Nov 27, 2012

Award? Awkward?


I got this absurd requests to answer some questions from Kiki, it is a part of blog award things  (well, I don't familiar with blog world..), I got 11  questions from her, then I have to post 11  questions (I can pick them) to my other 11 friends (It's gonna be a problem, cuz I don't have that many friends who managed blogs...)



So,, at first I decided to argue my case, I want to defend my freedom of speech and my right to choose to accept or refuse (hear hear).  But, I came to conclusion that it's better to resigned and accept the challenge, so here I am trying to find words to answer those questions and forget my unfinished presentation for Thursday for a while +__+

The questions is in Bahasa Indonesia, but I'm quite busy this morning (and quite hungry,,,) so I decided to keep the original language and broke my English-only rule.


1. Pernah nggak kamu merasa kamu kesepian/sangat kesepian padahal banyak orang si sekitarmu (orang2 yang kamu kenal).


Lonely? Do I ever feel lonely? Of course,, I'am a mere human. But the situation like "majas antitesia", feeling lonely in the familiar crowd,, ehhm have i ever?

Probably not, or it's so long time ago and I forgot. 

I got this one moment just recently in the lab, in the mid-afternoon, the weather was so cloudy and the laboratory really deserted, nobody else but me in that area and there was no sound. I barely registered my surrounding when I stared at my notebook quietly read news in the net, but that moment when I raised my head and started to take a look, man, the lonely feeling surged through my heart (and the laboratory felt somewhat creepy). 

So my point is your perspective decided your feeling, you can choose to feeling lonely or not. If you keep busy and doing useful activities that lonely feeling wouldn't come (it worked in my 'deserted laboratory case' haha). As for the lonely feeling in familiar crowd,, just surged to the crowd, join the conversation, being useful. Lonely comes when you felt nobody understand you or you're feeling useless. Well, before you want someone understand your feeling, understand theirs first. 


2. Pernah nggak kamu berfikir untuk membuat sesuatu yang menurutmu "WOW"... bermanfaat tidak hanya bagimu tapi juga orang banyak, jika iya apa...dan manfaatnya apa?

Sure, every person in this world have something like "before I die, I have to give the world something", uhmm except psycopaths I think ( you know, they lack emphaty, so I think they don't give a damn to the world)

As for me, It's still abstract. Hehe. 



3. Apa keinginan terbesarmu yang menurutmu mustahil untuk tercapai...sebutkan apa, dan kenapa?

Dream that I thought impossible?
Well, anything is possible with Allah permission. 

The key of happiness is "do the best and expect less", so whatever comes around, you accept it with open hand and contented heart. Don't have any ambition you'd say? Well, I'm still working to expand my ambition, maybe.. conquer the world? haha

Yes, I deflecting the questions, I have the right am I? *wink

But, I have something that impossible to overcame or if it's possible it needs a tremendous effort to build it. I want a room that time doesn't matter, another dimension that time much slower than ours. Sounds like a science fiction?


Well, I feel time running fast these days so I want to have one ( I know it's absurd )


4. Jika kamu dikasih kesempatan untuk memilih, mau pilih mana... pergi ke masa depan atau masa lalu... cantumkan alasan kenapa?

I prefer past to future, but can I have them both, please ??

According to physics theory, we could go to the past but not to the future, so I stick to the science (albeit it seems incredulously impossible). The reason is sightseeing, I'd love to sightseeing the past with my own eyes. Maybe I would go to jurassic era, then observed the ice age, observed the early man (Adam AS) and hear Muhammad SAW lecture (I'd need a subtitle for that.. ahh maybe I'd eat Doraemon's 'konyaku translator' ^^).

And there was a theory that man and giant-ape (that evolutionist believe is part of the evolution of human) lived in the same era in Europe, and the giant ape is extinct as they couldn't compete with man. It's a clear evidence that those two  are different species and denied the hare-brained idea of man evolution from ape =__=, yes, I want to observed this giant apes tribe and early man tribes and watch them compete for the fittest.

To cut short is,, I want to observed every historic events in the past ^^.


5. Jika kamu mendapatkan kesempatan untuk menjadi orang lain, kamu pengen jadi siapa? kenapa beserta alasan.
Do I want to become somebody else? Well, I quite content with my live, so I have to refuse the generous offer.

