A Surprise for Amy

It was fascinating today coz we arranged an event for Amy, one of our best friends, to celebrate her birthday today. Actually, the idea came from a special person. As the camouflage we told her that we'd have buka bareng today for K-09 only in Bima and Kresno's house. The preparation had begun since yesterday. It was started by the conference talking about the things we were going to do this evening. Then Kresno was chosen as the PJ for the birthday cake. I suggest a place to buy the cake coz I like the cream so much.
It was continued today, this morning. We confirmed everyone about the event tonight at Bima's. Nearly everybody we invited had had an event that they couldnt come this evening. However, we kept saying that it would be done this evening. After Sisdig time, I went to Setiabudhi Supermarket with Kresno to buy a few things to brighten the birthday surprise today. Just after that we went to Es Shanghai to buy 10 packs of es shanghai there for tonight's tajilan.
At the time, few minutes before Amy arrived, we prepared the gifts and the candles and also the cakes. I was told to play the song happy birthday for her. When everyone came out of the piano room, they sang the song together while I played the piano. Surprisingly, I found amy with tears falling from her eyes saying thanks to everyone. I was quite surprised too that time since I thought it would be another way. The main point here is I was glad that she is happy today because somebody is delighted too seeing her happy that way.hehehe....
Happy birthday, Amy!!!!

Brain Problem in the 3rd Semester

However, this is out of electron tasks, I want to write in English again.

I'm now entering such a realm with more tension in every aspect of my life. First, I'm undergoing such a degradation of my brain's health because I hardly understand what the lectures are all about. Secondly, I have a terrible schedule problem. I can't fit all my lecture schedule to my church schedule and my teaching schedule in the international school. As the result, everything becomes ruin. I have no idea of how to resolve this now. The last one, I have to spend more money in unimportant things for lecture.
Going to the first problem, I don't know why I hardly slept late. My body automatically turns my eyes off every midnight. And also I can't concentrate if I have no lunch everyday. I hate this because it wasn't this way last semester. I try to solve this by eating more every evening (after bukpus time).
Next, I always study another thing every lecture. I nearly never pay attention to what the lecturer said since I believer myself to be better in making my brain understand the matter rather than listening to the lecture given in the class. First, they explain the lecture too fast and with another planet's language. Besides, I nearly don't have time to study at home first which makes me study them while I'm teaching or in lecture time. Hehehe...
Help me....!!!!!

Persahabatan

This is the task for all elektron's cakru to write an article with of any topics. I hardly write it in Indonesian but I have to. Just enjoy reading it.. I write another article to support this one empirically in the source and the theories supporting this friendship discussion.

Theme : Social Interaction

Title : Friendship (Persahabatan)

Dalam hubungan sosial, persahabatan merupakan bentuk atau model interaksi sosial yang tergolong memiliki jarak keintiman interpersonal cukup tinggi. Hal ini didukung kuat oleh kenyataan bahwa persahabatan melibatkan penghargaan, pengetahuan, dan afeksi yang mencapai kesetaraan di antara kedua belah pihak di dalam hubungan persahabatan tersebut. Persahabatan dibangun oleh kesesuaian minat atau bakat dan frekuensi pertemuan yang tinggi untuk proses perkenalan serta pemahaman interpersonal. Ciri utama dari hubungan persahabatan yaitu terlihat pada sikap dan tingkah laku yang berbalasan serta reflektif satu terhadap lainnya. Akibatnya, hal ini akan menimbulkan konvergensi di dalam pembentukan karakter setiap pribadi di dalam hubungan tersebut.
Seiring dengan berjalannya persahabatan tersebut terhadap waktu akan muncul nilai-nilai baru, antara lain keinginan untuk mencapai keadaan yang terbaik bagi kedua belah pihak, sikap dan rasa simpati serta empati, kejujuran antara kedua pribadi, dan rasa saling pengertian yang hanya ada di dalam hubungan interpersonal dengan tingkat kedekatan cukup tinggi. Akan tetapi, persahabatan di mata setiap orang berbeda-beda bergantung pada latar belakang dan kondisi sosial masyarakat tempat terbangunnya hubungan persahabatan tersebut. Hal ini didukung oleh adanya teori-teori interaksi sosial, seperti teori pertukaran sosial, teori sosial simbolis, teori identitas, teori keadilan, psikologi sosial, dialektika relasional, dan lain-lain.
Secara umum, persahabatan bukan hanya sekadar hubungan pertemanan biasa yang dapat dibangun dalam waktu singkat. Pengujian terhadap suatu hubungan persahabatan merupakan pengujian kesetiaan antarpribadi terhadap waktu. Indikator kekuatan sebuah persahabatan dilihat dari tingkat kepedulian antarpribadi, kesetiaan, dan afeksi yang dinamis.

