Well, I guess it's been a very while since the last time we posts something on this precious blog of our dear friendship. Even though, some part of this friendship has turned out to be a loveship actually. Yes! Yes, I am talking about the one that requests a post with the shortest post in this earth right before this post, since both of them are the contributor for this blog. Please, sir, make yourself a real post also... :D
Now, now, since we have grown a little, and most of us have graduated and trapped inside the cruel, real-life, maybe a little shifting in our genre would be acceptable, wouldn't it? I want to talk about a phrase that we never say it very dearly before like today.
But, before we proceed to the main course, I would like tell a little story which inspires me so much in the past, about this certain person that had always been a friend of mine in my one year journey to remote area.
His name is Een, I usually call him Kang Een since he is a Sundanese, probably late twenty at the moment. He is our school caretaker is Muara Basung. This Kang Een is no ordinary caretaker, at least that's what I thought about him. He might be only a face in the crowd for most of us, even for most of our students, since he doesn't stand out too much. He usually have things done without being noticed at all. But, I found this guy to be very incredible when it comes to his job.
At one time he told me a story about his dream, that he actually does not want to be a caretaker like this, that he has a more promising dream, more fortune in it. However, fate brought him here as our beloved caretaker. Well, he is not that an angel-like person with all of his good traits. You might find him quite a delinquent but let us put that aside since he is bigger than that.
I heard a story that this Kang Een is the one that revitalize most of our school property that was quite trashed out one year prior to my arrival there. He came to my newly appointed headmaster that also has brought Kang Een there to work. He said that he want to rejuvenate the school. He then explained about the re-painting of the school, providing his plan about the color that would looks good for this place, a match with the color Muara Basung unique soil, also for the roofs. He also plan to clean and fixed the filthy bathroom which seems to be neglected for quite some times before Kang Een arrives. And then, the establishment of library and health unit which happens to be also the dream of our headmaster.
I learned that that was the beginning story of this school, the reason behind why I am always amazed by the tidiness and cleanliness of this wonderful school. It was because Kang Een's endless hardwork and visionary thinking about the ideal school environment for the student. After all of that hardwork he was still planning for the next development, that is planting grass on our school ground and flowers in front our class corridors. He already has an imagination about how the flower should be arranged and how he wanted to have a group of bush arranged to spell our school's name.
It is just amazing. He already figured out and imagined everything about the ideal environment of this school, something that is not usually planned by a caretaker. A job that people usually underestimate and Kang Een was doing it to the fullest, or maybe beyond that. He works 24/7 with a number of holiday less than every of us. He is not only do what he is ordered but also think about what he should really do. He makes vision just like the rest of us with a more distinguished and seemingly honorable job description. But, he never said a word related to Thank God It's Friday (T.G.I.F.)
For us, the people who works five days a week, learning from a kind of person like Kang Een is a must. Why do we keep complaining about our jobs? Going to work every Monday grumbling and spend the rest of the week working while fully hoped for the Friday to come? Keep complaining about how we do not get a raise in salary? Keep on crying T.G.I.F every Friday and simultaneously curse when Monday is about to come, asking for more holidays?
Those are not sins, maybe those are not wrong at all. But, aren't we ashamed with Kang Een. He is paid lower than most of us yet he is doing his job more than he is expected to be. Kang Een has a bigger dream as he said to me back then, yet he is still doing that considered small job very well. Kang Een never had a specific holiday to say Thank God to, yet he proceed through the day as if it is nothing. I may not know how he feels inside but, at least he did not show any complaining on his situation.
We might want to say that we have achieved higher education that we are worth for more comfortable life. But, we must not forget that we are lucky enough to have parents or other persons to pay us for a higher education for that comfortable life. If we want to say that we have specialization that he don't have, then try doing those chores he is working on. I have try it and I know that for that kind of job, we also need a specialization, means that people like Kang Een should be paid more. However, the system does not allow us to paid him higher.
I don't want to be the good guy here, because I am also the one feels ashamed here. I was also the person who keeps complaining about life until I try to enjoy it more than before. My chance encounter with Kang Een has put more elation on my life, that maybe most of us missed the key of enjoying our job.
It is on "Do what you love, and love what you do" where the key lies.
In a condition, where we are unable to do what we love, it is loving what we do that surpasses all. Kang Een shows me how he try to love what he do, despite him having a bigger different dream than what he is doing currently. That is why in the end, he never tempted to complain too much about his situation.
Let us all think that we are lucky enough to have this considered better condition. Then let us try to love this situation, this job more than before until we stop complaining, as Kang Een with relatively less lucky condition was able to. Moreover, if we would say that our situation is worse than him, the try quitting your job and do his job. That is when you will understand the meaning of loving your job, because the possibility is twofold, you might find that being a caretaker is your passion then you can love the job, or that you regret complaining about your previous job and can finally love your previous job which you cannot return to now that it is too late. That is what it means to "do what you love and love what you do".
Let us learn from this person named Kang Een and forget the T.G.I.F. words, let us just do what we love and love what we do.
Smile eternally,
Wirapati
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20090713
Do you need kind of incentives for making such a beautiful friendship like this?
Mankiw's book told us since we entered this college : Rational People tend to incentives
are we rational people?i dont know
but, i know for sure. we dont need any kind of incentives for still walk together as bestfriend.
Maybe this is our final year, we've already through all happy,sad, surprising,and bored moments together. No matter who we are for years from now, just remember the one label, PIGGIES, the big family of IE 2006.
are we rational people?i dont know
but, i know for sure. we dont need any kind of incentives for still walk together as bestfriend.
Maybe this is our final year, we've already through all happy,sad, surprising,and bored moments together. No matter who we are for years from now, just remember the one label, PIGGIES, the big family of IE 2006.
20090207
the New Member is Coming
Hello,, my dearest friends...
Let me introduce myself briefly first My long name is Pande Putu Satyakumalasari Govinda. you can call me SASHA, visit my blog at sasha-govinda.blogspot.com
I'm now in my third year, the year of study that full of expextation, hope, dreams to get good score which also means well understanding of what we learn at class.
actually i don't wanna talk about our class or our lesson, at least in my first posting because of a "not really good" experience in my morning class today (sat,7 Feb 09) in Dekanat lt.3 (yeah, i think friends who ever take EMONLA lesson know the reason).
So, little bit information of my self now are
I live in a developing country that have many problems in economic, social, politics that can give me opportunities to contribute in healint it, make it better.
I study in a campus that has a challenge to pretend the predicate as a number one university in Indonesia.
I learn in Econonomics major that can show me how demand and supply interact in market to find it's equilibrium that can brings wealth to each person.
I play in a class that full of potential students who become my friends, my partners, in whatever way. We feel happy, sad, nervous, worry together in doing our project, or even study before exam.. hehehe....
They are all give EXPERIENCE in my life which can tell you the lill bit information about myself, There's no guarantee of knowing me well from what you hear, what you see, what you think,,
until you come and talk with me directly... =)
c u!
Let me introduce myself briefly first My long name is Pande Putu Satyakumalasari Govinda. you can call me SASHA, visit my blog at sasha-govinda.blogspot.com
I'm now in my third year, the year of study that full of expextation, hope, dreams to get good score which also means well understanding of what we learn at class.
actually i don't wanna talk about our class or our lesson, at least in my first posting because of a "not really good" experience in my morning class today (sat,7 Feb 09) in Dekanat lt.3 (yeah, i think friends who ever take EMONLA lesson know the reason).
