a peace seeker

JJS (Jalan-jalan Singkat) ke Jogjakarta

2012-02-04T05:20:00.000-08:00

Sebenarnya sudah lama saya ingin menulis cerita tentang perjalanan ke Jogja bersama mbak Prieska Juni tahun lalu . Namun karena berbagai alasan, ada saja alasan untuk menghapus segala draft tulisan ini. Hingga tibalah saat ketika mbak Tika menawarkan kesempatan untuk mengisi rubrik Letter to Share GYC ini, sayapun akhirnya bisa menuliskan dengan singkat, padat, dan kilat! hahaha

And here we go...

Libur semester genap lalu, saya dan sahabat saya Prieska menyempatkan diri untuk singgah ke kota Jogjakarta dalam perjalanan pulang ke kota Malang. Dengan perencanaan mendadak dan dana terbatas, kamipun pergi ke Jogjakarta dengan prinsip, apa saja asal murah :D

Kami sampai di stasiun Lempuyangan Jogja setelah menempuh 11 jam perjalanan menggunakan kereta api ekonomi, lalu naik becak menuju jalan Malioboro. Kami tinggal di penginapan yang jaraknya cukup dekat dengan Jalan Malioboro, juga tidak jauh dari stasiun Tugu Jogja. Dan yang paling penting ramah dikantong, hanya 60.000 permalam untuk dua orang!

Where to go:

Musium Vredeburg. Bangunan ini awalnya adalah benteng pertahanan Belanda. Kebetulan saat itu ada perhelatan Festival Kesenian Jogja, kami pun dapat melihat karnaval yang menampilkan berbagai macam kesenian, mulai tari tradisional Jawa, marching band, hingga fashion show batik, berjalan beriringan dari jalan Malioboro menuju museum.

Prieska di depan Benteng Vredeburg

penari di dalam pelataran museum

Pasar Beringharjo. Kawasan ini merupakan surga bagi yang suka belanja. Terdapat banyak barang mulai tas, hingga seprei, terutama yang bercorak batik tersedia disini dengan harga yang relative murah. Namun karena niat awal kami bukan belanja, kami hanya membeli sedikit makanan khas Jogja seperti bakpia dan geplak di pelataran luar pasar.

Candi Prambanan. Menumpang bis TransJogja, kamipun sampai di Candi Prambanan. Tampak candi tersebut sedang mengalami perbaikan di sana-sini pasca bangunannya banyak yang rusak karena gempa beberapa waktu lalu. Namun begitu, bangunan ini masih berdiri dengan cantik dan memancarkan keanggunannya.

Taman Sari. Konon tempat ini adalah tempat bersenang-senang Raja Jogjakarta bersama para selirnya di masa lampau. Terletak sekitar 4 km di selatan stasiun tugu, kami naik trans Jogja lalu lanjut naik becak menuju pemandian ini. Kolam pemandiannya sangat cantik, terdiri atas dua kolam dikelilingi dinding-dinding tinggi nan klasik. Banyak lorong bawah tanah disini, juga terdapat masjid bawah tanah yang sangat unik.

Masa singgah kami yang cukup singkat (hanya dua hari satu malam) membuat kami belum sempat mengunjungi tempat-tempat lain yang pastinya tidak kalah menarik seperti Keraton Jogjakarta, Kota Gede, Pantai Parangtritis, dan lain-lain. Namun tak mengapa, karena hikmah dari perjalanan ini adalah adalah menjadikan hambatan sebagai sebuah kesempatan. Kami terhalang perencanaan yang kurang matang, namun tekad kami cukup kuat untuk mewujudkannya. Biaya juga sempat menjadi masalah, namun kami berpikir selama ada kesempatan, biaya masih bisa diusahakan. Hal ini masih lebih baik dibandingkan ketika ada uang namun tidak ada kesempatan. Bukankah kunci dari semua hal adalah menjalaninya dengan senang hati? :D

Regards, @ayagayatri

Doubutsu Uranai

2012-01-14T03:13:00.000-08:00

I read mbak Rizka's blog, and i want to try it too :)

You are Silver Pegasus type, who looks active, and gives an impression of being a tom-boy.
(I used to have short haircut-wear trousers-and look sporty. Now, i want to look more feminim, I go to girlie shoe-store, but always end up go to sports store, haha)

You are extremely cheerful and good natured.
(am I that cheerful? hahaha yes I think. Good natured? maybe we should ask it to my family and friends first, hhee)

You can easily get emotional and start crying, you are rather too soft hearted.
(My tears drop easily)

Also, you are very obstinate and simple minded.
(am I obstinate? yes . Simple minded? sure. I will not make something burden me.)

