Jalan-jalan ke Umbul Sidomukti!

Haloo para pembaca setia! 

Jadi weekend kemarin, aku bersama sebelas teman proyekku lainnya tamasya ke daerah Bandungan di Semarang. Yang belom pernah ke Bandungan, dia tuh daerah dataran tinggi dan dinginnya Semarang. Jadi kayak Batu sama Malang kitu coy suasananya. Adem!

Sebenernya ini dadakan sih, awalnya yang mau berangkat kesana si cowo-cowo. Terus, di Minggu pagi saat aku baru selesai ambil laundry, aku dipanggil buat nonton tipi (AADC) waktu lewat. Dan diajak lah (dengan berat hati keknya mereka tuh huakakaka) para ciwi-ciwi untuk ke Umbul Sidomukti, dengan satu syarat: Nggak boleh rewel! Soalnya mau nggembel, katanya.. 

Awalnya, dari 5 ciwi-ciwi, yang mau ikut adalah 3 biji. Namun akhirnya kelima dari kita ikut semua, HAHAHAHA dengan salah kostum! Katanya, kostum kita tuh kayak mau ngemall, mana gada yang bawa ganti pula, hahaha, soalnya di Umbul itu ada kolam renangnya gitu yekan.. Terus kita ahirnya balik ke kos lagi bawa perbekalan. Ini penampakan kita.. biar kalo mau foto-foto ada manis-manisnya gituloh maksudnya cuy.

Okey! Jadi perjalanan panjang ke Umbul dimulai jam 10 pagi dengan memesan grab untuk pergi ke terminal. (maklum bukan di kota gede cuy jadi rada ribet yahh). Kita pesen 2 mobil, karena total pesertanya kan 12 orang, sedangkan 1 grab cuman boleh diisi 6 orang. Biaya naik grab dr kos ke terminal kudus adalah Rp 22.000, karena lagi promo "AYOSMG", jd dpt potongan 6 ribu. Mayan kann! Habis itu, kita ngetem bus di pinggir jalan, tapi biasanya emang udah ada bus yang stand by di pinggir jalan itu. Paling nunggu 10 menit udah jalan busnya. Nah, biaya naik bus Kudus ke Terminal Terboyo Semarang ini, biaya nya Rp 10.000. Jaraknya ngga begitu jauh sih, kalo lagi ngga macet satu jam udh bisa sampe di Semarang. Kalo macet dan banjir bisa sampe 2-3 jam. Tapi karena sekarang jalan nya sudah diperbaiki, semoga ngga pernah nyampe 3 jam lagi kitu yah..

Sesampenya di Terboyo, kita langsung imbal naik Bus Trans Semarang. Dengan naik BRT yang cuman bayar Rp 3.500 ini, kita langsung bisa sampe ke titik terdekat ke Bandungan, yaitu kita turun di Ungaran nya! Ajib banget lah, kalo naeknya di terminal, insyaAllah bisa dapet duduk, jadi kalo tujuannya jauh, jangan khawatir yaa! Kalo kalian kepo sama penampakannya BRT, langsung cekidot di video di atas yahh! Bagus lah masih, karena masih baru dan dirawat jg yah. Harus dibanyakin lah transport umum yg kaya gini. Perjalanan dari Terboyo ke Ungaran kurang lebih hampir sejam juga. Dan Alhamdulillah perjalanan lancar & ga sumuk beb.. hehe!

Di Ungaran, kita turun di alun-alun Ungaran sembari istirahat makan dan shalat. Karena aku lagi gak bisa makan/minum, aku hemat uang karena cuman nabung beli jajan (siomay) buat jaga-jaga ajah. Dan di dekat alun-alun itu, ada masjid bagus, jadi enak deh. Setelah selesai ishoma, kita pesen grab buat ke Bandungan nya, karena masih lumayan jaoh dan agak masuk. Biaya ngegrab dari alun-alun Ungaran ke Umbul Sidomukti ini adalah Rp 55.000 untuk 6 orang. Murah lah menurutku.. Karena jalannya naik.. belum lagi kalau macet kayak aku kemarin. Kasihan Bapak grabnya, bisa gak balik modal kitu kan.. Jalan dari jalan utama ke Umbul nya lumayan masuk sih dan lewat jalanan permukiman gitu, jadi nggak seberapa besar ruasnya, tapi sudah di atur jalan masuk dan keluar nya sedemikian rupa, sehingga nggak sempit-sempitan banget, dan kalo provider kalian nggak yang "itu", udh gaada sinyal cuy.. wkwkwk. Perjalanan ke Umbul Sidomukti ini, menghabiskan waktu hampir 2 jam.. jadi kita sampe disana udah hampir jam 4 sore gitu. Sedangkan wisata utama di Umbul Sidomukti tutupnya jam setengah 6. Kalau mau main flying fox, sepeda angin, jam setengah 5 udah tutup. Jadi, kalau mau kesini, mending berangkat pagian! Kalo tiket masuknya sih cuman Rp 13.000 kalau mau main yang lain, nambah lagi biayanya paling mahal Rp 40.000 an.

Akhirnya, kita pulang dari Umbul Sidomukti pake grab lagi ba'da Magribh, dan jalan dari alun-alun ke Terboyo jam 20.00 dengan naik bus. Dan sampe di Kudus jam 23.00.. Overall, perjalanan yang menyenangkan sama temen2 proyek. Akhirnya pergi ke tempat selain mall, bioskop. Walaupun effortnya lumayan banget! Hahaha, the perks of living in a small city! Ngga punya kendaraan sendiri. Dinikmati aja! Okeyy, sampe jumpa di cerita selanjutnya! Stay tuned!

Salam hangat,

R.

22

                                     

Hai semuanya! Baru bisa melengkapi cerita tentang ulang tahun ke dua puluh duaku sekarang! Aku tahu, ini sudah hampir dua bulan berlalu :') Telah menjadi sangat sibuk dan super hectic tentang tugas akhirku! Dan susah meluangkan waktu disini.. untuk benar-benar menulis cerita!

