Minang or Padang) is indigenous to the highlands of West Sumatra, in Indonesia. Their culture is matrilineal, with property and land passing down from mother to daughter, while religious and political affairs are the province of men (although some women also play important roles in these areas). Today 4 million Minangs live in West Sumatra, while about 3 million more are scattered throughout many Indonesian and Malay peninsula cities and towns.

The Minangkabau are strongly Islamic, but also follow their ethnic traditions, or adat. The Minangkabau adat was derived from animistic beliefs before the arrival of Islam, and remnants of animistic beliefs still exist even among some practicing Muslims. The present relationship between Islam and adat is described in the saying "tradition [adat] founded upon Islamic law, Islamic law founded upon the Qur'an" (adat basandi syara', syara' basandi Kitabullah)