Saturday, April 23, 2016

Wisata Taman dalam Air

Grüner See, secara harfiah berarti “Danau Hijau”, adalah sebuah danau di Styria, Austria, dekat kota Tragöß (Tragoss), yang terletak di kaki pegunungan Hochschwab yang tertutup salju. Selama musim dingin, danau ini hanya sedalam 1-2 meter dan daerah sekitarnya digunakan sebagai taman desa. Saat musim dingin inilah sekitar danau menjadi situs favorit bagi pejalan kaki.
Danau mendapat pewarnaan hijau yang khas, dan nama, dari rumput dan dedaunan di bawahnya, dan berkat salju segar yang mencair, air danau menjadi dingin dan jernih. Suhu danau musim panas sekitar 4 sampai 8°C, namun danau menjadi populer di kalangan penyelam yang dapat mengamati padang rumput hijau di zona tepi danau khususnya pada bulan Juni ketika level air danau berada pada titik tertinggi. Rumput alpine dan bunga padang rumput terlihat mekar penuh di bawah air. Bahkan kita dapat melihat bangku-bangku, jembatan dan jalan setapaknya.
Sekitar bulan Juli, danau mulai surut dan saat kembali ke musim dingin, danau ini juga kembali ke ukuran aslinya dan taman yang terungkap kembali digunakan lagi oleh para pejalan kaki.

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Monday, November 30, 2015

P.A.S.S.I.O.N



 

It feels good to finally sit back on my desk, face to face with my laptop’s screen and pressing the keyboard’s buttons to write what’s on mind, since the last time I remember I did it was about couple months ago. Well, if I sum it up what happened in the last couple months, I can say “everything’s going well”, I was just quite busy to decide what I’ll have to do for a living so that I couldn’t be having bonding-time as much as before to just chitchat with my laptop. But now I can, and here we are.
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     I just turned twenty three in thirty days ago. Sunday, November 1st 2015. If you ask me, was I really excited and happy welcoming that day like anybody else!? Did I get a surprise cake with a flaming candle number 23 on it!? I’d say NO, I was not, and that’s not what I expected to, tho. To be honest, my birthday was going so ordinary, nothing special and even me myself, didn’t feel so special either. Just some felicitations and wishes people sent me on social media (you know, current people’s style). All I did in my birthday was just staying in my room, killing the boredom by watching movie all day long till drop. And what I felt back then was confused, scared, stressed wrapped up in one package. Stressed because I still haven’t found any job at the time. I’m scared for what I have and haven’t done in my 22’s and also scared of what’s ahead of me and what step I’ll have to take next. And, I’m confused for all the plan I have to make, which I haven’t made yet till now – Damn it, I’m getting more absurd for this life.
     I gotta say, making plans is really difficult and would be getting more difficult if you don’t know what you want to do, or what your passion. And that’s my problem. Speaking of passion, it literally confuses me. It’s a kind of word where people put a lot of definitions on, and many people argue about. What is the meaning of passion? What is my passion? I can’t answer. I tried to search for its meaning on dictionary, it says passion is something that we really want to do. But in other hand, I’m not sure by that meaning. Well, if that’s what the meaning of passion so, how about this : I really do wanted to climb mountains since I was in elementary school – which btw not accomplished yet by now. Well, since I REALLY wanted to do it (emphasis on “really”) so, can we call it a passion”? Is that “my passion”!? Mountain climbing is my passion, seriously!? No way, it can’t be. I didn’t stop, I put that questions online and one of friends of mine named ALFI BAGUS P answered. He said “passion is something that you enjoy and you’re happy with it”. Honestly, I still doubt it somehow, I enjoy doing certain things and I’m happy with it. Yet, I’m not sure it can be my passion.
     I feel guilty remembering how I once lectured my friend about passion, telling him that everyone must have at least one passion in this life and there’s no way people not have it unless they are a zombie. But now I take back my words and trying to ask myself, what’s my passion? Yet ironically, I can’t find the answer. Well, perhaps I am a zombie -.- my friend’s name is ALMASUL. Fyi, he used to be a big guy and girls said he was cute because he always make fun on everything. But now, who knows he’s made a change in his life. He’s not a big guy and not cute anymore (girl says) but, he become wiser than he used to be (sorry, I didn’t mean to judge people physically). If we see his track records, he’s doing well on everything after all, I meant he’s a happy guy, he means doing everything he did and more importantly he never complain at all about his life (that’s what I saw). Then, what shocks me the most is when he did suddenly tell me that he’s being confused about his life-goals, his passion and he said he doesn’t even have any of them. How come a fine people like him end up to be confused about his life, his passion and doesn’t have any goals? So, what about me who always be doubtful and complain every seconds of my life!? What would my life be like in the future if I always be that way!? Well, at least now I know, I shouldn’t have lectured my friend, Masul, about life and passion where I actually know nothing about it about still doubt it.

