"Jika dua orang benar-benar menyukai satu sama lain, bukan berarti mereka harus bersama saat ini juga. Tunggulah di waktu yang tepat, di saat semua memang sudah siap, maka kebersamaan itu bisa menjadi hadiah yang hebat untuk orang-orang yang bersabar. Sementara menanti, sibukkanlah diri untuk menjadi lebih baik. Waktu dan jarak akan menyingkap rahasia besarnya, apakah rasa suka itu semakin besar, atau semakin memudar." 

Darwis Tere Liye

A Colour

Perjalanan 1000 mimpi bermula dari sini nih! Where? A small village in the south of Banten, Desa Sawarna. Tempat ini emang lagi in di antara travellers, apalagi backpackers. Udah dari kapan taun pengen kesini, baru kesampean minggu kemaren. Dari sekedar random chat, akhirnya terwujud juga. I have no idea about this place, at first. Gue cuma bisa bacain blog orang yang udah pernah kesana hiks. Thanks berat buat bloggers yang udah share perjalanan ke Sawarna, apalagi yang ada itinerary dan info penginapan disana. Jadi gini ceritanya....

22 Agustus 2013

Abis mondar-mandir nganter temen perwalian, ambil barang, ambil duit, dan makan, gue cuma punya waktu setengah jam buat packing sama mandi. Lo pikir aja dah. Ya iya sih akhirnya gue ga mandi hahahaha. Harusnya sih jam 4 sore udah di bis, tapi garagara si travelmate rempong abis ngurusin baju, yang gue ga segitunya ngurusin -_-, akhirnya jadi aja jam setengah 5 baru berangkat, dari Jatinangor. Naik Damri. Ya apalagi nyet selain Damri wkwkwk. Abis beli minum, beli cuma sebotol pula pffft, jam 6 baru caw dari Terminal Leuwi Panjang, Bandung, approximately at 6 p.m. Sebenernya judulnya sih backpacker, cuma dari awal jalan naik bisnya ga ada yang ga AC. Backpacker apaan, neng? Fyi aja yah, gue baca dari blog-blog kalo naik bis AC kena cuma 21000. Tapi sialnya gue jalan kemaren itu harga-harga uda pada naik gara-gara BBM naik, jadi sekarang tarif bis Bandung-Sukabumi 25000. Gatau dah yang ekonomi berapa hehehe. It's written on the blogs that Bandung-Sukabumi takes 3 to 4 hours or maybe 5, tapi kemaren jam 9 udah nyampe di Sukabumi yang kata si travelmate punya motto "Don't angry at Sukabumi". Kapok lu gua post juga nih hahaha. Karena udah malem, akhirnya kita istirahat dulu sampai fajar menyingsing. Kalo lo kemaleman di Sukabumi, and have no budget for hotels, ke masjid raya-nya Sukabumi aja! Gede banget ini masjid! Dan gausah takut kenapa-kenapa soalnya sebelahan banget sama Polres, jadi aman lah meskipun serius dah kalo malem banyak yang nongkrong disitu. Cuma, ya gitu deh... rada serem emang kamar mandinya hahaha lu harus cobain!!! 

23 Agustus 2013

Abis subuhan dan foto-foto kucel bentar, akhirnya jalan juga kita dari masjid raya ke terminal Sukabumi. Serius gue jalan!!! Orang deket banget -_- Eh tapi ukuran gue sih, kira-kira setengah ons dah dari masjid raya. Nyampe terminal, ternyata udah ada bis MGI Sukabumi-Pelabuhan Ratu. Langsung naik! Di perjalanan kali ini entah kenapa gue cinta banget sama MGI. HIDUP MGI! hahahaha Ternyata tarif bis AC ke Pelabuhan Ratu juga pas banget 25000 oh life is so good! Duit warna biru mengalir dengan lancarnya. Kira-kira 2 jam perjalanan, yang jalannya sama banget kaya jalan mau ke Malang via Batu. Jadi berasa ada di jalan kenangan. Dan langsung rada galau pas lewatin jalan itu soalnya....... *this section has been censored* hahaha. Turun dari bis, langsung disamperin abang ojek yang nawarin ke Sawarna plus penginapannya! Mau tau berapa? Cobain makanya ke Sawarna! hahahaha. Akhirnya setelah ngedengerin kultum si abang ojek, si travelmate bilang, "Oh yaudah a, kita mau makan dulu deh." dan kita, makan!!! Oya gue saranin kalo di Pelabuhan Ratu, jangan makan di dalem terminalnya, coba keluar dikit yah, kalo lu baru keluar dari bis, ke arah kanan deh pokoknya. Keluar nyebrang dikit, ada warung nasi Kabita. Recommended!!! 