So, little bit information of my self now are
I live in a developing country that have many problems in economic, social, politics that can give me opportunities to contribute in healint it, make it better.
I study in a campus that has a challenge to pretend the predicate as a number one university in Indonesia.
I learn in Econonomics major that can show me how demand and supply interact in market to find it's equilibrium that can brings wealth to each person.
I play in a class that full of potential students who become my friends, my partners, in whatever way. We feel happy, sad, nervous, worry together in doing our project, or even study before exam.. hehehe....
They are all give EXPERIENCE in my life which can tell you the lill bit information about myself, There's no guarantee of knowing me well from what you hear, what you see, what you think,,
until you come and talk with me directly... =)
c u!
20080817
sinetron cost
hi,guys..
i'm just thinking about simple thing, our original indonesian tv show; or we can say sinetron.
Maybe most of you are agree with me that sinetron is all hyperobolic. The story is all about 1 people tortured by other. Actually I forget when the last sinetron I followed. I think when I'm still in elementary school. But since that time until now, the story is just around that circles. Some of it are good in the early episodes, but when it continued, the story becomes boring and hyperbolic (remember tersanjung 7??). We all know that sinetron is also uneducate, specially for children. The point is, I really can't enjoy any sinetron, no offense for you who like it.hehe!
But, yesterday I saw gossip (third best show after jalan2 and maknyus2an) about young actress that cought when she was having drugs party. It's not her behaviour that I aware, but the gossip told me she gets about Rp.130million per episode. whaaat?? always that high for every artist? Then I found in google that acting yield are between Rp.500.000 - Rp.300.000.000 (Kompas,Juli 2006!). So I conclude that 'sinetron world' is using so much money. I don't want to approximate and calculate how much the cost for 1 sinetron or for all sinetron that showed, i know it must be so high. You can compare with other business (with more useful output for society).
Okay, If sinetron always cost very high,why they can't make a better story???? Logically, you have to spent Rp.130 million for every artist and story maker, so you must want they act very well, also the story. But, the fact is not like that..Maybe because the rating's high, they keep making such a typical story. But i don't think it's because many people like that, we just don't have preference. All the show are same, mau ga mau ya ditonton.
Director, sinetron maker, producer, please make more qualify and educate sinteron, so you don't lose out your money for NOTHING..
i'm just thinking about simple thing, our original indonesian tv show; or we can say sinetron.
Maybe most of you are agree with me that sinetron is all hyperobolic. The story is all about 1 people tortured by other. Actually I forget when the last sinetron I followed. I think when I'm still in elementary school. But since that time until now, the story is just around that circles. Some of it are good in the early episodes, but when it continued, the story becomes boring and hyperbolic (remember tersanjung 7??). We all know that sinetron is also uneducate, specially for children. The point is, I really can't enjoy any sinetron, no offense for you who like it.hehe!
But, yesterday I saw gossip (third best show after jalan2 and maknyus2an) about young actress that cought when she was having drugs party. It's not her behaviour that I aware, but the gossip told me she gets about Rp.130million per episode. whaaat?? always that high for every artist? Then I found in google that acting yield are between Rp.500.000 - Rp.300.000.000 (Kompas,Juli 2006!). So I conclude that 'sinetron world' is using so much money. I don't want to approximate and calculate how much the cost for 1 sinetron or for all sinetron that showed, i know it must be so high. You can compare with other business (with more useful output for society).
Okay, If sinetron always cost very high,why they can't make a better story???? Logically, you have to spent Rp.130 million for every artist and story maker, so you must want they act very well, also the story. But, the fact is not like that..Maybe because the rating's high, they keep making such a typical story. But i don't think it's because many people like that, we just don't have preference. All the show are same, mau ga mau ya ditonton.
Director, sinetron maker, producer, please make more qualify and educate sinteron, so you don't lose out your money for NOTHING..
20080813
The Golden Ways
Long time no see!
One day, I watched Metro TV and found out a very interesting show. It was about Mario Teguh and his book named The Golden Ways. Wow! I really found it very interesting and moreover inspiring,
I don't know what the book explained but at least, from the conversation, I think it was about friendship (they sang 'You've Got A Friend' there). What I've learn there is that we should not create enemies. Let our enemies become our friends by let them win.
Let them win? How could? Then we lost? No, what Mario Teguh said is that we have to become a winner by letting our opponent won. Sure it is hard to do, but, it is a very good thinking. Do we really become a loser when we lost? No, we bocome the real winner when we know we can win for sure, yet we let our opponent to win.
There's another interesting one. He said that to befriend we have to give something to someone. How can we give something we have nothing at all? And he said, "We can give someone without loving him/her, but we cannot love someone without giving him/her. When we say give, it means give everything. Give him/her yourself, your whole heart and feelings, tell him/her that you will always be there, for him/her." Nicely done, eh? To love means to give. Yeah, I agree!
So, people. There are many ways to befriend with others even your enemy. The Golden Ways is just one thing. You can create your own way. At least, you should keep this in mind.
Always be a winner, even when you lose!
Smile Eternally,
Wirapati
One day, I watched Metro TV and found out a very interesting show. It was about Mario Teguh and his book named The Golden Ways. Wow! I really found it very interesting and moreover inspiring,
I don't know what the book explained but at least, from the conversation, I think it was about friendship (they sang 'You've Got A Friend' there). What I've learn there is that we should not create enemies. Let our enemies become our friends by let them win.
Let them win? How could? Then we lost? No, what Mario Teguh said is that we have to become a winner by letting our opponent won. Sure it is hard to do, but, it is a very good thinking. Do we really become a loser when we lost? No, we bocome the real winner when we know we can win for sure, yet we let our opponent to win.
There's another interesting one. He said that to befriend we have to give something to someone. How can we give something we have nothing at all? And he said, "We can give someone without loving him/her, but we cannot love someone without giving him/her. When we say give, it means give everything. Give him/her yourself, your whole heart and feelings, tell him/her that you will always be there, for him/her." Nicely done, eh? To love means to give. Yeah, I agree!
So, people. There are many ways to befriend with others even your enemy. The Golden Ways is just one thing. You can create your own way. At least, you should keep this in mind.
Always be a winner, even when you lose!
Smile Eternally,
Wirapati
20080713
Becoming an inspiring person
Hey everyone!!
I'm now thinking about inspiring people...
I met lots of inspiring people nowadays, reading inspiring books & blogs, and get inspired.
I do really hope one day, I can be soo inspiring, can become someone who takes role in someone's life as an inspiring person.
How can some people become so inspiring?
In my opinion, a person can be inspired by someone when he heard something that he never experienced before and this thing is sooo great that makes the inspired person wants to experience it by himself.
Or when a person see this inspiring person is so great & make him wants to become like this inspiring person..
or maybe any other idea?
but anyway, one day I was so inspired by someone because of his achievements & his experience, I asked him about his life, how he made all of his experiences and he just said that it was nothing special,actually. He just grabbed the opportunities in front of him, all he needed was just determination to become a better person everyday, eagerness to learn, and an open mind.
So guys..let's become an inspiring person to the people around us..
Keep on our spirit, keep on being who we are, but let's open our mind to the challenges & the opportunities..:)
Shirin
I'm now thinking about inspiring people...
