Till We Meet Again Mommy Riadany

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This is for you mbakyu Riadany Tyas Hapsari we hope you like it, don't cry yet when you watch it, save it for later okay..
We will say goodbye with smile on our faces (this is a lie though), get your  pack of tissue ready when you say goodbye to us.. *teary eyes* 


hugs and kisses,
we who love you

STAN 2010 Reunion - Class of 2005: Unity in Diversity

Early last month was very great, i believe for everyone, especially for me. It was very hectic, exhausting yet amazing for me and most of my friends who come from far away to enjoy the moment of togetherness in STAN 2010 Reunion. Let's say there were Niko from Kuningan, Ersa from Lhokseumawe, Widyo from Jambi, Adjie from Tanjung Balai Karimun, Adit from far away northern part of our country -Tahuna and even Titis who got away from chaos in Tarakan, if i keep mentioning names then the list will be very long. But not only for us coming from that far, the euphoria was also felt by those who had been waiting for us to come (especially the batch-committee) lets see.. Harun who had been busy dealing with a lot of thing; Ilmi, who still spare some time before going to Jogja, and Hendy who dealt with T-Shirt orders; Rima with the sound system and such; Nila and Ninit for other stuff related with the stand, A' Bedur with the IKANAS (iSTAN) Congress; and there were a lot more i might forgot to write.

For some of us, it was really a moment of re-union, time to meet and have a long chit-chat with old friends we haven't met for around 1-2 years, time to talk and laugh about silly things happened back then in college, time to catch up latest news from each other, time to tell stories bout ourselves and people around us, yes that was fun, so much fun!

In the other hand, for most of us, it was also the time to get to know each other, even for the first time for some people. How is it possible? Well, it is not impossible when you are in a batch consisting of 6 majors - around 52 classes - with each classes consisting of 35 - 40 students, who went to different buildings and joined different extra activities/clubs. Knowing half of the batch is already awesome..

-STAN Batch 2005-

Well, in short, everybody had a great time, despite of the heavy rain.. There were times when we all worried about the electricity (since water and electric current are not best friend) but then again it turned out to be okay. When the rain calmed down, we started another happy-go-singing-and-dancing-together. Various music starting from dangdut to folk-songs to pop were played in our booth. With that much hustle and bustle happening in our booth, no wonder we got so many attention from other seniors. On the evening stage session, there were band performances. The last song we sung "Kau Tak Akan Terganti" more or less represented our feeling at that time, a feeling for our friendship, and all of us really proud to say that we are STAN 2005!

Lets make a bigger crowd on the next reunion!

Forgive and Forget

Several months ago my friend send me a note like this:

this is you bio on twitter: "@ramadhani_a: loves chocolate, comic and friend" and i still want to be your friend

We're kinda not talk to each other for around four months, he really got on my nerve at that time. But finally i think its the time to forgive and to forget the wrong doings before, realizing all of us just imperfect human beings that can make all the mistake in the world. And as the matter of fact, i am not a person who can keep my anger and rage to other people for a long time..

Anyway, to think that i don't wanna be treated the same way made me feel awful of it. How shallow minded i was, keeping my disappointment and anger for such a long time. I should have just talked to him, expressed all the feeling at that time, reconciled, let the problem settled and left nothing behind.


So here we are, back as friends..

The KCCCGD* Social Gathering

Another social gathering? Yes, let me bring this to you all..

the most recent social gathering i join is KCCCGD* (Kelompok Cewek Cowok Cakep Gitu Deh), rough translation of it would be "Party of Gorgeous Boys and Girls". No comment on the name please, since this is a free country where people have so called freedom of expression, thus this name frankly describes those who join it. Thanks to Abdurrahman a.k.a. A'Bedur a.k.a. Kyai James.

