Things I Like and Dislike

Bekasi, Jakarta and Yogyakarta

Hometown for me has several meanings. First, hometown is the place when me and my family live and spent our daytimes. Second, hometown is the place that my grand mother and the other of big family live. Third, hometown is the the place where my parents came from. Bekasi is the answer for the first meaning. My house is in Bekasi. My parents and my siblings live there. It is the place where I used to live before study here, in Bandung. From the second meaning, Jakarta is the the answer, because most of my big familiy live in this city. And from the third meaning, the answer is Yogyakarta. It is the city where my father come from.
Bekasi is my first hometown. It’s near Jakarta, and it usually called the satelite city, because it supports Jakarta. Now Bekasi is on the move. It can be seen by the shopping malls and the hotel in the center of the city. They are: Metropolitan Mall 1&2, Mega Bakasi, Hero Plaza and also Hotel Horison.
Jakarta is my second hometown. I was born in this city 18 years ago. Jakarta is a very crowded city, but nice. It is fulled with hustle and bustle and it is absolutely polluted. But one thing about Jakarta that differs it from other city in Indonesia is the name of “Metropolitan City”. Jakarta takes the most important city in Indonesia because it is the center of Indonesian government where all of the policies, laws and regulations related to Indonesia made.
Yogyakarta is my third hometown. It is a famous as one of the main tourism and destinations in Indonesia. It’s absolutely a beautiful-cultural city. Where you can see a lot of cultural heritances like ‘Keraton’, museums, temples, etc. I also like the people of Yogyakarta because they are nice and friendly.
Besides the rich of the cuture, Yogyakarta also has several well known names. They are ‘City of Gudeg’ and ‘City of Students’. It is called city of gudeg because Yogya is very famous for this traditional food, Gudeg is a very delicious food consits of vegetables, eggs and even soybean curd. Named ‘The city of student‘ is because there are so many school and universities there, both private and state.
I rarely go to Yogyakarta, maybe once in a year during the ‘Lebaran holiday’. Last time I went there wason November 2006. It was quiet different from the last time I saw. As we know, in May 2006, Yogyakarta was shocked by an earthquake. , and that what made it different. In some places, there were so many historical sites collapsed and damaged by the earhquake. For example, part of Prambanan Temple, Keraton etc. .
I was very sad. I had several families there, and fortunately they were all right. After all, Yogya is still Yogya. Their spirits and willingness to rebuild Yogya is remarkable. They are tough and strong-hearted man. So I hope the people Yogya can totally get up and together rebuild our beloved city.

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