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emm.. did Cak Nur really had died? there goes another good person.. may God bless his soul and may God bless this country

klo lg mellow gini deh..

it's sad when you cant do anything for the ppl you love
you yourself is stuck in a rut
n when their crying eyes (or smiling faces)
or even the :) and the :D
the cheerful melodic tone in their voices
the :( and the :'(
the sad-depressive tone that you wish never came out from them

well i'll be
wishing all the best and happiness for them
i'm so sorry i couldnt do anything
celebrate your happiness
or pull you out from the mud-sucking-thing

i still hv to sort myself out
i'm glad that you are fine
i'm happy to know that you still care



with hugs n kisses
- me

ulma went clubbing

it was saturday nite, n me went clubbin
u see all weird ppl
chinese women shaking their head non stop
from midnite to mornin
and weird guys asking you questions
with their half-closed eyes
and beer in one hand
and people sway their hands
their troubles once forgotten

i met some friends
i saw the other side of them
happy-hilly-nilly-trippy
one i know had a wife
but a woman is dangling on his neck
introduced herself as her girlfriend
and the music went so loud
bodies movin glasses breakin
dj's quite good though
anyhow

drank 3 baileys n 3 kahlua
my friend pushed me to drink some more
but my stomach felt so full
i couldnt take it
so she danced away
jigglin wigglin with another guy
whom as she told me the next day
she just knew that night

and it was 5 am
she's too drunk to open her eyes
i ask that guy she'd been wriggling with to help me
drag her carry her find a cab
and clilmbed the stairs (two floors)
till we got to her house
open her shoes, took off her earings
put a plastic container on the bedside
if she ever wanted to throw up

took off my lenses
brush my teeth
went to bed

the next day woke up at 2 pm
she said to me
"i never throw up before, however drunk i am
even 6 shots of tequila, wont ever got me drunk
maybe after 3 weeks of not going to the clubs
i am not quite used to it anymore"

dont u ever heard about self-control?

the blabberings of thom yorke

thom yorke punya blog!!! (slash-journal)

mo tau apa isi kepala "the genius behind radiohead"?

go to:
http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/

n i dont get what is he trying to say..

is this how a genius mind works? sapa sih yg bilang thom yorke genius? he just rambles about incomprehensible stuffs with distortions.. n ppl will spend sleepless nights just to figure "the meaning behind the rambles"

ha-ha..

h ahaha '
gw ju*g bs'
b t the y wont
CONS
id Er me a s a
G E N I u $$$$$$$$$

tp kata adek gw keren tuh..

i wonder brp lama si thom bisa tahan nge-update terus blognya.. dave navarro of Jane's Addiction is surprisingly very keen on blogging :D dan his blog is interesting to read from time to time..

revision: ternyata Mr. Navarro punya blog su pindah e.. so now it's http://www.6767.com

tool barunya blogger.com

ACHTUNG! Ngetes blogger +Word


New AEC Website

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The AEC

History
At its inception in 1953, the Association's goal was to develop relations between schools of higher education in music throughout Europe and, more specifically, to develop relations with countries behind the Iron Curtain, from the Atlantic to the Ural. Its permanent seat was at the time situated in Switzerland; two presidents, one from Eastern Europe, the other from the West, led the organisation.
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the November 1990 Glasgow Congress dismantled the two-headed organisational system. Sir John Manduell, a Principal of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, became sole president of the organisation until November 1996. During this period, the seat of the Association moved to Angers, with the election of John-Richard Lowry, Director of the Conservatoire National de Région d'Angers, as Secretary General. In the period 1996-2000, the AEC was based in the Conservatoire de Paris, with Marc-Olivier Dupin (director Conservatoire de Paris) as Secretary General and Ian Horsbrugh (director Guildhall School of Music and Drama) as President. In 2001, following a decision at the General Assembly during the annual Congress in November 2000 in Vicenza, the AEC Office moved to join other national and international organisations in the field of culture in a cultural centre in Utrecht, The Netherlands. In the new AEC Office a new organisational infrastructure was developed, adding the post of AEC Chief Executive to the already existing post of the AEC administrator. With this new team, the AEC is hoping to respond better to the needs of its members and the sector it represents.
A detailed description of the AEC History from 1953-1988 can be found in a publication written by Claude Viala, which can be ordered from the AEC Office.