Persahabatan adalah warna, kehidupan, langkah yang terarah di dalam perjalanan panjang ini..

Gather

Tired!!!
Missing you all, accelerz!!!!!
I've observed many kinds of friendship and I've found one new model of friendship where togetherness takes role in it. I like this one. Actually, I accidentally join the group to have dinner tonight. There I found friendship not only as a term of condition but also as a realm, a life, something that is not fake because it is inside everyone in that group and that connects everybody there to become one. It was great. I'm willing to have that one.

Friend, in my friend's opinion

Again I publish this writing just because I want people to read it, my friend's writing two months ago..

Mempunyai satu sahabat sejati lebih berharga dari seribu teman yang mementingkan diri sendiri.

Apa yang kita alami demi teman kadang-kadang melelahkan dan menjengkelkan, tetapi itulah yang membuat persahabatan mempunyai nilai yang indah.

Persahabatan sering menyuguhkan beberapa cobaan, tetapi persahabatan sejati bisa mengatasi cobaan itu bahkan bertumbuh bersama karenanya…

Persahabatan tidak terjalin secara otomatis tetapi membutuhkan proses yang panjang seperti besi menajamkan besi, demikianlah sahabat menajamkan sahabatnya.

Persahabatan diwarnai dengan berbagai pengalaman suka dan duka, dihibur - disakiti, diperhatikan - dikecewakan, didengar - diabaikan, dibantu - ditolak, namun semua ini tidak pernah sengaja dilakukan dengan tujuan kebencian.

Seorang sahabat tidak akan menyembunyikan kesalahan untuk menghindari perselisihan, justru karena kasihnya ia memberanikan diri menegur apa adanya.

Sahabat tidak pernah membungkus pukulan dengan ciuman, tetapi menyatakan apa yang amat menyakitkan dengan tujuan sahabatnya mau berubah.

Proses dari teman menjadi sahabat membutuhkan usaha pemeliharaan dari kesetiaan, tetapi bukan pada saat kita membutuhkan bantuan barulah kita memiliki motivasi mencari perhatian, pertolongan dan pernyataaan kasih dari orang lain, tetapi justru ia berinisiatif memberikan dan mewujudkan apa yang dibutuhkan oleh sahabatnya.

Kerinduannya adalah menjadi bagian dari kehidupan sahabatnya, karena tidak ada persahabatan yang diawali dengan sikap egoistis. Semua orang pasti membutuhkan sahabat sejati, namun tidak semua orang berhasil mendapatkannya. Banyak pula orang yang telah menikmati indahnya persahabatan, namun ada juga yang begitu hancur karena dikhianati sahabatnya.

Ingatlah kapan terakhir kali kamu berada dalam kesulitan. Siapa yang berada di samping kamu ?? Siapa yang mengasihi kamu saat kamu merasa tidak dicintai ?? Siapa yang ingin bersama kamu saat kamu tak bisa memberikan apa-apa ??

