Archive for May, 2006

tudia ma laho ahu??

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Man, i’ve been sitting in my room for a couple hours…listening to some indo music… at first i thought i will be able to write some stories (it’s one of my job). My boss (John) asked me to make some fact sheets yesterday. Before, whenever there’s field visit, we never provide written sheets about the progress of our projects. I’m aware about it, then i asked to my colleague to support my objectives getting the fact sheet done. Unfortunately, they are all busy with their own thing. I couldnt blame them. They have to fulfill their target meanwhile at the moment they just passed 2nd step which is Rapid Technical Assisstance. In my office there are two department which is Watershed Management and Service Delivery. Thank God, John will give them pressure for helping me getting facts for each project they’re working.

At the moment i’m working with two important activity in the same time. One is formative research, Second is Sustainable Sanitation Workshop. Alas, in front of my eyes there are bunch of list that i’ve to do. But now, i’m just staring at them. It’s silly isnt it? I couldnt start my job (IT’s SATURDAY!!!! why should i work???) but i can use my time to write these post.ha ha ha ha….

I went here with my new bike.oopppsss….my boss suddenly entering my room,…kok bisa????

tjiao,

False True
A sun tan is healthy. A tan results from your body defending itself against further damage from UV radiation.
A tan protects you from the sun. A dark tan on white skin only offers an SPF of about 4.
You can’t get sunburnt on a cloudy day. Up to 80% of solar UV radiation can penetrate light cloud cover. Haze in the atmosphere can even increase UV radiation exposure.
You can’t get sunburnt while in the water. Water offers only minimal protection from UV radiation, and reflections from water can enhance your UV radiation exposure.
UV radiation during the winter is not dangerous. UV radiation is generally lower during the winter months, but snow reflection can double your overall exposure, especially at high altitude.
Sunscreens protect me so I can sunbathe much longer. Sunscreens are not intended to increase sun exposure time but to increase protection during unavoidable exposure. The protection they afford depends critically on their correct application.
If you take regular breaks during sunbathing you won’t get sunburnt. UV radiation exposure is cumulative during the day.
If you don’t feel the hot rays of the sun you won’t get sunburnt. Sunburn is caused by UV radiation which cannot be felt. Most of the heating is caused by the sun’s visible and infrared radiation and not by UV radiation.

SOENTHOG!

Friday, May 19th, 2006

hoooooooooiiii,INI SALAH SIAPA!!

Sore hari di desa Blang Lambaro:

sasha: "ibu, pendapat ibu tentang orang bersih itu seperti apa sih?"

ibu: "(diam)………. aduh jangan tanya saya dek."

sasha: "loh, ga papa bu. Jawabannya apa adanya menurut ibu aja.Ga perlu khawatir salah"

ibu: "(diam)….. mmm,ya bersih ya bisa liat dari pakaiannya,cara pakaiannya…(diam).."

sasha: " mm, kalo orang bersih mandinya berapa kali sahari ya bu?"

ibu:" yaa…kalo ada air, ya dua kali sehari"

sasha:"ooo, gitu ya bu. Kalo rumah tangga bersih itu seperti apa bu?"

ibu: " (diam)…maksudnya?"

sasha: "ya misalkan perabotnya dibersihkan berapa kali sehari…?"

ibu:" kami mana ada perabot bu, mana kakak kan bukan ibu rumah tangga, ke ladang terus tiap hari……. Jangan tanya saya lah bu. saya ga bisa jawab apa-apa"

sasha: " aduh ibu, ga pa pa kok..kita memang ingin tahu pendapat ibu tentang hal-hal itu.. Ibu jam berapa pulang dari ladang?"

ibu:"(diam)….. bu, saya ga mampu berfikir.Maaf, bukannya saya mempermainkan kalian,tapi betul-betul saya ga bisa berfikir macam-macam …(matanya menatap kosong ke depan)

sasha: " kakak(somehow gw mengganti kata sapaan gw), kenapa kak?"