Oke, sebenernya aku juga udah agak lupa dengan apa yang terjadi hari itu.. karena kayaknya nggak terjadi apa-apa di tanggal 11 Juni kemarin! Keluargaku, meninggalkanku sendiri di rumah, karena ada acara halal bi halal di Jombang, dan aku tidak bisa ikut karena itu kurang dari sebulan sebelum hari pengumpulan dan presentasi tugas akhirku. Bisa bayangkan gimana deg-degannya? Ngga ada siapapun yang datang ke rumah juga, kebanyakan orang lupa dengan hari ulang tahunku. Bahkan aku tidur lebih awal hari itu dan nggak merasa sedang berulang tahun! Hahaha, kasian yah? nggak dong! Udah sangat bersyukur ke Allah SWT, karena meski umur di dunia berkurang, tapi masih diberi setahun yang lain dan kesempatan untuk menjadi aku yang lebih baik! Apa lagi yang harus kuminta pada-Nya kan?

Tapi kalian tahu gak? Aku punya proyek ulang tahun ke-22 bersama teman geminiku! Tebak siapa? Yappp, dia adalah Yunita (aku sudah sering menyebutkan tentang dirinya sepertinya)! Jadi, ini adalah proyek yang sangat rahasia yang kami buat bersama! Tapi senang sekali rasanya bisa merealisasikannya! Semoga ini bermanfaat dan bisa bertahan lama di mata Allah SWT. Aamiin yaa Rabbal Alamin! Wish, we could make another positive and secret projects together in the future.. :) 

Lalu, datanglah suatu hari yang sangat aneh! Jadi ceritanya, aku mau belajar kelompok tentang menghitung kolom dan dinding geser di rumah icak, bersama temanku yang bernama Rizqi. Tapi, anehnya, Icak terus-terusan bilang supaya aku berbuka puasa di rumahnya aja. Karena, dia pengen masak bareng sama aku. Alasan yang jelek kan? huahahaha! 😋 Terus, tiba-tiba jam 3 sore, dia bilang kalau bibib sama yunita mau ikutan gabung masak-masak. Tapi aku tetep nyantai aja, dan sok-sokan ga curiga sama sekali. Kemudian, bibib sama yunita dateng, lalu kita masak bareng. Nah, anehnya lagi, Icak itu masak mie buanyak banget! Sampe aku tanya "Loh cak, kamu kalau masak sekalian buat sahur tah? Soalnya kok banyak banget nihh! Dan padahal katanya, ayah mama dan adeknya Icak ngga berbuka di rumah saat itu. Kwkwkw, sangat mencurigakan lah pokoknya!

Dan akhirnya beneran, waktu Adzan terdengar tiba-tiba Vio, Tara, Derai, Jatu, Tiara, Ika, Sulal, dateng juga dehhh! SUUU..SUUURPRISEEEE! 👩 Bener kannn dugaanku, hahaha! Jelek banget pokoknya skenarionya hari itu huakaka! Akhirnya, kita ngobrol-ngobrol, shalat bareng, makan, dan foto-foto pastinya! Kita full-team loh hari itu, dan yang mana itu jarang banget buat terjadi akhir-akhir ini! Pokoknya kalo ngga ada surprise itu, kita ngga bakal buka bersama tahun ini! Pokoknya, makasi Icak buat makanannya huahaha! 😛                              

Dan omong-omong, hadiah terbaik ulang tahun ke-22 adalah yang satu ini! Alhamdulillah

R.

November

beautiful scenery at Paralayang and Pantai Gua Cina

Hey blog..

finally i got a free time for awhile, at least it's still 4 hours until i need to do something again. so, I want to fulfill my promise to someone that asked me at ask.fm hehe..

yes, I've been being so busy lately.. my academic and non academic's activities, both kept me running, mostly at this November. I even never spent my weekend at home! So these are what I did last month.. (especially at the weekend)

1) Done one of training's following event at my campus.

2) Done one of my task, went out with friends, slept over at her house, then the next day I went to Car free day, and played basketball.

3) Went to support my major KJI team at Malang

4) Had RAKER and watched Maliq.

and at the weekdays, I had a super tiring school's days because I got such a much tasks, a heavy series of practices, lot of evaluations, and another activities.

It can be a super long story if I should write every detail that happened to me, so I will just tell you the highlight part of it ;-) okey?

So, the training's following event that I've done was called TD Pusaka. I was being an OC in there. Like usual, I need to prepare things that needed, wake up earlier, etc. But the good news is I did it with my other 50+25 friends :) So, the tiredness were paid back by having a good time with them! :) Btw, from that activity, me and my friends have new toy to play, it's called "Break claps". It's a series of clapping hand with different patterns from 1 to 7, and it's challenging because it has a nice and engrossed sounds. Beside that, me and Vio was taught (not-so) privately by someone that I can't tell the name. :p

The next weekend, I had an even crazier days! It happened when my friends, Vio and Bibib asked to finish our Mektek Task together. actually, we supposed to do it at KFC Kertajaya with Hisyam, but suddenly these two girls popped front of my house, and all the plans were changed. At the end, we've done it at my house while eating an ice cream that we bought earlier :) But not so long after we started to do our homework.. we got bored.. and had an idea to go to Sutos instead hahaha! So.. yeah there we go.. SUTOS at 10 P.M!

Guess what we did in there? Yes, after goofing around for couple times, enter the stationery's store, watching people eating, then we end up by entering the cinema, buying the popcorn. And... only...watching.. trailer of films! :p

our sleepy faces

at 12 PM we went back, I had a sleepover at Vio's. It was raining on that day.. and suddenly omik answered my message, so we were chatting for awhile, but he's on busy mode that early morning so I decided joining Vio to sleep hihi. The next morning, Bibib picked me and Vio up! We went to help Icak vend at Car Free Day Darmo. Me and Vio bought socks in there! It was only 5000 and we got two pairs of it! :D So cheap huh, after tired walking around in there, finally we found Icak. Then we bought many foods, yeah! I ate up 1 portion of fried rice and 2 portions of grilled meatballs. Hweheheheehhhhh, so full! :)

After had my stomach full, we went to Basketball court at ITS Sukolilo. yeah, I played for some minutes in there :)) only randomly running with my shoes off.. and it felt hot! I also played free throw ball with Bibib and Vio. So, we had terms that before we throw the ball we should shout the name of someone that disturbing our mind hahahaha. So.. when I got my 3rd turned, I shout Tommy's name. "Ini buaaaaaaat omiiiiik" then I throw the ball, and dang! it was goal! :p But when I told him this story, he said that it was dramatic --" *sobs* yeah.. that's how I ended my crazy 2nd weekend! Woho!

