VW Party On the Beach

Volkswagen Club Tasikmalaya (VECTA) menyelenggarakan acara bernama VW Party On The Beach II pada tanggal 23-24 April 2011 di Pantai Pangandaran.  Ini merupakan kedua kalinya VECTA mengadakan kegiatan ini, setelah sebelumnya kegiatan serupa digelar pada pertengahan tahun 2005 silam.

Tujuan diadakannya kegiatan ini adalah sebagai ajang kumpul penggemar serta keluarga besar VW, selain itu kegiatan ini pun menjadi ajang jual beli. Banyak saya temui secarik kertas bertuliskan “dijual” pada kaca mobil-mobil tersebut . 

VW Party On The Beach II berpusat di Lapang Boulevard Pangandaran dengan tema Lovely Family, Lovely Beach , Lovely VW. Tema ini diangkat karena acara ini memang dibuat sedemikian nyaman dan santai. Bukan hanya penggemar VW saja yang diundang namun beserta keluarga mereka (masing-masing pemilik VW).

Acara ini memang sangat ramai dan dan membuat semarak suasana liburan di pantai selatan kabupaten Ciamis itu. Saya melihat ada beberapa peserta yang datang berasal dari Bali, Makassar dan Lampung dengan membawa mobil VW berbagai tipe seperti Dakota, Kombi, Caravalle, Golf, Beetle, Passat dan lainnya. 

Saya mencoba berbincang dengan beberapa peserta, kebanyakan dari mereka datang ke acara ini selain bertujuan untuk berkumpul bersama para penggemar VW, mereka juga bertujuan untuk hunting mobil. Seperti salah satu penggemar VW yang sengaja datang ke Pangandaran dari Surabaya untuk berburu mobil kegemarannya dengan harapan berjodoh dengan mobil kegemarannya itu.

Surf Culture

Surfing Culture

What do you know about surfing? Well, first of all we knew that surfing is a sport, an extreme sport actually.  Okay, do you think that’s enough? No, not at all. Let’s see the history first, I will tell only the brief history, I don’t want to make you bored about history, I know you got enough about history at school.

According to what I’ve read (hopefully it’s right), surfing first found in Polynesian cultural community, around 1500 BC until 400 AC. Records on written documents shown that these Polynesian people immigrated to Hawaii on the 4^th century by sea . Because of their skill and ability to stand on big waves, they managed to arrive at Hawaii and preserved this tradition. Usually their head of the tribe does this sport to show their powers and authorities, and the commoners do it for popularity. The boards they use were very heavy so that not everyone can do it. But with the invention on finding the lighter materials for the board on around year 1940, surfing became favorite sport on various countries like Hawaii, America and Australia.

Around 1950s and 1960s surf culture spread quickly and somehow evolving very fast. What is surf culture? Surf culture is something unexplainable yet somehow understood. It’s includes the people, language, fashion and life surrounding the sport of surfing. The surf culture itself affected fashion, music literature, films, jargon and more. Surfing soon gained popularity among teenagers and Surfer Magazine was published. The Aspects of 1960s surf culture in Southern California where it was popularized including the woodie, bikinis and other beach wear such as board shorts or baggies and surf music.

We’re going to narrow it to the fashion. The surf fashion itself can’t be separated from the lifestyle. Because they affect each other. The lifestyle of surfers invented their own fashions. Identically with the beach, the fashion surely reflected the connection with the surrounding.

Women surfers wear bikinis and the men wear shorts, they prior the comforts, they wear them on everyday life, yet some people take it as a lazy style. Some teenagers who don’t understand wear them just because it looked cool, they wear them as an expression of freedom.

Soon, after surfing getting more popular, lots of those clothes rife with logos and brands and images that may represent the surfers, their fans or people who just adored the product started to wear them too. The surfers fashion itself becomes globally and trending.  Yes, admit it, we always adore those style. We love how the comforts they give when we wore them, we love how they give us confidence, we love them.

But there’s this one thing I should remind you all, back to the surfing itself, it’s not about the clothes we wear, nor the style. You know if you possess the style when you commit yourself to the life. You get drawn to the beach not only for perfect surf. You understand that it is the experience that keeps you alive, that shows your existence. Surfers who come are bound by the hunt for great waves, the desire for the ultimate ride and life around the ocean.

lotsaaa thanks for Ficka for the pics ^^ and mr. photographer Al ... ehehehehhe

Apabila 10 persen penduduk Jakarta berpartisipasi dalam EARTH HOUR, maka Jakarta bisa menghemat konsumsi listriknya sebesar 300 MegaWatt hour (MWh). Ini terungkap dalam jumpa pers EARTH HOUR di Jakarta, Kamis, 18 Maret 2010. Menurut situs resmi www.earthhour.wwf.or.id, penghematan 300 MWh itu setara dengan 1.080.000 MegaJoule (MJ) yang berpotensi menghemat hingga Rp 216, 6 juta. Berdasarkan data konsumsi listrik tahun 2008, sebanyak 29.605 GigaWatthour (GWh) atau 23 persen total konsumsi listrik Indonesia, terfokus di Jakarta dan Tangerang.

CUMA MENGINGATKAN SEMUA ORANG UNTUK MEMADAMKAN LAMPU DAN BARANG ELEKTRONIK LAINNYA SELAMA 1 JAM and call it EARTH HOUR Sabtu,27 Maret 2010, Jam 20.30 - 21.30. let's help our good mother nature mates!!