Sabtu, 25 Februari 2012
A letter from Alex Supertramp
Andaikan
Pernah ga sih, kepikiran kalo semua yang udah kita laluin selama ini, semua yang kita punya, yang udah kita alamin, itu terjadi karena sebuah “kebetulan” atau emang udah “direncanain” ??
Pertanyaan itu malah buat kita jadi berandai2. kayak gue sekarang, dengan segala hal yang gue miliki dan alamin sekarang, gue jadi ngebayangin dan terbentuk berbagai macam “andaikan”
Andaikan gue ga masuk smanti, gue pasti ga akan kenal temen2 sekelas gue di X4…andaikan gue ga masuk X4, gue ga akan kenal sama mawar…andaikan gue ga kenal sama mawar, mungkin gue ga akan masuk SR…andaikan gue ga masuk SR gue ga akan kenal sama orang2 yang sekarang jadi bagian terpenting dalam hidup gue…andaikan gue ga masuk SR, gue ga akan suka naik gunung, backpacking, susur pantai, caving, rafting, dll…gue ga akan suka pulang malem dari sekolah atau pergi2an tiap liburan, Cuma buat ngumpul sama anak2 SR…kalo gue ga masuk SR, mungkin kehidupan SMA gue SUCKs…
Andaikan gue ga masuk SR, gue ga akan kenal sama dia…andaikan gue ga kenal sama dia, yah mungkin emang gue ga akan “sakit” kayak gini, tapi seenggaknya gue udah ngalamin petualang paling indah dalam hidup gue, bareng dia. Kalo gue ga kenal sama dia, gue ga akan banyak tau dan tertarik dengan adventure, dengan gunung…kalo gue ga kenal sama dia, mungkin gue ga pernah ngerasain cinta yang tulus.
Andaikan gue ga pernah ikutan naik gunung merbabu, gue ga akan kenal sama rombongan bang amin yang baik banget…andaikan gue ga pernah ikut ke anak gunung Krakatau, gue ga akan nemuin orang2 yang super baik dan gokil yang sekarang malah jadi sahabat gue, yang kehadirannya gue rindukan…andaikan gue ga pernah ikut ke medan, gue ga akan kenal sama mba gernis yang sayang banget sama gue…andaikan gue ga pernah ikut penanaman mangrove, gue ga akan kenal sama teh fafa, yang perhatian dan baik banget sama gue…
Andaikan gue ga masuk IPB, gue ga akan kenal temen2 TPB gue, mereka yang banyak ngisi kenangan tahun pertama kuliah gue dengan tawa. Andaikan gue ga masuk IPb gue ga akan kenal sama temen2 SIL. Gue juga ga akan pernah ikut ngajar jadi guru di sekolah alam dan dapet banyak ade2 baru. Gue ga akan ketemu adit, yang kehadirannya sempet menjadi yang terpenting buat gue. Gue ga akan satu kontrakan sama nia, mawar, ulfah dan depe yang sekarang jadi sister buat gue.
Intinya? Andaikan gue kehilangan satu momen dalam hidup gue di masa lalu, satu momen keciil aja…gue udah kehilangan banyak kenangan indah. Gue akan kehilangan banyak pengalaman dan cerita. Gue akan kehilangan kesempatan untuk kenalan dengan orang2 baru, yang ternyata akan jadi orang terpenting buat gue. Gue akan kehilangan kesempatan untuk belajar budaya baru, untuk melihat dunia.
Jadi, selagi bisa, selagi ada kesempatan, dan selagi ada waktu, jangan pernah berkata “tidak” untuk sesuatu yang baru. Emang berat pada awalnya, emang berat untuk melangkah pertama kali. Tapi, There’s always a first time for everything. Jadi jangan pernah takut buat nyoba, keluarlah dari comfort zone lu, karena di luar
Sabtu, 18 Februari 2012
SONGBIRD
For you, there’ll be no more crying,
For you, the sun will be shining,
And I feel that when I’m with you,
It’s alright, I know it’s right
To you, I’ll give the world
to you, I’ll never be cold
‘Cause I feel that when I’m with you,
It’s alright, I know it’s right.
And the songbirds are singing,
Like they know the score,
And I love you, I love you, I love you,
Like never before.
And I wish you all the love in the world,
But most of all, I wish it from myself.
And the songbirds keep singing,
Like they know the score,
And I love you, I love you, I love you,
Like never before, like never before.