Credo
The AEC objectives and activities are based on the aims outlined in the AEC Credo, which was endorsed by the AEC members during the AEC General Assembly in Vicenza in November 2000. The AEC Credo contains the following text (in PDF):

  1. Although the primary focus of the Association is on professional music training, the AEC supports the importance of music in all levels of education in our society, ranging from early childhood to higher education and lifelong learning.

  2. The AEC promotes the role of music and therefore music education as an outstanding example of non-verbal communication in the integration of Europe and as a tool for cooperation in an increasingly multi-cultural modern society.

  3. Representing institutions throughout Europe, the AEC acknowledges the national and regional cultural traditions within Europe.

  4. The AEC stands for the strongly individual character of music education, the one-to-one teaching of instrumental and vocal studies being at the core of this education. By stating this, the AEC would like to urge the relevant authorities to acknowledge the financial implications of this particular quality.

  5. The AEC encourages critical thinking about all approaches to learning, teaching and management in institutions for professional music training.

  6. Representing the main body of professional music education on a European level, the AEC stresses the value of the knowledge and expertise of its membership.

  7. The AEC reflects on changes in society and musical professions and provides members with relevant insights and information; the AEC is therefore a constantly forward-looking organisation.

  8. The AEC serves as a platform for the exchange of opinions, experiences, and examples of good practice and for the development of joint projects and initiatives, thus contributing to the enhancement of quality in its member institutions.














Council
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The AEC Council consists of twelve representatives from member institutions in twelve different countries: the Executive Committee (President, Secretary General and two Vice-Presidents) and eight regular Council members.

President:                Johannes Johansson, Director Malmo Academy of MusicVice-Presidents:           Marie-Claude Ségard, Director Conservatoire National de Region de Strasbourg
Rineke Smilde, North Netherlands Conservatoire Groningen

Secretary General:          George Caird, Principal Birmingham Conservatoire

Members:      Erling Aksdal, Director Department of Music, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim Norway
Thüring Bräm, Rektor Musikhochschule Luzern
Dan Buciu, Rector National Academy of Music Bucarest
Peep Lassmann, Rektor Estonian Academy of Music Tallinn
Krystyna Makowska-Lawrynowicz, Vice-Rektor Chopin Academy Warsawa
Wolfgang Meyer, Rektor Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik Karlsruhe
Haris Xanthoudakis, Dean Music Department, Ionian University Corfu
Cristobal Zamora, Director of Studies, Conservatorio Superior de Musica "E. Martinez Torner"

Honorary President:           Ian Horsbrugh, Former Principal Guildhall School of Music and Drama London

The AEC Council meets 3-4 times a year. Particularly important documents are the AEC Annual Report, the AEC 4-year strategic plan and the AEC Statutes. Members can order any of these documents from the AEC Office.

Office
The AEC Office is situated in an office centre specially designed for national and international cultural organisations in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The AEC team currently consists of Martin Prchal, the AEC Chief Executive, Janneke Vrijland, the AEC Project Manager and Christine Masure, the AEC Project Administrator.

AEC President               Johannes JohanssonAEC Chief Executive           Martin PrchalAEC Office Manager          Janneke VrijlandAEC Project Administrator      Christine Masure

The AEC Policy Papers
One of the tasks of the AEC is to draft policy papers in response to important European developments or consultations issued by the European Union, in which the needs and characteristics of the professional music-training sector are explained. Full texts of such policy papers can be downloaded here. The following policy papers have been produced:
Newsletters
Various publications have been made covering the many projects done by the AEC. The AEC Newsletters serves as a yearly overview of the AEC activities and is available for mail order via the AEC Office and/or downloaded in PDF version.
  • 2005

  • 2004

  • 2003

  • 2002

  • 2001

Events
Every year heads of AEC member institutions meet up at an AEC Annual Congress. Aside the congress, another event that also takes on a yearly basis is the Annual Meeting for International Relations Coordinators.

The AEC Annual Congress
On every November, the AEC holds a congress meeting for its members to meet and attend workshops for a couple of days. Taking place in different locations every year enables congress participants to embrace different local cultural values while having the opportunity for discussion of specific themes, the exchange of important amount of information and the elaboration of multiple partnerships (exchanges within the framework of networks, co-productions of concerts and a variety of events, etc.). In addition, the congress is seen as an occasion for informal and convivial encounters within members of the AEC.

The AEC Annual Meeting for International Relations Coordinators
During this meeting, officials from European conservatoires responsible for the international contacts and the participation in European exchange programmes meet to exchange information and discuss future initiatives every year in September.