MEREKALAH SAHABATMU

Hargai dan peliharalah selalu persahabatanmu

(written by Gerard)

Electron (Elektron)

Actually, it's still difficult for me to write in Indonesian for this blog. But, finally my idealism comes to an end that I have to report all the activities and all the tasks given in every session of the recruitment process. In fact, there had been once. On last Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. there was the second meeting in Multimedia Room in Labtek VIII in campus. The first session was about the history of Electron Magazine and its development until the stop of the production. Then we had a short break for about only less than 50 minutes. Briefly we had to gather again in the same room to have the second session about journalism. It was unpredictably interesting for me. In fact, I didn't like the first part of the journalism topic which made me terribly sleepy. But it was ended with a very interesting topic, journalistic ethics. I will write another writing about the contents discussed by the speaker last Saturday, specialized only to fulfill the task given by the head of Elektron before I went out of campus for a while. I can't imagine writing in Indonesian in this English blog.... T_T.....

Friend

I'm thinking about an existence.
I believe friendship is not a fake thing. It's as real as your being today.
Friend is one of many treasures in the world that one hardly get without love.
Friend is all about first priority, such a classified thing.
To have friends just mean having second most precious jewelry in the world, or in the universe perhaps.
Friends are all about affection, endurance, care, hope, love, and finally existence.
It's not about something you can get that easily.
Friendship means that you're not totally alone,
that somebody loves and cares about you,
that you're special to someone,
that you mean something to people around you,
that you are loved.
Friend is the one who shows the best of you, brings it out, support you to reach it.
Friend may fail in doing favor for you, but friendship never ends.
There's nothing final between friends.
Once I experienced the end of something one calls friendship, such a rubbish of society.
Nevertheless, I regret having such a thinking before.
In my opinion, friendship is something lasting for a lifetime.
I don't know why my last closest friend ended up our friendship so strangely and quite hates me that bad. However, I can't stand keeping myself being distressed with such a thing. I have to stand for my own life.
Friends can mean paradise while in the same time being hell mutually.
Friendship...
a long journey of education in life...
the sweetness of life...

Finally I have time to open this page again..hahaha...
Having been through many circumstances so far I realize one thing that everything has to change. It's impossible for one to get stuck in only a particular condition that one going static with the current condition. I'm trying hard to get on with it too. It's been six months since the first start and I thought it would've finished already. But it's still moving until now. Courage and faith is my foundation to keep standing today along with joy and merry. So far I've changed my mindset in term of the reality of friendship. It's changed in fact. Guess what!! (just forget it!!)
Today I have one new house more in Bandung beside my real home here in Cikawao which is HME at the basement of technology laboratory VIII in ITB. It's the largest basecamp/office for a "himpunan" or set in ITB according to the area it has. However, I enjoy being there so much since it has so many LAN cable and there is a bed for anybody to sleep there. I got used to sleep on the sofa in the living room. Funnily, my bad behaviour came along with me yesterday that I hate to see such a condition of messiness there with the books on the floor. That's why I put all the books (according to their genres) in the library cupboard until there was no thick book on the floor except for the MBC books. There I met everybody older than me and had a little chit chat with them. Since then I realize one important thing that we have to run a brief program of making HME beautiful by tiding up the room inside. First, we can start from the main room, the living room in the middle with the little canteen. Then we move to the divkom room. The last one we have to tidy up the WS room. It is so messy!! Hahaha...
It's been three days of fasting for moslems today. Unfortunately, I studied in ITB where every canteen is closed during fasting month. With my crazy schedule I am being the same as those fasting since the first day, last Monday. The one different is that I don't do saur as them that make me starving at noon as always and dying as time approaching adzan maghrib. This makes me join every "buka bareng" with all my friends in EL'07. I like that because I met new circumstances where I can open my mask and start being the real me as I am with my closest friend at church. It's fun indeed!!!! There I found people with no doubt of being embarrasing in front of anybody, showing the real them...hahha... Starting from that point I start to change my mindset of how to interact with friends especially those in the same subject as me. Here I want to build a brand new friendship in HME where I find love and care as the main foundation to move on with the vision and work project of this organization. Later I will tell you a more detail of my new experience here... hehehe...