Him

Love is something we deserve. The power of love could break someone into pieces without even touch them, and at the same time it could lift someone up until they forget about the ground. Well, I found this man. We’ve been friend since the first year of college, yet we just ‘found’ each other in our last year. This is quiet unique. Our story started from the road, and our matchmaker is Proxy (Iyo’s motorcycle, stands for MegaPro Sexy).

Me and my friends were going to 3 days trip from mountain to beach, hiking to Andong peak and camping to Wediombo beach. We went there by motorcycle! Heeem so tepos~ and I was being set with Iyo. All the way we never stopped talking.  Uhm,  and also I slept on his shoulder after hiking while on our way to the beach :3 Maybe that caused us felt so um so…close?

Since then, I felt that Iyo was always everywhere. That kind of PDKT and stuffs. Giving me foods, jokes, attention, ride, and treats. Short story, we’re finally dating. And yeaayyy it’s already been A YEAR (and months)! I know it’s so ordinary to many people, but for me? It’s my longest relationship, EVER! And I hope it could be FOREVER ({})

Well, his name is Suryo Wiwoho. Iyo for short. 5 facts about Iyo:

1.       Total SLEEPYHEAD. He’s a quarter panda, a quarter bear, and a half hooman. I don’t know how long he needs to sleep. Every time I lose him on text, that every time is the time when he’s in a total sleep. It doesn’t matter how long does he’s already had good sleep or no enough sleep yet, when every time would possible, then befriend with the couch.

2.       Positive-minded. Your surroundings truly affect how you talk, how you act, and how you react. And Iyo would always break all your negativity. I ever told him about how pessimistic I am with some stuffs, or how I hate when something’s going on unplanned, or if I just told bad things about someone. He just laughs a little then says “heey udaah jangan gituuu bla bla bla. (sambil jitakin kepalaku)” How positive and how I love those jitakans.

3.       Family oriented. When we were still in courtship period and Iyo was in his home for holiday, he would put his phone away and texted me back rarely. However, he knew how to respect people around him, especially family. When he’s home, his body & soul are home also.

4.       Tenderly indulgent. Some people would say it’s because his ethnic, Javanese. But for me, ethnic doesn’t always define how someone’s behavior or how someone treat other person. Though Javanese people are known as their courtesy and politeness, Iyo is still Iyo, aside from his background and family. He doesn’t get angry easily, he’s good at making people comfort around him (makanya sering bikin cewek2 baper ya, Yooo), he never intimidate people. He is so loyal to people he cares about.

5.       Poor singer. I can’t stand how he sings. If it’s only lip-sync, I still can bare it. But. When we go karaoke-ing, big no LOL. Yet, I always looove how he interrupts my song, takes over the mic and steals my part. You know that in this world there will always be the good and the bad.

I love the idea about how he started to make an Instagram account. Because he wants to keep in touch with his friends after graduation, his old friends and his soon-to-be old friends. It’s not because he wanted to show his life off or make a trend setter or something. He just wanted to know how his friend’s life going. His favorite thing in this whole world is not me, but CHOCOLATE, and any kind of its processed products. He likes chocolate more with the cocoa content above 75%, dark chocolate and it tastes bitter. His loving sense can be identified from how he loves cats, even its whole Felidae family, like jaguar, tiger, leopard. He never pets one, but he used to feed ones anywhere he is. He is the kind of person who doesn’t force so hard to get his ambition, yet always try to do his best in every process he takes in.

Even if he’s not the most handsome or athletic man I’ve ever met, I believe this is faith which brought us together. I know that he is not my first date, yet he is the first man whom I’ve ever introduced to my parents officially. I wish that this is worth a lifetime. Yes, Suryo, it’s you.

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Semarang

You know, having loyal friends is all that I needed. Living in Semarang as anak kosan altered me. Without
the people I knew, I never become the way I am now. Formerly, Semarang is just another city in Java Island, nothing special. It is the capital city of Central Java, with its large 144.27 sq mi and the population around 2 million (based on Wiki). I could add me as one of its people 4 years back. In my 18 years of lifetime, I can count how many times I visited Semarang. Extremely rare. I never thought it as one of my travel wish lists, like ever. Perhaps just passing it by when we want to visit Malang or Surabaya or even Bali. Yet, Semarang actually has some icon that you can visit to (you can Google it if you’re curious). Frankly, it’s not the talk about Semarang’s tourism sites, it’s something about the feeling and memories I left behind in Semarang. It’s a place where I left all of my adolescence stupidity, modesty, and nasty. Faith drove me there.