And it's true kalo dari Pelabuhan Ratu ke Sawarna cuma ada satu kendaraan doang! Elf warna item, pake tulisan Sawarna di kaca depannya. Sopirnya juga udah kondang banget lah pasti di kalangan travellers. Namanya pak Asep, gatau ini emang namanya atau bukan. Abisan gue pas bilang pak Asep ke travelmate malah dibenerin gitu dah. Dasar sok sunda lu! wkwkwk. Jam masih menunjuk ke angka 9.10 ketika akhirnya kita ketemu sama itu mobil. Pas kita samperin si sopir, katanya sih berangkat jam 11. Tapi gue sih dalem hati udah ada rasa pasti molor dah yakiiin. Dan iya loh jam 12 lebih si mobil baru bener-bener meluncur. Overload! Serius penumpang overload dah. Barangnya juga uda banyak pasti di atas mobil. To be honest, it was my first time. Tapi sepanjang jalan disenyumin aja soalnya berasa dreams come true bisa ngerasain apa yang sebelumnya cuma gue baca doang di blog orang. Kita ngelewatin beberapa pantai yang paling deket sama Pelabuhan Ratu. Pantai Citepus, sama Pantai Karanghawu. Waktu liat Citepus, senyum-senyum sendiri dah hahaha abisan keinget sama salah satu tulisan di blog hahahaha. Nyatanya sih gue kebanyakan senyum pas di jalan -_-. Baru sampai Cisolok, si travelmate uda ngoceh, "Mana, orang si sopirnya hati-hati tuh bawa mobilnya" Guenya cuma ngelirik sambil senyum asimetris trus ngebales, "tunggu aja ntar". Sok tau banget kan gue? tapi gue beneran tau ya! yang aslinya travelmate ngeyel perjalanan bisa sampe 5 jam, padahal setau gue cuma 2 jam dan bener. Trus aja ini si sopir ntar pasti nyetirnya ekstrim banget kerennya ditambah medannya juga udah bikin banyak orang jackpot hahaha untung gue ngga. Dan emang ternyata kebukti gila pembaca yang budiman. Keren abis nyetirnya!!!

Sekitar jam 3 sore kita akhirnya nyampe di depan gerbang Desa Sawarna. Beruntung banget semobil sama Pak Haji, aslinya H. Zaenudin, pas kita bilang kita uda dapet homestay, dia langsung nyuruh ojek gitu nyamperin kita. Untungnya lagi, seinget gue, bakal bayar 20000an buat sampe ke dalem, ga tau dah itu itungan dari mana tapi kemaren gue cuma bayar goceng!!! hahahaha. Oya, retribusi masuk Desa Sawarna udah naik, teman-teman. Awalnya sih emang 3000 aja, tapi sekarang jadi 5000. Moga-moga taun depan ga makin mahal yah tekor :') Oya, selama di Sawarna, kita nginep di homestay paling kondang di Sawarna loh! Homestay Widi! Aslinya sih jauh hari sebelum kesana udah telfon nanyain gitu, tapi kata si ibu udah dateng aja. Tapi, gara-gara si abang ojek Pelabuhan Ratu, akhirnya abis makan si travelmate telfon ibunya dan diiyain. Deal di harga 150ribu per orang per malam, include makan 3kali sehari. Asli lah sumpah gue rada nyesel harusnya dulu-dulu aja ke Sawarna, sekarang mah pas banget harga-harga uda naik -___- Sampe di homestay, si ibu nawarin makan. Tapi karena gue kebanyakan duduk dan udah ga mandi dari kemarennya, jadilah gue bilang, "iya bu mau istirahat dulu". Itu gue ngomongnya sambil senyum paling manis dah sambil lirik-lirik bule yang seliweran disitu hahahaha. Yaudah gue istirahat deh ceritanya. Oya! Sebenernya si ibu bilang kalo udah nyampe suruh telfon biar dijemput, biar ga ditodong calo-calo gitu dah. Tapi udah untung banget dah semobil sama Pak Haji~~ Gue emang sengaja ga nyantumin foto homestay apapun nih soalnya uda banyak banget di blog lain wkwkwk terlalu mainstream ga baik buat kesehatan. But I don't mind if you want to ask :)

