swasTA

ngga penting sih…tapi lucu juga. Waktu temen2 saya di himpunan sedikit ‘bangga’ udah jadi swasta, udah bebas dari ‘tanggungjawab’ sebagai anggota himpunan, dan ‘boleh’ bergaya di depan anak2 baru….

ternyata saya baru tau kalau ’swasta ‘ itu singkatan dari Mahasiswa yang sedang TA…..hehehe.

Artinya, (1) itu jadi sindiran buat mahasiswa tua yang masih aja jual-jual pesona di depan adek-adeknya, kalo mereka punya tanggung jawab lain yang lebih besar..tanggung jawab pribadi ; (2) yang dikatakan swasta bukan anggota himpunan yang udah ngelewatin masa-masa jadi pengurus himpunan, tapi mahasiswa yang udah lulus sarjana muda dan mengambil kuliah “Tugas Akhir” ; (3) dan konsekuensinya, mahasiswa yang pengen disebut ’swasta’, jangan jadi kesel kalo ditanya, “gimana TA-nya ? , kapan lulus ?, gimana kabar dosen pembimbing ?”….

huehehe…hmmm,kalo gitu yang disebut superswasta itu “sudah pernah jadi mahasiswa sedang TA“..

Makanya,swasta bukan bangga-banggaan..

Makanya juga, di himpunan saya dulu (Himabio Nymphaea-red), ga ada istilah ’swasta’..yang ada : ‘angkot’, angkatan kolot……….hehehehe.

the largest…

Let me introduce you to the world’s largest toilet. It is about 10 meters high, with a width of about 100 x 100 m2. As you can see, the wall is made from a bathroom floor tiles, and it surely looks like a huge bathroom to me. A friend of mine once said that when the architect built this place, he never thought that it was going to be dirty and slimy someday and had to be cleaned up. You will never find in the whole planet, a toilet this big that it can hold thousands of people without worrying how much mess they will make to the place………hehe, just kidding.

Well, I’m sorry I lied. But as bad as it looks, it contains the world’s greatest treasures of all time. What you see here is ITB Centre Library. If you ever take a look inside, you can see the differences between the inner scenery and the outside look. It is filled with complete books of all time – from science, techniques, to novels and popular books -, full access of internet (with a good PCs too), friendly services, and very cozy sphere. No wonder I never get bored visiting it…you know, to get some nice quiet sleep !

it’s me again

I’ve finally realized why i’ve stopped writing for almost a year. This is the train of thoughts :

1. I didn’t have a computer…well, I’ve had a computer since six month ago, and it didn’t make me start writing.

2. I didn’t have an open access to the internet. But it has been a year since I reentered this school, and it still, didn’t encourage me to write.

3. Or maybe I was too busy doing the things I have to do…hoho, what I was so busy about anyway ?!

Nope..I think the problem was because I didn’t have the motivation to write..or at least the resistances were too big to handle. I thought that either I wrote a good story, or I didn’t write any.

But after I give it a lot of thinking, this question tickles me : What so hard about writing anyway …? You just have to spill all your thought to this piece of keyboard, and ..alakazam !!! you have yourself a bunch of lines of stories.

There..I rest my case. Right now, instead of wondering around doing nothing,  I am going to reorganize my thoughts into these lines of scattered words…and just throw ‘em out to the web and see whether I understand any of ‘em or not.

Hmm, It’s not so hard to do, is it ?

bad day starts from a bad mind

do you believe in such thing as “bad day”?

I used to think so. I don’t know, sometime every bad — undesired — things happened to us straight in one day, or week, makes us think that,  ‘yeah, i’m having a bad day alright..‘ You know, you wake yourself up in a bad mood, you late for work, your car/bike broke down,  you lose your wallet, somebody stole your money….and black coffee spill on your newly bought shirt..suck isn’t it? Well, what if…. they were happen in a day ?

You will forget the word ‘coincidence’ and start to think that maybe..just maybe, God is picking on you today, just to make your life a little bit ‘meaningful’. That, if you have an optimistic point of view..but if you don’t, you’ll probably end up regreting you’ve ever live in this life.

But you know what I usually do in this kind of situation ?

I wash my face, and take out a piece of paper and a pen — up until I knew this thing called computer.  And I write every little things that is making me feel bad. And then this feeling will start disappearing. And the next thing that stuck in my mind is the smaller good things I haven’t realized yet..about my friends that tried to cheer me up, about my very kind neighbour that smiled at me that morning, or maybe the thought that I am still alive and healthy right now.

And I know now. You know, it’s not the day that makes you feel bad..or it’s not God you should blame to for all the things that got in to you..

It’s normal to see everything bad whenever you’ve faced bad things straight in a day. But that kind of view will certainly make everything worse. I guarantee, if you keep those mindset a little longer, you will probably just have to wait for another bad things to come…

You know, just like Bobby MacFerrin used to say :

“in every life you have some trouble, but when you worry you’ll make it double..”

So..just stop thinking about all the bad things..don’t worry, just be happy !