[English mode : OFF, gara2 diprotes sama seseorang]
Semua blog menyambut tahun baru dengan suka cita, walaupun ada pula yang memilih untuk merenungkan diri menelusuri kesalahan2 masa lalu, mencoba lebih baik di tahun ini, 2008. Status YM teman2 di Taiwan banyak yang bertuliskan : xin nian kuai le. Beberapa saat yang lalu saya juga menuliskannya di status YM saya. Kalau ada yang bertanya-tanya mengenai artinya, xin berarti baru, nian = tahun, dan kuai le = selamat/happy.
Saya merasa seperti baru mendapatkan balasan atas rasa congkak luar binasa, yang saya tulis pada postingan sebelumnya. Karena itu, pada saat ini saya bermaksud meralatnya. Saya tidak sepintar itu. Menyelesaikan tugas C++ sendirian dalam seminggu bukanlah suatu hal yang mukjizat. Mungkin hampir semua orang bisa. IQ 143 di Facebook? Itu murni sepertinya kebetulan. Emang lagi hoki aja tembakannya bener. Walaupun saat nembak tentunya mikir juga sambil ngantuk2. Maklum, bentuk soal2nya pilihan ganda. Coba kalo pertanyaannya isian, atau essay, dapet IQ 100 juga udah syukur.
Sebagai fotografer minim jam terbang, rasanya terlalu berlebihan jika berharap untuk mendapatkan hasil jepretan yang memuaskan di malam tahun baru di saat Taipei 101 memancarkan cahaya kembang api yang didanai 31 juta NTD (+/- 9 miliar rupiah) yang merupakan puncak acaranya. Bukan, bukan salah kameranya yang membuat foto2nya jadi tidak bagus. Kamera yang baru saya beli beberapa minggu yang lalu sudah lebih dari cukup untuk mendapatkan hasil yang baik untuk fotografi. Memang dasar pemiliknya saja yang belum mau belajar. Tapi daripada foto2 ini saya simpen buat koleksi pribadi, mending saya bagi2 buat pembaca blog saya yang manis2 dan cakep2 seperti Anda, ya kan? Yah… siapa tahu jadi pengen ke Taipei. Oke, berikut ini skrinsyut dari TKP, di taman Sun-Yat Sen Memorial Hall.
Spot for watching the show.
Love Taiwan. Who? Me? 
I still love my country.
Boneka2 raksasa yang lucu2.
Siap2… cari tempat paling pewe.
Biar lesehan di jalan, yang penting happy.
Dan video berikut ini adalah detik2 yang dinantikan oleh semua orang di sekitar saya pada saat itu. Dan akhirnya saya menyadari kalau saya hanya manusia biasa yang bisa berbuat salah, dan tidak sepantasnya menyombongkan diri kepada siapapun.
Warning : Untuk kenyamanan menonton video ini, putar monitor Anda 90 derajat searah jarum jam. Atau, miringkan kepala Anda 90 derajat berlawanan arah jarum jam.
Update (3/1/2008) : Already fixed.
Maybe what was Prof.Charlie said at the first meeting of the class, is true. That I have to study/work harder to survive in Taiwan. Survive means, to get proper points to pass all courses, and compete with Taiwanese students who are undoubtedly freaks with their studies.
2 days ago was the day when we had to submit our homework. That was different with the two previous homeworks. Before, he only assigned about our opinions and ideas to solve problems. But the last one, he asked us to make a program. It was very challenging because it has been a long time that I had not touched any programming language. The Last time was when I dealt with Java, when I took Object Oriented Programming with Java class. But now, there is nothing left. They all have evaporated from my brain.
Then I decided to choose C++. Why? Because I thought I will need it for my thesis research. Yup, I ever got this programming language in my second year, but it has been 4 years ago. I had forgotten everything about C++. Therefore I had to learn it from the beginning, learned how to appear Hello World in a console. Although this homework had 4 weeks to had done, but I started it when there was a week left. [Sombong mode : ON] Fortunately, ore wa tensai [Japanese], wo hen lihai a… [Chinese]. I should believe that I got 143 IQ points which was resulted from IQ test on Facebook. So I could finished the assignment in a week. But maybe it was not as good as the other’s.
