So glad i found you

Kemaren aku ke Indonesia Book Fair dan menemukan Harry Potter a L'ecole du Sorcier. Ini adalah Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone French Edition, yang judulnya sedikit beda kalo diartikan: "Harry Potter di Sekolah Sihir". Aku dapet plus buku Harry Potter 5 (secondhand sih) dengan harga 50ribu saja. :")

Ohya, aku memang lagi berusaha ngumpulin buku Harry Potter 7 edisi. Jangan salah, as Pottermaniac as i am, aku nggak punya SATUPUN buku Harry Potter (dulu pernah punya yang nomor 2 tapi diilangin seorang teman, thank you very much -__-) Dan dengan terbelinya buku 1,2,5 (dan sudah mesen 3,4) di bookfair kemaren, tinggal buku 6-7 yang belum dapet!! Ada yang mau ngasih/jual dengan harga temen? Please comment di postingan ini :D

Sebenarnya Cinta

Sering mungkin kita mendengar ungkapan "Cinta itu rela melepaskan" dan semacamnya. Saya harus katakan, sulit buat kita untuk meresapi makna kata-kata tersebut, sampai kita mengalami sendiri yang namanya "ditinggalkan cinta".

 Bayangkan saja rasanya, orang yang kamu cintai, bilang padamu bahwa dia ingin pergi jauh. Tentu dalam hati kamu tak rela. Kamu tak ingin dia jauh-jauh darimu. Sudah siap mulut melontarkan sejuta alasan, tapi semua teredam saat kamu berbicara dengannya. Dia menceritakan rencanya kepergiannya dengan mata berbinar dan tertawa-tawa, seolah semua kebahagian masa depannya terletak di tempat yang jauh itu. Pergi jauh adalah cita-citanya, harapan hatinya, mimpinya. Bisa apa kamu yang cuma seorang pecinta menghalangi dia menyongsong cita-cita? Semua kata pencegahan rasanya tercekat di tenggorokan, dan kamu tak punya pilihan lain selain menunjukkan muka yang ikut cerah dan mata yang ikut berbinar di hadapannya, mendukung sepenuhnya akan kepergiannya. Walau dalam hati sungguh kamu tak berharap dia pergi. Tapi pecinta sejati rela melepaskan bukan? Rela memberikan segalanya demi kebahagiaan yang dicintainya? Bukankah begitu?

Atau bayangkan saja rasanya, ketika orang yang sangat kamu sayangi akhirnya menemukan pelabuhan hatinya. Dulu dia selalu ada buat kamu, selalu mendengarkan kamu, selalu membelamu, selalu menyayangimu sepenuh hati. Sekarang? Oh tentu saja kamu boleh yakin bahwa dia masih menyayangimu. Tapi kamu bukan lagi yang pertama baginya. Kamu harus rela dinomorsekiankan. Semanis apapun mulutnya berkata "aku masih sayang kamu kok, kita kan akan selalu bersama" Tapi tentu saja, semua hanya di mulut. Kenyataannya life goes on. Sekeras apapun kamu (dan dia) berpura-pura tak ada yang berubah sejak dia berlabuh, tentu akan ada perubahan. Kamu dan dia tak akan pernah bisa sedekat dulu lagi. Namun roda kehidupan terus berputar kan? Jika kamu tulus menyayanginya, kamu pun rela melepaskannya berbahagia bersama orang lain. Sudah dari sananya begitu.


Sakit memang memendam cinta. Tapi kalau memang cinta yang kita rasakan ini tulus, murni, sepenuh hati, dan karena Allah, melihat dia berbahagia dari jauh saja sudah cukup. Sungguh sangat cukup.

To you who i love. I will ALWAYS love you no matter what. I wish you happiness ever after.