It was my first time living in a boarding house. Still fresh in my mind how I was scared of living alone, in a house with its people I barely know, going to a place I’d never been, getting know new people and trying to make them so-called friends. I cried in my room the day that my family left, 4 days before the first day at college. No, I didn’t show it. I didn’t wanna make them worried, I was (trying to be) strong.

I didn’t get back to home very often while in college, at least only 2 times a year. So that, friend role in that situation was so helping. My parents barely called me, I didn’t have any relatives in Semarang, I sometimes felt alone but free at the same time. I’d ever shared about my adventures with my best pals in this blog, yet it’s just a very little bit of everything that we’d had. My closest girlfriends are very touchy and melancholy about many things, yet some others are very firm even towards themselves. I also had boyfriends who are really hearty and home-felt. I didn’t have curfew, in some moments I stayed for a night in coffee shop until dawn with my boy pals, having deep talk and commenting life. Talking about friends is a never ending story. I thank Allah always for giving me super normal and inspiring people. 

When it comes to farewell, nothing beats the sorrow. Semarang isn’t just a city with Lawang Sewu or Sam Poo Kong or Bakpao Mega Jaya, or Paragon Mall or Ayam Bakar Madu, or Nasi Goreng Padang anymore. It moved me, formed me, and lifted me. I know that the Earth keeps spinning, the clock keeps ticking, and as long as the heart still gets the power to pump bloods, I live. Living means keep fighting. And fighting means keep forwarding. The day I left was the saddest moment, indeed. Even I had already booked train ticket for executive class, in order to make me sleep throughout the trip and forget about the farewell. Unfortunately, it failed. Sometimes, there's just no way to hold the river. I hardly stepped my feet off into the Bekasi station ground. *deep breath* I never thought that I could be so attached with Semarang like this. Thank you for welcoming me warmly (or hotly, it’s the climate) 4 years ago.

Semarang, Nadia’s signing off. See you in another occasion.

Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I’ll miss you, until we meet again!

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Organisatoris Based

What is organisatoris? Well, people might say that organisatoris people put their organization matter at the most priority.  No wonder that organisatoris is the person who is very critical to social issues. In my experience, I’ve never expected that I can be active in such college organization for 3 years in a row! It’s such an honour for me to be involved, be trusted, be given for many opportunities.

I’m writing this not because I can’t let go, I’m writing this because I’m ready to move, ready to give the estafet stick to the-person-who-may-concern, ready to make this become one of my best memories. As for me, I started my career as the organisatoris with the new spirit, no experience, willing to learn, and nothing-to-lose feeling. I just wanted to give it a try. From the organizations I was joining in, I met extraordinary people with different faces, appearances, personalities, perspectives, passions, skills, sense of humors, habits, and another every single thing of them, they are not alike for one another. For three years, it’s never been easy for me, but fortunately I made a family. So I never feel alone. Start from being an ordinary staff until I can be head of department in faculty level. I learned a lot of things. I understand that, GREAT WORK WILL PAID. Paid itself not always be refer to money, but I’m paid with so much experiences and wider perspective. I understand that, NETWORK IS IMPORTANT. Making friends, build a network is a good investment for social life. It’s nice knowing many people outside your own circle and they’ll know you back! I understand the better saying is, MANAGEMENT OF LAZINESS than MANAGEMENT OF TIME. Why?? Because, being an organisatoris means you have to give your time to organize many things above yours. You will get less sleep, less free time, less task time. Seems so negative ya, wait up don’t judge too fast, it means a lot of challenges coming up. I started to become more respect to time (even I know that until know I still be coming late or better, on time or earlier so rarely), not the most of time but how reducing the lazy time of mine. Managing time would be so general than managing laziness. If I succeed reducing laziness every single day, then I feel that I’m blessed.

From organization, I know that my passion in NIC (Networking, Information, Communication) field is so strong that I’ll never be this good if I were in another field.

Being involved in an organization really build me into something. I feel that I’m a different person than I am before. It changed me to be better and I’m so grateful that Allah gave me this chance. I learn how to run events, organize people, talk in front of many eyes staring at you. I learn how to deliver or propose something to Dekanat officer and external parties.

When I was a staff, both in BEM FT and HMTI, I started to open up and dare to go out from my box. I first learn how to deal with different people from various background which set their minds extremely opposite with me. I was showered with many tasks and new things to do, like having community services to the rural areas around, lobbying the bureaucrats, coordinating with friends from different universities and town. So enriching!

