Showing posts with label hobby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hobby. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Pulau Lemukutan


Di umur saya yang masih (baru, atau sudah?) 20an ini, tiba-tiba saya jadi mendambakan tinggal di sebuah desa dekat dengan sawah, pantai, air terjun atau bukit.  Pergi berjalan jalan dengan kaki telanjang dan menginjak tanah basah, bercengkrama dengan teman tanpa terlalu sibuk dengan gadget.  Menikmati udara sekitar tanpa ac yang terlalu dingin dan menikmati matahari tanpa takut kulit berubah menjadi hitam.  Tapi tentu, idealisme harus menyesuaikan dengan realita dan kesempatan yang ada.  Maka bolehlah dikatakan kesempatan yang ada hanyalah liburan ke daerah yang mendekati tempat ideal saya, pulau lemukutan.

Awalnya perjalanan saya ke pulau lemukutan, di daerah Tanjung Jati hanya ide nebeng saya dengan seorang teman yang akan membawa rombongan se-gang-nya. Tapi mendadak keluarga saya yang awalnya hanya ingin liburan di pantai yang ada di Singkawang, ingin ikut juga.  Jadilah perjalanan antara teman dan keluarga.

Untuk orang yang (agak) introvert seperti saya.  Perjalanan ini sedikit ramai dengan tinggal di penginapan seadanya dan tidur berdempetan.  Sebenarnya fasilitas yang minimal tidak pernah menjadi masalah  selama bersama dengan orang-orang yang gak terlalu banyak mengatur dan menghancurkan mood yang bisa berubah seketika. 

Hal lain yang saya senangi saat di pulau adalah snorkling.  Saya bisa menghabiskan waktu berjam-jam tanpa takut hitam (walaupun nantinya, akan).  Momen sunyi di dasar laut dengan hanya suara dengung sambil mengambang di tepian laut mampu menciptakan rasa damai, lepas dari masalah dan kekhawatiran-kekhawatiran.

Mungkin akhirnya yang kita butuhkan adalah spasi.  Sebuah suasana yang berbeda dari kegiatan rutin yang kita lakukan setiap hari.  Mengenal orang-orang baru, mengingat tempat baru, merekam momen momen baru., mempelajari trik-trik mengatasi masalah baru.  Tapi terlalu lama berada di tempat yang asyik juga akan membosankan, maka diputuskan kami hanya menginap satu malam saja.  Sudah puas berendam!

Tapi beberapa waktu lagi kami akan kembali, mengunjungi salah satu bagian kerajaan Neptunus!


Thursday, October 3, 2013

Fiksi : Mencari Firman

Katakan aku mengada-ada karena apa yang kucari hampir tak kasat mata, tapi bukankah jika kau harus bisa melihat dan membuktikan semua hal secara nyata itu ada maka sama saja membantah bahwa Tuhan itu ada?

Maka akan kujelaskan sedikit: tentang Firman.

Suatu pagi yang tidak jelas, karena hidup tidak pula membutuhkan kejelasan.
Ia datang begitu saja.  Tanpa perkenalan, tanpa bicara.  Hanya tatap mata dariku sendiri saja.  Dan semua yang aku rasakan cukup membayarkan bertahun tahun penantian ketika aku sendiri tidak tahu menanti apa dan siapa. 

Semuanya begitu tidak nyata hingga aku membuat sebuah resolusi mutakhir tapi tak mustahil: mengenalnya. 

Yang ingin ku percayai, tidak ada yang terjadi secara kebetulan karena kebetulan saja Tuhan punya rencana yang lebih besar.  Tapi satu hal yang menjadi 'nasihat' sakti bapakku suatu hari tentang cinta, bahwa rumus cinta itu 99% usaha dan 1% takdir.  Maka aku tidak mau menyerah begitu saja pada 1%.  Aku tidak pernah percaya bahwa kita kehilangan kesempatan untuk berusaha.  Aku percaya usaha, walaupun tidak dapat kita selesaikan di garis finish, setidaknya membawa kita ke suatu tempat yang bukan dari kita bermula.  

Mencari Firman mewakili tanyaku tentang pencarian seseorang yang sudah lama hilang.  Sosok yang bisa aku jadikan sesuatu yang bisa mengisi kepala tidak hanya dengan strategi dan cara cara tapi juga dengan hati yang sudah kehabisan kata-kata.  Karena pertemuan yang sekali saja.  Cukup untukku mengenal, kemudian mencarinya hingga ujung dunia. 

