Kamis, 30 Juni 2016

Janji

Part I

Janji itu wajib hukumnya ditepati. Tidak bisa ditawar!! Apalagi diingkari.
Satu saat dimana kamu memintaku untuk pulang bersamamu. Kamu berjanji untuk menemuiku jam satu siang. Kamu memintaku menunggumu disuatu tempat, terminal.
Menunggu bukan hal yang menyenangkan bagi banyak orang, bagiku juga. Tapi karenamu menunggu jadi menyenangkan. Menyenangkan sekali membayangkan beberapa menit lagi aku akan bertemu denganmu. Denganmu yang kusayangi...
Tiga puluh menit berlalu tanpa kabar. Ah mungkin jalanan macet, maklumlah Bandung, kota padat penduduk dengan banyak macam kendaraan. Aku tetap berdiri disini, menunggumu.
Satu jam berlalu masih tanpa kabar. Aku putuskan untuk mengirimu sebuah pesan singkat. Lalu kamu memintaku untuk menunggu sebentar lagi. Aku masih bisa bersabar untuk menunggumu di depan sebuah toko makanan di depan jalan raya yang ramai, jalan dekat dengan terminal.
Satu jam lewat tiga puluh menit kamu masih belum datang dihadapanku. Aku kembali mengirimimu sebuah pesan singkat. Lalu kamu bilang masih ada urusan. Oke, aku tunggu hingga urusanmu selesai meskipun kedua kaki ini telah lelah berdiri menunggumu namun aku tetap pada keyakinanku untuk menunggumu.
Dua jam berlalu sejak aku tiba ditempat itu, tapi kamu belum juga datang. Aku kembali mengirimimu sebuah pesan singkat namun kamu tak membalasnya. Kini, aku tidak hanya menunggu kedatanganmu tapi menunggu balasan pesan darimu juga. Ah,mungkin kamu sedang dijalan hingga tak bisa membalas pesanku.
Dua jam tiga puluh menit berlalu begitu saja tanpa kamu dan tanpa pesan balasan. Kini aku cemas, berkeringat dingin, takut sesuatu yang buruk terjadi padamu yang kukasihi hingga kedua kaki ini tak mampu lagi berdiri. Masih ditempat yang sama, di depan toko makanan. Aku duduk diatas helm yang sedari tadi kubawa. Aku duduk dengan mata cemas. Ratusan bahkan ribuan kendaraan telah berlalu lalang didepanku, namun kamu belum juga datang.
Tiga jam berlalu dan aku masih sendiri. Kamu dimana? Ku kirimi kamu pesan lagi,berharap kamu menjawabnya. Kamu bilang masih ada urusan dengan seorang tukang. Jawaban pesan darimu sedikit melegakanku, menandakan tidak terjadi apapun denganmu. Aku masih duduk diatas helm menunggumu datang dengan hati tenang dan kembali bersemangat karena mungkin limabelas atau tigapuluh menit lagi kamu akan menjemputku.
Tiga jam tiga puluh menit berlalu, kamu belum datang. Ah mungkin macet atau berangkatnya telat. Dan sebuah pesan pun masuk. Kamu bilang sebentar lagi sampai. Oke, aku masih sedang menunggumu. Pesan itu menguatkanku untuk segera bangkit dari tempat dudukku (baca:helm) dan melihat kearah dimana kamu akan datang.
Empat jam berlalu! kesabaranku mulai goyah. Rasa kesal didalam dada mulai memanas. Apakah sejauh itu jarak DU dan tempatku berdiri? Aku rasa tidak!! Darmaraja-Bandung yang jaraknya kurang lebih 70km pun bisa ditempuh dengan dua jam perjalanan. Sedangkan aku dan kamu berada dalam satu kota yang sama! Dan kamu masih belum tiba setelah berjam-jam.