You easily give up on things and have weak will power to finish what you have started.
(I replay angry birds immediatly if i thought the last bird can't finish it)

You tend to be sarcastic and critical, but on the other hand, you can show great devotion and dedication.
(----)

Your attitude lacks steadiness, and is always changing.
(I think that's true. ----suddenly wonder about my MUN career---)

You always worry about what the other people are thinking and can be bit too sensitive.
(yes and I feel that it is annoying. Why SHOULD I care?)

But you are a person who naturally becomes a center of everything.
(I am a center when I was in Junior and Senior high. But now I am a guard #eh #basketball)

Your fast movement earns people's respect.
(rrrr, what kind of movement? I hope that it means a progress)

You have a natural born leader type of talent.
(Really? I shall make it happen)

You will struggle on the contradiction between your ideals and real world.
(I BELIEVE that everything can be happen!)

You may end up doing something beyond one's imagination, so you must try to have self-control.
(self-control!)

If you are opposed by someone, and although you know that they are right, you can not take it in easily.
(TTT___TTT i know it, and this is what i try to improve)

You will be more successful if you can try not to go against people around you.

(hmm....hmm....)

You tend to give too much attention to your family than to your lover.
(am I? Hahaha. I am sure it is natural.) :D

This may cause a trouble in that your lover may feel jealous about you being too affectionate to your family than to him.
(Is he?) ;P

You should not force your convenience to him, and try to give him more affection.
(For sure?) hehe

You are more suited as a career person than to stay at home.
(NOTED)

But once you get married you will take care of your family with great affection.
:') I WILL.

Languages Crush

2011-10-06T02:33:00.000-07:00

I have been learning Mandarin since July 2010 until now, and in other hand, I think my time to learn and speaking English is decreased. I'm not blaming Bahasa Cina Modern (BCM) subject, which is the major subject in Chinese Study, but i realize that BCM needs my special attention, and I was too lazy to learn English as well as I learn Mandarin.

Last semester, I took English subject. This subject was held every Monday and Friday. But I was just use English in the class, and I didn't practice that outside the class, and neither in the blogspot nor twitter. Until in early third semester, I felt that my English skill was getting worse. In addition, I took Italian and Dutch language subject which made my brain's left hemisphere work more to absorb new languages. Actually, I really regret not to take Academic English subject, and take Dutch subject instead. But, it is really too late to drop the subject from my study plan, and it is the time to enjoy Dutch :)

And now, I have found God's reason why i haven't needed to take academic English yet. I join an extracurricular in campus which use English as official language. It's really something, since it accommodate me to know further about my passion and what I want to do in the next 3 years. And now, it is the time for me to make a good relationship with English and Mandarin, get to know further with Italian and Dutch Language, and not to forget my pride to use Bahasa Indonesia as my national language, and still preserve Javanese, my mother language.

Cheers !

2011-01-19T21:52:00.000-08:00

It's called an "Unexpected Arrival"

thanks my best friends, 我爱你们 -wo ai nimen- because of Allah swt

may our friendship last forever, amiiiin :)

*masih gak nyangka banget waktu sampe di rumah, sahabat-sahabatku udah
stand by di kamar, bersama kue, masakan mereka (cream soup+garlic bread yang 很好吃,enak banget!, lilin, balon, dan tulisan gede "WO AI NI", lengkap dengan teriakan "SURPRISEEEEEE!!!!!" waktu aku buka pintu kamar.

Aku sama sekali gak nyangka kalo bakal ada surprise yag sampe kayak gini, aku juga lagi gak ultah, baru ngeh kalo cahaya kemerahan yang kelihatan dari ventilasi kamar itu tenyata pendaran dari lilin yang mereka pasang, aku malah ngiranya ibu beli lampu tidur baru yang belum dimatikan =_=", tapi aku seneng banget karena bisa ketemu mereka, ditambah dengan suasana seperti kemarin. Alhamdulillah ya Allah. Terimakasih Engkau telah memberiku saudara-saudara seperti mereka :')

:)

