steps forward,,

below is my speech in the second senior rover scout creativity @ UNNES, Semarang (06-10th nOvember, 2008)..

hope U enjoy it and we can take tha step together,,

especially for all my fellow scout friends,,

Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh,,

Salam Pramuka!

Singing,,

Clapping,,

Camp fire,,

Those words have close meaning to Indonesian Scout Movement, even many people nowadays thought those words at the first time when they hear about Indonesian Scout Movement, moreover many people think that those words are the meaning of being boy or girl scout in Indonesia.

We, as the member of Indonesian Scout Movement, know clearly that being a Scout member is not only about singing, clapping, and campfire. We know Scout has vary activities and values that taught the member how to deal with life, but how they will (people from non-scout society) know about us?? About Indonesian Scout Movement, so they will not use their close-minded view when they interact with us., and this is what this speech is all about. About How we, as senior rover, take part in gaining Scout reputation and return the Great name of Indonesian Scout Movement.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Couple of months ago, I got an opportunity to take part in an international forum for youth, where I could make many friends from many different countries. In that forum, when I introduced my self as a member of Indonesian Scout Movement there were two kinds of response came from my fellows. First, came from my foreign friends, mostly they said to me that Scout in their country had done many good deeds and always reviewed positively in their countries.

Ladies and Gentleman, I think each and everyone of u ever watched Hollywood or other western movies, but maybe only a few people of us here that ever realize that sometimes in some movies, when they want to call a “straight” boy, they call it with a phrase “he’s a boy scout”. Have you ever heard that?? I think u should find it,, haha,,

Yuph,,

Back to my introduction in the forum, then come responses from my fellow Indonesian participants. They said “you are girl scout ?? Are there a Scout Movement in university ?? Are you kidding me ?? What things are you people doing then ?? Still doing those singing and clapping stuffs ?? I can’t believe you, why do you still in that KIND organization in an era like this ?? Isn’t that scout things rather old fashioned these days ??”

Hm.. what an ironic, but we ourselves cannot pretend like we’re blind that we don’t see things like my experience following our steps wherever we go. Our beloved Indonesian Scout Movement now isn’t as popular as it was years ago. Scout Movement mostly reviewed negatively by the non-scout society, especially from our fellow university or college students, or universally known as YOUNG PEOPLE or YOUTH, an agent of change.

Ladies and gentleman, I thinks it is a crucial problem to consider right now.

And for all my beloved friends,, don’t you hear that this problem is knocking our heart?? Knock knock,, hello rover,, do you have solutions?? Knok knock.. don’t you hear that??

Yah.. being in a senior rover phase, means that we’re getting ourselves into a crucial position of the Scout Movement. As youth, it’s our time to think out of the box and initiating ways to help Indonesian Scout Movement recover its good name and once again consider as a great organization in this digital era.

Hereby I suggest some ways to begin an act.

But of course, ladies and gentleman, these things I will explain only comes from my own mind, and I do sure that each and everyone of you has many thoughts pops up in your mind now regarding to these issues, so maybe we can compile it after this event and I know for sure that It will be great.

Back to my mind,, hehe

What I want to suggest are first, making a social work that worth for our society. I think this one isn’t unfamiliar for us, since scout always done such things, but what I want to bold here is about publication. We, as a Scout movement’s member, especially as senior rover, continually making an activity like “free of charge health care, build a mosques or churches, making trainings, and so on, but, although what we’ve done make a great impact to society, only those who involved knows that those things are done by Indonesian Scout Movement. We need publication so world will know we’ve done great things and they begin to review their bad thoughts about us.

The second is about how to attract the non-scout people into our activity. In could be something like organizing an event together, or inviting them to our event, of course in an open event that can be followed by everyone, not only the scout members. In organizing that event, we show to the world that we also can organize an open event, non only Scout event as great as other organization have done, or even better than them. The activities I mean in this second idea are not a social work anymore, but other profit-oriented activities, professional, that possibly us funding our own agenda later. We address our event into more educated people, held a prestigious event, shows that we, as a rover, is also following the thus kind of future living.

And the last, ladies and gentleman, but for me, it is the most important step to encounter this issues is behaved. People judges something by its look, and sometime over generalized something. Like what they will do toward Scout Movement, if they see someone wearing Scout Uniform doing bad things, they will perceived it as if all of the member will doing the same bad things. This perception will become a prejudice in their mind and if they share to others, it will be a prejudice among them. Prejudice helps people to judge something or someone. So, only because one man doing bad things wearing scout uniform, many people, even without their or our awareness will form a prejudice that all Scout members are like that man. It is too bad for the reputation.