In the next year, I learn how to choose the people who are gonna be my squad for a year ahead and think about how to manage the program run well while still pay attention to my team. My privilege knowing busy people with strong minds and great thoughts like Fungsio HMTI 2014 and BEM FT 2015. Every single person has their own personal activities but never leaving their responsibility to serve and make good impact to others. Though we’re not that perfect, we have a good will that we still give our best. I worked with such extraordinary people. So overwhelming!

Departemen 4 Hubungan Luar HMTI 2013, the place where I could find ka Ethec, ka Rizka, ka Hadi, ka Hari, ka Ozi, ka Aro, ka Putri, ka Debora, Alm. ka Minu, Mega-Qiqi-Agil-Pebi-Cahya. Those amazing people taught me how to care to surroundings while having bestfriends around.

Departemen NIC BEM FT 2013, the place where I could find mas Indra, mas Adhit, mas Ila, mba Dea, mba Elga, mas Fajar, mas Yoel, Fanny, Ola, Ema, Laras, Wahyu, Suci, dan Madin. They made me though, they made me into someone I am right now, someone who dare to talk to public without nervous, someone who is not naive anymore.

Departemen 4 Hubungan Luar HMTI 2014, I finally found Hubluers soul in Ganes, Gita, Wisnu, Siti, Choti, Bani, Ega, Adri, dan Ricky. Then I had this amazingly suwung kadept-sekdept HMTI 2014, Chika-Dien, Judin-Mama, Bram-Tiwi, and Purwo-Ela. We always chaotic and very rebel not obeying the Kahim and Sekum hihi

My NIC BEM FT 2015, thank God I had you, Al-El-Dul, Addin, Brama, Debby, Nivar-Nisa-Dian, Ocha-Ipul-Dewi, Elis, Tya, and always be Madin. You guys are such a moodbooster and moodswinger at the same time. It's a wow experience being kadept of soon-to-be holder of lembaga mahasiswa Fakultas Teknik Undip :)

There you are, Fungsio BEM FT 2015. Greatest people of all. Lead by Aul-Luthfi and the koord lits, Adam. Thank you so much Babal-Destin, Lea-Dhikabaik, Lutfi-Dhikajahat, Bobby-Nces, Satriyo-Neta, Yogi-Akmal, Bytta-Emak, Cahya-Cicik, and Ola, for the learning, the laughter, the pusing2 time for renstra dsb, I hope you guys enjoy the last year of being college student, now we're really separated to be back to our own major-home and fight for our graduation. Hope we can graduate asap in the same period :) aamiin see you on top, guys!

If I can turn back time, I’d still choose you guys as a part of my maturing process :)

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Future Woman Engineering

In this global era, being a woman is so much more challenging. Woman are not always take a part behind a man. When we talk about woman and man in engineering industry, it’d be a different case. Not better, not worse, it’s just different. As I started to build my dream as a soon-to-be engineer since three years ago, and realizing that my graduation is just a year ahead, planning about how to kick start my career path is a need. I want to be a career woman. I have a dream to be part of a multinational company. I thought that I can’t take a major in engineering because I don’t get very well on Math and Physics. However, I found out about industrial engineering. In this field, we learn not only science but also social subjects and trained to see problems from whole perspective and be efficient and effective in every process. As an industrial engineer student, my analytical-thinking skills are upgraded and it’s applicable to many aspects of life. My interest is on supply chain management. I want to manage and improve a lean supply chain management in my company and implement a greener global industry, because I see that industry should take an important action considering its effect to the environment. As I learned lot about management skill, I want to build my career into a manager who has strong leadership skill that make my organization develops passionate talents. I see that there’s so many area that could be explored in engineering and I still look for which area suites me best. My hobby is travelling and I dream about exploring the world, so I look forward to have job that can bring me to travel around the world. Be the inspiration to another woman that being an engineer is not something that seem to be so manly, rude, and unreachable career for woman. I want to prove that we, as a woman, could live a life as a future woman engineer.

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My Friend My Adventure

I never chose people who I was gonna meet. I never made a new circle on purpose. However, Thank Allah that He always gives good people around me, they might not be a saint, but they’re also not a total sinner.  So, I met these people. I may call them as the lost family. It’s only lowering the level if I call them just friend, but there’s no eligible condition that proves that we’re sibling. It’s in the midpoint. We’re not a gank indeed but we’re often exploring new things together. People may judge me I am a friend-choosy-kind person. Who cares? Explicitly, people tend to be with someone/people they’re comfort with, it’s natural selection, no one should be offended.

Since 2013, when we all were already ‘dilantik’, we could finally express ourselves freely, less-pressure-ly, and we started to go travelling around our base town, Semarang. Woohoow!!! My first trip was on June, 17th-19^th 2013. 

