i am kayaker

kayak, salah satu jenis olahraga air dengan menggunakan perahu. cara
maennya gampang secara teori, kayuh aja pake tangan kanan- terus kiri.
begitu selanjutnya!

perahunya ada macam-macam jenis sesuai keperluan. di indonesia gw belum
pernah liat secara langsung olahraga ini.

kenapa saya bisa jadi kayaker ya? here, i tell u..

tahun pertama saya jadi mahasiswa di univ malaya, gw hanya maen futsal
aja. itu doank. bareng sama temen-temen dari Indo lainnya.
suatu hari,gw di ajak temen ke tasik (melayu-danau) "mar, jom pi tasik
maen kayak". Den, kenalan dari Sabah. berkat dia gw bisa kenal kayak. sampe sekarang pun Den masih sering ngasih semangat kalo gw lagi males. Thanks Den!

pertama kali gw maen kayak, sore itu juga gw pertama kali ke danau
dalam kampus. indah! banyak orang jogging. romantis! banyak juga yang
duduk-duduk menghabiskan sore.

di sini lah gw mengenal kayak. di tasik varsiti.
kayak pertama yg gw pake Minnow one namanya, emang dicipta untuk
rekreasi. jadi ga bakal jatuh deh.
setelah resmi jadi anggota tim kayak UM. gw belajar TK 1 (touring kayak) single. pertama, gw harus belajar dapet keseimbangan. terus, paddling (kayuhan). gw ga termasuk orang yang cepet belajar. tapi gw pengen cepet bisa. ga seimbang, kayak kebalik! paddling ga bener, kayak
belok-belok!itu indahnya maen kayak, u should have good balance!

kunci nya adalah, keseimbangan+good paddling= jalan lurus.

lama juga gw ini. sekitar 6 bulan baru bisa lurus dan ga jatuh.
itupun masih disuruh sering turun ke danau. asa bisa karena
biasa,bukan?

selajutnya k1 (kayak) single, ini emang sengaja dibikin seramping
mungkin biar bisa lari sekenceng-kencengnya. walhasil, diperlukan
keseimbangan yang sempurna agar bisa mengendarai kayak jenis ini.
gaya paddlingnya juga agak berbeda dengan kayak jenis TK.

sampe sekarang juga gw masih latihan pake kayak jenis ini. kadang masih
jatuh juga. :P

kenapa gw suka disini?

pertama, gw rasa punya keluarga disini. anak2 kayak, sering dipanggil
kayakers sering menghabiskan waktu luang bersama, baik lagi latihan
ataupun santai. we seems like a family.

kedua, kayak ngajarin semangat anti patah. belajar naek kayak perlu
jatuh berpuluh-puluh kali loh. dan klo lo down, dijamin ga pernah bisa!
coba semangat ini ada dalam kuliah?

ketiga, di tim ini gw dapet banyak pengalaman. sesuatu yang berharga
buat gw. jogging di batu caves, kayaking di putrajaya, ikut
kompetisi, rasanya bangga jadi kayaker.

overall, gw bangga bisa jadi kayaker Universiti Malaya.

Back to school

selama 3 semester kuliah di sini, Universiti Malaya. ini pertama kalinya gw bolos. kalo kata sesepuh Gontor "hidup cuma sekali, hiduplah yang berarti" dan gw mengamalkan petuah hebat tersebut dengan jalan yang salah, for me "bolos sekali-kali aja, tapi bolos lah yang berarti". jadi, dikarenakan pada hari sabtu (10/1) ada akad nikah sekaligus resepsi nikahan sepupu, gw putuskan untuk menunda kepulangan 2 minggu lebih lambat.

2 minggu berarti, 12 kuliah ga masuk. takut! cemas! wajar bagi gw yang jarang bolos. but, i'll face every risk i have.

seminggu berlalu, minggu pertama gw kembali ke kampus. kata-kata maaf sudah terangkai dalam benakku. hari pertama, pelajaran pertama (12/1) dosen nya Mrs Nichole, baik hati, ramah, dan tidak sombong. buktinya dia ga peduli klo gw baru datang dan bolos 2 minggu. awal yang baik. next lesson, teknik kaunseling dosennya juga ok. Miss Lau Poh Li namanya, tahun lalu beliau pernah ngajar juga. overall, hari pertama pasca ponteng (baca-bolos) 2 minggu berjalan mulus.

second day, (13/1). Dr Melati, dari temen-temen sekelas gw denger kalo beliau galak, sadis, killer. tapi gw tipe orang yang belum percaya sebelum membuktikan sesuatu. dan sekarang gw dapat kesempatan untuk membuktikannya. ternyata, beliau ga galak, ga sadis, hanya aja jarang tersenyum. sisanya, beliau adalah seorang gadis melayu hebat yang punya cita-cita dan dedikasi tinggi. next class, harusnya prof Suradi, seorang ahli dalam ilmu kaunseling di kampus ini, tapi beliau belum masuk. Dr Di dan Cik Zainal Abidin 2 dosen selajutnya pada hari ke-2 gw kuliah. beliau juga ga ada masalah kalo gw terlambat. thanks God!

tips bolos dari ammar:

• jangan sering bolos, karena bolos itu perbuatan yang buruk dan ga bermoral
• jangan bolos kecuali ada hal yang lebih penting daripada masuk kelas
• bersiap, sedia untuk segala hal yang akan berlaku kalo bolos
• selalu berdoa, dan bertawakkal kepada Tuhan Yang Maha Esa
• ingat, bolos bukan jalan terbaik yang kamu punya.

intinya, jangan jadi orang yang suka bolos. apalagi ketika anda menjadi mahasiswa. kenapa? karena bayar kuliah itu mahal dan jangan pernah untuk menyia-nyiakan pendidikan. tetap semangat kawan!