Katakanlah ini akan sia-sia jika suatu hari nanti aku akan menemukan dia ternyata sudah memiliki kekasih, atau bahkan istri.  Tapi tidak semua perjuangan diukur dari hasilnya bukan? bukankah jika semua hal berorientasi dan hanya fokus pada hasil maka hasil dari perjalanan hidup kita ini sesungguhnya adalah mati-dan selesailah semua.  Yang bermakna adalah perjalanannya, ketika kita tidak menemukan yang kita inginkan dalam perjalanan itu, tapi mungkin kita akan menemukan apa yang kita butuhkan.

Maka kujelajahi seluruh dunia maya dan seluruh kemungkinan yang ada.  Hanya untuk mencari Firman.  Mencari Firman merefleksikan sesuatu dalam hidupku: sebuah pencarian yang ngotot dan tak kunjung lelah.  Meskipun yang kucari itu belum tentu menginginkan aku, tidak perduli dan bahkan bukan pula menjadi tujuan akhirku.  Tapi mencari Firman adalah salah satu bentuk komitmenku akan sesuatu.  Jika aku berhenti pada hal ini, maka aku akan berhenti pula pada hal hal lain.  Karena jika pada hal yang mampu membuat aku merasakan sesuatu saja aku bisa berhenti, bagaimana aku akan melanjutkan perjalanan pada hal hal yang tidak begitu aku sukai? Maka keputusanku sudah bulat, menemukan dia. 
Tapi, hidup bukanlah tentang keputusanmu sendiri, inginmu sendiri saja.  Tentu saja. Katakan semesta belum menjawab, atau yang punya kuasa menegur untuk terus mencari, dan menjawab :belum.  Ah, yang terjadi aku yakin semua bukan karena tidak terjadi, hanya perkara keinginan kita yang berbeda dari kehendakNya.
Ini bukan akhir cerita, karena hidup baru saja bermula ketika kau tahu apa yang ingin kau cari, 


hidup baru saja dimulai ketika kau tahu kau kehilangan apa untuk menemukan kembali.

hidup baru saja akan dimulai seiring kau mencari.
Kemudian, mungkin setelah pencarian panjang kau akan menemukan kembali suatu pencarian yang diresahkan sebuah pertanyaan:
"Sudahkah penemuanmu membuatmu ingin menemukan yang lebih jauh lagi?
but a lyrics on a song tells me: if you cant get what you want, you may get what you need.

Exactly. 

Friday, September 6, 2013

Movies Week

Seriously, being off from my campus and any worth activity is not something i can handle, not because i can't doing anything but i just broke because my saving is not enough to support my needs (and wants) of course.  How come? I just still cant adapt to a blank schedule. 
Okay. Skip the 'curcol' and next to the movies i watched. Thanks to new store near my house for support this hobbies, and thanks for company me! Super!

#1 Now You See Me

Directed byLouis Leterrier
Produced byBobby Cohen
Alex Kurtzman
Roberto Orci
Screenplay byEd Solomon
Boaz Yakin
Edward Ricourt
Story byBoaz Yakin
Edward Ricourt
StarringJesse Eisenberg
Mark Ruffalo
Woody Harrelson
Mélanie Laurent
Isla Fisher
Dave Franco
Common
Michael Caine
Morgan Freeman
*wiki
I think this is the best movies for this weekend, the plot is so neat and unread. Stunning! Its a perfect combination from strategic thinker and the visual-actions and fights. Plus, the information about the magician history, and more local myths are blended nicely.  I like the concept where people know what they do, passion about it and have a little revenge' things. People who willing to give everything to get anything. I glad that i'm not watching this on the xxi cinema because i would like to rewatch it again! :)

#2 A Good Day To Die Hard












Directed byJohn Moore
Produced by
Screenplay bySkip Woods
Based onCharacters
by Roderick Thorp
Starring
No matter what happen, i will always love Bruce Willis! but i think this movie makes me a little boring, beside the dad-son relationship and sexy russians i think the enemy was made too rush. After all, the damaged set is always amaze me, crushed car everywhere, chaos street, tank, helicopter just a pleasure to my eyes. 

#3 The Mortal Instruments : City Of Bones



 
Directed byHarald Zwart
Produced byDon Carmody
Robert Kulzer
Screenplay byJessica Postigo Paquette
Based onCity of Bones
by Cassandra Clare
Starring
Of course like what i predict before i watch it alone at XXI in the middle of the night this is another twilight, but a little... darker? same great point to selling the handsome and pretty face plus a personality style but still, chessy romaticsm sometimes just makes me sick! (no offense to romance but its just too... much...) Quite entertaining, and for the next sequel, i'll choose to watch it at home.

