Hey, How Old Are You,Girl!

Who’s here so tricky to cry to get something -sometimes unimportant- you want from parents? Who’s here that has a day bad mood when their surrounding is uncomfortable? Who’s here acting like a baby to face their problem? Maybe I am a case in a point!

‘CHILDish’ become my middle name during last year, maybe.  I still remember what I have done last year when I had difficult arguments with my parents for new laptop. At that time, I asked my Dad to buy me a new laptop because mine was antiquated. But, everyone in home disagreed on my quick decision; they seemed like my naysayers. They thought that I would only spend the money for that matter.

“That microwave still works, stupid”, my brother mumbling.

He always becomes my mood destroyer in my entire life. Nobody was here with me in my side, all of my family opposed my opinion.

After since, I tried to revenge by having no conversation with my Dad, my Mom, and obviously my brother. I was dissapointed in my family. I felt that they didn’t affectionate me anymore, especially my Dad. He used to doing anything for me, but how about now?

The revenges lasted a week until I realized that my reaction was too over. It was no biggie actually, but I seemed to make it more complicated. After that, I grabed my cell phone, had a phone call with my family, to say sorry a bunch, and asked for their apologize. Fortunately, my family had forgiven me.  They suggested that I had to be mature girl, instead of acting like a baby or childish anymore. I listened to them well and tried to understand every single statement they said. I knew that I was bad, then.

I laugh when I remember that story, either you. I always imagine, how if at that time, I never initiated to ask apologize to my parent, may be today, I have worst relationship with them. I realized that I had really bad habit and I want to make a change.

By this year, I want to make my own resolution which will improve my habit. I want to erase my old middle name and change it become ‘wise and mature’. Then, I wanna prove to my family and my friends that I can be wise girl who is always proactive. I’ll avoid reactivity in every problem solving. Surely, I always try to think positively when problem comes.

I will be 17 by next February and wish that my resolution isn’t just black up on white. I know that changing bad habit which I did in long period before is so hard, but I will enjoy the process to catch it. Ain’t about how fast I get my resolution, ain’t about what’s celebration of reaching my resolution, it’s all about enjoy all along.

Start Now On...

              Every meaningful second just come up in the brain, exactly deep in soul. A time start to ridicule people’s heart beat.  On that wall clock, everyone in anywhere is looking at. They just wait until the hour hand unites on one direction, exactly on number twelve. Then, the wall clock will tinkle and people will scream loudly “Happy New Year…..!”

             A new year is a great time for everyone, include me to review past year and plan for the future. It’s all good to write down our wish list and get excited; it’s all the easy part. May be it just need 15 minutes of commitment to come up with our goals, our dreams for the future, but it takes a lot longer to have all of them, especially if its lifelong habit that we gonna change or improve.

             If you ask me what’s my resolution in this New Year 2013, then I will say ‘a lot’. Exactly on  1^st January, I always do reflection by self. I tried to have “pause” for a while to think what I want to get in next year.  Then, I catched a piece of paper; I wrote down all of my wishes and sticked it in my cupboard. It’s really useful to remind me about my vision during a year.  For this year, I wish my student exchange program run well and i can go to U.S. for study, I want to be winner in Biology Olympiad, I want to change my childish and be wise to manage any problem in my life. Actually not only those kind of goals that i want to be real in 2013, but if i wrote all of my goals, i think my finger will be so tired because it’s too much.

          As everybody wish, they exactly want their goals to be truly happened in this year, me too. But, as time goes by, people usually forget what they just wrote on the first time they face a year. It’s all because we no longer motivated on our targets. We are too busy with our own activities and have no time to renewal our thought about it. One big exciting change-1^st day of new year, usually isn't enough to change our behaviors that we have taught ourselves over a period of many years. Just as we developed our current way of thinking over a long period of time, we have to develop our new way of thinking (to achieve the goals) over a long period of time also.

    So, the conclusion is creating something new in our life isn’t easy, need effort and positive action on our part. If we are truly commitment with our resolutions, we must always review, test, and renew it monthly or preferably weekly. Just be extra ordinary person and make resolutions which is still alive even January end.

Jakarta Sink, the Victims Face Somber

As we all know that Jakarta becomes the hottest issue because of its flood disaster. Almost all sites in Jakarta attack by floods. Water, which lack before become the most familiar thingy over citizens now. Not good quality of water, but the opposite. Not only about poor water, thisat victims are rHeadline about Jakarta floods disaster,  until children. hat.  terrible fate also made other bad effect for the victims, such as hunger, dysentery and poor sanitation.

As I read Jakarta Post Headline about Jakarta’s flood disaster, it seems so sad to see the victims of floods in our capital.  They are really need help from us to relief their sadness. However, they still struggle to face up this annually problem. They do survive to keep their life go on. Instead, they have taken shelter in Transjakarta bus stops beside others evacuee in low-rent apartment building. These places will be their temporary home while waiting for the waters to recede. Aid already comes from everywhere, including Indonesia Red Cross (PMI), several private companies, and government. 

Based on my opinion, I think this annually disaster is just like the same mistake. Why I said? Because Jakarta always hit by floods which is happen every year. Moreover, the Jakarta citizen always evolved in number. The urbanization always becomes trend, make bulk of flats and there is no more green area to absorb water when monsoon rainfalls come. Not only that, the dirty condition also makes water arise. People in Jakarta are too lazy to process the rubbish well. They don’t throw it in the right place and produce a mountain of rubbish everywhere every day.

Government also have a big responsibility since they can’t finish to construct an underground water canal connecting the Ciliwung River and the East Flood Canal (BKT). As I read before that Jakarta Governor, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo explained that the government had discussed the grand plan long before, but had never made it a top priority until massive flood. It shows that government need to wait until the problem come and they’ll work diligently. It’s so ironic, right?

“Then, how if the flood disaster already happened? What should we do?” maybe these questions climb up when I become the victims. The answer is we just have to learn something, ‘avoid the same mistakes’. We should aware that environment is very important to support our life. It will be worse if flood comes, so we must keep it clean every time. We also have to do small reforestation in our surround. It will be useful to prevent water arise when hard rainfall comes.

We also can see Government job improvement in this situation. They should aware that they have to work extra to prevent this annually problem to be happen next time. Good project is needed to manage flood in Jakarta. Not only having a good project, they also have to make it real by work it as soon as possible.

           On more, as I heard from many people that the capital of Indonesia should move from Jakarta to other places because this flood disaster, I don’t agree at all. Being move the capital in other places, it means that we run out from the problems, not solved it.  It will be better if we have courageous to say “We can make a change. We can solve it. We can make a betterment future of Jakarta”

source:

1. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/01/22/govt-targets-quick-completion-underground-water-canal.html

2. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/01/19/flood-victims-face-hunger-overcrowding.html

3. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/01/20/government-aid-remains-out-reach-many-victims.html