Monthly Archives: July 2011

Frustasi di Negara Yang Saya Cintai

Pertanyaan “Seberapa cinta kah kamu pada tanah air mu?” mungkin hal yang berulang ulang jadi saya tanyakan pada diri saya sendiri sekarang.

Setahun hidup di Taiwan untuk study, membuat saya sedikit banyak shock ketika saya pulang dan berencana menghabiskan masa summer break saya di kampung halaman, lepas dari kecintaan dan keinginan saya untuk menghabiskan waktu bersama keluarga, tapi..benar – benar saya harus bilang, hidup di negara saya sendiri sekarang membuat saya frustasi pada banyak hal.

Dimulai ketika saya menginjakkan kaki kembali ke tanah air, dan mengantri di loket imigrasi, saya cuma membatin “how come it takes so long for this fu*king checking, and why do they look not so kind to people” hal yang sangat berbeda ketika saya keluar dari Taiwan, dimana saya hanya memerlukan 1 menit 55 detik untuk bagasi, dan 2 menit 36 detik untuk proses di imigrasi dimulai sejak saya mengantri (saya sengaja menghitung waktu nya) jadi total saya hanya memerlukan kurang dari 5 menit untuk semua proses ‘birokrasi’ dan dengan bonus petugasnya yang ramah dan penuh senyum membuat semua terasa mudah. Jadi bisa dibayangkan betapa dongkol saya masuk ke negara saya sendiri (saking dongkol dan campuran excited bertemu keluarga saya lupa untuk menghitung waktu, tapi percayalah, lamaaa..)belum lagi ketika saya harus mengantri bagasi sekitar 1 jam dan menyadari seseorang mengambil bagasi saya dan saya harus spend some times untuk berdebat bahwa itu adalah bagasi saya dengan percakapan kurang lebih seperti ini

Saya (S): Bapak, maaf, bapak mengambil bagasi saya..ini punya saya (muka sudah masam kesaaal)
Bapak2 (B): Lho..ini punya saya, saya ada nomornya
S: Oke..kalau itu punya bapak, buka sekarang kunci kombinasinya, kalo bisa saya kasih itu barang..beres (muka judes)
B: waaah…(saya potong dengan maju dan membuka kunci kombinasi koper saya, dan voilaa terbuka..of course it’s mine!!)
S: see?? Ini punya saya..saya bawa, jangan suka ambil barang orang dong (dengan mengacungkan gembok di depan mukanya..i did mean it, i have no hospitality to jerk..sorry)

Saya dongkol, dan pikiran pertama saya adalah “sungguh berbeda dengan Taiwan” saya serius, hal ini sungguh berbeda, di Taiwan saya hampir bisa pastikan bahwa hal seperti ini tidak akan pernah terjadi, saya selalu merasa nyaman dan aman bepergian tanpa harus was was adanya copet ataupun pencuri, bahkan sekali waktu ketika teman saya ketinggalan barang di taxi, supir taxi nya menelfon dan mengirimkan barang tersebut kembali.

Lepas dari insiden koper, kemudian saya memasuki area bea cukai ketika semua koper musti diperiksa MANUAL, dan saya dengan tampang masam, karena petugasnya juga masam2 dan ga ramah, menunggu giliran saya, sampai ketika giliran saya Bapak petugas nya bertanya apa saya pelajar, dan ‘melepaskan’ begitu saja ketika saya bilang pelajar (thank God, I could save my time there) tapi di waktu bersamaan saya miris juga ketika beberapa mbak mbak yang adalah para pekerja (TKW) harus menjalani proses lebih rumit dengan tas dibuka dan dikeluarkan barang -barang nya satu persatu. Saya emosi tapi sudah terlalu capek dan emosi jiwa raga untuk protes, jadi saya berlalu, egois menikmati ‘privilege’ saya sebagai pelajar.

Jadi total saya membutuhkan sekitar 1.5 jam untuk keluar dari bandara Juanda, di negara saya tercinta..now tell me, how you think, then! Less than 5 minutes compare to more than 90 minutes..bahhh..This country do give bad first impression to people!

