Bunda

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Saat kau berumur 1 tahun, dia menyuapi dan memandikanmu.
Sebagai balasannya, kau menangis sepanjang malam.

Saat kau berumur 2 tahun, dia mengajarimu bagaimana cara berjalan.
Sebagai balasannya, kau kabur saat dia memanggilmu.

Saat kau berumur 3 tahun, dia memasakkan semua makananmu dengan kasih sayang.
Sebagai balasannya, kau buang piring berisi makanan ke lantai.

Saat kau berumur 4 tahun, dia memberimu pensil berwarna.
Sebagai balasannya, kau coret-coret dinding rumah dan meja makan.

Saat kau berumur 5 tahun, dia membelikanmu pakaian-pakaian yang mahal dan indah.
Sebagai balasannya, kau memakainya untuk bermain di kubangan lumpur dekat rumah.

Saat kau berumur 6 tahun, dia mengantarmu pergi ke sekolah.
Sebagai balasannya, kau berteriak.”NGGAK MAU!!”

Saat kau berumur 7 tahun, dia membelikanmu bola.
Sebagai balasannya, kau lemparkan bola ke jendela tetangga.

Saat kau berumur 8 tahun, dia memberimu es krim.
Sebagai balasannya, kau tumpahkan hingga mengotori seluruh bajumu.

Saat kau berumur 9 tahun, dia membayar mahal untuk kursus bahasamu.
Sebagai balasannya, kau sering bolos dan sama sekali tidak pernah berlatih.

Saat kau berumur 10 tahun, dia mengantarmu ke mana saja, dari kolam renang hingga pesta ulang tahun.
Sebagai balasannya, kau melompat keluar mobil tanpa memberi salam.

Saat kau berumur 11 tahun, dia mengantar kau dan teman-temanmu ke bioskop.
Sebagai balasannya, kau minta dia duduk di baris lain.

Saat kau berumur 12 tahun, dia melarangmu untuk melihat acara TV khusus orang dewasa.
Sebagai balasannya, kau tunggu sampai dia di keluar rumah.

Saat kau berumur 13 tahun, dia menyarankanmu untuk memotong rambut, karena sudah waktunya.
Sebagai balasannya, kau katakan dia tidak tahu mode.

Saat kau berumur 14 tahun, dia membayar biaya untuk kempingmu selama sebulan liburan.
Sebagai balasannya, kau tak pernah meneleponnya.

Saat kau berumur 15 tahun, dia pulang kerja ingin memelukmu.
Sebagai balasannya, kau kunci pintu kamarmu.

Saat kau berumur 16 tahun, dia ajari kau mengemudi mobilnya.
Sebagai balasannya, kau pakai mobilnya setiap ada kesempatan tanpa peduli kepentingannya.

Saat kau berumur 17 tahun, dia sedang menunggu telepon yang penting.
Sebagai balasannya, kau pakai telepon nonstop semalaman.

Saat kau berumur 18 tahun, dia menangis terharu ketika kau lulus SMA.
Sebagai balasannya, kau berpesta dengan temanmu hingga pagi.

Saat kau berumur 19 tahun, dia membayar biaya kuliahmu dan mengantarmu ke kampus pada hari pertama.
Sebagai balasannya, kau minta diturunkan jauh dari pintu gerbang agar kau tidak malu di depan teman-temanmu.

Saat kau berumur 20 tahun, dia bertanya, “Dari mana saja seharian ini?”
Sebagai balasannya, kau jawab,”Ah Ibu cerewet amat sih, ingin tahu urusan orang!”

Saat kau berumur 21 tahun, dia menyarankan satu pekerjaan yang bagus untuk karirmu di masa depan.
Sebagai balasannya, kau katakan,”Aku tidak ingin seperti Ibu.”

Saat kau berumur 22 tahun, dia memelukmu dengan haru saat kau lulus perguruan tinggi.
Sebagai balasannya, kau tanya dia kapan kau bisa ke Bali.

Saat kau berumur 23 tahun, dia membelikanmu 1 set furniture untuk rumah barumu.
Sebagai balasannya, kau ceritakan pada temanmu betapa jeleknya furniture itu.

Saat kau berumur 24 tahun, dia bertemu dengan tunanganmu dan bertanya tentang rencananya di masa depan.
Sebagai balasannya, kau mengeluh,”Aduuh, bagaimana Ibu ini, kok bertanya seperti itu?”