Until now, I do not know why, even though I had so much time at front to do something, I filled it with unnecessary-unimportant-things. As a compensation, my brain would work very hard, plus, I could not sleep well at nights near the deadline. Should I work as hard as them (Taiwanese students) to avoid this condition? But who will guarantee that I will not going crazy when I go back to Indonesia?
Ok, lets get out of topic. What is your plan for tomorrow, December 31th? Do you want to know what my plan is? Attending 2 seminars for another homework.
Let says that I was too late for watching dorama titled Proposal Daisakusen. I knew that this dorama is very good from everybody who talked about it in their blogs and from some reviews. And at last, finally, I just finished watching this dorama today (I watched it for around a week, 1 or 2 episodes per day). This film conducts very good story which also gives the viewers a very nice message. But, you have to watch this dorama till the end. Even though you have watched through 10 episodes, if you don’t watch the final (episode 11), you won’t get the message. The last episode is the punch line. I caught the message saying like this :
“Although you can go back to the past, you would not change everything (maybe only changed some little things). Your future is depend on what you (will) do today.”
That was depicted by Ken’s efforts which always went back to the past, but then, he always failed to fulfill his mission. Ken never can do what he supposed to do, confess his feeling to Rei, because he was burden by friendship. Not like Tada-san who could easily declared that he likes Rei and then engaged her. Let’s talk back about ‘feeling’ which is burden by friendship. Heeeh… suddenly it reminds me about a very girly novel titled Cintapuccino. You might also have some kinds of similar feeling in your childhood, don’t you? I think almost everybody have it. If you ask me, I belong to almost everybody. But, that is not the point. The point is, you regret it or admit it. If you ask me again, I’m not pretty sure with my answer. Because sometimes I regret it, but sometimes I accept it.
[English mode : OFF] Halah, kok jadi ngalor ngidul gini. Padahal cuma pengen nge-review sedikit tentang dorama-nya Masami sama Yamapi. Buat yang belom dan pengen nonton, link-nya bisa didonlot di sini. Emang sih temanya rada2 mencla-mencle tentang ABeGe, apalagi kalo bukan tentang CiMon alias Cinta Monkey. Kalo bukan karena terpengaruh komen2 yang bilang dorama ini bagus, toh saya nggak akan nonton. Last but not least, beli berlian dan kertas putih, cukup sekian dan terimakasih.
*Picture was taken from :
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Proposal_Daisakusen
Today is a mother’s day, but I won’t talk about it. I want to tell you about my experience watching the Chinese opera. Laoshi (= Chinese teacher) invited us to watch this opera to substitute her absent few months ago. Therefore, today, my classmates from Chinese class (2 Vietnamese), laoshi, a friend from Indonesia, and I, went to Muzha in order to realize it. We met at Muzha Station. Then we had to take a bus and continued by walking to reached the location, which is at The Chinese Art Center. The show itself started at 2.30 pm.
They have two stories which were not connected between each other. The first story told about a detective woman who disguised into a man. She was ordered by the King, which was also a woman, to stand the justice. In her way doing her jobs, she met a man who then would be her partner to fought injustice in their territories. One day, she had conversation with her friend. Her friend told her to marry her partner. The detective could not imagine if that plan could be realized. Because, her partner only knew her as a man. Another day, when the detective talked with her friend, her partner overheard their speech. Her truth identity was uncovered. They began to like each other, then they got married. Laoshi said that in the end of the show, it had funny dialog. Even though they had married, but her partner (now became husband) kept calling her, “my lovely brother.”
The Detective’s partner who would be a husband
The Detective
A scene
The second story was the main show, I thought. Because it was longer than the first one. Ok, I’ll make it into a short story. A long time ago there was a kingdom which had several strong General. But one day, there was a General who betrayed this kingdom. The two strongest General were called to lead the operation to found out the betrayer. But there was only one position for the leader. Then, the king held a little competition between them to decided who would be the leader, and who would be the vice leader. The General with a red mask won, the white-face General lost. And then they worked together against the betrayer. They had succeeded push-down the betrayer. But it was not the end of the story. That winning situation was used by the white-face General to killed the leader. The king thought that was white-face General who won the fight against betrayer, then the king was very proud of him. Unfortunately, his life was not getting better. He was haunted by red-mask General ghost. In the end, white-face General killed himself.
Red Mask means he has a good heart
White face means his heart is unclear whether it is good or bad
The traitor (don’t know what the mask means)
All the players.