It was quarter after five when we walk to the beach. Di depan homestay, ada papan penunjuk jalan, Pantai Pasir Putih 200m dari situ, Sunset juga 200m dari situ. So sunset is a place? Akhirnya jalan sampe pantai, sambil foto-foto, sambil bolak-balik ngatain ini pantai gila! hahahaha. People said Sawarna still virgin, I've felt its virginity!!! Sepi. Pengunjungnya dikit serius dah. Tapi sunset ga terlalu bagus disini, ketutup sama bukit. Dan bahkan sampai hari ketiga, aku baru sadar ada faktor lain selain bukit. Ini pantai selatan, jadi matahari ga turun pas di lautnya gitu. Apaan sih emang ngapain matahari turun-turun segala -__- gitudeh pokoknya. kayaknya sih. Abis sunset kita balik ke homestay, trus balik lagi deh ke pantai nongkrong-nongkrong cakep sambil ngadain mini concert. Gue mulai berpikir kayanya bisa banget dah duet gitu *menerawang masa depan*.

Intinya mah kalo ga narsis ga komplit :3

 

The sun goes down, the stars come out...

24 Agustus 2013

Semalem emang udah direncanain kalo hari ini bakal berburu sunrise. Udah pesen ojek yang mahalnya amit-amit tapi kalo lo tau medan yang bakal lo lewatin dan apa yang bakal lo dapetin, seriously worth it! Mau kemana kita? 2kilos from Sawarna, Legon Pari. Buat kesini, susah bro! Jalannya bebatuan dan naik turun parah. Bisa juga sih jalan kaki lewat sawah, but it takes long time. Dan karena kita cuma berdua, akhirnya yaudah ngojek aja daripada jalan berdua ga tau arah hahahaha. Pas nyampe disana, baru ada beberapa orang yang nyampe, masih gelap pula. No regret! The sunrise time amazed me! Di Legon Pari kamu bisa...... jalan-jalan di karang dan bakal nemuin banyak bulu babi jadi hati-hati yaah :) Lagi-lagi beruntung dateng ke Sawarna bulan Agustus itu selain banyak bule, air lautnya juga ga surut-surut amat. Kata si abang ojek sih tanggal segini emang waktunya pasang, tapi ga pasang-pasang banget. Jadi gimana nih? 

 24 Agustus 2013

Semalem emang udah direncanain kalo hari ini bakal berburu sunrise. Udah pesen ojek yang mahalnya amit-amit tapi kalo lo tau medan yang bakal lo lewatin dan apa yang bakal lo dapetin, seriously worth it! Mau kemana kita? 2kilos from Sawarna, Legon Pari. Buat kesini, susah bro! Jalannya bebatuan dan naik turun parah. Bisa juga sih jalan kaki lewat sawah, but it takes long time. Dan karena kita cuma berdua, akhirnya yaudah ngojek aja daripada jalan berdua ga tau arah hahahaha. Pas nyampe disana, baru ada beberapa orang yang nyampe, masih gelap pula. No regret! The sunrise time amazed me! Di Legon Pari kamu bisa...... jalan-jalan di karang dan bakal nemuin banyak bulu babi jadi hati-hati yaah :) Lagi-lagi beruntung dateng ke Sawarna bulan Agustus itu selain banyak bule, air lautnya juga ga surut-surut amat. Kata si abang ojek sih tanggal segini emang waktunya pasang, tapi ga pasang-pasang banget. Jadi gimana nih? 

