WOY PEOPLE!!!!! BE GRATEFUL!! FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!!

Let's make it straight: lately i make a lot of contact with some people who complain a lot. This, that, those, it, EVERYTHING is a thing to complain. Maybe if these people fart and the sound is rather different then they will complain "Oh no, my fart sounds different." Well, i'm not saying that i've been grateful enough, no. But at least i know that i should never ever whine that much. When you whine about having a lonely night AT HOME, think about those in their boarding houses. What's the different? You stay with your family; literally. When you whine about a bad cellphone, think about those who doesn't even have electricity. You think i'm exaggerating? Nope. I'm telling you, life is STILL beautiful with those struggles. When you whine about no one is available to talk, to share, and to laugh with, think about those who have too much trouble that they themselves find it hard to prioritize which to share first. When you whine about your terrible campus life (this one applies for me also. I have to admit that i whine much MUCH about this) be grateful because you only think about your campus. You don't have to think about feeding mouths, paying electricity, solving other people's problem in REAL LIFE. When you whine about the food is not something that you like, think about those who can't even eat something proper to be called a food. Oh my,, please people, find something to thank to God.

Just now i'm back from futsal. In front of the field, lies a 5 year-old child and his grandma (aged around 65 at least). It's 1 a.m. and this 65 year-old grandma is awake. For what? For a parking money. FOR A PARKING MONEY!!!!! THAT'S SOMEONE'S GRANDMA!!! Oh, it's cold by the way. And she has no blanket outside. Just an old skirt and jacket to cover that weakening body. Maybe she knows that staying up at night in such condition can make her suffer from pneumonia or other lung diseases, but she has no choice. Every coin matters. Have you ever be grateful that your grandma in their dawn can sleep well in a soft, warm bed rather than staying awake for 500 rupiahs each bike? HAVE YOU EVER THANK GOD THAT YOU YOURSELF CAN FEEL THE WARMTH OF A BLANKET AND THE COMFORT OF A BED EVERY NIGHT????!!!! Stop whining for God's sake. Look around people. World is a book, and you be the reader. If you are a pathetic reader, then you'll never find the wonders. If you understand what The Creator hides inside, you'll be grateful for what you have now.

The following lines are copied from Mbak Puspa's blog nucleardebris.wordpress.com. Something to open all our eyes.

* If you live in a place with good weather, without hardcore rain or disasters, be thankful
* If you have enough food to eat, and shelter to comfort you, be thankful
* If you still have parents who protect you, friends who care about you, be thankful. Value them.
* If you are now comfortably accessing internet from your houses, be thankful
* If you still breathe until today and healthy, be thankful

Because

* Some of you might sleep on the streets because disaster hit the place they live in
* Some of you don’t even think of how to clean themselves or will they be fine living on the streets, as long as they still live
* Some of you might cry their hearts out because they lose their parents right now
* Some of you might not know what internet is, because they are too busy to continue living their lives and to survive
* Some you might in dire needs of medications, but they have to wait for other people’s aid

This writing doesn't mean i'm grateful once again i have to say. Me myself writes this based on my own evaluation about my personal condition. And here i want to ask all of you, be grateful, be thankful, look around you and look back on yourself. You'll ALWAYS find things are far worse for some people than it is to you.

Education Celebration

Education, education;

There's nothing quite like education!
It gives you hope and lets you cope
And offers great remuneration.

Education, education;
The path to many a great vacation;
A fancy car and caviar;
A life of fun and relaxation.

Education, education;
Provides a firm and strong foundation
For better lives improved by drive,
By effort and by motivation.

Education, education;
Sing aloud in exultation!
And when you pass that final class
We'll shake your hand in admiration.

Education, education;
Requires a lot of perspiration.
You can bet - a lot of sweat,
And just a pinch of inspiration.

Education, education;
Let's all sing in jubilation!
For, those who strive and have the drive

May someday own a 'corporation'!