2010-11-15T05:37:00.000-08:00

This morning, i opened my facebook account from my mobile phone. Then I found a note from my friend which make me a bit curious, and then read it. shortly, he wrote about his idealism in search of a girl, maybe to built a special relationship or a selection for his future wife. In his opinion, it's really inappropriate if a girl who decide to wear headscarf or hijab who have a special relationship with a guy, and it's indicate that the girl isn't ready (mentally and phisycaly) to wear hijab. In his opinion, it will be better for that kind of girl not to wear hijab at all. at the end of his notes, he said that it just the reflection from his vision of life, his principle of his life and it was purely no offense.

just say labil moslemah, i look myself, i think that was sooooo me. over a year ago____________________

a girl who started to wear hijab, and not long afterwards, she started to have a relationship with a guy . One and a half year after, her relationship ended :~D

After that kind of brokenhearted stuff, she studied harder and harder to reach her dream. After several kind of entrance tests, now, she is learning to build her future in Program Studi Cina Universitas Indonesia.

she knew, she did so many mistake in the past, include her decision to have a relationship. But now, she had pick a hikmah from all she had experience. What she need to do isn't to regret it nor curse her self, but she need to forgive her self for her fault. Yeah, she just compromise to herself, and feel thankful to Allah, altough she had choosen a wrong way, but InsyaAllah, now she is on her right steps :).

special thanks to the guy who ever made me fall (in love) and then broken-hearted (because of love) in the same time, because those kind of bad situations make me realize that I have someone that i really really have to lean on, love me whenever and wherever I am, and silly me, sometimes i leave Him a while to maintain the world-stuff. He is Allah swt, my Lord, my everything. Maybe i'm not His best creature, but i try to be a better one.

nb: wondering about offense and no offense stuff, but it just my opinion and what i believe. Don't wait until you have a perfect preparation, just take the action. Don't wait for a perfect timing, but choose the most possible one. It's all about NOW or NEVER. Last but not least, thanks for this enlighten notes :)

what else I can do?

2010-09-26T05:28:00.000-07:00

Its been a while since i got diare.
WHAT??
yup, D.I.A.R.E

how come? As I remember, first I realized that i got this is in saturday. my first BAB was not like the usual (you know what I mean). And I go back to the toilet 2x afterday. what a pity. Then, I started to memorize what food i had been eaten on Friday, and that was it

Breakfast: Lontong Sayur. My grandma bought this in front of our house. My cousin also ate this for breakfast, and she doesnt got diare. I think lontong sayur is not the suspect food, hha

snack time: Risoles at kopma FIB UI. I dont know, the risoles is still good and fair to be eaten. Suspect

Lunch: at Takura Fisip UI, but I dont know in which stand i bougt the food. It was a japanese food, the name of the packet is iritto. I think one of the egg roll wasnt fried enough or "embek" in Indonesia. But I still eat the whole packet. I was hungry enough. I ate with Irani, Tari, an Riri, my chinese literature friends, they just order beverages because they have already eat before, and also with Kartika and Arum, my native chinese friends, but they order in another stand. From five people here, just me tat got diare. Thanks god, not many people got. But this japanese food is suspect :P

Dinner: With Rice and Chicken Ketchup (or ayam mentega?) from halal bihalal sastra cina UI 2010. When I eat it, the food is still good and proper to be eaten. But my condition was starting to weak. Maybe the diare bacteria has attacked. So I ate it completely, consumed vitamin C, then went to bed. I think this chicken food is not suspect because no one of my friends who also ate it got diare :)

I cant find which was the real "main actor" for this annoying disease. But I just realized again that health is EXPENSIVE. Altough I didnt spend much money for this (i just consume mecodiar two times, drink alot of water and pocari sweat, and when my diare has stop, I consume yakult), but I really really unwell, uncomfort when I can sleep tight just because i doesnt want to bab in my bed (seriously!), felt sooooo limp (lemes), and another annoyed feeling. And it becoming good again when my digestion system back to normal. Thanks Allah, for give me this kin of feeling, I could be more thankful to you for all Your grace :)

day 3: Seven secrets

2010-09-26T04:58:00.000-07:00

1. SECRET ADMIRER
2. SECRET ADMIRER
3. SECRET ADMIRER
4. SECRET ADMIRER
5. SECRET ADMIRER
6. SECRET ADMIRER
7. SECRET ADMIRER

What else I can tell you, if it just a secret? hahahaha :P

here I come

2010-06-30T02:41:00.000-07:00

sebuah pemikiran yang ga bijak (menurutku) bila memilih Sastra Cina HANYA karena ingin dibilang "Anak UI"

semoga ini jalan terbaik untukku :)