Well..now we got on the 3rd weekend part. It will take too much words to describe the happiness of my 3rd weekend's journey. Maybe, these videos and pictures below would tell you better :)

failed video =))

 

better one =))

our happy faces! finally, beach!

This journey was especially dedicated for our friend Tiara who needs a refreshment because of something :) I hope you won't ever be sad again! After supporting our major's team at KJI and KBGI events, we made our own holiday! Yes, we spent 3 days and 2 nights at Batu-Malang. I was so happy that days, I met some of my high school's friends too in there, they were Hendro, Devy, and Nanda. It was good to feel the nice and cold weather of Batu-Malang (again).. having jokes with friends.. spent the night together.. at Alun-alun, at the car along the journey, etc. Being with the ones you loved and love you, always good, right? :) 

Thanks for the great holiday! As always.. Looking forward for the next! yeyy yeyy

Finally.... I reach the last part! It's my 4th weekend!

So, I have a new activity, I got accepted for being a staff at BEM FTSP, I'm at Communication and Information Department. I dont know how.. but I really liked my job.. It's like I'm not doing anything, because everything that I gotta do.. were my hobbies! Writing.. capturing moments.. editing photos. :) I know, Allah always knows the best. right? alhamdulillah. What's more exciting about it? I met many new friends in there. Hopefully I can get along well with them.. do every of my tasks in here well too.. and be consistent aamiin! 

last day activity.. after sitting for hours in 3 days! hoaam

after finished the raker sessions. Bibib and Vio (again) picked me up! Because we need to catch our interview test at chemical engineering building. Hehe, it was my first time went there, seriously guys after a year! ckckckck. Well.. if you 're going to ask me how was the test going?.. you better not :-) Maybe vio and bibib would answer it better (because they found something interesting in there..hahahaa).

at east coast

After we've done the interview sessions, we went to mosque and had a long chat in there. and at 8PM we went eating at East Coast, and as the closing part of this year's November! We watched Maliq D' Essentials! Woo! I thought, it was a great performance by them, because it has been awhile since the last time I watched a music concert..hehe.. by the way.. have i tell you that Bibib had her birthday on that 30th November? kindly shout "Happy birthday Bibib" yaa! And also don't forget to wish her the best wishes :)

So..that's how my November went.. see you folks! tasks are already waiting for me! bye

Wind, sky, and you

Hey, blog! I'm back again! :)

Last Saturday and Sunday, me and my other four friends just had a short holiday to Malang :) Well, actually we supposed to look for villa for our major's event next month in there.. But beside that, we took our times and had fun instead. :-p

So, we went there from Surabaya at 11a.m on Saturday morning, actually it supposed to be at 5a.m, but because of my sudden event, we couldn't make it, and end up went there at 11a.m. The traffic was kinda crowded that day, it took 6hours for us to arrive at Malang, and.. luckily the weather was not so hot, it was kinda gloomy, even we wished that it will rain, but it wasn't. We sang a lot at car, talking this and that.. you know, heart's problems =)) took photos, made video, slept, ate, and so many else. 

Finally, at 17.17 we arrived at Egar's house. Placed at Jalan Sulfat, Malang, it has a super cozy environment, also the weather, it was cool, kinda windy, and the grey sky, made it feel perfect! After entering the house, Egar's mom was greeting us, and let us cleaning our self. The girls were sleeping at Egar's room which all is colored blue (and i think, omik would love it) then the boys were sleeping at Egar's sister's room which dominated with pink, hahahaha. After had some rest, Egar's parents invited us to have a dinner outside and we ate Sop Ayam! Which made us so full at a blink of eye! Ugh, but it was a delicious choice in that kind of weather, thank you so much om dan tante for the foods heheh! :)

the way our horizons meet..

After done eating, Me, bibib, temon, icak, palom were going to Payung. (Egar couldn't join us because he was sick), We seek for that famous starry night Batu's view in there~ Though the traffic was kinda jam.. we still enjoy our trip.. and finally arrived there. After moved from one place to another because of so many reasons, we could finally decide a place and delivered some foods! Like, milk, bread toast, and grilled corn. I enjoy gazing at the night's view.. though it's kinda cold, i felt happiness running through my veins, and made me feel warmer within myself. You know.. as I passed every way into there, I saw many old films playing in my mind, like.. every place has its own memory at my heart.. and i missed them all. But now, 3 years after that, i have my new journey with new people, making new stories all over again, and i figure out how fast times are. :) After enough enjoying the night, we back to Egar's house, and arrived there at 11.54 pm. Soon, after we entered the house, 3 people were directly pray Isya, and the left 2 were busy took out their stomach's contents wkwkwk, soon then we slept !

The 2nd daay, we went to Cuban Rondo Waterfall. Honestly, that was my first time going there =)) Like usual, we took photos, entered the pond, and the water was supppeerrr cold =)) From Cuban Rondo, we had lunch with Egar, Jija, Dzul, and Egar's brother at Waroeng Bamboe. Was a cozy restaurant with good concept. Lastly, we went to find the villa, haha!

Around 5 pm, we had our way to go back to Surabaya. Not doing much in the car, because everyone was already tired. (feeling sorry for Temon because he couldn't take a rest as long as the journey like we do). Was another great journey with friends :) and my personal companion who company me even when it was only through the phone, haha! looking forward for the next. Hopefully soon yah! Thanks everybody.

Main air !

Jumat pagi selalu identik dengan main air !

