(hope) this dream (come true)

10 tahun lagi kamu akan seperti apa?
aku bakal jadi orang sukses (jawaban basi!!!) 
aku akan punya kerjaan tetap sebagai PNS tapi punya pekerjaan sampingan  sebagai ilustrator buku anak yang handal seperti Mbak Gina.  
(soalnya bosku, Pak So, bilang jadi PNS gajinya itu kecil tapi punya waktu buat pekerjaan sampingan. jadi kalo nanti aku punya kerjaan sampingan jangan protes ya Pak Bos. Ojo Nesu...wkwkwkwk)

Kenapa pilih ilustrator buku anak sebagai kerjaan sampingan?
karena aku suka. it's cliche. 
aku pingin anak-anak punya buku bacaan yang bermutu dan murah (karena tontonan yang ada di tv banyak nggak mutunya & buku anak yang bermutu itu mahal). 

Kenapa bisa mahal?
entah lah. mungkin karena sang kreator ingin dihargai. 
tapi menurut aku ingin dihargai tidak lantas menjadikan harga buku menjadi mahal. (kalau saya) kreator akan lebih merasa dihargai jika buku itu bisa dibaca oleh lebih banyak orang, dari berbagai kalangan. sehingga lebih banyak manfaatnya yang bisa diambil. 


Aku harap mimpi ini terwujud dalam waktu dekat...Amin.

day dreaming

hidup itu menyenangkan jika kita merasa demikian

bagaimana jika tiba-tiba hidup kita tiba-tiba berubah 180 derajat???

mari kita berandai-andai...

Andai a..a..a...ku punya rumah gedong...
hmm...enak kali...
banyak kamarnya...bisa aku kos-in per bulan (mmm...) 1juta...hahaha 

Andai a..a..a..ku punya mobil mewah
mobil mewah apaan nih?aku maunya ferrari...warna merah nge-JRENG...biar tambah keren

Andai a..a..a..ku punya duit buanyaaak! jumlah ratusan milyar
kalo sebanyak itu aku mau berhenti kerja terus traveling keliling Indonesia. abis gitu lanjut traveling keliling dunia. cari tempat yang indah-indah. difotoin. 
lanjut....
kalo punya duit sebanyak itu aku mau buka banyak usaha mulai dari toko kue, penerbit buku anak (aku yang bikin gambarnya), usaha buat mainan mendidik dari kain flanel, creative stuff...bukain papaku restoran, bukain mamaku perusahaan laundry, bukain mbakku apotek obat tradisional...trus bisa ngerekrut karyawan yang banyak supaya pengangguran menipis. 

Andai a..a..a..a..a..a..a..a..a..a..a..a SEMUANYA JADI KENYATAAN

i'm SHOCK

it's almost a nightmare
yeah..it is.

i never think i'll face the law. i don't want too.
but today i almost face it.

the cronology...

my boss want me to help in PPID. i agree although i know nothing (hey, i can't refuse him. he's my boss).
several days it's still fine and then they start request me to attend PPID meeting. you know what? this meeting should be attend by chief because it's explain everything about how to run PPID in our office. how to transparent all information, especially the budget.

one day, there's a NGOs asked us to sent our budget program and its report. they need it to monitor the government and the organization around it.
but our finance head chief (wadir um) don't want to give it. OH MY GOD!!!
so, my boss asked me to sent the reply message via email and requested them (NGOs) to fill the form of request for information including their identity proof.
they reply our email and fill the form but not attached their identity proof. so, my boss asked PPID head chief (Ka.TU) to sent reply (again) but this time via post.

day after day passed...but the NGOs never reply our message. until one day...

we've got a letter to attend mediation of dispute session in Information Commission. JDARRR!!!

i'm very shock!!!
i feel like it's the end of my carreer.

then I go with my other boss (Kasub. Perundtib) and bring some document and some brave that we're not wrong.
after doing some argument, the NGOs asked the mediator some question about sending the dispute letter.
fortunately, they agree that they're wrong. they are not follow procedure (they doesn't give their identity) so they agree to resend their request.

thanks God...it's almost...

but what i should learned from this...is that i must to keep all document (include post sending proof). because the NGOs do this.

