Another Reason to be Grateful

(No, Its not mine yet)

Assalamualaiukum Warohmatulloh Wabarokatuh

I have great motorcycle that accompany me nearly every day through rain and day. I bought it as second hand on 2014 I think, but it produce on 2004 or 2005 so it’s been 11 years, quite aging for daily motor-cycle.  Some spare-part start is falling apart, a lot of repair and maintenance should be done. Luckily, the price of the motorcycle spare-part is nowhere near the price of car spare-part. Two things that I cannot fix are sometimes it’s hard to starter and gas consumption.

For the first problem. I have discuss with mechanic motorcycle, he suggest to open the engine and do some repair in the engine block. As I know, when you open the engine (turun mesin), it is like a gambling. It could make your engine better or worse. Yes I know, my motorcycle is aging so it can’t be returned like brand new one. But to take this gambling, when my motorcycle still runs, is not wise. I just have to accept that sometimes I have to “engkol” my motorcycle (and it’s not easy one).

The Second problem is the gas consumption. The three problem, which flash in my mind, are 1) my motorcycle have automatic transmission, 2) still use carburettors, and 3) Age over 10 years. Once I calculate how gas efficient it is, and the result is not surprise me, 25 Km per litter. Do you know how bad is it?, I have automatic car that runs 13 Km per litre with 1.400cc engine, and my motorcycle is only 110 cc and its consumption is just 2 times of my car.

Suddenly, my thought is wrong. Few weeks ago, there is a leak between the engine and the gas tank. But it only happen when the motorcycle is start running, and it will stop when I stop the motorcycle. Everything like normal, beside there is droplets below the engine, but when you see the gas indicator it is not normal anymore. It runs really fast, maybe my calculation that it can consumes 10 Km per litter. In total, I go to 5 Motorcycle service until the problem is done.

After the incident, now I grateful with how my motorcycle work. A very popular phrase, “You do not know what you get until you lose it”, we actually never think about it, even though it repeats so many times,  until we experience it by our self.

“And [remember] when your Lord proclaimed, 'If you are grateful, I will surely increase you [in favor]; but if you deny, indeed, My punishment is severe.' " (QS Ibrahim:7)

Walaikumsalam Warohmatulloh Wabarokatuh

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The Pizza Theory

Assalamualaykum Warohmatulloh Wabarokatuh.

One of the confusing times for me, when i will buy a Pizza, is to choose between 2 Medium Pizza or 1 Large Pizza..

Randomly watching youtube in a sparetime, I interested in a video, which the name, if I am not wrong, Pizza Theory. Its video is explaining how to maximize the money we have when we buy a Pizza.

I will try to summarize the video for easier understanding.

We will see Pizza price from one of the biggest Pizza Francise in Indonesia.

Personal Rp 34.000
Medium Rp. 74.000
Large Rp 105.000

All price, I mentioned before, is for regular pizza without additional side bread.

The Size of personal pizza is 6 Inch, Medium 12 Inch, and Large 14 Inch.

To get maximum pizza with our money we have to know the square area all of Pizza. We use circle square area formula to calculate.

Personal = 3,14 x 6 x 6 = 113,04
Medium = 3,14 x 12 x 12 = 452,16
Large = 3,14 x 14 x 14 = 615,44

We will devide the price and the square area, the result are

Personal = Rp. 301 per Inch Square
Medium = Rp. 164 per Inch Square
Large = Rp. 171 per inch Square

As you can see, the cheapest Rupiah per Inch Square is for Medium Pizza. This will be vary regarding the price and the sizes of pizza, but you know the concept so it will easier to applied at any situation.

Try to find Halal Pizza in your around and don't forget to enjoy your Pizza.

Walaykumsalam Warohmatulloh Wabarokatuh

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Kemana Aja

Assalamualaikum Warahmatulloh Wabarokatuh

Oke, dari terakhir gw nulis ini blog tahun 2012 dan sekarang udah 2016.. woow times fly... Mungkin bakal nulis ini lagi di tahun 2020 :D

Milesstone 2012-2016

+ 2012 Akhir kayanya gw udah ga berdomisili di lantai 22, karena satu dan lain hal gw pindah lantai
+ 2013 Klo ga salah inget gw pindah ke lantai 10 (atau 11) selama setahun di sini, ini rooftop jadi klo sore2 bisa liat sekitar kuningan
+ 2014 Setalah bosen dilantai 10 (atau 11) gw pindah lagi ke lantai 9, ini tempat paling lama gw berdomisili. Cukup betah disini karena suasananya nyaman (bahkan masih sering main2 ke sini)
+2015 Walaupun berat, harus pindah ke lantai 43 (wooww) ini lantai paling tinggi, terpaan anginnya juga hebat ga kuat lama-lama di sini
+2016 Turun ke lantai 5 mudah-mudah betah deh..

