A Story in a Sardine Can of Transjakarta

Long night shift, that what I've got during the world cup 2010 held. I watched the match and then write the stories on that for news morning segment. Played on South Africa time made all process made me little bit under pressured to meet the death line.

I went home by the morning, by my first shamble walk heading to Bus Way Trans Jakarta (a mass transportation system in the city I lived). Waiting patiently the bus for almost 30 minutes. I gotta tell you, they do not operate enough bus to cover all the passenger. Mostly in the rushing hours, the bus gonna looks like a tin of sardine.

As I reached my transit shelter, there were huge crowd queuing for the next bus to Pulo Gadung (nearest terminal by my home). They were separated in three lines, two by gender and the last for disable, pregnant woman, children and elderly. But on the gate, the crowd were mixed again rushing as quick as they can to have a seat inside the bus. So they who were slow, enjoy the trip by standing for the next 40 to 45 minutes.

I never thought to have seat during taking a bus way. While many of the passenger did not care enough that they should give priority for certain people I mentioned above. Lot of strong men were pretending sleep or clearly ignoring woman who should have seat instead of them.

There was a man too who hold his daughter around 2 or 3 years old while other hand holding a big baby equipment bag. Pity to him, struggling hard in the middle of the crowd, to keep steady. Well, he could make it, keep the baby in comfort. I looked at her, apparently she was smiling and then looked sleepy. She might knew that her father effort was all out then she preferred sleep instead of crying for this discomfort.

Next bus stop is a shopping and office district where lot of people take off. The man who I guessed must be in 35, finally got empty seat for him. The little girl was totally sleep peacefully.
And that was the moment I took their pic by my mobile.

I should upload it, but there's no cable yet to transfer it to my computer.

This story might not interesting, but for me it likes snow in the middle of the messiness of the public transportation in my beloved city. A story in a Sardine Can of Trans jakarta.

so this picture might show you a bit

















courtesy:
http://krisosa.wordpress.com/2007/06/09/busway-transjakarta-nyaman-tapi-gak-aman

Agak-agak dulu lah...

Jakarta pukul 05.00 wib

AC ruangan kantor lt.19 super duper dingin, terlebih setelah wudhu-an subuh, jadi agak-agak menggigil deh. Tidak ada jacket atau sweater karena dari awal memang ngga ada persiapan menginap. Mau pulang terkendala hujan nanggung yang lumayan bikin kuyup... jadi ketimbang agak-agak meriang mending agak-agak ngeblog dulu lah...

This time I'm writing in bahasa. The topic might not interesting much, as I have told you at my previous post, nothing huge happened on me recently. Sometimes I feel unconfidence to share my thoughts to public through this online media, compare with those stories written by my fellas Mio or Asri who face challenging lifes out there.

Ada buku menarik "Diary of A Wimpy Kid" atau dalam bahasa Indonesia cerita anak lemah dalam konteks 'katro' karya Jeff Kinney. (Kisahnya jadi 1st New York Times Best Seller thrice, lho..)
Saya tidak mencoba untuk mengulas buku ini, tapi ada bagian menarik dalam seri "The Last Straw" dimana Greg Heflley, karakter dalam buku ini menghadapi pergulatan untuk tetap konsisten dengan resolusi tahun barunya yaitu menjadi anak yang lebih baik terhadap orang-orang di sekitarnya. Sementara in return bukan perlakuan serupa yang ia dapatkan. Hadiah Natal dan tahun baru yang ia dapatkan jauh dari yang diharapkan.

Cakrawala berpikir Greg memang sedang lugu-lugunya, maklum anak yang baru duduk di tahun ke 7 (mungkin tahun pertama sekolah lanjutan pertama di Indonesia ya). Tapi saya menemukan banyak nilai dari karya Jeff Kinney ini yang mendorong saya untuk berkontemplasi, paling tidak mulai berlatih menulis lagi disini.

Seperti kemandegan karier yang membuat saya merasa agak-agak frustasi belakangan ini. Sempat terjebak dengan penyesalan di masa-masa pengambilan keputusan dulu, seandainya saya terima pekerjaan yang lain, mungkin situasi tidak akan sesulit ini. Namun hanya dengan ilmu ikhlas yang sederhana, akhirnya saya berpikir it's not the end of everything. :)

That's what friends are for

It's been more than a year I left my blog without any post, while my great friends (Asri, Pia and Mio) have had their great stories posted.

therefore i am trying to make one now, even though I don't know what am i going to write about, seemed that not many interesting things happened on me.