ibu:" de, maaf, kakak sebenarnya ga ngerti harus gimana saat ini. Suami kakak baru masuk penjara"

kontan gw kaget !! kok ya bisa gw salah target nge-interview orang dan langsung tape recorder gw matiin

sasha: "loh kok bisa kak?"

ibu: "suami kakak belah kayu dek (istilah untuk illegal logger di aceh).. padahal dia baru sepuluh hari kerja dek. Kakak ga tau lagi harus gimana sekarang. Hari ini dia dipindah jadi tahanan jaksa. Sebelumnya sudah di penjara selama satu setengah bulan di polsek."

sasha: " terus kak?…"

ibu: " itulah dek, kakak pusing sudah cari bantuan kemana-mana. Kakak saya sudah mau ngasih emasnya untuk dijual di toko. Memang laku satu juta, tapi itupun kalo dikasih ke polisi cuma uang gelap. Suami kakak ga akan bisa keluar juga dari penjara. Entah kapan baru mulai pengadilannya… (si ibu lemas, dan anaknya yang masih berumur 2 setengah tahun merengek-rengek minta susu asi sambil meremas payudara si ibu)

sasha: "(diam)……."

ibu: " pening sudah kakak dek, kemana lah kakak minta tolong. Suami kakak memang benar-benar baru belah kayu sepuluh hari. Dia belum punya toke. Cuma dijual gitu aja ke orang. Padahal kami baru beli mesin. Tadi aja hampir dijual mesin motor kami, untung cepat-cepat kakak ke kantor polisi hari ini. Dibilang orang polisi itu kan mesin motor itu kan ga ada yang punya. Langsung trus kubilang, cemana ga punya, orang yang kami kok yang punya. (si ibu berkata sambil meringis)

sasha: "… apa ga ada yang bisa dimintai tolong kak?"

ibu: " mana ada dek. Pak Kecik(istilah kepala desa di Aceh) udah saya mintai tolong.Udah kubilang, Tolonglah suami saya Pak.Mau dikemanakan keluarga kami ini pak?  Tapi pak Kecik bilang dia ga bisa bantu suami saya. Sama toke kayu itu pun udah saya mintai tolong. Pas hari pertama memang dia bilang supaya saya ga usah sedih, kalo dimintai 10 -15 juta pun dari polisi pasti saya bayar. Tapi sekarang udah hari keberapa dan toke kayu itu akhirnya lepas tangan. Pusing aku dek (si ibu mulai menangis… dan  sudah pasti gw pun ikut pusing a.k.a nahan nangis). Yang sakitnya lagi masa dibilangkan si toke itu kaya gini :’ udah, kalo ga tahan kawin aja lagi. (si ibu makin menjadi nangisnya). Saya balas, ‘ Bang, buat apa aku kawin lagi, suamiku masih ada di depan mata kok. Belum kukubur bang suamiku, belum bang. Bukan itu yang kucari tolong bang. Anakku ada tiga disini’

sasha: (makin pusing…… suasana makin gelap menjelang magrib).. ‘aduhh kak, si toke itu bilang kaya gitu???’

ibu: "itulah dek, (sesenggukan)… aku belum pernah nangis, baru hari inilah aku nangis karena udah ga sanggup kutahan lagi dek. Makanya tadi udah kubilang sama kalian, kakak ga sanggup berfikir. Maaf ya dek ya…"

sasha: "Kak, kami pun minta maaf, karena ga taunya kami masalah yang sedang kakak hadapi"

ibu: (diam)….menggendong anaknya ke dapur untuk dibuatkan susu.

akhirnya…gw mendatangi ibu itu dan memberinya uang selembaran…hati gw sakit banget denger ini semua. Ga semua yang ibu itu katakan gw tulis disini. When i hug her, i still feel her heart beat so fast…….

terkutuk semua kondisi ini!…

RE-type

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

This is my short hand writing on Feb 7th, 2006..

Hidup itu kadang aneh..semuanya bisa berjalan sangat cepat bahkan lebih cepat dari roller coaster. Jalanin suatu hubungan juga aneh kalau berlangsung begitu cepat. Apa memang cuman gw aja yang ngerasa gitu ya. Hmm, masih muda sebenarnya apa yang harus dilakukan ya supaya pas sudah tua akan ngerasa bahagia dengan tidak menyesali setiap kejadian apakah itu kesuksesan atau kegagalan di masa muda. Pilihan yang ada begitu luas terpampang di depan mata.

