choices

some say, best way to choose between choices is follow your heart.

have you ever been caught in the middle of some problem that will change the course of your life? (beugh dalem. hahaha) the problem that will be one of the biggest thing that ever happen to you, the problem that'll make you re think about your life, you dreams and how to make those dreams into reality, the problem that will test your decision making skill, decision that will shape your future.

well, this is my story. 

i always dream to be the best football player on the world, better than maradona. football have been my hobby, favorite thing and passion since i was a little kid. i dont mind playing where, when or with who, but as long as its about football, count me in dude.

as i grew up while becoming a supporter of Liverpool F.C i set another dream, to play for them, in front of The Kop. its really wonderful when i slept at night and dreamt of playing either for Liverpool or Indonesia National Team. then i grew few things that became my hobby, music and art.

you know what? there was a time when i focused myself into the music world and kinda left the football world for a moment. i love playing guitar, making something using my creativity.

but still, football. as i grew up again, i know how hard it is to play football in europe, as the "not so creative" dream start growing within me, i have a new dream. a dream where me, will lead the Indonesia Creativity Industry to their best potential, Creativity Industrial Revolution. sounds great right?

to make my dream coming to reality, i have to make sure that my "studying life" will help me to achieve my dream, eliminate the unnecessary things that didn't have any relation to my dream.

and that was the time that i made the decision that change almost everything. decision that will shape my future. decision that will make my dreams coming to reality.

i decided to take a homeschooling on my senior high school time, it was a great debate between me and my parent, tough decision, ignoring the time to make lot of friends, hanging out, being a bastard (?) i just follow what my heart said hahaha. yeah, its really hard, i have to take all responsibility for what i have chose before. missing those high schoolers thing to make my dreams into reality? why not?

even though im a homeschooler i still can get a lot of friends, by joining some community. because i love football and art, i've joined BIGREDS IOLSC, LFC International Academy and i've been around in the art community on the internet.

when others busy studying lot of things they "have" to study, me, here, have start working, another step forward to make my dreams into reality. I got a lot experiences on working in the professional word, by making some biography film, logo design, working as liaison officer (read my previous post) etc, those kind of things are something that money can't buy.

so... im not saying senior high school life or homeschool life is a bad one, it's all up to you, you make your own decision, it's you who decide what you want to be.

maaf kalo bahasa inggrisnya masih blepotan hehehe. yang penting udah berani mencoba. adios!

UCLG 2012

reminder for reader(s). ini postingan bilingual alias belom di-google-translate-in. harap maklum.

bismillah..

so.. for the past 5 days i've been working at UCLG ASPAC 2012.

The UCLG ASPAC 2012 placed in hotel borobudur and ran by Ciki Convex as the PCO. some of my friends was placed on the secretariat, while fawwey, rizky and me worked on the registration and hospitality desk.

we're giving hospitality, souvenirs, absent, creating id card to every delegations listed on the participant list.

at the first meeting in hotel borobudur, i was a bit nervous. but i got few things from the first meeting and it was, we have to work at our best because this is an international conference, work fast, be friendly with every delegations because it will make them feel welcome. i made myself relax by looking around the room, found some (literally) big woman, the chief of uclg aspac or i should call icam's father and several college students with most of them are female.

later on, the head of pco, divided us into few groups, some of us in the registration group, l.o group, secretariat group etc, i met my coordinators there, my coordinators was talking about how many delegations, what we should do and not panic if there's something wrong. we have 2 coordinator, both of them are woman. the first one is mba niken, she really looks like one of my friend for sure! and the second one is mba ade, later on, i find out that mba ade is a friend of my mom and last ramadhan she visited my house.