The key is, ladies and gentleman, especially for all my beloved rover friends here, begin good things from ourselves, reflect the values that Scout has taught us everywhere, then people will see us as a good man, and they will consider our Scout Movement as a Great Organization, as great as ever.

One message from my heart to each and every one of you, especially my fellows senior rover friends, remember that change begins with us, be the change that you want to see.

Good day for everyone,,

Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh,,

Salam Pramuka!

Belajar dari permainan Halma

Masih ingat permainan halma?? Atau Chinese Checkers in English??
Permainan yang bertujuan memindahkan sekelompok pion (atau apa yah nyebutnya??) menuju seberang dan yang paling cepat berhasil memindahkannya lah yang menjadi pemenang.

Halma jelas merupakan sebuah permainan yang memerlukan strategi, meskipun kebanyakan pemainnya adalah anak-anak, tapi masih akan sangat menaraik bagi para orang dewasa untuk memainkannya, karena strategi merupakan sebuah keharusan untuk dimiliki, dan diasah oleh semua golongan usia (pembenaran karena masih sering memainkannya, hehe :-p ). Dan jelas, strategi berteman akrab dengan logika. Permainan halma adalah cara asyik untuk membuat kita berlatih membuat strategi-strategi dan logika berpikir kita. Halma membuat kita bepikir tapi dengan cara yang mengasyikkan. Think Smart,, Think Fun!!

Dari langkah-langkah yang diambil seseorang dalam bermain halma, sebenarnya merefleksikan sedikit mengenai bagaimana seseorang memecahkan masalah dalam hidupnya, sehingga sedikit banyak, dapat diraba logika berpikir mereka.

Ada beberapa tipe orang yang dapat dikelompokkan berdasarkan permainan halma mereka, tentu saja ini hanya pengelompokan berdasarkan pengalaman dan pemikiran ta dalam sepak terjang ta di dunia per-halma-an,,

Yang pertama : orang yang cepat beradaptasi, kemampuan beradaptasi mereka sangat baik,, atau dengan kata lain, orang yang berpikir dengan cepat,, Think Smart,, Think Fast!! Dalam bermain halma, orang ini akan sangat pintar memanfaatkan keadaan, apapun langkah lawan akan tetap menjadi langkah menguntungkan bagi mereka. Mereka tidak memikirkan strategi secara penuh dan sempurna di awal, sehingga langkah-langkah yang diambil pun tidak teratur dan sering malah menghancurkan strategi lawan, sehingga orang dengan tipe ini hampir akan selalu menjadi pemenang dalam permainan halma. Dalam dunia nyata, menurut ta, kelompok ini merupakan tipe “orang lapangan.”

Tipe kedua : Ta menyebutnya tipe “organisatoris sejati,” karena dalam permainan halmanya, tipe kedua ini memperhitungkan setiap langkahnya dan mempunyai strategi yang cukup matang dan tanpa sadar menjadi seorang perfeksionis. Namun kelemahannya, agak sulit beradaptasi jika langkah-langkah yang telah disusun dengan penuh perhitungan dikacaukan atau bahkan ditutup oleh lawannya. Dalam dunia nyata, tipe ini termasuk “orang pemikir” dan dalam permainan halma, tipe ini akan bersaing ketat dengan tipe I meskipun yang lebih sering memenangkan permainan adalah tipe I, namun disbanding tipe III maka tipe ini akan menang dengan mudah, menurut tipe ini, Think Smart,, Think Detail!!

Tipe ketiga : tipe apa adanya,, Mereka punya strategi seadanya dan tidak pula terlalu tanggap terhadap peluang yang ada, sehingga alam bermain, langkah-langkahnya mudah di tebak dan dipatahkan oleh lawan dan akan dikalahkan dengan mudah jika bertemu lawan dari tipe I dan II. Dalam dunia nyata, orang tipe ini juga terlihat sangat biasa dan hidup mereka pada umumnya datar-datar saja. Orang dengan tipe ini lebih cenderung untuk menjalani hidup apa adanya dan dengan cara yang simple pula, prinsipnya, Think Smart,, Think as it is!!

