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Click of The Week #28: Eyes on Indonesia

Drop yourself sometime to a blog by Andrew Greene, called Eyes on Indonesia: a blog that provides you stories–not only verbally but also visually– of a number of beautiful places that might give you a closer look into different side of Indonesia and other countries in Asia that the author has visited.

Take a peek on a photo posting entitled Tika ready to cross the river at Bukit Lawang, a photo of Sumatran girl who is ready to cross a river, with a canoe, that divides her village at Bukit Lawang, North Sumatra. At her back we can see a beautiful steep hill covered with plants and misted over. How beautiful.

Scroll your screen a bit down and you’ll see another beautiful scenery in Tuk Tuk, a small town in Samosir island, with a mountain and coconut trees lining up like a fence guarding the rice field.

Like many other blogs, Eyes on Indonesia’s postings are divided into several categories, namely travels, articles, book reviews, photos and profile, also one topic called On Words, a weekly column in The Jakarta Post.

This blog also offers you some postings about public speaking that might eventually teach you how to make your point before an audience. Take a look at a posting entitled Speech writing: Subject, Purpose, Audience, Occasion that teaches you how to make a success for your public speaking, which according to him is in a large part determined by your attitude. In this posting he will teach you to maximize a positive attitude potential by keeping in mind the four organizational basics of subject, purpose, audience and occasion while you plan your speech.

Overall, Id say that Greene’s blog is a blog worth visiting, where you’d be aesthetically pleased while you get informed.

Andrew Greene is a weekly columnist for English language newspaper The Jakarta Post. He is a teacher and freelance writer and photographer who stays in Jakarta and West Java.

by: Oji