dimanakah kini?

ku duduk disini
di tempat yang sama
namun wajah-wajah itu tak lagi sama...

ku tatap satu persatu
bukan, bukan mereka
wajah-wajah itu
lalu lalang memesan makanan
 
dulu begitu
kini aku sendiri
menapaki jejak yang dulu kita langkahi
di sini ku berbagi
di sini ku tersenyum
dengan mereka, dengan semua
dengan sahabat.
 
Dimanakah kalian kini?

#Rangers

ps. inspirasi dari mbak ida yang lagi di kantin pasca UPI

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BB oh BB

Waduh..ini cerita saya dengan perangkat BlackBerry yang (sudah) tragis sekali nasibnya. Jadi hari ini saya bermaksud untuk menjual BB saya. Niatnya dijual biar dapat uang tambahan untuk beli gadget lain yang saya incar. BB yang saya punya adalah tipe torch 9860 aka Monza, full touch screen, dan bergaransi resmi. Awalnya, saya mau TT dengan salah seorang penjual gadget di kaskus karena beliau menawarkan untuk itu. Tetapi setelah saya kasih tau bahwa yang ingin saya tuker adalah BB monza saya dengan gadgetnya dia, dia merespon, "maaf gan, ga bisa klu TT sama BB". "haduh...malangnya nasib BB ku ini.. padahal dulu pas beli harganya lumayan...". Ya sudah, karena ga mau TT sama BB saya, akhirnya saya pergi ke BEC. Dengan optimis saya tawarkan BB cantik ini ke pedagang yang selalu nyanya, "mau jual a'?". Tapi tak dikira, jangan nawar, pas saya kasih tahu bahwa saya mau jual BB monza, mereka langsung bilang, "wah engga dulu lah kalau itu...". Sebegini kah nasib sebuah, seutas, seonggok, seekor, sebutir BLACKBERRY sekarang??? Gara-gara sudah bisa BBM di robot ijo dan iOS?? pas saya tanya harga pasaranya, yang jualnya bilang, "ya paling dibawah 1,5 jutaan. klu mulus mungkin bisa 1,3jt. tapi kemaren saya ambil cuma 1 juta!", WHAAATTT satu juta???? halooo kang, ini BB garansi resmi TAM, dan masih garansi satu tahun lagi, dan bodynya ga lecet2 amat...

waduh, dengan kecewa saya pulang dari BEC dengan sekotak BlacbBerry yang tidak laku. Ya dari pada dijual satu juta, mending dipake aja sampai hancur. Gadget yang diinginkan??? beli aja... gitu aja kok repot!

#cuma curhat, ternyata BB benar2 turun kasta... kasian deh.

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missing you

duduk ku tersimpuh
menatap indah matamu teduh
langit biru angin menderu
bahagiaku saat kau disisiku

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The Great of Love

O you beauty...
the dawn breaks
the sun sets

O dark night
bestow me upon my love
The great of Love

a man walks
memory lies
Is she to be mine?

the wall tells no lies
the bird sings harmony
She is indeed MINE

marbella suites hotel, DAGO

June 15, 2013

*di sebuah sesi lokakarya

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Hi Again: My Story

It's been a while since my last post. Recently there are lots of things to do since I have a new role at work. Now my post is at the secretariat of SEAMEO QITEP in Science, an institution under the Organization of Ministers of Education in Southeast Asia. Therefore the scope is pretty wider than before.

Actually I was in this office before as a temporary staff, but when the permanent staff was determined I could not be included because I had to continue my study. Now after graduating from the Indonesia University of Education, granted me a Master degree, here I am behind the desk of the secretariat.

Being a secretary is not something new for me. I was the secretary of the Director of PPPPTK IPA for six years. I afterward had worked in the evaluation section for a couple of months but then made that quick movement to Qitep in Science. All and still, anywhere the boss places me, I am ready!

Back to my years in campus. I started the class in 2010 and graduated in 2013, two and half years: not so bright yeah. I took English education as my major. During the days on campus, there were lots of things to remember, the lectures, the lecturers, friends, assignments and so many other things.

Started from the lecture. Functional Grammar and Pragmatics were my favourites. They were just new for me. IMO, the Functional Grammar subject gives a new sight of English grammar. It sees grammar in different ways. Basically, as my lecturer says, talking about FG we will talk about its basic notions; text, context, intertextuality, and metafunctions. I will try to talk about these notions later. Then the Pragmatics, it is a very interesting topic to learn. Learning about how language is used and how meaning is conveyed. There are presupposition, speech act, implicature, explicature, politeness, and so on and so forth. Very interesting since I didn't get such lectures at undergraduate studies.

Let's move to the lecturers. First thing first, Dr. Emi Emilia. Almost every single student from the postgraduate studies knows her very well. She is the head of English program. She's smart, bookaholic (my own term, meaning a book lover), she's funny and she's so Sundanese (she's from Garut indeed). There was a time when she taught the FG in my class when she used Sundanese throughout the lesson and my Javanese classmates could only be dazed. Her favourite lines were "boloho" and "Baca! Baca! Baca!". Amazing. Next is Prof. Aminuddin Aziz, the Pragmatics Ranger as he calls himself that way. I heard that he earned his professorship at a quite younger age compare to others (not so many could earns a professorship at 40 or less). What words to use to describe the Professor? hmm... smart? absolutely! assertive? hmmm... but one thing for sure, he has a charming aura; that's what my friends told me and I agree. Last but not least, Dr. Iwa Lukmana. Actually he didn't have the chance to teach me in the class because he taught the other two classes. But, I chose him as my supervisor when writing my final paper. He's quite unique, lots of fun, and I feel he's so much helpful. Thank you Sir. There are so many others but I just can't tell them here one by one. All in All, thank you very much for the knowledge and everything.

