My Holiday Plans

It’s 9:44 in the morning, i’ve just wake up. Don’t be surprised with this holiday habit of mine. Since i’m not staying with my parents and live ngekost (in a boarding house), i often wake up late,sometimes very late. It doesn’t mean that i’m getting lazier now, but the possibility of waking up late when i live alone in my boarding house is bigger compared with when i stay with my parents. It’s because when i stay with my parents before, i always got shouted by my mom if i didn’t wake up yet until 7 a.m in the morning. And in the past, Sunday morning is only my real holiday, because my parents always go outside for having sport and go shopping in the early morning and left their son in the sound asleep condition, so it’s the time for me to oversleep ^_^ .

Mmm guys, i wanna tell you that this is the first day of my long holiday, since yesterday is the last day for me of having examination called UAS. And you know, i will have 2 months holiday from now, yay !. Because i will go back to campus for studying in the beginning of August and because i’m not planning to go back to Padang (my lovely town, really?!), this holiday, i have to make a list of activities that i’m going to do this holiday, to make my holiday is useful.

First thing that i’m going to do, and become the big reason why i’m not coming back to home, is to have an intensive debate practice with my friends at Student English Forum (SEF). I’ll do this because the fact that we’ll have a big tournament called Java Overland Varsities English Debate (JOVED) on July. But it’s not the big chunk of my reason to do a debate practice in this holiday. It’s more because i need to improve my english debate ability now. The reason why i think it’s urgent to do it in this holiday is because before the holiday i’m too busy with my study and it’s hard for me to attend the practice regularly and beside that, the busyness also makes me not focus to my debate improvement. And the result is like what i am now, the stuck debater.

Beside of having debate practices in this holiday, i’ve the other plans to do with my english and logical improvement. And all of this improvement have something to do indirectly towards my english debate for sure. Mmm, i’m going to learn about translating book or paper from Bahasa Indonesia to English and viceversa. This plan actually is made because i want to try to gain money by myself. I want to slowly break the chains of my addiction with my parent’s money. But beside that, learning english translation will give the further impact to me to learn english grammar correctly. Well since you can see from my full grammatically-incorrect writing, it’s a serious condition that must be solved. And for making me better in using correct english, i will combine the translation method with the method which i call make-writing & blogging-activity-as-a-habit method. Hhe this method directly will satisfy everyone who always asked me to write write and write to structurize my thoughts beside of improving my english by that, so now, puas ??!

And before i forget this, i’ve the last plan in mind. It’s to do an english debate adjudication as much as i can for the sake of gaining money by my own, hhe. Because since i was adjudicating in ALSA UI Debate Competition, i find adjudicating is interesting, sure, beside debating. And to be a decent debater i need to improve both skills in adjudicating and so debating.

Mmm now i’m going to take a bath, because i need to clean up my room as soon as possible before i go to Jumat prayer. And about the condition of my room, i don’t need to tell you, but if you really want to know, well, you can imagine the horse ranch, but sure it’s not the representation of my room, hhe.

Before i’m off, i have no idea with what happen in Bandung now, because these two days we’ve blackout here, not the totally whole day sih, but it already kills me.

Bye

Melancholic Feeling of Me

I miss many things from the past, that’s what i can say to describe my condition right now. I can say that I’m too melancholic now. My junior high school moment, my debating life with friends in high school, my SPMB preparation moment, they’re all lingering in my head now. Old friends, huh, where are you now ??

But one thing that I hate from this, I realize that I can never go back to the past and do it once again, just once again.

Currently, this melancholic feeling often occurs. It occurs when I’m alone in my secluded cave named boarding house. It happens because my condition since I continue my study in university is much different with before, like when I stay with my mom and dad in our house. When I stay with my parents, there’s a huge opportunity for me to have some chit chat with my mom or get some discussion with my dad after I come back from school or my activities. But here ? hell no. And that’s the reason why I often feel alone and makes me become this melancholic. It’s simply because my habit when I seclude myself for relatively long time, I can always put my memories back to the past and keep dreaming if I can go back. But it wont happen when I stayed with my parents in the past, because even when I seclude myself, I can always hear my mom’s yelling at me, asking me to join lunch or dinner.

This House Believe That NGO Should Provide Heroin Addicts with Sterile Needles

Upon this motion that This House Believe That NGO Should Provide Heroin Addicts with Sterile Needles, i will show you the case that happen now, and why i say that this problem must be solved by providing heroin addicts with sterile needles.

The problem of HIV / AIDS is getting bigger an bigger now, and i believe that HIV/AIDS has been significantly to be the global problem, since the fact now that in 1 minutes about 6 people will get the HIV/AIDS disease, so we can imagine how big the problem could be if we don’t do the significant action right now. So i believe that the problem of HIV/AIDS must be solved right away, and i will show you that providing the heroin addicts with sterile needles is the best way to solve the problem of HIV/AIDS.

I will give the scope of my writing in the developed country such as USA, because i believe that most of the user of heroin is in the developed country that has been rich since the heroin itself is relatively expensive. And in my writing i will explain to you 3 main arguments that i think will serve the goal that is to serve the problem of HIV/AIDS.

