For me, today the world seems to be smaller and smaller. From our place we can easily connected to almost every corner of the world within seconds through the internet. I can easily making friend with somebody in Australia, Japan, Germany or even Siberia through YM, blogs, mailing-list, etc.
If we have something to be asked, we can simply ask to “Uncle Google” and within seconds (depends on the speed of your internet access) we will got the answers. Not only one answer but so many answers, sometimes too many.
In this recent world, seems a bit difficult to consider special things that we can have only from one place. Let say if you go for a pilgrimage and you want to bring something special for your family and friends as a souvenir, it will be difficult for you since everything you want to buy there is already here in Tanah Abang Jakarta.
The world, the things, the people, seems more to be one unity and all the people are facing the common problems. Previously, people talk about AIDS, drugs, birds flu. Now, everybody talks more about energy crisis and global warming!!
The world have more common issue then ever. The world is running million times faster then ever. A poor guy can be a very rich guy within a very short period, when he succesfully hit the internet business with the right way on the rigth time. In another case.. a very rich guy can be bankrupt within a short period when he did the wrong action on the stock exchange, miss-calculate the financial risk or due to the natural disaster (like tsunami).
Oh my god, how can the world be like this. I like the world like when I was in elementary school. There is only one medium size Shopping Mall in the city. There is no carefour, giants, town square, and only small number of high rise building. There are so many big trees, abundance of fresh air, enough electricity, cheap gasoline, slower pace of life and slower car/motorcycle running on the street.
Okay, that’s enough to talk about this things.. (sigh..)
Let’s have a cup of tea that still have the same taste as 20 years ago, hmm… I prefer to see my daughter smile than think about these things.. 
~adi anggarayudha
