Sakuramochi’s Manga Blog

I know some people think all the art work is just a fantasy. But, they truly did some research before writing it. So I guess, we could conclude things from their work. Here are some ‘lessons’. Does it helpful?

Make them listens

You know kids…they just like to do what they want to. When you said, ” Don’t run too fast”, they will run like hell. When you said, ” It’s time to bed”, they look at you angrily, ” But, I wanna watch that movie”. Ha ha That’s what I did. And they always remember things you said. Take my cousin as example. He asks his mother to buy him a toy. She said, ” Ok. We’ll find something for you.” But, when mums walk through the market, they forget easily (because they bought too many things). My cousin will say, ” You’re a liar. Liar goes to narrow grave” (Apparently he saw a religious drama that shows how bad people get punished by not able to get into the grave, because the grave is too small. And no matter what they do, the body just don’t fit).

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Well, as an adult we are suppose to be much clever than kids. It doesn’t mean tricking or lying to them, cos it’s definitely uneducated. We can find positive answers and show appreciative behavior. Like one I read from Yotsuba to.

Yotsuba is very exited to go to her first obon. She run all the way. When they come closer to the spot, her father said, ” Don’t go too far, you might get lost”. But, she ignore it. Her father thinks this the best time to teach her to obey him. He hid behind a stand while looking at her. It took few minutes before Yotsuba realizes she’s alone. She start panic! And she cries.

When her father decided that’s enough to treat her, he show out and say, ” Well, what did I say before? If you walk to obon, you have to stick with adult, otherwise you’ll get lost”. Yotsuba nods and grab her father’s hand.

That’s quite a lesson right?

Flower Language : Hibiscus

When you read Gals, you’ll find so many hibiscus. Most people think that the flower are only popular in Hawai. Actually, it can grows in many tropical land, like Indonesia. Here, we call it Kembang sepatu.

This flower blooms in many colors: white, red, yellow and orange. But, unlike in Gals, we don’t use it as hair accessories. We plant it in the garden. And I don’t think people use it to express love either.

But, do you know that this flower has unique meaning? In the flower language, it means Delicate beauty. That’s why they only use it on summer time.

Hibiscus, as you know, can’t live in long period after you cut it. Unlike orchid, it easily rotten.

Gotobi

Gotobi is the term they use in Japan to referring date of multiples of 5, example 5, 10, 15,20,25, and 30. Those are the busiest days for business. These days are apparently ordained by accountants.

Every company are doing auditing, collecting money and things like that. Payment in business is usually settled on these days in Japan and it causes heavy traffic jams.

It cause many crowd and makes traffic. It’s just one of the theory to explain traffic jams in Japan.

Reference:

Trafficker

http://www.hifido.co.jp/merumaga/backnumber/050826/indexe.html

http://www.century21japan.com/experiencing/tokyotime.html

Kalimantan

Kalimantan is the biggest island in the archipelago of Indonesia wit 743.330 km² in size. The area covered by forest and is widely known for plantation. That’s why there are so many cases of illegal lodging and forest firing.
However, there are 3 countries stand on the land: Indonesia, the largest area; Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam. Indonesia covers the 73% territory of the island.
There are some species only live in Kalimantan such as
# Kalimantan Barat: Enggang Gading (Rhinoplax vigil)
# Kalimantan Tengah: Kuau Melayu (Polyplectron malacense)
# Kalimantan Selatan: Bekantan (Nasalis larvatus)
# Kalimantan Timur: Pesut Mahakam (Orcaella brevirostris)

The name of Kalimantan means borneo, which derived from Borneol tree (Dryobalanops camphora). It was the European who name it. The plant live in every inch of the island which consist (C10H17.OH) terpetin, the thing to make antiseptic or perfume. The name is also taken for the Brunei’s Kingdom as the greatest Kingdom on the island at that moment.

The Borneo island suffered from European colonialism during the 16th century to 20th century.They are forced to give in trading and down with monopoply.