I met lots of inspiring people nowadays, reading inspiring books & blogs, and get inspired.
I do really hope one day, I can be soo inspiring, can become someone who takes role in someone's life as an inspiring person.
How can some people become so inspiring?
In my opinion, a person can be inspired by someone when he heard something that he never experienced before and this thing is sooo great that makes the inspired person wants to experience it by himself.
Or when a person see this inspiring person is so great & make him wants to become like this inspiring person..
or maybe any other idea?
but anyway, one day I was so inspired by someone because of his achievements & his experience, I asked him about his life, how he made all of his experiences and he just said that it was nothing special,actually. He just grabbed the opportunities in front of him, all he needed was just determination to become a better person everyday, eagerness to learn, and an open mind.
So guys..let's become an inspiring person to the people around us..
Keep on our spirit, keep on being who we are, but let's open our mind to the challenges & the opportunities..:)
Shirin
20080610
FIRST MEETING WITH ME AT THIS FANTASTIC BLOG
hey guys,,finally i write to this blog..hey i have a private blog too..you can visit it in coretankecilmahasiswabaru@blogspot.com..but unfortunately, i just have 1 posting in it..hahahaha..
now i want to introduce my self..my name is ALDI RIZA FACHRI..my first name is ALDI,,my middle name is RIZA,,and my last name is FACHRI..hahaha..but you cancall me with ALDI..hehehe..hey i have another name too in my senior high school, it is TBhe..i don't want to tell you why i have that name..hohoho..just like you guys, i am 19 years old..(wow i am still young, rather than most of you..hahahaha)..study in our lovely Faculty of Economics in Depok..my birthday in Oct' 31st..(you must give me some gift..hahahaha)..my address at P&K V street, no. 95, Parung Serab,,i have a dream about what will i be in the future..i hope i'll be an economist and study abroad, especially in tokyo university..when i'll be a student in todai??..3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 10 years,,just ALLAH SWT that know the answer.. okay stop,,i must stop my big mouth..(man, it is hard to write in english..hmm)
maybe that's all with my introduction,,next time if we meet again..i'll give you with my idea about this life..chaow
now i want to introduce my self..my name is ALDI RIZA FACHRI..my first name is ALDI,,my middle name is RIZA,,and my last name is FACHRI..hahaha..but you cancall me with ALDI..hehehe..hey i have another name too in my senior high school, it is TBhe..i don't want to tell you why i have that name..hohoho..just like you guys, i am 19 years old..(wow i am still young, rather than most of you..hahahaha)..study in our lovely Faculty of Economics in Depok..my birthday in Oct' 31st..(you must give me some gift..hahahaha)..my address at P&K V street, no. 95, Parung Serab,,i have a dream about what will i be in the future..i hope i'll be an economist and study abroad, especially in tokyo university..when i'll be a student in todai??..3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 10 years,,just ALLAH SWT that know the answer.. okay stop,,i must stop my big mouth..(man, it is hard to write in english..hmm)
maybe that's all with my introduction,,next time if we meet again..i'll give you with my idea about this life..chaow
20080530
1000 Wishes with 1000 Pains
Human is a creature of dreams. That's what I think of. Every single humman lives with the desire to fulfill what he dreams of at least before he dies.
There are some with big dreams, while there are some with just a normal dreams of lives a normal life. At least, there are no human with no dreams of wishes.
But really, be careful with everything that you wish for. Cuz, every realization of wishes will generate side effects.
I got this idea from the lyrics of DAUGHTRY band song "HOME". Here's the lyrics:
Be careful what you wish for, cuz you just might get it all, you just might get it all, then some you don't want.
Well, that's that.
It's been long time since i'd thought about that. And not for a long time ago, I found my logic answer.
We really have to be careful with what we wish for. Cuz, just like the Daughtry said, you might get it all, and together with some that you don't want.
Let's make it like this. You dream of being a very richman, living with lots of money and women. You can get everything with all of your money. You got what you dream of right? But, at the same time, you get something that you might don't want. It's LEISURE TIME. Since you have lots of assets, you have to maintain all of your assets and it will take your leisure time to work. You will lost freedom. Then, since you have lots of women as you wife, you have to divide your time that have been decreased by works. And at the last, since you have lots of money, your children might think that they can do everything and it can be bad, like having narcotics or something.
You have a wonderful life and yet you generate a seed of messy life.
So, always be careful with what you wish for. Always think of the consequences and don't bother to think about it from now. Before it's too late. Since A Thousand of Wishes Might Gives You A Thousand of Pains.
Smile Eternally,
Wirapati...
There are some with big dreams, while there are some with just a normal dreams of lives a normal life. At least, there are no human with no dreams of wishes.
But really, be careful with everything that you wish for. Cuz, every realization of wishes will generate side effects.
I got this idea from the lyrics of DAUGHTRY band song "HOME". Here's the lyrics:
Be careful what you wish for, cuz you just might get it all, you just might get it all, then some you don't want.
Well, that's that.
It's been long time since i'd thought about that. And not for a long time ago, I found my logic answer.
We really have to be careful with what we wish for. Cuz, just like the Daughtry said, you might get it all, and together with some that you don't want.
Let's make it like this. You dream of being a very richman, living with lots of money and women. You can get everything with all of your money. You got what you dream of right? But, at the same time, you get something that you might don't want. It's LEISURE TIME. Since you have lots of assets, you have to maintain all of your assets and it will take your leisure time to work. You will lost freedom. Then, since you have lots of women as you wife, you have to divide your time that have been decreased by works. And at the last, since you have lots of money, your children might think that they can do everything and it can be bad, like having narcotics or something.
You have a wonderful life and yet you generate a seed of messy life.
So, always be careful with what you wish for. Always think of the consequences and don't bother to think about it from now. Before it's too late. Since A Thousand of Wishes Might Gives You A Thousand of Pains.
Smile Eternally,
Wirapati...
20080510
social discrepancy
lately, I keep my mind with all people around me..people I met in street especially..maybe it's because I study economics, I care about them..I think about them..it's an usual picture of a capital city..very rich people among a lot of the poor..I'm thinking about people who work as salesman in the street..They sell newspaper,magz,map,even big balloon..can u imagine? who's gonna buy it?! nobody! maybe newspaper will easier to sold, but balloon or some ridiculous toys for children in the middle of heavy traffic? I don't think somebody would buy that..so? where their (salesman) income comes from?? they can't sell anything? or maybe they can sell one or two pieces, but ofcourse it won't enough to feed their family..I always wonder how much they earn everyday..maybe i should take small research for this..How can some people are like live in heaven of money and others doesn't have any money to eat? So unfair for me..
anyway, I found something interesting last month..Me and my mom were on the way home..in traffic light,we saw a family in a motorcycle..I was thinking about their wealth..how much the parents earn? why they have to use motorcycle for 4 people? what can i do to solve this proverty? But, in my mom's point of view, "hey, the children's hair is stiff and brown..it must because they don't have enough nutrition.." this is from a doctor's thought..
huehehe..we think differently depends on what we learn..
