Antony’s Life Blog

I just watched a presentation at TED, The True Face of Leonardo Da Vinci. Personally, I am a fan of Leonardo Da Vinci. Even if you are not a fan of him, this video is really worth to watch.

Today, I received a scam letter from Spain. This time is sent via postal mail. Yes… no kidding. They spend some money to pay for the stamp from Spain to Canada. I looked at the envelope and there is a stamp, “Correos Espana”, which is Spain’s post office.

Well… I wish I had a spam filter in my postal mail box.

Today (August 17) is the independence day of my home country, Indonesia. It was 62 years ago when our founding fathers, Soekarno and Hatta, declared our independence.

My teacher at school told us that Indonesia was colonized by Dutch for 350 years and then Japanese for 3.5 years. During the colonial period, the Dutch monopolized the sources of nutmeg, cloves, pepper, etc. They even established Dutch East India Company (VOC) to control the trading. Anyway, I don’t remember all the details of our history. In fact, I didn’t like history subject when I was in the high school.

I left the country around 7 years ago because of political and economic crisis. Although I still miss my home country, but it was a good decision for my future. The country is still struggling with political and economic problems until today.

Happy Independence Day to Indonesia!!!
(Picture is courtesy of hartanto.)