Only my last visit to thailand where I covered stories about political turmoil in Bangkok caused by Red Shirt movement. That probably becomes most exciting experience I got this year. There were huge challenges to work where I can speak Thai, work without fixer and in difficult situation. At last, I can accomplished it well, since my new friend Timothy Marbun and Yudi from Metro TV (An Indonesian News TV Channel) helped me much. Thanks a lot for them.

so now, I decide to write about how important friends to me, while watching brasil versus ivory coast at tonight world cup match.

Well, once my aunt (who take care of me during my teenage time) told me, that too close with friends even could jeopardize your relationship with them. She said so, because I spent my days mostly with my friends, so i hardly to stay at home. At that time I was so black sheep on the family, without any intention to do so.

Probably, disobedience that I performed to my family give me another life learning experience.

(paused for a while, attention to the match, Robinho gives his firs shoot to Ivory Coast in early minutes)

So my really first friend was in college, he was almost two years older than me. Both of us were very active in students association in our university, until we involved in a community project. In that project, we have different thought about how we should manage our money and activities. Well finally it took us apart.

My next best friend was in the same age. We worked at same company where we almost spent our time together in office and in our boarding house. We even travel together a lot to Bandung and his hometown, for more than 100 kilometers and more than 3 hours. It was great time but conflict because of woman was took me away from my best friend.

But no matter how I mad to them, the truth is... I miss them

Sometimes I think, loosing your best friend even hurt rather than broke up with my girlfriend. I dunno why I felt that way. I guess there must be good reason in breaking up with girlfriend such as do not have anything in common, long distance or there's no heat anymore... after broke up you can turn became her good friend and you can find another girl. But loosing your best friend, means you really lost them.

LikeDionne Warwick or Stevie Wonder said in their song:

"For Good Times And bad times, I'll be on your side forever more, That's what friends are for"

So keep your friends around ^^

on board again...gosh!!

will be on board Ms. Nippon Maru as the OBSC
during sailing from Manila to Tokyo 2-12 Dec
35th SSEAYP 2008

Tomorrow Friday, SSEAYP International Indonesia asks me to come to their meeting where I got to manage a presentation. Presentation on what will I conduct as the OBSC 35th SSEAYP 2008.

Then I realize, that I am the OBSC this year. Something that I never thought about. Like I’m going to repeat a memorable chapter of my life, as a PY, seven years a go. I shall explain you at first that OBSC stands for on Board Ship Conference, consist of representatives from each respective Alumni Association of SSEAYP. (SSEAYP is the Ship for South East Asian Youth Program an exchange program, promoting friendship and mutual understanding


Therefore to promote further unity and cooperation among Alumni Association. they send its representative to join OBSC. The conference provides a venue for them to share other post program projects, to discuss ongoing and prospective collaborative activities, to introduce SI to the current PYs (SSEAYP Participant Youth) and of course to prepare the publication of annual SSEAYP News (SI News Letter). Last but not least, run the post program session on board, encourage PYs active participation in social activities after SSEAYP, utilizing the results of the discussion program.


There will be nines representatives for the OBSC 35th SSEAYP 2008, ASEAN Countries and Japan (excluded Lao PDR and Myanmar). I look forward to the other OBSC members, now. I highly believe that they kind of excellent member in their alumni association. Hopefully me and the other work together running our duties and have fun at the same time since we are on our memorable Ms. Nippon Maru. So I guess I can deny how excited I am being part if the OBSC, especially when I know that other candidates were also qualified even I think they better. So I will work hard so that SII would never regret of choosing me. I will left the excitement euphoria of being onboard behind.

Rio, next Indonesian Racing Star

Rio Haryanto, just reached his firs overall podium in Formula Asia 2.0 in Thailand (17/08/08)
Future Indonesian Racing Stars. Hopefully he can manage his way to F1
So proud of him..!!

18/08/2008 05:52 - Formula Asia
Rio Haryanto Juarai Formula Asia

Liputan6.com, Pattaya: Pembalap muda Indonesia, Rio Haryanto, membuat kejutan dengan menjuarai Formula Asia 2.0 di Thailand, belum lama ini. Mengawali lomba di urutan start ke-4, Rio langsung menyodok ke urutan dua. Namun, sesudahnya ia harus berjuang mengamankan posisinya yang terus dibayang-bayangi pembalap Prancis Mathias Beche dan Yoshitaka Kuroda asal Jepang.

