todae's monday, and i want to write about what happened from the last friday until today.....
for some of you, you guys probably always like friday, as it is the last day goin to classes, doin chores, etc...
jumat ini, gua baru aja ngelewatin satu malam yang cukup khas, where i got to have the feeling that i'm alone for the whole night....
i went to the fair alone, enjoying myself, but something just doesn't felt right....
i was feeling lonely, eventhough there are lotsa people around me,
do you know that you can enjoy nature, especially when you are alone, when you are feeling lonely.... that it seemed everything around you is so beautiful...
(there's a phrase in the book Tuesday With Morrie, that describes exactly what i'm talking about)
I am supposed to be in class right now,....but i skipped it, for a simple reason, that i need to write down my feeling and thought that was overwhelming just now
I begin to feel how,... by making your own decision, gonna affect your future.....
Monday, March 14, 2005
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
What is EssenTial is Invisible to the Eye
"I am a fox," said the fox. "Come and play with me," proposed the little prince. "I am so unhappy." "I cannot play with you," the fox said. "I am not tamed."
"Ah! Please excuse me," said the little prince. But, after some thought, he added: "What does that mean, 'tame'?"
"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. It means to establish ties." "'To establish ties'?"
"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world..."
"I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me..."
"Nothing is perfect," sighed the fox. But he came back to his idea. "My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life . I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the colour of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat..."
The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time. "Please, tame me!" he said. "I want to, very much," the little prince replied. "But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand." "One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me..."
So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near... "Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." "It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you..." "Yes, that is so," said the fox. "But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. "Yes, that is so," said the fox. "Then it has done you no good at all!" "It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields." And then he added: "Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world. Then come back to say goodbye to me, and I will make you a present of a secret." ...
"Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." "What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember. "It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." "It is the time I have wasted for my rose..." said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember. "Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose..." "I am responsible for my rose," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exup
"He still had some doubts about the decision he had made. But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision."
The Alchemist - Paolo Coelho
Gotta read The Alchemist!!
"Ah! Please excuse me," said the little prince. But, after some thought, he added: "What does that mean, 'tame'?"
"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. It means to establish ties." "'To establish ties'?"
"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world..."
"I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me..."
"Nothing is perfect," sighed the fox. But he came back to his idea. "My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life . I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the colour of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat..."
The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time. "Please, tame me!" he said. "I want to, very much," the little prince replied. "But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand." "One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me..."
So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near... "Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." "It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you..." "Yes, that is so," said the fox. "But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. "Yes, that is so," said the fox. "Then it has done you no good at all!" "It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields." And then he added: "Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world. Then come back to say goodbye to me, and I will make you a present of a secret." ...
"Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." "What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember. "It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." "It is the time I have wasted for my rose..." said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember. "Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose..." "I am responsible for my rose," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exup
"He still had some doubts about the decision he had made. But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision."
The Alchemist - Paolo Coelho
Gotta read The Alchemist!!
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Taicung-Taipei in 6 and a half hours..>.<
sebenarnya gua pengen ke congli weekend lalu, tgl 25 Feb-28 Feb....
ditambah tgl 28 kan hari libur... ga tau sih libur apaan... yang penting liburrr...XD
Expect the unexpected,
pas mo berangkat, eh, si Jiacung malah Msn ke gua kalo dia mo ke taipei naek skuter.....
(sebenarnya dia juga mao ke taipei, tapi awalnya bukan naek skuter, tapi alat transportasi yang lebih lazim, bus misalnya)....
gua mah, tanggapin dia sebagai joke... gila apa... naek skuter 3 jam dari sini ke taipei...(awalnya temen si jiacung bilank kalo 60km/jam bisa sampe dalam 3 jam, dan parahnya dimakan mentah2. pdahal uda tau kalo pas hari jumat itu bakalan ada angin dingin yang mo lewat taiwan)....
sooo, dia ga jadi melanjutkan pikiran anehnya untuk sementara.....