Sunrise

 Karang-karang di Legon Pari

 

 

Siangnya, kita jalan ke Pantai Pasir Putih (lagi). Kali ini Sawarna udah lebih ramai daripada kemaren. Emang sih kata Pak Haji, Sawarna bakal rame pas malem minggu, pas tahun baru apalagi. The main destination was for another sunset hunt in another beach, Tanjung Layar (1km). Ada sih jalan setapak gitu kesana, tapi kita lebih milih buat nelusurin pantai. Ga jauh-jauh amat kok. Kalo mau naik ojek sih bisa, tapi hedon banget njir ke Tanjung Layar pake ojek mah hahahaha. Oya, sebelum ke Tanjung Layar, karena ombaknya lagi gede banget, kita main ombak dulu, seru banget sampe hapenya si travelmate rusak dah sampe sekarang hahaha kasian :') *pukpuk travelmate* Jadilah kita, dengan badan penuh pasir, rambut lengket ga karuan, jalan sampai ke Tanjung Layar, dan ternyata masih sekitar 6 jam kita harus stay disitu sampe sunset -_- Akhirnya kita..... tidur! Serius tidur di saung depan warung yang ada disitu, sampe pas bangun kita diusir sama yang punya warung soalnya bakal ada rombongan kesitu hahaha si ibu tau aja kita ga beli beli :p Abisan emang makanan-minuman di Tanjung Layar amit-amit mahalnya! Pada akhirnya, kita pindah ke saung sebelah, dan memutuskan untuk pesen ikan bakar!!!!! Enak dah gede gitu ikannya, namanya ikan salayang. Sedep banget dah! Di Sawarna jarang banget yang cuma pergi berdua gitu, jadi pas disana berasa sepi sendiri tiada yang menemani~~ paan woy. Kayanya gue kena karma ngetawain si travelmate yang hapenya rusak dan dompetnya penuh pasir bahkan sampe pulang dah. Apa coba? Pas gue udah standby di salah satu karang buat difoto, baterai kameranya abis................................... and we went back to the homestay, around 30 mins, and back to the beach. Dan harus tau yah. I guess I never succeeded to have a good sunset there. I just love the sunrise time. Kurang nampol itu sunset disana. kata gue sih *peace* Selesai sunset, selesai sudah perjalanan kita di Sawarna kali ini. Soalnya, pas malemnya rencana mau ke pantai, batal gara-gara tepar!!!! Padahal Sawarna malem itu pas rame banget dan dari homestay kedengeran suara kembang api terus ckckck. Nyesel part 2 nih kenapa ga jadi ke pantai hahahaha. Tapi asik juga sih duduk-duduk ganteng depan homestay ngeliatin orang yang pergi-pulang dari pantai. Siangnya, kita jalan ke Pantai Pasir Putih (lagi). Kali ini Sawarna udah lebih ramai daripada kemaren. Emang sih kata Pak Haji, Sawarna bakal rame pas malem minggu, pas tahun baru apalagi. The main destination was for another sunset hunt in another beach, Tanjung Layar (1km). Ada sih jalan setapak gitu kesana, tapi kita lebih milih buat nelusurin pantai. Ga jauh-jauh amat kok. Kalo mau naik ojek sih bisa, tapi hedon banget njir ke Tanjung Layar pake ojek mah hahahaha. Oya, sebelum ke Tanjung Layar, karena ombaknya lagi gede banget, kita main ombak dulu, seru banget sampe hapenya si travelmate rusak dah sampe sekarang hahaha kasian :') *pukpuk travelmate* Jadilah kita, dengan badan penuh pasir, rambut lengket ga karuan, jalan sampai ke Tanjung Layar, dan ternyata masih sekitar 6 jam kita harus stay disitu sampe sunset -_- Akhirnya kita..... tidur! Serius tidur di saung depan warung yang ada disitu, sampe pas bangun kita diusir sama yang punya warung soalnya bakal ada rombongan kesitu hahaha si ibu tau aja kita ga beli beli :p Abisan emang makanan-minuman di Tanjung Layar amit-amit mahalnya! Pada akhirnya, kita pindah ke saung sebelah, dan memutuskan untuk pesen ikan bakar!!!!! Enak dah gede gitu ikannya, namanya ikan salayang. Sedep banget dah! Di Sawarna jarang banget yang cuma pergi berdua gitu, jadi pas disana berasa sepi sendiri tiada yang menemani~~ paan woy. Kayanya gue kena karma ngetawain si travelmate yang hapenya rusak dan dompetnya penuh pasir bahkan sampe pulang dah. Apa coba? Pas gue udah standby di salah satu karang buat difoto, baterai kameranya abis................................... and we went back to the homestay, around 30 mins, and back to the beach. Dan harus tau yah. I guess I never succeeded to have a good sunset there. I just love the sunrise time. Kurang nampol itu sunset disana. kata gue sih *peace* Selesai sunset, selesai sudah perjalanan kita di Sawarna kali ini. Soalnya, pas malemnya rencana mau ke pantai, batal gara-gara tepar!!!! Padahal Sawarna malem itu pas rame banget dan dari homestay kedengeran suara kembang api terus ckckck. Nyesel part 2 nih kenapa ga jadi ke pantai hahahaha. Tapi asik juga sih duduk-duduk ganteng depan homestay ngeliatin orang yang pergi-pulang dari pantai. 