Lima jam berlalu. Kesabaranku kali ini benar-benar hilang. Aku telpon kamu namun tak diangkat. Aku mengirimu sebuah pesan. Dan yang sangat menyakitiku adalah kamu bilang “kamu masih nunggu aku?”...
Maksud kamu apa? Maksudnya apa bilang seperti itu? Jadi dari tadi kamu berharap aku berhenti menunggu kamu? Atau kamu tak mengerti pesan-pesan yang kukirim sebelumnya? Ah mana mungkin! Kamu bukan orang bodoh...kamu ngerti! Hanya saja kamu pecundang kelas cacing yang tak berani bilang yang sebenarnya.
Sejak pesan bodoh itu aku baca. Tanpa pikir panjang lagi, aku langsung berjalan pergi meninggalkan tempat dimana aku menunggumu selama berjam-jam. Aku tak peduli dengan orang-orang disekitar yang sejak jam pertama memperhatikanku yang mungkin berfikir aku gila karena ratusan bus lewat namun tak satupun aku naiki.
Berjalan menjauh dari tempat itu, hanya berjalan yang aku mau. Aku berjalan dengan langkah kakiku yang cepat, aku melihat kedepan tanpa menoleh, dan aku tak memperdulikan air mataku yang bercucuran. Aku hanya ingin menjauh dari tempat aku menunggumu. Aku tak ingin menunggumu lagi.
Setelah lama berjalan aku naik sebuah bus yang sedang berhenti menunggu penumpang dengan tujuan Sumedang, rumahku. Aku duduk bersebelahan dengan helm putihku dekat pintu bus dengan mata membengkak dan tatapan kosong.
Seorang kondektur bus tersebut memperhatikanku dan ia berkata dengan nada bercanda “kemana motornya neng? Ko bawa helmnya aja? Di tilang ya?”. Aku marah dengan pertanyaan-pertanyaan itu, sangat marah. Aku turun dari bus, lalu membuang helm tersebut disebuah tong sampah depan mini market. Si kondektur hanya melongo. Kini aku tak tahu siapa yang bego, kondektur atau aku. Yang jelas kemarahan ini bukan untuk si kondektur, dan aku tidak seharusnya bersikap seperti itu. Memalukan!
Sepuluh menit bus berjalan. Kamu mengirimiku pesan dan bilang kalau kamu sudah tiba ditempat yang kita janjikan untuk kita bertemu. Dia juga bertanya aku berada dimana. Aku muak dengan pesan-pesan itu. Namun, aku harus membalas pesannya. Aku tidak boleh jadi pecundang. Aku jawab kalau aku sudah berada di bus.
Dengan nada tak berdosa kamu bilang kalau aku tak menunggumu. Gila, kamu gila. Kamu lebih daripada gila. Kepura-puraanmu tidak masuk akal. Sudah jelas aku menunggu janjimu untuk menjemputku. Tapi kamu sengaja mengulurnya agar aku bosan dan berhenti menunggumu! Iya kamu ingin aku berhenti menunggumu.
Masih dengan nada tulisan tak berdosa kamu meminta maaf karena keterlambatanmu dan memintaku untuk pulang bareng lain kali. Aku tak tahu mana yang kamu tidak punyai, hati atau otak?
Aku tak mau jadi pecundang yang tak membereskan sesuatu yang tidak beres. Aku jawab kalau kita tidak usah pulang bareng dan kamu tidak usah menghubungiku lagi. Lalu, kamu mencoba menelponku. Aku rasa tak ada yang harus dibicarakan. Menolak panggilanmu adalah pilihanku, dan mematikan telpon genggamku adalah yang terbaik.