This is our lovely country..now we have to face it, but later (also from now) we should beat this problem..Like roy said, generation are better and better..Yes we can solve any problem on the road to perfect generation..
anyway, I found something interesting last month..Me and my mom were on the way home..in traffic light,we saw a family in a motorcycle..I was thinking about their wealth..how much the parents earn? why they have to use motorcycle for 4 people? what can i do to solve this proverty? But, in my mom's point of view, "hey, the children's hair is stiff and brown..it must because they don't have enough nutrition.." this is from a doctor's thought..
huehehe..we think differently depends on what we learn..
This is our lovely country..now we have to face it, but later (also from now) we should beat this problem..Like roy said, generation are better and better..Yes we can solve any problem on the road to perfect generation..
20080508
The R.P.G.
Are asking me what does the title means?
No way! I'm not gonna answer it that easily!
The R.P.G. stands for The Road to Perfect Generation!
This is actually another positive thinking philosophy of mine. Hmm.. Where should I start?
Okay. One day I read something really interesting, a quotations. It said."The next generation will always surpass the previous one, that's one of the never-ending cycle in life". I've got something in my mind when I read that.
Whenever we, as the next generation, surpass the previous one, we eill become a better generation. Just like when old generation said that velocity is absolute, Albert Einstein as next generations of mechanics comes up with a revolution that said that velocity is absolutely relative, except the velocity of light.
This world expands when the generation expands.
Let us make this like this. The next generation surpasses the previous, and the next next generation surpasses the next, and the next next next generation surpasses the next next, and so on. With the flow of time, we will become better and better. And in time approaching the unlimited, we wil create a TRULY PERFECT GENERATION. That is the R.P.G.
So, as the next generation, let us surpass the previous one. Prof. Dorodjatun once said to me,"Look forward, don't you preoccupied by the spion mirror, you will never move forward".
Let the old generations end their era. This is our time. Use what they've done as lessons and surpass them by correcting what've been wrong in their era.
In smaller scale, try to surpass your own father, and one day you will have a perfect grand grand grand............grand children.
Have that spirit. One day our generation will rule the population. Do not wait for the world to change, but change the world!
Surpass them, the old generation. Our era is coming!
Smile eternally,
Wirapati..
No way! I'm not gonna answer it that easily!
The R.P.G. stands for The Road to Perfect Generation!
This is actually another positive thinking philosophy of mine. Hmm.. Where should I start?
Okay. One day I read something really interesting, a quotations. It said."The next generation will always surpass the previous one, that's one of the never-ending cycle in life". I've got something in my mind when I read that.
Whenever we, as the next generation, surpass the previous one, we eill become a better generation. Just like when old generation said that velocity is absolute, Albert Einstein as next generations of mechanics comes up with a revolution that said that velocity is absolutely relative, except the velocity of light.
This world expands when the generation expands.
Let us make this like this. The next generation surpasses the previous, and the next next generation surpasses the next, and the next next next generation surpasses the next next, and so on. With the flow of time, we will become better and better. And in time approaching the unlimited, we wil create a TRULY PERFECT GENERATION. That is the R.P.G.
So, as the next generation, let us surpass the previous one. Prof. Dorodjatun once said to me,"Look forward, don't you preoccupied by the spion mirror, you will never move forward".
Let the old generations end their era. This is our time. Use what they've done as lessons and surpass them by correcting what've been wrong in their era.
In smaller scale, try to surpass your own father, and one day you will have a perfect grand grand grand............grand children.
Have that spirit. One day our generation will rule the population. Do not wait for the world to change, but change the world!
Surpass them, the old generation. Our era is coming!
Smile eternally,
Wirapati..
20080405
Hmmm..
So glad the mid exam has finished!!!! I really don't even dare to think about the result.. I know I didn't do well..
By the way, yesterday we (the IE-ers), went to Taman Safari-Puncak!! Well not all of us, but most of us, plus my boyfriend.. It was a really great trip!!!!!! It will definitely be an unforgettable moment for all of us.. But since I'm not a good story teller, I won't tell you about exactly what we did.. I'll just leave it to someone else..
Hoho.. The only thing I can say is :
Our world is in a great danger.. Global warming is in front of us and those animals need our help!!
So start to make a difference!!
By the way, yesterday we (the IE-ers), went to Taman Safari-Puncak!! Well not all of us, but most of us, plus my boyfriend.. It was a really great trip!!!!!! It will definitely be an unforgettable moment for all of us.. But since I'm not a good story teller, I won't tell you about exactly what we did.. I'll just leave it to someone else..
Hoho.. The only thing I can say is :
Our world is in a great danger.. Global warming is in front of us and those animals need our help!!
So start to make a difference!!
20080402
bonjour!
aloha everyoneee..
Let me introduce myself, my name is Alia Kemala Sari..call me aLia or you can change the last character you like (alia,alibe,alice,etc)..Like the others, I study in FEUI major economics in same year..about me,hmm..I'm just ordinary 19 years old girl who love to laugh,and live happily with my family n friends..I like to dance,specially ballet..i can do violin but not good at it..
hmm..what else should I say? anyway..today is 1 day after last UTS,monetary economics..I'm so sleepy and kinda sick. I think most of us feel the same..but I'm glad it's over..some people still have to fight with AB and I hope the best for you,best for us!
hmm,maybe my write will not as much as others, but hopefully can coloured this wonderful idea of life (without tralala like widiy's, hehe)..
Well,that's it from me..
Enjoy the blog!
Let me introduce myself, my name is Alia Kemala Sari..call me aLia or you can change the last character you like (alia,alibe,alice,etc)..Like the others, I study in FEUI major economics in same year..about me,hmm..I'm just ordinary 19 years old girl who love to laugh,and live happily with my family n friends..I like to dance,specially ballet..i can do violin but not good at it..
hmm..what else should I say? anyway..today is 1 day after last UTS,monetary economics..I'm so sleepy and kinda sick. I think most of us feel the same..but I'm glad it's over..some people still have to fight with AB and I hope the best for you,best for us!
hmm,maybe my write will not as much as others, but hopefully can coloured this wonderful idea of life (without tralala like widiy's, hehe)..
Well,that's it from me..
Enjoy the blog!
20080401
The Law of Absolute Capacity
I know that most of you will disagree with my opinion about this. But, at least I believe in this one, so that I can think positively every time.
I believe that we human live with something called CAPACITY. Our capacity reflects our ability, skill, knowledge, intelligence and everything that develop your potentials. It was said that we, human beings, could only use 1% of our capacity.
I believe it's true.
Then one day, I think it's last night, I come up with a wonder. If our present ability is only 1% of our capacity, how tremendous our true ability would be when we reach our maximum capacity? Would it be 100 times powerful or smarter or anything better? If it's only 100 times better (since 100% is equal to 1% times 100), then, someone with, no offense, such a low physical state could only get stronger by 100 times that it does not guarantee him that he will be stronger than someone that could only use 1% of his ability. How about if the gap is too far?
About two hours ago, while I was driving. I watch cars passing by at the highway. The cars looked like moving slowly. And I remember something, The Law of Mechanics said that the velocity of a moving object is relative to the velocity of other object. That's what Einstein said in his book 'Forgive Me, Newton'.
Talking about Einstein, I come up with another pop up in mind. Einstein is once faced mystery, if we move in the speed of light while facing a mirror that move in the same speed, will we see our reflection there? The answer is YES. Why's that? Aren't we move in the speed of light that the reflection of our body is mocing in the same speed of us (since reflection is lights-based object), so our reflection would never reach the mirror? That's EINSTEIN RELATIVITY THEOREM. Every moving object have relative velocity to other object, except one thing... THE SPEED OF LIGHT. No matter how fast you move, the speed of light will stay in same value of 3.10^8 m/s, even though we move with the speed of light.
