Januari 01, 2011

Friends - 1

Well, long time no see hey blog!

Let's cut to the chase, this time, I want to write things about my friends, my best friends, as gratitude and appreciations to them. I'm gonna mention some people in separated posts, because they deserve that many words and sentences, from me to them. If there's something that hurt or something, no offense and i offer my apologies. :)

For my friends, you know you're awesome. So here we go.
(all are written in English)

1. Ferina Debby Natasya Hutahaean

I met this girl when I first enrolled in university. Along with other guys, she is really one of a kind, probably. Not too fat, but not too thin, she has brown-to-black skin and long hair. Why am I describing her appearance? Gosh it's not important, let's just move on.

My first impression
She's scary and kind at the same time. When I first met her, I don't think that I can get along well with this girl (turns out wrong, of course). I remembered when me and some of my group-mates wrongly cut papers needed for making ridiculous nametags , and we got so freaked out! I even imagine she will stab me with scissors. But fortunately, it all turned out well. Thank God I didn't get stabbed in the eye, by scissors, or even pen.

Next?
Well, we simply spend lot of our time together (since we are in the same campus orientation group), along with other guys. Then, memorable one is when I worked together with her in Maker, as the fundraisers, actually fund-finders seem the better word to explain what we were doing that time. Truth is, I was kind of underestimated her skills of making money, and it turned out that I was wrong, again. Ferin was great and unmatched in making golds, selling doughnuts and pizzas, and incredible in, uh, 'asking' people to buy things from us. Simply awesome and I simply was helped a lot. Thanks fer, you rocks!
The one thing that is great from having friends is that they are there to hear you whining and blabbering about your problems, and yet they are happy to help you. Ferin is one of those kind of good friends, along with other five guys. She may be bored to hear me yapping, though. But I'm glad she can give out opinions and helps to me.

That's all goodie-goodie, but is there any baddie?
Bad things? Of course it existed here. You won't get good friend without making any mistakes and fights. Well, truth is, sometimes I get annoyed with her way of speaking to people. It was way too harsh and you know, hurt. Fortunately I managed to stay calm and keep my cool, until one day.
It was hectic day, too many to do, to little time. Classic. I was busy designing, then since its almost dark, I went to pray. Done praying, I came back to do my job, only to find that my laptop was being used for playing the awesome FIFA '11 by Ferin and Ilham, my other boy. As many people would do, I asked them kindly to stop so I can continue to work on my designs. Didn't work. Tried that again for the second and third time, still didn't work. So you know, they pissed me off. I was mad at them both, but turned out that Ferin thought that I was mad only at her, not at Ilham, which made her felt being treated unfairly, and thus get mad at me.
We spent days not talking to each other, small fights in Blackberry Groups, etc. It didn't feel comfortable at all, having your friend hating you like that, did it? So, I tried to be a good friend, and God's grace fell upon us, we've forgiven each other now. And it makes our relationship much closer, so I think.

Got any lessons?
Sure, I got many lessons. Most notably is that there is more than meets the eye. Meaning that there's more in a person than his/her outside appearances. Ferin has managed to open my eyes, that deep inside every person, no matter how they appears to be, they care and love about others. It is great, really great Fer, gracias.


2. Neshya Alexandra

Same like Ferin, she's also in my orientation group. Her appearance? Slim, not too bad in looks, and uh, full of acnes. Yes, acnes. Let's just move on before she gets mad and start pinching. :p

The first you saw her...
The first I saw her, I felt that she's just an ordinary girl, eat ordinary foods, and lives ordinary life. And of course it is totally wrong. She's obviously not ordinary, but extraordinary, in many ways of meaning.

Uh huh, then?
Things are going out great for both of us. We are part of the Maker, too, but she acted as the controller of foods and drinks. One thing that I was amazed of her is that she really calm when facing problems. Just like when things turn sour for us Maker team, as the food we ordered didn't come in exact number of portions and we only had few supply of rices left. Well, I thought that Neshya was gonna freak out like most girls I know, but I was wrong. She hardly panicked and screaming, instead she was awesomely calm and resolve the problem cool headed. (with others' helps, of course)
When it comes into sharing problems, she is just the same like me, like to tell stories, only with less complex problems than my life.

