Sunday, December 10, 2006

The Aftermath

So after planting trees in cengkareng and seeing monkeys in ragunan, the next morning (Sunday) I went back to puncak. We had a break night party on Sunday night and it reminded me a lot of Asean Dance. It was pretty much like it, actually. Except I didn’t have to sell flowers while couples were slow-dancing like I had to during the 2004 Asean Dance. All the “big shots” in indo debating world were there and gosh I felt like the rookie in that Vietnam war movie who didn’t know shit and died the second the Vietcong started firing. But all in all it was fun, we (the Los) got to blow the confetti and there was this really nice band calld nunungcs (they’re a college band but I hope they’d go pro soon... v.v. entertaining) and I took photos with lots of people I probably won’t see again for a very long time (very few of them stay in Jakarta). I’m definitely gg 2 miss them.

I’ll particularly miss all the LOs... especially rain and teddy and rosaline and joe who’d helped me sell all the EDS T-shirts on Sunday and Monday (we managed to sell around 70 of them and there were only like 3 tshirts left...). My money-hungry senior made a public announcement, “People, please remember to buy the T-shirt in Banteng 3 (my room) thru SPG astari”, once during the break night party and another time the next morning. And feeling that the publication was still inadequate, the LOs patrol around the area in the elephant-shaped safari car announcing to any debater we passed, “come and buy the tshirts at banteng3...” So you can imagine how my living room was turned into a makeshift retail store with swarms of high school students looking to buy T-Shirts, stickers, and whatever it is we’re selling. It was like Mangga Dua in Jakarta, or Lucky Plaza in Singapore, or Petaling Street in KL, what with Teddy selling in Singlish and Joe selling in his Indian-English accent and Rosaline busy calling her “children” to come and buy the tees... it was practically a flea market.

(Hmmh. I just got a disturbing call but nevermind...)

On Monday morning, before I was selling tees I was finishing up my political science homework and trying really hard to concentrate while many disturbances occurred in the premises (not that I’m not happy... even though my roommate told me afterwards that he’s v.v.religious, and that’s not good since we’re on different wavelengths). Later on during the day, my senior-cum-IVED coach dhika told me that whatever happens in the debating world stays in the debating world (creepy green-mile-sounding statement) and she warned me (as iil repeated yesterday too – and added that debating “memandulkan hidup”) that eventually I would be the same, too – having one life in HI, and another separate one in EDS. I wonder if that’ll happen. I don’t mind if I do, others seem to be managing fine.

Although I hope I’ll stay being “a good person”, like someone said I was (I couldn’t stop grinning moronically when he said that, so much that he must’ve changed his opinion – problem is, I don’t think I am a good person. He’d be v. disappointed, that’s why I now feel uneasy around him). I guess we’ll see.

I went back home Monday night, anxious to finish pending homework leading up to exams and cleaning all the shit that’d been piling up grace a mon absence. Things like FISIP UI in High School, One-Stop Section, OIS, KK, CCF (still haven’t prepared the country presentation – where am I supposed to learn a traditional dance?!?), GIC (I finally started Book 3, meaning less hiragana/katakana and MORE kanji... arrrrghhh), my sociology presentation, TKHI (It finished last night, after three months it’s finally over!!! We got yelled at and everything but after I reached home I was very happy. I wonder why? heehee), my film review, my mpkt homework, my anthropology review, and other things making my life the insane labyrinth it is now.

That’s why the last two weeks were dead hectic. Tomorrow after the political science exam am going to a few high schools in Jakarta to inform and prep them on our event (fisip ui in high school) and then on Thursday (tentatively) will look for extra funding for OSS (one stop section, it’s an event-organizing workshop that we’re organizing) by going on this tv show called celebrity jam. Then next Sunday am going to help out in the christmas celebration organized by my faculty. But the main gig this week is EXAMS.

To thwart stress and fellow anxieties we must therefore try to focus on brighter things in life. Like, for example, someone’s coming back this december. Yay...

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Trip to Puncak (Loving It)

Karena request dari jek entry ini pake bahasa indooo (T_T) (ntar brad pitt kalo baca gak ngerti dong???)

Akhirnya gw bisa OL lagi... Setelah 2 hari terdampar di Hotel Safari, Cisarua, Puncak yang warnetnya pake tarif luar negri (20,000 per jam (T_T) ), dan kamar mandinya banyak siput. Tapi seru siy... lumayan sambil liburan nambah2 pengalaman dan sekaligus mengorek informasi tentang upcoming IVED n other debating comps.