Bestest Friend...

is the one who is always there when you need them
even though they have tight schedule
they always make time for you
isn't it nice to have someone like that?

treasure your best friend,
it is getting hard these days to find one
make time for them, listen to them, be happy for them


-to my best friend, thanks for accompanying me yesterday :)-

Dokter ganteng

Suatu hari di dunia FKUI, ada pleno mengenai topik yang cukup menarik, yaitu Diabetes Melitus. Tapi selain topiknya, ada yang lain yang menarik dari pleno kali ini, yaitu dokter moderator pleno yang...well...ganteng.

Biasalah kemajuan teknologi, pleno pun timeline twitter tetep rame:

“Ya Allah semoga diberikan jodoh seperti dokter ganteng yang di depan itu”

“Ayo ciwi ciwi, harap kembali fokus ke materi pleno, jangan terus-terusan terfokus ke wajah moderatornya yang ganteng”

“Terbukti antusiasme peserta pleno berbanding lurus dengan tingkat kegantengan moderatornya”

“Dokternya tipe tipe suami idaman gitu yak, kalem, lembut, nyenengin”

“Kenapa yaa dokter dokter ganteng selalu udah pake cincin”

“Setelah kepo fb dokter, ngeliatin adeknya juga ganteng. Mau deh sama adeknya, abisan si dokter udah pakek cincin sii”

“Waa anaknya dokter udah  2 lho, cowo cowo semua”

Yah, begitulah cewek2 FKUI 2010 saat pleno dengan moderator dokter ganteng: ngetweet :)

Awesome Australian Author Arised me Awestrucked!

My friend Gadis brought her 3rd birthday gift from her parents: a fancy illustrated children book entitled "The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery" and one thing i said about this book: Marvelous! The story is about Horace the Elephant inviting his eleven friends to his eleventh birthday party. After played eleven fun games, they headed to banquet hall at eleven, ready to devour Horace's finest cookings. But someone (or something) already eaten the grand feast, and that's when we readers are challenged to find who the food thief was, by careful observations on the illustrations.

The cover looks like FUN! papertigers.org

And that was the surprise! At first, i impressed merely by fine and beautiful illustrations of Horace and his friends, but after reading the texts (which rhymes beautifully) till the end, i am simply stunned. This is what i love: RIDDLES! And i have a bookful of them, waiting to be solved. That's when i realized that the illustrations are not just mere illustrations, they contain codes and clues, come  in various ways i did not imagine. There's Morse code bordering a page, there are Musical codes, card codes, and even hieroglyphs! I have to be very sharp-eyed to find these codes. Some of them were hidden in tiny scribbles, disguised as fancy-shaped bush roots, some even can be found only if the book is tilted in the right angle. Finding the codes itself is something, but deciphering them is another, and that's why it's double the fun.

This very detailed pic is full of codes! (gracefuldoe.wordpress.com)

Happily said, my suspicion on one of Horace's friends is right, and in the endmost page, there is another coded message to congratulate me on my correct deduction, plus one last challenge! What a fun!

But in the end i wonder, Gadis got this book when she's 3. I doubt there's any 3 year old Indonesian girl can understand what this all-English book is all about, let alone unravel the book's deepest mystery. But then again, the illustrations themselves is beautiful enough for any 3 year old girl to read, there's just no need to know the meaning of English texts or even the codes if you are a simple-minded 3 year old! :D (hey, if i do not read the story through i would not even know there are codes!)

Nevertheless, i searched the author, Graeme Base, on google. He's Australian, quite a surprising fact while his illustrations contain Persian rugs, Roman costumes, Art Deco-styled rooms, and more. Well, maybe he simply is wonderful :)

From Wiki, i found out that his another children-book Animalia was even more famous. So i googled (whew, "googled" is now a verb) Animalia. This book is intended for children to learn Alphabet, so there are illustrations of Animals whose name started with alphabets A-Z, and objects with the same first-letters. And all the titles of every alphabet is written in witty puns!