Walaykumsalam Warahmatulloh Wabarokatuh

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Sebuah Doa Sebuah Harapan

“Wahai Tuhanku, kepada Engkau aku adukan kelemahan tenagaku dan kekurangan daya-upayaku dan hinanya diriku di hadapan manusia. Wahai Tuhan yang Maha Rahim kepada siapa Engkau menyerahkanku? Kepada musuh yang akan menerkamkan aku ataukah kepada keluarga yang engkau berikan kepadanya uruskanku, tidak ada keberatan bagiku asal aku tetap dalam keridhaanMu. Pengetahuan Mu lebih luas bagiku. Aku berlindung dengan cahaya mukaMu yang mulia yang menyinari segala langit dan menerangi segala yang gelap dan atasnyalah teratur segala urusan dunia dan akirat, dari Engkau menimpakan atas diriku kemarahanMu atau dari Engkau turun atasku azabMu kepada Engkaulah aku adukan permasalahanku sehingga Engkau ridha. Tidak ada daya dan upaya melainkan dengan Engkau”

Ada yang tahu darimana doa itu terucap dan kapankah doa tersebut dipanjatkan?,

Doa tersebut di ucapkan oleh Nabi Muhammada SAW ketika selesai berdakwah di thaif, dimana hanya ada hinaan, cacian, dan lemparan batu yang bertubi-tubi. Mengumpat di balik pohon untuk berlindung, bercucuran darah beliau dari kening dan sekitar tubuhnya.

Siapa yang meragukan daya upaya perjuanganmu Rasulallah yang kebulatan tekadnya untuk meluruskan jalan manusia sampai akhir zaman tidak pernah lelah sampai ajal menjemputnya?

tetapi dengan kerendahan hati beliau menyalahkan diri sendiri, merendah diri di hadapan Allah swt, mengungkapkan betapa besarnya keagungan diriMU tanpa sedikitpun berpikir untuk mengadu."Wahai Allah, kenapa Aku, RasulMu dibiarkan mengalami kejadian ini?". 

 Hhhmmm..selama ini siapa yang pernah berpikir, "Oh god, why this happen to me?" atau berpikir "hidup ini tidak adil" atau segala-segala sesuatu yang menyalahkan Allah swt. Merasa kita tahu segalanya, mengerti apa yang terbaik kita dan menjalani hidup seperti tanpa diurus oleh Allah swt. Suka lupa atau memang tidak tahu kalau Allah itu AL Waaliyy yang Artinya Maha menguasai dan mengurus semua urusan mahklukNya, bahkan lepasnya sehelai rambutpun harus dengan izinya.

".......tidak ada keberatan bagiku asal aku tetap dalam keridhaanMu. Pengetahuan Mu lebih luas bagiku. Aku berlindung dengan cahaya mukaMu yang mulia yang menyinari segala langit dan menerangi segala yang gelap dan atasnyalah teratur segala urusan dunia dan akirat...."

 

 

*yahhh cuma tulisan buat mengingatkan diri sendiri tanpa mau menggurui

 

 

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All my trouble seem so far away......

"Yesterday" is a song originally recorded by The Beatles for their 1965 album Help!.

According to Guinness World Records, "Yesterday" has the most cover versions of any song ever written. The song remains popular today with more than 3,000 recorded cover versions, the first hitting the United Kingdom top 10 three months after the release of Help!. Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) asserts that it was performed over seven million times in the 20th century alone.

The song was not released as a single in the UK at the time of the US release, and thus never gained number 1 single status in that country. However, "Yesterday" was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners. In 2000, "Yesterday" was voted the #1 Pop song of all time by MTV and Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1997, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

"Yesterday" takes the form of a melancholic acoustic guitar ballad about a breakup. It was the first official recording by The Beatles that relied upon a performance by a single member of the band, namely, Paul McCartney. He was accompanied solely by a string quartet.