#4 Rectoverso


My favourite Indonesian writer : Dewi Lestari. I cant tell how much i love her writing especially at Supernova. I think her writing just have many contribution to my personality now. *halah. The movie is combine five story that have one idea, one conclusion : an unsaid love. Smart, because of course all of us will feel connected with this movie because all of us maybe have an unsaid love.  The dialogue is poetic, fit but theres some line that just feel too much unrational to said if we are in the real world, btw.  Covered by the excitement of this unusual indonesian movie, because of course they dont expose a physical romantic things, just a description with body language or words. And i think if my story would fit in this movie it could be: Hanya Isyarat. 

#5 Cinta Brontosaurus

SutradaraFajar Nugros
ProduserChand Parwez Servia dan Fiaz Servia
PemeranRaditya Dika
Eriska Reinisa
Soleh Solihun
Pamela Bowie
Tyas Mirasih
Meriam Bellina
Ronny P. Tjandra
StudioStarvision Plus
Tanggal rilis8 Mei 2013





I think Raditya Dika is good, because he can make people laugh, without him laughing. And i think beside the jokes, its romantic movie, just with predictable ending. The naration just somehow exact, that people will come and go, and he may sure that love have expire date, but its okay, and the most important thing is what you feel now. 

I'm a movie freak, but i choose my movie, i usually dont watch horror movie (last movie i watched : orphan, awakening, insidious, the conjuring). My favourite is action movie and any movie that can makes me thinks more, deep, with good plot and set. I usually avoid too much romanticsm because somehow it makes me feel victim, cause its sounds useless (If it too much).  But of course as an open minded person if i read a good recommendation i will watch it too! Have a great day!

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Camouflage On Social Media

Latest discussion at the cafe with my friend was about the camouflage on social media. The sample of this analysis is based by our close friends. The method of this post is inductive, means i made conclusion from the specific to general, from the case that i see from my friends, then make a conclusion in general.

Recently, as the development of social media and the easy access of internet could give people a right to use their personal account, like facebook, twitter, path, instagram, or even this blog and so many more. No one or nothing can stop them, so people free to read, or not to read, to share or not to share. But there would be a question, how far they can share thoughts, photos, and who will stop the readers/followers/friends judging them?

Today, the conflict that happen at social media is 'booming' too. Like the controversial post of Marissa Haque at blog, or microblog like twitter that called 'twitwar'. Then (just my personal opinion) a disturbing tweet from farhat abbas, and many anonymous user that claim themselves as investigator or journalist. If one of the user share the frontal statement that affect the mass reaction of other user because they may leak a conspiration theory or just make a stupid statement/even the smart ones. But nowadays people respons more to stupidity than intelligence. Yeah, another show-off, people! :))

The account, that represent the personality of user, sometimes could give us an unpredictable thing that would be very interesting. Like one of my friend, in the society, she would be very quiet, passive and shy, but when she is at home, hold her blackberry that connected with twitter and facebook, would change herself to be more active, seduce and confident. (Personal opinion). The other sample, one of my friend, a boy always shows a sadness, and mellow statement at his 'status' at facebook, but when we meet him, we can see a cheerful boy with light attitude. 

Ah, but you will never see how the pattern comes, and you will never make a solid theory, then. The phenomenon just a mirror to reflect the personal things, human with the complexity of psychology things. I think finally the choice is made by ourselves like how we control our self in a society, it is your choice to show people your different side that may give you another positive respons or to show off what you are good at. Its your choice, but at least dont make it really contrast and annoying if you dont want people laugh at you. Anyway, people will judge anyway, but dont mind to show who you really are. Be yourself, but lets be the best of yourself! 

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. 
Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

Monday, August 26, 2013

Challenge Yourself

My college's academic phase just near to the final. But in the end, there is so many things happen, so many thoughts.  Maybe all i want before is wrong, maybe i should be at different path. I dont know. Future is so mysterious for me now. So i kinda open my mind, do everything i can or get any chance.  At least i want to make my self busy, because busy is better than being bored! :)

Today i just try to play paintball at TFK, i'm so happy that i have an adventurous friends, open minded, and accept me as who i am. They may not know my past or know me very better, but thats what i want in a friendship, not really close but not too far too. Just keep it as easy as possible. Sometimes people said that boy and girl cant be friend, because they will be fall for each other, especially when you are single. I dont think so, its our choice, its our free will to let ourself fall or not. Thanks for all of you guys! made my day!