6. Siapa motivator, atau inspiratormu!! apa yang membuatmu terinspirasi atau termotivasi, cantumkan alasan.
My motivator?? There are so many of them.

The first and foremost is Muhammad SAW, for he is the ideal man. The second and the rest is the wise man that come before and after he.


7. Kalau kamu dilanda stress atau galau yang tiada tara, sampai kamu merasa putus asa dan tak tahu harus berbuat apa...apa yang kerap kali kamu lakukan buat ngalahin perasaan itu. apakah cara itu lebih sering berhasil atau malah kadang kala gagal?


The 5 stages when we fell depressed/grief in accord to Kubler-Ross are :
  • Denial (this isn't happening to me!)
  • Anger (why is this happening to me?)
  • Bargaining (I promise I'll be a better person if...)
  • Depression (I don't care anymore)
  • Acceptance (I'm ready for whatever comes)
So my first step to overcame it is trying to mend the situation, and if it's not worked then I trying to rationalize the out come, it is easier if I did it in writing. It's partly heal the situation and keep it from getting worse.

As for my heart.. I heal it with reading Al-Quran ( we have to read Al-Quran because of Allah not because our broken heart, sooo I still trying to straighten my intention). Beside that I tried to be grateful to Allah SWT, for all His mercy and blessing that I couldn't count and still have. 

Time heal everything, so I believe there's no failure method in healing depression or galau ^^, as long as it's positive.
More importantly we have to move on, actually we don't have much time to feel depressed, there are so many things that we can pursue rather than wallowing in grief.


8. Kita harus mensyukuri apa yang kita miliki, apakah kamu sudah tahu kelebihanmu apa? kalau iya, apa dan kenapa kamu menganggap itu kelebihanmu, kalau tidak kenapa kamu merasa kamu nggak punya kelebihan?
Well I have this easy go lucky attitude, it's make me an optimistic by nature and always see the best on people. I found almost every person is likeable or.. some parts of them is likeable =__=.

Let's not over analyze this okay? My head hurts and I'm famished. 


9.Tipe teman seperti apa yang membuatmu nyaman ? kenapa?
A friends that I can talk to, when you don't have anything to talk with each other is.. awkward 

10. Kalau kamu berkesempatan mengulangi masa lalumu, memori apa yang ingin kamu ubah? alasannya?
Well, I content with my life, I try to make peace with my mistakes and not to be glued to the past. So I refused your offer, thank you,,,

Moreover, it can make a butterfly effect, the things that you'd change in the past could effect the future.


11. Terakhir, kita tidak mungkin bisa membalas budi orang tua kita, tapi apa pernah terbesit untuk memberikan ortu kita sesuatu? barang atau apa? sebutkan apa itu? serta alasan kenapa?
Yes, of course. 
Alhamdulillah my parents is still alive, so the most important things is keeping them happy, and in my current situation (student, still depend to them) is limited to give them my strength (swept, moped, sometimes cooked when I was home) and gave small gifts.

But someday I want to give them something, and it's a secret *wink. I do have the right to keep silent, don't I?


The Messenger of God, upon whom be peace, said: "When a person dies the benefit of his/her deeds ends, except three: a continuous charity, knowledge from which benefit is derived, or a pious child praying to God for him/her" (The Hadith was related by Muslim and Ahmad).


“Jika seseorang meninggal dunia, maka terputuslah amalannya kecuali tiga perkara yaitu: sedekah jariyah, ilmu yang dimanfaatkan, atau do’a anak yang sholeh” (HR. Muslim no. 1631)


And that's it, I decided not to make another person miserable just to give this award, so I pick nobody.








Oct 16, 2012

TIME


I posted last entry in March, WoW, I'm unsurprisingly lazy.. keke

This October I got a lot of interests (am I tell you that I have really diverse interests?), and today my interest runs toward "TIME". No, not that hugely popular magazine, but time as second, minute, hour, day, etc.


What is time really?
Why sometimes we feel like time barely moving or time flies by fastly?
Is time travel to the past really possible?