Kamis gue dateng siang2 (udah pake bolos sosio.. ternyata tirza telpon dan bilang "eh datengnya ga jadi harus pagi2, jam 4 sore juga gapapa") dan ngebantuin ngurusin registrasi peserta (sampe jam stengah 6 malem... dan smua orang ngira gue angkatan 2003 - do I look that old???) trus dinner n icebreaking. Gw sekamar sama icha (dya tim indonesia tahun 2001 yg dikirim dbat ke south africa), rain, yunita, n rosaline. Mereka semua alumni ISDC taun lalu. Pertama kali gw ngerasa blur banget karena ga tau apa2 tentang ISDC - gue bahkan gak disini taun lalu.. mana tau sih - tapi after a while seru juga. The pple r nice. Ada Icha yg rame bgt (kmaren kita nonton film di HBO yg maen Liam Neeson n Frances McDormand ttg ilmuwan yg mukanya kebakar - cheesy dan ga jelas banget, awalnya kita seru nge-"rebutt" dan ngomentarin dengan sadis tiap adegan, tapi lama-lama cuma bisa geleng-geleng kepala, literally cape d), Teddy yg waktu ke WSDC di Inggris taun lalu sempet dikalahin sama tim Singapur yang isinya junior2 gw di AC arts fac. (ada gayle goh dari ahblue... dunia ini begitu kecil... mungkin pas astrid WSDC lawannya howard yah???), Nick Long yang jadi instructor (ada yang nyesel tuh gak dateng :P), Franz yang sumpah gue gak tahan (spidol gw abis digigitin... ewww), Fajri yg ternyata alumni labs dan telah menyuplai gue dengan gosip2 tentang anak2 labs, orang2 dari ACT, dan anak2 SMA yg lucu2 dari 33 propinsi di sluruh Indonesia... (temen gw ada yg ngefans sama salah satu delegasi dari Papua... sayangnya jarak umur yang menghambat membuatnya harus cukup puas dengan mengelus2 nametagnya saja...)

Tempatnya enak. Udaranya seger adem banget. Tapi tempat2 eventnya saling berjauhan dan berbentuk bungalow2 dan pendopo2 jadi mesti olahraga jalan bolak-balik dari satu tempat ke tempat laennya.. capek.. but still, seru jg sih. Stelah gue ngeliat ISDC gw ngerasa kalo Founders' Trophy kmaren SANGAT AMATIR. Huhuhuhu it's my fault. Next year harus lebi profesional!

Hari ini bangun pagi-pagi buta jam lima (dingin gila) stelah malemnya nonton film gak penting di HBO bareng my roomies di hotel. Karena hari ini harus TKHI (opspek gw.. tinggal 2 minggu lagi... akhir perjuangan sudah dekattt) jam stengah enam brangkat ke FISIP... trus naik bus ke cengkareng nanem2 pohon gitu... then langsung ke ragunan ngeliatin monyet2. Opspek paling hura2 d. Then CCF... Besok pagi2 jam lima ke cisarua lagi. Untungnya Teddy mau nge-cover tugas gw hari ini... my life's saved! Kalo hari ini gw gak dateng TKHI maka sia-sialah perjuangan gw selama 12 minggu nongkrong2 di SBAL dengan gak jelasnya minta tandatangan senior sambil wawancara alias ngomong ngalor ngidul yang sok2an basa-basi demi ngisi data senior... "pohonnya rindang ya... kak , IP pertamanya berapa?" ato pake jurusnya TB yang sok2an nebak2 zodiak demi tau tanggal lahir senior (T_T).

Tapi salut deh sama HI n FISIP yang TKHI dan Sarasehannya (opspek2 itu smua lah) "memanusiawikan manusia" (istilahnya pak komar waktu sarasehan) dan gak pake omel2an gak jelas sama sekali... dan gw seneng bisa kenal sama senior2 yang ajaib2 (mengandung konotasi baik maupun buruk). Ada yang nanyanya sok serius "apa arti nasionalisme bagi kalian?" (???) ato senior 96 yg ngasi pertanyaan aneh kaya' "coba kaitkan teori relativitas einstein dgn teori dialektik historiknya marx" (whuddahell) tapi tetep ada juga yang pantang jaim dan langsung nanya dengan lugas "eh 2006 gosipnya apa aja nih?" (baru tau ternyata anak HI UI banci gosip smuahhh - gw jg ikut ktularan... huehuehue).

Besok pasti capek banget d... dan rasanya miris kalo mengingat menur lagi jadi fashionista blanja2 di bandung (menemukan panggilan hidup tuh) atau cikon yg kata msn messagenya abis "a small dose of retail therapy" (R u sure it's SMALL???). Yah gue sih ngarepin oleh2nya aja... Gw pgn liburan jugaaa. I want to SHOPPPPP. Tasia kapan jadinya kita go on our As-If-We-Were-In-Singapore Shopping Trip???

Trus, jumat kmaren tiba2 ada telpon "mbak, kami dari GIC, ada kelas baru buka, jadi nerusin buku 3 nggak?" Karena 10% tertarik dan 90% rasa bersalah tidak menyelesaikan les jepang akhirnya gw stuju utk nerusin blajar jpang... hiks hiks. Untungnya temen sekamar di kosan gw is practically japanese (snacknya aja kue beras jepang bukan tango atau timtam like normal people... hehehe :P)jadi bisa latian2 ngomong lah... yasudalah ya.

Udah jam stengah 2 pagi. Must sleeppp. Buh Byee.