Semester 3 ini. wihhh! Kuliahnya hemm kerasa kuliah banget! Dulu waktu SMA, guru olahragaku, Pak Dicky, sering cerita-cerita, terus kasih intermezzo gitu, katanya kalo di ITS itu tugasnya buwanyaakk, sampek-sampek mahasiswanya bikin singkatan gitu, ITS -> Isok Turu Sangar. ITS -> Istirahat Tidak Sempat. wahahaha dan ternyata aku masuk ITS dan ternyata beneran pek, sampek waktu semester 2 kemarin aku dilematis sama yang namanya tidur ! Bingung antara harus tidur sama "haruskah tidur" aneh banget kan tuh.. padahal kan tidur enak bingits :-(

Tapi disamping capek-capeknya, sebenernya kuliah semester 3 sampai minggu ke 6 ini menurutku seru! Soalnya beda banget sama di tahun pertama kemarin. Kan masih kayak yang dasar-dasar banget, kalo sekarang uda mulai banyak kayak..e gimana sih kalo di lapangan nantik. Apalagi kelasku di ajarin sama beberapa dosen yang sebelumnya belum pernah ngisi di kelas, dan beliau-beliau ini udah ahli di lapangan gitu.. jadi lebih tertantang. Uda mulai ada keinginan, kayak pengen konsentrasi kemana gitu.. dan sampai sekarang ini, aku agak tertarik sama.. ilmu beton, ilmu tanah, sama manajemen konstruksi.. Berat sih emang kuliah, tugas-tugasnya, evaluasinya, yang sering banget bertabrakan, numpuk-numpuk, dan ga ilok banget :-(

Aku pernah lagi sharing sama mbak sepupuku, yang orangnya tuh, keren banget! One of my role model lah, kita tuh sama-sama cucu cewek tertua di keluarga, terus dulu mba nya juga alumni spensa, alumni smada, terus alumni ITS juga, dan skrg lagi dpt scholarship S2 di London. Keren abis! Waktu itu aku pernah cerita, aku takut, kenapa sampe sekarang kayak aku blm nemu passionku, kayak masih abu-abu sebenernya aku itu cocoknya dimana sih, ahli nya dimana sih, bakal bisa perform maksimal dimana sih, takut dan takut, terus mba diz bilang sama aku kayak gini,

"Proses belajar itu ada 3 riz,

Ketika kamu dapet atau kamu lagi belajar sesuatu, terus kamu ngerasa, 'Oh ini ta? ini aku mah udah tau dan uda bisa', itu berarti kamu lagi ada di tingkat belajar paling bawah, paling dasar.

Terus kalo kamu belajar lagi dan kamu ngerasa, 'loh gimana tuh ya? tadi gimana sih? yang bagian A ini gimana?', itu berarti kamu uda naik satu tingkat lagi dari tingkat sebelumnya

Dan ketika kamu belajar, terus kamu ngerasa, "Duh aku bodoh banget ya, gatau deh tadi itu semua apaan", ketika kamu ngerasa gabisa apa-apa, kamu ada di fase belajar paling tinggi.

Belajar itu proses dari tidak tau menjadi tau kan. Sekali lagi itu proses, bukan sesuatu yang instan."

Aku seneng banget! Sekarang kayak sudah dapet gambaran pengen kemana! Kayak kalo waktu aku duduk di kelas 6SD aku bikin goal harus bisa lanjutin ke SMPN 1. Terus waktu duduk di kelas 9SMP aku bikin goal bisa lanjutin ke SMAN komplek. Terus waktu duduk  di kelas 12SMA bikin goal bisa lanjutin ke Sipil dan Perencanaan, gitu deh.

"Karena yang berat itu bukan memilih, namun bertahan pada pilihan"

Bismillahirohmanirrohim! Allahuma yassir wala tu' asir! Semoga bisa semangat terus! Pasti bisa! Pasti bisa! Makasih ya yang sudah menularkan rajin-rajinnya ke padaku! It means a lot! :D

A week of blessing!

Hey, peeps.. How's your day?  It's already a week after Idul Fitri. Sorry for the late saying, but Taqoballahu Minna Wa Minkum. Taqobal ya Kariim. Mohon Maaf Lahir dan Batin yaa.

We're started from 0-0 again, okay? :p

I'm going to post some about my recent activities in this Ramadhan 1435 H. Well, actually I wasn't doing so much things, Me and my family only stayed at Surabaya this year, because of my grammy just got sick for a month, so all of my mother's siblings asked my family to not go anywhere. Hehehe, maaf curhat. So, to kill the boredom, my family just looked for something refreshing near Surabaya. We were going out to have a dinner, or going out to try new highway, or having a windows shopping at mall, or simply just watching television and get my house cleaned together. I think, after all, it was still perfectly fun to be stay at home for almost 2 months, as long as there're the loved ones. hahaha i'm totally that type of a-home-person

Here, I give you hints of my Ramadhan's activities back then, yeay X)

After praying Eid

Alhamdulillah, this year I could follow praying Eid with my complete family. Actually we planned to pray outside of our neighborhood, but sadly, just like what we guess, we could not wake up earlier that day =)) So at the end, my family decided to pray in mosque near my house.. wkwk. After praying, some of my neighbor came to house, and we did Halal Bi Halal. Also there were some of our relatives too.. And this year, fortunately, whoaa I still got THR nih.. hehe.. :p 

Trying new highway

I think the new highway which already opened in gate Gempol-Pandaan, it is supposed as the part of Surabaya-Mojokerto Highway, was good enough. I was amazed while crossing it. They were many crossing line, between one and another one direction. We could also see some tunnels in every some mile. WIKA seemly used new method that earlier used in developed countries such us Japan and America in building a highway in this project, which utilizing the free-vertical-area construction. Maybe, it is not as beautiful as Bali Mandara Highway, but I think it deserves for two thumbs up! :) 

In my perspective, the government of Indonesia should, very needed, and MUST held many construction in this field. Infrastructure was a very important point to increase the living's point in a country. By a good infrastructure there will be a massive movement that can be done by the population, include to make a living or to transport thing for one place to another place. By a good infrastructure, especially the transportation, i believe, the rest development (like building, home, entertainment's place) will also follows to growth. 

Fingers crossed aja lah for the new government that will start to work in the next three months!

Okay, next!