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To be continued



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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

On behalf of   T I M E

On behalf of T I M E


Dear Readers.

I still couldn’t stand the pain until now by how fast the time flies. And hell, as I always mentioned, it’s getting faster as I grow up. If I may flashback couple years ago when I was a kid, when I couldn’t sleep and wide-awake all night, the only thing I waited for was the morning to come up. But it took so long like years, clock was ticking so slowly at that time, it felt like “morning never come up”. I’d woke my dad who slept next to me and cried.
“Dad, I can’t sleep at all, what should I do?!”
My dad said “just try to close your eyes. Empty your mind, and just think about the places you feel peaceful in, then you’d be sleepy”.
I tried to do what my dad said, it was hard at first because I had many things on my mind and I couldn’t just let them go. But I kept trying and then I finally fell asleep, and the morning eventually came up.
Yet, now is the opposite. I would never cry to wait for the morning to come up ever again in my life. I would never have to wait that long cause morning always comes faster than it used to. Even right when I just close my eyes to sleep, morning comes already. Yes, they come that fast. Clock is ticking so quick by now, I don’t know why, it’s probably just because technology’s improvement. They created a damn super power battery, they double-up its energy so that it makes the hands of clock rotating as quickly as the plane’s propeller. Screw ‘em! 24 hours in a day is no longer enough for me. I want it some more.
Maybe for those who followed my updates in this blog will notice that I complained about the time way too much. I couldn’t stop blaming the time over and over again for what happened to me. I just can’t get over it. I know it’s kinda unfair and selfish. But the thing is, I don’t know who else to blame. Blaming myself? Blaming my friends? No, I don’t think so. Blaming some things would be better instead of blaming some ones after all.
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For your information, in the last Thursday, August 20th 2015, I defended my thesis and I’ve passed. Now I have already had two additional letters behind my name. Arif Alfarisi, ST (Bachelor of Engineering). If you guys wonder how I feel back then? I literally couldn’t be happier. You know, all the hard works is finally paid off. Who wouldn’t be happy for that? No ones I guess. As one of my friends who had been doing her thesis defend, when we were at the canteen two days before my thesis defend, said that:
“Thesis defend is like –sorry to say– holding on the fart. Your stomach is getting full-with-air more everyday but you can’t fart until the day of your thesis defend comes. And when it does come, it’s like a turning point. The moment your professor announced that you’ve passed, at that time, all the air in your stomach will be released, you’ll big-fart and you’ll feel free and happy. That’s how thesis defend works”.
Actually, I find it really funny by how she compered thesis defend with fart, plus, she said it loud in canteen where other people was having lunch there. LOL. But yes, what she said was totally true. It was exactly what I felt. The seconds after my professor announced that I’ve been passing the test, I couldn’t stop smiling and I couldn’t stop thanking God for getting me thru that day. And I BIG-FARTED. I got no loads on my shoulder at all. It’s all gone. I grabbed my phone and then called my parents. Yes, I was happy and free. Even though thesis defend is actually not the end, there’s still another steps that have to be carried out then, not to mention “job seeking”, but at least it does feel like the end. Trust me! And it makes us feeling happy and free. That’s the only matter.
Incidentally, there were a few reasons that make me happy at that time. First, of course because I’ve eventually passed the test after the roller-caster things I’ve been through. Second, because I was not alone. I got people I could share my jittery with when I was about to get inside the test-room. I got people I could share my gladness with when I stepped out the door of the test-room. And I even got people I could ask to, whether the tie or the shoes that I used fit with my clothes and stuff. Yeah, that’s whom we called friends, best friends, close friends, pals, or whatever. The ones that always give a nudge and put their support on you in happiness or sickness. Or, the ones who always be with you, ups and downs. Because that’s what a real friends are for.
