Daily Test

Traveling to Java Island

Traveling is one part of our life that we can be done in the spare time of crowded schedule in our jobs. Everything that make us bored because of working activity can be paid by traveling to the interesting place in this beautiful world. We can go with beloved family, beloved wife, partner, friends, soul mate, even our boss.  I had an experience travelled to Java Island with my beloved girlfriend and the student’s 12^th grade. This is when I was in senior high school. We went to Java Island by using bus which has very luxurious facilities such as toilet, game station, LCD tv, AC, etc. This traveling gave me experiences to become closer with someone who I really love because what we ever did in traveling to strange place.

First day, we had prepared well what we needed along the journey. We went to the Gilimanuk Harbor to pass the large sea to arrive in East Java. We planned to go to Malang, Purwodadi, Yogyakarta, Bororbudur, Surabaya, and back to Bali by well prepared. After that, we already passed the day in Purwodadi and Malang. Then we continued to travel to Surabaya and Yogyakarta, but when we arrived in Yogyakarta my girlfriend and I lost in Malioboro while we were buying something which would be given to our family.

In Malioboro market, we bought something too much even we forgot the time to visit it was over when we back to the bus, the bus left us in this place. I was angry to her because she spent a lot of time for shopping and accused her be the troublemaker of this incident. She was really sad and made that situation became worst. I decided to go to the nearest hotel because that day going to dark while we thought how to comeback to Bali.

The next day, we had planned to go to Borobudur because that was the final of our traveling with other students and my classmate. We cannot call using buy mobile phone because our phone was in the bus. We were waiting so long until the sun going up to the sky. After that we met them until we cannot say anything while my tears falling down. The last story, we arrived at home sweet home in Bali and I had apologized to my girlfriend because of my anger from the incident that happened in Malioboro.  

Daily Test

How to build self confidence

 

Everybody has different ability to create something and doing something that challenging. Thinking is the first thing that makes different; physical ability also makes difference. Self confidence is the part of human ability in doing activities. Everybody has different self confidence which created from our mind in doing some activities. Self confidence is useful when person is in the situation that challenging and need to be able to do it. It can be useful when we in the situation such as doing presentation, being a presenter, being a leader, etc. if you have low confidence just thinking as you can do the best and believe I yourself to do it very well. Now, here are some tips to build your self confidence.

Firstly, when you will do some challenging activities like presentation, the best thing that you should do is preparation. If you do not prepare it well, it same as you did not want to do the best as you can do. From preparing anything, you can get more ready to do it. After you prepared it well, second thing that you can do is train yourself. Train yourself to do it just like a drama in front of the mirror. It can make your confidence build up.

The third thing that you should do is positive thinking. Positive thinking is the most important thing that you should do. If you did not do this or you just that you cannot do it, you should change your feeling and that negative thinking to be positive. The fourth is you should to do the best as you can. When you are already in that situation and you are already nervous, it is normal because you did not want to do worst thing that makes you shy. When you prepared well, train yourself and positive thinking that believe you can do, your nervous will be gone.

The last thing that you should do is do not forget to pray because when you do it, your feeling can be relax, and it will make your positive thinking happen So, this some tips that you can do to build yourself confidence. From self confidence, your life will be wonderful and useful. Building self confidence can be the modal from your life to get experiences in this life. Trust yourself and do it as well as you can do it. Good luck.  

By: ery indrawan

Togetherness needs Communication

TOGETHERNESS is part of our life.
that comes from COMMUNICATION
and of course communication needs LANGUAGE,
so, all of togetherness started from language to make relationship!