 Taman Fantasia Kalbar (TFK), Ayani 2, Pontianak

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Answer The Unanswered

picture from here


So, randomly i ask something random to someone i randomly know from tumblr, and then, he just answer.



Ben, do you have a ‘hole’ in your heart? when you feel something is missing and you cant do anything about that? then what will you do?
We all do don’t we? You can’t do anything about it? But you are doing something about it. It’s just whatever you are doing right now is no longer fulfilling. We fill it with friends, lovers, parties, drugs, sex, alcohol, music and art. With our prayers, our churches, our mosques and our gods, with our faiths and beliefs, with the knowledge we’ve gained, with our identities, our nationalism and our ideologies. We do all that just to make sense of something that is insane. Life is insane, absurd and unpredictable. And all of these things gives us comfort. To belong to something, to be a part of something, to hold on to something gives us comfort.
We always want to belong to something, but very seldom do we want to belong to everything. 
What will I do? What will I do is what I will do. The question is what will you do? What will you do when something is missing? What will you do?

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Better System For Better Government?

picture from here

In this digital era, the progress of technology  is very fast, and everyone who can't follow, could left behind and can't compete at this competitive era. So, government whom ask to serve civilians better, must adapt the   newest technology, even try some innovative idea for more effective and efficient systems.  The chance that innovative or technology could fail then inflict financial loss for the government? Well, at least the government could evaluate and keep up the procedure and theory, then make it based by civilian's needs.  Because government is wanted by people who needs their answer about these people's problem.  Then every problem, must fastly take-over and the gov's must have the better solution that can give win-win solutions.

e-Procurement comes as the answer for the 70-80% corruption case at government's goods and services contracts.  That mostly the corruptor manipulate the calculation, give bribe to win the tender.  Ironic, when you can't trust people anymore, then Indonesia adapt technology from United States.  The technology can minimization the frequent of connection between people and people, then make it to people-machine-people.  This method, for now is the better system than before.  Because the trust issue: "You can trust machine, you can trust software, but never people".

So, can we find who to blame? The people who create the system to eliminate the connection between people to people, people who can't trust other or the human that understand their own emotions, whom easily distract and tempt for money, better offer with minimum risk? 

Thursday, March 28, 2013

A (Little) Contribution

Recently just get busy because projects at Sungai Pangkalan Satu village.  I think because this village won  award of the Best Village's Model at Kalimantan Barat, award of Peduli Lingkungan Hutan, and award of Best Library in 2012 our team don't need extra efforts to rehab the administration or facilities.  We learn a lot here.  I think because the people is very dedicated, open minded and have a will to help, especially the village's head or we called it 'Pak Pong' a.k.a 'Kepala Kampong'.  He always monitoring the way of youth's life.  The culture of hang out or 'nongkrong nongkrong' are not complete if he is not around to talk a little or give a joke.  He also control the problem of many people here, like using drugs or alcohols.  So the people here are respect the Village's head and He is willing to help 24 hours and solve people's problem.  

I think this quality of leader are needed beside of the people's character who follow the leader too.  They need to respect, willing to help others, open minded and would do anything positive to make them place improved.  Our existence here would be end for 4 days, even i will take these days to take a trip to the island.  I will miss and remind this place.  Humble people, open minded, and have a will to help each other.
The city people, nowadays i think have this quality to.  Because we have same root-cultures.  The main problem is the 'city-people' is too busy and too lazy to socialite with their own environment.  Some of them would be have a big ambition to make anyhing effective, doing anything, like make a friendship, with a bigger purpose, like for their work, their career, or even for their future, to have some potential spouse.  So this purpose would eliminate the neighbours, and people they meet accidentaly.

So here, some documentation what i do, paint the monument of Sungai Pangkalan Satu, give a socialization with the dentist to brushing teeth for children, give a lesson of daily conversation for elementary children, and cleared the cement for little park and pond we made.  Fun !





