love and patience.

Pada suatu petang seorang tua bersama anak mudanya yang baru menamatkan pendidikan tinggi duduk berbincang-bincang di halaman sambil memperhatikan suasana di sekitar mereka. Tiba-tiba seekor burung gagak hinggap di ranting pokok berhampiran. Si ayah lalu menuding jari ke arah gagak sambil bertanya, "Nak, apakah benda itu?"

"Burung gagak", jawab si anak.

Si ayah mengangguk-angguk, namun sejurus kemudian sekali lagi mengulangi pertanyaan yang sama. Si anak menyangka ayahnya kurang mendengar jawabannya tadi lalu menjawab dengan sedikit kuat, "Itu burung gagak ayah!"

Tetapi sejurus kemudian si ayah bertanya lagi soal yang sama. Si anak merasa agak keliru dan sedikit bingung dengan persoalan yang sama diulang-ulang, lalu menjawab dengan lebih kuat, "BURUNG GAGAK!!" Si ayah terdiam seketika. Namun tidak lama kemudian sekali lagi sang ayah

mengajukan pertanyaan yang serupa hingga membu! at si anak hilang kesabaran dan menjawab dengan nada yang kesal kepada si ayah, "Gagaklah ayah.......".

Tetapi agak mengejutkan si anak, karena si ayah sekali lagi membuka mulut hanya untuk bertanya soal yang sama. Dan kali ini si anak benar-benar hilang sabar dan menjadi marah.

"Ayah! Saya tak tahu ayah paham atau tidak. Tapi sudah lima kali ayah bertanya soal hal tersebut dan saya sudah juga memberikan jawabannya. Apa lagi yang ayah mau saya katakan?"

"Itu burung gagak, burung ga..ga..gak ayah.....", kata si anak dengan nada yang begitu marah.

Si ayah terus bangun menuju ke dalam rumah meninggalkan si anak yang kebingungan. Sesaat kemudian si ayah keluar lagi dengan sesuatu ditangannya. Dia menghulurkan benda itu kepada anaknya yang masih geram dan tertanya-tanya. diperlihatkannya sebuah Diary lama.

"Coba kau baca apa yang pernah ayah tulis di dalam Diary itu", pinta si ayah. Si anak setuju dan membaca paragraf yang berikut..........

"Hari ini aku di halaman melamun karena anakku yang genap berumur lima tahun. Tiba-tiba seekor gagak hinggap di pohon berhampiran."

Anakku terus menunjuk ke arah gagak dan bertanya, "Ayah, apa itu?".

Dan aku menjawab, "burung gagak". Walau bagaimana pun, anak ku terus bertanya soal yang serupa dan setiap kali aku menjawab dengan jawaban yang sama.

Sehingga 25 kali anakku bertanya demikian, dan demi cinta dan sayangnya aku terus menjawab untuk memenuhi perasaan ingin tahunya. Aku berharap hal ini menjadi suatu pendidikan yang berharga."

Setelah selesai membaca paragraf tersebut si anak mengangkat muka memandang wajah si ayah yang kelihatan sayu. Si ayah dengan perlahan bersuara, "Hari ini ayah baru bertanya kepadamu soal yang sama sebanyak lima kali, dan kau telah hilang sabar serta marah."

photography. the pros and cons.

I am posting again now.

I've been into photography for about 3 or 4 months, and I found some reasons why should I took photography, and some reasons why not..

for some people, photography seems to be a super-duper expensive hobby.. Yes you can't deny that, it's truly an actual fact!! We may spend about 10 millions Rp only for the camera.. and more and more again for illogical price of its accesories..

Personally, first I knew my friend bought the cam, I thought it was the stupidest purchase.. I even never realized to spend my money (actually my parents') like that..
and time goes on,, ,,, ,,, ,,,,

until I bought my first cam..
(yesh, i know i am inconsistently plinplan)

it's damn FUN!! you should feel it by yourself..
it increases your creativity, your logical thinking, and also your relationship gets wider and wider..
it's not only about how you put a finger on a shutter and your cam says click.. not that simple I think..
photography is about (Prof. Dr. Christopher says) :
1. how you turn something usual into an unusual one..
2. how you make a attractive story from your photos,
3. change people's thoughts about something..
4. and also for living your life happily!! LOL..

honestly, if you agree with something I mentioned above, you're on the right way led by Prof. Dr. Christopher!!

