Reunion With Old Fella’

Finally, after sooo long… I’m writing again in this blogs….

It’s about last weekend which I really had a great time. I met some old college friends that I haven’t met for years. Thank to facebook that connected us one to another. Thanx to class of 200… (0-9) who has invite me and some old fella’ to come to the reunion. Thanx to our instructor and lecturer who has lead us until we reach the dream that we could never think about it before. And thanx to God who has given the chance to attend this d3troits reunion.

She came to the Church again…

Last Sunday, she was willing to come to the Church again after so many years refuse to do it.  Accompanied by her son, daughter and her daughter in law, she came to the place where her last time she came there was when she assisting her husband on Spiritual Healing with Rev. TB Joshua.

Her hand was shaking when she entered the building. And her tears dropped, all these things reminds her of her husband.

Hope that it will be a good start… as her daughter found her life ruined in August 2007, now she found a lot of miracles in August 2009.

AMEN!

First Time…

Today, August 5, 2009 is the first day for me to do the ‘big’ thing about signature and authorization… geessshh… I was nervous, I was afraid that I made mistake. But luckily, Mbak Indah is a good teacher and guide, and we successfully made it.

Yeeppeeekaayeeee!!! Thanx buches, Mb Indah… There’s another things to learn and first thing to do

Bike to Work

AHA!!!! Finally, this morning is my first day for bike to work!!! Not until the office actually, just reach check point – it’s about 3 km from home, then put my bike in Pak Hery’s house then change to minibus for the next around 40 km, passed the mud lake. It’s quite fun to feel morning fresh air, especially around my campus where it planted with a lot of trees.

Hope with this thread I’ll be more healthy and happy… SEMANGAT!!!

NYClub

Yesterday was a busy day for me. After went to the Church, visiting my friend’s father who just got an accident, accompanied my mum to go to my auntie’e house then went to TP to buy helmet to ride my bike and some stuffs to have light exercise. On my way home, in the cab, I got a message from a good friend fro Germany, Thomas Schmid that he and Christian Link a.k.a Mr. Beach just arrived on Saturday and offering to join their shopping and dinner in the evening. That was a record, went to the same shopping mall twice a day!!! ;p But that was a great moment we had. Lotsa funny stories to share. And there was ‘once upon a time’ story about Little Christian hahahaha… After having a little shopping, we went to have a coffee in Grazia, which is become Thomas’ favorite place when he come to Surabaya. It was amazing when Lestin came out with her sister. Then… we had dinner at Chinese resto, Christian Link said it’s a good one. We eat a lot!!! The table was to small for us… it wasn’t big enough for our food. No wonder, we’re NYClub Anyway, that was a great moment to meet them again… Welcome to the second home, Brothers hahaha….

1.2 million….

Last night after work,  I went to my therapist to have acupuncture, acupressure and some herbal medicine which helps me a lot with my head lately.

I got there, got the treatments then went to the front office to have herbal medicines. And the said….. ‘It cost 1.2 million rupiah for this and the next three other treatments for this month…’

Herbal Medicines

Gyaaaaaa…. just realized that I forgot that I have finished the previous package, and I have to pay this time….

Thanx God that I still have some money in my atm, and they just wiped them away…. *sniff*

Solo – A Long Awaiting Journey

Every time I went to Yogyakarta by train, I always stopped for few minutes in one of train station of Solo. I used to think, I should come to to this city someday.  I can say that it’s a non-traffic jam city compared to Surabaya. It must be great to visit it.

Finally!!!! I went there on Friday morning, June 26,  2009 by Sancaka train which cost only USD 6. It took 4 hours and 28 minutes from Surabaya, how amazed that I can be there at the right time! As exactly written in the ticket!!! I accompanied by my old camera, Yasicha FX – 3 Super, and Kodak Easy Share CX6330 that I borrowed from Aswid. Then, I directly check in to the Solo Inn Hotel, a lovely small hotel with some friendly staffs. Then I was a bit disappointed on the first news that I had. I told that than the Solo Batik Carnival, it’s an event that I really wanted to see, held on June 28, 2009 instead of June 26 – 28, 2009 as I read in the websites and posters. sniff….

Side walk in Solo

Then I decided to explore Solo alone to get some scenes to be taken, since my friends who I will meet still working. I took a bus from the hotel to Pura Mangkunegaran, belongs to the Royal Family of Mangkunegara. It’s a great place to go. Then planned to go to the Kraton Kasultanan Solo, but it’s closed on Friday. So I decided to go to Klewer market by becak, then I  trapped inside and couldn’t find a way out hahahah…. It was still around 4 o’clock when I returned to the hotel. After took a bath, I went to mall and found a place to have massage. With USD 5 I can have 1 hour Indian head massage with aromatherapy. Then back to the hotel and my friend picked me up to take me out for dinner — nasi liwet yummie, showed me around and made a plan to go to the Grojogan Sewu (waterfall) – Tawangmangu in the next day.

@ Pura Mangkunegaran

I woke up around 6 in the morning, felt so sleepy, I didn’t get enough sleep because there’s a party in the lobby that only few meters from my room.  After having light breakfast, my friend and I went to the waterfal, about 40 km from Solo. It took around 1 hour with motorbike. When we got there, we have to take 500 m  stairway down to the waterfal. We walked like old fellas :p After few menutes, we got there. It paid well. The scene was beautiful! Then…. it took a great struggle to walk up. But finally we made it and wet by sweat ) Then we had lunch, delicious sop buntut, then ride back to Solo and enjoying the beautiful view of mountain, hills and rice field.