Four weeks i spent here was great.  Dont think to do it again but beside of 'insect bite' that makes my skin is flaw and the lack of water i think this volunteering are the greatest experience ever.  Because not like the volunteering before this time we have our own projects, our own money and not bound to office's time.  So we could choose our time to socialization, doing project and synchronize our project with the village's plan.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Walking Away












  

Recently i visit Kuching for around 3 days.  By riding Bintang Jaya's bus for depart and Damri's buss for return.  After 10 hours sit at the bus finally i arrived.  The city is so clean, the public facilities is good.  I think i could enjoy my self there.  The neat country with concious people to following rules.  I dont even spend much time to walk away, just sitting around the cafe and staring, thinking about my self. What i have done in this year, and what lesson i learn.
This is the rough years for me after all.  I had my first fall.  I feel extra for everything.  I feel something more that i never feel before.  I learn and learn.  But i hope i still not missing my hope.  To being better.  To be grateful for what i have now.  This is not about other person.  It is about my decision to taking control of my self, taking control of many things i can't control and try to let it go because life is go on, and i should move on.
There is many more in future, many dreams i can believe rather than stuck with something i cant control.  Its nice to remember all the memories, but what in past, stay in past.  All i have is this present.  And i can do is do my best.  


“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” 



Saturday, September 22, 2012

Lemukutan Island








Last Friday-Saturday, 20-21 September i just went to Lemukutan Island, with the connection my friend had with the owner of small house at that island and for rent the boat. Me and my friends, about 25 people was went there.

I feel so relaxed, and have time to talk about absurd things with my friend, B.  At the night i just have time alone, sitting in the darkness to think about so many things that happened in my life.

Sometimes i have a dream to life simply like at the village with peaceful place, no crowd, no technology, close to the beach and close to the nature.  Then all the things in this world i should worry just about how i survive then eat, then sit along day with real physical things.

I really like this holiday, because its not just a holiday, it can give me more inspiration to life.  Then i can give my best at what i have because i have the comparison and see about people at other's conditions life.  Sometimes i just wonder what if i born in some different life, and think am i happy with what i get?  Or can i be happy if i feel the other's side of fate?

I still have no idea, and life is full of mystery, but i really want to enjoy what the universe give to me.  It is the only things i have.


-k.o

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

New Book : The Hunger Game by Suzanne Collins

its very rare for me to read a book and really have a big passion to finish it as soon as possible because interested as movie.  When i read this book, its really makes me feel i involved and be her.  Read the book give me a feeling like watching a real movie or event, makes me keep noisy when i read it :)

Tittle : The Hunger Game
Author : Suzanne Collins
Pages : 374
Publisher : Scholastic (United States)
( Translate in Indonesia )

I'm in love with 'The Hunger Game' at first when i see the 'coming soon' trailer on xxi before i watch Mission Impossible : Ghost Protocol on last January.  Then i'm in love with Jennifer Lawrence, even i still dont read the book and dont know anything about the hunger game book.  Then i update a twitter status on my twitter account, @ok3astra and my father's friend @rianariyudha tell me he have that book.  I just say i may interested reading it but i dont really have a think that the book is really fun, i thought it could be boring book because most element of the story is fiction with a fighting action so it just can represent by watching the movie.  After a month and weeks, finally he borrowed me the book, The Hunger Game and the second book, Catching Fire.  After back to my dormitory i feel lazy to read it because mid term would held in two weeks but i read the first page and then really passionate to finish it until i sleep late at dawn :) I really love this book.

The hunger game, tell you a story about a smart and tough girl, Katniss Everdeen that always support her family.  She really love her daughter, Primrose and really take an act as a parent because her mother cant survive any longer after her father’s dead.  She lived in Panem, which called as District 12, mostly worker there is the miner.  She illegally hunt at the restricted forest with her childhood friend, Gale.  At their life, people at Panem and other 12 district, have to join a game that held by the powerful city there, Capitol, who dominated all the distribution of the district’s work.  At their game, live on television, they must gambling to be chosen, all the district’s people must involved there, start 14 years old until 18 years old.  


This is the first year of Primrose, the daughter of Katniss involve at this gambling, unfortunately, Primrose’s name has been choosen as the representative of district 12.  Katniss really upset and give herself to join this battle-to-death game.  With autodidact skills that she have from her father, the survival skills she have because her responsibility to protect her family. She have a good opportunity to raise her talent and survival skill in this game and get a right and smart mentor, Effie and Haymitch even Haymitch always sarcastic and get drunk at first, she also supported by the talented fashion-mentor, Cinna that could make a fantastic fashion and gown for her appearance in television.  The brutally things that she must face at the hunger game with all the setting, and her friendship with her challenger, Rue and her challenger from same district, Peeta makes the game at there be more dramatic because she finally have a choice : Kill or Killed.