Pick and do groceries with mom and gramma

Company mom and grammom to have groceries means having a tiring day. Since I am as the youngest person there, I have the responsibility to carry and take care of the goods as long as we're shopping, hahaha. Running here and running there with some plastic bag in my hand at a really crowded place.. was another kind of physical exercise's times for me.. :') KURUS KURUS KURUS!!! wkwkwk

do cooking! :p

The next activity is do cooking! Lately, I almost always being left by my mom and daddy and it's ended by me get starving alone at home, huhuhu. So when the Magribh came up, I waited for my mom and dad to come home and brought me some food.. either I would not have eaten at all. Because of that, I prepared myself some easy and instant ingredients to cook at home, such as this spaghetti teheee. So I do not need to worry again, whether my parents will come home late or not :p It was a good time with stove, pan, and spatula. ❤ That's I provide you the tutorial :p :p :p And this below one is how it turned out! Awwweeee, come to mama food! X)

Hmm delicious spaghetti ala Chef Rizka ~ yeeah

Ramadhan 1435 H may ends, but the challenge of being a better person actually just started. So, let's do better in worshiping Allah ya.. Semoga Allah terus bimbing kita di jalan yang benar. Bismillahirohmanirohim. Semoga masih bisa berjumpa dalam Ramadhan berikut-berikutnya.. lengkap dengan orang yang kita sayang ya. Aamiin. Selamat beraktivitas kembali X)

Being productive

Today's portrait!

Today, I'm going to retell you about things I did. Not something special, but I won't let this moment just going away from my pile of dust. So, D'village (event that held by my major) is getting closer, it's next week!! wow! Which means, we as the organizer, should work harder for any things that haven't fixed, including the fund's problem. That's why, we had a way out, by selling drinks and foods in Car Free Day Darmo. If I'm not wrong, it's been the 5th time since our first, it's last time for this year... and I had a great experience today :-D

The story was.. Icak as the director of its selling project was bored to make our weekly menu,  so then.. we changed our plan with the new one. Guess whaaatttt's it?

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2..

3.. 

Taraa! We sell banana-cheese fried, cutie pancake, bread toast, grilled sausage, grilled meatball, and cireng. And you know what? We made it ourself, exclude the sausage and cireng. So, on the Saturday ba'da Magribh, I went to Icak's house. I planned to sleep over there since we got lotta things to do, and we should get a good place on the Sunday Morning!

After arrived there, we prayed Isha and went to do grocery! It was so fuuun, since i went to here and there, just two with Icha, surfing on Icak's motorcycle, felt the night's breeze passing through my veins while seeing the moon's light (alay).  Firstly, we bought banana. Guess what, after bidding for some couple times, the seller gave us price (which i think) it was so cheap. After that, we were looking for some complement needs, such as the plastic, the toothpick, and the oil paper. And next destination was... finding cheese and palm sugar! then we found for the flour, oil, milk. Lastly, Icak treated me an avocado juice. Thanks a lot caki :3

After finished the "what we need to buy"'s checklists! We back home and prepared the whole things that we need. We made dough, we move the milk, we placed the sugar, we grate the cheese, we slice some banana, just times then... two more of our friends were coming! They were Temon and Cornel. We tried to cook our product. Just to make sure, that it does turn into something delicious. I'm forget to tell you, that time, it was already 1 AM in an early day.. ha.. ha.. we jokes and laughed for some silly and random things we did =))) Since yah..uda jam goblok gitu kan jam jam segitu itu.

After everything has packed on, Temon and Cornel asked us to go outside, can you imagine that? we haven't sleep all day along, we should wake up before 3AM, so we supposed to quickly sleep. but we weren't! We went to Ciputra BUT it was soooo fuuun, to pass by an empty freeway in an early daay. The air's breeze was soooooooo relaxing. I even took my head outside the car's window. Slowly screaming..... and really got happy in a time. I-somehow- feel calm and warm being surrounded with my friends.

around 2.30AM i got sleepy and...finally fall asleep. I heard sometimes Cornel and Temon were so noisy =)) I thought they don't know which way to pass. And times then I slightly woke up and we're already at The new airport =)) What the.... ?? =)) I heard they asked to me and Icha, should we down and taking some photos or not. But they said, me and Icha answered no, please guys, kita kan ngelindur itu jawabnya =))) We even didn't realize it was rainy so hard that morning wkwkwk

Just then, Suddenly, it's nearly to 4AM, and we haven't arrived at Icak's home. We got panicked and called Mandol. and Tiara also called us. =)) Some complicated things happened then. Untiil tadaaa, we arrived at Darmo.

Some unlucky things happened to us at first. the stove wouldn't work. the floor was watery, etc. But times then, things got better and were under our control :3 we started to make our foods! packed this packed that. frying this frying that. grilled this and grilled that. even we got some hot-oil splashing! wuuuw So complete right? The hot menu last morning was..the grilled meatball! u guys should try sometimes, okey ? <3

                                     

afterrr tired selling things. Me and kordesian played the paper-boat. We made wishes and float them. And then we packed, and we went back. by the way, I was driving for Temon and Cornel because that two were so sleepppyyyyy, and i thought it's ok. I felt like a mommy picking for her sons that time haha. Arrived at Icak's home we did the dishes, counted the money (yeeeyyyy!) and had a super comfy sleep for 4hours!

And i went home. 

Though it was so tiring.....I'm - seriously - really enjoying it. Alhamdulillah, thanks Allah for giving me chance to experience things like this, May i could always be productive like this B-)

A hectic week

My life this week in black & white

Hey blog... I guess this is the place where I end up when I reach my lowest point. Sorry, blog... that's why you're rather gloomy and mellow-drama lately hehehe but I tend to seek for relieve by writing here only or mostly when I get stuck, sad, tired, or terribly bored.

Look, I don't mean to complain, I think Allah has always been soo good to me. I know many people will switch place with where I am now. But there's always this one point when you're not satisfied, and that's what makes us human, right?

But, I must admit it, that this week was one of those tiring weeks ever. Due to many things that I should have done in 7 days. Not only consumed my thoughts but also lots of my energies.

Reversing time back into 7 days ago, after cycling  in the morning, I was getting an accident near my house. I fall and got some wound, gladly it wasn't that bad. Monday to Friday, I never got home earlier than 9-10PM, I drove to here and there.. I ran for this and that.. And plus.. My school's stuffs. Task, exam, etc. Which are never stop coming and coming like the water flows.. 