FIGHTING!!!

Inspiring Person - Don Hasman

Ini dia salah satu tokoh Indonesia dan dunia yang patut kita teladani. Kalo liat sosok eyang satu ini langsung keingat sama eyang Kung tercinta di Malang. Sama-sama sosok bersahaja karena kemana-mana selalu lebih memilih alat transportasi yang merakyat bahkan jalan kaki jika bisa dan tidak pernah mengharap imbalan serta hal mewah. 

Sudah gitu sama-sama cinta alam. Cuma caranya buat menghargai alam yang beda. Kalo Eyang Kung-ku dengan hobi berkebun (nggak bisa liat lahan nganggur, pasti dirubah jadi kebun bunga ato sayur buah), eyang Don mengabadikannya lewat fotografi. 


Ini dia salah satu artikel yang membahas soal eyang Don ini....

70 Tahun Don Hasman

Don Hasman. Foto oleh: Kristupa Saragih

Khalayak fotografi Indonesia sudah semestinya mengenal Don Hasman. Sosok fotografer penjelajah yang kehidupannya patut diteladani. Semangat Oom Don, demikian ia biasa disapa, seperti api yang tak pernah padam. 

Lahir di Jakarta, 7 Oktober 1940, Oom Don sudah mulai memotret sejak usia 11 tahun. Berbagai benua sudah dijelajah, puncak-puncak tinggi dunia sudah ditaklukkannya. Ribuan kilometer sudah ditempuh baik dengan berjalan kaki maupun bersepeda. 

Sosok Oom Don adalah sosok langka, sulit mencari pribadi yang mampu menyamai. Generasi muda fotografi mungkin pernah dengar namanya, tapi pertemuan secara langsung dengan Oom Don bisa membuat kita menyelami pribadinya. Sosok fotografer yang berkomitmen penuh pada profesi, loyal pada rekan-rekan dan selalu rindu berbagi.

Oom Don yang saya kenal adalah pria sederhana. Pada suatu acara di Jogja tahun 2009, Oom Don pernah pamit untuk beli tiket kereta api pulang ke Jakarta. Diantar seorang mahasiswa berboncengan motor, Oom Don berangkat ke Stasiun Tugu. 

Kepada mahasiswa itu saya titipkan sejumlah uang untuk tiket kereta eksekutif. Oom Don layak menikmatinya. Tapi mahasiswa tersebut, sekembalinya dari Stasiun Tugu, mengembalikan uang masih dalam jumlah banyak. Oom Don ternyata lebih suka menumpang kereta ekonomi. 

Oom Don juga saya kenal sebagai sosok yang penuh inisiatif, ide berani dan semangat menyala-nyala. Tahun 2006 di Jakarta, Oom Don berinisiatif mengumpulkan fotografer untuk sebuah proyek buku bertema Indonesia. Sejumlah fotografer terkemuka dikontaknya untuk berkumpul di studio Ferry Ardianto di bilangan Tebet. 

Saya sebagai yang termuda di rapat informal itu menyaksikan semua fotografer senior yang hadir amat respek pada Oom Don. Beberapa fotografer lantas bisik-bisik mengingatkan satu sama lain untuk sekedar mengongkosi Oom Don pulang dengan taksi. 

Uang kemudian diberikan secara diam-diam ke Oom Don, ketika acara usai dan semua saling berpamitan. Oom Don menolak, seraya menyebutkan bahwa ia terbiasa menumpang bis umum. Dan, Oom Don tetap pulang ke rumahnya di Depok menumpang bis umum. 

Begitu sederhananya kehidupan Oom Don hingga ia baru bersedia memakai ponsel setahun terakhir ini saja. Sebelum itu komunikasi hanya melalui telepon di rumahnya di Depok. Jika Oom Don sedang berpetualang, maka kita hanya bisa titip pesan pada anak perempuannya. 

