Le Journal

I was sick three days ago. A combination of bad weather, physically and mentally drained, and depression -why I choose this step? Then, I realized that I need a refreshing. Labuha is the city of hope. The place where I can stay peacefully, meeting my beloved friends, my other family and my comfort zone. In the village, there is a thousand reasons to complain, to fuck my self, to compare things before I came here. I think I need to do one thing:  accepting . why with -ing? because it's a process. Just three days more before my first month in Halmahera Selatan complete. I hope I will enjoy all the time that I spend in here, never complain and compare again, never think about negative things and will be more grateful for His blessings. Alhamdulillahirabbilalamin....

I'm HERE! In Halmahera Selatan ... Adventure                    Experience                                       Life-skill upgrading                                                                                            Live in the village, to observe and empower (I hope so!) 2014 will be a LEGEND (wait for it..)  LEGENDARY!

Tidak terasa perjalanan kapal selama kurang lebih 8 jam sudah akan berakhir. Menjelang subuh, kami sampai di Labuha. Di pelabuhan Babang, sudah menunggu mobil dari dinas pendidikan dan mobil pick-up yang membawa barang-barang kami menuju Hotel Palm. Di sanalah semuanya dimulai, di perjalanan dari Babang menuju hotel, saya duduk di depan bersama Sugit, kawan lama saya yang saya kenal di Korea tahun 2011. Sebetulnya, sudah dari sejak di Ternate, tepatnya ketika kami berkunjung ke benteng Bastiong, Leny mulai men ceng-cengin saya dengan Sugit. Saya kira ceng-cengan akan berhenti di sana, ternyata sampai masa transisi berakhir pun rekan-rekan tetap menggoda saya, haha. Anyway, that’s not the point. Setelah istirahat sebentar di hotel, untuk pertama kali saya menjumpai pengajar muda yang akan saya gantikan di SDN Torosubang, Towi. Towi, perawakannya jauh berbeda dengan saya. Tapi, saya sangat kagum dengan Towi, dia sangat membantu saya saat sebelum dan ketika transisi. Sampai saat ...

Sudah hampir tiga minggu saya berada di tanah Kie Raha. Tidak terasa waktu berjalan begitu cepat.  Teringat saat pagi buta di bandara internasional Soekarno-Hatta, ayah dan adik saya mengantarkan keberangkatan saya sampai di depan pintu masuk terminal 1A. Di tengah kepanikan akan terlambat naik pesawat karena mengurus bagasi yang sangat banyak jumlahnya, saya sempatkan bertemu dengan Bening dan Fadlin, dua sahabat saya yang memang berniat mengantarkan saya sampai ke bandara. Pertemuan di depan metal detector dan salam perpisahan (sementara) yang singkat pun mengawali keberangkatan saya ke Ternate. Bersama ketujuh pengajar muda lainnya, kami berangkat menggunakan pesawat Lion Air yang transit di Manado kemudian melanjutkan perjalanan dengan pesawat Wings Air ke Ternate. Sampai di bandara Sultan Baabullah Ternate, kami disambut tiga orang pengajar muda angkatan V, dan tentunya Ibu saya. Ya, Ibu saya memang merencanakan tugas ke Soufifi ibukota Maluku Utara padaminggu itu hanya u...

Alhamdulillahirabbilalamin… After joining APEC Voices of the Future program earlier this month, I had a very blessed days in Singapore. On Saturday, I attended the NTU Homecoming Alumni event, where I met (again) Agus Harimurthi Yudhoyono, the first son of president SBY, that awarded a Nanyang Young Outstanding Alumni Award 2013. I also met his wife, Anisa Pohan and their daughter, Aira. We had a chat in person, it’s so nice to talk with them and took some pictures too :) I also met pak Leonard, my mentor in RSIS, who is so excited about my next journey on becoming Pengajar Muda. I also met pak Andri Hadi, the Ambassador of Republic of Indonesia in Singapore and Ibu Ferial Hadi, along with the others embassy high level staff. In that occasion, I also met mba Mira and mas Bimo, the personal assistant and official photographer of President SBY. They are really nice too! I, kak Dinar, Emir and Ping had a photo booth session which was awesome. Although, we did not g...

What I suppose to write? Hmm, let me begin by thanking Allah SWT the Almighty God for his countless blessings and grace. Last week, I had an opportunity to join APEC Voices of The Future 2013 in Bali. I was one of the 99 youth delegates from 18 APEC member economies that experienced the APEC CEO Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali. The program, Voices of the Future, is an annual sideline event of APEC Summit that has been held since 1999 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This program gathered young people in 18-25 years old to observe the summit and experience the “global classroom”. Noel Gould, one of the co-founder said that this idea is something that he could ever imagine when he was in school years, where the students only know the existence of two super powers i.e. United States and Uni Soviet, without taking care of “everyone else”. Now, since the collapse of Berlin Wall, the “everyone else” become somebody that people should learn things from them. APEC Voices of the Future brings toget...

Assalamu'alaikum, Hi all! Apa kabar? semoga tetap sehat dan semangat selalu :) Weekend kemarin luar biasa, Dimulai dari outing kantor ke Sentosa Island. Hari Jum'at kita masuk setengah hari. Setelah presentasi dari finance manager, kenalan orang-orang baru (gw kenalan lagi! dengan informasi yang lebih lengkap plus rencana gw setelah selesai magang di sini), menghitung bintang2 (ini seru, jadi setiap orang di kantor gw dikasih jar kosong, terus jar itu bakal keisi sama star-star kalo ada orang yang mau ngasih ke lo, i.e. lo adalah orang yang helpful), ngerayain ultah yg ultah bulan ini (setiap bulan emang bakal perayaan ultah, tiup lilin, potong kue, dan yang ultah dikasih kartu dengan ucapan selamat yang ditulis semua orang kantor) dan makan-makan (of course!). Outingnya kan per kelompok, lombanya itu amazing race, jadi kita disuruh ngumpulin clue untuk nyari treasure hunt. Awalnya tim gw yg paling cepet sampe di clue terakhir, tapi karena satu dan lain hal justru ti...