So what is it about this new social gathering?
Well, it started some time ago when some of us come with the idea of keeping in touch with our friends, since we're no longer seeing each other as much as we were back then in college. After some talks we decided to have a monthly social gathering mostly in Jakarta and move to other city where the members work every 6 months. For example beside those who live in Jakarta and around, there are members who work in Banjarmasin, Tarakan, Kupang, Makassar, Kendari, and other cities. The gathering will be around Jakarta for 5 months then on the 6th month move to one of the cities mentioned before, so basically it is also a call for a group vacation.

Recently we just had our first social gathering event, with 9 out of 19 members attending (A'Bedur, Ninit, Rima, Yoga, Niko, Harun, Akmal, Nila and I). Our first gathering took place in Kota Tua, at a place well known for the ice cream, Es Krim Ragusa. Here we share some stories and have our first winners: Titis and Arrisa. Frankly speaking the foods there weren't really satisfactory but the ice cream are still good.

KCCCGD rendezvous at Ragusa

Continuing the story of our gathering, we decided to give a pleasure to our desire of performing so we hop on to the next destination: Inulvizta Sarinah, but then again due to the overcrowded we didn't get a room. Unable to stop the growing desire of singing and others, we then gave a call to Inulvizta Atrium Senen to see if they have a room. This time we were lucky and not just that, we could directly jump in and sing! Too bad Harun couldn't join us.. We spent 2 full hours singing, dancing, and making fun of the songs.

Well to wrap it up, that night was great, despite the rain and traffic jam that made most of us late for the gathering, all of us were really enjoying the moments of togetherness.

Can't wait to meet you up again guys!

Today, A Year Ago..

A year ago, right on this date, a guy asked me to be his girlfriend and i said yes. We were friends turn into lovers and now we are becoming friends again. Yes, that's true, i'm no longer with the one i agreed to be with a year ago.

Most of our friends may say: "they are not over yet" or "ah ntar pasti lw balik balik juga ma dia" or "both of you still love each other" when they see my interaction with him. I stay friends with him after the break up, mostly because i appreciate the friendship that we had before and during the relationship. it is hard though, because he still want me but i don't wanna be in that kind of "relationship" with him anymore.

The first four months after the break up is filled with a lot of "please come back to me" and "give me another chance" request from him, and every time he did it i have to turned him down. I never like the feeling after turning someone down, it bothers my mind and my heart at the same time, usually for quite a long time. The thing is, i just couldn't grant his request, not at those times. Those moments are not today, a year ago. Not the time i can say yes again because the feeling now is different. I don't feel the same way as i felt to him a year ago, not anymore.

Maybe most of you will think about how my feeling is easily changing, well unfortunately that's not true. The feeling's changing is not as simple as it seemed, it took a big incident and time. It was not like deleting a file from your pc, or like deleting a text message from your cellphone. Anyway, it was pretty complex so I wouldn't tell the details. But what i know is i still want to have a friend like him.

I wrote this because early in the morning i remembered that today, a year ago i officially became his girlfriend but somehow we never make it until today.

Today, maybe I already grow a feeling to someone else, maybe I still enjoy being single, maybe I know some guys are approaching, but one thing for sure I want to have my friends around and that's including him..


Because today is no longer today, a year ago..

A Birthday Surprise for A Friend

“..winter spring summer or fall, all youhave to do is call
And I’ll be there yes I will, you’ve got a friend ”

Tanggal 8 Januari yang lalau adalah hari ulang tahun seorang sahabat dekat saya, namanya Hesria Meti Nurjanah (dikenal dengan berbagai panggilan: riri, yii, nyii, mba menur), I personally sometimes call her yii or sist.. Ini pertama kalinya dia merayakan ulang tahun jauh dari keluarga,yang membuatnya sangat sedih setiap kali teringat hal itu.