Pantai Pasir Putih waktu siang

 

   

 

 otw to Tanjung Layar

 

Makannya mah 50ribu, kelapa mudanya yang mahal nih sampe 7000 -_-

 Ini loh Tanjung Layar....

  

   

25 Agustus 2013

Bangun pagi-pagi lagi buat packing last minute ngejer elf jam 6 di depan pintu desa. Telat dikit, udah lah pupus harapan lo buat pulang hahahaha :D Oya, si elf ini meskipun berhenti di depan pintu Sawarna, dia masih jalan terus beberapa ratus meter baru puter balik terus jalan. Terus nih ya, si elf yang menuju Pelabuhan Ratu bakal lebih overload dari pas menuju Sawarna. Seru dah pokoknya~ 

Now I know what Sawarna looks like. And now I'm worrying about the rubbish there. I'm sure I'm quite happy there, but it's sad when I found some spots filled by rubbish. Semoga yang dateng kesana ga cuma buat memuaskan diri aja ya. Harus tetep jaga kebersihan. Sedih kan, Sawarna yang masih segitu naturalnya harus makan sampah. Emang iya Sawarna makan sampah? Ah elu nyet berisik! Coba dah kalo jalan dari Pasir Putih ke Tanjung Layar liat deh! Sedih!!!!!!! Makanya, jangan buang sampah sembarangan. Kalo bisa, jangan buang sampah deh di Sawarna. Jangan ambilin kerang-kerang dan karangnya yang kecil-kecil juga *ngelirikin kerang yang dibawa travelmate* wayolooo...... :p

Afterall, this place has become one of special place in my life. Never expect it would happened before, but I thought it's a fate. Because here I got my travelmate that I wanted for a long time. :)

A to Z 

My Bestfriend is Old. Today.

This post deliberately made as a birthday gift to my very bestfriend who's turning 20 today.

Dear Sita,

I Love You.

When you read this, perhaps I've been eating and you're happy out there. Wait. What's the correlation? haha. When you read this, you already know that I almost ended up crying all day forgetting my bestfriend's birthday. When you read this, you already know that my last chat was on 12.34 and it all gone. I mean, I was directly sleeping. hehe. I hope somebody have called you on the right time,did he?

Many words to say, but I just can post it here. Many hopes are being said today, many thanks and smile, or even tears. I'm sorry I can't be there. When I woke up this morning, I turned my laptop on, and started to search our photos. It turns out that we never take photos together since Junior High School, or maybe just once or twice on Senior High School. Believe it? Can you search our latest photo? I couldn't find it. Hehehe.

Time flies, people change. You too. For me, you are changed to a better one. *who aggreed me?* I like it when you become less talkative when you were at my home. Hahahaha :D Swift said, don't you ever grow up. But for me, grow up is necessarily need, for certain people. Lucky you, you are the one who should!

This year, you are no more teenager. But hey, I am happy to death that you're now spending your 20th with someone I trust to be with you. I will make a confession here, that I rarely agree to your decision, slash relationship. But by times, I too learn that it's a lesson for your own life. And true, you're learning from it. My very bestfriend that I consider as my sister, I'm stucked by words.

five minutes later...

Okay, did I blabber too much? Because I just want to say Happy Birthday without saying it! Oh. I already said it. Please read the next by imagining that I'm hugging you cause I currently can't do it.

