A Journey

YOGYAKARTA 

(UNEXPECTED JOURNEY)

Unexpected thing could bring you something awesome to your life

                A late girl talk in my rent house which is lived by 5 ladies. Suddenly said, “do you guys busy this weekend?” one by one telling their schedulle and it’s a free time for all. Then we decide to go to Jogja (yokyakarta) together and directly booking for train tickets.

                We book tickets from Pasar Senen Station (Jakarta) to Lempunyangan Station (Yogyakarta) for Rp 220.000,- each ticket even we could get a cheaper one. We booked the tickets 3 days before departure and we started the journey to Jogja.

                It spend almost 9 hours to arrive in Lempuyangan Station. We reach that place in 15.00 WIB (local time). 

First destination (Ny. Kamto)

                Ny. Kamto is a small pempek (Palembang traditional food) restaurant which located in Jogja. Their open hour is from 10 am – 10 pm. The most favorite menu for as is pempek selam with Rp 13.000,- price per pieces. I am trying two kind of pempek but the most delicious one is pempek selam. Pempek selam is better than pempek kulit which made by fish skin and flavour. It more delicious when we pour the special soup for pempek.

                Before we visit the next destination, we are a little bit confused to decide where we shoud stay for 3 days in Jogja. Then we walk here and there without nobody except the internet. We can saw where we could stay in a cheap cost. We found a really cheaper one but it needs 30 minutes walk.

                We are sitting in the edge of the road while found a good one but suddenly a group of musician approaching us and asking for some money. That’s true. In Indonesia, a group of musician who you found in the way or public transportation are really a trouble. They are singing for a bit but asking much. They also hiding behind their skin full of tatoes, any hanging things in their ears and their whatever hair style. It’s more trouble in Jakarta. They usually asking for your coin in Metro Mini or a kind of bus colored orange. Its more scary and you just give them your coin because they are coming not for singing but only and just for your coin. Imagine, without doing something, just talk and asking for you money. What an annoying thing, right?

                Finally, we decided a hotel but when we arrived near the hotel, it so far from city. So, we ask Pak Kusir (a traditional transportation in Jogja moved by horse) to drop us in his recommended hotel. Then we are okay with his second recommendation.

                We are coming to Jogja without any destination plan. Fortune has come to us, one of my friend who studying in Jogja offering me to drive us anywhere we want to go. It was accepted with a pleasant. And that’s the end of February, 17 night.

February, 18

Prambanan Temple       

               

One big thing in Jogja is Prambanan Temple. This place is great place to visit. The mith of this place was made by a man to a woman because of love. The woman who rejected the man with honest said, ‘if you can build me thousand temples and two deep wheel in one night then I will marry you’. But, the man says yes and ask ghosts to help him. The woman who knows that the building almost finished ask local girls to voice their traditional rice grinder. The ghost heard the grinder voice and thought that the sun has rised. Then, the last temple wasn’t finish which means the man has failed his mission to get the woman.

Now, Prambanan already become a tourist destination and the most famous place in Jogja. So, people says you are not coming to Jogja if you are not visit this place yet or taking any picture. And here we go, my picture in Prambanan Temple. FYI, I’ve waiting this moment for 10 years. I went to Prambanan 10 years ago with my taekwondo group after competition, but I can’t enter the temple for some reason from my coach.

Puncak Becici

                What is special thing here while you can see only pine trees? Yes, Puncak Becici is a pine forest. But, the best thing for picturing yourself is this one.

                You have to be careful to take this picture.. you also need patient when you come here on the weekend because everyone will make a line just to snap snap. Pine forest is a booming recreation place in Jogja. Puncak Becici is one of another exist pine forest.

a stair to heaven, yaawwww

Kebun Buah Mangunan

                After so excited taking picture in Puncak Becici, we are lost of willing to take another picture in Kebun Buah Mangunan. This place also offered an highness. Before I came to this place, I thought I would found bunch of fruits but there nothing there. You will only got fruits if you willing to and based in my opinion, you better not to buy fruit in recreation place because it would cost you more. Then what we do there is only a crazy thing. We do zumba with slogan zumba everywhere. Hahaha

                Everybody love zumba in my renthouse. We always fill our freetime in the morning or afternoon with this activities. We are maybe not an expert zumbaist yet. We still using youtube as a resouce. It has bunch of zumba video that we can follow and so much time. We did those things and almost remember full of the movement.