Don Hasman. Foto oleh: Kristupa Saragih

Padahal prestasi Oom Don sungguh mengagumkan. Tempat tertinggi yang pernah ditaklukkan Don Hasman adalah Nuptse, kawasan Himalaya, Everest base camp 6.150 meter tahun 1978, masuk wilayah geografis Nepal. Baru 9 tahun kemudian rekor tersebut bisa diperbaharui oleh orang Indonesia lain. Don Hasman juga pernah menaklukkan Gunung Kilimanjaro 5.985 meter di Tanzania tahun 1985. Ia berangkat, antara lain, bersama mendiang Norman Edwin, wartawan Kompas, yang legendaris itu. 

Keteladanan Don Hasman adalah kekonsistenan memotret hingga hari ini, kala usianya beranjak senja. Oom Don, demikian ia akrab disapa, tahun 2007 masih sanggup berjalan kaki 1000 km dari Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, Perancis Selatan ke Cape Finisterre, Spanyol Barat Laut. Perjalanan selama 35 hari itu ditempuh dalam 2.200.000-an langkah oleh anggota kehormatan Mapala UI bernomor anggota MK 225 ini. 

Menimba pengalaman dari fotografer dan petualang alam bebas ini bak menimba dari sumur yang tak pernah kehabisan air. Dalam kunjungan ke kantor Fotografer.net bulan Maret 2010, sambil saling berbagi foto, Oom Don menyebutkan, “Foto bagus adalah foto yang bisa menggugah perasaan.” 

Petikan yang singkat tapi dalam dan mengena. Ketika fotografer berkutat dengan kecepatan rana, diafragma, dan perlombaan resolusi, petikan Oom Don ini penting dijadikan bahan refleksi. “Foto yang menggugah bisa menginspirasi orang yang melihatnya. Membuat orang melakukan sesuatu,” imbuh Oom Don. 

Selamat berusia 70 tahun, Oom Don. Semoga selalu sehat dan senantiasa berbagi kepada khalayak fotografi Indonesia dan dunia. 

Don Hasman. Foto oleh: Kristupa Saragih

sumber : http://kristupa.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/70-tahun-don-hasman/

Tik - Tok

tik tok tik tok

jam terus berbunyi 

mengingatkan waktu yang semakin menipis

tik tok tik tok

suara itu kembali terdengar

menyuruh kita bergegas

berlari jika bisa

tik tok tik tok

sudah berlari?

jangan berhenti

tik tok tik tok

sebab waktumu tak kan berhenti

time healing

waktu.

mampu menciptakan rasa sakit

sekaligus mampu menghapusnya

waktu.

mampu berubah

mampu mengubah 

semua.

tak ada yang luput darinya

Who doesn't know Aimee Mullins ?

  

Who doesn't know Aimee Mullins ? She is famous on google images search for a women running with her prosthetic limbs. Born in 1976 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and growing up between Pennsylvania and County Clare, Ireland, Aimee Mullins has overcome challenges from day one. She was born with fibular hemimelia, a limb anomaly wherein there is partial or total absence of the fibula (shin) bones. She had both legs amputated below the knee when she was only a year old. (Without her legs, she could still learn to walk with artificial ones. With her legs, she would have been confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.) Her amazing spirit and drive helped compensate for the portion of her body she was missing.

Through her sheer presence and unrelenting spirit, Aimee Mullins is challenging the definitions of physical beauty and ability. In doing so, she is not only celebrating her own achievements, but more so, celebrating her ability to defy conventional public mindset, simply through her honest, open personality, and her incredible talent. Despite her physical limitations, she pushed herself physically and mentally to succeed. In high school she participated in numerous sports, including softball and skiing. 

              

While in high school, she heard about a track meet for people with disabilities, and was actually bothered by the idea, as she felt the athletes were limiting themselves by defining themselves by their disabilities. She was accustomed to competing against ‘able-bodied’ athletes in other sports, and initially was reluctant to join the alternative meet. Never one to turn down an opportunity, though, she signed up for the meet, not expecting much of an actual challenge even though she had never run competitively. 