Giving Birth

My mom asked me to accompany her watching her on TV just a couple of minutes ago. She was the presenter of a show in my mosque's local television called MJA TV. The name of the show is Keluarga dan Kesehatan (Family and Health). The topic of the day is "Childbirth". Well, the speaker gave an interesting information indeed, but mostly I've read or found it somewhere else. Then come her example when talking about bleeding. The doctor told a story:

"One day I got a call, asking me to come to the place given ASAP because there was a mother giving birth and in need of my help. The nurse can't handle the bleeding herself, therefore she called for a doctor and she called me at that time. The location was indeed far and quiet remote and it's not good enough as a childbirth place. I checked the condition, then i found that the head of the baby was out but there was something blocking it. At first, I thought it was a tumor. Later I realized that it was the placenta. Earlier, the nurse tried to force the baby out, but the result was tragic. The uterus also went out. Yes, THE UTERUS WENT OUT (my stomach was terrible when i heard n i wrote this). We were blood-bathed at that time. The bleeding was so bad. An immediate surgery was taken, the baby saved, but 19 hours later the mom died because of such a severe bleeding. The body just can't cope with that."

I was shell shocked and petrified. Enough saying about how we should obey our mom, but this story is just another cherry on the cake. Oh God..

Galileo Galilei

First thing first, don't expect to find the biography of Galileo here because I'm not going to write fully about it. I'm sure you can find a better and more valid biography somewhere else.

What I'm going to write here is just how brilliant he is. As far as i know, he invented a hell lot of thing in the 16th century. Telescope is one thing. It was him who were also stood firmly against the geocentric theory and prove it (poor Capernicus. He was murdered by the order of the Roman Church at that time because he was the first person to say it). Galileo was the first person to utilize the telescope to observe the galaxy and discovered a number of Jupiter's satellite, to find out that the moon is not perfectly flat, and many more. Galileo also produced a number of theory which underlies the modern science. His theory was the breakthrough to almost every astronomical discovery in this modern era. Or maybe we can say that Galileo "invented" almost every scientific discovery in the modern era with his theories and discoveries. The very Albert Einstein even called Galileo as "The father of modern science".

Enough for the introduction. We all know that he was so great, he discovered this and that, and so on. But it's not because of those discoveries I mentioned above that I make this post, but it's because one simple tool he made: The Galilean Thermometer. It's a very simple thermometer, which work based on the buoyancy principle and density. Very very simple. The thermometer is formed by a single tube and some bulbs marked by temperature scale. The tube and the bulb is filled with a particular fluid; and the fluid inside the bulb is given some different color which i believe is a piece of art-work. Galileo briliantly make use the characteristic of fluid which it's density changes with the temperature. Here's how it works: arrange the bulb from the least dense to the most dense from top to bottom inside the tube, then fill the tube with the fluid. When the tube is heated, the fluid's temperature inside raise and so is the bulb's. And as the fluid inside the bulb become less dense with the raise of the temperature, the bulb will float. Just imagine a lava lamp and you will get the picture of it. We can measure the temperature by looking at the scale under each bulb. It was simply brilliant. A very perfect combination of bright mind with a little touch of art. Indeed it's a thermometer, but it's a cute yet beautiful decoration. I was thinking if maybe we can find a glow-in-the-dark fluid to fill the thermometer with some decorative color. Once again, amazingly brilliant. Galileo Sir, you got my full admiration.

Mom's Quote of the Day

My mom almost never missed a thing. And so is the case for now. Just minutes ago she said, "Dir, kehidupan kau kok gak karuan ya?" (Dir, i see your life is messed up, isn't it?). Without hesitation i replied "Yes". Just this morning before i took a bath, that exact thing came up to my mind: my current life is messed up. My time is messed up. My schedule is messed up. Me myself personally is messed up. And i'm sick of it. To make it worse, i don't know what's wrong and how to fix. Ah, that's the only way :-). Dunno when :D.