And, it's Sunday, which means tomorrow is already monday again. Like, "hheu.."  I know, I better take a rest or doing my homework or read some books instead of grumbling here, but i just feel like, I need a little escape now.. I've been going to a bookstore yesterday, but it doesn't help much. I still feel need sort of a little pause, such as have a school's day off, or going to somewhere, or simply writing here, maybe?

But then, I was companying my mom and my grammy to fresh market yesterday. In there i found how life was so opposite between one person to another, including me. And I should be thankful to Allah for His blessing.. I should reminding myself however I'm in bad condition that there're still many people out there who's in worse condition than me..  and my life that I have doesn't that hard to compare with theirs.

This's part of my journey to be someone who i wish i eventually turned out in the future. And I should fight for it. This's the war that never going to stop between me and my own self. I may feeling this in one time, but i must not let it control me all the time. Being a moody person is really a bad thing..hzz :''|

That is a video which's a compilation of videos that I took during this week when I was going to many places. I collage it into one and give it a soundtrack. That's the song that I mostly listening to lately.  KITA BISA by RAN ft. Tulus, it's a beautiful song, right? :)

Kapan bisa berpikir lebih mahasiswa-is?

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Judul di atas dipersembahkan buat diri saya sendiri. Kapan bisa berpikir lebih mahasiswa-is?

Baru saja melanglang buana di beberapa blog, yang penulisnya adalah seorang mahasiswa. Cuman ada dua hal yang sering saya lakukan ketika membaca tulisan-tulisan mereka, 1. berdecak kagum 2. manggut-manggut. Intinya, tulisan mereka terlalu luar biasa, banyak benernya, dan yang paling penting mahasiswa banget. 

Tapi, sebelumnya, saya mau jelasin dulu, gimana sih definisi tulisan yang mahasiswa banget buat saya?

Yang pertama, menurut saya, mereka yang sudah mahasiswa-is sudah mampu mengangkat sebuah topik yang cangkupannya Nasional, disini mereka nggak mengangkat sesuatu yang individual. Mereka membahas permasalahan dalam cangkup negara. Entah dunia ekonomi, pendidikan, politik, sosial, dll. Mereka mampu menyajikan data-data ataupun informasi yang berkaitan, yang bisa bikin pembaca, "Oh ternyata ada yang kayak gitu ya." Setelahnya, mereka mulai angkat bicara, mereka sampaikan argumen-argumen mereka, poin-poin dari tulisan mereka, gimana tanggepan mereka, gimana kritik mereka, dan gimana solusi dari mereka. Mostly, semua yang mereka sampaikan, itu dalem, maksudnya, "Wow." tapi endingnya mereka juga tetep bisa kasih suatu saran, solusi, atau ide penyelesaian yang konstruktif. 

Buat saya, ya harusnya gini ini, 'mahasiswa-is' Ngga cuman komentarin, nyerca, dan hal-hal sejenisnya terhadap sebuah permasalahan. Tapi juga harus bisa menyarankan solusi yang solutif. Apalagi, umur-umurnya mahasiswa ini kan, usia-usia muda yang 'they said' lagi berada dalam zona kreatif seorang manusia. Zona dimana kita suka menghayalkan hal-hal ekstrim, bahkan harusnya ini juga sebuah zona ketika kita bisa membuat nyata hal-hal ekstrim itu. Kok bisa? Ya, mahasiswa (apalagi yang sampe kuliah S2, S3) itu kan jenjang tertinggi dari sebuah pendidikan. Mulai PG, TK, SD, SMP, SMA, dan akhirnya kuliah. Kan sayang banget gitu harusnya, kalo sejauh itu kita bersekolah, ujung-ujungnya cuman orientasi uang? Dan ilmunya dibiarin menguap. Tapi, yah.. gabisa munafik sih. Tanpa uang, somehow, kita jadi kurang punya taring

Kenapa  perlu berpikir mahasiswa-is?

Firstly, karena emang status kita adalah seorang mahasiswa, jadi udah harfiahnya kita kudu berpikiran yang lebih mahasiswa-is. Kita calon pondasi-pondasi penegak bangsa kita selanjutnya, 20 atau 30 tahun lagi. Masa depan bangsa turun ke tangan kita. Kalo, pola pikir kita masih cuman, "besok ada peer ga ya".. kan juga gimana gitu kan..

Pingin, pingin banget bisa kayak mereka-mereka yang sudah kasih kontribusi nyata buat bumi pertiwi ini, dalam cakupan mereka sebagai mahasiswa. Okelah, 'tapi kan saya masih mahasiswa tahun I. Jadi, gapapalah, masih kayak gini..' Sering-sering banget saya mengagung-agungkan mereka, terinspirasi, namun pada akhirnya saya hanya  melakukan pembelaan diri seperti itu.

Sampai suatu hari, saya menemukan sebuah kata bijak, seperti ini (dengan sedikit perubahan)

Seandainya, bila kata 'tapi' itu tidak ada
Bayangkan, ketika kata 'tapi' itu tidak ada dalam kamus kehidupan kita. Ketika kita melakukan kesalahan, kita tidak bisa mengelak, dengan kata 'tapi...tadi..' dan membuat beribu alasan, atau justru, mengambing hitamkan orang lain. 

Be someone a little braver.. 

Mulailah dengan, ketika kamu melakukan sebuah kesalahan, jangan katakan 'tapi..' dari kata itulah, dirimu memulai memaafkan dirimu dari kesalahan-kesalahan nya, dan akhirnya mengulangnya lagi di hari kedepan. Katakan, 'iya saya salah karena...saya..' 

Akui kekuranganmu. 
Supaya itu bisa menambahmu dengan hal yang lebih baik kedepannya

Memang saya punya kekurangan, saya kurang berani mengungkapkan pendapat secara langsung. Saya masih belajar, saya juga nggak tahu berapa lama waktu yang diperlukan sampai saya bisa menjadi seperti mereka yang sudah berkontribusi secara nyata. Melalui tulisan-tulisan ini dululah saya akan belajar untuk menjadi mahasiswa yang mahasiswa-is. 