Short Story

The Last Escape

On the sunny morning, I mused remembering about all the memories that have gone through over the years. It crossed my mind that is increasingly forgotten things melancholy and fun as long as I live in the inner prison. I mused as I sat in a rocking chair in front of my house which is increasingly not accommodate the weight of this body is stronger. Every day I look at the beauty of these sky amended several times. It is sometimes dark, bright, cloudy, and even rainy. I sat in a rocking chair with a broad expanse of gardens offered that I have. I often see the cowherd who rent my property which acreage. Far away with noisy voice that used vehicle is still quiet. I think that the people passing by to enjoy life. People nowadays are very lucky compared to me ago. But I am still thankful that I can still enjoy the end of all the stories I've ever lived. I can no longer enjoy the beauty of life. Look at me now. My body is used to still stocky with zeal has now turned into a frail, susceptible to disease that eats away at the body. As I sit in this chair I see a smile that had accompanied my steps. Yes, the woman of my dreams that I had when I was young. Asri is her name. She is the heart flowers that accompany my steps so far. She also is increasingly felt tired with the burden on his mind. She is the only witness to my history that still faithfully there for me. Every day it was she who set up everything that I need from bringing me a cup of hot coffee and newspaper in the morning until prepare dinner when I was getting hungry. Until now I am still grateful to be given the time to enjoy this beautiful life, where I can build a very beautiful little family for now. With this wonderful feeling, I feel that today I could build a reality that had gone and probably will not be realized because it was not possible to achieve my goals would be like today. Luckily, today is the word that makes my life changed 360 degrees than in the past time ago. My youth lost in the ferocity of those who want absolute power to make what they want immediately realized the way to make other people miserable. Youth bleak future for me that I was never experienced in front of my eyes. It difficult to accept the fact to be becoming a perfect human being who has to live like any other people today who can go anywhere they want than what I feel as long as there is in the inner prison that could kill me every time when I make a mistake that might be fairly simple for me. It was then that I could be a person who has ambitious for not doing the slightest mistake in my life. In other words I could survive to be able to build a dream that cannot be achieved by the people with the same boat with me at that time. Maybe I'm the most fortunate compared to them; maybe I'm the happiest among them at this time. With the old pen still in hand, I started to tell the story of the story of melancholy and happy in my life that made this heart recall sad and afraid it will be happen again. This story came from a simple family day to day work as a farmer in the field who hoped to be able to meet their daily lives in the simplicity of life.

Farming is the noblest work to me which of these we can produce the welfare population. My mother and father was a farmer. Arja and Asih is the name my parents. I also have two brothers who usually called Wayan Utama and Komang Mandala. My name is Made Madya. I usually called "Jero" because of my long hair like a woman. Every time my father tried to cut my hair, I was immediately sick the next day because my hair is short. So my father decided not to cut my hair this way. Every day I am helping my family work in the garden to take care of the garden. I am usually the most diligent in taking care of the garden and harvest because the crop for sale to the market. In any case I am the most spoiled because I was most diligent compared with my other brothers. We are very happy at the time but when all the villagers heard the news that there is a huge attack on a village by a group of sailors, I started to fear that if that happened to my village especially my beloved family. The news is increasingly being so close to the border and even our village. One night when all asleep, there was an attack on our village where all the people still did not know it would happen that night. All villagers enslaved by it, but who fight will be killed. They killed my family because they do not want to abide by these terms. I am just a kid who answered that I would obey a slave. I cried non-stop when I saw all my family died in the attack. I cannot do anything, only can accepted the fact that I chose to be a slave to the killers of my family. I was very angry, and wanted to avenge for my family, but I was not able to do anything. Just shut up and obey all the things that are made by the colonizer. I'm here as slaves to mine for gold and silver to be used for colony invaders. Sometimes we moved to work for a farmer spices. I worked all my ability to avoid punishment by the colonizer. I see around me that plenty of people with the same boat with me being a slave to the vicious invaders. The results of our sweat paid only with a drop of drinking water which is divided to some workers and then proceed back to work. I never thought that my life would turn out to be bad like this. Losing of our loved and losing of a very precious one in this life. Sad and revenge, that's all that I had in mind at the time. Thank fate and circumstances that I select and try to survive in this misery. When I worked, I made a few mistakes that lead to other people affected by torture. I feel very tired because of hunger and thirst which I naturally could not be detained again. Then I tried to find food that is around the tent occupiers, but unfortunately a soldier saw me split distributed food to other workers. I accept their punishment and in particular in the form of lashes each twenty-five times the punch while I received fifty lashes. With the pain that I feel, I did not regret that I did it out of necessity; other workers did not even feel resentment to me. After a few years I worked in the colony of invaders I was furious. Often times, there is a feeling in my mind to escape from all these circumstances. One morning, my determination to escape is ripe with full preparation. I invited two friends to join the same boat escape together. They are my good friends who I know there. We begin the journey into the forest, then the slits hiding in the rocks, and in the river to escape pursuit by the army of colonizer, but unfortunately I was shot in the abdomen and we were later arrested in torment in a metal cage for a few months. We desperately tortured to death we are not able to say. In my chest and in the scratch slice with a sharp knife like an animal who would be killed. After a few months, we at release for rehired for the project that will never be over I think. But here I have not given up trying to escape again.

