A-Z Kehidupan Mahasiswa P3D

5:36 AM / Posted by Risayogi Wicaksana Sitorus / comments (1)

originally posted by Thareq Barasabha on Facebook.

link: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=414647778179

Absen. Sesuatu yang akan membuat anda harus berangkat pagi-pagi.
Bohong. Sering muncul godaan untuk melakukannya, jangan dibiasakan, jangan seperti saya.
Cinlok. Sudahlah, jangan disangkal, evidence-based kok!
Dokter muda. Eufemisme belaka.
Emosi. Kadang meluap ke permukaan, bisakah anda mengendalikannya?
Follow up. Sesuatu yang akan membuat anda harus berangkat lebih awal.
Gombal. Skill ini kadang sedikit bermanfaat....
Hikmah. Bisa didapatkan selama P3D, ambillah kalau menemukannya!
Istirahat. Pukul 12.00-13.00, pada kenyataan: kalau bisa sebelum pukul 12.00-ditelepon teman.
Jaga. Memunculkan keinginan mempercepat laju waktu.
Koas. Maaf, saya telah menuliskan kata yang takpantas ini, tapi inilah anda.
Lulus. Tidak selalu berarti anda telah kompeten menguasai ilmunya.
Malas. Biasa menyerang di minggu-minggu pertengahan stase, waspadalah!
Nasib. P3D bisa melatih anda untuk belajar menerimanya.
On-call. Rasakan sensasi ketegangannya!
Pasien. Sumber ilmu, tapi saya sering lupa kalau dia manusia.
Question. Disuruh bertanya bingung, ditanya apalagi.
Residen. Bermacam-macam karakter, hindari yang tidak perlu dikenal.
Status. Membuatnya tidak semudah membuat status facebook.
Tidur. Bisa dilakukan di mana saja dan kapan saja.
Usaha. Meningkat di waktu-waktu menjelang ujian.
Vuvuzela. Suaranya masih lebih merdu dibanding omelan yang diterima.
Waktu luang. Barang yang cukup langka selama P3D.
X. Daripada menonton film jenis ini, lebih baik manfaatkan waktu anda untuk tidur.
Yes man. Tepat untuk menggambarkan anda selama dua tahun ke depan.
Zombie. Kita lihat penampilan anda sehabis jaga bedah, seperti inikah?

Loving Your Enemies, a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.

3:07 AM / Posted by Risayogi Wicaksana Sitorus / comments (2)

Gw nemu ini dari sebuah link yang menampilkan rekaman dari speech Martin Luther King, Jr., "Loving Your Enemies".
Berikut adalah beberapa bagian yang gw quote dari speech beliau. Ga seluruh speech gw tampilkan di sini, hanya beberapa bagian saja.

Loving Your Enemies

Martin Luther King, Jr.
public domain sermon
Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Montgomery, Alabama, 17 November 1957.

Now first let us deal with this question, which is the practical question: How do you go about loving your enemies? I think the first thing is this: In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self. And I’m sure that seems strange to you, that I start out telling you this morning that you love your enemies by beginning with a look at self. It seems to me that that is the first and foremost way to come to an adequate discovery to the how of this situation.

Now, I’m aware of the fact that some people will not like you, not because of something you have done to them, but they just won’t like you. I’m quite aware of that. Some people aren’t going to like the way you walk; some people aren’t going to like the way you talk. Some people aren’t going to like you because you can do your job better than they can do theirs. Some people aren’t going to like you because other people like you, and because you’re popular, and because you’re well-liked, they aren’t going to like you. Some people aren’t going to like you because your hair is a little shorter than theirs or your hair is a little longer than theirs. Some people aren’t going to like you because your skin is a little brighter than theirs; and others aren’t going to like you because your skin is a little darker than theirs. So that some people aren’t going to like you. They’re going to dislike you, not because of something that you’ve done to them, but because of various jealous reactions and other reactions that are so prevalent in human nature.

But after looking at these things and admitting these things, we must face the fact that an individual might dislike us because of something that we’ve done deep down in the past, some personality attribute that we possess, something that we’ve done deep down in the past and we’ve forgotten about it; but it was that something that aroused the hate response within the individual. That is why I say, begin with yourself. There might be something within you that arouses the tragic hate response in the other individual.

A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and everytime you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it. There will come a time, in many instances, when the person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to make some move in life. That’s the time you must not do it. That is the meaning of love. In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.

