10 Reasons why i love Malang...and why i chose to leave

1. Udaranya sejuk
2. Jalan-jalannya bagus dan rapi
3. Pemandangan gunung kemanapun mata memandang
4. Harga-harga cenderung murah
5. Angkot yang mobilnya bagus, cepat, dan supirnya friendly
6. Pecelnya wuenak
7. Mbak-mbaknya modis (baru nyadar pas jalan ke matos)
8. Orang-orangnya care dan sopan
9. Boso walikan
10. Rumahku di sana :')

tapi kenapa aku merantau?

Orang berilmu dan beradab tidak akan diam di kampung halaman
Tinggalkan negerimu dan merantaulah ke negeri orang
Merantaulah, kau akan dapatkan pengganti dari kerabat dan kawan
Berlelah-lelahlah, manisnya hidup terasa setelah lelah berjuang

Aku melihat air menjadi rusak karena diam tertahan
Jika mengalir menjadi jernih, jika tidak, kan keruh menggenang

Singa jika tak tinggalkan sarang tak akan dapat mangsa
Anak panah jika tak tinggalkan busur tidak akan kena sasaran

Jika matahari di orbitnya tidak bergerak dan terus diam
Tentu manusia bosan padanya dan enggan memandang

Bijih emas bagaikan tanah biasa sebelum digali dari tambang
Kayu gaharu tak ubahnya seperti kayu biasa jika didalam hutan
(Imam Syafii)

Wit and Wisdom of Albus Dumbledore

Inspired by Rita Skeeter's "Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore". Actually Dumbledore is not my favorite character. But those chapters which feature his long conversation with Harry (usually the last ones of each book) is full of notable words of advice and truth. Seems like Rowling relied on Dumbledore to explain most of the story plot to readers. Well not another word, here's some of Dumbledore's Wit and Wisdom:

"For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own"

"Call him Voldemort, Harry. Fear of a name increases the fear of the thing itself"

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"

"Sometimes we must choose between what is right and what is easy"

"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love"

"Death is but the next great adventure"

"It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps who are best suited for power are those who have never sought it"

"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike"

"People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right"

"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery"

"You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from death"

"It is important to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then evil could be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated"

source: books and google

Bertemu Kembaran

Hari sabtu kemarin, aku ke IC...sebagai...wali murid.__. Jadi ceritanya adikku tercinta sudah kelas3, sehingga wali murid diminta hadir mengenai pengarahan univ2 gitu deh sekalian ngambil raport tengah semester. kuingat dulu pas aku kelas 3 ummi jadi sering banget ke IC, nginep di wisma. Sekarang aku yang disuruh ambil rapor adek hehe. Yaudah gapapa aku seneng sih, apalagi kemaren kenalan sama temen2nya adek yang rame2, seru2, cantik2, daaaaaaan seorang kakaknya temennya adek yang mirip sama aku!

ini namanya Mbak Dea, FKM UIN, kakaknya Fega, temennya dek tasya. mirip ga? :D

De Tasya, Mbak Dea, Muthia, Fega

Dek tasya, Mbak Dea, Nda, Muthia, Fega

Daan ternyata hari kemaren 13 okt itu Nda (di tengah, yang nyengir) ulang tahun ke 17 :D Jadinya aku ditraktir Magnum haha. Baik banget yaa Nda,  padahal aku sempet lupa namanya #merasabersalah. Semoga Nda sehat selalu, selamat dunia akhirat, dapat kuliah yang disukai dan diinginkan, dan lancar jodohnya. Amiiiin!

Wishlist #3

Just listing here..

1. Payung - musim hujan's coming!

2. Passport holder, kalo bisa yang gambarnya logo Hogwarts

3. Stabilo

4. Sepatu - yang lama uda cuil2 dan lepas2

5. Tas - nggak harus baru sih, cuma biar beda aja .__.

6. Selotip

7. Map kertas

Right now, itu dulu. -,- 

All the Difference in The World

Well its been ages since my last post, hasnt it? and yet i came back with another post about, well, you know. I'm still kind of obsessed with Harry Potter thingy, and this morning i came across one chapter on Book Six (Horcruxes) that's very tempting to write and discuss. Still, if you're not interested, i'll just discuss it with myself, haha  :D

"But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew — and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents — that there was all the difference in the world."

So this passage talks about Voldemort and Harry's fateful life, which, based on Prof Trelawney's prophecy, must ended with, or involved, murder. "One cannot live while the other survive" > this part of the prophecy states that Harry must be the one to kill Voldemort,  or the other way around, for one cannot live while the other survives. 

The prophecy. It is indeed what made Voldemort tried to kill Baby Harry when he was one year old. And by doing so, Voldemort himself marked Harry as his own main opponent, and even he didn't realized it, he gave Harry a powerful weapon to thwart him. Voldemort had heard the prophecy, and so he singled out the remarkable person who might try to finish him, and even give him the tools to do the job. All his act is driven by the prophecy.

While Harry, even if he'd never heard of the prophecy, he'll still try to have Old Voldy's finished. He does not want him survive, not without all he'd done to Lily and James, to Sirius, to Cedric Diggory. So he'll try his best to kill Voldemort, which means, in the end, one of them is going to ended up killing the other. The difference is, Voldemort wanted to kill Harry because of the prophecy, while Harry is absolutely free to choose his fate, to turn his back at the prophecy. It is the difference between being dragged to the arena of Battle to the Death, and walking to the arena with head held high. 

Hiks. Reading this chapter, i became very aware that Harry IS pure and remarkable and pure at heart and extraordinary. 

"You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!" said Dumbledore loudly. "The only protection that can possibly work against the lure of power like Voldemort's! In spite of all the temptation you have endured, all the suffering, you remain pure of heart, just as pure as you were at the age of eleven, when you stared into a mi-ror that reflected your heart's desire, and it showed you only the way to thwart Lord Voldemort, and not immortality or riches. Harry, have you any idea how few wizards could have seen what you saw in that mirror? Voldemort should have known then what he was dealing with, but he did not! But he knows it now. You have flitted into Lord Voldemort's mind without damage to yourself, but he cannot possess you without enduring mortal agony, as he discovered in the Ministry. I do not think he understands why, Harry, but then, he was in such a hurry to mutilate his own soul, he never paused to understand the incomparable power of a soul that is untarnished and whole."