Analogy part II

2009-12-09T06:18:00.001-08:00

I have told that i could neutralize 'acid' with 'base'*. And i'm happy with that.

but, i realized that i have taken the 'base'* a bit much. And it makes me 'Mabok basa'.
And it isn't good at all

i found something that normally could make me 'neutral', without base nor acid (!)

my self focus !
I must focus . For me myself.
It helps me spread the positive energy
Recharge my self confidence
boost my better-and-better motivation
everything in me

so, i need nobody, not everybody,
but You. :)

*goodbye base. We'll meet again soon. If we are meant to be, i will always beside you, LATER :)

"Retired"

2009-12-03T06:28:00.000-08:00

Mungkin banyak yang menghujat osis angkatanku, 'osisnya aji'

mungkin banyak yang banding2in sama angkatan lain

apapun yang terjadi, apapun yang orang bilang, yang penting kami udah berusaha menyajikan yang terbaik

ditengah kondisi yang ga pernah kami bayangkan sebelumnya,

semoga pengalaman setahun terakhir, bisa jadi bekal berharga untuk perjalanan hidup kami semua ke depan..

dan jadi sebuah kisah klasik untuk masa depan :)

thanks : aji, tila, nov, ika, amri, prieska, ocha, rofi, nana, upil, angger, yola, ibe.

dan ga lupa adik2ku niar, fitri, ayu, firli, puspa, hafidha, fadhil, rafif, hafiz, fadli, mirzajon, isal,
lanjutkan perjuangan kita ;D

coz all of you are both valuable and lovable :3

Everybody change

2009-12-02T20:11:00.001-08:00

Coz time is running fast

coz people wanna improve

coz people getting bored quickly

coz people never said enough

Coz people wanna be a better person from time to time

coz people is a human

and so am i

one word: self control
can handle it all

;D

New spirit !

2009-11-30T23:11:00.000-08:00

Forgive to forget . Forget to feel again ;)

Auto-self-focus

2009-11-23T21:53:00.001-08:00

Ujian Nasional SMA tahun 2010 yang awalnya akan diadakan pada minggu ke-3 April, dimajukan satu bulan. So, i'll fight till the end at march 15-17th 2010.

oh iya. Seleksi Masuk Universitas Indonesia juga katanya mau diselenggarakan Maret 2010, tanggal 14. Which is a day before UNAS?! Bismillah...

semoga ada satu bangku kuliah di UI untukku..
;)

quote of the day:
"Usaha max, doa max, restu orang tua. Cari jalan keluar masalah lewat depan, belakang, kanan, kiri. Kalo tetep gak bisa? Loncat!"
(Pak Sukarji, guru BI)

start ! :)

2009-10-05T05:34:00.001-07:00

Allah makes me stronger in September
and I must be more UNBREAKABLE, start in this October
;)

seringkali aku banyak bertanya kepada diri sendiri. Kenapa?
Kenapa aku begini, kenapa aku begitu? Tanpa pernah menyadari bahwa seharusnya aku lebih banyak berkata pada diri sendiri kalo : "Alhamdulilllah, ternyata aku...", atau "syukurlah, aku ada dalam kondisi...". Dan bodohnya, aku baru menyadari, ketika aku bertanya "kenapa?" dengan tujuan merutuki diri sendiri, tindakan itu secara tidak langsung bikin dada dan pikiran ini nyesek!! Ga bersyukur dengan apa yang ada, ga bersyukur dengan apa yang aku punya..

dan mulai sekarang aku mulai merubah itu.. Mengubah sudut pandang pemikiran. Yang awalnya satu perspektif, sekarang dua.. Mencoba memahami apa yang ada di benak orang lain, memperkaya batin..

yang mulanya banyak menuntut, kini menerima. Yang awalnya banyak cemberut, kini tersenyum.. Yang biasa menyempit, kini meluas..
Saat aku lagi ga bisa nerima keadaan, aku cuma bilang pada hati dan pikiranku, "miliki hati yang seluuuuas samudera!!!"
dan setelah itu aku PASTI tersenyum dan lebih lega..

aku percaya Allah selalu menciptakan segala sesuatu menjadi indah,
PADA WAKTUNYA

indah pada waktunya...

aku yakin itu :)

2009-10-04T03:25:00.000-07:00

hello world.. *Manami* :)

i just want to say HELLO for you who reads my blog. Thank you very much :)

So, let's start blogging...