The final recording differed so greatly from other works by The Beatles that the other three members of the band vetoed the release of the song as a single in the United Kingdom (however, in 1976 it was eventually issued as a single there).

Although credited to "Lennon/McCartney", the song was written solely by McCartney. In 2002, McCartney asked Yoko Ono if she would consider reversing the songwriting credits on the song to read "McCartney/Lennon". Ono refused.

According to biographers of McCartney and The Beatles, McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then girlfriend Jane Asher and her family. Upon waking, he hurried to a piano and played the tune to avoid forgetting it.

McCartney's initial concern was that he had subconsciously plagiarised someone else's work (known as cryptomnesia). As he put it, "For about a month I went round to people in the music business and asked them whether they had ever heard it before. Eventually it became like handing something in to the police. I thought if no-one claimed it after a few weeks then I could have it."

Upon being convinced that he had not robbed anyone of his melody, McCartney began writing lyrics to suit it. As Lennon and McCartney were known to do at the time, a substitute working lyric, entitled "Scrambled Eggs"(the working opening verse was "Scrambled Eggs/Oh, my baby how I love your legs"), was used for the song until something more suitable was written.

In his biography, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now, McCartney recalled: "So first of all I checked this melody out, and people said to me, 'No, it's lovely, and I'm sure it's all yours.' It took me a little while to allow myself to claim it, but then like a prospector I finally staked my claim; stuck a little sign on it and said, 'Okay, it's mine!' It had no words. I used to call it 'Scrambled Eggs'."

 

source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oXPgZjm6Uk&feature=related

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GANTUNG(an)

Dapet SMS dari teman perempuan di sore hari menuju perjalanan pulang

‘…………..

…………….

…………….

GW GALAU

GA SUKA DIGANTUNGIN”

Begitu SMS-nya,

Ups tenang gw ga bakal  bahas sms itu,

Gw Cuma mau bahas dikit soal “digantungin” ini secara lebih seksama dan sedikit rasional,

Proses gantung-mengantung ini Cuma bukan soal cinta-cintaan saja, tapi juga terjadi beberapa hal, antara lainnya,

1. Dunia Kerja, tema yang lagi hot-hotnya di lingkungan sekitar gw mengantikan tema skripsi yang udah sedikit kadaluarsa, proses “digantungin” dalam dunia kerja ini bener-bener lebih terasa dibandingkan yang lainnya menurut gw, apalgi ketika tempat kerja itu menjadi idaman para jobseeker, klo itungannya digantungi cuma mingguan c masi bisa di toleransi, tapi klo ngomongnya proses perekrutan yang ampe di atas 6 bulan, bikin keki ga sih lw, apalagi di satu sisi perusahaan sebelah udah nyodor-nyodorin kontrak durasi 2tahun dengan gaji yang sebenrnya cukup banget buat kredit mobil klo idup lw cuma makan pake nasi + tempe doank (ga lucu kan bawa mobil tapi tiap hari makan di warteg bareng sopir angkot!!!!), mending lw kasih kejelasan ke gw, kita mau resmiin di atas kertas bermaterai atau ngga?? soalnya gw ga mau nunggu lw klo ujung-ujungnya di tolak, begitulah jeritan para hati jobseeker
2. Dunia skripsi, agghh ini sama juga nasibnya tapi karna kita ngomong ama dosen yang punya perasaan juga jadi ga bakal berkilah “emank begitu mas sistemnya jadi ga bisa di cepetin”, berlindung di balik sistem cuiih, tapi pasti ada dosen yang emank "batu" klo udah gini sih banyak-banyak doa aja. Tapi dosen juga ngerti koq klo kita rajin dateng bimbingan, dan kita emank nunjukin keseriusan klo mau maju sidang, niscaya sang dosen pun akan luluh,
   
3. Birokrasi, ini nih sumber kekacauan negeri Indonesia, semua yang sebenernya mudah jadi diribet-ribetin bahkan sampe di gantungin, ambil contoh kasus birokrasi di kampus, lw mau minjem aula atau auditorium kampus buat acara seminar atau apa lah yang butuh ruang indoor gede. Setelah dateng ke Fakultas buat minjem, dia bilang klo buat minggu itu aulanya di pake, oke fine masih bisa diganti hari dalam pikiran, "Di pakenya hari apa pa?", "belom tau juga mas, soalnya Menteri dari Jepang masih sibuk ngurusin Tsunami", WTH.... Jadi selama si menteri Jepang belom ke sini, belum bisa tuh di pinjem auditorium, "GIMANA KABAR ACARA GUE?????"

