Sister city,what is that?
Last time I read.. Sister city is a
program between two cities that has similarity in one or two aspects, the
program build in the form of an agreement between that cities to help each
other, more over to promote their city.
Bandung, my home town have an agreement
in the form of sister city with several cities such as Cebu (Philippines), Fort Worth
(United States), Suwon
(South Korea), Bari
(Italy), Hangzhou,
Liuzhou
and Yingkou
(People's Republic of China), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Braunschweig
(Germany), Kuantan,
Petaling Jaya,
and Seremban
(Malaysia), and Pekanbaru (Indonesia).
Eh??? There is no Hamamatsu City isn’t
there? But how can I write that as a tittle?
Well, I will say you.
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| Bandung City - Indonesia |
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| Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka, Japan |
Bandung-Hamamatsu
Festival
Long time ago in 2009, I ever atended a
Japanese festival in Cihampelas Walk. And the tittle is Bandung-Hamamatsu
Festival. My friend, Andra (she’s a Bandung Institute of Technology student at
back then) becomes MC because she’s fluent both in English and Japanese.
The festival held in the end of 2009,
there’s so many dresser (cosplayer) that wear Japanese Anime Character,
Japanese Style and Japanese Traditional clothing. I did. I wear a dress. it’s a gothic-lolita style.
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| Me. The back only. LOL |
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| OK, now you can recognise where is the weird author there. |
And we have guests from Hamamatsu, they
performed a traditional Dance (odori)
from Hamamatsu. Then the Japanese also opened many stand for Japanese food such
as Takoyaki booth (Takoyaki – octopus ball cake that
grilled), Okonamiyaki (snack in the
form of cake that made from flour and vegetables that mayonaised and special sauced),
and also cotton candy stand. I love them all!!! xD
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| The guy with white shirt. I thought he's a Japanese from Hamamtsu (if I didn't wrong) |
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| Cotton Candy Stand!! |
Sister
City?
Ok, back to sister city, Umm.. about the event, I don’t know about
that event, but someone told me if Bandung-Hamamatsu has a sister city
agreement. I got it at that time so this is the event to celebrate their
sister city. Ironically, I'd just ever read if sister city agreement just made in 2011.
Eh??? I didn’t know about that. So what’s the festival that held in 2009 back
then? Then I just thought maybe that festival is one of the ways when this both
cities starting to probe each other to create that sister city agreement.
The similarity between Hamamatsu and
Bandung claimed as the city which becomes industry center, there’re so many
factories in Hamamatsu so do with Bandung, Hamamatsu becomes destination for
workers so do with Bandung, Hamamatsu has festival traditional or various
events so do with Bandung. So maybe that’s the similarity.
OMG I forgot, how can I forgot the
location, Hamamatsu city is the part of Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, whilst
Bandung city is the capital city of West Java, Indonesia. From the topography
Hamamatsu and Bandung maybe have similarity, from it’s contur, and the situation of the city (maybe).
In 2011 Hamamatsu even ever helped
Bandung for an environmental event. So in this 2014, idk if Hamamatsu still
becomes Bandung Sister City or not, but I thought it’s still. Well I don’t know,
but I glad if Bandung has lot of sister cities that can help for Bandung’s
promotion, moreover, I love if there’s a city in Japan that becomes Bandung Sister
City. :)
Ok, you can search the information of
those cities by your self. Here are :
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