Ied Qurban

This week is a very tremendous week. It is the first time I celebrated Iedul Qurban with my lodge friends. We were asked to helped a turkish foundation to distribute their qurban around turkish school. The amount was surprisingly enormous, as far as I counted, they donate about 70 cows and it still has fully arrived yet. Luckily they have rent a culling house for 3 days, and they need our assistance to pack all those blessed meat. I also asked few packs to be sent to my lodge's neigbour, which I think lots of people there that deserves it.

Well, that's just a little description of what I experienced, it was energy consuming but then, it is fun. I realized that I didn't do it all for myself, I did it for others which might not so lucky like me. One thing I learned from the event, is when you rich, there is undoubtly small or big amount of that wealth that is not yours, its for those who need it most.

When you give, it is not going to make that wealth depleted, instead God shall give wider opportunities for those who wanted to achieve more. The problem is only greed, when the greed is gone, eternal way of living in purity shall be revealed. Earthly joy is nothing to compare heavenly joy that awaits us later after our life ended.

Firstly I distibuted Qurban to my dearest students and met their parents. We chat a little of how their children improves their study, I mentioned that there are great expectations on them because they have such big potential, and I'm willing to open up a way to improve their potential.

So above all, I grateful of what I have experienced for the past days.

The Beauty of Teaching

I started to teach junior high school students since last month and it feels great. I rent a lodge with some of my friends in university, and come to conclusion to create some social work, such as teach and tutoring for kids around the block that might not so lucky to have the quality of education. Then we share some space in available room in our lodge to make a class for stdy sessions. It's like an extra lesson that we're giving to the kids, because we believe that not all of the can fully absorbed the lesson at school, coz they all attending a public school where a class can be crammed up with 40 students, cant beleive how 13-year-old kids can concentrate with that much of peoply study in a room

So here we are donating our time and knowledge to share with the kids. It's free and voluntary, we summon kids from sons of cab driver, carpenters, and some other lower-middle class around our lodge's neighborhood to come and learn. Me and my lodge-mate shares schedule to teach the kids on the afternoon. At the present time there are around 14 students that we have, we accept 3 to 4 kids at a time for a session, we really wanted the lesson to be private and inclusive so that the kids will find study enjoyable and fun.

That's pretty much the description of what I'm doing during my spare time and I can conclude some of the beauty of teaching that I could find although I'm not a teacher and don't get paid for what I'm doing.

First, I found out that it's not me that took care of the kids, but the kids that took care of me. Eversince the kids came in and learn from me, I'm becoming a better person in life. I always wanted to teach them good things, not always limited to sciences and school subjects, but also in daily life experience. Showing what's good or bad, reminds me all the time that I should do exactly just that. Sometime I told them and advice them to do good things that I'm not actually do, which push me more to do what I told them, as an example as well as a reminder for me. So surely that having a student keeps me to be a good person.

The next thing is teaching is like staying in vacuum. There's nothing else but you, your students, and the thing you are telling about. Sometimes university can be depressing and gives me headache with bunch of thing to think about, but then when I teach, all those things are gone for a moment as if forgotten. I focus on how to make my kids can do well. It's just like a refreshing moment in a middle chaotic time, an oasis in the middle of raging desert.

Teaching voluntarily exercise my sympathy feelings. Sometime the students express their feelings, opinion, or even troubles which I could contemplate and giving advice to. Then the approach of teaching turns into wider spectrum, not only focusing on school subjects, but life-lesson that me and my kids can share. Unlike those paid lessons where the teachers are paid just to listen. The humanistic approach in teaching is what I love the most.

Of course there are lots of thing that I could find in teaching and surely it makes my time worth as a teenager, sharing and giving our knowledge to flurish these kids potential. I'm sure one day that I will be happy to find that the kids I teach and guide have become some one great in the future. It's the lines of grace from Allah SWT is what cannot be bought in any price except pure heart from our willingness and good deeds.

Wondering about The Future World

Now it's for me to try putting my imagination into work. I always do this stuff everytime a sci-fi movies or games that I've seen and watch come cross my mind, and it happened once in awhile. There lots of sci-fi movies out the on the market that resemblence a real future of human-kind, starting from real edgy technology where you can see flying cars and multi-layer cities, or some delivered the future as chaotic and anarchaic world where there lots of scraps, riots, and wars with worn-out laser beams.

It teases me on thinking which kind of future that suitable for the real-world we are seeing now. I guess averybody have their idealism for their sci-fi future for the world. But mine is the type of digitalized world full of Dozens alien species that interacts with Human. If you ever played the gamess such as Mass Effect, you'll get the feeling that these thing might just happen to our homeworld in the future.

We as human kind seen by aliens out there as primitive, and those alien wouldn't bother to interact with us until the moment when we encounter them with our own technology. Then we found out that they have made their own groups of council consisted many species. Some Aliens despises the human encounter, some favours it. Many Humankind disperse across galaxy to make a living among the aliens, some stay with the earth-covenant and work to make Allied among men. Not long further, we're gonna joined up with the council and acknowledged as a full member and has power on our own.

Such a world would be great, wouldn't be? Yet again such imagination undermines the existence of religion which I don't like. So this is only imagination after all, ever wonder if we're not actually alone in space? Maybe. Ever wonder that we can invent light-speed travel soon? Absolutely. So sit tight and enjoy the ride (coz I can't do science, I probably only hope someone gonna find a way for it), coz you'll never what is gonna come when humankind evolves.

Make calls to ease panic!

Something unique that I saw yesterday on TV. Earthquake stroke the Java Island of Indonesia and caused panic across cities. The effect might not be severe to building in cities like Jakarta and Bandung but people can actually feel the turbulence. That's why people that is working, studying, or doing activities at that moment were burst out of buildings, afraid being caught in collapsing building.

When I felt the quake when I arrived home, I instantly turned on the TV to check what's actually going on. Some News Channel already broadcasting Breaking News for the earthquake. Then I see live report on bussiness district across cities like Jakarta and Bandung. Sure I could see hints of panic from the people when camera screened view on the street.

But I notice something common from people sighted on TV, they are holding their phone,, tightly. I reckoned that they kindda excited and not fully worried of what's going on. I could also see how exicted they are in sharing the moment "online" or phone. Maybe they are worried with their relatives out there, also I'm sure they will logged on to their facebooks, Twitties, PlurKies, and all other stuff alike. I could feel the sense of safety when they communicate only, or make calls to others.

Here's two conclusions I got from it:

- Sharing a panic-moment might be a relieve, excited to tell what others think about it

- City people are fully-connected and dependent to their gadgets


Totally, 21st centuries bring a new approach in facing disaster. Share your panic, it might be a relieve for yourself, hail socialize-addicts!!!!