Lebih lanjut lagi, jika dideskripsikan lebih dalam, maka orang dengan tipe I lebih berorientasi keluar dimana ia bisa dengan cepat akrab dengan orang lain dan mempunyai emosi yang terbuka [mirip extrovert menurut teori Jung]. Sedangkan tipe II mempunyai logika berpikir yang berpusat pada dirinya sehingga kadang tidak memperhatikan sekitar dan melewatkan sebuah peluang karenanya. Orang tipe ini mempunyai emosi tertutup dan sulit memulai sesuatu yang baru. Orientasi orang tipe II adalah ke dalam,, namun jika ia sudah mempunyai sebuah tujuan, ia akan memvisualisasikan ke dalam pikirannya cara mencapainya dengan detail dan menjadi semangat, meski kadang menjadi terlalu focus. Bagaimana dengan tipe III?? Yah,, orangnya sangat apa adanya dan terkadang malah menjadi terkesan malas berusaha, padahal, prinsip mereka, hiduplah seperti air, mengalir mengikuti alur dan arus,,

Udah ah…. Nanti malah harus ganti judul jadi Psikologi Halma

psst.. i’m d 2nd type,, hoho

spending two days in the hospital,,

whuaa,,

actually being in the hospital isn’t bad at all,,

beside the aching throat that keep me awake all night, still there’re many good things happen,,

but i’ll post it later,, coz my head is still a little dizzy,,

i’m sorry all,, for not updating this so long,,

T_Ta

after all

why do Love very hard to understood??

why people keep going to hide behind their feeling??

 

never mind what’s happening in d heaRt,,

thought there’s always a second chance,,

or even hOping to make tomorrow’s move,,

 

and finally regret the love that they didn’t aware before??

or even, the love that ignored just for the self-praise??

 

is it cost that much??

 

coz it does hurt in the end,,

pain that we never can ignore,,

 

life’s never be simple anymore,,

 

pathetic,,

an email frOm a Friend

couple weeks ago,, i gOt an email from one of mY Philippines friend, name Cecille Estoque, we met in the IYF 2008,,

the email made me to start looking something beyond the only eye-seeing, and I found that there always amazing things happen behind that,, and we can also realize that everything has a lesson to learn for us, a free one,,

enjoy it, here’s the email :

A mouse looked through the crack

 

in the wall to see the farmer

and his wife open a package.

 

What food might this contain?’

the mouse wondered – - -

he was devastated to discover

it was a mousetrap.

 

 

 

Retreating to the farmyard,

the mouse proclaimed the warning :

 

There is a mousetrap in the house!

There is a mousetrap in the house!’

 

 

 

 

The chicken clucked and scratched,

raised her head and said,

‘Mr.Mouse, I can tell this is a grave

concern to you, but it is of no consequence

to me. I cannot be bothered by it.’

 

 

The mouse turned to the pig and told him,

 

‘There is a mousetrap in the house!

There is a mousetrap in the house!’

 

 

The pig sympathized, but said,

‘I am so very sorry, Mr.Mouse,

but there is nothing I can do about it

but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers.’

 

 

 

 

The mouse turned to the cow and said,

 

‘There is a mousetrap in the house!

There is a mousetrap in the house!’

 

 

The cow said, ‘Wow, Mr. Mouse.

I’m sorry for you,

but it’s no skin off my nose.’

 

 

So, the mouse returned to the house,

head down and dejected,

to face the farmer’s mousetrap . . alone.

 

That very night a sound was heard

throughout the house — like the sound

of a mousetrap catching its prey.

 

 

The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught.

In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.

 

 

The snake bit the farmer’s wife.

 

 

 

The farmer rushed her to the hospital,

and she returned home with a fever.

 

 

Everyone knows you treat a fever

with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer

took his hatchet to the farmyard

for the soup’s main ingredient.

 

 

But his wife’s sickness continued,

so friends and neighbors came to sit

with her around the clock.

 

To feed them,

the farmer butchered the  pig.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The farmer’s wife did not get well;

she died.

 

 

 

 

 

So many people came for her funeral,

the farmer had the cow slaughtered to

provide enough meat for all of them.

 

The mouse looked upon it all from his

crack in the wall with great sadness.

 

 

So, the next time you hear someone is

facing a problem and think it doesn’t

concern you, remember —-

 

when one of us is threatened,

we are all at risk.

 

We are all involved in this

journey called life.

We must keep an eye out for

one another and make an extra effort

to encourage one another.