Then I come up with one idea. It answers my wonder about how far can we grow our ability to approach our capacity. The answer is almost unlimited. I believe that no matter how strong we grow, how smart we become, our used capacity will stay at the same percentage of 1%. This value of capacity is absolute, just like the speed of light.
So, there is no limit for us to grow up, since no matter how much we grow, we are still using the same percentage of capacity.
Then, how can in the reality, someone can no longer be stronger, like you cannot run faster than your actual macimum speed now? It is because you believe so. You believe that you are unable. You believe that this is your maximum capacity. Your thoughts limits yourself. You create a wall for yourself.
I know that it is ridiculous. That someone like me could run faster than any olympic runner? I believe I can. As long as I believe that, and I train myself with a proper training to surpass my limit. Aren't there are a story that there will be no one that can run through the range of 1 miles under 4 minutes? Half a century ago, someone challenge the impossible thing, trying to run under 4 minutes. Everybody's laughing at him. But, what is the fact? He could beat the impossible. That is because he believes that it can be done, and train hard to accomplish it. Nowadays, people could run faster than that.
This is the almighty of the God, creating a creature like us, the human beings. What makes we more special than any other creature? It is that we could improve ourself infinitely, and our improvements will never ends, as long as we believe we can still improve and try to realize that. In the age of stone, the pre-historic, trying to fly is impossible, and now, we have aeroplanes that could allow us to travel the wide blue sky.
The improvement is not just physically, it can be mentally, spiritually, emotionally, even the improvement of intelligence. It is all only 1% of our macimum capacity and will always be that no matter how much we improve. I call my thesis as...
The Law of Absolute Capacity
I know it sounds ridiculous. You may not believe it. But, at least I believe that and I live with that beliefs. I just want to share a thought that you must not give up. When you say that your brain is already at its limit and you will never improve no matter how hard you study, you are just reasoning to yourself that you do not want to study, you do not want to try harder, thus you create your own limits.
Even though our limit is unlimited, do not ever forget that you still have to SHARPEN THE SAW, by resting to increase or recover your productivity. You know that cutting timber with dull saw will take your time a lot. So, why don't you rest for a while and sharpen your saw and then continue your works with a sharp saw to make your work easier.
One last sentence, NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE IMPROVE OURSELVES, THE CAPACITY THAT WE ACHIEVE IS AN ABSOLUTE 1% SO THAT WE CAN ALWAYS IMPROVE OURSELVES UNLIMITEDLY.
THAT IS THE LAW OF ABSOLUTE CAPACITY...
I believe that we human live with something called CAPACITY. Our capacity reflects our ability, skill, knowledge, intelligence and everything that develop your potentials. It was said that we, human beings, could only use 1% of our capacity.
I believe it's true.
Then one day, I think it's last night, I come up with a wonder. If our present ability is only 1% of our capacity, how tremendous our true ability would be when we reach our maximum capacity? Would it be 100 times powerful or smarter or anything better? If it's only 100 times better (since 100% is equal to 1% times 100), then, someone with, no offense, such a low physical state could only get stronger by 100 times that it does not guarantee him that he will be stronger than someone that could only use 1% of his ability. How about if the gap is too far?
About two hours ago, while I was driving. I watch cars passing by at the highway. The cars looked like moving slowly. And I remember something, The Law of Mechanics said that the velocity of a moving object is relative to the velocity of other object. That's what Einstein said in his book 'Forgive Me, Newton'.
Talking about Einstein, I come up with another pop up in mind. Einstein is once faced mystery, if we move in the speed of light while facing a mirror that move in the same speed, will we see our reflection there? The answer is YES. Why's that? Aren't we move in the speed of light that the reflection of our body is mocing in the same speed of us (since reflection is lights-based object), so our reflection would never reach the mirror? That's EINSTEIN RELATIVITY THEOREM. Every moving object have relative velocity to other object, except one thing... THE SPEED OF LIGHT. No matter how fast you move, the speed of light will stay in same value of 3.10^8 m/s, even though we move with the speed of light.
Then I come up with one idea. It answers my wonder about how far can we grow our ability to approach our capacity. The answer is almost unlimited. I believe that no matter how strong we grow, how smart we become, our used capacity will stay at the same percentage of 1%. This value of capacity is absolute, just like the speed of light.
So, there is no limit for us to grow up, since no matter how much we grow, we are still using the same percentage of capacity.
Then, how can in the reality, someone can no longer be stronger, like you cannot run faster than your actual macimum speed now? It is because you believe so. You believe that you are unable. You believe that this is your maximum capacity. Your thoughts limits yourself. You create a wall for yourself.
I know that it is ridiculous. That someone like me could run faster than any olympic runner? I believe I can. As long as I believe that, and I train myself with a proper training to surpass my limit. Aren't there are a story that there will be no one that can run through the range of 1 miles under 4 minutes? Half a century ago, someone challenge the impossible thing, trying to run under 4 minutes. Everybody's laughing at him. But, what is the fact? He could beat the impossible. That is because he believes that it can be done, and train hard to accomplish it. Nowadays, people could run faster than that.
This is the almighty of the God, creating a creature like us, the human beings. What makes we more special than any other creature? It is that we could improve ourself infinitely, and our improvements will never ends, as long as we believe we can still improve and try to realize that. In the age of stone, the pre-historic, trying to fly is impossible, and now, we have aeroplanes that could allow us to travel the wide blue sky.
The improvement is not just physically, it can be mentally, spiritually, emotionally, even the improvement of intelligence. It is all only 1% of our macimum capacity and will always be that no matter how much we improve. I call my thesis as...
The Law of Absolute Capacity
I know it sounds ridiculous. You may not believe it. But, at least I believe that and I live with that beliefs. I just want to share a thought that you must not give up. When you say that your brain is already at its limit and you will never improve no matter how hard you study, you are just reasoning to yourself that you do not want to study, you do not want to try harder, thus you create your own limits.
Even though our limit is unlimited, do not ever forget that you still have to SHARPEN THE SAW, by resting to increase or recover your productivity. You know that cutting timber with dull saw will take your time a lot. So, why don't you rest for a while and sharpen your saw and then continue your works with a sharp saw to make your work easier.
One last sentence, NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE IMPROVE OURSELVES, THE CAPACITY THAT WE ACHIEVE IS AN ABSOLUTE 1% SO THAT WE CAN ALWAYS IMPROVE OURSELVES UNLIMITEDLY.
THAT IS THE LAW OF ABSOLUTE CAPACITY...
Are you afraid to break your limit?
No Hard Feelings, No Offense,
Wirapati..
No Hard Feelings, No Offense,
Wirapati..
20080310
Questions about life
Hello, people!!
Finally, after several months joining this blog, now is the first time I write on it..Haha.
So, a brief introductory first..
I'm Shirin (it's a good name,right? hehehe), one of the student in Economics UI and I'm the lucky one who have such great friends here..:)
These days, I've been thinking about life..
Why are there some people who have bad luck in their life?
If Mr. Bush wasn’t the president of USA, would my life be the same?