Saat kau berumur 25 tahun, dia mambantumu membiayai penikahanmu.
Sebagai balasannya, kau pindah ke kota lain yang jaraknya lebih dari 500 km.

Saat kau berumur 30 tahun, dia memberikan beberapa nasehat bagaimana merawat bayimu. Sebagai balasannya, kau katakan padanya,”Bu, sekarang jamannya sudah berbeda!”

Saat kau berumur 40 tahun, dia menelepon untuk memberitahukan pesta ulang tahun salah seorang kerabat.
Sebagai balasannya, kau jawab,”Bu, saya sibuk sekali, nggak ada waktu.”

Saat kau berumur 50 tahun, dia sakit-sakitan sehingga memerlukan perawatanmu.
Sebagai balasannya, kau baca tentang pengaruh negatif orang tua yang menumpang tinggal di rumah anak-anaknya.

Dan hingga suatu hari, dia meninggal dengan tenang. Dan tiba-tiba kau teringat semua yang belum pernah kau lakukan, karena mereka datang menghantam HATI mu bagaikan palu godam.

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Bukittinggi City

Bukittinggi is the name of a city located in the northern province of West Sumatra. Two words are assembled into one, has a meaning identical to its location at the height of the hills. Located in the middle of the island of Sumatra with the physical and berlembah hilly, and the air cool and comfortable.
Bukittinggi city will amaze your heart, with a height of 904-941 meters above sea level makes the high hill air so it feels very cool. Temperature reaches about 16-23 degrees centigrade. contours of the land in this town is hilly, there are around there are 27 hills contained within the town of Bukittinggi, If traveling by car it will not feel bored.
Bukittinggi in West Sumatra is a cultural center, located on the plateau north of Padang on the hill Agam. Unlike the Padang which is the center of the wheels of government and modern trade the quiet town of Bukittinggi is decorated by the scenery was second to none. A very famous valley is Sianok canyon with a depth of 100 M and the slope between 800 - 900 is one of the attractions the city of Bukittinggi serve as a tourist city. Majesty of Mount Merapi, Mount Singgalan and, of Mount Sago too moleknya adorn this city Clock Tower.

 

Bukittinggi city has another name which means the Tri Arga three great mountains that give good luck. Bukittinggi has a cool refreshing air because of the height of the area over 900 m above sea level. While in New York City is often rainy, it does not prevent the tourists to come to the city that many people refer to as the friendliest town on the island of Sumatra.
Many tourists who come to visit the canyon Sianok amazing, big stone gap covered with trees that grow on it and the surrounding mountains make a dramatic canyon scenery very attractive.
This place is a good place if you want a more challenging adventure. Compare with other places in Sumatra, Bukittinggi only received few visitors who make the city as the headquarters of climbing near or on a tour to the highlands Minagkabau culture. Bukittinggi communities inhabited thousands of multi-ethnic society. they simple life co-exist in harmony and harmonious life.

Clock Tower

Clock Tower is the designation for a tower clock located in the heart of Bukittinggi, West Sumatra Province. Clock Tower is the name given to the Minangkabau society that clock tower building, because it has a clock tower was a "large sieve", or "at large" (large sieve = large clock hours; "large sieve" means big in Minangkabau language).
Such a phenomenal building clock tower called the Clock Tower at the time of its construction, so since the founding of the Clock Tower has become the center of everyone's attention. It also resulted in the Clock Tower used as a marker or landmark of Bukittinggi and also as one of the icons of West Sumatra province.
Clock Tower was built in 1926 by architect Yazid Sutan Dental Ameh. This clock was a gift from the Queen of the Netherlands to the Rook Maker, Controleur (City Secretary) Bukittinggi in the former Dutch East Indies Government. Laying the first stone clock is done Rook Maker's first son who was then 6 years old.
Ground-plan (building footprint following steps overlooking the Upper Market) of the Clock Tower is 13x4 meters, 26 meters height.
Clock Tower is engaged in mechanical and consisted of four hours / four-face clock overlooking the four compass directions with each clock face diameter of 80 cm.
This clock tower has undergone several changes in the peak shape. At first the top of the tower clock is round and on it stands a statue of a rooster. When you sign colonize Indonesia, the Japanese occupation government changed it to shape pagoda top. At the time of independence, its shape changed again into ornaments traditional Minangkabau house.
Construction of the Clock Tower is said to spend a total cost of construction of about 3,000 Gulden, which costs quite fantastic for the size of the time. But it paid off with the famous Clock Tower is a landmark that once a symbol or icon of Bukittinggi. Clock Tower is also set as the zero point of Bukittinggi.
There is a uniqueness of Roman numerals on the face of the Clock Tower is. When writing Roman numerals usually include the symbol "IV" to symbolize the four roman numbers, then the Clock Tower is labeled with the number four roman under the symbol "IIII" (Generally IV).
Gorges Sianok