Pantai Kesirat

                Last destination in February 19 but the best place we went. It not like an usually beach. It has no sand or swimming area. The best point of this beach is the sunset. For sure, we passed the best sunset I ever seen in this place. 

                What we can do in this place are taking pictures, see the sunset and camping.

February, 19 

Ketep Pass

               We can see Merbabu Mt. and Merapi Mt. from this place. People said it’s the best view of those two mountains if there was no cloud. Unfortunatelly, we had no chance to see them at them time with cloudy weather. The only uniq one is a welcome dance from local people welcoming tourists. It’s a simple dance and very Javanese. At the first time I see it, I thought it was Kuda Lumping Dance because all of the dancer wear a black glasses.

                Its same. Taking picture is a must in every destination we have visited!

Bakso Kerikil Malang

                It’s a long way to Malang actually. It takes arround 3 hours and we arrived exactly in lunch time. Then we agreed to eat Bakso Kerikil. This type of meatball made by the same ingredients the different thing is only the shape. Bakso Kerikil shaped small than the usual meatball.

Lawang Sewu

                This place mean much. As an Indonesian we can see it from the first time. Lawang also means door and Sewu means a thousand. So, the meaning of Lawang Sewu is thousand doors. It true that this place has a lot of doors. Its build since Ducth colonizing Indonesia. Well, I’m not born yet at that time. Hehe. What I can give to you is only the picture. J

                It has a scary ground floor which ever build to jail person. A lot of people also died in that place and that’s the reason why this place more scary at night.

                

February, 20

Tugu Jogja

                2 O’clock in the morning doesn’t trouble us to taking picture in front of Jogja monument.

We take the picture even with the last energy

Shopping Time at Malioboro

                Before we left Jogja, the last one should be buy Oleh-oleh. Even just for our self. We rent 2 Becak Motor for 5 people plus extra luggage :D…

                We went to Bakpia store, Batik store and stores along Malioboro street.

Train to Home

last, I would like to say thank you to all Yuni Kost Member who bring those happiness. 

 Thank you to my two friends who lived in Jogja, Sufi and unknown one (he wont me tell his name, keep it a secret he said) but I'll show you the picture of him HAHAHA

 

Jam Karet

This is about how we do in organization meeting.

We are agree to meet at some place at 7 PM o'clock. And it starts at 9 PM. It starts with retalk about what we have talk before. And finally, some elder people come at 10 PM. And he ask about what we have talk then we talking about the same thing almost three times.

There are nothing much that we can talk about. We finished at 10.30 and the result is we have to look into tomorrow condition. How much kids would come then how much food we should serve and how can we success the event with just limited budget.

Another situation is here in my lovely campus. As a fellowship student we have to attend a workshop. They said it starts at 1 o'clock but in fact it starts at 1.49. I think this condition just wasting our time.

I was so angry about it. How come even an university cant make an event in time. A lot of unimportant chit-chat.

Next "jam karet" its happen again in my class. This is about our study tour plan for April 16th 2016. We are agree to start our discussion at 1 o'clock but we are not start yet in time because of some of us are not coming yet or not coming back to class again.

This is the really bad thing that i hate so much. Nobody seems care about other peoples time to rest or to have their private time. I hate this situation until I can't stand any even which is handled by people I know so weak about respecting time. What do you think we should do to decrease this kind of weakness?

I call this such a weakness because when we are not respecting time, even other people's work can't run properly. Which means we throw away our glorious time just to sit down and doing nothing except waiting.

But, everything has its own strength amd weakness. I said this 'jam karet' too has its own strength. You now what? If you are in my condition, then you will able to remind your self about what kind of even you should jump in and not.

Maybe, that is the good thing when you are in my condition. You will be able to choose to walk on your own way as you are.

MABIT

Malam Bina Iman dan Taqwa

Kali ini saya dan teman-teman KKN alias internship program melaksanakan MABIT. Adapun asal muasalnya kami melaksanakan kegiatan ini adalah karena adanya ajakan dari tokoh setempat guna membangun karakter anak-anak agar menjadi lebih baik dan menjadi anak yang lebih berguna dimasa yang akan datang. Awal rapat demi kepentingan Mabit lebih sering dilaksanakan oleh enam orang anak laki-laki yang ada di kelompok desa kami dengan ustad dan tokoh setempat. Kemudian pergerakan menggalang dana terus dimulai hingga akhirnya terkumpullah dana yang sebetulnya mengharuskan kami untuk lebih memutar otak agar acara berjalan sebagaimana mestinya.