Honestly, I was not a pals-believer kind of guy before. I mean, I used to believe in best friends stuff and I do have best friends in high school and also childhood best friends, which now we barely talk to each other. Yet, since I went to college, freshman year, sophomore year, and even junior year, I did not share that believe anymore. It might because I couldn’t find someone I could deeply talk to and someone I could really trust to, and also someone who gets my way. So, it means I did not have best friends. Somehow I was just fine that way. I could be friend to anyone and I could go with everyone as well. But the thing that I couldn’t do was that if I got any problems, I didn’t have people I could share it to. I had to keep it by my own. Yes, that’s the suck-est thing you’d get if you don’t have any best friends.
Then, I made a move in senior year. I started to get close to some people which now I call them best friends. I don’t remember what makes me close to them, where, and when, and I don’t even know what kind of thing that makes me believe about the best friends stuff again. Time passed just the way they are. The thing I distinctly remember was that I just go with the flow unnoticeably and then I already find myself being a part of them. But, personally, I really thank them for welcoming me to be a part of their wolf-packs. I thank them for trying to be cool with my odd kind of habits. I feel blessed, seriously! Okay, here’s their names: Cindo, Ridwan, Fauzan, Rheza, Damar, Haris.
Recently, I’ve been reading a book “the perks of being a wallflower” cuz I have nothing to do. And I also watched a series movie “friends”. I quoted a words form it. It says “sometimes, things don’t work out the way you thought they should”. Well, it’s a well-said, and I couldn’t agree more because I got experience on it by now. I thought, things are going to be fine after thesis-defend. I thought I could do my thesis-revision right away, but the fact was that I get abandoned by my professor cuz he left to Malaysia for a week. I thought I could get my completion document (SKL) right away, but the fact was that I got a problem and I have to wait a few days for it. And I thought I do not have to pay for the 9th semester tuition, but the fact is that I have to.  Yes indeed, all the thing are beyond my expectation. They don’t work out the way I thought they would and they should. But what can I say? It is what it is. It has meant to be. I could do nothing.
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Well, actually that’s not what I’m attempting to tell you. I mean, that’s not the point of this writing. What I’m gonna tell you is still about the time. Blaming the time to be exact.
I can’t believe now I’ve graduated from college. I can’t believe I am now a bachelor of engineering. It’s just like a blink of an eye, or a glimpse. They’re just huge for me. 4 years feel like nothing. You know, it feels like last week I just graduated from high school, and got accepted in college, majoring Civil and Environmental Engineering. I could feel that excitement still. I still could remember how cool I was, I thought, being a freshman. Met some new friends, culture shock, diversity of languages, and a freedom. Gosh, I missed that moment. 
Now what I can do is just letting the time take it all away from us, from me in particular. Well, that’s why I seem to be hate time so much. They took all the good memories I used to have and they give me something that left unspoken, is a future. Passing the final test (thesis defend) mean a lot to me. Yes, like A LOT. Because it forces me to think what kind of plans I would run first, what kind of steps I am gonna take next. And what kind of actions I have to do. I’m pretty scared of the future. Well I know it actually doesn’t have to be scary. One of friends once tagged me in an instagram’s quote photo, it said “the man who scared of the future is the man who have no any vision of life”. Well, I got it, and I agreed with it. The thing is, I don’t think I’m scared of the future because of that. I have any vision of life. I really do. And I’ve even settled it up long before I went to college. On that vision I picture myself being a success men, have a beautiful wife, smart kids, stay in a mansion and live my life peacefully. But, in other hand I don’t know exactly what makes me really freak out of the future. Perhaps, because I just love living in the moment. But later, I’m gonna try to figure it out. 
Well, maybe that’s all I could tell you. I just hope the best for me and for everyone. I just hope I could figure out everything that I haven’t know yet. And I hope I could make all of my vision do come true someday. and would not be scared of the future anymore, because I shouldn't have. The gist of this writing is, on behalf of time, I hate them.
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Saturday, August 8, 2015