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Honestly, I am not sure enough with my version stories. It is combination of my interpretation of the show (from their acting and gestures), plus laoshi’s story. Although I have been in Taiwan for almost 4 months, but I am still could not understand their language well. Dui bu qi…
Buddies were having dinner
Sabtu-Minggu kemarin, di NTU diselenggarakan turnamen olahraga antar para student yang berasal dari overseas chinese (i.e., Hongkong, Macau, Malaysia, dll). NTUFSA diundang untuk berpartisipasi dalam acara ini. Ada 5 cabang yang dipertandingkan, badminton, pingpong, basket, voli, dan sepakbola. Saya ikut cabang yang disebutkan terakhir.
Sabtu, hari pertama diselenggarakannya turnamen ini, tim NTUFSA dari cabang lain mulai berguguran. Tim voli dan basket terkena diskualifikasi karena kurangnya jumlah peserta. Sedangkan tim badminton tidak mampu berbicara banyak, dan hanya menyisakan satu nomor yang berhasil survive yaitu di ganda putra yang diwakili oleh pasangan Malaysia-Vietnam. Harapan lain bertumpu pada tim sepakbola. Pertandingan pertama dilalui dengan minimnya gol. Tim kami hanya mampu menang satu gol atas tim gabungan Hongkong-Macau. Mungkin karena belum ada saling pengertian dan kerjasama yang baik antar pemain. Maklum, tidak ada persiapan menjelang kompetisi ini. Di pertandingan kedua, tim kami sukses menghancur leburkan tim Malaysia dengan 5 gol tanpa balas. 2 kemenangan itu membuat kami masuk ke semifinal.
Berkomposisikan skuad dari 4 benua (minus Australia) mewarnai sebuah permainan sepakbola gado2 dari tim ini. Skuad NTUFSA terdiri dari 2 orang Spanyol, 1 Kosta Rika, 4 Vietnam, 2 Indonesia, 1 Kolumbia, 1 Irak, 1 Afrika Selatan. Tidak salah kalau Spanyol merasa memiliki 2 agama di negaranya. Agama sebagai kepercayaan, dan juga sepakbola. Karena kedua orang Spanyol itu lah inspirator tim ini. Kami bermain dengan formasi 2-3-2 (8 orang/tim) menggunakan setengah lapangan.
Hari kedua, pada pertandingan semifinal entah lawan tim mana, setelah unggul 1-0 dan kemudian disamakan menjadi 1-1, akhirnya babak pertama berakhir dengan kemenangan, 3-1. Di babak kedua tim kami menambah 4 gol lagi tanpa kebobolan. Hasil akhir, 7-1.
Jam 12 lewat 15, matahari bertahta di tengah langit Taipei. Debu pasir terbang hilir mudik di tengah lapangan yang sudah tidak menyisakan rumput. Seperti di makan kambing2 kurban. Siang itu, mau tidak mau, suka tidak suka, pertandingan final pun akhirnya dilangsungkan. Babak pertama berlangsung mudah bagi kami, 3-0. Tapi indahnya babak pertama tak seindah babak kedua. Tim kami mencetak 2 gol lagi. Tidak, kita tidak menambah selisih gol jadi 5, tapi mengurangi selisih gol menjadi 1! karena 2 gol itu bersarang di gawang sendiri. Untungnya ketika saat wasit meniup peluit panjang, hasil akhir tidak berubah. Kami menang 3-2.
Mimpi mengangkat piala selayaknya juara Piala Dunia diiringi lagu We Are The Champion, serta menerima medali pun ter-bayang2 oleh teman2 ketika kita sedang bersantai sebelum pertandingan final di mulai. Sayangnya, mimpi tinggal lah mimpi. Tim kami didiskualifikasi karena koordinator kami ikut bermain di babak final karena kekurangan orang akibat ada pemain kami yang cedera. Yo wis lah… mungkin memang sudah nasib…
Minggu malam, badan serasa remuk redam. Akumululasi rasa capek akibat main bola 2 hari berturut-turut, dan ditambah bersepeda ke Jiantan di hari Sabtu paginya. Kaki-tangan-badan pegel2 semua, tapi MU vs Liverpool nggak boleh terlewatkan untuk disaksikan. Akhirnya nebeng nonton di kantin NTUST. It was worth it, MU menang. Tapi walaupun toh MU menang, badan ini nggak merasa lebih baik. Tetep aja pegel2.
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