Acara kali ini diadakan di Masjid Jamie Al-Falah desa Wantilan kecamatan Cipendeuy, Jawa Barat. Pada hari sabtu tanggal 7a Februari 2016 pukul 15.30 dimulai dengan sholat ashar bersama. Kemudian dilanjutkan dengan pembukaan dan sambutan-sambutan oleh ketua pelaksana, penanggung jawab serta pejabat daerah setempat. Lalu dilanjutkan dengan tilawatil Quran, tausiyah dan sholat maghrib bersama.

Cuaca tidak sepenuhnya mendukung, musim hujan masih senang menyinggahi Februari. Namun semangat serta kegigihan tidak melumpuhkan keinginan kami untuk menyelesaikan apa yang telah kami mulai. Acara berlanjut terus hingga makan malam dan motivasi dari kami selaku kakak-kakak yang melaksanakan kegiatan bermasyarakat di desa Wantilan. Setelah video motivasi diputarkan, semua adik-adik kami yang berjumlah kurang lebih 200 orang tidur malam.

Setelah pagi menjelang, pukul 03.00 kami semua mulai bangun untuk melaksanakan sholat tahajud dan kemudian mendengarkan ceramah dari pak Ustadz Ruslan. Kemudian dilanjutkan dengan sholat subuh bersama dan tadarus bersama. Acara berlanjut dengan morning fresh with a health breakfast. Lalu tafakur alam dengan berjalan ke bukit terdekat.

Peserta kembali lagi ke Masjid lalu makan berat kemudian sholat duha bersama dan berlanjut dengan penyuluhan mengenai demam berdarah alias dengue fever.
Acara selesai tepat tengah hari, setelah semua tubuh sudah terasa lengket dan bau badan bercampur baur akhirnya satu per satu anak keluar masjid dengan riang.

Sampai jumpa semuanya, semoga amal ibadah yang kita jalankan diterima dan kita bisa kembali dalam keadaan suka cita.

Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck

Malam itu, kami semua sepakat untuk menonton bersama di sela-sela penatnya menjalani KKN. Aku, Dinda, Nur, Afifa, dan Nida setuju untuk menonton film tenggelamnya kapal van der wijck. Kabel speaker yg lebih besar disambungkan ke laptop. Sementara lampu dimatikan hingga serasa suasana bioskop kecil-kecilan.

Film di awali dengan kebingungan seorang anak laki-laki campuran minang dan makassar. Di makassar dirinya ditolak sebagai orang makassar sehingga dia bertekad untuk pergi ke padang dan menapaki jejak-jejak kampung halaman bapaknya. Di sanalah kemudian dia bertemu dengan seorang bungo kampuang bernama Hayati. Hayati cantik dan baik hati tapi sayang kekuatan adat istiadat mengalahkan cinta Zainuddin terhadapnya.

Janji besar dipatahkan begitu saja oleh Hayati. Dia pergi menikahi pria kaya dari kalangannya sendiri yang bernama Aziz. Aziz tidaklah sebaik yang Hayati bayangkan, dia pejudi berat. Akan tetapi Hayati telah memilih bahwa tanpa kekayaan dia tidak bisa hidup bahagia.

Dengan setengah gila, Zainuddin bangkit dari keterpurukannya. Dia meninggalkan tanah minang dan merantau ke Batavia. Batavia memberikan kebebasan yang lebih baginya untuk memulai karir. Dia menulis dan menuangkan keperihan hatinya ke dalam tulisan yang membombardir dunia sastra indonesia kala itu.

Bersama dengan kesuksesan Zainuddin sebagai penulis dia pun ditawari perusahaan cetak yang terabaikan di Surabaya. Gayung bersambut hati gembira, selangkah demi selangkah kredibilitasnya naik dan terus menjadi orang terpandang di tempatnya.
Disisi lain, Aziz dipindahtugaskan ke Surabaya dan menetap di sana. Pertemuan tidak terelakkan antara Hayati dan Zainuddin.

Aziz dan Hayati diundang ke pesta yang digelar oleh Zainuddin. Aziz yang menemui kebangrutan akhirnya mengakui kesuksesan Zainuddin dan pada akhirnya meminta pertolongannya jua setelah terusir dari rumahnya sendiri. Mereka berdua ditanggung hidupnya oleh Zainuddin. Telah sebulan berlalu akhirnya Aziz jatuh sakit lantaran malu dengan dirinya sendiri.

