Minggu, 21 Desember 2014

Bakti Desa



Bakti Desa is a kind of annual program for 11 grader students which exists in my school, 3 Bandung Senior High School. Bakti Desa is an activity which lead us to know how the villager do their daily activities by living at their home for 3 Days 2 Night.

Thursday, 23 October 2014.

Preparation before going to the location
The day came, at 06.00 a.m. we had already in school’s front park. When I arrived, many of my friends had been there. I talked a little with my friends, then I went to the toilet before entering the Angkot (a kind of Indonesian public transportation) which had been booked by 3 Bandung Senior High School.  We were separated, because the angkot which has to take my classmates and I, was so full. Some of my friends move to the other angkot, cause there were no space left in our angkot.

Along the road
We left 3 Bandung Senior High School at 07.00 a.m. Angkot which took us were angkot with Jurusan Lembang. Many people looked at us because maybe they were a little bit confused, angkot jurusan Lembang should not go to the direction that our angkot went to. We went to Resmi Tingal District, Kecamatan Kertasari, Bandung City. I was in the front side of the angkot with my friend, Quin. We were talking about many things and enjoyed the trip. But on the road we found roads that had been repairing, so we had to pass the traffic jump cause of the road repairing, the road is only could be passed with one direction. Along the road, we passed the (rusak) road, it was a little bit annoying but yeah I tried to enjoy the trip.

Arrival
At 10.00 a.m. we arrived at Balai Desa Resmi Tingal (Resmi Tingal Village Hall). We started to carry our stuffs and bags, then we walked to the seats which had been prepared.  The headmasters, teachers, and some of students were inside the room, but some of us couldn’t enter the room because it was too full, so we just sat outside the Balai Desa. After a very long welcoming speech, we finally could take the food. We stood in line then one by one took the foods that had been served by the villager.

Looking for our home
Maybe at 02.00 p.m. we started to go, looking for the villager’s home which had been managed to be our home for days. It took a long time, because the villager who guided us was confused, too many person with similar names and we had to go down stair and up stair to find their home, we were very tired.

Found the home
Finally, after a very tired journey for searching the home, my friends and I could be took a rest in Mr. Toni’s home. Student who lived in Mr. Toni’s home were Adin, Quin, and I. When we came home, neither Mr. Toni or Mrs. Toni was not there, Mr. Toni was gardening while Mrs. Toni was still in Village Hall. So, there were only one of their family with her child. She was very nice for welcoming us, she served tea and some meals, then let us took a rest.

Mr. Toni’s family
Maybe at 3.00 p.m. Mrs. Toni was coming, we were talking about little things, and not long after that Mr. Toni and his son come. We had a little talk. Mr. Toni’s family home didn’t have any bathroom, so we went to their family’s home to take a bath. We met our friends, who lived in one of Mr. Toni’s family’s home, there were Pet, Putri, and Nahla. We talked a little then, when I went outside from their home, I met Bela, Aldza, and Eka. Because I really interested to play in the village, so, Quin and I went to their house, while Adin came back to Pet’s house.

Outdoor Activity
In their home, there lived Mrs. Tati (BK Teacher in 3 Bandung Senior High School). Mrs. Tati wanted us to help her for making parcel, as the gifts for the villagers whom their home was lived by us. We made the parcels then we took a photo, the photo was saved by Mrs. Wiwin, I don’t have the file. The sun slowly went down, we ate the foods cooked by Mrs. Tati, then we went to the nearest mosque to pray ashar, we had a discussion, and planned to have an interaction with the villager, but Quin went home, because she was tired.

First night in Resmi Tingal Village
I still at Bela’s home, I helped them to send the parcels, then Mrs. Tati asked me to fill the absence, so, I filled the absence. I was not sleeping yet, so I decided to bring the absence list and go to all of my friend’s home, so they can easily filled it. When I came to one of my friends home, I met my boy classmates, and they took the absence list, so that I could go home, because it was already 11.00 p.m. because it was a very cold night, we tried to warm our body, at 11.30 p.m. my classmates and I made ‘api unggun’ to warm us, we took a photo than we went back to the home at 00.00 a.m.

Friday, 24 October, 2014

Preparation before gardening
I woke up at 04.30 a.m. then I tried to wake my friends up, but maybe they were so sleepy so I let them asleep, I went to the mosque alone, then I took a wudhu there, but I chose to pray at home. After I finished praying shubuh, my friends woke up. We took a bath then prepared for gardening.

Gardening!
We went to the garden at 08.00 a.m. it was not too far, but yeah we had to pass so many dangerous road,  we went down, again and again, it was very hard to keep the balance, cause sometimes we had to jump up, passed the rocks, and we were afraid for getting slipped. We took off our shoes because it was so hard to pass the wet soil, and also to keep our shoes clean.
Finally we arrived on the hut. We washed our hands than had a breakfast, it was a very delicious breakfast. Mrs. Toni cooked potato with her own recipe, I had never tasted the delicious potato like that. Then, we started gardening! We looked for caterpillar inside the ‘Bawang Daun’. We were confused, how to find a caterpillar inside the bawang daun, without cutting the bawang daun, but Mrs. Toni taught us how to find it, so we can easily found the caterpillars.
It was a very sunny noon, we were tired. We decided to go home, but we washed our feet and hands first, then we took a rest for a moment, we took some pictures, yeah it was a very beautiful scenery, we could see the mountains, forests, rivers, gardens, so wonderful! Then we climbed up soon.