Tapi rupa nya keterkejutan saya tidak cukup berhenti di bandara, tapi dalam perjalanan pulang di mobil, yang saya terpaksa sedikit dongkol menerima keadaan, tapi harus cukup bersyukur dijemput jauh jauh dari Blitar (which takes like 4 hours driving) karena 2 orang yang menyupir mobil merokok dan AC mobil harus dimatikan, dan saya musti menghirup asap rokok bonus polusi knalpot jalanan yang ampun ampun. Katakanlah saya manja dan sok, but come on..1 year I live with no pollution of people smoking, dan polusi jalanan yang jelas jauuuuuh tidak ada apa apa nya dibanding disini, so what do you expect? Saya kesal, saya prihatin melihat polusi jalanan dan etika orang berkendaraan disini! I can’t explain much, but simply I can say how the traffic in Taiwan is totally different and absolutely better than here.

That’s my first day experience! Tentu saya mengalami banyak hal menakjubkan selepas saya berada di rumah, menikmati berbagai makanan lezat yang tidak akan bisa saya temukan di Taiwan, menikmati betapa uang masih sangat berharga disini, harga harga yang jauuh lebih terjangkau, dan yang jelas cuaca yang sangat bersahabat berbeda dengan panas neraka nya Taipe saat ini.

Tentu saya masih mencintai Negara ini, tanah dan tumpah darah saya, tempat dimana orang orang yang saya cintai berada, tapi merasakan hidup di negara maju selama 1 tahun ini membuat saya banyak berhayal, seandainya negara ini mampu menjadi sebersih Taiwan, dan fasilitas umum yang sebagus disana, etika masyarakat yang sebagus disana, dan kecanggihan teknologi sebagus disana, Negara ini jelas akan menjadi surga bagi saya.

Dan wajar ketika kemudian timbul perkataan “Jangan cuma membayangkan..lakukan sesuatu untuk membangun bangsa ini” dan saya juga jadi putus asa memikirkan nya, kalau sekarang saya sudah uring uringan dengan akses internet yang super supeeeeeerrrr lambat (1/10 dari apa yang saya dapat di Taiwan), saya sering freak out kalau hidup sebulan di negara ini dengan koneksi seperti ini saya bisa jadi gila sendiri,dan saya sering frustasi dengan segala pelayanan publik, dan banyak hal disini..Jadi, kalau saya jadi gila bagaimana saya bisa hidup dan membangun negara ini?

Kenyataannya, cukup dengan setahun hidup di luar negeri membuat saya meragukan kapasitas saya untuk bisa hidup di negeri saya sendiri. Ironis, saya miris untuk mengakui nya, tapi inilah kenyataannya!

also published @ http://lifestyle.kompasiana.com/catatan/2011/07/28/frustasi-di-negara-yang-saya-cintai/


Travelling; My dream, my desire :)

Ask me what my hobbies are, Books and travelling are always there!
And now I’m going to talk about travelling, my dream, and my biggest desire. I love travelling for many many reasons, some are just classic reasons like many other travelers have, and some are just my own crazy reasons :D .

For me travelling is life itself, in travelling I feel like finding what life is, I meet various people, and how they behave and think, I find a lot of new things, that sometimes I didn’t expect they exist, and all those experiences make me learn to keep my mind open, and teach me to tolerate more to people.

There are many times when I feel saturated, tired with all the things happen to me, and the things I run for is travelling, getting out of the ‘world’ for a while, enjoy God creatures, and at the same times I find God there, through all the creatures, and all its interactions.

I have hundreds places in list that I want to visit. And now, there’s a contest with travelling to 4 big cities in Asia as the main prize, and of course I give a try on it, we will never know when the luck comes to us, and I’m kinda person who always believe in the power of dream. So..please help me to make my dream, my desire in travelling come true by voting my page here