I wish you a happy life, a blessing life, a meaningful life, amen. I hope that you can be a better one, not only now, but everyday, there's always a lesson to learn. As your friend, I have no right to deter your dreams. As I said before, nothing I can do except listen to your story, give words from my side, and give you hug while you need it. It's always a good time when someone can be faithfull to you for a long time. You did it to me. I hope I can be it to you. On this turning year, I hope that more achievements you can get. I know you are the best on it. ;) I hope everything's good even amazing and no more tears for unrequired thing or one. I love you.

p.s. If any tolerated gift that you want from me, just call/chat/text me because I have no ability to read someone's mind. thanks.

Sincerely,

This page owner (clear enough?)

Heavy Conversation

Quite long not having really good me time, or too much me time that I couldn't spend with blogging recently. I kept blogwalking, tho. Before doing some tic-tac on keyboard, let me think about what should be written aside from overthinking matter? Why don't you write about the excitement of this term, or this month? Because being antimainstream is way too mainstream. talk to myself. Right, I wanna depict what this term look likes, especially for the last two months of this term. Full ups and downs. But more ups than downs.

So I got pretty severe accident on June which made me must skip two weeks of final test. Praise Lord, I don't have any fracture. Scorch covering face, hands and left foot, and I lost some part of my right ear but now it's grown back. Thanks for this surprise because I am now forever having phobia on blood and aversion to ride a motorcycle anymore. The good news? My instinct still work well you cannot deny it, that started from 3 or 4 days before the 'pop', I have smelled the bad thing surrounds me. Well, God's destiny.

2 days after getting out of the hospital, I started to work,, finishing my final paper for Introduction to International Relations 1. Freakin' me out! I still couldn't sit yet I felt the world whirling. Fine. I finally finished it an hour and half before the collection time. At that time, I thank to technology that made me able to sent my paper via bbm, yes that very popular blackberry messenger.

The next week, I had already start my own final exam weeks, by calling the lecturer first, with the dramatic text and sound so I hope they will appreciate me lol. Misunderstanding happened lots of time. And the drama still come off til the day when I got my transcript full of score. Because this is Indonesia, lecturer has the biggest sovereignty over God. hahaha. But sorry that's the fact.

The good things, ma'am?

Wait. After I finished all the exam, I went home. Waiting for the final score, and found troubles. Some of my score didn't appear while my friends has spread their emotion after seeing their score. AND! For the first time in my life on college, I got the really bad score I never expect before. Yes I should retake the subject in next two or four terms more. Bad luck I was expecting to get only two letters or the letters after it, but I got the lower of the letter after two first letters. Baah! Oh I should remember, on the early of term, I was so confident that for this special subject, students must take the summer class to get better or even the best score. Suck the mind of the lecturer. The blame is on me, I should take summer class next year maybe.

What will you feel if your task and test are complete and there's score each of it, but you got the worst score on the final score column? My heart beats faster than when I met with my crush. Oh, do I have any crush anyway? Pathetic. But the technology played on me it typed the wrong score, now I curse you back! Then I had 2 more scores left blank and so I called the lecturers and they said they will fixed it. But it had been a week my score didn't change until my random partner ask the academic about my score and she realized something wrong that she hasn't input my score from my lecturer. for God sake! One problem solved, one left. The letter was K, not means it's okay with me, but it means that I didn't join the class during the term. I think I am a good girl, even bad sometimes. But surprised! the morning I want to call the lecture to confirm all the weirdness, fortunately I open the campus site first, and saw that the K letter has changed to the best one. Aaaaaah feels like I wanna text I love you to my lecture~ 

Sweet Memories in ARTEUMIS

You know I will always post about something, some things, some events, some feelings that happened to me.  And this is one of my favorite thing in my life :)

Last Saturday, we, HI Unpad 2012, had a great night called Arteumis. It stands for After Interlympics Night  of Unity and Memories. It is the night when we as the junior must organize an inauguration night for ourselves and our senior. It was a Sundanesse night, when all the committee wearing Batik, pretend that we're on Bandung Tempoe Doeloe. Before we up to this night, it was a long journey to go. We have Interlympics, stands for International Relations Olympical Games. Yes, it was like an olympics you watch on tv. The participants is each batch of HI Unpad, include us. Arteumis used to be Arthemis, following the Greece theme of Interlympics. But after long consideration, we voted for Sundanesse theme and change the name into Arteumis (see the 'u' insertion, read in Sunda dialect).