In congruence with the organization’s activities, specific meetings related to the AEC project framework are also being held regularly, these kinds of meetings can be found underneath the Upcoming events section.

Upcoming events

Annual Congress 2005
The 2005 AEC Annual Congress will take place in the city of Birmingham on 3 – 6 November. Birmingham is a lively and culturally diverse city in the Heart of England, and the AEC is very grateful to the Birmingham Conservatoire for hosting this event. Next to the annual General Assembly for AEC member institutions, this year’s Congress will mainly address topics that will be studied in the framework of a new AEC project called ‘Polifonia’. These will include presentations and discussions on current and future European developments in music education and professional music training. A session on the role of the conservatoire director with speakers from various parts of Europe will also take place. For detailed discussions with all Congress delegates, breakout groups will be included into the program. Printed versions of the registration brochures and additional information will be distributed to all AEC members during the month of June.

Congress brochures and registration forms for the 2005 Congress can be downloaded in PDF and Word-format here (English, French and German versions):

2005 AEC Congress brochure (EN, DE, FR)

2005 AEC Congress registration form (EN, DE, FR)

Previous Annual Congresses
The AEC Annual Congress 2004
Attended by yet another record number of participants (exceeding 250), this year’s AEC Annual Congress took venue at Oviedo in the Spanish region of Asturias, wherein the Conservatorio Superior de Musica ‘E. Martinez Torner’ as the host had done everything with such efficiency and hospitality whom the AEC is very grateful of.
Subjects addressed during the Congress include a project entitled ‘European Forum for Music Education and Training – EFMET’. In relation to the theme of this project, two eminent speakers, Mr Peter Renshaw (arts and music consultant, London) and Mrs Karen Wolff (dean University of Michigan, School of Music and NASM President) were invited to give keynote speeches on the topic ‘Leadership in Music Education’. It was followed by a plenary discussion facilitated by Ian Horsbrugh and continued with a presentation of the EFMET project in general and of the EFMET research on training programmes for music teachers in Europe.

Various parallel workshops were organised with subjects closely connected to the EFMET theme:
  • A workshop on the role of pedagogical courses in the conservatoire curriculum with presentations by representatives of the European Association of Music in Schools (EAS) and the European Music School Union (EMU)

  • The use of new technologies in music teaching was addressed in a workshop on the HARMOS Project of the Fundación Albéniz and a presentation by a professor of the Conservatorio in Oviedo on Organology.

  • The cooperation between conservatoires and youth and community music organisations was discussed in a workshop with presentations of the ExTEND project coordinated by Jeunesses Musicales International with the outcomes of an extensive European research project on music activities of young people up to age 22, and a presentation about the CONNECT project coordinated by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London

  • Representatives from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and the Royal Conservatory The Hague addressed modes of teaching in professional music training in a workshop on current research on 1-to-1 teaching.
Two *cut*

long time no c...

klo udh lama ga ketemu orang gitu.. and kebetulan tu orang dulunya deket ma kita.. psti feels weird, dan maybe wlo ga enak, msti accept the fact juga.. klo people (two friends, a couple) sometime grow apart.

sukur2 klo pas ketemuan lagi bisa work out the differences, and develop a (re)new(ed) relationship. some might just be frustrated with the change and decided to stop seeing each other again, or stop wanting to have any kind of relationship with the other.

right now saya sedikit anxious saja, kecampur curious. bakal ketemu lagi ma anak2, ma "temen2".. wlopun ga ketemu cuma setahun, tp aku ngerasa, we all have changed. I have. wktu "dilempar" ke acara PPI, I found myself being a mouse again :D (meminjam istilah dari mas berly, yang juga pernah dipakai Nik Healey when he made comments after my group's presentation).

anyways, i didnt feel ready to see such crowd of people i hadn't met for a year (some were even more). so i silently drew away from everybody, found myself a nice corner, and stayed there (like a mouse :p).

so i guess i just have to wait and see. fourth year is supposed to be fun (or not?)
oh yeah, i have to think about thesis and planning how am i going to start my report, and those resits that i still have to take, oh dear oh dear oh dear..

teman-temanku.. wlopun ga keliatan on the surface (i am not at all competent in showing or expressing my feelings), i'm happy and will be waiting for your return ^^

indonesia enam puluh tahun

so.. sixty years of the so-called independence..
gw bukan tipe2 org yg suka belajar sejarah :D
tapi.. through the ups and downs, dan despite ga semua orang bisa ngeliat this sixty years of independence as something positive, there would always be the hope of a better future for Indonesia..

