Again, this was an opportunity for me to travel to our neighboring country. This trip was purposely to study the wireless solution in one of the leading company in Bandung, Indonesia. I have heard the prestigious Institute Technology Bandung before but hardly have any knowledge on the standard of Wireless technologies there. After visiting that company, I have been a little bit worry about Malaysia. Country like Indonesia, their government is putting faith on their own local company for providing their own solution, although they are not developing from the scratch. But credit to them since they are working hard to get the things done. Here, peoples are depending too much on foreigners’ technologies and seems reluctant to give opportunities to local peoples. I am sorry to say that the Indon guys are much better than us in terms of their work rate. I have had the time to talk to one of fresh graduate from ITB and he said that those who graduate from IBT are encouraged to go oversea for their study. I can say that his technical skill is much better than any fresh graduate from our local university. Sigh of worry! I can’t imagine but I think that I have to believe that Indonesia will soon overshadow Malaysia in technology if we do nothing.
I had arrived at the Bandung airport on Sunday morning. Stayed in Jayakarta Hotel and it is quite near to the city center. Bandung is famous for its textile industry. My colleagues and I had spent our time in Rumah Mode and Cihampelas Street (famous for its Jean) looking for some clothes and etc. It is a paradise for those shopping kaki since there are a lot of factory outlets there. During this short stay, I had found out quite a number of foods which are synonym to Chinese foods, such as CapCay, Siomay (Siu-mai in Cantonese) , Mie Dago (like watan mee here) and etc. Some of the interesting snacks are Durian with ice cream, Batagor (fish ball mixed with Taufu), Siomay ( ), Mie Baso (noodle served with beef meat ball) ….But if you are talking about hygiene, than you probably won’t dare enough to taste these! Anyway, try to understand what the peoples are saying is difficult, especially when the terms can be interpreted as different meaning, such as:
lumayan – jauh
bisa – biasa
ceker – kaki
pak – cik
….
Here the Photos
A View on Hill Site
Jayakarta Hotel
Rumah Mode - A Famous Factory Outlet in Bandung
Durian mixed with Ice Cream
Batagor - A Famous Snack there
They are selling rifles openly
Taking picture at Bandung airport
5 comments:
Never heard of the IBT before but if you say that they are better than the local graduates, then I guess I must believe you since you were one of the best of the local graduates. ;)
Well, soon we can take over the shoe factories from Indonesia once we have lost our edge. Train your kids to either sew or build houses next time.
See their ranking in Asia
http://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp?cont=asia
How about our beloved university - UTM?
Rankings should be taken with a bit of salt as the metrics used may be biased but I guess those who've been there can know for sure about the quality. :)
I agree that the ranking maybe biased. But I heard from the ITB guy that their university are inviting forgein lecturers to teach in certain subjects. Not heard about UTM doing so!
Seems like our beloved country is really hopeless in a lot of area. long sigh...
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