Interraction with the kids
We took a bath then I decided to play outside, I introduced myself to the kids there, but they were very shy, so they run away when I tried to ask their name.  Quin, Yaritsa, and I decided to go to the mosque, we wanted to know the activity there. We were reading the holy qur’an with the kids there and with an ustadz. Then, we had a little discussions with the teens there, they were junior high school graders, they were nice, but yeah the villagers there were very shy, sometimes they just smiling, laughing or just keeping their silence, when we asked something.

The second night in Resmi Tingal Village
I was so tired, so that night Iwas just stayed at home, talked to Mrs. Toni and Mr.Toni, watched TV, then I felt asleep.

Saturday, 25 October 2014

Interraction with the teens
Same as the days before, we took a bath, had a breakfast, and prepared for everything. My classmates and I met the teens there, we looked their performance of playing rebana (a kind of arabic music instrumentals), we also tried to play it, but yeah it was a little bit hard, but it was a fun activity I think.

Interraction with the villagers
In the noon, Quin and I informed the villagers to come to the mosque. We wanted to give them a little bit information about healthy lifestyle and so on, Kang Dito helped us to make that forum. The villagers who come there mostly were the women and their kids. We shared about true way for washing hands, smoking, and some of them were asking for their pain to Kang Dito. Yeah it was a great interraction I think.

Farewell
The time was coming, it was a little bit sad, because we had to leave Resmi Tingal Village. Mrs. Toni and Mr. Toni prepared 3 boxes full of vegetables for Adin, Quin, and I. Mr. Toni brought the boxes  to the Village Hall, so that we can easily walked to the Village Hall without brought the boxes.
After the farewell event, we prayed dzuhur then entered the Angkot soon. We went back to 3 Bandung Senior High School. It was a tired activity, some of my friends and I felt aslept in the angkot. We arrived in 3 Bandung Senior High School 3 hours later. My parents took me home, they were shocked cause I brought a box full of vegetable.
Mrs. Toni still sending me SMS, so that we are not loose contact.
I hope I can come back to Resmi Tingal Village one day..

Selasa, 16 Desember 2014

Matswapati


Matswapati was a very special event held by 3 Bandung Senior High School, Indonesia. Matswapati is a culture festival or usually called “Pensi” (Art Show) but it’s very different because it’s not a modern event, but it is very cultural. Matswapati is not an annual event, the last was held in 2007. Because it is very special, so all of 3 Bandung SHS students and teachers are very interested and we had already waiting so long for this event.
Matswapati used ‘West Java Culture’ as the theme of the event. We could see it clearly from the design, decoration, shows, everything shows Sunda’s Culture. It was held on Saturday, 27 September 2014 in Bali Field, on Bali Street, Bandung, West Java. The ticket was only 25000 IDR. From the information above, do you think it is unique? Yeah, it’s very rare and memorable. So amazing, that I can join Matswapati, an amazing Culture Show.
D – 1 Matswapati
I went to Bali Field, my boys classmates had already arrived there. Most of my girl classmates were so busy with their job for Matswapati, they were the main crew for the event. So, I join with them while they were talking about the decoration for the stand of our class. It took so long time, because we actually don’t know what the description of good looking decoration is. Yeah we we browsed on google, we were searching for the ideas, then we could have some inspiring decorations. Some of my friend and also I, were giving suggestions, we fulfilled the design then some of my friends quickly went to BalTos (Balubur Town Square) to buy all the materials, utensils, and other stuffs. My friends who bought the needs didn’t come back for a long time, when we tried to contact them, they said that they were in traffic jam, yeah it was the busiest hour of the day, the time when the employees  go home. My friends and I just waiting for the stuffs to come, yeah we didn’t have any idea what we had to do, because we couldn’t do anything if the materials and utensils were not arrived yet.
Finally the materials came, we quickly did what we had designed before. I was a little bit tired, because I was not eating yet, and it was near Maghrib time. We didn’t know if decorate a place took a very long time. My friends and I want to the mosque as soon as possible, because we would to continue decorate the stand after pray Maghrib.
I didn’t realize, it was already night, but the decoration was not complete yet. Until 9.00 p.m. we decided to end to decorate, but I was so confused because I got scared to go home by Public Transportation, and I didn’t live with my parents. Randomly, I met one of my friend, she is Bela. She prepared for her performance from LSS (Lingkung Seni Sunda) on the next day. I was asking to her if she would go home by public transportation I wanted to go home with her, because my home is close with her home. But Bela answered that she would go home by her friend’s car, Harits. I had no idea what I had to do, it was a dark scary night for me. Bela offered me to go home with her, by her friend’s car, Bela helped me to asked her friend if I could join his car. He is very nice, I might join his car although I didn’t know who is he before. I waited till 11.30 p.m.  finally their exercise was over. We went home as soon as possible. Harits’s elder brother drove the car, Bela and I arrived in front of my apartment maybe in 00.00 p.m. We were very hungry, so we ate Fried Rice in front of my apartment, I was very tired and sleepy, in 00.30 p.m. I entered my room and Bela went to her home by walking, because her home is near from mine. Because I felt so tired and sleepy, so I fell asleep when I just entered my room.