The Greek language, as I’ve said so often before, is very powerful at this point. It comes to our aid beautifully in giving us the real meaning and depth of the whole philosophy of love. And I think it is quite apropos at this point, for you see the Greek language has three words for love, interestingly enough. It talks about love as eros. That’s one word for love. Eros is a sort of, aesthetic love. Plato talks about it a great deal in his dialogues, a sort of yearning of the soul for the realm of the gods. And it’s come to us to be a sort of romantic love, though it’s a beautiful love. Everybody has experienced eros in all of its beauty when you find some individual that is attractive to you and that you pour out all of your like and your love on that individual. That is eros, you see, and it’s a powerful, beautiful love that is given to us through all of the beauty of literature; we read about it.

Then the Greek language talks about philia, and that’s another type of love that’s also beautiful. It is a sort of intimate affection between personal friends. And this is the type of love that you have for those persons that you’re friendly with, your intimate friends, or people that you call on the telephone and you go by to have dinner with, and your roommate in college and that type of thing. It’s a sort of reciprocal love. On this level, you like a person because that person likes you. You love on this level, because you are loved. You love on this level, because there’s something about the person you love that is likeable to you. This too is a beautiful love. You can communicate with a person; you have certain things in common; you like to do things together. This is philia.

The Greek language comes out with another word for love. It is the word agape. And agape is more than eros; agape is more thanphilia; agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it’s what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them. You look at every man, and you love him because you know God loves him. And he might be the worst person you’ve ever seen.

There’s another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. You just begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things. You can’t see straight when you hate. You can’t walk straight when you hate. You can’t stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly. For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That’s what hate does. You can’t see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost. Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.

So this morning, as I look into your eyes, and into the eyes of all of my brothers in Alabama and all over America and over the world, I say to you, "I love you. I would rather die than hate you." And I’m foolish enough to believe that through the power of this love somewhere, men of the most recalcitrant bent will be transformed. And then we will be in God’s kingdom. We will be able to matriculate into the university of eternal life because we had the power to love our enemies, to bless those persons that cursed us, to even decide to be good to those persons who hated us, and we even prayed for those persons who despitefully used us.

Sumber:

http://www.ipoet.com/archive/beyond/King-Jr/Loving-Your-Enemies.html

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PSM UNPAD @ ISCF 2008

12:51 AM / Posted by Risayogi Wicaksana Sitorus / comments (3)


Capek, tapi puas! Itu yang gw rasakan setelah PSM UNPAD berhasil menjadi peraih medali emas pada Indonesian Student Choir Festival 2008 yang diadakan pada 5-6 Desember di Usmar Ismail Hall, Jakarta.

Hari-hari sebelum kompetisi:
Jujur aja, persiapan gw bisa dibilang ancur. Gimana ngga, kompetisinya tanggal 5-6 Desember, gw dari 30 November-4 Desember malah ke Malaysia. Di sana gw berusaha latian sendiri yang tentunya ya ngga maksimal.

Tanggal 4 Desember gw balik ke Bandung naik pesawat Air Asia jam 15.40 (14.40 WIB) dengan harapan sesampainya di Bandung gw masih sempet ikutan latian terakhir di Bandung sebelum berangkat ke Jakarta, tapi ternyata karena alasan teknis pesawatnya di-delay sampe jam 18.30 (17.30 WIB). Aduh, tambah uring-uringan deh gw di bandara. Ditambah lagi dengan cuara buruk selama penerbangan ke Bandung, tambah stres gw... #@*!($%&

Akhirnya setelah sampe ke Bandung, gw langsung balik ke kos untuk packing barang-barang dan langsung berangkat lagi ke UNPAD Dipati Ukur untuk berangkat bareng naik bus ke Jakarta.

Sampe di Jakarta kita nginep di mess TNI AU di deket Halim. Nyaman banget mess-nya, tapi udara Jakarta yang panas kayak neraka bikin gila. Tapi emang gwnya udah capek, pas nyentuh itu yang namanya tempat tidur, langsung pulas deh gw.

Kompetisi, Hari 1:
Bangun tidur kuterus mandi. Ya, dengan badan yang basah kuyup oleh keringat (lebay deh) gw kudu mandi. Ga tahan banget dah. Trus kita latian dua lagu yang bakal kita bawa di babak penyisihan, Ohime, se tanto amate (Monteverdi) dan Mitten wir im Leben sind (Mendelssohn). Kelar latian dan istirahat, kita semua berangkat menuju Usmar Ismail Hall. Yeah, akhirnya tiba juga waktunya... Festival pertama gw bersama PSM UNPAD setelah jadi anggota selama 2,5 taun.

