13 February 2010

Sekolahku, banjir prestasinya!

Sepertinya beberapa post terakhir memang cukup banyak membicarakan tentang wanita, entah apa alasannya. Hal ini cukup menarik perhatian saya. Mungkin karena akhir-akhir ini saya menganggap wanita itu rusuh, merepotkan. Padahal saya sendiri seorang wanita, walaupun kata Shifu (pelatih) wushu saya pernah 'membaca' roh saya, bahwa roh saya adalah roh laki-laki, sehingga bisa dibilang agak macho dan blak-blakan. Sulit rasanya untuk bersikap anggun.

Skip saja, tidak begitu penting.

Minggu ini memang minggu yang cukup sibuk-dan cepat- untuk saya pribadi, dan mungkin untuk sebagian orang. Pelajaran Matematika dan Sains yang bertambah porsinya, dari 9 jam pelajaran menjadi kurang lebih 12 jam pelajaran PER mata pelajaran. Memang inilah resiko yang dihadapi untuk menjadi anak Sains-menjalani mata pelajaran yang kompleks, ditambah dengan guru-guru yang, sepertinya, bosan untuk bertemu anak-anak yang sama setiap harinya dan lelah untuk mengikuti ritme jadwal pelajaran yang terlalu kacau ini, sehingga kestressannya tersalurkan secara tidak wajar.

gurupun ikut stress

Belum lagi ditambah dengan kegiatan kaderisasi yang diadakan tiga kali seminggu, menghadapi calon pewaris organisasi yang masih hijau dan memiliki pengetahuan keorganisasian yang minim, sehingga diperlukan pemberian materi secara ringkas dan tepat sasaran. Mungkin secara kasat mata akan terlihat seperti perploncoan, namun pada kenyataannya untuk membentuk calon pewaris yang memiliki sifat dan sikap yang dibutuhkan dalam organisasi (profesionalitas, kekeluargaan, dan kecerdasan interpersonal) dibutuhkan tekanan. Ya, tekanan. Ibarat berlian, ia tidak akan memiliki nilai lebih dari sekedar bongkahan karbon biasa tanpa adanya tekanan. Tekananlah yang membuat berlian memiliki nilai lebih, dan tekananlah yang membuat siswa-siswi SMA Negeri 8 Jakarta memiliki nilai lebih. Mereka dituntut untuk bersikap profesional di organisasinya tanpa melalaikan tugas utamanya sebagai pelajar.


Terkadang, manusia punya limit resistensinya terhadap tekanan. Tak sedikit-atau bahkan semua- siswa SMA Negeri 8 Jakarta yang mengharapkan datangnya 'tamu tahunan', yaitu banjir. Inilah apa yang baru saya rasakan tadi pagi. Di tengah khidmatnya tutorial dan psikotes, serta guru-guru pembina OSN yang sedang mengikuti workshop, tamu itu datang. Di hari Sabtu. Oke, saya juga salah satu dari sekian banyak siswa yang mengharapkan banjir. Banjir datang, hatipun senang karena dalam satu-dua hari kedepan akan libur, dan pada H+3 banjir, kegiatan belajar-mengajar akan dipindahkan ke Pusdiklat, Kuningan, seperti tahun lalu.

Sekolahku, banjir prestasinya!

Semoga hal ini terus bertahan hingga hari Senin, Selasa, hingga Jum'at minggu depan. Saya cukup lelah, butuh waktu untuk sekedar berleyeh-leyeh dan santai menikmati buku-buku yang menarik untuk dibaca.

12 February 2010

Computer-mutated woman

taken from @khonsasn 's blog. follow her blog and twitter!


Hard Disk Women:
She remember Everything. FOREVER

Ram Women:
She forgets about you, the moment you turn her off.

Windows Women:
Everyone know's that she can't do a thing right,but no one can live without her.

Excel Women:
She can do lot of thing,But you mostly use her for your basic needs.

ScreenSaver Women:
She is good for nothing but at least she is fun.

Internet Women:
Easy to access.

Server Women:
Always Busy When you need her.

Multimedia women:
She makes horrible things looks beautiful.

CDROM Women:
She is always faster and faster

Email Women:
Every ten things she says,eight are nonsense.

Virus Women: Also known as WIFE. When you are not expecting her ,she comes install herself and uses all your resources. If you try to uninstall her, you will lose everything!!

A gentle yet strong hearted thing called WOMAN

 
 

Aku wasiatkan kalian agar berbuat baik kepada kaum wanita..

Karena wanita diciptakan dari tulang yang bengkok,

Dan yang paling bengkok adalah bagian alasnya,

Jika engkau meluruskannya dengan kasar, engkau akan mematahkannya.

Tetapi jika engkau membiarkan begitu saja, maka akan tetap bengkok seperti semula. Aku wasiatkan agar kalian berbuat baik kepada kaum wanita.

-Bukhari Muslim-

 
 

 
 

Dari satu tulang, Allah menciptakan dan menghiasmu.

Dari satu tulang, Allah membentuk mu dengan sempurna dan cantik..

Allah hanya memilih tulang yang melindungi kehidupan pria

Allah hanya memilih tulang rusuk, yang menyelimuti jantung dan paru lalu menjaganya

 
 

 
 

Engkau lembut dan mudah patah

tetapi kuat layaknya tulang rusuk..

Engkau menyediakan perlindungan untuk bagian yang paling lembut dari pria..

