Goodbye, tiring January..

Finally..... February is an inch ahead :') I've been waiting for February just because January was so tiring yet productive, I must say. In February, there will be many nice things to do. MC-ing a great event in town concerning with books, having fun on Polaris Valentine Party, having a presentation at Universitas Negeri Surabaya, and of course going to Bali!!!!!! Hopefully everything will go well. Amen.

Well fellas, to start my day in February, I would like to be grateful for many things that God has given to me.

Firstly, I thank Him so much for giving me the opportunity to study at university. This has been the greatest achievement I've achieved. Up to now, I'm still able to pay my tuition as well as keeping my grades stay on the safe position hihihi Even though, I can't lie that doing all those things are not easy. Sometimes, I complaint, I feel so tired, I even cry silently pretty often. Yet, it's still the very first thing I should be grateful for.

Secondly, I thank you, God, for letting me know, learn, and being able to use English. Surely, I've been falling in love with English since when I was a very young child. Yet, I realize that my English has not been good yet. I gotta learn more cuz I still face some difficulties when it comes to speaking skill, although my writing skill might not too bad hehe. 

Then, I'm so grateful for having Parjia as my boyfriend. We've been almost together for 2 years. For me, that's amazing. And for me, he's more than a boyfriend, he's a partner in every single up and down I get. He's my hero, my loyal supporter, and my firework. He's the closest person that knows me so well. He's truly a living miracle in my life.

Another thing to be thankful for is the opportunity to be accepted in the radio station I'd dreamed. Working here is the most interesting work I've ever done. Everything is easy to accomplish, the boss is kind and tolerant, and most importantly, the salary is plenty enough hehehe. Thank you, God, thank you so much :*

The last one, I'm thankful for all the nice loved ones around me. I might not have many close friends, but they are the best ones that never stop inspiring me throughout the time. I love them, really love them.

All right, there are still so many things I should be grateful for, but I can't mention it one by one. So, fellas, I want to face every single day in February happily. Wishing I can learn so much more new things each day. Amin.

It's eventual, I wanna say, goodbye, tiring January :)

Pipit

Lazy Sunday!

Yaiyy! I love to write down this. It will be about my hobby. Well, today is my off day. After being overwhelmed by several tiring and tough days for weeks, I finally get a lazy Sunday! I decided to do nothing but reading. I also canceled the appointment to meet up my friends at a restaurant. It’ll be a wasting time and it’s so much better for me to stay at home and enjoy my leisure time, I reckon.  

Concerning with reading, I still have a couple of books that have not been read yet. Actually, I’ve been badly wanting to devour them all, but I’ve been always busy with my assignments whenever I’m home. Moreover, this week I will still have some exams. Nevertheless, I don’t think I need to study too hard because most of the exams are open-book exams. So, all I need is just to prepare and read all the material. That would be enough and I can spend the rest of my time to read some books. Nice, uh??!!!

Today I’ve just finished reading “Wirausaha Muda Mandiri” written by Rhenald Kasali. Frankly, I got the book last year, in September to be exact. It’s the present I got from boyfie when I was celebrating my last birthday. He gave me many books at that time, and this book is one of them. The book tells about 24 success stories of 24 Indonesian entrepreneurs. Most of them are still young and they started their deeds to seek success since they were in the beginning of university level. They also started their business from zero, even without sufficient knowledge about entrepreneurship. Yet, they’re not afraid of making mistakes, failure, and even people’s mockeries. And I think this is the law of the nature that those who struggle to reach what they want, they will get it eventually.

I’m inspired by every single book I read, including this one. There are some lessons I can learn, some quotes I love to contemplate. These are some of the quotations I take from the book.

“Namun kalau dijalani dengan tekun, manusia menemukan juga “jalan keluarnya”.”

“Orang-orang kreatif tidak takut kegagalan. Baginya, kegagalan adalah ibunya penemuan.”

“Orang-orang kreatif menolong kita belajar lebih banyak.”

