Salma Fadhilah

               In Japan, the citizens commonly run their activity based on the weather forecast. It's because, Japan is well known with the precise weather forecast and all the citizen of Japan are believe in it. So that the weather forecast, including the system and the device, are very important to all the Japanese people. The Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System (AMeDAS) is a collection of Automatic Weather Stations (AWSs) run by JMA (Japan Meteorological Agency) is the device for automatic observation weather aspects to support realtime monitoring of weather conditions with high temporal and spatial resolution. An AMeDAS observing station measuring precipitation, wind direction/speed, temperature and sunshine duration (with snow cover meter). JMA began operating the AMeDAS system, which now currently spreaded all around Japan at average intervals of 17 km nationwide, on 1st November 1974.

Buat yang suka blog walking ke blog-blog kece yang tersebar di dunia maya, mungkin nggak asing sama judul post ini. Why? Mungkin kalian pernah mampir ke blog kakak kece yang satu ini, Kak Zahra , dengan tulisan fenomenalnya yang berjudul " Belajar Apa Saja di Ilmu Gizi IPB? " part 1 & 2  yang katanya nggak bakal dilanjutin dengan part 3, 4 dan seterusnya karena sudah lelah. ( Sukses ya kakak calon ahli gizi, tetep semangat ditengah kesibukan kuliah dan non-kuliah yang selalu mendera! ). And she inspired me to write this kind of very-late-post, karena hitungan semester yang sudah akan segera menginjak angka 5, buat berbagi tentang  apa aja sih yang dipelajari selama jadi mahasiswa Arsitektur Lanskap IPB, terutama yang lebih spesifik per semesternya. By the way, kembali lagi tentang judul post ini, entah kenapa nggak kepikiran buat nyari judul lain selain yang nyerempet sama judul postingan beliau di blognya diatas. So, izin pake judulnya ya Zah, peace! Sebelumnya, mu...

I’ve been about 2 months here during the Asean International Mobility for Student (AIMS) program in Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology (TUAT) and I feel I already got so many things. There are many new experiences that i never had before. Some of that are from my university life like study in classes and laboratory, and the other are from what I’m doing beyond that time such from the social life here in Japan, culture, and what I see when I’m sightseeing around. I’ve been dreaming to step my feet here in Japan since very long time ago when I was a kid. Then later when I grew up, I study Landscape Architecture in my university, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB). Then in every lecture that I got, my lecturer always told me that Japan is the country that very good in the landscape architecture. In almost every landscape architecture principle that I learnt, Japan is the example of the application. So many sceneries from nature to manmade park are shown in our lec...