Mengutip kata-kata yang diucapkan oleh salah satu pembicara, yang notabene dari kalangan dosen di universitas saya, dalam sebuah acara pembukaan welpar jurnalistik universitas saya beberapa bulan yang lalu.

"Ketika kamu belum berani berbicara. Tulislah saja apa itu yang ingin kamu katakan"

Sedikit namun begitu memotivasi. Saya sangat setuju dengan beliau. Setidaknya, kata-kata beliau mampu membangkitkan semangat orang-orang yang kurang berani berbicara seperti saya ini. Kontribusi bukan hanya tentang turun ke jalan, berorasi. Dengan hanya kita ingin tahu, disitulah kita sudah berkontribusi. Buat saya, words have power. Apalagi real action. Apapun medianya, berorasi, menulis, menyumbang, kampanye, dan sebagainya. Semoga, saya bisa lebih mahasiwa-is kedepannya.

Jadi ?
Akankah kita menjadi pemuda sebagai potensi negara ?
Atau pemuda sebagai sumber permasalahan sebuah negara ?
Kita sendiri yang tentukan.
Semoga kita bisa menjadi insan yang berguna.

Flood Problem in Jakarta

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Today, I'm going to talk about recent hot issue in most of Indonesia's news shows, flood problem that happens in Indonesia, mostly at Jakarta. Nowadays, flood in Jakarta happens annually, even, it's getting worse and worse - every year, who should to be blame on? Let's take a look first on what factor cause this happened, in my point of view.. 

1. Excess of Population -> too many construction -> green area decrease

As the capital city of Indonesia, where all forms of activities centered here, Jakarta become a city with the most society numbers. with total area: 664,01 km2 Jakarta has patch 9.809.857 society, and has a big differences numbers of society with another cities in Indonesia, and now Jakarta is already classified as  a megapolitan city. 

With these numbers, absolutely Jakarta should grown with many buildings to support the human's activities. Places to work, residential, Mall, stadium, apartments, etc. Which make its green area, trees, plants, forest, reduced year by year along with the increase of the population. Whereas, green areas with plants and trees in there are important place for nature balance. With the presence of trees, whenever the rainy season's coming, it could help soak the water that falling, and decrease the chance for flood disaster.

Now, the green area that available in Jakarta is only 10% of its total area, which ideally it should be 30% .

2. Disposal system 

With those high numbers of society sure it will produce massive garbage in Jakarta. With no good disposal system, it could make a worse condition for Jakarta. Garbage maybe an unimportant things in human's life, it's something that can't be used anymore, it's stink, dirty.. then people throw it away~~pew~~ anywhere, in road, in school, in river, in canal~~ without thinking what may coming up next~~ especially, in rainy season.

Government should provide a good disposal system in Jakarta. They should find most effective and quickest way to anticipate the amount of litter from the society. Government should provide numbers of trash can in ways for every some meters. in crowded place. So, society have more will to throw them in the right place. 

3. Geographical location + bad drainage system

The geographical location is one of largest cause why Jakarta gets a flood every year. Placed after Bogor which in higher level from Jakarta makes Jakarta got its descendant water flows. The bad news is, Jakarta already in bad condition with factors i earlier said. 

Actually it won't really impact to Jakarta if only Jakarta already has a good drainage systems. Every year, with the increase of population, the width of drainage canals are getting smaller and smaller while the water capacity that come's getting higher.. Plus if the drainage system in there nearly broken by ages factor, it will make the condition worse.


What should we do?
It's kind of hard question to solve. Since, we all know, how big matters that made Jakarta having this flood attack every year. We can't blame the high rain intensity, we shouldn't be, because rain is Allah's giving.. So if it becomes a disaster, who else to blame? It's ourself.. as human, who actually caused this. Jakarta already broken the nature being in there until it isn't balance anymore. Too many deforestation. Too many green area used for buildings. Not only that, I get a lil bit disappointed every time I watch a television program that reporting Flood in Jakarta, and the host said..
"Wish the Jakarta's Government could quickly overcome this problem.." 

Wait a minute. So you just hoping the Government is the one who should take an action here? and you wish this problem will be finished? How much time you wish it would take, if you're hoping like that?

Let's counting, how many Government's people that can take action? And how many Jakarta's residents that can take action? It won't ever make sense when you're wishing just The Government that should take an action to overcome this problem and the society not. You're all living in that area together. You produce the garbage, you used the land for making home, you keep coming there with hope that you'll get a better economy, life, etc and when the problem comes up..you're just hoping the Government will finished it...

We all can start helping by doing little things.. Like, don't ever throw garbage anywhere. throw it at the trash can. Or maybe reuse it for something useful again. It's only a simple thing :) 
Maybe we don't notice it, when we throw a piece of plastic in a canal.. and we think, 
"ah it's not a big thing. nothing will happen"
But, how if you keep doing it once every 5 days, multiply it into a month, and a year, and 9.809.857 head. Is it still won't make big thing happen again? 

For bigger solutions.. there're must be a lot. but i believe, most of them will take times. because, the problems're in huge scale. 

1. Do transmigration -> equalization of population -> equalization development
Indonesia is a big country. It contains of..many region. Java, Borneo, Papua, Sumatera, Sulawesi. But, all the society mostly concentrated in Java. Why? Because, the development in this country's uneven. Imagine, if every region in this country, happening an equal development's grade.. The society's numbers. The economy's growth numbers. The resources exploration rate.
Not only the flood matter that will be solved, but also the others problems, such as reduce the unemployment numbers, reduce the traffic jam in high ways, and so many else in the future.

2. Do the vertical's direct construction
One of my college's teacher, in Transportation Building major, ever told me.. as the society growth and the need of massive public facilities's getting higher. We should take an advantage of the vertical's direct construction. vertical's direct is unlimited space that we can used. Like, in developed country, as Japan, American already did. it will surely take times until Indonesia can become like this below.. but.. hey, nothing's impossible ;)
*)P.S: if you don't understand what I mean, these're the examples of vertical's direct construction

japan's highway (img src: google.com)

Dubai Marina Real Estate Apartment (img src: google.com)

Los Angeles's Highway (img src: google.com)

3. Repair/rebuild, and keep maintenance the drainage system

Since, the drainage system like, water pump, flood gate, is still human's production. Slowly, they could get broken by the time. So, people should take a serious maintenance of it. Every 3 month, every 6 month, or every year, maybe. It sure will take cost, but prevention is better than repressive, isn't it?