That's good one. There must be bad things, though.
Well, there is no major bad things that came from her, but what I considered annoying is when she canceled when she did say she will go. Just like what happened in the past few months before the 3rd semester began.
The days that time was so full of boring lectures and ridiculously stuffed tasks. So we decided to spend some days together in a holiday. Plans are made, and she said that she will join us, along with others. But the fact? Few days before the D-day, she said that she couldn't join us because of she wanted to spend her days with her long-time-no-see old friends. Couldn't blame her that time, since the holiday plan was not clearly fixed yet, so she might think that the holiday wouldn't happen at all.
Other than that, no big problems happened between us. Good for me and others, eh?

What can you learn then?
Things that I can learn from her is that you don't have to face problems with wet eyes and tears down, or by getting ridiculously mad because of the problems. You just smile and pray, then try to solve the problem, then give wider smile. That's totally awesome, Nes, big thanks.


3. Lupitta Adyaksari

When you talk about Lupi, you know she's an awesome woman. Know Jujitsu arts, slim body, and glasses, cool mix. She likes to wear unique apparels, which I often criticized. Sorry Lupi, hehehe. Well, let's see what I can say about her, shall we?

When you see her for the first time?
Lupitta really looks like my friend back in college. No offense, but she has man-like appearance, I was rude thinking her as a man. She is loud and cheerful, which really erase the impression of her being a man. :D

So, what's next?
Same as previous two, it all starts getting deeper in Maker. Lupi is this, skillful accountant, so she handled all those freaky accounting problems, something that I hate most. Enrolling in different course from me and others, she was pretty busy dealing with subjects and tasks. Then by the name of God and I thank God for it, she spends more of her time with us. Having Lupi as friend is fun and good. She is more woman than any other woman I know. She rarely mads, FYI.
Rarely shares any problems, she prefer to keep deal with problems by his own way. I have no problem with that, as every people has privacy. Though I want her to share more with me, or us, to be exact.

Hmm, have things go wrong?
She's loud, but no big deal. Sometimes it's annoying, though. Just imagine you are watching movie in cinema, and suddenly you heard loud screams and/or loud comments came from a girl? That must be annoying. But surely you don't wanna smack the girl, especially when she knows how to break your bones. Ouch.
Well, that's probably the minus part of her. I don't see any other things that can be considered, um, wrong coming from her.

You can learn...
Controlling your emotions. Seriously, she can make me feel calm when I get emotional. Its like, she has this 'force' that can't be seen yet can be felt. And yet, you can also spit all out when you're about to blow, not holding it inside. Thanks Lup, it rocks.


4. Indra Cahyadi

What you got when you have the brain and the muscle? You got Indra. He's totally big, both his body and brain. I can say that he's my teacher. Wow.

First time?
Well, I didn't really know him at the first time, since we're from different orientation group. But I did feel that the big guy has leader passion and load of patience. I was right for this one. Yay!

Congrats *prok prok*. So then what happened?
Maker rocks, things starting to get better for me and him. We spend a lot of time together, starting from the second semester. Monday rocks, right bud?
He is the guy that I often go with and play with. We're just like those college boys who just want to play everyday. It was fun, of course. You know what's rock from him? He is awesomely genius and very handy. When panic starts attacking students because tomorrow's exam, you know Indra's there for you. I know he doesn't like people who just want everything to instantly go in their favor, so I only asks for his help when I am in grave danger.
And same like Lupi, he rarely gets mad over small things. But he knows when to tell people he has problem with, something I don't know. For example, he told me that he hates the way I was too racist to Chinese people, when everyone is in good mood and it's long after I said the racism words. That way, nobody will get mad and they can accept the critics with beaming smile. :D

Ever had a fight with the big guy?
Nah, never happened. We always cool. We probably fights in games, but not in reality. But if there's one thing that I see wrong from him, its probably his skeptical view over things. I know you can get this straightly cool, so I'm gonna write it down. Indra often sees things from the negative side, that's why I wrote skeptical.
Other than that? Naah, nothing's big deal.

The thing you got?
Patience is virtue. These words are damn right. Indra has made it real, so my silly brain can consume it well and apply that to life. You have my gratitude for that, pal.


---to be continued---
(I'm tired of typing, folks. Heheh. :D)