Gaya hidup metropolis sudah memasuki kehidupan gw pribadi. Yah, semisal kongkow2 di cafe, ngopi, makan balem bareng temen2, dugem etc… Tapi dengan semua keruwetan yang ada di Jakarta, kayaknya sih sah-sah aja melakukan hal itu semua untuk melepas semua kepenatan. Gw sendiri sekarang ngrokok yang sebenernya gw ga suka dan cape juga nih dada rasanya (megap2).

Kalau ngeliatin gaya hidup orang Jakarta, hmm pastilah konsumtif banget. Kadang2 gw berpikir kalau gw terus2an gini, bisa ‘hancur’ berantakkan kali yah. Kebayang kalau setiap hari orang harus terlihat prima dengan segala tuntutan masa kini, semisal punya aksesoris felice, pakaian brand Zara, sepatu dari Nine West or Jimmy Choo, tas LV, parfum Armani, credit card Citibank untuk hang out dan belanja2, member klub fitnes Amadeus, belum lagi hp GSM 1 dan trend terbaru kudu punya hp CDMA (biar bisa ngirit–ceritanya–). Huaahhh ampun deh

Padahal itu semua ga penting kala perasaan di hati ‘gundah gulana’,..la..la..la… Bukan perkara gampang untuk melihat, menjalani, memahami, berjuang di masa yang demikian. Tuntutan dari orang lain ataupun suatu komunitas tertentu kadang menjadi suatu beban buat kita. Tergantung sih dari perspektif mana kita menilai. Kalau mau ditilik kembali pertanyaan yang mungkin dengan definisi apa arti keberhasilan buat dia. Pastinya tidak semuanya disamartikan dalam bentuk materi.

Hubungan antar manusia itulah pondasi dari suatu keberhasilan hidup seseorang. Pondasi tersebut ialah kepercayaan. Banyak orang bilang dengan merusak kepercayaan yang sudah diberikan sekali sa ja, maka rasa percaya 100% itu pun telah pudar yang biasanya diikuti dengan kekhawatiran2 yang tentu saja merusak.

Kehidupan pertemanan, pekerjaan, percintaan akan mengalami pasang surut dengan hal mendasar tersebut. Bahu membahu untuk mencapai suatu mimpi atau cita mutlak diperlukan. Manusia tidak akan pernah berhenti berfikir. Bahkan orang yang terbelakang sekalipun gw rasa mampu untuk berpikir, tentunya dengan dunianya sendiri yang mungkin kita tidak mampu pahami. Jadi sebenarnya apakah kita sanggup untuk memahami atau kembali memberikan kepercayaan kita kembali pada seseorang manakala hal tersebut sudah disalahgunakan sekali waktu? Gw sendiri pernah mengalami hal tersebut dan mencoba memahami dengan tetap memberikan kepercayaan kembali kepada orang tersebut. Tapi toh ternyata hancur juga.

Dalam lingkungan pekerjaan/bisnis seseorang mampu memberikan kepercayaan kepada orang lain manakala ada rasa bahwa ia mampu untuk menjalankan suatu tugas. Anehnya sering terjadi hubungan pertemanan yang rusak karena kepercayaan yang disalahgunakan. Lalu apa sih yang sebenarnya harus dilakukan ?!

Untuk memupuk rasa kepercayaan dalam hubungan pertemanan memang butuh waktu. Sedari kecil kita sering menceritakan rahasia2 kecil kita kepada sahabat karib kira. Disitulah titik awal kita mlai mempercayakan hal ‘penting’ kepada orang yang bukan dari anggota akeluarga kita. Manakala kita dibihongi pasti rasa sakit menjalar di hati. Tapi bisa saja bila hal itu terjadi pada orang yang pragmatis, maka ia akan cenderung menyikapinya dengan santai.