Compared with the cost that should spend for the maintenance, i'm sure it will less than the cost for keeping back the city condition. less than resident's properties that broken by the flood.

Last but not least.. let's wishing all the best for our brothers and sisters out there.. which was hit by the flood, may you all blessed in Allah's shelter and kindness.. let's save our environment since now.. we are the ones who can prevent ourself from bad things. May Every incident is in Allah's will. but we must make an effort. Take the lesson..and learn from that.. bismillahirohmanirohim.. :)

Three Gorges DAM

Hey, I Just watched National Geographic Channel. It's talking about Three Gorges DAM in China. They compare it with others barrage which already built earlier than this, such as.. Hoover DAM in USA, Krasnoyarsk DAM in Russia, etc.

I could take a summary from watching this spectacle, that, how important is it to learn from others things that has been there earlier. Yes, we should make an evaluation from things around us. We should learn, which one is good and which one is bad from that things, then.. we use and follow the good ones and we change/recycle/rearrange the bad ones. So that, we could.. produce a better thing afterwards 

In this show, NatGeo channel showed us, how.. greater is it the Three Gorges DAM at China, its strength, its making way, its used technology, its mechanism, its surplus, its different than the others dam in the world. And it is really really massive cool! This show showed us, how wisdom are the Chinese people in the making of this dam.

The Three Gorges DAM (source: wikipedia)

I can't exactly tell you what's the intention of this barrage with another barrage, since it used a higher language on Civil theory.. (especially on water construction major) So you better, find its video (I provide you one below)

What makes the Three Gorges Dam special?

1. to construct this barrage, China needs to move away numbers of its population. They migrate them to some places in country, it also impact on China's economic system for some couple times, but I guess it has been solved, since with the construction of this DAM it means that Chinese quality are raised. They somehow already in higher level. They have another facility to support their life. They have DAM which the world's largest hydro power, i mean the sacrifice they've made are paid off.

2. When DAM's already operating, its water that fall down from the barrage will have a damage power to the land below them. Slowly.. it could reduce the barrage's land power, it scrape the soil layer below the building, and make the building collapse, because they're not strong enough for keeping the pressure that keep coming from the water. So, Three Gorges used a new method which adapted from Grand Coulee DAM in US State to overcome this problem,

if the Grand Coulee make a curvature concrete below their DAM, Three Gorges build it above the water (the red ones), so after the water fall down the barrage, they splashed until around 100m up, so  it won't have a distracted power anymore, the foundation land won't be deflected

source: google.com , This's how the water splashed outside the water space

3. Since, Three Gorges DAM placed in Yangtze river, it's one of busiest river in Asia, it's really useful for the traffic. With the Three Gorges DAM construction it will destruct the traffic activity in there. So, Chinese engineer, made a similar way which used at Krasnoyarsk DAM in Russia. They made a lift which using the water power (adapt the hydraulic pump theory).. So it can lift the ships from one side to another side of the DAM. 

4. The Three Gorges DAM's engineer could find out a method to make its building material which won't lose with nature's power.

And another excess that i haven't been mentioned since i still lack on English (i wish i could increase it soon), and my civil knowledge not that much yet, but soon I will, aamiin ;) I just wanna share you an info that I just got, well, Three Gorges DAM has been produce an ultimate hydro power for China, It really give much impact on many things in China, their Economical, their transportation, their flood problems, their irrigation, their electricity) .. and so many else, which grow to better and higher level. And made China into one of developed country in the world. 

We should learn many things from this. We could see.. how Allah already provide us with things in nature, water, sunshine, which can be used for something more useful. which can produce big power to be used. We as a human..just should keep learn and learn and find a way how to make things possible..and being useful.

Allah gives us sense and mind, to safe this world, to live in this world, Bismillah may Allah shows us always the wise way..to through. it's one of human's masterpiece. it's a real evidence, that yes we're capable to make big things, whatever is that, however they seems from too impossible -> to be possible. Crazy ideas are the biggest idea. People said if your dreams aren't scared you enough... that means they're not big enough. Keep imagining, keep dreaming, and work for it. Nobody knows if one day we could make them true. The ones who success are ones that have courage and believe in their dreams.  Subbhanallah :)

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As for what Gordon-Levitt wants in a woman, he tells, “Making checklists of things you’re looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you’ll be alone forever.”

He adds, “You just have to pay attention, keep your eyes open, listen to people and be present. I guess what I look for in a girl is someone who’s doing that too.”

Yay!

Well, today was another great and tiring day for me! I slept only three hours this morning and now, I just got home at 11 PM for accompanying my mom to meet up with her friends. So what's up today? Bheuh! today me and some of my friends (icha, egar, yunita, ika, bella, and tio) went to Car Free Day Darmo. It was a sudden plan from Egar. I got the info from Icha, she asked me to join them vending at CFD, and they need me to help them bringing the goods from Icha's house to Darmo. I thought it was a good chance to get a new experience, so I agreed. Alhamdulillah, Although, we got there too late, we still made to sell our goods! And it almost sold out! :) 

Actually, I wasn't feeling pretty well, since it was crowded in there. but It was my first time, joining Car Free Day at Darmo since it's far from my home, so I had a good time this morning :3 There are many moments that i could see while I was there. I met some of my high school's friends. I also saw a Sugar Glider, from KGSI (a community of its lovers) And what's most important is.. Todaay, I learnt how hard was it to earn money. How 3000 could be so so precious.. That's why we should be grateful for every rezeki that Allah has given to us :) 

thanks to Tio for capturing us :3

Owner of the day

P.S: Good job! to Icha and dedek Faiz, for making the Sari Dele. And thanks to Egar, for the invitation! Looking forward for next time! Ok, that's all for today! Happy Monsterday all. Hoaaam~