Selamat! Kamu berhasil membuatku membencimu.

Unforgettable Night


In 2009, my schoolmates and I went to Yogyakarta, a city of Central Java. We went there by using five buses. We spent  several days in this study tour. But, I have one day that I could not forget. It was the last day of study tour, a dinner together in a restaurant in Kebumen. It was one of the big restaurants there. This restaurant was very comfortable because it was large and clean enough. It had a medium-sized stage completed by a set of music instruments in front of the room. So, the visitors were allowed to dance, sing and play the music instruments if they want.
 We had a buffet dinner type, so we could take the food as much as we wanted. I chose fried chicken only because I do not like fish, the vegetables, and shrimp, the menu served in the buffet tables. Then, we ate together in some tables. We sat based on our close friends. Also, we chatted about everything done in Yogyakarta. I saw to other tables, they were same. Sometimes, they chatted while laughing loudly. It was a very noisy dinner, but I enjoyed it.
After having dinner, my friends and I went to the floor to dance and sing. At the beginning, only few of my schoolmates who went to the stage to play the music instruments and sing the songs. But then, most of us came to the floor to join them sang and danced together with very loud music. I saw to the tables, no one sat there. It meant all students were on the floor. Can you imagine 400 people danced together on the floor? It was very crowded. The waiters just smile to see what we did, some of them looked confuse and seemed like saying “What are you doing in my workplace?”But it was not a big problem because it was a part of restaurant facilities beside free lavatory cost. Our teachers also showed unusual expression. They bent their brows. I invited my teachers to join us, some of them were in. But, the others just sat or had a meal in their table.
I was singing with my friends when I remembered that my phone battery was low. I decided to leave the floor and search the electric switch. I asked the waiter “Excuse me, where I can charge my phone?”, and then she asked me to follow her. She showed me where I could charge my phone. It was in the kitchen. I guessed I would be brought to the employees’ room or to the back of teller table to charge my phone. But, it was in the kitchen where the chefs cooked. However, I thanked her to let me charge my phone there. I sat on the chair while waiting my charging phone. I saw the employees washed the dishes and cleaned the kitchen up. I thought they prepared to close the restaurant because it was 10pm. And the visitors were from my school only; there were not the other visitors.
I charged my phone while chatting on Bombus and listening to the music by wearing earphones. It was about 30 minutes passed when I was doing those things. I looked at my phone and my battery was not full yet. But, I let it uncompleted. I thought it was enough to have a half of full of my battery because there was no other activities after this. “This is the last activity of my study tour, and I will sleep in my bus” I said.
I left the kitchen and went to the room where my schoolmates were dancing and singing together about several minutes ago. But, I could not find them. “Oh my God, where are they?” I shocked. I looked around, it was so quiet. There were no waiters there. There were only unarranged tables. Maybe they were in employees’ room when I was looking for my schoolmates. I ran to the parking area. I still could not find them. I called my mother. “Why don’t you call your friends?” she said. I did not continue the conversation with my mother. I closed the phone, and then like what my mother suggested I called all my friends that I had the numbers. But, no one answered my calling. I ran into the restaurant again. I see the cleaning service was sweeping the floor. I asked him about where my friends were. He told me that they left this place about 15 minutes ago.  I just got angry at that time. But, I did not know I must be angry to whom? I just wanted to cry. I frustrated because it was 11pm; I was alone, and far from home, my comfort zone.
I had been waiting for 15 minutes in frustration when the bus came back. My teacher, Miss Lia realized that I was not in the bus when she checked every seat in the bus. She asked my friends but they did not know where I was. They were remained by my teacher that I did not in the bus actually. How bad were they? They forgot their friend, me. Maybe, it was caused by the amount of food they ate when having dinner so they got very sleepy. Also, they were tired after dancing and singing. However, thanks God they came back. I just ran to Miss Lia and hug her. I thought she and the bus would not pick me up. Fortunately, I was wrong. They came back to pick me up. I took in the bus and my friends said “sorry”, but they laughed at me. I felt angry with this situation. I felt shy too, but actually it was not their mistake. It was my mistake to go to the kitchen and charge my phone for 30 minutes without telling to my friends before. Also, I was too busy with my chatting on Bombus and wearing earphones to listen to the music. Maybe if I did not do those activities, it would not happend.
Finally, I arrived at home. I told what happened to me in Kebumen to my parents and my siblings. They laughed at me because of my stupidity when I was left by my bus. They said that it would be very interesting if the bus did not come back so they could see how I brave to find the way to go home. Because, they thought I was not a child anymore. Of course I was not. But, that was 11pm and I did not know whether the restaurant was at the center of forest or rice field which far from people house. I thought I could not forget that moment. But, next time if I were in a group of study tour I would tell my friends where I went. Also, if I were a teacher I would check all of my students before the bus go.

Be A Successful Traveler


Traveling can be successful if everything is prepared well. There are some preparations of how to make a traveling successful.
            You will need several things:
1. Passport
2. Visa
3. Airplane Ticket
4. Money
5. The important numbers
6. Guide book
7. Clothes
8. Map

            The tips are:
1. Make a passport in the immigration office. It is one of the most important things to bring when going abroad. It is used as the identity card that is valid in countries around the world. Bring it wherever you go abroad. Don’t leave it in hotel or a place where you stay there.
2. Bring visa if the destinantion is a country that needs an entry license for tourists to come in. Except, for the countries who have an agreement with the tourists’ own coutry to let their people visit freely. It will not need the visa. (Addapted from http://travel.okezone.com)
3. Buy the airplane ticket accord to the schedule that has been planned before. If necessary, buy two tickets for the departure and return. By having two tickets will save you to be able to go home.
4. Change the local money with the currency of countries that will be visited. Because, all countries have their own currencies.
5. Note some important numbers on the phone or a piece of paper and keep them in pocket. If you have friends stay in a coutry that will be visited, it will be very good you keep their numbers. Saving the police number is important too.
6. Reading a guide book that contains whole information such as weather, food, living cost, tradition, etc about the destination country may be useful before visiting the places abroad. It will be better if travelers know the things that should be done and should not be done because countries have different tradition. Also, the culture shock can be avoided by reading a guide book before traveling.
7. Choose suitable clothes with the destination country because several countries have four seasons. So, choose the clothes that would be brought based on the season that is happening there. For example, the suitable clothes in winter are boots, coat, trousers, gloves, socks, sweater, and bobble hat.
8. Get map of the cities that would be visited. Then, bring it wherever you go in the city that is being visited. It will be useful to find way when getting lost.

References:
Okezone. (2012). “Pelesir ke Luar Negeri, Butuh Visa Enggak Ya?”. [Online]. Available: http://travel.okezone.com/read/2012/08/24/407/680368/pelesir-ke-luar-negeri-butuh-visa-enggak-ya    [24 Desember 2013]

Kebun Binatang Bandung: A Combination of Dago Zoological Garden and Cimindi Zoological Garden.