"….. dont loose your faith if someone hurts you….."

Being Mature

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Dear guys,

i just got back from Medan. Too bad i losed my cellphone (again) when i was attending formative research workshop.[It's so silly to take my cell since it's only worth 100 thousand]

Man, if you want to know about this research, it’s so interesting. Me and my team performed really well perhaps its because we really make a good preparation for it. I gain lots of knowledge e.g. what kind of words shall we avoid when we do in depth interview, in which situation is better for us to grab the truth feeling from the respondent, what kind of noise shall occur during the focus group discussion or in-depth interview, how we can cooperate as a facilitator to fill the gap between each topic(if one faci facing difficulty to describe something) etc. Well, one of my co-worker said that the workshop is as same as one subject for one semester. So, no wonder we all got so tired on the last day. But yeah, it was fun though. We went to selected village thus we can exercise the knowledge we absorbed days before.

Whoa, it was quite challenging since my team have to run focus group discussion with 7 ladies with their kids. So there was always noise during the session. THey were quiet in the beginning but as the topic move on they bacame very active. It’s a bad thing, that my other co-worker keep calling me during the session. It’s about our preparation for another ‘important’ workshop which will be held in 30 May. I believe most of participants got annoyed for those thing. Well of course i couldnt refuse the calls since it’s the only place where i can get signal. Apparantly we werent stay at Mikie Holiday and in Grand Tiara Hotel instead. Hah!… bad services,no signal, u name it.  The most important thing is that they really have a critical respond towards the issues. I wonder will we get this kind of respond back in aceh…

Guess what, aku berenang tiap hari!… Well, most of the participants took their free time to sleep but not with me. It was fun, to hang out with all friends from ESP Medan and ESP Padang. now let me continue to share my thought…..

Being mature is t title in this post. Now i want to share why. Well, one of co-worker thinks that i’m not mature enough. Probably true (maybe).I was dissapointed this morning as i found out that there’s someone who thinks that i wasnt working for the past 4 days in Brastagi. That is not TRUE at ALL, God Knows what i had been doing there. God have mercy to this guy as he/she dont know what he/she did to me :-) I have to admit that i loose my control, i cried! Alas, i couldnt stand those kind of gossip. In that case, yep, maybe i’m not being mature. As for people who really dont do negative things, they wont care if there’s some misleading information around his/her surrounding. Somehow i dont realize this. It’s even turn into ‘hot’ fight. Bad image of someone occured already. Sorry  wont help anything-in the mean time. I feel sorry for me and others.

Entering working world is challenging. Now i began to realize that jealousy/fake info/competing among the team  or many even worst thing will occur in daily working life. Being open nor direct is not that easy. Take a deep breath is the first thing you should do. Well i did too actually, but i dont know why,i couldnt stand the burden this morning. Second you’ve to pray-which i didnt do it this morning,but i’ll do it  in next horrible situation [ha ha ha...noo laa, let's pray everytime ya...]. Last, talk directly to the person. This afternoon, i had hot and cold discussion. And as you all know, He always show the way when it’s the time. We shake hand and hug each other (you know, i will always need a hug if troubles comes) at the end and we’ll continue our normal day, starts tomorrow -hopefully-.

I feel really relieved now. Ooo God, nowadays i’m facing many obstacles.Perhaps its the message from the above since i’ve been absent from church like a months and that case indicates that i’m not being mature for forgetting my real ‘food’ for my body. It’s not bread or rice that must enter our body but it’s His word shall fulfill our heart so we wont be afraid if we face a problem in our lives.

  • Let me tell you something, this is not an easy job. I get a call on the radio, dispatch, it’s bad news. And it stinks. But this is my job and I love it. Because I want to do well - in this life and in this world, I want to do well. And I want to help people. And I might get twenty bad calls a day. But one time I can help someone and make a save - correct a wrong or right a situation - then I’m a happy cop. And as we move through this life we should try and do good. Do good… And if we can do that, and not hurt anyone else, well… then…
  • [taken from Magnolia - the movie-, Jim Kurring]

    hug.

    7:53 PM —- still in da office