I still dont know what I can do for my country, but I will do something.

Buat yang have the dream of making Indonesia a better place to be, let's rejoice! let's pull-out and think of plans and strategy!
Buat yang pesimis dan yakin negara kita ga bakal bisa diapa2in.. well, good luck in your green card application, atopun bentuk2 pindah warga negara yang lain :)

For now gw masih pusing dgn urusan2 sederhana dan sangat personal seperti: mencari calon suami, ngelarin urusan ma IND (application ID saya buat 04/05 ternyata ditolak sodara2 :p), ngelarin kerjaan kantor (14 days to go =s), belajar masak, belajar lebih peduli (dan menyesuaikan diri) sama keadaan sekitar, belajar lebih adaptif, belajar tidak terlalu negatif, enz., etc., dst.

>> tidak ikut acara tujuh-belasan d wassenaar atopun bntuk perayaan yg lain tp bukan berarti being completely ignorant atas nasib bangsa dan negara

How to Forget About an Ex - eHow.com

"Be sure to wait until you are definitely over your ex before you make the plunge into a new relationship. Until all hope of reconciliation with the ex is gone, it will be impossible to begin a new, rewarding affair."

should have read this sooner :p

For more on getting over and moving on after a break-up, please click here ;p

MERCURY REV - VERMILLION

An unseen force behind the turning leaves,
Drives them all vermillion and green,
You never gave up on me somehow,
I don't know why I haven't turned by now

Ooh I know love sounds impossible,
Some words are just so hard to say,
And there's times you feel unlockable,
An' all you ever want,
Is someone to try...to open up...and find a way in

Don't ever say you were wrong for me,
For you were always strong enough for three,
I never let you in my world somehow,
I'm asking you to please, allow me now

Truer skies beyond the swirling clouds,
The other birds are off and flying south,
We'll have to make our own way there somehow,
An' I'm asking you to please trust me now

All Cultures Are Not Equal - New York Times

By DAVID BROOKS


Let's say you are an 18-year-old kid with a really big brain. You're trying to figure out which field of study you should devote your life to, so you can understand the forces that will be shaping history for decades to come.

Go into the field that barely exists: cultural geography. Study why and how people cluster, why certain national traits endure over centuries, why certain cultures embrace technology and economic growth and others resist them.

This is the line of inquiry that is now impolite to pursue. The gospel of multiculturalism preaches that all groups and cultures are equally wonderful. There are a certain number of close-minded thugs, especially on university campuses, who accuse anybody who asks intelligent questions about groups and enduring traits of being racist or sexist. The economists and scientists tend to assume that material factors drive history - resources and brain chemistry - because that's what they can measure and count.

But none of this helps explain a crucial feature of our time: while global economies are converging, cultures are diverging, and the widening cultural differences are leading us into a period of conflict, inequality and segmentation.

Not long ago, people said that globalization and the revolution in communications technology would bring us all together. But the opposite is true. People are taking advantage of freedom and technology to create new groups and cultural zones. Old national identities and behavior patterns are proving surprisingly durable. People are moving into self-segregating communities with people like themselves, and building invisible and sometimes visible barriers to keep strangers out.

Not long ago, many people worked on farms or in factories, so they had similar lifestyles. But now the economy rewards specialization, so workplaces and lifestyles diverge. The military and civilian cultures diverge. In the political world, Democrats and Republicans seem to live on different planets.

Meanwhile, if you look around the world you see how often events are driven by groups that reject the globalized culture. Islamic extremists reject the modern cultures of Europe, and have created a hyperaggressive fantasy version of traditional Islamic purity. In a much different and less violent way, some American Jews have moved to Hebron and become hyper-Zionists.

The members of these and many other groups didn't inherit their identities. They took advantage of modernity, affluence and freedom to become practitioners of a do-it-yourself tribalism. They are part of a great reshuffling of identities, and the creation of new, often more rigid groupings. They have the zeal of converts.

Meanwhile, transnational dreams like European unification and Arab unity falter, and behavior patterns across nations diverge. For example, fertility rates between countries like the U.S. and Canada are diverging. Work habits between the U.S. and Europe are diverging. Global inequality widens as some nations with certain cultural traits prosper and others with other traits don't.

If you are 18 and you've got that big brain, the whole field of cultural geography is waiting for you.