Petualangan Laut di Nusa Lembongan

Cerita ini dimulai ketika seorang kawan menawarkan sebuah paket liburan seru, yang didalamnya terdapat aktivitas sea walking - berjalan di dasar laut dengan menggunakan helm kedap air. 

Saya amat suka pantai. Saya juga suka laut. Tetapi, saya sebenarnya tidak suka air. Takut lebih tepatnya. Ada pengalaman - pengalaman tidak menyenangkan dengan air dimasa lalu yang cukup traumatis. Iya! Saya sengaja sebut 'pengalaman - pengalaman', karena tidak cuma sekali.

Jujur! Hari itu saya cukup galau untuk memutuskan "iya" atau "tidak" untuk ikut serta dalam liburan itu. Dari lubuk hati yang paling dalam saya cukup tertarik, terutama dengan aktivitas sea walking. Karena sebelum ada tawaran ini, saya sudah sangat penasaran dengan kegiatan tersebut. Bagaimana tidak? Kita dijanjikan akan dapat mengeksplore keindahan laut tanpa dituntut untuk harus punya diving license atau paling tidak pengalaman menyelam serta skill berenang yang mumpuni.

First Hello in 2020 :) Reflection - Why do I write?

Wow! It has been a while since I posted my last writing, in which I said that I would update things that have been missed out. It was TWO YEARS AGO! yes! TWO YEARS! But, yeah, AGAIN! Due to many reasons - that I do not dare to use as excuses NOT to write anything -, I could not keep my own words. In two years, I did not (could not) write anything in this blog. I do feel guilty to myself and you (YES YOU!) of course.

Everything happens for a reason

You may be familiar to that quote (or may not? Are you living under the rock?). I am one of the believers who believes that everything does happen for a reason/reasons. That also applies in my case, such as "why is it so important for me to write?" and "why do I fail to keep my words?". For quite some time, I have been asking myself questions :

"What does 'writing' mean to you?"

"Do you like writing?"

"Why do you need to write?"

"Is it important to write?"

"What do you want to achieve from writing?" and so on.

(I know it is quite random, but please bear with me! or not) :)

Membuka Lembaran Baru

It has been ages since my last time updating my blogs. I do not have many excuses really, but it was just because my poor time management. Despite some leisure time I have in between my busy life working as an office worker, I was wasting my time doing things that were not critical. Hence, this small page was kind of abandoned. Poor it!

Anyway! I have decided to catch up updating things that I was going to post. I would not promise to cover everything but I am going to write as often as possible. So please anticipate it.

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Udah lama banget sejak terakhir kali aku update blog. Sebenarnya nggak ada banyak alasan sih cuma gara - gara nggak pinter bagi waktu. Walaupun ada banyak waktu luang di sela - sela kesibukan jadi pegawai kantoran, aku malah banyak melakukan sesuatu yang nggak begitu penting. Alhasil, blog ini jadi terbengkalai.

Anyway! Aku akan mencoba posting hal - hal yang dulu harusnya udah aku posting tapi nggak jadi. Tapi aku nggak janji sih kalau bakalan bisa posting semuanya. So please anticipate it.

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Aneh nggak sih ya posting bilingual begini? Sebenarnya kemarin - kemarin aku posting pakai bahasa Inggris karena aku ingin belajar bahasa Inggris. Kan kata pepatah "practice makes perfect". Jadi dengan sering menulis dengan bahasa Inggris harapannya aku akan terbiasa menggunakan bahasa tersebut. Jadinya, kemampuan bahasa Inggris aku akan meningkat yang mana saat ini aku sudah gunakan sebagai bahasa sehari - hari sejak aku tinggal di Australia.

FYI, sudah setahun lebih aku tinggal di Australia, tepatnya di kota Melbourne. Setelah perjuangan panjang, akhirnya mimpi untuk melanjutkan sekolah pun tercapai. Yes, I am now a student! A full time student lebih tepatnya karena aku sudah tidak bekerja lagi sebagai BASARHUT di KPHL Rinjani Timur. Cerita perjuangan ini mungkin nanti akan aku tulis di postingan - postingan berikutnya.

Sampai jumpa!


Cheers,
Uma

Pinqueenz Reunites (Part II)

our recent appearance (2013)

Well, I took too much time to laugh I guess hahaha. In the previous story I took a break at the time when I was going to tell you about our group name, right? And now I’m going to continue the story. 

Yeah that’s right I was going to make our name group as Shephal ++ (If it was really happened, it was such a true disaster hahaha). Why did I want give name to our group as Shephal ++? Let’s turn back the time when Bun and I still using that pet name, BUNTUT. In the first grade of high school, we studied biology and at that time it turned about insect segment. In some various insect species there is a tagma which comprising the head and thorax fused together, as a distinct from abdomen behind called chepalothorax (derived from greek words for head (κεφαλή, kephalé) and thorax (θώραξ, thórax) (Wikipedia, 2015). When we called each other as BUN, most of the people mislead it as BUNDA not BUNTUT. That’s why we decided to change our pet name as SHEPAL (we shorten it as SEP) refers to kephalé on chepalothorax which mean as head. At that time we already realized that we didn’t follow each other as a tail but we inspiring each other as head contain many ideas. I was Sepha and She was Sephi. (Oh GOD I do have no idea why were we so too much (read: Alay) back then -_- *ROTFL then tepokjidat*) 

Pinqueenz Reunites (Part I)

A word which always popping out when I think about Pinqueenz = Friendship. Why did I say so? Pinqueenz is a name of our friendship group. Suddenly I feel embarrassed when I mention that name #LOL (sorry). As the time goes by, that name sounds so … (how to say it? It just makes you rolling and crawling while laughing on the floor :p) am I too much? Hehe . But when I think about the history of that name it was such a long story. 

Well, this story is begun when we were at senior high school. 

when we were high-schooler

Actually we already attended the same school since junior high school but never had a chance to be together. Even we didn’t know each other at first. We always got different class till one of my best friends became classmate in 3rd grade.

Delightful Beginning of New Year 2015 : River Tubing

The Big Family of Rinjani Timur Forest Management Unit

As I promised before I would like to tell you about my very first vacation ever along with big family of Rinjani Timur Forest Management Unit. We started our New Year 2015 in Suranadi Natural Park and Lesehan Taufik II. Well, ...

29 December 2014

This story started by long-short conversation such as below :D

“Eh mau pada kemana liburan tahun baru besok?” 

“Belum tahu, masih belum ada agenda.”

“Kita liburan bareng yuk ke Suranadi nanti main River Tubing juga.”

“Boleh – boleh”

“Kumpul jam 9 di rumah saya ya.”, said head of administration division of Rinjani Timur FMU.

Great Welcome 2015

The Big Family of Rinjani Timur Forest Management Unit

Let me welcome and celebrate this New Year even though it’s already late. Well, I don’t know why recently I feel like have no idea to write whereas there are so many things to write. Hahaha *just my reason for this very late update*but it is still better than have no update at all. 

2015. What’s special about New Year 2015? I don’t know. I feel like there’s no special thing occurred in this New Year. The turn of the year (31 Desember 2014 – 01 Januari 2015) with the same place, same situation, same day, same night, everything’s just same with the ordinary one  so I didn’t think exceedingly about this new year. The thing I really expect about this new year (at that time) was HOLIDAY. At that time I was hardly to get holiday. In the end of the year I was too hectic with pursuing my dream become a researcher. Went back and forth from Lombok Island to Jakarta about 3 times I couldn’t say it was holiday because although at that periods I had chance to go back to my hometown but all of my thought focused on my dream.