Yang bikin heran, udah nyampe di depan UIH kok kayak ga ada tanda-tanda kegiatan besar gitu. Pas kita masuk ke ruang persiapan paduan suara juga cuma ada satu paduan suara lain yang ada di sana, PS Paragita. Lha, pada kemana nih paduan suara yang lain? Ternyata pesertanya memang cuma dua, PS Paragita dan PSM UNPAD. WTF??!!

Setelah mendengar informasi yang beredar, katanya sih ini karena persiapan panitia yang memang kurang, ditambah lagi jadwal festivalnya bentrok dengan jadwal UAS di beberapa universitas, akibatnya jumlah peserta yang tadinya sepuluh berkurang jadi tinggal dua saja. Buset, ini mah jadi kayak deathmatch PS Paragita vs PSM UNPAD. Ya udah, yang penting kita tetep kudu tampil bagus, berapa pun jumlah pesertanya.

Di babak penyisihan (?) ini, PSM UNPAD dapet giliran tampil kedua, setelah PS Paragita. Lagu pertama Ohime, gw kaget banget. Teryata akustik Usmar Ismail kering!! Gile, gw nyanyi jadi ga pede gini... Untungnya di lagu kedua gw udah mulai terbiasa. So, akhirnya lewat juga tuh dua lagu.

Hari pertama kelar. Kita pulang, makan malem, trus cobain kostum buat besok, dan tidur.

Kompetisi, Hari 2:
Bangun tidur kuterus mandi. Bo'ong deng. Bosen gw kemaren mandi melulu. Makan dulu aja, ah. Jam 10 kita latian lagi. Ada dua lagu, Kyrie Eleison (Ivan Yohan) dan Yamko Rambe Yamko (Agustinus Bambang Jusana). Latian yang ini lebih menguras tenaga, soalnya lagu Yamko Rambe pake kareografi. Mana banyak gerakan baru lagi. Belajar kilat deh gw...

Kelar latian kita langsung beres-beres karena ga bakal balik ke mess lagi. Eh, pas banget kita udah pada masuk bus, tiba2 hujan deras. Untung aja... kalo telat dikit, kasian tuh yang cewe make-up nya luntur semua. :D Selama perjalanan, kita semua sibuk menghitamkan diri (iya lah... kan mau nyanyi lagu Yamko Rambe) dengan bedak, bukan arang ya...

Hari ini PSM UNPAD tampil duluan sebelum Paragita. Lagu pertama, Kyrie Eleison diwarnai oleh beberapa insiden kecil... ada beberapa bagian yang agak goyang notnya. Ugh, kacau deh.
Untung lagu kedua, Yamko Rambe Yamko, kita tampil cukup rapih dan enjoy banget!!

Kelar tampil, kita langsung masuk ke barisan penonton, pingin liat Paragita. Lagu pertama gw ga terlalu kenal, tapi lagu kedua mereka nyanyi Cing Cang Keling yang pastinya udah pada akrab di telinga anak2 PSM UNPAD. Bener kata Kang Arvin, anak2 Paragita nyanyinya rapih banget, ga kayak PSM UNPAD... :(

Kelar liat Paragita nyanyi, kita turun lagi ke bawah. Pada pingin bernarsis ria, foto2 sana sini. Trus kita juga sempet naik lagi ke panggung buat ngasih dua lagu hiburan, Soleram dan The Lion Sleeps Tonight (arr. Arvin Zeinullah).

Akhirnya tiba juga saat pengumuman. Deg2an dah gw. Gimana ngga, liat Paragita tampil rapih dan PSM UNPAD nyanyi ga bagus di lagu Kyrie, gw udah sempet pesimis. Apalagi pesertanya cuma dua, kalo ga juara satu, ya artinya kita juara terakhir. "If you ain't first, you're last!", kalo kata Ricky Bobby. Pemenang lomba diumumkan oleh salah satu juri, Ibu Aida Swensen, "Dan juara kedua Festival Paduan Suara Antar Perguruan Tinggi 2008 diraih oleh Paduan Suara Mahasiswa Universitas.................. Indonesia." Langsung deh anak2 PSM UNPAD loncat2, teriak2 kayak orang barbar lupa diri... HORRAAAYYY!!!!!!!!!! KITA MENANG!!!!! CIHUY!!!! ASYIK!!!!

Selamat buat PSM UNPAD!!! Semoga kemenangan ini bisa memacu kita semua untuk lebih semangat lagi dalam konser akhir tahun dan Festival Luar Negeri tahun depan!!!!

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