HAPPY HAPPY SHOOTING!!

improved way to make a lights graffiti

after 3 days I've experienced with some failed action on light drawing, finally I've found the right settings for my camera to have a nice drawings.. with f/9.o and speed 8 seconds.. the maximum set up I could do.. here are the drawings.. enjoy!

who's the best?

Tomorrow, we will face the national election round one, that will assign our representatives on the parliament.. it'll be held in the park in front of my house, from 7-12AM.. I'll have this election as my first election, because I reached 17th years old, which's the minimum age requirements on December 2008..

In this first round, we will vote for someone we think qualified enough to sit on the parliament, someone that represents various political party.. I think, now's the time for democracy to take action after many incidents when someone acts so unlawfully and didn't respect the democracy.. We should participate well in this election, because our votes really matters to Indonesia:)

Apart from the facts that our democracy system still dominated by money politics, illegal campaign, and anarchysm everywhere.. we still have to succeed this moment, vote the best!!

about my choice tomorrow, truthfully, I'm still confused about that.. Someone tells me to vote Demokrat, others tell me to vote PDI.. I think I'll vote Demokrat tomorrow.. How about you??

still wondering..

another rhyming made by me, made when everything went wrong, when every breaths are out, when I have no spirit at all when I was studying maths for tomorrow pre-national exam... enjoy!!

''when I was left behind
nothing to be kept in mind
Should I think that I'm blind?
to date I can't feel the touch of wind..

keep holding on,
when you got nothing to rely on..
when everything went wrong,
we have to stay strong..

shout out loud,
if that could make you proud..
just sing it along,
sing your own song..

let your tears gone away,
that's not the only way,
set your mind bleached,
and your world'll be reached."

to you mom..

I've just searched up on my documents, and found an old poem that I've made.. I didn't remember when, about a year ago I think.. yaaa, it sounds more less like this..

"just like stars in the sky

you light up my life with your cares, your forgiveness

always teach me to do the right instead of the silly one

i knew,

i have disappointed u a lot.

just like I didn't know,

how hard you try to drive me right..

now i am regreting it,

feels so sorry to u mom..

I haven't been so good for you,

but, I'll always try..

to make you proud having a child like me..

for you mom..

I'll do anything i could."

how today's gone..

okay, after about three days out-of-posts.. I''m starting to talk along now.. 

We just passed the first day of pre-national exams, and everything went so well.. so far.. but, we still have to face more subjects tomorrow and next time.. english for tomorrow, maths for the day after tomorrow.. don't forget about the national exams.. it''ll be held on April 20th.. so, be prepared!!

the first subject for today's indonesian.. I worked on it under pressure of sleepiness, caused by the regulations said that we, the residents of Abdi Siswa should be welcomed by our headmaster at 6.30AM.. over all, I did it nicely, still with confusions in some numbers.. and one thing I really really hate was.. the reading passage's too long.. make us tired just for read the passage.. 

then, the second subject's sociology.. It''s done easily,, I've been reading for that subject all the night and day.. so, that's what I get.. Hopefully, my score will be over 80.. just hoping..

oh, I've my own quotes, for everyone out there.. haahaha.. it sounds,,

''How good we are in the friendship, depends on how we could bear with someone's bad habit"

yaaa, not a good quote I think.. It went out recently from my thoughts, after I heard some bad impressions about someone from my friend.. yah, I think.. that's the only way we could do, if we wanna still exist in friendship.. that quote's been sounding along my thoughts, just to make me patient, from something bad I got from my friends.. 

oyea, I've just watched The fast and the furious... Such a beautiful effects, and the storyline's quite good I think..