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05/01/2010
[teman2,ini rani.. teman kita riri tgl 8 nanti ultah kan, nah pengen ngasih scrapbook yang isinya foto + ucapan slmt ultah dr temen2nya..nah krn itu, minta bantuan tmn2 bwt ngirim foto dengan pose sekreatif mungkin yg intinya ada ucapan slmt ultah (ex:pose bawa spanduk happy bday, megang kue tart, atw cukup kertas yg bertuliskan happy bday) + ucapanny skalian…tolng dikirim via email ke ramadhani.ardiansyah@gmail.com atw via mms k 081932642***. Thnx a lot friends!]
Message sent
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That was a text message that I sent to our friends. From that day, the “scrapbook project” started. Not only from far-away friends, I also collect photos and greetings from friends around us, in my office and hers as well, and also from her friends that aren’t mine yet. That was pretty tough, because most of them kept postponing to send the pictures and greetings.
Karena banyak yang tidak bisa memenuhi deadline pengumpulan foto, akhirnya saya harus mencetak secara bertahap agar scrapbook-nya tetap bisa dikerjakan. Terima kasih banyak untuk Mas Rifky dan Mas Binuko yang mengantarkan saya mencetak foto-foto dan membeli bahan-bahan untuk membuat scrapbook. Anyway the book was supposed to be a surprise present but apparently one of the friend who thought I already give the scrapbook to her mention about that. So it was no longer become a surprise present.

Percakapan mereka (seperti yang diceritakan ke saya) kurang lebih seperti ini :
Friend: Happy birthday ya rii!
Riri. : Iya makasiiiih…
Friend: Oh iya, gimana scrapbook-nya?bagus?
Riri. : …………..
Hmmm, kayaknya yang itu belum sampe ke gue deh


Anyway, it took quite a while to finish the book, but with lots of help, especially from Mbak Ria and Mbak Tri in the office (yes people, you read it right,we do it in the office. Sampai-sampai salah satu atasan saya sambil bercanda berkomentar: ”untung riri ulang tahun cuma setahun sekali, coba kalo tiap bulan, bisa-bisa nanti di Buku Produksi kalian isinya membuat scrapbook terus”).
Sepulang kantor dan selama di kosan saya juga terbantu dengan kehadiran Putri Melati a.k.a. Pumelita, sahabat saya yang satu ini membantu dalam menyelesaikan dan memberikan sentuhan akhir sebelum scrapbooknya diserahkan.

Not only the scrapbook thingy, i also initiated a surprise party for her, so even when she’s not with her family, she can celebrate it with all of us here. Just to show that she also have another “family”.

Dengan bantuan Bang Aulia, kami berhasil menemukan tempat yang lumayan “cozy and personal” untuk surprise party-nya. There were 16 of us there, consisting of friends from her office, my office and Pumelita. Mas Bangun, one of our friend was assigned to keep Riri away and later take her to the spot, meanwhile the rest of us waited there. We requested live music from the café, prepared cake and 23 candles. Right after they got into the parking lot, we dimmed the lights and prepared the candles. We stood side by side, surrounding the table and each of us was holding 1 or 2 candles.

Begitu Riri dan Mas Bangun datang dan menuju ke lantai 2 kafe tempat kami menyiapkan surprise party, musiknya dimainkan dan kami semua bernyanyi, Riri lumayan kaget karena tidak menyangka saya dan teman-teman lain lah yang ada di sana. Kemudian dia berkeliling meniup satu persatu lilin yang kami pegang, memotong kue ulang tahun dan menyuapi kami semua satu per satu. Setelah itu acara dipenuhi dengan makan-ngobrol-foto serta beberapa sumbangan lagu.

Somehow with all the obstacle, we managed to make this come true. Its good to know that I can do things like this for my best friend and to know our other friends are also care enough to help with the scrapbook and the surprise party, especially because I don’t want to see her sad on her birthday. After all, we say happy birthday, so basically we should be happy when birthday comes..

Finally the scrapbook is given the day after her birthday, on our “girls nite out” dinner the day after the birthday. Again, a bunch of thanks to everyone that participated.

Last, Happy Birthday to my sister, Hesria “Yii” Menur..
Hope you will always have great and blessed life ahead..