Sore
tadi, boss ke ruanganku buat pamit pulang duluan. Aku lembur. Habis
beres-beresin barang dan menenteng tasnya, tiba-tiba, boss balik ke ruanganku
lagi dan nongol di pintu. He randomly said:
“Eh
satu reminder ya. Kebanyakan mikir yang menang pikiran negatif. Dah ya. Bye”
Me :
Lagi galau Pak Po. Aku pengen sekolah nih. Pengen banget. Tapi belum punya
uang. Biayanya mahal. Harus nabung dulu. Itupun lama.
Boss :
OK. Let me tell you. Dulu kan aku pengen banget kuliah di University of
Michigan. Disana Business Schoolnya kan bangus. Nomer dua di US abis Harvard
Business School. Tapi ternyata aku gak ketrima. Terus aku mikir, kalo aku tetep
tinggal di Michigan sambil kuliah bisnis yang gak bagus, rugi dong. Terus aku
putusin buat tinggal di kota besar aja, aku ke LA. Terus aku daftar jurusan
bisnis di California State University dan keterima. Sekarang aku sadar kalo aku
emang lebih seneng kuliah di California State University daripada University of
Michigan. Soalnya kalo aku ketrima di Michigan pasti sekarang aku jadi sombong.
The point is, segala sesuatu itu terjadi sesuai kemampuan kita di waktu yang
tepat. Jadi, sabar dulu. Nanti kalo udah tepat waktunya pasti bisa sekolah
lagi.
Learning and knowing something new have been my favorite
things to do. Whether I do those things by reading books, having insightful
conversations with people, watching movie , attending classes or anything. And
I couldn’t be happier that Akademi Berbagi is now having regular classes in
Magelang. Akadami Berbagi is actually a very noble community to me that the
main purpose they have is to provide information or knowledge about anything to
people FREELY. No matter who you are, whether you’re a male or female, young or
old, currently studying or working, you can just come and learn for free. Akademi
Berbagi has been existing in so many places around Indonesia, and now in
Magelang.
The first class of Akademi Berbagi Magelang was in November
23. It was about journalism, discussing about how to get our articles shown in
newspapers in particular. It’s held in Syang Art Space, the very beautiful and
artistic place in Magelang. I was happy to join and plan to perpetually join every class. If
you are interested to join as well, you can just mention Akademi Berbagi
Magelang on its twitter or facebook account. Oh, if you have specific knowledge
or important information to share, you can as well be the speaker. Again, by
mentioning them on twitter or facebook. See you in another class, pals.
Saya itu orangnya gampang banget terinspirasi. Terutama
sama orang-orang atau kejadian-kejadian di sekitar. Salah satunya, bos saya di
kantor. Bos saya ini punya banyak stok cerita dan lebih-lebih, dia pandai
bercerita. Dengerin bos saya ngomong itu selalu menyenangkan dan jauh dari kata
membosankan. Ada aja cerita yang dibagi. Cerita yang bikin saya senang karena
merasa dapet pengetahuan baru. Cerita yang bikin saya lebih pintar dan kadang,
bikin lebih open-minded J
Kebiasaan kami, mendekati jam pulang kerja, bos selalu ke
ruangan saya buat mengabiskan sebatang dua batang rokok. Nah, kalo pas kayak
gini, biasanya saya dapet banyak banget cerita yang inspiratif walaupun kadang
topiknya ringan.
Mulai hari ini, saya buat label “Chit Chat of the Day”
buat nyeritain percakapan-percakapan paling mengena yang saya dapet dari
orang-orang sekitar. Hari ini, my boss
did it. Ceritanya tentang lagunya Daft Punk diambil dari album terbarunya
Random Access Memories. Judul lagunya Giorgio By Moroder.
Bos cerita ke saya tentang keunikan pembuatan lagu ini.
Jadi, Giovanni Giorgio Moroder ini adalah penemu musik elektronik. Dia diundang
Daft Punk buat ikut andil di album RAM ini. Tapi, ternyata Moroder diundang
buat nyeritain dirinya di tiga masa yang berbeda. Dia pun diharuskan ngomong
pake tiga mikropon berbeda, yang dibuat di tahun yang diceritakannya. Awalnya
Moroder ini sempet protes sama produsernya karena merasa gak ada bedanya
ngomong pake tiga mike beda. Lalu produsernya bilang kalo dua robot (Daft Punk)
tau kok bedanya. Akhirnya Moroder nurut dan jadilah lagu Giorgio By Moroder.
Jadi intinya, Moroder cuma disuruh ngomong di awal aja. Habis itu dia gak
dilibatkan lagi :D
Well, finally I graduated. Frankly I feel totally
relieved. Pursuing my bachelor degree was the hardest yet most valuable thing
I’ve ever did in my life so far. I am happy that I could do the thing once I
thought it was impossible. Then it’s true that nothing is impossible, uh?
The graduation day was on the 16th November 2013. To
be honest, the ceremony was quite boring and time consuming. But, my favourite
part was the moment I and my three best friends were announced as the best students
and get the title that sounds balm to my ears; “cumlaude”. Haha.
You know, once the commencement
done and we’re home, my father couldn’t stop telling every person he met how
proud he was about that title.
It makes me think that I need to continue studying on a higher level. This is
what makes me feel a bit miserable lately. Actually I have a very strong will to study but it’s
more likely to be impossible to do what I want at the moment. I need to earn a
lot of money first. But, I promise myself that I want to pursue my master
degree as soon as I get the chance. And most importantly, enjoy my
current happiness and struggle.
Been so long since I wrote on this blog. I’ve been being
overwhelmed by the graduation stuff. A lot of things to accomplish as soon as
possible and they occupied me much. Now, I am quite free and having pretty much
nothing to do but waiting for the graduation day to come. It’s gonna be on the 16th
of November.
Doing nothing has been so boring to me. Fortunately, I
got the opportunity to take part in Debat Bahasa Inggris SMA se-Kota Magelang
on October 28 and Debat Bahasa Inggris SMK se-Kota Magelang on October 30 and
31. Debating has been my passion since I was on the 4th semester. And I am so
grateful that my university always gives me the opportunity to join any
debating activities they have. A couple of friends and I were invited to be the
adjudicators of those two debate competitions. Of course, I was so impressed to
do so.
It wasn’t the first time for me to adjudicate a debate
session. I did the same thing in the pass two years as well. Yet, I felt kinda
nervous at the beginning of delivering verbal adjudications. But then, things
run so smoothly that I can control my speech and the content of the oral adjudications
I gave to the debaters. That was also slightly unbelievable that I became the
chair adjudicators for 9 debate sessions. Meaning that I delivered 9 different
oral adjudications. To be honest, I felt tired and so thirsty afterwards. Yet,
I was very much happy. Especially seeing those, whom I gave my verbal
adjudications to, were happy to get the information I brought to the debate. Those
who thought that what I told them was very beneficial.
Well, btw I am going to graduate in only two weeks. Actually
I am pretty afraid that I will lose the opportunities I used to have when I was
still in uni, including joining debate exhibitions. Are those two debate
competitions I joined lately gonna be the last ones? Hopefully not. But then,
this motivates me to develop myself, to push myself to look for or even CREATE
the opportunities I want. Lesson learned!
