Aku Ingin Seorang Teman - Eka Budianta

Aku ingin seorang teman
yang senyumnya bertahan
dalam gemuruh kota dan sunyi desa
Aku ingin seorang teman
yang tidak putus-asa di musim kemarau
dan tidak sombong di musim hujan

Aku ingin seorang teman
yang nafasnya tetap teratur
dalam keributan dan keheningan
Aku ingin seorang teman
yang bisa memisahkan urusan pribadi
dan kepentingan banyak orang.

Kalau boleh aku ingin memilih teman
yang tetap berpikir jernih
di dalam keruhnya zaman
yang sanggup mendengar
pujian maupun ejekan
yang tetap punya harapan
pada saat orang lain ketakutan
yang tetap bersih dan sehat
pada saat semua jadi jorok dan sakit-sakitan

Tetapi aku tahu semua teman bisa pergi
untuk sementara atau selamanya
Seorang teman bisa berkelit,
bisa jadi pikun atau pura-pura lupa
Sementara aku sendiri juga bisa mati
sebelum rumah persahabatan
selesai kubangun untuknya.

Karena itu aku ingin seorang teman
yang bersedia tinggal di hati-kecilku
dan memberiku ruang di dalam hatinya.

Menulis

Menulis, hmm, mungkin itu adalah salah satu hal paling berarti dalam hidup saya. Mungkin karena menulis itu adalah biimplikasi dari membaca, yang merupakan hobi saya dari umur 3 taun.

Mungkin satu hal yang gak pernah saya sadarin adalah bahwa betapa membaca dan menulis itu adalah hal utama yang membangun pribadi saya. Kata orang buku itu jendela dunia, yang artinya membaca berarti mengeluarkan kepala kita keluar jendela itu. Tapi kalo orang bilang buku itu jendela dunia, maka menulis itu berarti kita membuat jendelanya. Penulis bisa jadi adalah salah satu profesi paling mulia di dunia, tentunya dengan syarat dia menulis yang berguna. Kalo dokter menyelamatkan orang dari kesakitan, penulis menyelamatkan dunia dari kebodohan.

Dan bodohnya saya, mungkin saya telat menyadari, bahwa banyak hal berharga di dunia ini yang langsung Allah berikan pada kita waktu kita lahir, dan hal itu bukanlah sesuatu yang akan selalu ada selamanya tanpa usaha kita, hal-hal itu diberikan untuk kita jaga dan kita manfaatkan untuk umat manusia.

Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls, hmmm kayaknya emang gak sreg kalo tinggal di Western NY tapi gak pernah kesini. Yep, ini adalah air terjun terbesar di dunia (terbesar ya bukan tertinggi). Niagara Falls terbagi jadi dua yaitu Horseshoe Falls dan American Falls. Horseshoe mempunyai ketinggian sekitar 53 m dan American sekitar 30 m. Air yang jatuh di Niagara Falls ini rata-ratanya 1400 meter kubik per detik.

So anyway, Niagara Falls is a really pretty place. Waktu saya ke sana itu lagi Fall dan cuaca lumayan dingin, seandainya saya dateng lebih dulu sekitar Summer mungkin saya bakal bisa naik boat di bawah air terjun dan mendekat ke air terjunnya.

One interesting fact : Niagara Falls is officially American's, but it's prettier from Canadian side.

So, it's probably the best spot in WNY. If you going to Buffalo, or even my city Silver Creek! Don't forget to visit Niagara Falls :)

Football's Letter

I wrote this for AFS USA, because they trying to find a stories. It might be expired for now since but it's still a good feeling to remember what we've been through and make me feels appreciate more about myself.

There is one thing that I promise I will always tell future exchange students to do when they doing this, JOIN A SPORTS TEAM! Yeah, sport is the best thing that I got here, I can’t imagine my life without my football team. I’m hosted in Silver Creek, NY. I love American Football and all I want before I came here just watch the game and have fun, because I know most of American school doesn’t allowed Asian exchange student to join the football team, because it’s a tough sport and most Asian have small posture. But fortunately, I’m a big boy with willingness to try and get hit, so the coach allowed me to join the team, and here I am! American Football player!

           Why is it so important? Isn’t it just sport and just play and win or lost and that’s it? No, it’s more than that. Football is everything for me. I learn friendship, family, care, strong, teamwork, popularity, willingness and even love from Football. One special thing when you join a sport is you know somebody before the school start because usually sport season start before the school start. I remembered my first football practice and I can’t go practice because it’s Ramadan (fasting month for Moslem) and I’m fasting so I just come to watch the practice and the coach shake my hand and said, “Welcome to the team”, and then the players come to me and ask my name and we get along really well. When the school started, the football team are the one that always help me with everything, if I don’t know where to go, if I have some problem and also sit with me at lunch and I’m not even practice yet!

