College Years...

College years in the late 1990s I guess. Wait..I am sure this was back then in 1996. We were having a party in Kaliurang with our fellow friends from UCLA. Our friends from UCLA were studying Indonesian language and culture from 6 months to a year at our PSI (Pusat Studi Indonesia- Center for Indonesian Studies), Gadjah Mada University. 

We were attending the coronation of Surakarata Sultan. All of us must wear the traditional Javanese attires in order to attend the ceremony. We still vividly remember that. Oh, what a happy day that was. 

This is me when I was attending the International Night where international students would show their capabilities in Indonesian dances they'd been learning for the past months during their stay in Jogjakarta. 

And this? 

Well, what would our life be without going to be beach?

Well it takes only an hour or so from our college to the nearest beach. I guess this is in Sundak Beach. 

What about this one? I felt like a James Bond since the girls were all circling me....^-^Anyway..it was a great time we had back then in Jogja Village Inn. 

The smiles we had on our face.

Smartphones? Well, they were ..in their era...^.^

2004: no smartphones. phones which are smart? Well, who would have thought that technology could just develop in a blink of an eye...

Nokia 3210 with its famous tagline: 'begitu kecil, begitu cerdas'(?) "so small, yet smart'

Now...we may laugh at it when we remembered that this particular phone dared to call itself 'smart' ell, they were smart in their era. 

Then, there were Siemens, and Samsung as I show right here.. See how small they were back then. 

I was using the Nokia, my wife was using the Samsung and then...the Siemens was for both of us, just in case. I loved the old Nokia since we could change its casing to suit our mood of the day.^^ what a way to lure the consumers back then. And I bought it.:)

Then...I brought the hand-phone to Sundak beach ...

What a lovely day that day...^^. Just a small act to keep the memories linger on

"going to the beach with back-then-used-to-be-great companion: our Samsung phone.