“Pilih apa saja yang bisa melengkapi (to complement), bukan sekedar kebanggan karena memilih atau bisa menguasai bahkan menggantikan yang sudah ada (to substitute).”

“Cintailah pilihanmu sampai pilihanmu terbukti tidak pantas dicintai lagi.”

“Setiap waktu yang Anda habiskan untuk apa saja anggaplah semua biaya, tenaga, dan waktu yang Anda keluarkan itu sebagai investasi Anda. Dengan investasi itu berarti Anda telah berkorban. Periksalah semua investasi itu, dan kalau hasilnya negatif (Anda kehilangan), satu yang pasti Anda bisa dapatkan adalah pelajaran. Periksalah dan renungi pembelajaran itu.”

“Kemiskinan adalah sebuah energi. Seperti gas yang mencair dalam tekanan-tekanan yang kuat, kemiskinan dalam tekanan juga membuat engkau cair dan bertenaga.”

“Tetaplah hidup seimbang, kejarlah pengetahuan.”

“Kekayaan bukanlah dicerminkan dari jumlah uang atau harta yang Anda miliki, namun kalu anda harus mengeluarkannya, janganlah bersedih seakan-akan tak ada hari esok. Bedakanlah keduanya secara arif.”

“Otot dilatih bukan hanya untuk meraih kedewasaan, melainkan juga untuk menunda penuaan. Perbaiki diri sepanjang waktu, karena sebuah perjalanan bisa berakhir pendek , bisa juga menjadi panjang.”

“Maaf, Pak, saya memang tak punya. Hidup saya sangat meletihkan. Pagi-pagi saya sudah mengurus dapur produksi, siang di toko, sore kuliah. Setiap hari begitu saja.”

“Jika ingin menjadi luar biasa, maka lakukanlah hal-hal luar biasa. Bertemanlah dengan orang-orang yang luar biasa, karena kita akan menjadi terbiasa dengan semua itu.”

“Jangan berpikir engkau harus menang. Pikirkanlah apa yang harus dilakukan untuk mendapatkan apa yang benar-benar kau inginkan.”

“Kita belum tentu mendapatkan apa yang kita inginkan, tetapi setiap langkah yang kita jalankan sesalu ada yang dapat dipelajari. Kita tidak bisa meramalkan sesuatu denga pasti, namun tak ada hasil tanpa perbuatan. Kumpulan perbuatan inilah yang akan mengubah nasib kita, menjadi sesuatu.”

There are also some quotes that the writer took from other people.

“Pada sebuah batu cadas, selalu terkandung patung yang indah.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“Kalau saya tidak pernah berani kesasar, kalian semua tidak akan pernah menemukan jalan baru.” – Christopher Colombus

Yea, that’s the quotes I consider as the inspiration from reading this book. Well, I’m about to make some lesson plans to teach the elementary school students next week. Wish you got your inspiration, comrades! <3

Pipit

Lovely Wednesday!

Yesterday was super lovely!  It was started with a drama though, that I was emotional and in a quite bad mood. Well, I had to sacrifice my school activities for the sake of my work. To be honest, I hate this very much. It always makes me completely dissatisfied. Then, I decided to walk to my college, hoping that I could see several beautiful and inspiring things along the way. 

Let’s say, God never stops giving me surprises! I saw bose on the way to the college. Owh yea, bose is my ex-boss. He was my boss when I worked in my previous workplace before I decided to work at my current workplace. He was gonna go to Komisi Penyiaran Indonesia Daerah (KPID) Semarang. As usual, he offered me to go with him. Actually, I didn’t wanna go at first, but.. After considering for a while, I decided to go. Just for relaxing my brain that almost exploded at that time, we left for Semarang directly :D

The first place we visited was KFC Padanaran. Bose was meeting up his colleague while I was eating plenty enough decent food and beverages hehe. Then, I asked him to go to Masjid Agung Semarang for doing praying. You know, the mosque is sooooo awesome! I did praying on the third floor. Meanwhile bose was at the downstairs. It is very clean and artistic as well. The awkward moment was that when I was doing praying, my heart went pitter-patter without any clear reason. Was I nervous? Well, I mean should I? Hahaha

