Sunday, February 18, 2007

My Ideal Town

Bandung is an ideal town for me. Bandung isn’t a big city as Jakarta, but Bandung has many facilities almost like Jakarta. If you looking for a good university to study in, Bandung has some well known universities such as Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Universitas Pajajajaran (Unpad), Universitas Parahyangan (Unpar), Maranata, and many others. If you just want to shop around, there are many malls, factory outlets, and boutiques here. Bandung also has a lot of restaurants and cafes that serve variant delicious foods and drinks with variant prices. And if you want to find fresh air and beautiful scenery, you can go to Lembang, Tangkuban Perahu Mountain, Taman Hutan Raya Djuanda(in north bandung), Ciwidey, Kawah Putih, and Pangalengan (in south Bandung). You can get almost everything you need in Bandung. That’s why I love bandung very much.
On the other side Bandung has some minus too. If you see with seriously, you will realize that Bandung is a quite dirty town. You will see many rubbish are thrown by people at many places. Bandung now famous with its traffic jam.We often get trapped by traffic jam on several main streets in Bandung. In former times Bandung had cool temperature air. But now not again, Bandung has become warmer and sometimes too hot in the afternoon. The air of Bandung isn’t fresh anymore, mostly in center of the town. Many trees had been cut down and now being replaced by building construction.
All the damages and the troubles that happen in Bandung are caused by bad habits of its citizen. Many people in Bandung break the traffic rules such as crossing the road without using the zebra cross, stopping the car on the forbidden spot, ignoring the traffic lamp, etc. All of that causes traffic jam. Some of citizen did not throw rubbish to the right place. They throw their rubbish to anywhere they want. And make Bandung dirty. Cut down the trees and too much pollution from motor vehicles cause the pollution of Bandung air and higher the air temperature too.
So, if we (Bandung citizen) do really care about Bandung why don’t we take care our Bandung from now. Stop breaking the rules, stop cutting the trees, stop damaging and contaminating Bandung, reduce “the grey development”, and any other action that might harms Bandung. Start to make bandung better. Start it from our self, start it from little things, and start it from now.

Good work, thanks for posting.

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