I'tiraf by Abu Nawas

Gontor, 2003-2005
i always listened and recited this beatiful poem everytime after azan waiting for iqamah. but, i ignore the aesthetic of these meaning. after, i graduated from this school. i miss this...

when you are free, try to let the lyric blows your soul!


O Lord... I don't deserve to The Garden Yet I can't stand to The Fire either

Please forgive my sins, please accept my repentance Only you, The Forgiving for great sins

My sins are as the sands in the beach..With The mercy, please forgive me... O my Lord

O Lord... please save us From all kinds of evils and who
We fear, we hope unto Thee

Please enrich our love unto Thee
We, the slaves whose hopes are in The pity


this poem created by Abu Nuwas, the well-known poet from Baghdad

D Spirit Of Laskar Pelangi

i read all books of laskar pelangi, laskar pelangi, sang pemimpi, edensor, and
maryamah karpov. i chased the movie to Bandung.

why i love these books? here i tell you something...

Jakarta...
years ago, 2007. i visit cousin's home known as "rumah pojok". at book shelf i
saw laskar pelangi book for the first time in my life. it was very thick. n i'm not geek, i dont like read. that time i dont care about Laskar pelangi....


Kuala Lumpur...
someday, at room B101 of 12th residental college. Pak Tulus, phd student visited
my room to print his assignment. we started to chat about everything. once, he
told about "laskar pelangi". he began to told story about that book. since that
day, i knew Laskar Pelangi.

it's time to googling LP's e-books. gotcha! i started to read paragraph by
paragraph, page by page. i remember that time, it was revision week before final
exam at 2007/2008. awesome! the story has powerful word. it like burn my spirit.

edensor, weeks after reading LP. K Ummu Hani visited me and gave some cakes and a
book. Edensor! the third book of Andrea Hirata. it's such miracle. i just
finished the first one. n why i got the 3rd? can't believe it? who told K Hani
that i'm addicted to LP? nobody knows. this book was malay version. syukron ka Ummu!

the second, sang pemimpi. i got the 3rd, but i dont dare to read it. i'm afraid i lose path of Ikal's journey. time to googling, and gothcha! for this book, i used recycled paper to print on it. tada! sang pemimpi printed version. not so bad!

the movie...
yeah. nowdays, many movies adopted from novel, such us Harry potter (i never read
the novel, but like it movie), etc.

Laskar pelangi, i heard that LP's movie will be released at Ramadhan 2008. i started to googling to find some facts. it was like good news for me! other source said that the movie will be launch together with the last book, maryamah karpov. it launched! i still at Kuala Lumpur. no chance to come back! just hear about that movie from friend who watched it. sad! jealous! curios! arrgh..

i got OST of LP from misshacker.com. once download, one album got, nice!
nidji, gita gutawa, netral, ipank, garasi, and yaris yamarno, all on my mp3 list.
i always listen to them during leisure. even dont wacth d movie yet but i have the original soundtrack.Yey! sounds happy. =)

semester break,semester 1-2008/2009...
i came back from Kuala Lumpur on 15 of December, after a month spending time at campus, kayaking, part-timing, and surviving at lake. 1st day at home, i planned to watch Laskar pelangi the movie. usually i watch at Bintaro Plaza, the nearest cinema from home. started to googling, 21 cineplex. OMG! the movie was out. bad news, very bad. one of my purposes to came home is to watch LP's, but fate dont let me. huff!

never give up...
googling again at different cinema, gotcha! LP is playing at Galaxy cinema, jalan kepatihan, Bandung.

finally, after 2 weeks at home. my family wanted to go holiday, new year holiday at Cipanas and Bandung, yey! Bandung.

i watched Laskar pelangi at Bandung, Galaxy cinema on Saturday, 3rd of January 2009.

thanks to Mom, Dad, and Huda. love you!

ok, i have some reasons to love Laskar pelangi:
1- it was challenge me to live my life
2- i wanted to feel the core of life
3- believe that life is sweet with sweat.
4- that's all

welcome!

i should say welcome to me. finally, i made a blog. Yey! thank a lot to my lovely aunty! you made me start blogging! in fact i love to share experiences, but it just on my head. floating! no find way to out.

now, i can share everything to you through this blog! any comment just leave here ya! thanks

i just started! need more advices. ^_^

a brief of me

hi, my name is ammar. i put "SWORD" cuz i like to write my nickname as ammar saif- saif is arabic means sword.