Then we went to Ciputra Mall planning to watch movie at 21 Cinema. Unfortunately, all the movies didn’t interest us at all. So, we just did window shopping and looked for some clothes for my bose’s daughter who will celebrate her birthday on the 23rd of January. After getting the clothes, I asked him to go to Gramedia. We were there for quite long time. Bose bought a kind of CD for her daughter. It’s about an English introduction to children. Not to mention, he bought me this book! I wanted to purchase it by myself, but he insisted me not to purchase that because he wanted to buy it for me. Awwh, how sweet he really is!

“Gak usah diganti duitnya. Kan itu buat belajar kamu, biar tambah pinter,” said bose. He always cares about me that much!

Hmm, this is the most worth it part of our trip. It’s the way home. We talked and shared a lot. It’s about our work, education, lives, and some other interesting things. One thing I didn’t expect that he wanted to talk about was about his favorite singer. He likes Sammy Simorangkir and Anji. It was so nice when he played the following video on his iPhone 4 during the way from Semarang to Ungaran. 

The video is so nice and touching! :’D

He also advised me sincerely, motivated me strongly and said something that I’ll never forget; “Buat bose, kamu sekarang udah sukses, Pit. Banyak yang udah kamu lalui, banyak pengalaman, dan cara ngomongmu udah sangat beda. Kamu pinter. Satu yang musti diingat, jangan gampang berkecil hati. Harus kuat harus prihatin. Oya, jangan sombong juga sekalipun kamu pinter, sekalipun apa yang kamu cita-citakan sebagian udah bisa kamu dapet.” Bose is fucking crazeeeeehhhhh yet lovely! He just succeeded at making me crying myself! He rarely texts me, but he always knows everything I do, he knows how much my school dispensation is :D, and he knows how to treat me as I want. He’s daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn brilliant! I always feel comfortable to chit chat with him. We often spend our time only for talking small things that we both like. I love to listen to bose as well as he always listens to me :’)

Well, after arriving in Magelang, bose was hungry again and we had dinner with tongseng and sate. Then he took me to my house. I was like speechless. I felt I could never thank him enough. But, I said what I feel that I thanked him so much for making me happy and buying all the things I wanted. He just smiled at me and went home.

I’m gonna be missing yesterday. Hope I could make another million trips with him again! Bose, I smurf you!!!!

Pipit :)

Hello, 2012! You Seem to be Exciting! ;)

It’s been very long time I didn’t share anything on this blog. Well, actually this is one of the happiness of life; to write my feeling on it. Yet, I’ve been overwhelmed by my university assignments. It’s a lot and steals almost all my time and my attention. Not to mention, I will face final exams in a about one week or two later on. Of course, I will prepare all of the things I need well and I will study your ass off!

Nonetheless, as a refreshment, I steal a little of my time to read some books. I just finished reading “Ranah 3 Warna” written by Ahmad Fuadi. It is a super awesome book I’ve ever read as well as its first sequel “Negeri 5 Menara”. I once tweeted the writer and surprisingly, he replied. He said that the English version of Negeri 5 Menara has been published. Uuuuh, I want one to be mine for sure! But, I need to be patient because I’m currently scrimping and saving for some needs that I have to pay in next two months.

You know, I’m so impressed about that book. I cried so often during reading it and there were so many lessons that I got smoothly through my interpretation during the reading process. It might a very simple thing, but it makes me think bigger and wider about that thing and other related things. Actually, this is what I always get from reading; new insights, new knowledge, a new richer heart, a new more optimistic soul, and some new points of view.

