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Renovasi Masjid Salman

Ada hal yang menarik perhatian saya ketika menerima proposal renovasi Masjid Salman: ada aspek fisika bangunannya. Apa mungkin karena saya sudah lama tidak melihat proposal pembangunan masjid. Dulu yang namanya proposal pembangunan masjid mana ada komponen untuk peningkatan “tata suara” atau “tata cahaya”. Tapi di proposal ini ada.

Finding Islamic Toilet (2): Muslim Urinal?

This is the second article in this series (read the first article here if you have not read it yet). Again, I am not joking with the title. There is such a thing as a Muslim urinal. I knew it many years ago when I work with the interior designers at Matahari Dept. Stores on [...]

Merawat Fasilitas Umum

Anda pernah berada di jembatan dan terowongan yang terawat seperti ini? Apa kira-kira kunci keterawatan fasilitas umum seperti ini?

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Finding islamic toilet

I am not joking with that title. Not many people, out of billions of muslims, that even think about this problem (what problem, they will ask). And out of the few that do, only a handful have the willingness to raise this issue for an open discussion. For the sake of finding a solution, let [...]

Tentang commissioning (atau tentang WC cebok)

Anda tahu commissioning? Dalam dunia perancangan bangunan, kata itu merujuk kepada satu fase dari desain bangunan, yaitu fase setelah fase konstruksi selesai tetapi sebelum serah terima kepada pemilik. Di fase commissioning ini semua kriteria desain yang telah dibangun dalam fase konstruksi diperiksa. Ada banyak sekali manfaat dari commisioning ini. Yang paling nyata tentu saja dengan [...]

Bandara yang menyedihkan?

Beberapa waktu yang lalu ada artikel di koran gratisan Today yang terbit di Singapura tentang Bandara Cengkareng dengan judul yang cukup provokatif: “A sad downward spiral, Jakarta’s airport leaves a poor impression“. Waktu membaca judulnya saya langsung mengira kalau artikel ini ditulis oleh orang Singapura, biasa ngalelewe. Tapi ternyata penulisnya Chappy Hakim, dari namanya pasti [...]

Asides

If Moses had gotten the Ten Commandments on a floppy disk, it would never have made it to today. (Dag Spicer, curator of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, The NYTimes Circuit, 26-Mar-2009)

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

“The wrath of God is the only way I can describe it. I’m used to seeing roofs off houses, houses blown over. These houses were down to their foundations, stripped clean.” said Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee, after surveying tornado damage there.

James Madison said, “If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one.” In Indonesia, …, well no comment.

Setelah empat belas hari menunggu, akhirnya saya bisa menikmati kembali berita-berita dari Bandung. Harian PR tampil dengan wajah baru dengan koneksi yang tampaknya lebih kencang.