finally, our first day of working at UCLG-ASPAC! we came first on 7.30 in the morning and we met with our group in banda b aka secretariat room. from there we packed things and tools for registration desk and we brought it to the main lobby, where the registration table just finished its preparation. then we put the laptop and id printer, absent and the registration form of course! then they're start coming like a G6! haha kidding. the first delegation that register was Mr. Peter Woods, nice old man from australia, he really amazed when he knew that he got a free batik, top old man that he is. then delegations from sri lanka mr. gunasekara & mrs. goonasekara followed by mr. anwar hussein from pakisten coming sequently. from that, work on the registration desk wasn't as hard as i thought before. so it quite easy to work until the last delegation on that day. wait i havent finish, last delegation on that day came at 11 pm. there was 5 of them, they are delegation from china, dan tau apa yang paling nyusahin? 3 dari mereka gak bisa bahasa inggris dan 2 dari 3 yang gak bisa bahasa inggris itu nenek2. pas giliran dapet batik semua stok batik di ubrak abrik sama doi. mampus gue beresinnya cape banget. jam 11 malem tuh. a real pain.

after we finished with those super nice and kind delegation from china, we headed to alila hotel. the place that we will stay for the next 5 days. there are 6 of us and we got 2 rooms. but when we wanted to check in, the receptionist guy said that the pco booked the room for the next day. not today. pada saat itu mata udah sepet dan ada miss communication antara pco sama hotelnya. akhirnya disaat yang lain udah molor di lounge, kita dapet kamarnya. itu rasanya kaya apaan tau akhirnya bisa tidur di kasur juga. mantep deh.

siksaan gak berakhir disitu, kita yang baru bisa tidur jam 1an dapet telfon dari koordinator kalo besok jam 7 udah siap di lobby alila dan udah sarapan buat berangkat ke hotel borobudur. all of us prepared their alarm. set on 5 am. BOOM! all alarm rang at the same time, we woke up and took a bath one by one. thank god it on hotel and served hot water on the bath room. abis semua mandi kita dapet 4 breakfast coupon + 2 lagi dari mba niken, so all of us left alila at 7 in the morning with full stomach as our main fuel.

as soon as we arrived at borobudur hotel, we packed all things like yesterday and put it on the lobby. awalnya gue kira hari ini bakal kaya hari pertama kemaren, gak terlalu renggang dan gak terlalu padet.
takdir berkata lain, hari itu meja registrasi diserbu puluhan delegasi dateng diwaktu yang tidak jauh berbeda. semua kerepotan. mulai dari vip sampe delegasi biasa berebutan registrasi, saat itu gue berasa jadi panitia raskin. panitia raskin, we knew how you feel! :)

dari walikota, wagub, bupati lokal dan international tumpah ruah di meja registrasi, kita disiksa, meja registrasi terus sibuk (baca: disiksa) sampe siang, sekitar jam 1-an. gue merasakan arti sebuah kebebasan setelah tanpa henti ngurusin orang absen, buat id card, bagiin souvenir dan ngajak ngobrol tentunya. siang itu suasana jauh lebih tenang walaupun masih harus ngurus id card untuk media dan beberapa orang delegasi lagi, tapi seenggaknya gak disiksa kaya tadi pagi.

hari itupun berakhir sama seperti kemarin, dan memulai hari esoknya sama seperti kemarin pagi.

di hari ketiga ini delegasi yang registrasi sepi banget, yang buat hari ini seru tuh pas kenalan sama anak anak l.o secara keseluruhan. disana kenal sama ghassani, alfian, chossy, rifani, lina dll. tau2nya lina tadi itu pernah jadi v.o transport pas seagames kemarin di soetta makanya pas liat gue agak familiar.
di hari ini, gue sempet ngebantuin seorang delegasi new taipei city, his name is mr. ching chung ke. emang sejak hari pertama dia dateng, dia sering banget nanya ke gue, ya gue juga asik2 aja bantu dia #nohomo. tapi pas hari itu dia dateng ke meja registrasi kaya ngajak ngobrol basa basi lah, eh tau taunya mister cingcungke (disingkat, hemat) ini ngeluarin sesuatu dari tasnya, semacam lampion super kecil yang udah di masukin di kotak transparan, dia bilang ini spesial dari new taipei city buat gue, disitu ada mba desra & rizky, kebagian juga lah mereka gift dari mister cingcungke ini.

hari keempat, di hari ini kegiatan registrasi lebih sepi lagi, kaya kuburan. tapi ada yang beda sorenya, kita semua siap siap untuk ikut poolside dinner, yes, poolside dinner!

sorenya. ujan. poolside dinner tetep jalan walaupun ujan, karna ada ruangan indoor yang cukup luas di samping kolamnya, sebelum dinner semuanya kebagian tugas untuk jadi penunjuk arah ke tempat poolside dinner. bosenin banget. tapi semua terbayar pas dinner udah mulai, makanan berlimpah, gue udah lupa tuh kalo udah 4 hari gak olahraga makin gendut nih, mana 2 minggu lagi ada training match lawan STB. tapi lupa tetep lupa dan makanan enak tetep enak sebelum basi dan jadi ampas di toilet.