If my parents hadn’t moved to Jakarta, would I get to FE UI?
What is the difference between me and other people? And why are we different?
If my name was not Shirin, would I be the same person as today?
If my dad didn't marry my mom, would I exist?
If now I was not writing on this blog, would all the things be the same?
and so many other if, if, and if..
I remember one day, when I was doing my pray in my mom's bedroom and I was about 7 or 8 years old, something just came into my mind and made me think about life hardly. I suddenly thought that if I wasn’t Shirin, what would I be? I remember that it was the first time I hardly think about life..
And until now, I still keep thinking about it when I’m not doing anything.
Sometimes, I also think that one event can cause other events to occur.
So, if I was not accepted in FEUI, would this blog be made? :D
Any of you can help me to find the answers?
By the way, I’ve just got some good quotes and I’ll share it to you:
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....(Martin Luther)
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life (Winston Churchill)
Finally, after several months joining this blog, now is the first time I write on it..Haha.
So, a brief introductory first..
I'm Shirin (it's a good name,right? hehehe), one of the student in Economics UI and I'm the lucky one who have such great friends here..:)
These days, I've been thinking about life..
Why are there some people who have bad luck in their life?
If Mr. Bush wasn’t the president of USA, would my life be the same?
If my parents hadn’t moved to Jakarta, would I get to FE UI?
What is the difference between me and other people? And why are we different?
If my name was not Shirin, would I be the same person as today?
If my dad didn't marry my mom, would I exist?
If now I was not writing on this blog, would all the things be the same?
and so many other if, if, and if..
I remember one day, when I was doing my pray in my mom's bedroom and I was about 7 or 8 years old, something just came into my mind and made me think about life hardly. I suddenly thought that if I wasn’t Shirin, what would I be? I remember that it was the first time I hardly think about life..
And until now, I still keep thinking about it when I’m not doing anything.
Sometimes, I also think that one event can cause other events to occur.
So, if I was not accepted in FEUI, would this blog be made? :D
Any of you can help me to find the answers?
By the way, I’ve just got some good quotes and I’ll share it to you:
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....(Martin Luther)
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life (Winston Churchill)
20080303
The Depth and The Stone..
Another simple philosophy here..
I am talking about an analogy of water depth now. Let say it is a lake with a certain depth. When a lake is so shallow, you can see the bottom of the lake almost clearly. When a lake is so deep, all you can see is the darkness of the bottom. But, you cannot see the bottom of the lake itself.
Now throw a lake with a stone. The more shallow the lake, the wave will remain vibrating longer. Throwing a bigger stone to the lake will also create a longlasting wave. Also, the water will be easily crumbled when the water be thrown by a stone if the depth is so shallow.
What does it means?
Water depth is an analogy of your knowledge. The little you know, and other people could see through the very bottom of your thinking, just like when you see the bottom of the shallow lake. The more you know, and other people will find it hard to see through your thinking, just like when you see the bottom of a deep lake. This 'hard to see through thinking' does not have the meaning of cannot be understood. It is all about predictable or unpredictable thinking. People with depth will become an unpredictable person. They can come up with a very special idea that no one have ever predict it or expect it. While a very shallow person will have an ordinary thinking that everybody could predict, so everybody can prepare for the counter attack.
The more shallow the lake, the longer the wave will remains vibrating. It means that when you strike a shallow person with intelligence (stone is the analogy of intelligence), they will receive a great disadvantage (wave is hte analogy of damage) and the disadvantage will remain longer, vice versa. The greater he intelligence you had the greater the disadvantage you can inflict to the person.
The depth represents the KNOWLEDGE you have. The stone represents the INTELLIGENCE you have. The more knowledge you have, the intelligence your opponent need to take you on. Knowledge is the representative of defense while intelligence is the representative of attack. To hold of your opponents argument when you are in a some kind of debate, you have to use your knowledge to break the logic that your opponent use to strike you. To strike your opponent, you have to use your intelligence to seek his weaknesses on his arguments. Having both of them is necessary.
That is the analogy of 'The Depth and The Stone'..
I am talking about an analogy of water depth now. Let say it is a lake with a certain depth. When a lake is so shallow, you can see the bottom of the lake almost clearly. When a lake is so deep, all you can see is the darkness of the bottom. But, you cannot see the bottom of the lake itself.
Now throw a lake with a stone. The more shallow the lake, the wave will remain vibrating longer. Throwing a bigger stone to the lake will also create a longlasting wave. Also, the water will be easily crumbled when the water be thrown by a stone if the depth is so shallow.
What does it means?
Water depth is an analogy of your knowledge. The little you know, and other people could see through the very bottom of your thinking, just like when you see the bottom of the shallow lake. The more you know, and other people will find it hard to see through your thinking, just like when you see the bottom of a deep lake. This 'hard to see through thinking' does not have the meaning of cannot be understood. It is all about predictable or unpredictable thinking. People with depth will become an unpredictable person. They can come up with a very special idea that no one have ever predict it or expect it. While a very shallow person will have an ordinary thinking that everybody could predict, so everybody can prepare for the counter attack.
The more shallow the lake, the longer the wave will remains vibrating. It means that when you strike a shallow person with intelligence (stone is the analogy of intelligence), they will receive a great disadvantage (wave is hte analogy of damage) and the disadvantage will remain longer, vice versa. The greater he intelligence you had the greater the disadvantage you can inflict to the person.
The depth represents the KNOWLEDGE you have. The stone represents the INTELLIGENCE you have. The more knowledge you have, the intelligence your opponent need to take you on. Knowledge is the representative of defense while intelligence is the representative of attack. To hold of your opponents argument when you are in a some kind of debate, you have to use your knowledge to break the logic that your opponent use to strike you. To strike your opponent, you have to use your intelligence to seek his weaknesses on his arguments. Having both of them is necessary.
That is the analogy of 'The Depth and The Stone'..
The Theory of Love (SR and LR Case)
Dear humanity around the world.
As an opening, I want to share my cynic-est thought about how finding a girl/boyfriend. You know what is it? Yes, to me, there is a short run trade-offs between the qualities of face (handsomeness or beauty-ness) of a people, with the how long her/his love relationship will he/she kept.
Now here’s the logic. A person with a good looking face will usually disloyal to his/her relationship. Why? Assume that he or she knows that he or she has a good looking face, this kind of people will have nothing to lose if they failed his/her relationship. Why, they’ll easy to get a new one. Another effect is they have a high bargaining power if they have a conflict with their couple.
Otherwise, people with a not-good looking face will usually more loyal to his/her relationship. Yes you know why, they are realize that looking for people that loves him/her is really hard, with an assumption that he or she know that he or she has a not-good looking face, and feel very depressed finding his/her lover. They’ll uneasy to get a new one. And of course, they’ll have a low bargaining power.
Are you belief in that? It’s up to you. Maybe it’ll help you to find your perfect girl/boyfriend.
But that is not the main idea ladies and gentleman, that is only my shallow thought with a lot of assumption. And... it is short run. When the relationship turns to long run, we can decrease the assumption, because the factor that support the relationship is increase, such as; commitment, trust, willingness to sacrifice, etc. Couples will start to learn how precious their relationship is in long run. Why, because they start to use HEART not ego.