Hati dan jangtungnya selembut pusat kehidupan

Dan paru yang menggenggam nafas kefanaannya..

Engkau tidaklah diambil dari kakinya untuk menjadi alasnya

 
 

 
 

Tidak pula diambil dari kepalanya untuk menjadi alasannya

Tapi engkau diambil dari sisinya untuk berdiri di sebelahnya

Hingga dipeluk erat oleh dekapan lengannya

Engkau diambil dari sisi jantungnya, agar merasakan getarnya hingga tercium aliran nafasnya

Dalam cinta, tunjukkan kepadanya bahwa engkau adalah rusuknya yang melindungi tubuhnya

Dukunglah ia sebagaimana tulang rusuk menjaga dirinya.

 
 

 
 

Karena itu, Janganlah sampai melukai hati kaum wanita,,

Hormatilah dan hargailah perasaan kaum wanita

Janganlah sekali-sekali melukai hati kaum wanita

Sebagaimana Allah meninggikan derajat kaum wanita dari pada kaum pria

sehingga syurga pun berada di bawah telapak kaki ibu yang itu pun seorang wanita

 
 

 
 

Dan pada kisah nabi Muhammad SAW pun seseorang bertanya kepada nabi Muhammad, siapakah orang yang harus paling aku sayangi di dunia ini? dan nabi Muhammad pun menjawab IBU MU sampai 3x, dan terakhir ayah mu hanya sekali.

Maka dari itu jangan lah sampai melukai perasaan hati kaum wanita..

 
 

Pasted from <http://www.kaskus.us/showthread.php?t=3349865>

 
 

31 January 2010

Knowing myself, friends, and team

I haven't tell you how I love to answer personality tests, psychological tests, every tests that -hopefully- will reveal who I am, what are my weaknesses, my strengths, and so on. Luckily, yesterday I joined ta'lim, a type of preaching about Islam. At first, I thought this might be boring, like some kind of ta'lim that my mother used to take me to. But apparently, this isn't that boring! Perhaps because the speaker is one of my high school best graduate, so he can understand the audience and how to deliver his topic well.

His topic is about "Ukhuwah Islamiyah", or Islamic relationship among others. There are four steps to reach the truly Ukhuwah Islamiyah, which are ta'aruf, tafahum, ta'awun, and al-Itsar.

Ta'aruf
means to know each other. In this section, he asked us to answer a personality test and tell him what the results are. Actually I've ever answer it long time ago when I was a junior in high school. But time may changes everything, right? And last night, I tried to answer it once more, and my results are:
I was shocked, because since I was in junior high, my highest score in multiple intelligence test is always Logical/Mathematics. And now, my Bodily/Kinesthetic intelligence beat it! And in the personality test, why does it call 'The Persuader'? I'm not good in persuading people. At all.

Tafahum means to understand each other. Derived from the word fahim (Arabic), which means understand. In order to understand this section, he asked us to write down in a paper about ourselves - the positive and negative sides of yourself, and a thing that represents us. Then, he (the speaker) took the papers, read it out loud, and everybody have to guess who's that. Beside that, he also asked us to make "River of Life". It's kinda life-themed story telling about ourselves since we born until now. It's so fun, but it took such a quite long time, so he said that we got to continue it sometime.

The next one, taawun, means to undertake the others' burden onto us, so we feel the burden altogether. He simulated this action by playing games. In this games, we have to wake up from this position: all legs are straighten, feet are gathered in the middle, and hands are all tighten each other. This is not as easy as if it is played in pair, like what I've done it before. But then, the speaker changed the game into a..MASS MASSAGE-ing!! We were lined up, then person behind us have to treat our back. After they finished, we turned around and did the same thing as they do.

Last one, al-Itsar, means to precedence others beyond our interest. In this last session, the speaker gave a pack of wafer to a random person in a group.

These components are the basics, but very vital in our social life, especially to maintain a good relationship among people. Without them, our organisation, love life, and others may be ruined.


Bunches of thanks are sent for the speaker and all my 'zuperrr' family Rohis 45 who inspires me all the time and brought back this topics :)

24 January 2010

Think manly, act womanly

It's been a long time not to post in English, eh? Probably I'm gonna do this for 5 months onward, as I'm gonna take SAT and TOEFL test during my summer holiday.

Time flew so fast, eh? I just realised it last night, when I rearranged my organisation archives. I found a proposal of an event, called Maviroh. It stands for "Malam Penerimaan Aktivis Rohis". Juniors in the 10th grade are the participants of this event, and the 11th graders are the committee. It has been a week since I participated in this event.

The event is about how to prepare the juniors, who intended to be school's Islamic activists, with all materies that conveyed in talkshows and games. Glad to see the juniors really enjoyed this events, and so do I. The outbounds were so tiring yet exciting. Bunches of thanks are sent for my great family, Rohis 45. Love you all!

This week is also the great one. I flew high a lot (hahaha), there are so many troubles including TeSIS presentation which I've done it yesterday. But overall, it still be my best one. But my home environment weren't good enough. I've cried for a night as an expression of how pathetic myself with those pressure, my mom's nonsense arguments, and so on and on. I'd like to move on to my gramps' cost-an home, which organised by my best person ever, a true mom, a person whom I trully believe in - my childhood nanny.

Well, I found pretty much fun for posting a post in English. Pray for me, and other people who do really need a good environment to live a life.

Tschuss!