Kebun Binatang Bandung is a tourism spot that has been built since colonialism.  It was a combination zoo relocated from Cimindi and Dago, the areas in Bandung. It was organized by Dr. W. Treffer. Then, it was developed in 1930 by the director of Dennis Bank, Hoogland.  It was authorized by a governor of Hindia – Belanda in 1933.  But, the zoo became sleazy since Japan Colonial came to Bandung in 1942 and expelled the Dutches from Bandung, including Hoogland.  For many years the zoo was unresponsive by people. Until Hoogland came back to Bandung and made the agreements with R. Ema Bratakoesoema, a public figure who had the initiative to activate the function of this zoo again.  One of the agreements was to change the Bandung Zoological Park became Yayasan Margasatwa Taman Sari/Bandung Zoological Garden or now is known as Kebun Binatang Bandung. (Addapted from www.bandungtourism.com)
            Kebun binatang Bandung is located at the strategic area in the downtown.  The address is Kebun Binatang Street 6, Taman Sari Bandung.  It is across of the Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), one of the famous colleges there.  It is also very easy to reach the zoo because it is passed by several public cars called Angkot with destination Cicaheum – Ledeng, Caringin - Sadang Serang, Panghegar – Dipatiukur, and Cisitu - Tegalega. Taxi also can be a good choice to use to go to there.       Besides the strategic location, Kebun Binatang Bandung has a very large area about 13ha.  It is divided into some parts such as 30% for animals’ cages, 60% for the visitors’ facilities, 6% for the office, and 4% for the garbage processing, (Addapted from www.tempatwisatamu.com).
            There are 213 kinds of animal consist of wild and tame animals.  They were placed at some cages.  The cages are organized well besides of the kinds of animal. The cages for wild animals are designed into some different types.  They are made of very high strong wall, iron trellis, or plexy glass, sides where the cage wall made from a very thick glass.  The cages for tame animals are also designed in some different types such as wood or bamboo trellis, medium wall, and wire. Several cages are completed with a fool that is used for bathing and drinking.   So, the animals are safe to be seen closer.  They have the identity stacked on their cages, visitors will know the name, real habitat, food, and where the animals from if they read it.
            The facilities that can be enjoyed in Kebun Binatang Bandung are relaxing on the green grass in the garden, riding elephant, and playing perahu bebek, a boat in duck-shaped. Actually not only in duck-shaped but also it can be in goose or rabbit-shaped which is drove like bicycle.
There are many gardens in corners. The gardens are used to make beautiful atmospheres.  The gardens have some long chairs and large area of green grass.  Usually, it is used by children to run around.  Sometimes, it is used by family-visitors to eat together on a rug there like a picnic.
Riding the elephant also can be a good choice.  Here, the elephant can be ridden. There will be a guide to lead the elephant when the visitors are riding it.  It is only Rp. 10.000 to ride it for once riding.
The perahu bebek can be found on a big pool with a small forest at the center in the north side of zoo.  When the boat gets closer to the forest, orang utan Kalimantan will be very noisy because of the visitors’ coming.  The visitors are not allowed to take off at that forest because it will be dangerous to meet wild orang utan there.  So, the visitors are allowed to see the orang utan from the boat only.
Souvenir shops are available there.  There are several handycrafts that can be bought as souvenirs such as a miniatur of animals made of wood, wayang, dolls, and many more.   The shops location are close to the parking area.  Those facilities are in good categorized.
However, there are some facilities that is needed to be fix such as lavatory and parking area.  Some lavatories are vile.  It can be seen by the faded paint, dirty water closet, bad smell, broken door, and broken door holder.  It is very scary to use those kinds of lavatory.  The parking area is not large enough.  It cannot accommodate many vehicles’ visitors.   Especially in holiday, the visitors’ cars are often parked in the street side which is caused a traffic jam. Also, the motorcycles’ visitors are parked on the sidewalk, a way for pedestrians.
            So far, Kebun Binatang Bandung is one of the favourite tourism destinations. Especially for family who want to introduce kinds of animal to the children.  It can be a good choice to visit there.  Besides it, Kebun Binatang Bandung has a very cool nice weather beacuse it is surrounded by leafy trees.  Also, the ticket is not too expensive about Rp. 15.000/person.
           
References:
Bandung Tourism. “Yayasan Margasatwa Tamansari (Jubileumpark) , Museum & Pendidikan”. [Online]. Available: www.bandungtourism.com/act_det_lis_a_odtw_i.php?Id=7  8 September 2013

Tempatwisatamu. “Wisata ke Kebun Binatang Bandung”. [Online]. Available: http://www.tempatwisatamu.com/WISATA KE KEBUN BINATANG BANDUNG/Tempat Wisata Favorit Di Indonesia.htm   14 September 2013