Cerita-cerita di atas sedikit ilustrasi tentang proses "Gantung-menggantung", walaupun bukan cerita yang 100% bener terjadi tapi itu sedikit gambaran gimana "ketidakpastian itu sendiri merupakan suatu kepastian dalam hidup". Cara menanggulanginya, lw harus punya "power" buat ngeyakinin klo lw atau apapun itu bisa ngasih mereka keuntungan, klo lw pnya kualitas yang bagus niscaya si perusahaan yang bakal ngebet cari lw, atau drafting skripsi lw udah bagus maju buat sidang niscaya si dosen bakal langsung meng-Acc draft anda, soalnya dosen juga males ngasi revisi rancangan skripsi terus ke lw, mending waktu gw buat maen ama anak, begitu jeritan hati para pembimbing, dan klo acara lw bisa ngasih benefit ke Fakultas kaya ngundang pers nasional buat ngeliput acara lw, apalagi pake live report yang bisa bikin sang dekan muncul di depan TV, pasti acara lw jadi prioritas,

Jadi proses gantung-mengantung ini karena kita sendiri belum ngasih keyakinan ke mereka klo kita memank pantas "dipastikan", untuk ditolak atau diterima, Coba yakinkan kepada orang yang menggantung anda secepatnya, karena klo semuanya "salah" paling tidak salah dilakukan di awal dan masih ada waktu untuk memperbaikinya,

Lebih baik cepat tapi salah dibandingkan lama belum tentu benar,

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Sebuah Jawaban

Beberapa Jawaban Tentang pertanyaan2 gw tentang kebimbangan gw sebelum-sebelumnya

1.      Belum tau ni blog mau di-anymous-in ato di cantumin foto gw yg cuma bisa bikin orang kabur klo diliat

 Udah pasti di anymouskan, karna mungkin nantinya kata2 di blog ini akan terlalu offence jd bagusnya di alias kan saja orang2 terlibat (Peng"alias"an tidak menggunakan nama-nama seperti bunga, mawar, dan melati, yang konotasinya jadi "vulgar" semenjak lampu merah(hijau) marak menggunakan nama-nama tersebut sebagai "korban" yang jadi headline koran tsb)

2.      Masi bingung isinya curhatan2 galau gw yang isinya kebanyakan ditolak cwe dan dikejar-kejar banci atau pengetahuan penting ga penting kaya waspadai tukang somay klo naek motor (red= Pengalaman pribadi (pernah nabrak tukang somay bos??| bukanlah!!! | trus?? | jualan somay)

Karna gw ga mau capek-capek mikir buat bikin blog ini jadi let my finger do the job

3.      Mau dibikin blog serius ntar malah dikira becanda atau bikin blog bercanda malah dikira serius

Yang pasti ga bakal serius, ga bakal gw terangain teori ekonomi atau akuntansi disini selaen ga dapet bayaran dan pastinya lw udah cape di teori"in di dalam kelas

4.      Tapi kasiannya juga nih blog klo ga di SERIUSin apalagi nyampe di GANTUNGin pasti sakit rasanya (ehem2...)

Cari saja majikan lain klo saya gantungin nantinya...

5.      Mudah-mudahan orang yang nyuruh gw ngeblog mau bertanggung jawab untuk mendisain blog gw dan jangan sering ujan-ujanan pake motor

Katanya disuruh pake template, duh klo tempe ngerti deh gw, ini aja mau login masi keder

6.      Mudah-mudahan blog gw jangan banyak-banyak di baca orang karena di jamin lw hanya menyia-nyikan waktu lw yang sebenernya udah ga penting itu jadi tambah ga penting lagi

 Makasin buat kalian yang baca tulisan saya ini, apalah artinya saya tanpa kalian semua (red: ngayal jd artis)

7.      oh damn istirahat gw abiss....!!

ahhh besok udah senen lagi..... Ini kenapa ampe akhir tahun ga ada libur sih....

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