Sianok canyon is a steep valley (ravine) located in the border town of Bukittinggi, the District IV Koto, Agam regency, West Sumatra. The valley is long and winding as the southern border town of Koto Gadang canyon until the canyon Sianok Six Tribes, and ended up Palupuh. Sianok canyon has beautiful scenery and become one of the main attractions the province.
The gulf is about 100 m which stretches along 15 km with a width of about 200 m and is part of the fault that separates the island of Sumatra in half lengthwise (Fault Semangko). This fault forms a steep wall, even perpendicular and form a green valley - a result of the movement down the earth's crust (sinklinal) - the fed Trunk Sianok (rod means river, in the Minangkabau language) where the water is clear. In the Dutch colonial era, the gap is referred to as buffalo sanget, because of the many free-living wild buffalo in the bottom of the canyon.
Sianok rod can now be forded by the use of canoes and kayaks who disaranai by a water sports organization "Qurays". The route taken is from village to village Sitingkai Lambah Stem Palupuh for approximately 3.5 hours. On its banks there's also rare plants such as Rafflesia and medicinal plants. Fauna encountered such long-tailed monkeys, gibbons, hoops, deer, wild boar, leopard, and tapirs.
Japan hole
 
Japan hole resort is one of the objects that exist in the city of Bukittinggi and is a historical relic of Japan's residence during his stay in London.
Because of Bukittinggi is very strategically located in the middle - the middle of the island of Sumatra, the Japanese invaders set as the center of Bukittinggi Japanese Army Defense Command in Sumatra (Seiko Sikikan Kakka) led by General Watanabe.
As for Japan's military fortifications made a tunnel under the heart of Bukittinggi, in addition to functioning as a defense as well prepared as a store of ammunition, barracks, dining, hospitals, courtrooms and a kitchen, a total of 27 rooms and is a complete complex, such as plan which can be seen on the entrance wall.
The length of aperture Panorama location is located approximately 1400 meters, while the overall length of which is under the city of Bukittinggi estimated to be less about 5000 meters, thereby preserved / maintained only 30% of the existing pit.
Japan's main usefulness of this hole is the basis of Japan's military defense than attack the Allied invaders then the construction is very confidential, and no one knows exactly when it began a pit japan built. Can be estimated only a few months after March 1942, when Japan seized the hand of Bukittinggi from the Dutch Government.
Unskilled workers to multiply this hole is taken from people - people in Indonesia who were arrested from other areas, such as from the island of Java, Kalimantan, South Sumatra, etc., while the catch of Bukittinggi itself was brought up again to another daetrah force employed on the project anyway - Other projects, such as Loge le to m, embuat railway that will connect Muaro Sijunjung with Pekanbaru Riau. But this work does not go slesai, because the Japanese defeat in the hands of trigger-Allied army.
Technical workers in the construction of this hole to be taken from people - people who work in Indonesia Coal Mine Ombilin Sawahlunto originating from the island of Java.
All unskilled workers are not sati orangpun who can save themselves, all of them died due to lack of food and the torment of the Japanese army. hole so that confidentiality is maintained.
Although this hole can be completed, but have not been exploited completely, because the Japanese hurried to its knees due to the Allied soldiers who dropped two Atomic Fruit Allied troops in the city of Nagasaki and Hiroshima on 7 and August 8, 1945, and continues with diproklamirkannya Independence of the Republic of Indonesia on dated August 17, 1945 by Soekarno - Hatta.
When this hole is pretty crowded Japanese tourists visited by both International and Archipelago and is a favorite tourist attraction in London and even the West Sumatra.
Conditions in the tunnelFrom the gate, we menurunbi stairs as much as 135 pieces, if the staircase is the high average - average of 20 cm, thus the 135 steps means that we have fallen as high as 27 M. if we compare again where we stand now with the existing road above us, have a height difference approximately 5 M. from this calculation that the base hole diketahuilah ranging from 30 to 40 M of the ground surface. This depth was considered safe enough by the Japanese against Allied air attacks from.

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