LoFi Music

Unless you are living without internet access, you must already have heard about lo-fi music. It is a new genre that started as an alternative genre of music. Combining different elements of other music along with a chill vibe, the genre has gained in popularity exponentially. Lo-fi is short for low fidelity refers to a music production quality with imperfect elements on the recording that is usually considered as flaws in a professional production. In lo-fi, this imperfection becomes the main feature and considered as its aesthetic. The standard of fidelity or sound quality in music production has evolved throughout the years. Nowadays, music production has become more and more… Read More

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Eid al Adha 1443H

Eid al-Adha (Arabic: عيد الأضحى, means ’Feast of the Sacrifice’) is the second and biggest of the two official holidays which are celebrated within Islam (the other being Eid al-Fitr). It follows the completion of the annual Hajj pilgrimage, at the time of Qurbani (sacrifice). The day of Eid-ul-Adha falls on the tenth day in the final (twelfth) month of the Islamic Lunar Calendar; Dhu-al-Hijjah. The day that celebrations fall on is dependent on a legitimate sighting of the moon, following the completion of the annual Holy Pilgrimage of Hajj – which is an obligation for all Muslim’s who fit specific criteria, one of the important Five Pillars of Islam. The… Read More

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Jakarta Air Quality

Jakarta’s air quality has deteriorated for the past two weeks, achieving “unhealthy” and “very unhealthy” statuses, which experts say is the result of trans-boundary pollution from neighboring cities and as such is an issue beyond the capital’s borders. (Jakarta post) BMKG’s Acting Deputy for Climatology, Urip Haryoko explained here on Tuesday that the concentration of PM2.5 rocketed to the level of 148 μg/m3 on June 15, 2022, which showed the air quality was unhealthy. He noted that the guideline value (NAB) of PM2.5 concentration is 65 μg/m3. He explained that between 15-65 μg/m3, air pollution was at a moderate level, and at 0-15 μg/m3, the air quality falls into the… Read More

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The happiest county in the world, 2022

Finland was crowned the happiest country in the world for the fifth consecutive year, with a score significantly ahead of its peers in the World Happiness Report 2022 ranking. This is according to World Happiness Report rankings based largely on life evaluations from the Gallup World Poll. Denmark kept its second place, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network said on Friday. Iceland bypassed Switzerland to take third place and the Netherlands rounded out the top five. The surveys this year’s happiness rankings were based on were conducted well before the invasion. Ukraine and Russia both fall into the bottom half of world rankings for happiness in the 2022 report,… Read More

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Stoic Philosophy

Stoicism, or Stoic philosophy, is a philosophy of personal ethics and a methodology for seeking practical wisdom in life. A key principle of the ancient Stoics was the belief that we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us. They also advised that we should not worry about things beyond our control as everything in life can be divided into two categories – things that are up to us and things that are not. Stoicism was founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens around 300 BC. The name is derived from the “Stoa Poikile” (“Painted Porch”) where Zeno taught from.… Read More

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