25 February, 2012

The Secret of Happiness

Hello guys! Sorry making you wait for the next post! Bahahah I was just -really- busy for posting anything recently. And, the last Tuesday, I faced an oral exam. There were some options to choose, such as speech, story telling, product presentation and news casting, but finally I chose to tell a story. And on this post, I'll show ya the story that I told my friends in my class about. This story was written by Paulo Coelho in his book, The Alchemist *if I'm not mistaken*. Then, here it is!


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A certain shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happiness from the wisest man in the world. The lad wandered through the desert for 40 days, and finally came upon a beautiful castle, high atop a mountain. It was there that the wise man lived. 

Rather than finding a saintly man, though, our hero, on entering the main room of the castle, saw a hive of activity: tradesmen came and went, people were conversing in the corners, a small orchestra was playing soft music, and there was a table covered with platters of the most delicious food in that part of the world. The wise man conversed with everyone, and the boy had to wait for two hours before it was his turn to be given the man's attention. 

The wise man listened attentively to the boy's explanation of why he had come, but told him that he didn't have time just then to explain the secret of happiness. He suggested that the boy look around the palace and return in two hours. 

"Meanwhile, I want to ask you to do something", said the wise man, handing the boy a teaspoon that held two drops of oil. "As you wander around, carry this spoon with you without allowing the oil to spill". 

The boy began climbing and descending the many stairways of the palace, keeping his eyes fixed on the spoon. After two hours, he returned to the room where the wise man was. 

"Well", asked the wise man, "Did you see the Persian tapestries that are hanging in my dining hall? Did you see the garden that it took the master gardener ten years to create? Did you notice the beautiful parchments in my library?" 

The boy was embarrassed, and confessed that he had observed nothing. His only concern had been not to spill the oil that the wise man had entrusted to him. 

"Then go back and observe the marvels of my world", said the wise man. "You cannot trust a man if you don't know his house". 

Relieved, the boy picked up the spoon and returned to his exploration of the palace, this time observing all of the works of art on the ceilings and the walls.

He saw the gardens, the mountains all around him, the beauty of the flowers, and the taste with which everything had been selected. Upon returning to the wise man, he related in detail everything he had seen. 

"But where are the drops of oil I entrusted to you?" asked the wise man. Looking down at the spoon he held, the boy saw that the oil was gone. 

"Well, there is only one piece of advice I can give you", said the wisest of wise men. "The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon"

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A main lesson that we can get from the story is... To feel all the beauty, excitement and enjoyment that we meet as long as we're alive, but never to forget all obligations that we've got to do. Because 'happy' is about having your work done without letting yourself get stuck into enormous pain :p Yap, sometimes some people press themselves too much at work but some are even having too much fun.

14 February, 2012

Valentine

umm helo. Lanjut aja yaa karna ini gue buatnya udah sore, pas banget lagi magrib dan numpang di leptopnya @afifadhl dan @rryands di samping gue pas gue ngetik ini. Oke ini ga penting.


Postingan kali ini sih sesuai dengan judulnya yaa. Iya, valentine. Gue agak kurang suka entah sama hari ini ._. abis gimana yaa.. pasti nanti banyak makhluk makhluk pasang-pasangan kayak sendal baru beli trus sok sok nyangkut tangannya. Ini sumpah buat gue random banget. Dan gue ga ngiri. Ini cuma penegasan aja. Klarifikasi mungkin.


Gue mau ikutan sih valentine ini.. tapi sama siapaaaa?!! Ga penting kali yah.. Kayaknya..
Oke daripada makin random tulisannya karna ini leptop boleh rebutan sama arry, gue langsung aja to the point yaa wakak -____-


Ini dia... Nyesek..


oke yaa ini masih jarak jauh.. coba liat yang deketnya..

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APA APAAN INIII?!!!