 

di poolside dinner ini gue minta2in nomor tim l.o. pas ujan udah reda, kita semua lagi ngumpul di pinggir kolam mau foto, pas itu gue sempetin minta path sama nomornya mbak ghassani atau pendeknya, mbak ani, dan sukses! *berasa juara*

: Ani, gue, Alfian, Alam, Siska, Septi. itu sisanya tebak sendiri.

that night, finished with something special. oiya malem itu juga malam dimana semua delegasi menggila, mulai dari gangnam style massal sampe joget poco2 massal. oiya (lagi) kita juga sempet photo sama pak gubernur Fauzi Bowo, it's an honor to met you, sir.

last day of UCLG ASPAC 2012.

beberapa delegasi dari berbagai negara udah ada yang pulang tapi masih lumayan banyak yang stay karna mau ikut city tour. city tour dibagi jadi 3, shopping and batik workshop, golf dan heritage. semua dari delegasi international pada ikut heritage dan yang ikut shopping cuma dari delegasi kota2 di indonesia #facepalm dan untuk golf, beritanya, acara itu di cancel.

gue sama anak2 HS yg tadinya disuruh untuk bantu tim transportasi mendapat pesan langsung dari babehnya icam untuk ikut city tour heritage yang sorenya dilanjutin cruise dinner di kepulauan seribu! YEAH!

di city tour bukan berarti gue dan kawan kawan tanpa ada tugas, kita disuruh bantuin l.o disana, gue kebagian bantuin l.o korea, l.onya itu ani sama lina. mulai dari bantu jelasin sejarah sampe ethnics indonesia, semua berbekal ilmu sejarah dan sedikit kesotoy-an ketika salah salah satu dari h.o.d gaok province nanya ke gue ttg ethnic dan semboyannya indonesia. siangnya dilanjutin makan di chinese restaurant gitu, sejak dari situ gue langsung ga nafsu, mungkin karna rasa makanannya yang minyak semua plus ada bau aneh pas masuk ke restaurantnya, oiya ditambah banyak banget yang pada karaoke-an lagu cina. ampun -_-

acara berlanjut ke museum fatahillah, disana pas tour guidenya lagi jelasin tentang meriam jagur, ada yang nanya "what's the meaning of that hand over there?" dibales "please dont ask that"

lo tau kan bentuk kepalan tangan yang ada jari jempol nyelip khas meriam jagur? hahahaha. walaupun akhirnya dijelasin apa maksudnya sama tour guide tadi apa maksud dari tangan di meriam si jagur.

dilanjutin ke museum wayang sebentar, abis itu semua ngumpul di bus masing2. korea harus balik sekarang karna takut kena macet ke bandara dan mereka flight malem ini. sementara kita siap siap ke batavia marina, untuk ikut cruise dinner.

sadiiis cruisenya keren banget. tapi kesian ada beberapa l.o yang gak bisa ikut karna harus nganter delegasinya ke airport.

semua udah onboard, kita pun berlayar menuju pulau seribu. sambil ditemenin suasana sore jakarta, kita santai di dek belakang, gak kerasa udah di penghujung acara ini, perasaan kemaren baru meeting dah hahaha.

ini l.o yang ikut & diujung kanan ada bapake dari rifani.

backgroundnya pulau bidadari. beugh...

selanjutnya dilanjutkan sesuai judul tadi, dinner dan ditutup dengan para delegasi, pco dan pemprov dki pada joget poco2 lah, gangnam lah.. gue sempet ditarik buat ikut dance, untung cengkraman gue pas meluk tiang meja kuat sampe akhirnya mereka nyerah hahaha

i think that's all, thanks for visiting my blog. much appreciated for reading this! haha.

ka-chow!