Grojogan Sewu - Tawangmangu

It was almost 2 PM when we reached Solo. We directly went to the Kraton Kasultanan Solo, took some pictures, get some rest. Then we bought some foods for the people at home, one of them is the famous Serabi Notosuman. The most delicious one.

Kraton Kasultanan Solo

After picked up my luggage in the hotel, we went to bus station to catch 5 PM train. Time to say goodbye to Solo, friends and lovely experiences at there. Well…. I’ll be back someday…. ;p

Thanx to Setyo Hanugoro for take me around Solo without complaining ;p

Setyo (a good guide ;p) and I

212 Creation

We were born with two eyes on our front face because we should never look back. But keep looking ahead, look at our future. We were born with two ears, left and right, so we can hear everything from both sides. To collect compliments and critics and choose what’s right or wrong.

We were born with two eyes and two ears, but we only have one mouth. Because mouth is very dangerous. It can hurt, kill, teasing and others unpleasant things.

Remember, speak a little bit but see and hear as much as you could.

We were born with brain inside our skeleton. No matter how poor we are, we still rich. Because none could steal our brain, our thoughts and our idea. What inside your brain is more precious that gold and jewelry.

We were born with one heart, deep inside us. Reminds us of appreciation and gift of love from God, so we can share our love for others.

We Are Bigger Than We Thought Who We Are

I wrote it in Bahasa Indonesia

Beberapa hari yang lalu, ada sebuah pembicaraan panjang dengan beberapa teman tentang sebuah pengakuan. Bahwa kita manusia membutuhkan sebuah pengakuan dari pasangan kita. Bukan sebuah kata cinta yang diucapkan berkali-kali, tapi tanpa ada pengakuan. Mempertanyakan dimana cinta diletakkan. Adakah tempat untuknya berpijak, ataukah harus dibiarkan melayang laksana hantu yang tidak bisa menjejakkan kaki ke tanah? Sebagian besar dari kita ingin memiliki apa yang kita inginkan. Dan itu butuh sebuah pengakuan

Beberapa pertanyaan yang cukup complicated pun muncul tanpa ada jawaban. Karena orang-orang yang seharusnya menjawab pertanyaan itu tidak ada disana. Semuanya bergulir seperti sebuah Lost Message. Ketika kutanya, akankah kita mengutarakannya? Sebagian menjawab, ‘Sudahlah, semua sudah berlalu. Waktunya kita menutup lembaran itu dan membuka lembaran baru tanpa mengulang kesalahan yang sama.’ Yang lain menjawab, ‘Aku takut. Jika dia tidak mengerti, maka akan timbul masalah baru.’ Ada pula yang menjawab, ‘We’ll see…’ Hampir semua jawaban mengarah kepada keraguan, dan kenyataan ini membuat kami semua terdiam.

Tak lama, aku menerima SMS dari seorang teman lama, ‘Kita tidak memiliki apa-apa kecuali diri kita sendiri. Dan diri kita sesungguhnya amat besar, agung. Kita mampu menampung apa saja, lebih dari yang kita duga, andaikata kita tidak mengikatnya pada sesuatu. Semakin banyak yang kita relakan, semakin besar keleluasaan diri yang kita rasakan – Supernova 1’. SMS ini membuatku membuka kembali buku yang hampir 8 tahun ini jadi penghuni setia lemari bukuku, Supernova : Ksatria, Putri dan Bintang Jatuh, membuat tulisan yang sebelumnya dari penggalan buku ini.

Hari Minggu malam, secara kebetulan kami kembali berkumpul. Dan aku sharingkan penggalan lain buku ini, yang mungkin berupa jawaban transparan atas permasalahan yang kami sharing-kan beberapa hari sebelumnya.

‘Sesungguhnya Anda memang tidak perlu berusaha memiliki apa-apa. Anda adalah segalanya. Sekarang, tidakkah Anda heran dengan orang-orang yang menguras seluruh energinya untuk mempertahankan sesuatu? Justru ketika Anda melepaskan ketrikatan pada sesuatu, Anda semakin dengkat dengan Keutuhan. Mencintai sesuatu atau seseorang dengan keutuhan diri adalah satu-satunya cara mencinta. Sementara perasaan tidak lengkap atau ketergantungan adalah refleksi jarak Anda dengan diri sendiri.’

Tak perlu mengharapkan sesuatu yang bukan milik kita, karena kita akan mendapatkan bagian kita sesuai dengan porsi yang telah Tuhan tentukan untuk kita. Keep praying!

Happiness

Sometimes, there’s time in your life when you need someone so deep, until you took it from your fantasy and hold him/her tight! When the door of happiness has closed, another door opened, some sometimes we took so long to staring at the closed door til we can’t see the other door, that has been opened for us.

Don’t trust on sight, sight can deceives. Don’t trust on wealth, wealth might disappear. Trust him/her who can make you smile, because it’s only smile that we need to change the dark into the light.Find the one that makes your heart smiles.

Dream what you’d like to dream, go wherever you want to go, be what you want to be, coz we only has one chance to live and to do whatever we want to do. Hope that you have enough happiness to make you smile, enough effort to make you strong, enough suffer to keep you as humane and enough hope to make you happy.

Happiest person doesn’t need to have all the best things in this world, they just need to optimize all things that will come in their life. The brightest future will always reachable by forgetting a grey past, you won’t be able to step forward in your life until you release all failures and embitterment.

When you were born, you cried while all the people around you were smiling. Do as it takes, until you’re the only one who’s smiling whiles all the people around you are crying.

Do not count the years that passed, count happy moments Life doesn’t count by how many air that we breathe. But moments when we breathe in happiness….