Fate and Regret

Fate and Regret

Today’s August 7th, 2015. The last time I posted something on my Blog is about two months ago, June 7th, 2015. Well, that’s such a quite long period, and you know, there actually bunch of things (emphasis on BUNCH) I should’ve done. But the fact is I’ve done nothing but spending-a-lot-of-money in these last two months. Yet in other side, two months is also not a quite long period for plenty of people, to pass their thesis defense and get two additional letters behind their names. In my department for instance, there are 30 of 70 person whom have already passed the final test (thesis defend) and soon will graduate (Damn it, it hurts me so bad). 

Then, what the hell happen to me? Well, good question. You’ll know! 

I finished my thesis last week, and you know, the moment I gave it up to my professor to get corrected, he told me something that sound like a death to me. My prof said he wouldn’t be in town for a while –for a month actually- cuz he has some kind of duties to do out there. It means, I can’t carry out my thesis defense this month, which means I can’t graduate asap neither. Sound like a death, doesn’t it? Yes. It really drives me crazy. 

I remember when I asked my friends two months ago Why are you guys like “in such a rush” to pass the college? Don’t we still have much time left before the new semester began? – Now I literally have to take those questions back, cuz it’s like a backfire on me. I was like stuck in the clock and can’t move forward. What can I say? I’ve finished my thesis but unfortunately I can’t defend it without my professor. He’s the controller. He’s the key whether I can carry on or not.   

Everything feels like getting rough more every day, and I’m getting more stressful as well since then and I can’t even laugh (just some forcing-laughter and faking-smile I did when friends try to cheer me up). Most of the days I spent regretting myself. I regret myself for asking my friends those questions. I regret myself for taking a long break after Seminar and for everything I haven’t done, back then. Nothing I can do but regret and feeling guilty, that’s all. The more I tried to flashback, the more regret and guilty I felt. I feel bad for my parent, too. I told them I must have finished my study by the end of this month, but apparently I’ll let them down. I haven’t even told them yet the truth cuz I am afraid. But I know sooner or later they would find out. 

Occasionally I force myself to think, to get everything straight and to find the way out. Then, I ended up with this words “it will happen when it happens”. Well, if I don’t get it wrong I could say that’s a fate. I would eventually graduate when I graduate, and I would be happy when I’m happy. Kinda make sense tho. But somehow I’m wondering, is there a fine line between regret and fate? I sometimes regret for having Prof Asep to become my supervisor, but in other hand I have to accept it, because he has meant to become my supervisor. 

And, What if I had not taken a break after seminar and doing my thesis right away? What if I had been spending my time to kick its ass, day and night and never stop?
Regret would answer these question with it’s too late, no “what if” in regret, cuz it all your fault but fate's answer would be – if you could do that you might not have been confused like this, but don’t worry it’s fated to be

Regret just makes me be more suppressed, yet the opposite fate calms me down. So, if I have to choose between regret and fate, I would definitely choose fate, because fate totally makes sense to me -at least for now. Everything has meant to be, everything has fated to be. 30 people have already passed the test because it meant to be, 40 people haven’t yet passed the test because it meant to be, and I can’t defend my thesis due to my professor is not gonna be around for a month because it also meant to be. So, there’s nothing I should be regret for. God might’ve set me into this way, and I’m sure something good is yet to come cuz it’s only a matter of the time. So, I better wait instead. 

Every ones have their own way, and their own fate. It all has been set by God a long time ago. So, never regret for everything that happened to you, cuz it has meant to be!

Next month new semester would soon be began, and if I can’t get the completion documents by the end of this month, I would still have to pay the tuition fee. Well, I don't expect this before, and I never planned it to be this way, that’s just an intervention of a fate, so I can do nothing, just hoping for the best, for me and for my friends who always be around supporting me, and also another 40 people who haven't passed the final test.
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