I believe that there is the urgency to solve the problem of HIV/AIDS right now. Since what i’ve said before, in 1 minute, there are about 6 people who get the HIV/AIDS disease. And even the HIV/AIDS suspect in the world has reached the number of 1 billion, with about 1 million suspects living in america. And one of the main cause of HIV/AIDS is activity of needles sharing by the heroin addicts itself. By stopping them to share their needles to other addicts and providing them with sterile needles means we can decrease the number of HIV/AIDS problem, because it’s one of the main cause.

My first argument is in the exclusivity of AIDS disease compared to the heroin addiction. The question is why should we decrease the HIV/AIDS problems first, even though the heroin addiction is harmful too ?!. I do believe that heroin addiction is harmful to the people that’s doing it. But we must see the bigger problem now, what’s so bad about HIV/AIDS problem compared to the heroin addiction problem ?. The fact, if i am the heroin addicts, i still have the chance to live healthy after i get medication and rehabilitation thingy. But compared to the HIV/AIDS suspect, until now, there’s no medication and rehabilitation that can make people heal from HIV/AIDS disease, although we’ve heard about the case of Magic Johnson, but still the scientist doesn’t know how this people can stand for about 15 years now after he’s suspected as a HIV/AIDS positive. So the consequence that must be taken by HIV/AIDS suspect is death, and i think it’s enough to justify the problem of HIV/AIDS is that important to be solved.

Secondly, it’s about the mechanism that i will give to you. We want to give the awareness towards HIV/AIDS, which is so significant to make this heroin addicts scared because of the death possibility is much bigger, compared to what they’re doing, by giving sort of discussion and advertisement. And we want to provide these sterile needles to the heroin addicts freely, so they’ll not think about the money they must pay for it. And since we talk about NGO here, this Non Government Organization can provide the sterile needles towards the heroin addicts in their office without the supervision of government. And with this mechanism i believe it will decrease the number of HIV/AIDS disease, because we decrease the possibility of spreading HIV from sharing needles.

Last but not least, i will explain to you the proof that providing the sterile needles will not increase the number of heroin addicts. Giving the sterile needles to the people will not make more people using the heroin. Because what we do here is providing the sterile needles not the heroin itself. So if we take the analogy of condom, people will not do sex right away if they’re be given condom because the problem is not in the condom or in the needles itself. But the problem is in the willing of a person in using heroin.

So by the 3 arguments that have been given by me, i believe that those arguments will serve the goal that to decrease the number of HIV/AIDS cases significantly.

I’LL KILL PETRUCCI, VOTE FOR BALAWAN !!!

April 11th, 2008. The day for chemistry examination, the subject that i hate,for some reasons. By not studying well,because the fact that i studied that subject a day before examination makes me not sure that i’ll get a decent mark for it. Anyway let’s skip that part, and then we will found my self went out from the examination room at around 5 p.m and directly went to west cc (campus center) to join SEF, because last day i got a call from my friend elfa, and he invited me to adjudicate in alsa UI debate competition on April 18th, and i must prepare myself for it. Well, before i continue, let me introduce you all to SEF. SEF stands for Student English Forum is my organization at campus that is focused on empowerment of english usage, but we especially use this organization for english debating. Since i entered my campus life, SEF is my new community, i met many friends and also got a bunch of experience there. Lately, since i found myself busy with a lot of examination, i decided not to come to sef for a while. But because i will not have examination for next week and the fact that i must prepare myself for adjudicating in alsa UI, i join the SEf practice today.

After practising with all of the SEF member, at around 8 p.m we all moved from TVST to basketball court to watch Balawan, one of the best guitarist in Indonesia that has been planned to give his performance at ITB basketball court for Ganesha Music Event today. After waiting for Balawan about a half hour with some of opening band from Apres ITB, he came.

Balawan, who is famous with his finger tapping is giving a great performance by combining the ethnic sound of music that is produced by Mahagotra Ganesha, a bali art & music organization in ITB, and his melodic fast rhytm guitar playing. Playing some of Indonesian ethnic music like suwe ora jamu that is remixed by himself made many spectators amazed with both of his skills and his talent to make the ethnic music of Indonesia become fantastic song to be listened. Not only that, the violinist whose named didi also made the performance of balawan become perfect by his skills & creativity in playing his violin.

First time i heard Balawan wants to come to ITB, i know that he is a balinese guitarist that has a very great skills in playing his guitar. But after i saw his performance, i can say that he is even better than the Dream Theater guitarist, John Petrucci. What a such pleasure that Indonesia has the pearl like Balawan.

Personally i give all my thumbs up to Balawan, since i never found such a hardly fucking terrific performance like that in my life time. And not only that, Balawan also makes me love ethnic music of Indonesia, especially balinese music by his song that is effected by those music. Last, a hope from me that such a young, creative and super-talented guitar player like Balawan should be appreciated for what he had in introducing Indonesian ethnic music to the world although, like what he said, his music genre will not give him much money like what the pop-rock band had.

I’LL KILL PETRUCCI, VOTE FOR BALAWAN !!!