TINA NUGRAHENI – IT Traveller 2011

If you can’t access that link, just copy this link to your browser :)
http://www.ittravelersgo.com/index.php?option=com_contestgallery&view=detail&id=5776&Itemid=2&lang=id

and every click you put is sooo appreciated
Always with love

Tina


I don’t know, what the title can be

This post is written during the flight on my way home, Indonesia. The mini television in front of me shows that it is 1 hour and 21 minutes left for me to step my feet on the land i belong to, while the music from my headset is playing Take That’s song: Back for good, the song that i intentionally chose because it is in easy mood song choices..i need an easy mood, for my mood is not easy, and somehow the tears come out and i just hardly stop tearing for reason that i don’t quite understand, or I don’t wanna to confess, maybe…
The thing i understand, times flies so..so fast, a goodbye for the new hello, i’m sure
I know I can’t stop the destiny in bringing me to the new steps, something left untold there, somewhere in past, and somethings just covered in mystery, in somewhere in the future -damn hell, i can’t stop tearing-

-me, uneasy, in somewhere up above my motherland-


Yes, She is amazing

She is amazing
She is wonderful
She is beautiful, inside and outside
She is love
She is merciful

Yes she is..and i will never be tired to admit and say it again, and again..
She always teaches me that all the worst thing in the world if i live loveless and merciless.., and once in the morning she updated a status in FB (she is FB addicted, like me)

“Doa tulus di pagi hariku moga smua mantan pacar anak2ku diberikan kesehatan,kesuksesan dan lapang hati dalam menjalani hidup ini…smuanya dah tersurat dalam Rencana Allah …Percayalah Rencana Allah kan Indah Pada Saatnya…GBU ALL”
(i do copy and paste from her page) and lemme write that in English:
“My sincerely pray in the morning, may all my children’s Ex -boyfriends/girlfriends- have healthy, success, and big hearted in living this life, the destiny has been written down in God’s way, and His plans are good in His time, GBU all”

I have no idea what made her wrote that..
and what i did was; I put comment on her and said “nggak tak amini ya ma” (“i can’t agree and say amen Ma.”) i meant it as a joke (did I? :p), but look..how great she is, how merciful she wants us to be…
I may not be able as great as her, yet I wanna be..she is my inspiration
and She is my Mama..Endang Tyas Eko Budiarti, the greatest woman ever for me..

Taipe, in the early morning, counting the hours to be home, to be in her arms again :)


Ended my 10 days of suffer

I did tell you in the previous post how i was suffer for toilet thing..
and I did tell you how the strange experience finally cure me
Olvin called it was exorcism, me? i called it was a healing :)
I don’t care what it was, i just know how it cured me from 10 days in suffer, how it finally made me smile going out toilet and made my appetite of foods back!

It was Saturday morning when i was so frustrated for 10th day i couldn’t poo, and even more frustrated when i got nausea, really wanted to vomit after eating one banana..how come just 1 banana made me vomit? shouldn’t i eat anything else??? and i was crying so bad and frustrated when Olvin called, and well..of course i made him frustrated to listen to me crying and then he offered to go to doctor and hospital which i refused in the same minute..i was still desperate and frustrated because of it, i lost my believe in doctor, thus finally he offered me to go to a Chinese medical clinic near by the place he lived before, Liuzhangli area. he didn’t know either, what kind of medication it had, but he was just sure it’s not like kind of doctor and hospital i hate.

So, there we were..was no other patience and the doctor asked me my problem and asked me to lay on bed so he could examine. he just slightly touched my foot, knee, hip, hand (kinda checking pulse) and he was just able to say that i had problem in my hip bone, the position was not good (well..i don’t know the medical term, but it seems true, because 2 weeks before i went to see Chiropractic, and the doctor said the same that my hips bone are not symmetric, one is higher that the other so is my shoulder..well..i don’t feel anything weird with my bones, but anyway that’s the problem ) bla..bla..so he said he will fix it first and later to my digestion.
Then he asked Olvin to sit, which olvin took it as mistake not to disturb, but what the doctor meant was to sit and help him to do the medication, then i started my ‘experience’. First he asked olvin to put one his hand under my hips, and the other one under my upper back (i was still in laying position) and one my hand cross touched my own arm, and the other arm just cross over my tummy, the doctor closed his eyes, and his palm touched my feet. and we changed position of our hands manytimes, sometimes olvin put his hands on my head, over my eyes, grabbed my ears, my knees, my leg, and sometimes my hands contacted with my hips, my chest, my neck, my lips, and many other parts followed the doctor instruction.
And believe it or not, i felt some different temperature in the places he touched me, and i felt something was moving inside my stomach. It took around 40 mins and then the doctor like move some kind of stones in front of my stomach and my back.I got like physio-therapy with kind of electric massage on my low back afterwards.
The doctor told me that my colon, my digestion system doesn’t work well, and he suggested me not to eat any foods contain gluten, wheat, soy sauce, flour. So, no bread, no cereal i love, no brownies, no donuts, no waffle, and everything made from flour for at least in two weeks, and after one month i can take it a little not as much as i did before. me? i prefer to follow,i know how suffer i was, and that’s more than enough for me.
All medication just cost me 150NT..super cheap (yeaah compare to hospital i went everyday before), and meters walked out from there i felt my stomach hurt and yea..i did it..my first poo in restaurant around..hehe, and in the same day i did it for 5 times and no more problem after.
Now..I’m back to normal..i poo normal, my stomach gets back smaller, not like as swollen before, i eat normal without that damn nausea feeling at all..and I am happy