Setelah menuntaskan 20 lap lomba di atas lintasan Sirkuit Internasional Bira, Pattaya, Thailand, Rio akhirnya berhasil finish di tempat kedua. Di depannya pembalap Swedia Felix Rosenquist yang memang jauh lebih unggul dari segi pengalaman.

Namun, di kelas Asia, Rio menjadi yang tercepat dan berhak atas podium teratas. Tak hanya sampai di situ, pembalap muda yang tengah meretas jalan ke pentas balap dunia Formula Satu ini menorehkan waktu lap tercepat dengan torehan waktu 1,101 detik.(ADO/Wira Respati dan Taufik Maru)

http://www.liputan6.com/olahraga/?id=163900


24/08/2008 05:50 - Sosok
Rio Haryanto Bersiap ke Formula 1

Liputan6.com, Jakarta: Nama Rio Haryanto sudah tak asing lagi di dunia balap otomotif Tanah Air. Usia yang relatif muda dan sederetan prestasi di awal berkiprah pada ajang balap single seater patut diacungi jempol. Terakhir Rio membuat kejutan dengan meraih podium Formula Asia 2.0 di Thailand akhir pekan lalu [baca: Rio Haryanto Juarai Formula Asia].

Dengan prestasi tersebut, tak berlebihan rasanya bila para penggemar olahraga otomotif menaruh harapan Rio dapat menjadi pembalap Indonesia pertama di balap Formula 1. Yang jelas, Rio mengaku senang bisa berbuat untuk bangsa dan negara. "Intinya, bangga bisa mengibarkan Merah Putih, juga untuk HUT SCTV," ujarnya.(ADO/Tim Liputan 6 SCTV)

an End in Beijing

Olimpiade Beijing 2008 usai sudah, investasi 40 Billion USD itu menghasilkan 51 emas buat China dan menjadikan negara itu sebagai negara yang paling banyak dilihat dalam 16 hari terakhir. Olimpiade kali ini juga membuktikan bahwa kenyataan sebagai orang Asia dengan postur dan penampilan lebih mungil bukanlah masalah, tapi kemauan, kerja keras dan mental juaralah yang menjadi faktor penentu kemenangan dalam semua kompetisi.

Heavenly drums, silver bell dancers, light wheels and flying men took center stage to greet guests at the National Stadium Sunday for the closing celebration of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. "You made the Games," said IOC President Jacques Rogge

see you in London 2012...

hopefully our dear God still allow us witnessing this prestigious world events
and here they are our hero... the only Indonesian Olympic gold medal

so proud of them la... wishing to see them back in London 2012

in final the beat this chinese couple whom I admire too

Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan of Indonesia beat Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng of China 2-1 in the final and grabbed the Badminton Men's Doubles gold medal in Beijing, China, August 16, 2008.

Salutt untuk Michael Phelps dengan 8 medali emas dan 7 rekor dunia baru!!! Semoga Semangat, kerja keras dan Konsistensi Phelps bisa menular kepada kita semua

Michael Phelps owned the pool at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games with an astonishing eight gold medal performance. As if that weren't enough, all but his 100m Butterfly victory were accompanied by a world record.

Usain Bolt of Jamaica broke the world record to win the Men's 100m gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games. Bolt clocked 9.69 seconds to beat his own previous world mark of 9.72 to be crowned the fastest man in the world.

(Sources: The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games http://en.beijing2008.cn/)

another pics from beijing 08-08-08

Li Ning makes his way to the cauldron: Li Ning, former Olympic gymnast for China, makes his way to the Olympic cauldron to light the flame during the Opening Ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the National Stadium on August 8, 2008 in Beijing, China.
(Photo credit: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

Fireworks go off after the torch: Fireworks go off after the torch is lit during the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics at the National Stadium on August 8, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Photo credit: Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images)

Yao Ming and boy from quake zone lead Team China into opening ceremony From: Xinhuanet

BEIJING - AUGUST 08: Lopez Lomong of the United States Olympic men's track and field team carries his country's flag to lead out the delegation during the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics at the National Stadium on August 8, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)

BEIJING - AUGUST 08: Roger Federer of the Switzerland Olympic men's tennis team carries his country's flag to lead out the delegation during the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics at the National Stadium on August 8, 2008 in Beijing, China.
(Photo by Paul Gilham/Getty Images)