Waktu lagi nunggu bus kota, 7.30-7.55 dia trus-trusan ngulangin kata2nya ke taipei naek motor...
so I said "dalam 5 menit uda jam 8, kalo ga ada bus yang lewat, kita ke taipei naek motor"
(Serendipity, fate, destiny, decision, semua membaur jadi satu, menyerahkan semuanya kepada nasib)...
and so it went. The Funny thing is that: pas jam 8, malah ada bus yang datang tapi dari arah yang berlawanan, dan untuk menunggu bus tersebut memutar jalan memerlukan waktu lebih dari 15 menit...)
Maka jadilah kita ke Taipei naek Skuter....=.=....2 crazy guys doing some crazy stuff in some unbelieveable weather condition)
Called my nephew to tell her that i'm not goin to congli, but instead to taipei...i know she'll be abit disappointed....but hey! she's there with her bro, so i guess it's gonna be fine...
start dari dorm cowo NCHU jam 8.30, kata Jiacung kita perlu ke Ching Sui dulu baru dari sana di hitung 3 jam ke taipei...(i mean WTF!....) ok then, mari kita melanjutkan perjalanan ini(hey I loveeee adventure!!!)....dari kota ke ching sui aja uda perlu 1 jam lebih. Memang sih, udara di dalam kota ga dingin2 banget.... jadi dari kota ke ching sui lancar2 aja...
Problem malah muncul waktu di chingsui...karena daerah chingsui yang berada di dataran tinggi, angin dan temperatur disini lebih parah... menyebabkan kita hanya bisa bergerak sekitar 40 - 50 km/jam...
1 pelajaran yang perlu diingat: selama perjalanan dari taicung ke taipei, kita mengambil jalan nomor 1, (tanda segitiga terbalik yang berwarna biru dengan nomor 1 di tengahnya), setiap berhadapan dengan simpang tiga, selalu ambil jalan yang tengah. Gua selalu milih yang kanan, tapi intuisi jiacung lebih bagus, dia selalu milih yang tengah, dan karena dia yang membawa motor, maka kita beruntung, jalan yang ditempuh selalu benar..)
dari chingsui ke hsincu, yaitu sekitar pertengahan jalan taicung-taipei, uda jam 12 lebih...berarti uda 3 jam lebih,... pantat sakit, pinggang mo patah, otot paha pegal2, ditambah ujan yang cukup lebat,... kita sebenarnya mau bermalam di hsincu, tapi karena ga ada t4 tidur, kamar congta penuh, agus dan shindy ga bisa dicari, well,.... i guess we gotta finish what we intended to do in the first place....maka kita melanjutkan perjalanan...
dari hsincu ke taipei perjalanan lebih cepat, sekitar 60-70 km/jam.. karena waktu yang memang udah semakin larut dan cuaca yang semakin dingin + gerimis...
sampe hsincuang (daerah pinggiran taipei) uda jam 3 lbh, akhirnya sampe ke kamar wenhua cs uda sekitar 3.30....
phiuh!!
I'll never gonna do that again!,....
on second thought, maybe i will... if time comes, and i need to fulfill my destiny...
I love the feeling of doing something that not so many people willing to do ....(saggitarian!)
that's why I don't refuse when Jiacung asked me to accompany him...^__^
eventhough i'd thought about all the sacrifice i'm gonna take, all that pain, and cold,.
but for me, it pays off, fully! to met those friends, to joke with them, having those confusion about where to go, what to eat, seeing them making jokes to others, and alot of other things....
and the most important, is the story i'm gonna tell to all the people who wants to hear the story of my life)
^__^..
nite all.... 02.10 (end of session)
ditambah tgl 28 kan hari libur... ga tau sih libur apaan... yang penting liburrr...XD
Expect the unexpected,
pas mo berangkat, eh, si Jiacung malah Msn ke gua kalo dia mo ke taipei naek skuter.....