The Day
I woke up very early, I took a bath then dressed up for coming to Matswapati. I came to the Bali Field and helped the 10th grader students which had the same stand with us, yeah the stand was for two class each, XI IPA 5 and X IPA 5. I didn’t  know where my friends were. Maybe because I entered the Bali Field too early, so my ticket was not checked. My friend whom her ticket was brought by Bela asked me to accompany her outside the Bali Field, because Bela didn’t come yet. I had a breakfast with her, we ate Kupat Tahu (Tofu with Indonesian Special Rice) in front of 5 Bandung Senior High School, we stood on Taman Musik (Music Park) still waiting for Bela’s coming. We ran to the 3 Bandung Senior High School and looking for her in the 12 Grade building, because her friends in LSS were there, but they said that Bela was not coming yet. I entered the Bali Field to help my friends looked for Bela, Bela was already there, oh God thank you. Bela gave the ticket to Karen, then Karen could enter the Bali Field.
In there, I enjoyed so many performances from my friends and some of performer were not the 3 Senior High School students. I looked LSS Performance, Benjang Performance, the kids traditional costumes carnaval, FTTM ITB performance, Wayang Golek Giri Harja, and of course when Ridwan Kamil did the opening speech and gave some of us Trans Studio ticket, he gave us some questions and also challenges. Bela got the ticket, when Ridwan Kamil asked her to sing Pupuh Sunda. In the afternoon, I bought kebab and ate it in the rest area. But, maybe in 3.00 p.m. I felt so bad, I got sick, so I had to go home soon. I went home and took a rest, I was so sad because I couldn’t join the event until it finished, and also I couldn’t see Glenn Fredly performance. Yeah it was a little bit sad, but it’s okay at least I had so many memories in Matswapati, from the preparation till the event. I wish Matswapati 2014 is not the last Matswapati which held by 3 Bandung Senior High School.

Senin, 15 Desember 2014

Promote Something Special from Hometown



Seblak


Seblak is a kind of creation food from Bandung, West Java. It is an innovation meal, discovered by someone from Bandung. Usually seblak tasted hot and spicy, of course with strong Indonesian seasoning. It is very tasty and it has many variants, there are many tastes of seblak. Seblak is very unique because it has a special recipe, but some seblak tasted a little bit different with the ordinary one, for example seblak near the Gramedia Bookstore on Purnawarman Street, Bandung, which is very famous.

 
Seblak near the Gramedia Bookstore

Seblak has two kinds, there are wet Seblak and dry Seblak. Seblak is not a food which is eaten with rice, seblak is a meal. The taste which very hot it is the strongest characteristic of seblak. The difference between the two kinds of seblak is, wet Seblak is elastic, while the dry Seblak is crispy. Both of them are delicious and spicy, of course. We also can put everything that we want in our seblak, we can add siomay, sausage, meatball, kwetiaw, bone, fungi, macaroni, and so many else, depend on what we want. Do you want to know how to make seblak? Check it out!

Ingredients :
1.500 gr tapioca starch crackers
2. Hot water for soaking the crackers
3. 1 egg
4. 2 pcs garlic
5. 2 pcs shallots
6. 1/2 finger adult of kaempferia galanga
7. 1 tea spoon chicken/beef broth powder
8. 5 pcs cayenne pepper
9. 8 table spoon cooking oil
10. 1/4 glass of water
11. salt
12. white sugar

Instruction :
  1. Put the crackers into hot water and soak them until soft
  2. Mash the garlic, shallots, kaempferia galanga, cayenne pepper (optional) and put some salt to make easier to mash those items
  3. Heat the oil on the pan and put the mashed ingredients into the pan. Stir-fry the ingredient until dark-brown color
  4. Put the egg into the pan and stir-fry until the egg becoming wad
  5. The soft crackers put into the pan
  6. Pour the water into the pan and make sure the crackers and the ingredient well combined
  7. Add salt and sugar as you like (according to your taste) and add the chicken/beef broth powder
  8. When all ingredients well combined, that means your Seblak is ready to served
 FYI, there is also instant seblak. If you want to eat seblak easily, without going to the seller or make it buy yourself, you can buy the instant seblak and you only have to pour hot water into the cup, same as making cup noodle.

 
Instant Seblak