I am so blessed having these other 14 kiddos as my group mate in Decoration Division. They are Yogie (as the coordinator), Livita, Bunga, Dita, Nandit, Ocha, Osa, Izza, Muthia, Desca, Putti, Babas, Alkahvy, and Giffar. They are such a crazy-lovely-creative-unique-sweet-talkative-cheerful team! We were and in a plan to make quality time together. I have to confess that I miss it, a week before Arteumis, we should go to Livita's palace, and welcome to the paint, paintbrush, papers, styrofoams, scissors, glue, and everything that we need to make our masterpiece. We do drama too while decorating, fyi. And gossiping. And take pictures. And eating. And singing. Everything. Already miss the moment. Include the most-cryingable-moment in the last seconds of work. What? You can ask me personally. The decoration team give special thanks to logistic and publication&documentation division as their help from the lighting and the fixing process of decoration stuffs. You-are-great-sahabat dekor!

By the way, almost all the decoration stuffs is the realization of what designed by Ambi before. He is a good designer that make the logos, the unique symbol of Arteumis which inspired the decoration team to fulfill the venue with Arteumis thingy. All credits for you, Mbi! :)

And to all photos I upload here, thanks to all publication and documentation team, I love your work. It's an honor to be a part timer photographer on the wall of fame. ;)

D-1 before briefing

        

         

        

         

        

         

 

DECORATION TEAM (minus Osa and Giffar)

On that night, we have 4 MCs. All of them acting like in the story of Kabayan and Nyi Iteung,plus Iteung's mom and dad. They used Sundanese along the event. There's Saman performance by my batch, their first performance as an IR student. We flashmobbed. We played games, gave reward to the winners of Interlympics, and the last: party like there's no tomorrow!!! (copied from Chika's tweet) Yes, what else except sing and dance together? So much fun! Oh you should know how much I love with the light setting. It's melted me up! 

The euforia of Arteumis still following me. I wanna replay it, rewind, and pause to the moment I love to see. It's like every moments resulted by this annual event is irreplaceable. Emm, I miss it when it comes to several hours to go, and the decoration team still working, and everyone seems calling my name. "Zhifa, ada lakban ga?" , "Zhifa, tali kasurnya dimana ya?" , "Zhifa, pitanya yang merah ada lagi ga?" , "Zhif, kainnya gimana nih?" , "Zhif, jangan capek2 ya". Hahaha, being the PIC on the decoration stuffs is cool, you know! :'D

It's just the beginning of our journey, as a HI Unpad big family. The night will passed by, the months will run fast. But still, the memories will last forever.

Five little ducks went out to swim

Tall one, short one, fat and slim

But the One Little Duck with the feather on the back

Left on the other with the quack! quack! quack! - One Little Duck, a song for HI Unpad *only if you get it ;)*

Beyond Happiness in Beyond Harmony

 I have a dream.. A song to sing..

When I was child, I have so many dreams. I was dreaming to be an International Relations student (the truth: on kindergarten, when everyone asked me where I will continue my college in the future? I answered International Relations), I was dreaming to be a singer, to be a designer, to travel along the world, to make friends as many as you count water, to be someone in dormitory, to be a good student, and so many dreams I dreamed. Some of them are on me right now.

I still don’t believe that I did my 1^st concert with the amazing team called UNPAD Choir. In 29 April, we did a concert with a theme Beyond Harmony. It held on Graha Sanusi Hardjadinata at Universitas Padjadjaran, Dipati Ukur campus. I was in 3 of 4 sessions. There are Classic, International Folksong, Pop, and Indonesian Folksong. I didn’t join the classic one, because I failed to do my audition as I was sick at that time. Meanwhile, I cannot attend the practice because it’s on Tuesday and I have class until 4.30 p.m on Tuesday. Though there is additional practice, I am not sure I can run for it.