(sebenarnya dia juga mao ke taipei, tapi awalnya bukan naek skuter, tapi alat transportasi yang lebih lazim, bus misalnya)....
gua mah, tanggapin dia sebagai joke... gila apa... naek skuter 3 jam dari sini ke taipei...(awalnya temen si jiacung bilank kalo 60km/jam bisa sampe dalam 3 jam, dan parahnya dimakan mentah2. pdahal uda tau kalo pas hari jumat itu bakalan ada angin dingin yang mo lewat taiwan)....
sooo, dia ga jadi melanjutkan pikiran anehnya untuk sementara.....
Waktu lagi nunggu bus kota, 7.30-7.55 dia trus-trusan ngulangin kata2nya ke taipei naek motor...
so I said "dalam 5 menit uda jam 8, kalo ga ada bus yang lewat, kita ke taipei naek motor"
(Serendipity, fate, destiny, decision, semua membaur jadi satu, menyerahkan semuanya kepada nasib)...
and so it went. The Funny thing is that: pas jam 8, malah ada bus yang datang tapi dari arah yang berlawanan, dan untuk menunggu bus tersebut memutar jalan memerlukan waktu lebih dari 15 menit...)
Maka jadilah kita ke Taipei naek Skuter....=.=....2 crazy guys doing some crazy stuff in some unbelieveable weather condition)
Called my nephew to tell her that i'm not goin to congli, but instead to taipei...i know she'll be abit disappointed....but hey! she's there with her bro, so i guess it's gonna be fine...
start dari dorm cowo NCHU jam 8.30, kata Jiacung kita perlu ke Ching Sui dulu baru dari sana di hitung 3 jam ke taipei...(i mean WTF!....) ok then, mari kita melanjutkan perjalanan ini(hey I loveeee adventure!!!)....dari kota ke ching sui aja uda perlu 1 jam lebih. Memang sih, udara di dalam kota ga dingin2 banget.... jadi dari kota ke ching sui lancar2 aja...
Problem malah muncul waktu di chingsui...karena daerah chingsui yang berada di dataran tinggi, angin dan temperatur disini lebih parah... menyebabkan kita hanya bisa bergerak sekitar 40 - 50 km/jam...
1 pelajaran yang perlu diingat: selama perjalanan dari taicung ke taipei, kita mengambil jalan nomor 1, (tanda segitiga terbalik yang berwarna biru dengan nomor 1 di tengahnya), setiap berhadapan dengan simpang tiga, selalu ambil jalan yang tengah. Gua selalu milih yang kanan, tapi intuisi jiacung lebih bagus, dia selalu milih yang tengah, dan karena dia yang membawa motor, maka kita beruntung, jalan yang ditempuh selalu benar..)
dari chingsui ke hsincu, yaitu sekitar pertengahan jalan taicung-taipei, uda jam 12 lebih...berarti uda 3 jam lebih,... pantat sakit, pinggang mo patah, otot paha pegal2, ditambah ujan yang cukup lebat,... kita sebenarnya mau bermalam di hsincu, tapi karena ga ada t4 tidur, kamar congta penuh, agus dan shindy ga bisa dicari, well,.... i guess we gotta finish what we intended to do in the first place....maka kita melanjutkan perjalanan...
dari hsincu ke taipei perjalanan lebih cepat, sekitar 60-70 km/jam.. karena waktu yang memang udah semakin larut dan cuaca yang semakin dingin + gerimis...
sampe hsincuang (daerah pinggiran taipei) uda jam 3 lbh, akhirnya sampe ke kamar wenhua cs uda sekitar 3.30....
phiuh!!
I'll never gonna do that again!,....
on second thought, maybe i will... if time comes, and i need to fulfill my destiny...
I love the feeling of doing something that not so many people willing to do ....(saggitarian!)
that's why I don't refuse when Jiacung asked me to accompany him...^__^
eventhough i'd thought about all the sacrifice i'm gonna take, all that pain, and cold,.
but for me, it pays off, fully! to met those friends, to joke with them, having those confusion about where to go, what to eat, seeing them making jokes to others, and alot of other things....
and the most important, is the story i'm gonna tell to all the people who wants to hear the story of my life)
^__^..
nite all.... 02.10 (end of session)
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