My Holiday: FLOATING MARKET LEMBANG

Last holiday, i went to Floating Market Lembang with my family. We have to buy some tickets before we get inside Floating Market Lembang. And then we will get a cup of welcome drink here:

If we want to buy or play something inside Floating Market Lembang, we have to pay using coins. So, before we get inside Floating Market Lembang, i bought some coins. Here are some of the coins that i bought:

There are some canoes and the other kind of boats that visitors can ride. We have to pay around IDR 30.000 - 70.000 to ride the boats. We can ride the boats for about 30 minutes. 

But i didn't ride a boat that day. I prefer to walking around Floating Market Lembang, took some photos, and bought some light meals. Here is one of the light meals that i bought, Crispy Mushroom:

I bought that at the floating market. They sell it on a boat. Beside crispy mushroom, they also sell mushroom satay and mushroom chips. 

There are also another sellers at the floating market. Not only meals, but also shirts, flip-flops, etc. 

When i was having lunch with my family, i met Agnes there. She also came with her family.

I also took some photos there. Here are the photos:

GADGET FOR UNDERAGE KIDS

Nowadays, some of the parents gave their kids, who are about under 12 years old such a sophisticated gadget, even to their preschooler kid. As you can see in some public areas such as mall, café, restaurant, etc there are so many kid holding a sophisticated gadget such as iPad, tab, smartphone,  etc. They are about 7-12 years old. Even there’s a 4 years old kid who had already ‘play’ that sophisticated gadget. They usually don’t communicate with others, because they are just focusing on their iPad or any gadget that they hold.

The function of a gadget for example, cellphone is actually to do the long distance communicating with others in an easy way. For the kids, they can use their cellphone to communicate maybe with their parents if there’s something that they would say to their parents, ask for picking up them when they had finished their class, or maybe, for the elementary schoolers, they can use their cellphone to call or text their friend—asking about their tasks or homework or anything.

But now, the parents give them some sophisticated gadget which allow them to join social network, or maybe many of kids love the games, or anything that makes the kids love to ‘play’ with their gadget rather than communicate in the ‘real’ world. It can cause the decreases of communication abilities, decreases the focus of a kid on anything,  or the most dangerous effect is, they could be an anti-social in the ‘real’ world.

In my opinion, that’s okay giving a kid a gadget. But just a simple cellphone which can call and text only. I think the ideal time to give the kid such a sophisticated gadget is when they are already in junior high school, but the parents should still give some ‘guidance’ to their kid, not to ‘play’ their gadget all the time. They should communicate with the others in the ‘real’ life. Parents should also introduce some ‘real’ game which is different from the games on their gadget. I think, Indonesian Traditional games is one of the right choices. For example, there are some games which tells about cooperation, like galasin maybe.