To explain this, I will use that two shallow theorem up there. A person with good looking, will start to realize that their good looking face will be useless to his/her relationship, unless they use their heart to feel this relationship precious. They will decrease his bargaining power and start to give it to their pair.
A person with not-good looking will have their confidence increase, because their pair has shown a true meaning of love, they not just love by looking on the face, but the personality. So their bargaining power will increase though.
If you agree with the explanation above, you will agree with this conclusion.
“THE LONG RUN RELATIONSHIP WILL MAKE ALL EQUALIZE”
So guys, make your relationship a long run one. When is it? It’s like the Theory of Production. Short run production is when we just only increase one factor of production and let the others same. And productions enter the long run when we increase more than one factor of production to increase output. It takes same with this SR and LR Theory of Love. The assumption of this theory is all people is approach the one who they love for the reason of his or her face quality (but in real world, a lot of people act like this right?). When you just only enter the Quality of Face as your Factor of Love and let your COMMITMENT, TRUST, WILLINGNESS TO SACRIFICE, etc. stay the same, you are having an Short Run Relationship. This relationship tends to be uneverlasting and you won’t get anything from it. But when you increase another Factor of Love, COMMITMENT, TRUST, and WILLINGNESS TO SACRIFICE, you will make the relationship is possible to be everlasting and you’ll learn a lot from this relationship.
So, you knew the benefits of Long Run Relationship, why you won’t try? Like AIESEC said, “it’s up to you!”
As an opening, I want to share my cynic-est thought about how finding a girl/boyfriend. You know what is it? Yes, to me, there is a short run trade-offs between the qualities of face (handsomeness or beauty-ness) of a people, with the how long her/his love relationship will he/she kept.
Now here’s the logic. A person with a good looking face will usually disloyal to his/her relationship. Why? Assume that he or she knows that he or she has a good looking face, this kind of people will have nothing to lose if they failed his/her relationship. Why, they’ll easy to get a new one. Another effect is they have a high bargaining power if they have a conflict with their couple.
Otherwise, people with a not-good looking face will usually more loyal to his/her relationship. Yes you know why, they are realize that looking for people that loves him/her is really hard, with an assumption that he or she know that he or she has a not-good looking face, and feel very depressed finding his/her lover. They’ll uneasy to get a new one. And of course, they’ll have a low bargaining power.
Are you belief in that? It’s up to you. Maybe it’ll help you to find your perfect girl/boyfriend.
But that is not the main idea ladies and gentleman, that is only my shallow thought with a lot of assumption. And... it is short run. When the relationship turns to long run, we can decrease the assumption, because the factor that support the relationship is increase, such as; commitment, trust, willingness to sacrifice, etc. Couples will start to learn how precious their relationship is in long run. Why, because they start to use HEART not ego.
To explain this, I will use that two shallow theorem up there. A person with good looking, will start to realize that their good looking face will be useless to his/her relationship, unless they use their heart to feel this relationship precious. They will decrease his bargaining power and start to give it to their pair.
A person with not-good looking will have their confidence increase, because their pair has shown a true meaning of love, they not just love by looking on the face, but the personality. So their bargaining power will increase though.
If you agree with the explanation above, you will agree with this conclusion.
“THE LONG RUN RELATIONSHIP WILL MAKE ALL EQUALIZE”
So guys, make your relationship a long run one. When is it? It’s like the Theory of Production. Short run production is when we just only increase one factor of production and let the others same. And productions enter the long run when we increase more than one factor of production to increase output. It takes same with this SR and LR Theory of Love. The assumption of this theory is all people is approach the one who they love for the reason of his or her face quality (but in real world, a lot of people act like this right?). When you just only enter the Quality of Face as your Factor of Love and let your COMMITMENT, TRUST, WILLINGNESS TO SACRIFICE, etc. stay the same, you are having an Short Run Relationship. This relationship tends to be uneverlasting and you won’t get anything from it. But when you increase another Factor of Love, COMMITMENT, TRUST, and WILLINGNESS TO SACRIFICE, you will make the relationship is possible to be everlasting and you’ll learn a lot from this relationship.
So, you knew the benefits of Long Run Relationship, why you won’t try? Like AIESEC said, “it’s up to you!”
The frog jumping
One of my friend ever told me that “ if you put frog on the box with tall 7cm for 6 months, the frog just can jump up to 7cm even when we put it on the outside of the box for its whole life”.
The simulation maybe like this : when the frog in the 7cm tall of box for 6 months, it usual for jumping just up to 7cm otherwise the frog can jump more than 7cm, and if we let it go outside the box, on the pond it just can jump up to 7cm like before, shorter than other frogs can do naturally, because it has been limited in jumping.
How about if it isn’t a frog but human, one person, we can called her as X. X always has her own fear : I am not good in English, I am not beautiful, I am not a good speaker, I can’t do debate, I can’t write some writings interestingly, I am not smart enough and bla..blaa..bla.. Are those things right? Maybe not, if she just thinking and talking about that without try to find the real evidence of that, because those are just “the limits” that she creates for herself, she makes herself feel she is nothing and can’t do everything. So when there are lot of opportunities around her, she never brave to try, she always meet the tall wall that prevents her take those, like the frog when big world is on its face it always thinking that it is on the 7cm box not on the pond where it can jump as high as it want. Box not only blocks its ability for jumping but also its mind for thingking it can jump higher than that.
She or you never know for exactly how high is your real limit until you try for jumping, but not jumping in the box but at the pond. You never know you can swim until you try to do it. Opportunities always there, what you have to do is take it, be brave to try, and never felt afraid to lose. The loser is not somebody who lose the game, but somebody who leave the game before running to the field.
The key is “challenge your self”, never create limits to you. Just keep trying to take all opportunities around you, whether the result is perfect or not is not the main problem because we just a human being, the most important is you know for exactly how high your limit after you try for jumping as high as you can do best, not only measure it on your mind with your own fear because it isn’t your real limit that’s your box. Proof that You are the frog on the pond not the frog in the 7cm box !
The simulation maybe like this : when the frog in the 7cm tall of box for 6 months, it usual for jumping just up to 7cm otherwise the frog can jump more than 7cm, and if we let it go outside the box, on the pond it just can jump up to 7cm like before, shorter than other frogs can do naturally, because it has been limited in jumping.
How about if it isn’t a frog but human, one person, we can called her as X. X always has her own fear : I am not good in English, I am not beautiful, I am not a good speaker, I can’t do debate, I can’t write some writings interestingly, I am not smart enough and bla..blaa..bla.. Are those things right? Maybe not, if she just thinking and talking about that without try to find the real evidence of that, because those are just “the limits” that she creates for herself, she makes herself feel she is nothing and can’t do everything. So when there are lot of opportunities around her, she never brave to try, she always meet the tall wall that prevents her take those, like the frog when big world is on its face it always thinking that it is on the 7cm box not on the pond where it can jump as high as it want. Box not only blocks its ability for jumping but also its mind for thingking it can jump higher than that.
She or you never know for exactly how high is your real limit until you try for jumping, but not jumping in the box but at the pond. You never know you can swim until you try to do it. Opportunities always there, what you have to do is take it, be brave to try, and never felt afraid to lose. The loser is not somebody who lose the game, but somebody who leave the game before running to the field.
