Pencak Silat Quest

Tonight Discovery Channel broadcast Fight Quest: Indonesia. Fascinating!

Two foreigners named Doug and Jimmy, came to Bandung--Sarijadi regency to be exact, to learn Pencak Silat as their fight quest. Pencak Silat is one of traditional martial art of Indonesia.

The foreigners learned from two gurus named Guru Dadang and Guru Rita. These gurus are two of the most famous gurus of Pencak Silat.

Doug learned Pencak Silat from Guru Dadang. The teaching is more moderate as he was taught how to hold pain even though his body is beaten. He also witnessed debus demonstration. Debus is 'another' side of Pencak Silat which include black magic. Doug watched the show in terror and amazement as the guy who performed debus cut his tongue with a machete, but his tongue was not cut at all. He kept saying, "It's insane! How can you beat a man who doesn't feel pain?" hehe.. Well Doug, even us--Indonesians--amazed with debus show! And yes,it's pretty insane, yet fascinating! :-P
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Impressive UPS!

United Parcel Service or UPS, worldport in Louisville, USA is extremely impressive! 154 km conveyor belt, over 100 planes armada powered with ADBS (or is it ABDS? I forgot the name. It's a plane radar that send plane's coordinate to the ATC).

They also have sophisticated DWS (scanner) technology, supported with advance barcodes filled with packages' detail information--not only the address and postcode, but also weight! For all that they equipped advance tools like posisorter and other traffic-like system in the worldport factory.
They have 9,000 workers: pilots, flight trainers, meteorologists, marshallers, ground crews, sorters and drivers who never do left turn :-D --with their DIAD (gps-like tool).

This year-1907-erected company recorded 2,5 million packages in 24 hours. They're definitely doing serious business! Again, impressive!

Oh, I watched the documentary report on Superfactory National Geographic Channel (by cable). I'm simply an NGC and Discovery Channel addict.. ;-)