a day before

hore libur! mari kita mulai post ini dengan bismillah...
Bismillahhirrahmanirrahim

Pertama. Hmm, gw sangat kecewa sama bulan yang satu ini. Ramadhan gw kali ini rasanya minuuuuuus bgt. Minus ibadahnya. Justru dengan puasa yang gak berasa itu malah jadi gak Ramadhan, jadi berasa biasa aja. Ah. Kesel sama diri sendiri. Bener-bener harus "ngebenerin" ini biar gak keulang di taun depan.

Ya ampun. Deket rumah gw lagi pada maen petasan+kembang api. Berisik!!!

Second. I love holiday. I mean Ied Fitr holiday, eventhough a lot of assignments (=) waiting to be done. In this kind of holiday, I can escape from the phrenetic of school or campus life and enjoy at least a week of homey life, letting out my stresses and panics. No, it doesn't mean I hate my lectures, but it will be so nice if I can relax a bit.

I love this holiday because it means a lot of buber (=buka bersama). Haha. Break-fasting with high school pals and elementary school mates. Yes, it includes meeting mr. thunder who came from Bandung on last Sat x)

Alhamdulillah, this Ramadhan comes in October. What if it came in June or July? Must be sooo boring. Imagine you're having full holiday without maids. No lazy time there. Aaargh. Let's calculate, when will that come? 4-5 years ahead? Hopefully I'm done with college that time ;)

Still, lots of assignments. Let me see. Err... wait, I don't want to enlist them. I haven't done -or at least trying to finish- one of them. What a deadliner.
Yep, and what I'm doing these days are:
-wake up at 9
-do some chores
-watch downloaded Heroes season 3
-break-fasting with mates

currently reading+addicted to: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer. Good one for fiction-fantasy lovers. Ah, I just can't get my head off of this novel.

Happy Ied Fitr, people!
Minal aidin wal faidzin, mohon maaf lahir dan batin yaa... *suddenly Indonesian*
Enjoy your holiday!

oya, 5 hari lagi jangan lupa... hoho... ;D

sedikit merenung

belakangan ini gw belajar dan mengetahui banyak hal yang mengakibatkan gw sampe pada kata-kata "Life isn't always as we expected".

pertama, pas SIWAK NG kmaren, ngeliat training motivasinya, yang ada orang-orang cacat fisik berprestasi itu, bisa membuktikan kalo mereka pun bisa survive, bener-bener bikin gw kagum. itu ngebuka cakrawala gw *caelaah* yang selama ini tertutup. apapun yang Allah kasih, pasti yang terbaik buat kita. tinggal gimana kita ngejalaninnya aja, mau nangis darah ato usaha.

kedua, pas gw pulang kemaren. gw baru aja tau tentang beberapa hal yang bikin gw kaget. gak bisa gw tulis apa, terlalu pribadi. dan gw pun mendapat wejangan-wejangan baru dari nyokap. apapun yang keliatannya bagus di luar, gak selamanya bagus di dalem. mungkin hal yang bagi orang lain itu membanggakan malah sebaliknya yang terjadi, it brings trouble.

lagi capek, capek banget, dikejer deadline dan merasa bodoh di tengah kumpulan lelaki-lelaki fasilkom yang jago ngoding. di saat seperti inilah gw butuh orang seperti dia dan dia di samping gw buat dengerin gw cerita sekaligus bisa nangis tanpa ampun. yah, memang ada dia yang bisa dengerin gw cerita, tapi secara kita mengalami hal yang sama, gada yang bisa ngasih solusi ato hiburan sementara, gitu. hehe :D

5 hari lagi.
#include kuis+tugas DDP
semangat, yas!

share on sahur

hello folks. like Ikhma did, I wanna tell you about the event I participate on last Saturday dawn.