For example,

Great Green Gorillas Growing Grapes in a Gorgeous Glass Greenhouse

Lazy Lions Lounging in the Local Library

Proud Peacocks Preening Perfect Plumage

Two Tigers Taking The 10.20 Train To Timbuktu

Wicked Warrior Wasps Wildly Waving Warlike Weapons

Zany Zebras Zigzagging in Zinc Zeppelins

and so on, from A-Z. he is just GENIUS, is he not? :D

(pictures source: Tumblr, everypicture.com, schools.nsw.edu.au

Why so Keminggris?

I realize that many of my latest post are in English. It's not that i want to look international-minded or anything. The thing is, i've been reading more English these days, and i want to practice using new words and expressions i learned. And where would it be aside from this blog i love? I am sorry if some of you readers (like there's any -__-) do not feel very comfortable reading my messy English, but we are all learning, right? :) Just tell me if i made spelling or grammatical or contextual errors, i'll be more than glad to hear it! :)

Prevent the Inevitable

Today i woke up on 6.10 am, while perfectly aware that i have lecture starting at 7, but even as the clock hit 6.45, i had not moved my lazy ass up (well, jangan ditiru ya :) ) Nevertheless, i just cant bear the idea of skipping lectures. It happened many times before, when i really wanted to skip a lecture, but in the end my slight guilt won. So i was off to lecture at 7.03

The first session was quite boring, but the second session about "Early Detection of Cervical Cancer and Breast Cancer" was great! The lecturer (Dr. Ovi from Ob-Gyn Department) was very cool. She confided us on surprising facts about cervical cancer: The only cancer (aside from Colorectal) with known cause, which is Human Papiloma Virus (HPV), and still, is the commonest cancer killing women. The pathologist even say: Not a day passed without diagnosing Cervical cancer! Despite the fact that detecting it very soon is easy, and there's even a vaccine available for HPV in Indonesia, many women still cant get away from Cervical Ca's grip. We might wonder why is that?

Old saying "Prevent is better than cure" is very right. In case of Cervical Ca, early prevention can lead to much better prognosis (i mean better outcome and hope for live longer) for the patient. We can even caught Cervical Ca red-handed from its earliest attempt on causing our life a mess! The progression of this cancer is slow, compared to its fellow cancerous friends, might be years from pre-cancer stage to the real stadium one stage, so there's fat chance we'll caught it early. The detection is also very easy: by well-known Pap-smear test or much simpler IVA test. Problem is, not many people are aware of the importance of this early detection. They do not like the idea of some scary-looking device (like this) being inserted to their most intimate organ. (gee, even i must admit i do not like it!) But this is the easier and most effective, efficacious way, so doctors can get a closer look at our cervices and decide whether or not we have pre-cancer lesion. The insertion itself does not hurt, juts a bit uncomfortable. One swab, and the answer becomes clear. If the doctor find the sign of dysplasia (that is, abnormal cells not behaving like they should), earlier action of removing the misbehaved cells can be done, and we're free of cancer! Wonderful, hm?

But there's one little problem: we do not want to be Pap-smeared, and i can't blame us (what a pun) for that. Who in earth want to lie flat, legs open, and let someone insert a hideous device on their vagina? Then again, we must remember the danger a Cervical Ca can cause, and how close it is to us. Research said, 75% of us has been exposed on HPV, are we sure enough we're the lucky 25%? No one can be so sure, because HPV can be everywhere and attack anyone! From fancy-looking actresses to simple-minded housewives, cervical ca is everyone's threat. That's why, early detection by yearly Pap-smear or IVA is not only recommended, but compulsory.

Dr. Ovi assigned us students to persuade women around us to have themselves Pap-smeared.  If they have no money, then just request an IVA test. This is a very cheap test using acetic acid swabbed on cervix portion, and see if there's color change. One bottle of common table vinegar, diluted five times, and it is enough to test a hundred women. How easy :) What's not easy is to get the patient's consent to do the test, and that's what we (medstudents or anyone who understand the danger of Cervical Ca) are required to do.