So..you can call it acupressure, energy transfer, exorcism, or even magic..You name it! i don’t care..i just know that it healed me, and i took some of my friends with kind of health problem to see him, i don’t know the reaction on them, but i wish it will be as well as i had :)

and last but not least, i’m so thankful to Olvin for this :)


The 10 days of suffering

Taipe is raining now, and well..thunder, i hate it!! anyway is a good moment for me to write here..
Well..i bet you know what’s i’ve been through lately :p..
(it’s not that i am famous, but it is because i am FB addict and posted a lot about it, thus seems everybody was forced to know my update from the FB news feed =))

Yea..i got constipated for 10 days, couple days ago..for 10 days!!and everybody came with the suggestion that really, once again, don’t think that i didn’t do all possible ways for that..i took all the suggested foods, drinks, medicines, vitamins..any..any..again anything (i believe i wrote it in the previous post) and i even went to the hospital and got some test and hell yeah, i even got stressed because of that.
Accompanied by Olvin, I started to go the hospital In the fifth day i had my symptom, the hospital was too full, and finally i just got a laxative medicine which tasted like tons of salt, salty and weird..the pharmacist said it was one of the strongest one, so it’s supposed to work on me..and you know what? it did..but (sorry to say) it was no mass..it’s just like liquid, and it even made me like low energy and my stomach was hurt but still..i couldn’t ‘really get what i want”.

So the day after,i went back to the hospital,I told all my histories and what i experienced with the medicine i took above, the doctor was quite surprise to listen and he touched my belly and was laughing at me, joking that seems i was having a baby for my stomach was big and hard. Then he asked me to go to have X ray test and some other things and gave me one of medicine, and oral medicine that i need to insert inside anus, he said that the medicine was supposed to work quickly and instantly to clean my stomach and asked me to come back the day after. it costed me 420NT

But guess what..i took the pill…didn’t work..waiting for morethan 1 hour, i encouraged my self to take the oral one and inserted it inside (i tell you..i hate it..feel disgusting for me), 5 minutes..was no reaction, i was anxious..10 minutes, i felt something..and i did..but..that’s all..just so little like nothing..for my 6 days constipation, i was frustrated, but i went to sleep even in disappointed.

And as doctor said, i went back to the hospital, to get my test result, and how shock i was to get passed in other department..Oncology..tell me, what would you think if you were me..i was trying to remember what oncology is and i was sure it’s about cancer and tumor, and suddenly i remember a friend of mine who said that his friend got a colon cancer with the same symptom as mine, i was kinda pale but anyway i didn’t wanna think a lot and just went in to see the doctor, and said all i was feeling and how the ‘strong medicine’ they gave almost didn’t work on me. the doctor saw my result, the X ray, and suddenly asked about my plan to go back to my country (for me..he was like saying that the medication would need a long term period..MOFO!), and said that it’s weird the medicine didn’t work and he couldn’t say a lot, but will pass me again to another department in internist to listen the internist doctor’s opinion..bla..bla…bla..of course i asked, according to his opinion..what wrong was with me, but still, he said ‘we have to wait’..damn it ( i was saying to myself..i’ve been waiting for 7days for this!)

