SHINee are going to have their concert today. I think of Jonghyun, then I see the sky is bright, and on radio MJ's Smile is playing. Is it his way to comfort me? :) The more the day passes, the more I watch SHINee old videos, the more I feel grateful for them, especially him..
"A ten-year-old started screaming about a wave no one could see—and 100 people lived because her parents believed her.
December 26, 2004. Mai Khao Beach, Phuket, Thailand. Christmas holiday. Perfect weather. The Smith family walked along the sand on their first overseas vacation together.
Then Tilly noticed something wrong.
The water wasn't behaving normally. ""It wasn't calm and it wasn't going in and then out,"" she later recalled. ""It was just coming in and in and in.""
The sea had turned frothy—""like you get on a beer,"" she said. ""It was sort of sizzling.""
Any other ten-year-old might have thought it strange. Tilly knew exactly what it meant.
Two weeks earlier, her geography teacher Andrew Kearney had shown the class footage of the 1946 tsunami that devastated Hawaii. He taught them the warning signs: sea receding unusually far, frothy bubbling water, ocean behaving strangely.
Tilly was watching those exact warning signs unfold in front of her.
She started screaming at her parents. ""There's going to be a tsunami!""
They didn't believe her. They couldn't see any wave. The sky was clear. The beach was calm.
But Tilly wouldn't stop. She became more insistent, more frantic.
""I'm going,"" she finally said. ""I'm definitely going. There is definitely going to be a tsunami.""
Her father Colin heard the urgency in her voice. He decided to trust his daughter.
By coincidence, a Japanese man nearby overheard Tilly use the word ""tsunami."" He'd just heard news of an earthquake in Sumatra. ""I think your daughter's right,"" he said.
Colin alerted hotel staff. They began evacuating immediately.
Tilly's mother Penny was one of the last to leave. She had to sprint as the water began rushing in behind her. ""I ran,"" she recalled, ""and then I thought I was going to die.""
They made it to the second floor with seconds to spare.
Then the wave hit. Thirty feet tall.
Everything on the beach—beds, palm trees, debris—was swept into the pool and beyond. ""Even if you hadn't drowned,"" Penny later said, ""you would have been hit by something.""
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami killed over 230,000 people across 14 countries. Entire beaches in Phuket were wiped out.
But at Mai Khao Beach, not a single person died.
Because a ten-year-old girl paid attention in geography class.
Tilly was hailed as the ""Angel of the Beach."" She received awards, spoke at the United Nations, met Bill Clinton. Her story is now taught in schools worldwide.
Her father Colin still thinks about what could have happened. ""If she hadn't told us, we would have just kept on walking,"" he said. ""I'm convinced we would have died.""
Tilly still credits her teacher. ""If it wasn't for Mr. Kearney,"" she told the UN, ""I'd probably be dead and so would my family.""
Two weeks. One lesson. One hundred lives.
That's the power of education.
funfact tentang kejadian mati listrik di Sumatra :
> ini bukan kali pertama
> Juni 2024 juga kejadian, waktu itu butuh 38 jam untuk pulih 100%
> malam ini kata PLN estimasi pemulihan: 6–8 jam
> sinyal Telkomsel ikut mati karena tower BTS bergantung listrik PLN
> PLN sampai sekarang belum pernah kasih kompensasi ke pelanggan untuk kasus blackout massal seperti ini
2 tahun lho ya masih kejadian aja mati listrik massal😂ga ada yg mau nuntut kompensasi? wkwkw
Swiss gak punya laut.
Singapura gak punya sawah.
Jepang miskin sumber daya mineral.
Arab Saudi hutannya minim.
Belanda bahkan gak punya gunung.
indonesia punya semuanya.
Alam lengkap, sumber daya ada, laut luas, tanah subur. Tapi kok UMR masih 5 juta ?
Media Jepang, The Japan Times, menyoroti laporan terbaru dari Amnesty International yang dirilis pada 19 Mei 2026. Dalam laporan berjudul “Membangun Musuh Khayalan” itu, disebutkan adanya kampanye disinformasi daring terkoordinasi yang diduga dilakukan otoritas Indonesia untuk melabeli aktivis, jurnalis, hingga demonstran sebagai “agen asing” atau yang lebih dikenal warga Indonesia sebagai “antek-antek asing.”
JUST OUT:
Parlemen Eropa resmi mengeluarkan resolusi P10_TA(2026)0187 pada 21 Mei 2026 terkait pelanggaran HAM dan perlindungan aktivis di Indonesia.
Dokumen ini menyoroti serangan air keras terhadap Deputi Koordinator KontraS Andrie Yunus dan aktivis lingkungan Muhammad Rosidi.
Berikut beberapa poin penting resolusi Parlemen Eropa:
- Menuntut investigasi cepat, menyeluruh, transparan, dan independen atas serangan air keras terhadap Andrie Yunus dan Muhammad Rosidi.
- Mendesak proses peradilan seluruh pelaku dan dalang utama dilakukan melalui pengadilan sipil, bukan pengadilan militer, guna mengakhiri impunitas.
- Menyoroti penyempitan ruang sipil, represi terhadap pembela HAM, jurnalis, dan aktivis lingkungan di Indonesia.
-Mengkritik rancangan undang-undang disinformasi, penyiaran, dan keamanan siber yang berpotensi membatasi kebebasan berekspresi.
- Meminta Indonesia meninjau ulang regulasi represif dan menjamin lingkungan aman bagi aktivis dari pengawasan serta intimidasi.
- Menekankan kepatuhan terhadap komitmen HAM dan lingkungan dalam hubungan kemitraan strategis serta rantai pasok antara Uni Eropa dan Indonesia.
Selengkapnya bisa baca di: @KontraSupdates
For four days in a row, a mother noticed that her son would come home from school 20 minutes late each day
Whenever she asked why, the boy would give the same innocent reply: "I just stopped to say hello to the husky." Since their neighbors did indeed own a husky, the mother didn’t think much of it.
But when she mentioned it to the neighbors, they told her that their husky had been away the entire week. Hearing this, the mother’s heart sank.
Feeling both curious and concerned, she quietly followed her son the next day. Walking through a quiet alley, she saw her son kneeling beside a severely injured wolf, gently sharing his snacks with it. The wolf had a broken leg and could barely move—it was the boy’s kindness that had kept it alive until then.
The mother immediately contacted the relevant authorities, and the wolf was rescued and received medical treatment. Later, surveillance footage confirmed that the boy had been feeding the wolf every day after school. The story soon spread online, with thousands of netizens commenting: "Children see the world differently than we do. They don’t label things as 'dangerous'—they simply see a life in need of love."
The Economist di artikel ini blak-blakan bilang kalo prabowo dikelilingi "flock of flatterers" (kumpulan para penjilat)
-flock: sekumpulan besar kawanan domba
-flatterers: penjilat yang suka memuji berlebihan demi cari muka/keuntungan
ya emang sih
Masih ingat kasus Wakil Bupati Sangihe yang tiba-tiba meninggal setelah menolak proyek tambang emas?
Tambang ilegal itu ada samgkut pautnya dengan ini tambang ini lho dan dibekingi seorang jenderal yang sekarang masih berada di lingkaran kekuasaan regime "nyawit".
Tahu nggak siapa jenderal itu?