Other books that I just read are “Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk” and “Lintang Kemukus Dinihari” written by Ahmad Tohari. Actually, I’ve read some parts of “Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk” when I was in Senior High School. We analyzed some of its linguistics aspects in class. But, frankly, I wasn’t this excited about that book. Those are the books that are also adapted to be “Sang Penari” the movie which was awarded as the best movie 2011 in FFI 2011. The books tell about a very unique culture about small place in Indonesia that wasn’t influenced by the outside world. The main character is Sritil, a dancer or the writer calls it as a ronggeng. She’s so pretty and very talented at dancing. What makes these books interesting is that, in my opinion, everything is said originally. There are actually three books of its sequel, the last one is “Jantera Bianglala”, but I haven’t read the last one because I must accomplish my assignments first.

Okay, I think reading those three books is enough to have some refreshments to start 2012. So, I would like to start working on my assignments again and might be reading “Jantera Bianglala” tomorrow morning hehehe. I’m just curious, you know!

Anyway, I actually planned to make my 2012 resolutions list, but punish me that I was too lazy just to type it -___- So, hereby, I want to write some of my resolutions, but before that, I have some unforgettable achievements in 2011 that I would like to share as well!

My 2011 greatest achievements:

1.      I didn’t expect at all that I could get 3.73 as my GPA in my third semester of university. It was out of my prediction. Yet, let’s say that it’s just because I was unemployment at that time and to be frank, I was so focused on my study only. I thought that it sounded terrible that I didn’t have any job. Yet, I had a chance to, at least, make something I could be proud of, that is my study. And see? As long as I wish something and believe it in the deepest of my heart with no doubts, it will come true. Of course, without forgetting that we have to work hard on it!

2.      This is too bad that in 2011, I experienced the most horrible part of my life that is being jobless. I had no clue why to manage my study well I was too busy with my fucking work. Then, I decided to resign from Musvia Radio and boldly looked for a new workplace that hopefully could understand and appeciate my willingness and passion about studying. Finally, I was accepted in Radio Polaris FM. This is the radio station that I’d dreamt about since when I was in Junior High School. Of course I was extremely happy and grateful! This place (and my boss) completely understands my study :’) This is as well one of my dreams-come-true stories I’ve ever experienced. Thank you, Alloh!

3.      The other great achievement is when I was invited to be a moderator of a workshop held by U.S. Embassy and Borobudur Movie Links. There was an American independent film director, Mustava Davis. I was honored to be there, especially to meet Mustava Davis and Muhammad Reiza. Muhammad Reiza works at U.S. Embassy and of course I took this good time to ask about some scholarship U.S. Embassy might provide. I was given his email address and whenever I’m ready, he wanted me not to hesitate to send my CV to his email. Yaiy! Lucky me!

I think, those are the three things I’m so thankful for about 2011. Hmm, this is exciting, I’m gonna tell you what I wanna do in 2012!

1.       Wanna spend some of my money to by lots of new books and, as I’ve been dreaming, I want to have a bookshelf made from glasses in my own room!

2.      Wanna buy a new guitar. I learned how to play guitar when I was in Junior High School and I’m at the moment wanting to be able to learn it again.

3.      Gonna take a traditional dance course. Hawh! I’ve been obssesed about traditional dances. After asking some friends of mine about some places in Magelang that provide a good and affordable (for me, as a student) traditional dance course, I decide to take is in around March! Woohoo, I bet it would be so awesome!

4.      Looking for some new scholarship. Last year, I got a Peningkatan Prestasi Akademik (PPA) scholarship from Dikti. Meanwhile, I’ve been trying to propose a scholarship from BCA in 2010 and almost proposed it agoin in 2011 but I couldn’t do that because I still got the Dikti’s scholarship. So, this year, I will be more industrious in looking for scholarships. If you have info, even though just a very little, be free to tell me, comrades!

5.      Have a so much better time and money management skills! Hehehe, for the sake of God, these have been my biggest problems in 2011 that I sometimes felt so dizzy to manage my time and money. It’s never been easy to study and work at the same time, but I’m already halfway passing through it. Wish me the best of luck that I could handle those two problems pretty well!