So, desperately i moved to the third place and waited there like 3 hour, to meet the doctor which only stared at me -computer -back at me, without really explained a thing and said that my intestine and digestion system didn’t really work well and gave me receipt for 1 week and will do further observation to it and asked me to came back there. again..you tell me if you were me…
I asked him what the hell was going on with me..but agaaain, the answer was no more than like ‘no idea just take that fracking medicines’ so I grumbled to myself (no way for me to come back to this hell) and i just left the hospital with 3 bags of medicine which cost me 380NT. It made me feel such mixed: angry for i didn’t know what’s going on, anxious with the way they explained, desperate with my full stomach, my nausea feeling, and kinda disappointed for wasting my 5 hours and my money for unexplained thing, and all those mixed felling made me cry soon, right after i arrived in dorm, and the worst i left my key inside and got to wait my room mates came back for more than 1 hour..such complete desperation.

I chatted with some of my close friends, and got different responses..and i was frustrated and didn’t wanna argue when i was afraid and suffer with what i was feeling, and just put all my chat application in offline mode, and just chatted with leo sometimes, he suggested me to watch Leonard, the Big bang theory, to relax me, he said it’s better than i felt worse for some friends who kept telling it’s like nothing when i was feeling was horrible, and in the end put me depression.

The next day, Leo called me from Argentina and asked me to go to hospital, while i was still sleeping. Forcing myself i went to another hospital, but anyway, in the middle of my way got there, i went back dorm..haha..look..the doctor said that all the thing i could do was not to get myself stress, and the most made me stress were doctors, and hospital!, so i decided to go back, and instead, i went to wufenpu, bought some pieces of clothes. That’s the way i relax. It was the 8th day, and I was getting worse, i feel nausea every time i eat something, like what i experienced for dinner; I took green bean soup i bought in 711, an tea egg, and a bottle of yogurt as my dinner, and guess what, i vomited right after i took it, seems my stomach couldn’t get anymore into while nothing came out. Of course i was frustrated and afraid, but as everybody asked the same “are you stress??” (of course i denied it) and almost everybody suggested me not to get stressed, i took it as easy as i could and kept trying all the thing i could. A friend of mine, lenyo gave me another oral medicine, kinda ball medicine 20cc, that i had to inject inside the anus. I finished 2 balls, because 1 didn’t react, and i was so happy for finally i made it, until i felt that the contraction didn’t stop, i felt my stomach hurt but nothing came out, i felt the suffer until morning and cried in silent almost all night long and just felt a sleep in the morning. the 9th day, i felt horrible and almost ate nothing.

the 10th day, i almost couldn’t bear it, i ate banana as my breakfast, but the nausea was horrible, and in the same time olvin called me, and i couldn’t help myself not to cry out loud, for i was so afraid, my belly was big and hard, i felt hard to breath and couldn’t eat, wanted to vomit..all those horrible thing, and after some conversation he took me to go to a Chinese medicine doctor (Sinshe) and you know, IT HEALED ME..hehe..was kinda weird strange yet amazing experience for me, even for Olvin..i will tell you later in another post.

I am just so glad, finally i get back to normal, i eat normal, and go to toilet normally..so, you..just be grateful if you can poo..it’s maybe simple, but it’s such a bless..


Please make me…. :(

I am suffering for a (sounds) stupid problem..constipation
and it’s been 4 days i’m suffering for that
I’ve followed every suggestion:
I drank yogurt, like 2 liters
I ate a lot of fruits, today i brought 3 plastics of bananas, papaya, kiwi..i even ate dried prune, which is famous as laxative
I drank water, until i couldn’t resist and felt like my stomach’s going to explode
I drank Vegeta, a fiber drink supplement, for some cups
a friend of mine suggested me to drink Lucha, i did
my room mate gave me Liquid Chlorophyll, i took

But..look, seems none of them really works
my belly is swollen like in 3 month pregnancy
i cannot eat, because every time i eat, i got full easily, and feel so uncomfortable
Everybody says i am stressed, Am i? (of course i deny)
And seems i have no other choice, i will go to hospital tomorrow

Dear God, a simple wish, please make me poo
-desperate-


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