I started working full vain which will not get anything. I continue to survive and begin plans to build a well thought out plan to escape to freedom. When I was working I was tormented with all these circumstances. "What can make, after this I'm going to run away with all his might until I die" I said, holding a hoe to plant herbs and spices. At nightfall I collect all the food supplies that I slipped on the rag is still stuck in my body every day for my lunch later in the trip. I started collecting things that might come in handy later. I sometimes steal one of the army knife and some bombs that I hide under the mud. After completion of work, I rushed to the shelter workers. I rushed to take a knife and hide the bomb that I had. I'm planning to do this with a friend of mine named Masnu. Masnu are people who know the ins and outs of the area that will be passed during the escape. He really knew where we were supposed to take cover and hide until we finally found a small area that he has not been in the know of its existence by the colonizers. He collects items that he believed would help him escape. He's also looking for ways how to escape it went well protected from invaders siege. Once the preparation is complete we decided the day and hour in which we will be running. Morning has arrived. It’s time to start to work. At that time the soldiers were watching us consists of four people. We tried to make a scene with a fight with the other workers. Once things started to heat up, the soldiers focused their eyes on the workers who fight. Neither soldier’s who saw us. We immediately ran to the forest with all the equipment that had been prepared beforehand. Desperately, passionately that's what makes this mind be free and want to refine on all matters relating to the invaders. Persist, run, and hide. That's what I had in mind at the time. We hid in a cave and in the river to avoid army behind us. Sometimes if the soldiers who follow only one person, we try to kill the soldier and seized weapons that they carry. When passing a banyan tree in front. A soldier shot my friend, Masnu. I'm angry. Immediately I use a rifle that I took from the soldier that we killed a few days ago to shoot dead soldiers. "I will kill you, damn fucking colonier" I said, and crying. Masnu cannot survive with the current situation. I could cry, I just did not know what to do. I hugged him tightly; Masnu just pointing towards the front which marked the settlement is still far ahead. Masnu’s taking last breath. I paused, in my mind there is only a vain hope if Masnu dead. I bury Masnu with despair. Day after day, I passed a few months already. I just dwell on the banyan tree and paused there. Nobody goes through here. I decided to continue the journey in the direction indicated by Masnu. I walked, and walked. After a few hours I walked I saw a prosperous little village there.

Prosperous village is a safe place where I could survive avoids pursuit invaders. In this village, a man approached me anxiously.

“Where did you come from young people?” asked the man to me.

“I am just a runaway who destroyed the village in its domination by foreigner colonizers” I replied.

The old man took me to his house to rest. In the house, there is a beautiful woman who makes my heart a flutter as if I wanted to have it. She is a woman who I love so far is Asri. Every day gardening Asri took me to his father's farm near their house. I was very happy when she is by my side. Nothing can replace him at the time. He is my rose flowers. Often I was picking roses for him. I decided to make my life partner and will be the last in my life. I usually invite Asri to where I was silent and endure. Yes, it was a banyan tree which is a few meters from the countryside. In this place I usually tell you about my experiences while on the ground where I tortured colonizer on their behalf. I used to make him laugh because my funny behavior makes her heart happy. She also was very fond of me as he loves his parents. When evening comes I usually take her to see the stars in the sky and looked at the moon that night more beautiful. Sitting together at the top of a banyan tree at the moon it was all my bad memories of colonialism disappear in my mind when I'm with Asri. This is the miracle of love that can make this heartfelt amazing. We usually get forgotten time to get back to the village. We get things done along with ease and fun. Here I found a new life that would be a wonderful story in this life, but I was wrong. All turned out to be a hell of a change my view on the village Asri will end up the same as my village.