 

 

 

SEND THIS TO EVERYONE WHO

HAS EVER HELPED YOU OUT

AND LET THEM KNOW HOW

IMPORTANT THEY ARE.

 

 

 

 

REMEMBER. . . . . .

 

 

EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON’S TAPESTRY;

 

OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER

FOR A REASON.

 

 

 

 

One of the best things to hold onto

in this world is a FRIEND.

…dan arem-arem pun masuk Garuda

sebuah pengalaman yang sangat menggelitik hati,,

kemarin ta ke Jakarta nak Garuda, nah kan masih daoat makanan tuw kalau naik Garuda, kuenya unik,, mix antara selera Indonesia dengan western appetite,, isi kuenya mirip arem-arem ma satu nya lagi sejenis danish cake gitu,, (and of course with cHocolate!! lol)..

kejadian diatas membuat kita melihta sebuah bukti nyata tentang mempromosikan kebudayaan Indonesia,, karena sudah jelas sekali yang naik Garuda itu kan juga banyak non-Indonesian,, makanan Juga merupakan unsur yang penting dari unsur kebudayaankan?? (akan sedikit ta bahas di artikel berikutnya,,)

dari jakarta ke Bandung naik mobil,,

lewat jalan tol,,

anehnya, disini juga terlihat kebudayaan Indonesia yang sangatsangat menyebalkan,,

mungkin ini bukan budaya asli, tapi tapi ini seperti kebiasaan buruk yang sudah membudaya,,

hemhem,, Yang ta lihat itu terjadi di depan gerbang tol, jangan tanya tol mana karena ini terjadi di hampir setiap gerbang tol yang memberikan karcis kertas,,

setelah mendapat karcis itu, supir travel yang ta tumpangi langsung membuang sampah kertas itu tak lama setelah ia bergerak dari gerbang tersebut, yaaa di jalan tol itu,,

awalnya ta kira cuma dia aja yang nekad gitu, ternyata setelah ta lihat di gerbang tol selanjutnya, sanat banyak sekali sampah kertas itu bergentayangan,, PFIUH!!

di saat para aktivis sedang beroerang untuk mengkampanyekan hidup sehat untuk mengurangi efek Global Warming dan berdamai dengan alam, Indonesian malah masih buang sampah sembarangan yang berawal dari buang kertas cumacuma,,

kertas = penebangan hutan,, hemhem,,

sebuah ironi,,

ketika ada orgorg yg berjuang matimatian mengenalkan sisi indahnya Indonesia kepada dunia, tapi masyarakat malah tidak berusaha memperbaiki diri,,

sistem kah yang salah??

tampaknya jika mencari siapa yang salah hanya akan menambah dosa dan pusing di kepala, jadi mendingan kita mencari solusi,, 

 

kalau untuk masalah ini, sebenarnya kita bisa memulainya dari mengkomputerisasi sistem jalan raya terutama tol kita, degan komputer bisa menghemat kertaskan??

bagaimana dengan solusi yang lain??

hemhem,,

butuh masukan niy,,

diskusi nYoooookk,,

I name it FLAME

going through the darkness,,

finding something that really passioning,,

keep running and don’t turning back,,

running,,

running,,

faster,,

faster,,

until u find that u’ll never be there,,

unless U make a fire,,

flaming under ur desire,,

 

 

going through the blankness,,

with the eyes shut and the ears hear nothing,,

walking inside the path and beyond the line which is black,,

screaming,,

yelling,,

rolling like a monster,,

rubbing like a gangster,,

Never though that u’ll ever back there,,

unLess U wanna Make another fire,,

RUnning inside of your FLAMing desire,,

d**n of the day,,

untuk bertahan di sana ternyata harus meninggaLkan hati dalam peti tertutup yang terkunci,,

lalu tenggelamkan ke laut lepas yang penuh alligator dan shark,,

nihil,,

seharusnya dari awal sudah sadar dan keluar dari permainan dan niat yang tidak lurus itu,,

kini,,

belajarlah dan ambillah pelajaran,,

kenali situasi mu,,

jangan campurkan dengan kehidupan pribadimu dan JANGAT TERLALU BERUSAHA!!