In international folksong, we sang The Three Fishers, Old Mac Donald, Dahil Sa Iyo, The Battle of Jericho, and Sesithi Bonga. Oh, if I’m not mistaken, in the D-1 the conductors, Kang Aldo, re-tested some of us to be the chamber choir (I don’t know what is chamber actually). So, the first song of this session only sang by some of the singers, include me. Following to my voice, he put me on the last line together with the seniors, there’s 2 others juniors from Alto 2 also. When I asked my senior why I put on the back? She said that the person on the back has heavy timbre and loud voice, so it would be covered the singers if s/he put in front. I see. The session of Kang Aldo received festal applause, moreover after we sang Old Mac Donald and The Battle of Jericho (my favorite one!)

In pop session, we have teh Miry as the conductors. We all sang Over the Rainbows, Firework (girls), It’s My Life/Confession (boys, glee cast), and When You Believe (Prince of Persia version). I remembered the applause for the boys after they sang It’s my life/Confession, they receive so many shout, especially from girls. -_- hahaha. In this session, we worked with Keluarga Paduan Angklung 3 (from SMAN 3 Bandung), and a band from Faculty of Economics, if I’m not mistaken. I love singing When You Believe, because it’s cute when the Sopranos sang, Ashira la donai kiga oh ga ah.. :3

The last session is Indonesian Folksong, conducted by Kang Yoga. He wore the traditional costume of Balinesse. We all wearing traditional costume, and I have the costume of Saman Dance with the basic color of PINK!!! YEAY! I was on the first line of choir because it’s time to dance!!! Hehehe. On practice time, I worked with Kang Dika, Teh Raiszya, and of course the others to arrange the dance. It is the most tiring part of all the sessions. But, it also become the one session with glorious appreciation. Oh! We sang Es Lillin (East Java), Walang Kekek (Java), Bungong Jeumpa (Aceh), and Yapo Mama Cica (Papua). The part I love the most? ALL!!!!!!! It’s so wonderful to sing and dance in all songs. But the greatest song comes to Yapo Mama Cica! :’) You should know, that this song required the longest time to practice, emotionally draining, physically training. To be honest, in the last days of practice when Kang Yoga chose the solois to sing and shout like a Papuan, I feel the mystic of the song. I feel like the God of Papuan comes and I was in Papua. So dreamy, but true. I felt it too when we were in concert. It creeps me out, but make me sing, no, shout independently.Woo!!!

I forget the first session, classic. The team sang Ben Sono I, Cantique de Jean Racine, Pie Jesu, and Carmina Burana (O Fortuna). The last song is so well known that you might often listened. The very last song is Kemenangan Hati, because there is someone who asked us to sing again and again and again. Hahaha. Lovely rights? I am so happy with this team.

After concert, we all hugs each other and say congratulation. From approximately 3 months practicing, I have learnt to be a good time manager for myself, to be a polite one, to appreciate all the things I have, to respect all the people surrounds me even it’s younger than me, to be a never ending learner because mistakes is on everyone, and of course, to live healthy by consuming healthy food.

General Rehearsal

Altois!!! Riris, me, Devi, teh Raiszya, Gevia, Maudy

Me with our pride conductors...

Kang Aldo Randy Ginting, International Folksong Session

Teh Miryam Wedyaswari, Pop Session   

                                          

Kang Yoga Pranata, Indonesian Folksong Session

Let's say: ALTO!!!

The Singers and Conductors after Concert

Then what? I got a surprised from my friends. I know it’s from Azalia, Aziza, Alkahvy, Ambi, Bunga, Wiraditma, Chika, Nadira, Sajidah, Babas, Yogi, and Maudy (whose in concert with me), but I said thank you so much for all HI Unpad 2012 mates whose coming to the concert. It was a tearingful moment to blew up the 4 candles (the second candles I blew), received the 4 white roses, and to slices down the tart and gave to you all. I feel so blessed surrounded by lovely people at that time. No words beyond thank you can represent my happiness.

 Bang!!! SURPRISE!!!! ^^

HI-ers whose in concert: Inno, Fiemaelia, me, Maudy, Faris

HI UNPAD 2012 on Beyond Harmony

Now I able to sing more than a song,

Now I wish I could sing somewhere outside Indonesia's frame..