6.      Actually, I’m still in doubts about this. In 2011, I was asked by my university and my workplace to be the representative to join the Magelang Tourist Ambassador. But, I ignored it firmly! I had no clue about that event, all I thought there are only beauty and handsomeness that are competed. To make it simple, I’m not beautiful and I wasn’t confident enough. But, if this year I’m asked again, I will try :)

7.      In the beginning of 2011, I was also asked to join a Pertukaran Pelajar Antar Negara (PPAN) selection test to go to Canada. But, I wasn’t lucky I must say, that my Senior High School’s certificate couldn’t be signed by my SHS’s principals because he was leaving Magelang. Another problem was the information came a bit late so that I had no time to prepare it well. Hopefully, I could join this again and prepared everything well!

I don’t think it’s easy to make resolutions because they can be both motivation and burden. But, as long as the resolutions are measurable and realistic, I believe God will help!

Anyway, wish you could make you dreams in 2012 come true as I’m here busy believing and pursuing my own dreams! Chiaow! xx

Kartika Fitrianingsih :)

Why Cheat?

Too bad that this post will be a bit emotional blog post.

Well, let me say everything straight to the point. It's 11.30 P.M. that I had a text from my little brother saying his girl was cheating. I directly replied his text and asked how he knew that. He didn't reply directly..

We're living in Magelang and that afternoon he went to Semarang to see his girl who is currently studying in UNES. The ironic part is that, my brother came there without letting his girlfriend know that he was coming there. But, when he's already been there, he saw his girlfriend was happily being with her fucking new boyfriend. Of course, my brother spontaneously ended up the relationshit! Yea, after being together for about three years or more, I don't know exactly, eventually this damn thing happened!

Don't know why, this bad news just successfully gets me hurt. I don't experience what my bro experienced, but I just feel that it hurts to be cheated, uh?  What the heck is she doing? Who the fuck is she? Pathetic! I know my bro pretty well. He's a kind of devoted boy that will always appreciate his girl in every situation and sacrifice what he has even though it's the only thing he has. 

About a year ago, my bro was very busy helping his girl preparing for her needs enrolling university. He spent much money for her. Going to Semarang for many times, buying her all her needs, accompanying her in every single test, and cheering her up are all the things he had done to her. Then, she was officially accepted as a student in UNES. I was very happy to hear that! Just so you know, I honestly admit that my bro’s girl is a kind of an industrious girl. She might not that brilliant, but she's pretty diligent. And she got a full scholarship from dikti to study in UNES till graduation. I was so proud as well at that time.

But, now, I just can hide my feeling that I DESPISE her too much! She's wearing veil in her daily life, she comes from a family that isn't financially comfortable, and she has been asking for help to me and my bro for million times concerning with her life. I just... I just can't understand how could she be this cruel? What on earth is she looking for? Money? Handsomeness? Wealth? Or what? She's fucking blind, I must say! Okay, my bro is not that handsome and charming. He doesn't have much money. Not to mention, he's currently helping my father for a living, just to get money for helping his girl buying some school's needs and paying her living costs, and he has not got a job that he wants yet. But, I don't think he deserves to be cheated at all! 

Okay, I'm writing this while crying now. I feel it's so hard for me to know what happened to my bro. In all my life, I just want to see him living this life happily and finding his true love, just because he has a loyal heart for his loved one. Yet, I have to realize that life is full of surprises! They might excite us or knocks us down vice versa. I'm just thinking about sending my bro’s ex-girl a letter. Come on! I need to say so much to her, but my bro has been insisting me not to say bad words to her. I know that I'm too emotional now, I won't be able to control my feeling well. But, someday, when there's the right time, I will send her my words. Sending good words with hidden meanings that sting deeply to her heart will be exciting! HAHAHA! Ok then, I'm gonna arrange my words carefully. 

Wish you a willingness to wish my bro a better future and a so much more sincere love wholeheartedly! If you know him, I know you will love him as much as I do. I also pray that God will send some things that can be healing my bro’s heart real soon! Amen.