She was surprised upon arriving, when she realized that she was the only athlete wearing wooden legs. The rest of the athletes had on metal, shock-absorbant legs that she didn’t even know existed. Not to mention that all the other athletes had at least one normal leg. Instead of deterring her determination, though, it forced her to push herself harder to succeed. And succeed she did – she not only won, she also broke a national record in doing so. She decided to enter the long jump competition next, an event that double amputees were technically ‘not supposed’ to enter. A year later, she broke the world record in it. 

She attended Georgetown University, where she continued to compete against ‘able-bodied’ athletes by becoming the first disabled athlete to compete in NCAA Division I track and field.  

Mullins decided to work towards competing in the 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. To do so, she obtained her first pair of sprinting legs with which she hoped to break the time she needed for Paralympic placement. Instead, her greatest fear came true – her leg began to slip off, and consequently, she lost because of it. Her coach pushed her to compete in the 200-meter, forcing her to face her biggest fear and to realize that true bravery is not the absence of fear, but the ability to conquer it.

She not only broke the time, she also swept the Paralympic trials a month later, running so fast that she was placed with arm amputees at the following meet instead, without being told. She finished last, and though she was upset, it didn’t stop her. She set Paralympic records in Atlanta for the 100 and 200-meter dash and in the long jump.

The following year she was named USA Track and Field's Disabled Athlete of the Year, and the National Association of Women in Education's 1997 Woman of Distinction.

Never one to be boxed-in physically or mentally, she excelled in other areas as well. While at Georgetown she was also selected for the prestigious Foreign Affairs internship program, the only woman amongst 250 men, and the youngest person to obtain Pentagon security clearance. She graduated in 1998 from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service with a double major in History and Diplomacy.

Mullins has since set her sights towards Hollywood. She has already had a few roles on television and in movies, and she has been featured in numerous magazines and books. In 2002 she starred in Matthew Barney's cult-favorite 'Cremaster 3,' playing a cheetah woman, ironic in that her own sprinting legs were designed after the super-swift animal. 

 

She also appeared in Dazed & Confused magazine in 1998, seen on Coverage, and in Kenneth Cole's anniversary Campaign (2010). She is also part of the L'Oréal fashion Beauty Team along with Jennifer Lopez and Gwen Stefani (2011).

 

In 1999, she modelled for British fashion designer Alexander McQueen in his London show, on a pair of hand-carved wooden prosthetic legs made from solid ash, with integral boots. She is able to change her height between 5 ft 8in and 6 ft 1in by changing her legs. She has been named one of the fifty most beautiful people in the world by People.

She also appeared in Dazed & Confused magazine in 1998, seen on Coverage, and in Kenneth Cole's anniversary Campaign (2010). She is also part of the L'Oréal fashion Beauty Team along with Jennifer Lopez and Gwen Stefani (2011). 

 

With a personality as vibrant as her talents, she also works to reach out to the community, to help others recognize their own potential and talents, despite what obstacles they may have to overcome. She serves as a motivational speaker, is on the board of directors of Just One Break, and co-founded HOPE (Helping Others Perform with Excellence) to aid disabled people wanting to train and compete in sports. 

 

She has received numerous accolades both on and off the field for her work. She has been included in Irish America’s “Top 100 Irish Americans” list several times, was included in Esquire's "Women We Love" 1998 issue, was named one of Jane magazine’s “10 Gutsiest Women” in 1999, and the following year was featured as one of the greatest American women in the 20th century in an exhibit at the Women’s Museum in Dallas. People Magazine honored her beauty by selecting her as one of their “50 Most Beautiful People in the World,” and in 2001 Sports Illustrated named her one of the "Coolest Girls in Sports."

Both a record-breaking Paralympic athlete and a fashion icon/Hollywood-star in the making, Mullins has the amazing ability to constantly redefine herself. She is just as comfortable in high heels and gowns as she is in running shorts and sneakers, wearing both with the unbridled confidence of one that is truly gorgeous both inside and out.