Very Best Love Song :-D

يا من هواه أعزه وأذلنـــي
كيف السبيل إلى وصالـك دلني؟

Wahai cinta, yang dengannya membuatku hina dan membuatnya mulia
Katakan padaku bagaimana jalanku untuk dapat mendekat kepadamu

تركتني حيران صبّا هائمــا
أرعى النجوم وأنت في نوم هني

kau tinggalkan aku dalam tangis dan kesusahan
Kupandangi bintang-bintang sedangkan kau terlelap dalam tidur yang nyaman

جاد الزمان وأنت ما واصلتني
يا باخلاَ بالوصل أنت قتلتنـي

Berlalulah waktu demi waktu dan engkau tidak menemuiku
Duhai engkau yang pelit menjumpa, sungguh engkau membunuhku dengan cinta ini

ولأقعدن على الطريق فأشتكي
في زي مظلوم وأنت ظلمتنـي

Aku akan berjalan dan berseru di jalan-jalan
Karena aku adalah orang yang terdholimi dan engkau mendholimiku

ولأشكينك عند سلطان الهوى
ليعذبنك مثل ما عذبـتـنــي

dan aku akan mengadukanmu pada Raja pemilik segala cinta
Supaya engkau merasakan adzab seperti yang engkau akibatkan padaku

ولأدعين عليك في جنح الدجى
فعساك تبلى مثل ما أبليتنـي

Dan aku akan berdoa di kegelapan malam
Supaya engkau ditimpa bala’ seperti yang engkau akibatkan padaku

Sebagian syair Ya Man Hawa dengan terjemahan bebas. harap maklum kalau ada kesalahan dan harap diralat :-)

Holiday Sweet Holiday

If any of you ask me "How's life??" I'll simply answer "Great!!" because it truly what i feel about life, mainly starting from January 25 until now. After a nice "Makrab" with HMTK, the holiday starts. And i can't expect a better time for it to come after a tiring first semester running a new life as a college student. It has been a "roller-coaster" semester i think. It started with MOS in Ramadhan which successfully make me ill for 3 days, then with the whole lecturers and assignments, organizational activities (though it's very few for me), and it ended with my sister's marriage and the accident happened just a month before that marriage. Wonderful. I got soooooooooo many things in this new life surely. And most importantly, i love it. My other part of life (i mean other than campus and those stuffs) also run excitingly. Life is never flat; absolutely true. Ah, all in all i once again would like to say: life is excitingly wonderful :D.

Okay, back to the holiday talk. Actually, my holiday started even before mid-January, although it's not officially and fully a holiday. Some subjects were done already , therefore no more need to take the lecture; part-time holiday. Furthermore, in mid-January i went to Bandung for Indonesian Varsities English Debate (IVED) in which i have an early holiday (another interesting yet wonderful experience in this half-year term). Just 2 days at home after IVED, off to Tawangmangu for makrab. Exhausted, yes; but simply enjoyable. Aaaannndddd it's OFFICIALLY holiday :D. It's another nowhere-to-go holiday, but i already get used to it since mostly i spend my holiday this way. What i enjoy most is finally I'm free again. Just in case any of you forgotten, i haven't rode my motorcycle for over a month after that accident. Once i got the chance, i grab it with both hand. But it's not merely wandering around the city aimlessly burning the decreasing fossil fuel without any reason, i did it with purpose. I helped people a lot this holiday, and i badly missed that very much when i'm on my "disable" period. I set up someone's internet connection from choosing the modem until installing the firefox, go to relatives' houses, take my mom anywhere she wants, do what my dad asked, go to uncle's house and take part in his recording process, play games with my cousins there, and many more. simply love it. if only everyday in my life can be spent this way. huahahahahaha..

PS: haven't heard the update, but i'm currently anxious of someone's health condition. Get well soon. be praying for you day and night.