The key is “challenge your self”, never create limits to you. Just keep trying to take all opportunities around you, whether the result is perfect or not is not the main problem because we just a human being, the most important is you know for exactly how high your limit after you try for jumping as high as you can do best, not only measure it on your mind with your own fear because it isn’t your real limit that’s your box. Proof that You are the frog on the pond not the frog in the 7cm box !
20080302
You, God, and the Concept of Unity
Have you ever think about God, who is He, where is He, what is He, or even how can I meet Him? Well, this weekend I went to a course held by The Beshara School. It is some kind of a spiritual course that helps you knows more about who you really are and what is the essential of being a human. Beshara itself means a good news. And i am going to tell you about what i have heard. I do not expect you to believe in what I am going to say, but it is better to think more deeply about it.
We often heard that God is nearer to us than ourself, than our soul, and than our breath. So where is He exactly? Well, there is a thought that describe God. It says, "God is me, I am no other than Him, but I am not him." This sentence means that God is in yourself, ourself. Because you are the manifestation of the existence of the truth, while the truth means God. I will give you an example. If you have a flower in front of the mirror, the flower itself would be the Reality (God). And the image of flower in the mirror is you, or us (the servants). You see that there is two individual, the real flower and the image of flower. The flower can say that it is the flower. But the one in the mirror can't say that it is the flower because it is just an image of the real flower. So actually there is only one individual which is the real flower.
I will give you another example. When you see a white light goes into a prism, it would divided to some colors. In this example, the white light is the Reality and the colors are the Immanence. The white light is the source of the colors and the colors have the characteristics of the white light. But it does not have all characteristic of white light. Every color is unique. They do not same one and another. The red is red and it is impossible for red to be yellow, green, blue, and of course white. So, we can say that each person is an extension of the being in the relative world, dressed up in dimensions of space and time.
According to Ibn 'Arabi there is only Reality in existence. This Reality we view from two different angles, which we call it haqq (the Real) when we regad it as the Essence of all phenomena and khalq (the Immanence) when we regard it as the manifested phenomena of that Essence. Haqq and khalq, Reality and Appearance, the One and the Many, are only two subjective aspects of One Reality: it is a real unity but an empirical diversity. The Reality is God. "If you regard Him trough Him", Ibn 'Arabi says, " then He regard Himself trough Himself, which is the state of unity; but if you regard Him through yourself then the unity is vanishes."
The One is everywhere as an Essence, and nowhere as the Universal Essence which is above and beyond all 'where' and 'how'. "Unity has no other meaning than two (or more) things being actually identical, but conceptually distinguishable the one from the other; so in one sense the one is the other; in another is not." "Multiplicity is due to different points of view, not to an actual division in the One Essence." So, basically every person is different but we came from the same source, the One. And what seems to multiply the One is the ahkam (predications) which we predicate of external object - the fact that we bring them under categories of color, size, shape and temporal and spatial relations, etc. There is a complete reciprocity between haqq and khalq as understood by Ibn 'Arabi, and complete mutual dependence. Like two logical correlatives, neither has any meaning without other. For example, there are no one who will be called as Lord if there were no servants.
There is God side or God spot in every single us. Everyone has the same possibilities to be able find God inside them. There is a hadist, the more you know yourself, the more you know your God. And multiplicity is not what really happens among human being. It is us who make it looks like different by predicating the external object. Actually there is nothing that makes another person is better to another. It is according to what their contains of. So, what kind of person do you want to be? What color do you want to be? Because the color of the water depends on what it contains.
I am not really sure that what i have told you is clear enough. For more information, just click www.beshara.org. I am also not really clear with what I have heard. But think it more deeply will make you peaceful. Thinking about it will make you a student of School of life. We will always learn from life. Not only from our life, but also from other person's life. If you able to mix up the puzzle from those what you have learn in life, you will know God and you can see everything with God's eye.
I will give you another example. When you see a white light goes into a prism, it would divided to some colors. In this example, the white light is the Reality and the colors are the Immanence. The white light is the source of the colors and the colors have the characteristics of the white light. But it does not have all characteristic of white light. Every color is unique. They do not same one and another. The red is red and it is impossible for red to be yellow, green, blue, and of course white. So, we can say that each person is an extension of the being in the relative world, dressed up in dimensions of space and time.
According to Ibn 'Arabi there is only Reality in existence. This Reality we view from two different angles, which we call it haqq (the Real) when we regad it as the Essence of all phenomena and khalq (the Immanence) when we regard it as the manifested phenomena of that Essence. Haqq and khalq, Reality and Appearance, the One and the Many, are only two subjective aspects of One Reality: it is a real unity but an empirical diversity. The Reality is God. "If you regard Him trough Him", Ibn 'Arabi says, " then He regard Himself trough Himself, which is the state of unity; but if you regard Him through yourself then the unity is vanishes."
The One is everywhere as an Essence, and nowhere as the Universal Essence which is above and beyond all 'where' and 'how'. "Unity has no other meaning than two (or more) things being actually identical, but conceptually distinguishable the one from the other; so in one sense the one is the other; in another is not." "Multiplicity is due to different points of view, not to an actual division in the One Essence." So, basically every person is different but we came from the same source, the One. And what seems to multiply the One is the ahkam (predications) which we predicate of external object - the fact that we bring them under categories of color, size, shape and temporal and spatial relations, etc. There is a complete reciprocity between haqq and khalq as understood by Ibn 'Arabi, and complete mutual dependence. Like two logical correlatives, neither has any meaning without other. For example, there are no one who will be called as Lord if there were no servants.
There is God side or God spot in every single us. Everyone has the same possibilities to be able find God inside them. There is a hadist, the more you know yourself, the more you know your God. And multiplicity is not what really happens among human being. It is us who make it looks like different by predicating the external object. Actually there is nothing that makes another person is better to another. It is according to what their contains of. So, what kind of person do you want to be? What color do you want to be? Because the color of the water depends on what it contains.
I am not really sure that what i have told you is clear enough. For more information, just click www.beshara.org. I am also not really clear with what I have heard. But think it more deeply will make you peaceful. Thinking about it will make you a student of School of life. We will always learn from life. Not only from our life, but also from other person's life. If you able to mix up the puzzle from those what you have learn in life, you will know God and you can see everything with God's eye.
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But first of all, let me introduce myself.. My name is Dewinta Novaryani.. And no, I don't have any relationships with Dewinta Bahar or Anissa Bahar. Just because my first name is the same with Dewinta Bahar, doesn't mean they're my siblings or anything.. Sigh..
Anyway, you can call me Winta, or Wintul.. I don't know how it became Wintul, I've had it since my 3rd year in high school. I'm now a student of University of Indonesia, 2nd year, majoring in Economics.
To be honest, I'm not much of a writer.. I don't share my thoughts well..
But for this blog, I'll try my best..!!!
Good day...!
Winta is here and ready to share thoughts..
But first of all, let me introduce myself.. My name is Dewinta Novaryani.. And no, I don't have any relationships with Dewinta Bahar or Anissa Bahar. Just because my first name is the same with Dewinta Bahar, doesn't mean they're my siblings or anything.. Sigh..
Anyway, you can call me Winta, or Wintul.. I don't know how it became Wintul, I've had it since my 3rd year in high school. I'm now a student of University of Indonesia, 2nd year, majoring in Economics.
To be honest, I'm not much of a writer.. I don't share my thoughts well..
But for this blog, I'll try my best..!!!
Good day...!
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