Hari Sabtu 13 Sept kemaren gw ikut acara Share on Sahur, sejenis Sahur on the Road gitu, bagi-bagi makanan saur buat mereka yang kurang mampu yang ada di jalanan. Ini pertama kalinya gw ikut acara kayak gini, and it turns out to be fun! Dateng ke fasilkom jam 9.30an, bersenda gurau *halah* mpe jam 11an. Terus kita dibagi-bagi kelompok mobil, dikasi makanan yang buat dibagiin n baru jalan jam 1an. Gw semobil sama Latifah arab, Maman, ka Toni+ka Zahra 06, ka Najad+ka Wawan 07.

Pas nunggu di mobil gw udah ngantuk gitu. Maman malah udah tidur enak banget, gw pun mencoba merem-merem gitu mau tidur. trus empunya mobil yaitu ka Zahra dateng dan kita pun cao. Kita jalan dari Depok, Warung Buncit, Mesjid BI *ulang lambat-lambat, berasa Dora the Explorer gak? heheh x]

Yap, jadi ternyata prosedurnya itu kita konvoi 12 (ato 13?) mobil. Kalo mobil paling depan nemu fakir miskin gitu, orang di dalemnya keluar n ngasi makanan. Trus kalo udah abis, dia pindah jadi paling belakang. Gitu terus mpe abis, n kita langsung ke Mesjid BI buat sahur+Subuh di sana. Dalam perjalanan ke sana, kita lewat Bunderan HI sama Sarinah, jadi kangen. Soalnya kalo pun gw pulang ke Jakarta, paling gw pergi ke acara keluarga tidur+ngasi cucian (parasit abis

Back to topic, tadinya gw ngantuk tuh, tapi pas udah di jalan gw jadi semangat n gak ngantuk lagi. Seru! Abis itu kita Tapi kayaknya repot banget, ka Zahra yang jadi Kepala PengMas (Pengabdian Masyarakat) BEM sibuk banget telfon sana-sini padahal lagi sakit. Hebat. Oya, acara ini diakhiri dengan kita foto-foto, balik ke Depok dan beberapa balik ke Jakarta.

Tadinya ada komen aneh tentang ikutnya gw di acara ini. Temen gw ada yang bilang, "wah Yasmin mau ikut juga acara begini". Yeah, whatever. Tapi se-anti sosial itu kah gw? Nah lo.

That's all. A lot of tasks waiting. Tomorrow's a new week and I'm afraid of quizzes! Aaaargh.
Wish me luck :)

fasting, family, boarding house

this is my first fasting in boarding house, 1.5 hours away from family. It's quite nice, you know. You must be wondering, what about Sahur? Well, it is such a bless that there is a catering near my boarding house that offering sahur food and being delivered to my boarding house at 3 am, priced Rp. 6500 each meal. Easy, right? :D

But the fact that no one taking care of me here makes me do some chores, and cuts down my leisure time. Not to mention my duty as a college student to study and make homeworks. This means that I can't do some religious things as much as I did last year. It may sounds like some excuses, but it really happens at me. One kind of adaption, I guess. Must not happen next year.

Those are some things.

Last Saturday I went home (yeah, like I'm going home every weekend, duh) and broke my fasting with my father's family (on Sat) and with my mother's relatives (on Sun). In those two days, especially on Sunday, I really felt that it is a need to meet family, not an obligation. I feel this a few times before, but now it's different. Maybe because I live alone far away from home. And knowing that those relatives still care at me makes me happy.

I mean, when I was on senior high school and they were like asking me, "where are you going to study next? which faculty and university? why?" and some other stuffs like that, I felt annoyed. But now, they are asking, "how's life in boarding house? how's college?" and blahblahblahs, I feel good answering those questions. I finally get the answer of why people going to their hometown and feeling it myself (eventhough it was only some miles away :P).

Yep, I guess that's all. I must say that I wrote this in English because I told my English lecturer that I will do this. No, I won't do it to every postings, it's going to make me nuts.

take care, people. enjoy your life, have a nice fasting month! :)