Rabu, 15 Februari 2012
The 50 Most Inspiring Travel Quotes Of All Time
1. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
3. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
4. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
5. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell
6. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
7. “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb
8. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes
9. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” –John Steinbeck
10. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
11. “Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley
12. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson
13. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
14. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
15. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
16″A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
17. “When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” – D. H. Lawrence
18. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
19. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
20. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
21. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
22. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru
23. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
24. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
25. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
27. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
28. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
29. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
30. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
31. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot
32. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
33. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
34. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
35. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
36. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
37. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou
38. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” –Elizabeth Drew
39. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe”……Anatole France
40. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
41. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
42. “I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – Lillian Smith
43. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
44. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark
45. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
46. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux
47. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton
48. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman
49. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni
50. “Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins
Kamis, 09 Februari 2012
I'll turn 20 this year...
Anak? ketika gue udah berumur 20 taun nanti, tentunya gue udah jadi dewasa, luar dan dalemnya tentunya. ketika seseorang mulai beranjak 20 tahun, pasti tanggungannya udah beda, pikirannya juga udah beda jadi otomatis cara berpikirnya juga harus berubah. ketika mulai beranjak 20 tahun, gue mulai menjadi wanita, yang dipikirin juga udah banyak. wisuda? kerja? nikah?
Selasa, 07 Februari 2012
TRIP TO ANAK KRAKATAU (3)
Sekitar jam 3 sore kita cabut naik kapal balik lagi ke canti. Gue duduk di sisi kapal bareng fahria, bang iqbal, bang jihad, bang angga sama bang amin, sedangkan yang lainnya pada molor. Terus kita nemuin penyu hijau, kereeen banget haha.
Jam 5an kita udah sampe canti, langsung naik angkot ke pelabuhan. Gue seangkot sama geng cewek. Kita ngobrol2 ramenya udah kayak di pasar deh. Pas nyampe pelabuhan, para ibu2 pada beli oleh2 pisang coklat.
Sekitar jam 7an kita udah di kapal dan berangkat menuju merak. Gue, fahria, bang angga, bang iqbal sma bang satria main kartu, poker. Hahah puas gue mainnya. Biasanya gue main poker sama anak2 SR kalah mulu, sekarang gue menang teruus haha senangnya.
Jam 10 akhirnya kita sampe di merak, siap2 buat pisah karena mulai pergi sendiri2. rasanya sedih juga ternyata pas pisah haha. Kita pada peluk2an, salaman…semoga gue masih bisa ketemu mereka lagi, terlalu sayang rasanya kalo kebersamaan kita Cuma sampe situ aja hehe.
Gue akhirnya pamit juga bareng bang jihad, sempet diledek2in sama anak2 yang lain gara2 kita cabut berdua haha. Sampe di bis menuju
Terus pas kenek bisnya nagih uang tiket, pas gue ngeluarin dompet, bang jihad udah bayar duluan, pas gue mau bayar, kata bang jihad gausah, katanya uangnya buat jalan2 berikutnya aja, terus biar uangnya dia juga berkah gitu, gilaaa ini orang baik paraah, udah gitu ganteng pula siaaal -,- haha
Sepanjang jalan, kita banyak ngobrol, pas banget dari kaca pemandangannya full moon gitu, ah kerenlah. Bang jihad banyak cerita soal pengalamannya naik gunung ciremai, pas trip ke bromo, pas dia daftar jd TNI AU, pas di masih bandel di smk penerbangan gitu. Ternyata dia lulusan kuliah tahun 2007 sekarng kerja di dinas perhubungan dalam negeri haha.
Abis itu gue mulai ngantuk, jadi kita tidur..
Kita turun di ciawi. Terus naik angkot 01, diangkot kita ngobrol2 lagi. Bang jihad ngajakin jalan2 lagi kapan2, asiiik haha. Pas turun di elos, udah ga ada angkot lagi, jadinya kita naik ojek ke terminal. Pas banget ada angkot 03. pas berhenti, bang jihad mau langsung naik ojek sampe jambu 2, jadi kita pisah disitu. Berat rasanya pisah sama bang jihad…pas salaman aja ngelepasin tangannya lama banget, sampe bang jihad berangkat baru dilepasin tangannya haha.
Gue akhirnya lanjut naik ankgor 03 sampe recis, terus naik 07 di dunkin donut menuju air mancur. Pas nyampe air mancur udah sepii banget, pas liat jam ternyata udah jam 3 pagi haha. Untungnya ada angkot 12 yang lewat, kosong gitu. Terus gue naik sampe warung legok, terus lanjut naik ojek sampe rumah, alhamdlillah sampe rumah juga. Naympe rumah langsung tepar di kasur, ga sempet ganti baju apalagi mandi, Cuma sms bang jihad buat ngasih tau kabar aja, terus molor haha.
Well, that’s it, pengalaman explore