Aziz kemudian meninggalkan surabaya untuk memulai karirnya kembali. Akan tetapi dia gagal dan putus asa hingga bunuh diri. Kemudian melepaskan Hayati untuk Zainuddin. Zainuddin yang marah memutuskan untuk memulangkan Hayati ke Padang menggunakan kapal Van Der Wijck. Naas, kapal tersebut tenggelam begitu juga cinta Zainuddin dan Hayati.

Zainuddin berlari ke tempat korban-korban tenggelamnya kapal tersebut mencoba menarik kembali benang yang telah putus. Tetapi benang yang putus tidaklah lagi tergapai oleh tangan. Hayati meninggal dunia di pangkuan Zainuddin dengan mengatakan kembali cintanya yang tak sampai. "Selamat tinggal Zainuddin, semoga kelak cinta kita kembali dipertemukan di surga".

That was a great Indonesian movie I ever watch. It also become my first best list now.

It finished but the bad thing happend before the movie ended. A boy from my grup coming home. We shock because no one of us wearing our hijab. It's just like an earthquake.

今の女の子

立てばしゃくやく、座ればぼたん、歩く姿はゆりの花

現在、そんな女の子はあるかなあ。

君、散歩して、キレイな女の子を会うと、本当に元身体かどうか分からない。

それに、化粧している。

そんなことわざみたいな女になるため、大丈夫だと思う。

親切でキレイになったら、もっとカンペキだろう！

Sebuah tulisan kecil 4 tahun yang lalu

Well, I didn't realized how long i keep this paper to me and it's 4 years ago. A small thinking which proved how care i am to the public problem.

Allahlah pemilik langit dan bumi.

Namun mengapa selalu dirusak. 

Bukankah wajah bisa awet muda jika dirawat. 

Begitu pula dengan bumi ini. 

Pantas saja mukamu cepat berkeriput jikalau tak pernah kau poles.

Begitu juga bumi, setiap hari perutnya kau cabik-cabik, pohonnya kau tebangi, lautnya kau kotori dengan zat-zat kimia yang meracuni.

Aku makan buah dari pohon yang dibantu bumi hidup.

Akankah pohon itu hidup jika tidak ada tanah?

Allahlah yang telah menurunkan hujannya agar tumbuhan subur bumi pun tampak awet muda dengan akar-akar yang menancap di permukaannya.

Tumbuhan itu tidak berpindah tempat namun dia juga hidup. (Subhanallah)

Tidakkah kita mengambil pelajaran dari burung yang terbang dengan mengepakkan sayapnya?

Tidakkah kita perhatikan bunga-bunga yang bermekaran?

Apakah manusia hanya bisa hidup di antara struktur bangunan?

Yang menghabiskan lahan dan pepohonan.

Pernahkan kau pikir bentuk lahan tersebut sebelum bangunan didirikan?

Alangkah kejam manusia di bumi ini.

Mengambil tempat hidup mahluk lain.

Bagaimana cara membuat mesin menjadi tidak berfungsi? Bukan tidak berfungsi, hanya saja mengganti itu menjadi ramah lingkungan dan tidak mengeluarkan racun.

Bisakah manusia bekerja tanpa mesin?

Bak mobil yang bila diisi bensin akan mengeluarkan asap beracun.

Sekarang bagaimana cara kita mengganti bahan bakar itu agar tidaj menjadi beracun. 

Pastinya ada sesuatu yang lebih baik dan paling baik.

Bisakah mobil bergerak dari daun-daun yang berguguran?

Kita harus mencari solusi terbaik dari apa yang telah diciptakan oleh manusia zaman dahulu karena yang mereka ciptakan mempermudah sekaligus merugikan kehidupan.

Tidakkah hal seperti ini menjadi tanggung jawab kita semua?

Jaga tanah air, jaga bumi.

Bumi bulat dan berputar.

Tidak ada satupun yang tahu kapan bumi berakhir.

Dan, mulailah dari hal terkecil.

A Weakness to Remember

 Which one is your weakness? Do you ever feel angry to yourself when you realize that you are not a good one at all. There is a people who just a step in front of you. What will you do if that time is the final where you meet that people in an event. I doubt you'll be crazier to step ten times more.

 But, when you are already ten times in front of her, you found that she's not there anymore to challenge you. Will you able to stop the time or back to the time where you just one step behind? Will you let everyone know about this? If it's me. I wont let it go. No Way!!!

Some people of this picture may happy, some of them maybe look okay but sad but me, I feel painful when I know my weakness and I promise my self to grow it up.

For all of you who ever feel the same thing like I was, be strong and never stop learn till you ten step more. 

J_Vegy

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