The last question is not relevant but I'd pondered it some days ago (with the promise to check the relativity (?) theory if I got a free time),, The idea popped in my mind considering time travel is the newest trend in K-drama recently and I'd read several fiction books about time travel sometime ago. Buuut unfortunately I wouldn't write about it in this entry (I got that lazy syndrome again :p).

This days I feel like time flies by really fast, I just came in the laboratory (really early in the morning) put my bag away, donned my lab coats, got busy in doing my research, and whenever I looked my wristwatch, I noticed several hours had past. After the surprised part had gone away, my brain pondered about how much time left and how much work can be done within the time limit. Every day become a contest for both body and brain, no wonder I often come home exhausted. As for today (if you curious why I have time to updating this blog) my planned have been canceled, I lost the battle. I can't lay my hand to the reactor, the opposing team had seized it first (haha). Oh my, it's seem I've been rambling out of topic.

Ok, back to the main topic.

There are 2 main concepts of time. First is the Newtonian time, which described time as part of fundamental structure of the universe--a dimension  independent of events, in which events occur in sequence. In contrast, the second concept said that  time doesn't refer to any kind of container that events and objects "move through", time is instead a part of fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) which humans sequence and compare events. The second view according to Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant holds that time is neither an event nor a thing, and thus is not itself measurable nor can it be travelled (Well, I guess this concept deny the probability of time travel and.. deny the presence of clock.. wait what?).

I learned Einstein concept about time in high school, the famous relativity theory. In his special theory of relativity he postulated the constancy and finiteness of the speed of light for all observers. This postulate showed that distances appear compressed and time intervals appear lenghtened for events associated with objects in motion relative to an inertial oberver. Well, for examples there were a twin, one traveled to space with the same velocity as the speed of light, the other stay on earth (found a job, got married, got some children and grandchildren while waiting his twin to come home--the bottom line is his twin went in a really long voyage with the spaceship). When the space traveler come home, the one that stay on earth aged faster than the astronaut.



That's physic, let's ponder about time in simple ways.  Time seem move faster when we're doing interesting things or when we're concentrate to something. It will seemingly move much slower when we encounter boring events, boring lecture, or waited impatiently to someone who comes late. BUT, because we can feel time, we need a device to measure it, that was why clock invented.

In Al-Qur'an, Surah Al-Ashr (103), time is described as something precious. The tafseer from Syed Maududi described that Time is witness to the truth that man is in sheer loss except those with the four qualities: (1)Faith, (2)righteous deeds, (4)exhorting one another to Truth, and (4)exhorting one another to patience. Here, since the oath has been sworn by time absolute, both kinds of time (past and present) are included in the meaning. The oath by the past means that people who were without these qualities eventually incurred loss. And for the present we consider that whatever act we perform, good or bad, and whatever occupation we pursue, takes place in limited span of age that we have been given in the world. We feel that our real wealth is this very time which is passing so quickly.


And as a reminder to myself, we're just passing by on dunya (earth),  we should live as if we're just sailing through dunya, and the main destination is akhirah (hereafter), do not drown to dunya and forget about the real objective. So, use your time wisely







Mar 18, 2012

The Begining

I build this blog basically to share my thought in English
My first and second (active) blog is written both in English and Indonesian, so this reisunnyday.blogspot.com (hopefully) will solely written in English.

My written English wasn't bad (and neither is good), but it's not getting any better if we don't use it anymore isn't it? Hmmm

I've been thinking about this blog concept, and I've come to conclusion that whatever concept I used, that will be a high possibility I won't obey it. So, this blog has no concept >_<. I'll write whatever I'm in the mood for (hehe)

But let me introduce my self first.
I was graduated from Universitas Gadjah Mada in Chemistry Department and now continuing my postgraduate study in the same department  specifically in Environmental Chemistry (so,, don't surprise if wild article about Chemistry appear ^^). I still learning about Islam as a way of life ^^ so (probably) I'll post some of it (not copy paste I hope.....). And as I very interested in everything concerning nature, animal, health, and politic, there will be a big chance that I'll post related subject.
And lastly, as sometimes I turn on my lazy mode (and busy mode ahahaha), there will be a high possibility I won't post at all.

Oh well, lets do the best and hope for the best, but remember only Allah SWT knows what better for you

Keep your spirit up and think positive!! ^__^