Selasa, 20 April 2010

I dream to be... (future plans)

If you are asking me about my future plan, actually, I have not thought seriously about that. My future plans change as my mood changes. I am still adolescent which characteristic is moody, then I only have two plans which can survive until now. My future plans which can survive amid my moody feeling are Novelist and Singer.

When reading becomes my hobby, I am thinking to be a novelist. “I am exactly going to be a novelist” I said at that time. However, I have several problems, such as when I am writing my story, I am stuck. I cannot finish it, I have no idea to end it but when I have an idea, I have no time to continue writing. I have so many tasks to be done on time, which means I need to stop writing my own stories. When my dream is about to be a novelist, I feel incompetence and hopeless. It will be more hopeless because I write my story in English. If I want my story be published, here in Indonesia, I need to work twice to translate in Indonesian. As I said, I want to be a novelist and I do not want to give up. I am still struggling to make and finish my stories. I do not care what people will say, all that I care about is my progress in writing my stories.

Singing. I love singing so much and dream to be a singer. Nevertheless, I want to be singer as I want, have a free soul. I hate to be bent with schedule of performing something. If professional singer is like that, I will reject to be professional singer. Singing is my expression of what I feel. I do practice to sing and I do singing in my church as one of the singers. Then if professional singer has so many rules, I will not be a professional singer. I will sing when I want to sing.

Both singer and novelist are my future plans but as I said before, it still can be changed. I am moody person but not a type of person who will not try to make my dream come true. I do practice and make my dream come true in my life. If I cannot publish my stories as an example, I still can be a blog writer. There is nothing impossible; just do I brave enough to keep my dream on track? And my answer is Yes, I try to keep it on track as I can.

Letters (habitual activity)

Everybody has habitual activities and so do I. I have many habits but I do not consciously count it as habit. I can recognize some habits of mine but my family or friends tell some others. Here, I would like to share one of my habitual activities.

My habitual activities are not far from books. I love reading books starting from novel, comic, newspaper till my textbook -okay for this one I have to-. Marley everyday I read book or words. Usually I spend one or two hours to read novel. Right now, I am reading Thirst from Christopher Pike. This novel is very interesting because Pike uses India mythology background, something new for me. I am familiar with Greek, Europe, Scandinavia or Eastern mythology, except India. Here, once I found that this mythology is interesting I cannot stop reading.

Reading is my hobby but after being my hobby for more than six years, it becomes my habit. I cannot stop reading and I am sure you can't. Everyday we read many words, like caution words etc. For me, reading is something that makes my brain alive. This is my imagination's food, I cannot have wild or crazy or unusual imagination if I lack of words that I can explore from my habit, reading.

Habit is made from something we do continuously. Reading is something that I do continuously -sometimes forcefully- and now reading is my habit. Making reading as my habit is not that easy but I love this activity. Sometimes I get bored with reading but unconsciously I read something even though I get bored with that. Then,I would like to ask you all, do have a hobby that becomes your habit??

Rabu, 14 April 2010

EWD ?!

It was a hot sunny day when I heard about EWD and of course with reluctant feeling. I was absolutely sure with my feeling because I had two initiations already and unfortunately I must have another initiation, yes that was right, EWD!

The first thing came up through my mind was that EWD was boring. I asked why must I have two initiations, no, three! I did not like be wrapped on something like this but I was there, in the hall with feeling very tired. I was not a type of person who likes new circumstance. Honestly I preferred to be alone in my own world. There, in pre-EWD time I joined half-hearted and had no interest.

September 7th…
I woke up at 6.00 a.m. and had prepared myself to fight for two more days at Wonogondang. We were going to go there by trucks which were ready. After arriving in Wonogondang we needed to build our tent. Then after building the tent, we have several games until twilight came. When the sun was gone and the appearance of dark came up, we were going to have ‘jurit malam’. It was a cold night with the biting wind blew through my chest and I hated to be there. The ‘Jurit malam’ went on and it was tiring me a lot but yeah at least my heart was beating because of some scary stories –I loved it-.

I had spent around 2 days with one night staying there and all that I could say, it was nice, quite interesting but just not quite right for me. If I had a change to repeat it, I would say no, big no.