A major attack occurred in the village where the place of birth and was raised Asri. The incident started when we were still in the banyan tree at night where we put our hearts there. We do not know that the invaders are destroying the countryside. When we returned to the countryside, all have been destroyed, the buildings, even the population largely disappeared, while some have died because he refused orders invaders. One of the deceased was beautiful parents. He is very severe shock to accept the fact that his father was dead. Asri did not accept that his parents died. We decided to bury the body of his father in the nearby village. Since that time we decided to leave the village and go to a banyan tree beautiful for reassurance that still sad. We stayed at the Banyan Tree with potluck food supplies. We survive and think of ways how to leave this place and no one knows. We are looking for a solution where we should stay away from the attack and colonizers who are increasingly worse coupled with rebellion inevitable. Once we determine where we survive and there would be no one who knows our hideout. A few months later we decided to leave this place and this banyan tree that protects us during our last. We headed into the mountains and no one knew where we were. In this place, I and Asri trying to build a life where we have to defend against wild feral. We exploit the natural resources around us to enjoy the beauty of this world. By using our potluck turned into a quiet life, but still there is a sense of anxiety when the invaders found a place where we were hiding all this time. Here I can learn a lot about the natural life around. From here I could learn a lot from nature, how to manage nature, and forget all the bad memories of things that happened in the past. The bitter memories will be a history of my life and also in later life Asri. Sometimes she was pensive and silent at that time.

“Why would my life be like this?” Asri said tearfully.

 I tried to grab his warm hand and said "bad memories will remain poor if it is remembered, but we can change the bad memories it be wonderful in the future."

 I hugged her and said "I'll never let another people hurt you and took my beloved at this time.”
“I’m afraid if colonizer comes again!” said Asri.

"Never mind, I'll take care of you till my last breath." I convince her to forget the bad memories.
For many years we have passed in the forest. I ventured down to see the situation if things have changed or still exist in the colonial power. I usually headed colonizers region to find information about colonizers who are still in power and make sure whether there is a change of government.

"What about the situation there? Has there been a change or not at all? "Asri asked as she held my hand charmy.

 "Not yet." I said feeling disappointed.

"Yes, it's unfortunately as long as they do not know where we are. We can still survive for now. Quiet dear! " Said Asri then.

Several months later, I heard that colonialism was defeated and the government has declared that freedom had triumphed in this country. No one would dare to invade us again. The state already assisted by the State which would provide freedom for us. Hearing the news, I rushed back to the woods to tell Asri. She was very happy when I heard the news. With the struggle is not in vain I do not think that the things I dreamed of long ago will soon be realized. I was very pleased when she saw the beautiful festive. Once we heard that there will be a massive uprising against the invaders, we decided to go back to the village. The fighters revolt against the invaders. With the weapon it is, I joined with other fighters to fight the colonizers. Asri wait in a safe place that is prepared for the women. Hide, defend, attack, only that our strategy against the invaders who are still left in our region. I just remember how to avoid enemy fire. I just need to run and hide zigzag. I'm directing this hand to the enemy in the head with a gun in my hand through this. I shouted with all his strength, independence. And that's only one word that could be encouraging me to fight the cruel colonizers.
Once we get the absolute independence, and I chose to live in the beautiful village far from the city center. Our village is given several acres of land that will be used for farming again. I do not know what to say. Only fate can make this a history that cannot be forgotten in this life. This is where I'm up to now can enjoy life with a wife who was accompanied during the day, and pace to reach expectations that probably cannot be achieved. Because of his beloved wife Asri smile make this a thing that might happen and most beautiful things to be forgotten. And this is the story of my life that others might simply just bouquets but this is a reality that must be accepted.

By:

I Made Ery Indrawan