Gue ambil foto ini waktu gue ada acara sama ekskul gue, EC di Monas, sekitar 2 minggu lalu dan seperti lo semua bisa liat, mereka rangkulan dan ngeliatin pemandangan taman monas. Ini buat gue..... sabar.

Oke ini beneran ga enak bikin quick posting gini, dan dengan suasana hati yang ga enak..
Semoga dua orang ini..... putus tahan lama. MUAHAUAH Ga jomblo Ga keren. titik.

12 February, 2012

Muahauah

Hello guys. Sumpah yaa di awalnya gue ga ada ide banget mau ngeposting apa. Akhir-akhir ini tugas makin numpuk, trus otomatis hasrat buat liburan juga makin gede, yegak sih? Nah itu dia sebabnya gue lama ga posting di official blog gue ini. Untungnya, gue kalo liburan juga ga muluk-muluk banget, ga harus ada kentang goreng, popcorn atau slurpee, yang jujur kalo menurut gue dan temen temen gue, itu semua mahal tapi cuma jadi jigong doang. Yaa jadi gue @afifadhl @rryands @zoellchaniago sama @henreeew lebih suka pilih mie ayam deket rumah ijul atau bakso deket rumah apip. Tapi sayangnya henry jarang ikut kita, karna rumahnya sih yang lumayan jauh dibanding rumah gue dan yang laen.

Jadi contoh ceritanya itu gue kan abis makan bakso sama apip dan arry pas banget kemaren malem, nah pas kita di jalan mau balik ke rumah apip ternyata ujan, yaudah deh tuh kita ngestuck di rumah apip sampe jam 9 malem lewat. Ini sumpah ga enak banget di rumah orang sampe malem gitu, tapi untungnya yekan di rumah apip masih rame, ga ngerti ngomongin apa tapi tante-tantenya apip lagi pada ngerumpi, so otomatis gue sama arry ga terlalu merasa ganggu banget.

Yaudah deh tuh akhirnya jam 9 lewat 15an gue sama arry akhirnya bener-bener paksain pulang jam segitu juga walau masih ujan. Nah dianterin dah tuh sama apip, naek motor bertiga. Dan itu tuh rasanya bener-bener... Dingin. Gue sama apip sampe menggigil wakak untung yekan arry pake jaket jadi dia yang gue suruh buat nyetir aja daripada orang menggigil yang nyetir bisa belok ke rumah orang kan bahahah.

Yaudah deh tuh begitu kira-kira ceritanya. Pertama ke rumah arry dulu numpang neduh sebentar sekalian ilangin menggigilnya, trus ga lama baru ke rumah gue. Intinya, kemaren itu sumpah ga terlupakan banget, baru kali ini gue yang namanya menggigil bener-bener sampe kaki gue ikutan menggigil di jalanan, dan sempet sempetnya ketawa-tawa di jalan.

Sebenernya kemarennya lagi, pas hari Jum'at katanya mereka juga ngumpul di rumah ijul, tapi lagi lagi henry ga ikut. Sayangnya setiap selasa dan jum'at gue ada access jadi beneran ga bisa ikut mereka. Pas gue lagi otw balik dari access mereka sih sempet ngajak gue, tapi yaa mau gimana lagi, gue yang emang bener-bener baru nyampe rumah pas baca smsnya dan lagi cape banget serta ga direstuin orangtua, yaudah ga ikut dulu deh.

Pokoknya kalo orang-orang dulu bilang kalo masa SMA itu masa-masa yang paling mengasyikkan, tapi gue rasa masa-masa dimanapun lo berada bisa jadi menyenangkan! Iya karena gue anak SMK, dan gue tetep bisa ngerasain indahnya masa muda. Oke ini apa banget yah. Tapi mungkin kalo orang bilang masa muda enak diisi dengan pacaran, gue rasa salah besar, karna dengan temen-temen kocak pun gue bisa semangat yekan buat terus ngejalanin aktifitas, selain juga emang gue ga punya pacar mueueheueheueheueh