Archive for July 2013

#1 Labilicious: Makan aja Labil Bro!!!

Bandung, 19 Juli 2013

Ini adalah kejadian yang paling sering terjadi terutama di kalangan anak muda di kala jam-jam tertentu, yaitu memilih tempat makan untuk makan bareng. Permasalahan utama terjadi karena banyaknya syarat dan prasyarat yang terjadi di kalangan kaum manusia ini seperti pengen tempat yang murah tapi harus nyaman, pengen makan mie, lagi gak pengen makanan pedas, pengen yang mejanya luas, pengen ini pengen itu banyak sekali (Doraemon style). Ya panggillah Doaremon kalau emang maunya demikian.

Saat itu, gw bersama 3 orang teman gw yang bernama Yoko, Atas, dan Adhie memutuskan untuk makan malam bareng. Di hari yang fitri ini, gw ngikut aja tempat makan yang dipilih oleh Adhie dan Atas. Mereka yang puasa juga kan. Selain itu, gw juga memang tidak punya ide untuk makan dimana. Nah, yang begini ini nih yang biasanya gak baik, pertama brainstorming tapi ujungnya bingung gak tau makan dimana. Pertama pengen Hokben, lalu pengen Kantin Tong-tong lalu D'Kiosk. Akhirnya diputuskan untuk pergi ke Baltos dan disana baru diputuskan lalu.

Jeder!!! (petir nyamber) *jangan ditiru-tiru, disinilah kisah itu dimulai

Sesampainya disana, gw menemani Atas mengambil duit di ATM BNI Annex. Adhie dan Yoko datang belakangan sehingga tidak melihat kedatangan kami dan dengan begonya, mereka menunggu di depan gerbang parkir motor Baltos. *applause

Setelah itu, Atas dan Yoko memutuskan untuk membeli Dunkin Donuts. Tenang saja, mereka tetap ingin makan malam kok. Selepas dari Dunkin, akhirnya kami menyempitka dua buah pilihan tempat makan yaitu Hokben dan Kantin Tong-tong. Anak kost pastinya sangat berhubungan erat dengan DUIT. So pasti yang dipilih adalah yang paling murah dan kuantitas banyak. *standarlah tapi disini akar permasalahannya.

*segala sesuatu masih berjalan normal

Menimbang, memikirkan, memutuskan, menyetujui. Kami masuk ke Hokben karena Atas pengen makanan junk food. Sewaktu mau memesan, ternyata Hoka Hemat lagi habis (pilihan paling murah di Hokben untuk anak kos karena di bawah 20rb). Disuruh menunggu 10 menit. Otomatis kami pindah ke Kantin Tong-tong yang letaknya di sebelah. Kami duduk dan diberikan menu oleh pelayan. Saat itu keadaan cukup penuh dan hanya tinggal terdapat 1 meja dengan 3 kursi sehingga pelayan harus mengambil kursi lagi. Cukup merepotkan ya??!!

Menu datang dengan harga yang variatif, tiba-tiba Adhie berceletuk "Agak mahal ya harganya". 2 orang yang lalin mendukung pernyataan  tersebut. Adhie sepertinya pengen pindah tetapi dengan setengah hati.

*Disini semuanya terjadi

Adhie mengulang-ulang pernyataan Atas yang menginginkan makanan junk food. Memanglah ya si Adhie sial ini. Gw hanya diam melihat tingkah mereka bertiga yang labil. Ada yang ngomong "Terserah aja sih, aku makan sini juga gak apa", "Tapi Atas pengen junk food", "Harganya sama aja sama Hokben, sama-sama harus nunggu juga", dll. Udah mulai gak baik sepertinya forum ini. Perdebatan yang terjadi sekitar 3 menit ini membuahkan hasil untuk pindah balik ke Hokben. Gw dengan muka 'terserah banget' ikut pergi mereka balik ke Hokben.

Amanah dari kelabilan ini:
Tetap setia dengan pilihan Anda sebelum Anda merepotkan restoran sebelah. Sekian dan terima kasih. -_-"
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Posted by pratamahrs

The Confession of a Chorister: Saint Chronicles Choir (Saint Thomas I High School, Medan)

How many of you joined an extracurricular activity in your high school?

What is your motivation of joining that extracurricular activity?

How many of you joined an extracurricular activity in your high school?

Have you ever joined a choir in your high school?

Do you even know a choir is?

That's question above is a few questions of many questions from me about an extracurricular activity in my high school, the one and only extracurricular activity that I've ever joined when I was in high school, Saint Chronicles Choir.

Here's a story of my first meeting with this 'hard to move-on' choir.
It was on 2004 when I entered my high school, Saint Thomas I High School. For the first three days, the new students had a full-orientation about this school at the hall. It was a boring situation. Very boring seminar. Luckily, we hadn't had to study in the classroom. It's like a holiday. Just sleep if you were boring. At the last day of the orientation, the third day, the committee decided to make it more enjoyable. There are some performances from extracurricular activities at this school. One of the performances was St. Chronicles Choir singing "Anak Sekolah". It was pretty good but I really didn't have any interest to register to this choir.

Later on, there were an open recruitment for new batch (batch 2004). The batch was called "Angkatan 12". My friend told me that it would be an audition for Festival Paduan Suara ITB 2004. It was because they were lack of male choristers. My friend succeeded influencing me to join this choir. Later on, I join the singing audition first. Long story short, I wasn't chosen for joining the team to FPS-ITB 2004. It was sad but I really didn't have nothing to lose.

The team didn't win the competiion. They got really bad rank. I forget but it's around 7th or 8th rank. It was really sad to know that all your hard work didn't yield a good rank. But all the chorister realize that winning is important but the most important thing is the process because it really develop the choir and themselves to next level.

Ok, back to the story. After their arrival in Medan again, they held an initiation  for "Angkatan 12". I was beat up. It was really tiring but it's fun. Hooray, I'm officially a member of Saint Chronicles Choir.


That was my story. How was your story?

Why I cannot move on from this choir?
Ok, I really felt comfortable in this choir. All the happy and sad, joy and sorrow really happened here. The competition, the concert, Sunday service, talking heart to heart, village visit, and many other activities really colored my life in high school. Not just the activities, the alumnus were so friendly, like to play games, talkative, nice, funny, etc. I love it. Moreover, I really want to be like the alumnus. They really gave me a better and brighter thought especially how to choose the university. That's why I can't move on from this choir. My heart really stuck here. It's like my second family. 
We also pray together in many event. This pray really strengthen this choir more and more. Thank you God for all your blessings till now.
All the senior and junior unite each other. Moreover in the competition, all alumnus gathered around to help the chorister preparing themselves and others. I hope this choir will last forever. Joining St. Chronicles Choir is such an honor to me. Juniors' smile were like a sun to the alumnus.

After Competition (FPS-ITB XXII 2010 / 1st IICC 2010)



Friday, July 19, 2013
Posted by pratamahrs

Popular Post

Blogger templates

- Copyright © The Ink Scratches of Pratama -Metrominimalist- Powered by Blogger - Designed by Johanes Djogan -