           Everything’s going well and finally after Ramadan end I can practice and I remembered how proud I am to wear the football helmet and proctector and go practice. And finally one day, it’s a home game versus Sherman and it’s 4^th quarter, the coach said, “Adit, get in there!”, and I’m officially an American Football player since that second, a day that I will never forget in my life.

           We are pretty strong team so we keep going to the playoff and finally we have a sectional championship game at Ralph Wilson Stadium (Buffalo Bills Stadium). We played against Randolph, which is last year champion so it will be a tough opponent. But finally we won! After an amazing and really close game we won 21-14 and we are the champion of Western NY! Can you imagine how I felt? An ordinary guy that playing with rubber American football in Indonesia and all he wanted just watch a football game now a champion in an NFL team stadium! It was amazing and special day, the best day in my life, when my dreams come true.

           Unfortunately, I missed next game because I had to go to Virginia with my cluster for a trip, so all I can do just watch the game from the computer. And what a bump for me when I know that they lost the game, and the worst thing is I can’t be with my team in the last day of football this season.

           Later on, we have a banquet, a football banquet. Everyone come with their parents and of course I come with my hostmom. The Senior come up and the coach talked about each of us. He told me about a secret, that he didn’t expect me to do this good at all at first. When my host family asked him that there is an Indonesian exchange student that never play American football in my life and want to join the team but he can’t practice until for a month because he had to fast all he think just, “What am I supposed to do?”, so he just accept me to the team and he thought I just gonna be one of the player that just come to one practice and left because it’s too hard. But he said that, what he got is a student that really want to learn and never stop to try even thought he knew he’s not good enough to be a star player. And he said that if I was born in America, I would be a good Football player.  I just feel amazing and special, speechless. I don’t what I should say to him, he just the best coach in the world. But the excitement didn’t finish yet, they gave me a football with the entire team signature, and that’s 1 of 3 football that we used at Ralph Wilson Stadium. I just can’t ask for more, I love this place and I love my life. And when the trophy come, I see my name carved on it, forever. And at that moment I know, I’m not just exchange student for one year here. I am part of Silver Creek, and I will always love Silver Creek, and everytime they see the trophy they will remember that I’m always there.

Christmas Concert

A little flashback, back to Christmas 2010. I'm in the band high school band and I played as a percussionist. This song called Bandology and I played bass drum in this song. What a lovely day :)

Bina Antarbudaya Chapter Bandung Mulai Pendaftaran!

Bina Antarbudaya Chapter Bandung mulai buka pendaftaran!

Berikut adalah tata cara pendaftaran seleksi year program Bina Antarbudaya Chapter Bandung 2012-2013.

Pertama, siapkan berkas-berkas berikut:

1. Surat izin orang tua, yang dapat diunduh pada halaman panduan
2. Surat Rekomendasi Kepala Sekolah/Wakil Kepala Sekolah
3. 2 (dua) buah stofmap-folio berwarna biru
4. 2 (dua) buah salinan ijazah (STTB) beserta salinan nilai ijazah SMP yang telah disahkan/dilegalisasi (cap asli) oleh Kepala Sekolah
5. 1 (satu) buah salinan nilai SKHU UAS dan UN SMP
6. 1 (satu) buah salinan rapor kelas IX SMP (Semester II) yang telah disahkan/dilegalisasi (cap asli) oleh Kepala Sekolah
7. 1 (satu) buah salinan rapor kelas X SMA/SMK/MA (Semester I) yang telah disahkan/dilegalisasi (cap asli) oleh Kepala Sekolah
8. 1 (satu) buah salinan Akte Kelahiran
9. 4 buah pas foto: 2 berukuran 4×6, 2 berukuran 3×4
10. 1 (satu) buah salinan paspor (halaman pertama, yang ada fotonya),bagi yang sudah memiliki paspor.

Lalu beli PIN pendaftaran online seharga Rp35.000 di:

• Sekretariat Bina Antarbudaya Chapter Bandung, Jalan Aria Jipang No. 6,
  Hari Jumat pukul 14.00 – 17.00 (mulai 25 Maret 2011),
  Hari Sabtu dan Minggu pukul 13.00 – 16.00 (mulai 19 Maret 2011), atau
• Mulai 26 Maret 2011, Kantor Cabang Telkomsel/GraPARI terdekat (terutama bagi yang berdomisili di luar Kota Bandung, Kabupaten Bandung, Kabupaten Bandung Barat, dan Kota Cimahi)*

Setelah adik memiliki PIN, kunjungi http://seleksi.binabudbdg.org/ untuk memulai pendaftaran online. Adik akan dipandu melalui situs tersebut. Nggak lebih susah dari bikin akun FB kok.

Panduan selengkapnya dapat diunduh di sini dan sini.

Seperti biasa, jika Adik memiliki pertanyaan, silahkan komen di blog ini, mention @afsbandung, email seleksi@binabudbdg.org, atau teleponAdinda di 08179273033.

Jangan lupa, pendaftaran hanya dibuka hingga tanggal 17 April 2011. Lebih cepat, lebih baik!

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