….jangan pernah menaruh harapan kepada m****a,, yaitu ******* ***

*on behaLf of the eviL side oF me!

it’s enough, i’m s**k of it

uLah si MonsTer Laba-Laba *uHOh*

suatu malam, lagilagi Ta terkena insomnia yang sudah menjadi sahabat dekat saiah,, seperti yang terjadi malam ini, bedanya, malam ini ta menceritakan kejadian malam itu (so what?? Tau deeh,,)

nah malam itu ta memilih untuk sekedar memuaskan hasrat iseng mengganggu malammalam temanteman saiah yang hobi mendengkur itu,,

akhirnya terforwardlah sms dr seorang teman SD yang bernama Umie *thanks for her, for sending this spider monster!! (perhatian, nama dan kejadian dalam sepanjang cerita ini adalah nyata, memang sama dengan yang di phonebook ta, dan bukan kebetulan belaka, hanya EYD dan katakata diubah sediikit untuk keperluan mempermudah pembaca yang tercinta *kalau ada yang baca *snorred!! *sLurrp *Uhoh)

 

 

isi sms : “mungkin ini sms terakhir dari ku, maaf atas semua salahku, setiap pertemuan pasti ada perpisahannya, doakan aku agar diberi kekuatan dan selalu dilindunginya, aku pengen cerita, tapi ku yakin kamu gak akan percaya. Ukirlah namaku selalu di hatimu, selamat tinggal!! Karena aku mesti ke Jepang buat Bantu Ultramen melawan monster laba-laba”

 

sending message…………………………………………………

(*panjang karena banyak)

………………………………………message sent!!

Dan berdatanganlah sms balasan yang berisi beragam macam respon spontan..

 

 

dOw :

“hatihati di jalan y, kalau udah sampai Jepang tisam sama *** ama *** y” (sensor karena mengandung nama artis Jepang,, lagi malas jadi promotor artis niy \^0^/)

 

 

‘nda :

“Kurang ajar!! Stress aq!! Sumpah! Sampai ke bagian ultramanny, hahahaha.. kurang ajar!!”

 

 

a’bandel :

“?????”

 

 

de Grat :

“hiiiiiih

 

(meringis)

 

yang ini aku forward ke PA mu!”

*PA means Pemangku Adat Racana TBTD Pramuka UGM yang biasanya menerima pengaduan tentang pelanggaran adat, sayangnya ta sudah duluan mengirim sms ini padanya, begini responny…

 

 

PendampingQ *=PA :

“ada ada aj naak Q niy ^_^a”

*kasian adit udah saiah dahului, khukhukhu

 

 

K’demi : nggak balas sms.. tapi tindakan langsung…

Toktoktok *pintu kamar di ketuk

“adek mabuuukk, hahahaha” katanya (dengan berpakaian mukena)

 

 

b’ron :

hehe.. bilang ma kak demi abang bentar lagi pulang

*ta balas dengan “jangan lupa oleholeh”, tapi ternyata sampai di rumah bilangnya “maaf dek bacanya baru dirumah” whuaaaa,, menderita kelaparan malammalam

 

 

addiTh :

“tong…tong..ada aj”

 

 

i :

“iya, sampaikan salam ku pada doraemon dan nobita yah”

 

 

ky :

“*blablabla* (pakai bahasa jepang, entahlah apa maksudnya itu, susah nulisnya juga…)”

dan.. zzzzzzz.. akhirnya ta tertidur

 

 

bangun kesianganlah keesokan paginya…

lihat HP, ada 4 sms masuk,,

*ternyata monster labalaba masih belum bisa dikalahkan, buktinya masih banyak korbannya yang berjatuhan

 

 

Didy :

“hahaha,, tata lucu banget, apa kabar mba’?”

 

 

tun :

“tata… kirain apaan.. mita kan udah serius bacanya,, hahaha”

 

 

‘dy :

“dasar anak kecil!! Masih aja percaya ma monster laba-laba”

 

 

naah.. yang terakhir ini lebih aneh lagi akibat ulahnya si monster labalaba,,

ky :

“beneran tuh ta, mau ke jepang?”

 

ta balas :

“ya iyalaaah…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ya iyalah bohong”

 

*tapi sayangnya beliau tidak menekan panah ke bawah di hapenya sampai sms mencapai batas akhirnya, terbukti karena ia membalas…

 

ky :

“iya? Mau ngapai ta? Ngelanjutin S2?”

 

*gantian ta yang bingung…

 

Ta :

“baca ampe abislah smsnya”

 

Ky :

“yang mana? Gak mungkin beneran mw lawan monster labalaba kan ta?!!”

 

*ta pingsan….

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