Prof. Aminuddin and the Rangers. (left to right: Yani, Rina, Wiji, Mufi, Fat, Prof. Amin, Wawan, Ida and Shanti. Where is me?)

The Rangers. Yup, we call our class as the Rangers. How can we come up with this name? You might be able to guess. Yup, It firstly came up in Prof. Amin's class. When he runs his slides, his first slide showed "Welcome to Pragmatics World with Pragmatics Ranger". All of the sudden, my friends and I looked at each other and giggled. Ranger... Then we agreed to name our class after Prof. Amin's idea, the Rangers. Then I just found out that the other two classes also gave their class a nickname. Class A called themselves as The Awesomers and class B had The Plan B as their nickname.

The Rangers reached their madness at the third semester. We did lots of fun activities and our favourite was going to Karaoke. Come on guys, let's rock the NAV! Besides, we also loved hiking. Our favourite track was of course Dago Pakar - Maribaya. What a lovely day, my friends.

Maribaya

One day we might be able to share the laughter, pals.

The last thing you might remember for a quite long time when you take postgraduate studies in UPI is the assignments. Ok, all postgraduate students must be ready for assignments but in my program study, it's WOW! "sesuatu banget". You will find a research-based paper for every subject, but I think that is a good thing to train the students to write a research-based report. Alhamdulillah, those years has gone by.

Now is the time for me to implement what I've got and be a better staff, better person for a better future, as Jack Dawson said in Titanic, "to make each day count".

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Kasih

o bulan
o bintang
o matahari
rindu terpagut
kasih bertaut
hadir mu menepikan luka

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Matahariku

subuh menyapa hari
fajar menyingsing datang
matahariku menampakkan diri
hangat...indah...dan tentram

adakah ia hadir di langitmu?

matahariku bersinar terang
benderang...
mengusir awan hitam pembawa hujan
menyapu kekelabuan di hati
siangku panas berdentang

adakah ia hadir di langitmu?


hari mulai petang
matahariku beranjak pergi
malu-malu ia beringsut ke peraduan
meninggalkan jejak jingga di cakrawala
menyapa malam sang pengganti

adakah ia hadir di langitmu?

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Our Songs

Ok, I know you're gonna be mad at me knowing that I prefer writing in this blog to revising my thesis. Well honey, I need a break :D. Now, we've been together for years. We have two gorgeous children and they are very gorgeous, indeed. The spirit of our lives.
To remember the old days, I want to list our 10 memorable songs. The songs that accompany our stories. In other words, These are our soundtracks. FYI, you introduced me most of the songs in the list. You brought me a new life. New chapter in my life. Hence, let's start to countdown the list, shall we?

10. Jealousy - Queen

Aha, our very first song is the romantic and melancholic song by our favorite band, Queen. In today's word, lagu galau. Haha...  I fell in love once I heard the song. So beautiful. Actually, you gave me this song accidentally. If I'm not mistaken, at that time, I asked for a song, but then you copied me several songs including this one. This was one of my favorites, moreover the situation was so supportive. I was the one who sought for a chance, at that time. The song matched the circumstance. Oh how wrong can you be, to fall in love was my very first mistake?
*was it my mistake to fall in love with you?

09. She - Elvis Castillo

Next is another beautiful song sung by Elvis Castillo and it is also the OST of Notting Hill. Okay, I knew the song before I met you, but it was you who searched and downloaded it for me. You knew so much about songs downloading at the moment. Personally, I like the word She. It represents someone who is destined to be mine. She may be the reason I survive. The why and wherefore I am alive ... Feel like Hugh Grant when singing the song with you.

08. Where are You Now - Jimmy Harnen

Where are you now? is someone there tonight holding what was mine?
haha... what a possessive lyric.

07. Nuansa Bening - Gang Pegangsaan

This is beautiful. Really. In my opinion, this is one of the most beautiful songs ever written by Indonesian musician. O tiada yang hebat ketika kau lewat di hadapanku, biasa saja... 

06. I love you - Sofie

One of the OSTs of BrokeBack Mountain. Actually, this is your song and I believe that there are only few people who know this song. But lately I also like the song. This song is "different". Then, I love you becomes my magic clause ever since- You know what I mean.


05. We could be in love - Lea Salonga & Brad Kane

I used to say we could be in love but now I proudly say, We are in love. XOXO

04. I loved her first - Heartland

When I listened to this song, I imagined that you were marrying somebody else. I listened to this song when our relationship reached its fragile condition due to our own situation. If you had married someone else at that time, I would have said to him, "I love her first!"
*actually, this is a song from a father to his daughter

03. Love hurts - Nazareth

Love will feel so much hurting when reality is against our hope. I listened to the song when we were on the bus after having lunch in Sari Ater. Love hurts, babe!

02. Love of my life - Jim Brickman

Honeymoon song... every morning, every breakfast time... this song was played and played, over and over again... At first, you had no clues whose song it was, then I told you. Now, every time this song is played in Mall, Restaurant, my memory goes directly to our Honeymoon time. Lovely.

01. Old flame can't hold a candle to you - Dolly Parton

I bet you are not so familiar with this song. This is the clue, I played it in front of your house at your birthday while flipping my "cards". This is very good song and Dolly Parton is a good singer as well.
The last card said, "To me, you are PERFECT".

Well, sweetie, those are my 10 perfect songs for us. They are the soundtrack of our love story. The story to be told to our children. We are different, but we are one, in the name of love. I Love You.

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