This is the squad: Agil-Pebi-Cahya-Chika-Mukti-Me-Mega-Qiqi

Morning view from our guest house roof top

The first trip to Ketep Pass, that’s the view

Second day we went to Pok Tunggal Beach in Gunung Kidul, Jogja

In the night, we milk ourselves in Kalimilk, Jogja

Well unfortunately, we planned to go to Dieng the next day, but the road is closed and our car couldn’t be passed through because of the landslide in the middle of the route to Dieng. So, we were stopped only at Gardu Pandang Tieng. Buuuuttt, we didn’t feel really bad because all the way long there, we satisfied our lungs to breath as much as fresh air, our eyes to be dazzled with the natural painting of Allah, and our minds to have a clearer thoughts at the moment.

SEE???

This is the dept 4 2012 squad only, happy us!

Still in 2013, I have two more adventure experiences. It’s on October, 20^th 2013. As I remember, the trip wasn’t scheduled well, we’re just spontaneously bored by the daily routine and need a refreshing. We went to Taman Sari and Pok Tunggal beach (again), very random, and again both of them located in Jogja. Jogja….

That wasn’t a picture from Google loh ya~

The (un)cool boys

Chika-Me-Agil-Mega-Qiqi-Nanda-Mukti-Bram

By the afternoon, we spent time in the beach again and having so many shoots and also caught up the golden sun set. And I just realized that on that day was actually Bram’s birthday! So after we back, other friends already set up a prank for him. Poor him.

And I still wondering why I became the one who held the cake -_-

          Laaaassst! In 2013. FINALLY WE GOT DIENG! We separated into two team, the mobil team and the rider team. We rented a house for a night, went hiking to Sikunir hill, got the sun rise, captured the natural painting of God from near like common paintings about mountain became real right in front of my eyes, saw the Beauty Telaga Warna, felt the sulphur fog from a crater, and had a candid-able chit chat on a green grass by the Pandawa Lima temple. DIENG WAS SO AWESOME NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF ITS NATURE BUT ALSO BY ITS CULTURE. There’s a catchy myth from Dieng about Gimbal Kids that I still feel curious about till now, but I felt overwhelmed I ever saw one of them from near and they’re actually exist. Dieng is totally deserves the ‘Negeri Di Atas Awan’ title, for its weather which can be reach minus Celcius degree in the cold season, and its highest village in all over Java land.

Qiqi-Mega-Bimo-Iyo-Bram-Ben-Adri-Cahya-Me-Chika-Nanda-Agil

On December 2014, I had my second hiking experience to mount Prau, again and again it’s in DIENG! It was the nine of us and only the three girls in the squad. There’s a sad story behind, the one who initiate to go hiking to Prau was Mukti, and in the morning we woke up on the top of it, actually that day was Mukti’s birthday. But unfortunately, none of us remember that untiiil we already got back again in Semarang -_- So, HERE WE ARE!

Qiqi-Mukti-Agil-Rika-Rere-Me-Bram-Judin-Iyo

Mesmerized style

Sun rises from Mount Prau

Our foggy tent

Let’s have breakfast on top

Blessed having them

Our route

      Well well well, these are some pictures describing my KKL (Kuliah Kerja Lapangan) to Bali-Lombok on January 26^th – 31^st 2015. KKL almost the same like so called study tour and it was 20% kuliah 80% jalan-jalan. 

Bekasi bright generation

With the EOs of our KKL and the two of EOs for batch anniversary party

And this year! I had a blast marathon trip to Mount Andong and Wediombo beach in Gunung Kidul, Jogja. It’s on May 1^st – 3^rd 2015.   Mount Andong was not that high and the trek was easy so didn’t need much time to get to its top. And as always, the tiring feel were paid by the magnificent scenery on top. The soft-cold-breeze hypnotized us. On the beach, we built tents and had one night there. No signal, no electrical, get lost for a while.

At the top of mount Andong

Mount team: Qiqi-El-Iyo-Agil-Mukti-Adhit-Judin-Adri-Bram

Rika-Rere-Ega-Nisa-Tiwi-Ela-Me

50 Shades of Trees

We're on the top of the world!

On the way to Wediombo, so tired riding from Magelang to Gunung Kidul, get rest on the street like we don’t care

Beach team: Adhit-Mukti-Bram-Judin-El-Nisa-Iyo-Me-Agil

I would never have those kind of experiences if their life path didn’t cross mine or it’d never be the same if I went travel with another people. Same place, different people, different story. It’s not the trip that made the adventure, it’s the friend, us, who made the adventure. We own it, young pals!

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