Edisi Kangen Rumah

"Another aeroplane

Another sunny place

I’m lucky, I know

But I wanna go home

Mmmm, I’ve got to go home

Let me go home

I’m just too far from where you are

I wanna come home"

Hai.

Kayanya udah jarang cerita-cerita di blog ya? Sorry blog for abandoning you.. Been pretty busy with the tasks and exams and such. Just so you know, many times I tried to sit down and write but my words just didn't come out right. So I ended up closing the tab and left. So, yeah. Sorry :')

Ga kerasa besok udah menginjak bulan ke-5 gue tinggal di Ulyanovsk. Yah...baru 5 bulan ya? Tapi rasanya kayak udah 5 tahun. I started missing home so much I could easily break down in tears. And my family. And all of my friends. And so on. I'm such a cry baby, am I not? Huhu.

Well..sedikit mengupdate kejadian-kejadian 5 bulan terakhir yang terlewatkan.

Sekarang di Russia udah masuk musim semi, tapi saljunya masih numpuk dan beberapa hari terakhir masih turun hujan salju lebat walaupun kadang diselingi sama sinar matahari yang menyengat. Suhunya pun masih berkisar antara 3 derajat sampai minus 10 derajat. Ini masih terhitung hangat loh setelah melewati puncaknya di bulan february kemaren yang bekunya pol-polan sampe MINUS 38 derajat. Mau keluar males, kalaupun terpaksa keluar mesti pake baju sampe 7 lapis. Dirumah bawaannya makan dan tidur aja, and yes you're right, I gained extra fats since I came here. No wonder..

Oya, sebagai salah satu orang Indonesia pertama yang menghuni Ulyanovsk. Gue disini apa-apa sendiri. Ga ada senior yang bantuin. Dengan kemampuan awal bahasa russia gue yang nol besar, and the fact that most of russians don't speak english AT ALL, mau-ga-mau jadi ditekan keadaan buat belajar lebih. Senangnya orang-orang disini juga ga sedingin yang gue bayangkan, mereka cenderung welcome sama orang asing. Walaupun ada segelintir orang yang bersikap dingin but mostly they're gooooood. I often being greeted by strangers on the street, by waitresses in some coffee shops I visit, or even by janitors in our school. Jujur aja, bahasa russia emang susahnya ampun-ampunan. Lots of rules and exceptions here and there. Its grammars are confusing as well. Depressing and challenging at the same time. Tapi over all, menyenangkan! Rasanya jadi 100x lebih keren kalo sekarang bisa ngerti apa yang diomongin orang, dan ga seplanga-plongo bulan pertama kemari. Even -- "Sorry? I don't understand. Could you please repeat that again a little more slowly.." is become my fave line, still :p

Ups, enough for now.

Gotta do my homework. Ciao!

P.s: I REALLY MISS MY MOM AND DAD

Mampir

Tadi aku mampir ke tubuhmu

tapi tubuhmu sedang sepi

dan aku tidak berani mengetuk pintunya.

Jendela di luka lambungmu masih terbuka

dan aku tidak berani melongoknya.

Joko P.

2002

Hello, been years..

Pencil on paper

January, 23 2012

What are you doing New Years Eve?

Happy new year, people!

My very first update from Ulyanovsk

Hello, it's been a crazy month since my last post. Sekarang gue lagi tidur-tiduran dikasur minjem laptop temen. Udah bukan di Indonesia, tapi di Russia tepatnya di kota Ulyanovsk, sekitar 900 km sebelah timur Moscow. Ya, tanggal 24 Oktober kemaren akhirnya gue meninggalkan tanah air, mencoba peruntungan dinegeri beruang merah. Kira-kira jam 15.00 gue udah sampe airport, check in dan blablabla, boarding jam 17.30. Dari jauh kelihatan temen-temen seperjuangan pada ribet dengan bawaan mereka masing-masing yang masya Allaaaaaaaaaah....banyaknya, gue ketawa dalam hati karna kayanya cuma bawaan gue yang paling simple. Cuma 1 koper dan 1 hand carry ukuran sedang. That's all.

Gue ke airport sama bokap, tante Baby dan koko Uya. Sampe sana abang & kakak gue nyusul. Baru deh dateng nyokap sama nenek gue. Ga disangka-sangka Ipak, Lika, Irin & Tania juga dateng. Gue seneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeng banget :') Sampe kira-kira udah mepet banget mau masuk boarding room, masih belom ada air mata menetes tuh eh tau-tau Meymey sama Nabila dateng sambil lari-lari, Meymey nangis, Nabila juga. Terus pelukan sambil nangis. Ya gue juga ikutan lah jadinya :'''''''''''( Ga ngobrol banyak, gue udah harus masuk boarding room. Gue meluk abang & kakak, tante Baby & papa dengan berat hati. Ditengah keharu biruan, papa sempet berbisik pelan, "Take a good care nak, I'm gonna miss you." Sedih banget deh.. Entah kapan lagi ketemu. Mata gue sembab, ingus gue beleleran kemana-mana. Dengan membaca basmallah akhirnya pesawat yang gue naikin bertolak ke Moscow........

Ga langsung ke Moscow sih.

Transit dulu di Abu Dhabi hehe. Transitnya lama kira-kira 9 jam. Nyalain wifi hp taunya BBM tetep aktif. Seneng bukan main, langsung update kabar sama bokap dan nyokap, terus sempet bales-balesin good-luck-wishes di BBM. Ga terasa 9 jam berlalu, paginya udah harus lanjut terbang lagi ke Moscow. Sekitar 6 jam penerbangan, akhirnya mendarat di Domodedovo International Airport. Sampe sana udah dijemput orang-orang dari pihak KBRI, kementrian pendidikan Russia dan beberapa teman-teman PERMIRA (Persatuan Mahasiswa Indonesia di Russia). Tanpa banyak basa-basi kita langsung di-distribusikan ke kota masing-masing. Gue sama temen satu kota gue, Willy, langsung dianter ke train station untuk melanjutkan perjalanan ke Ulyanovsk. Perjalanan dengan kereta memakan waktu kira-kira 14 jam, tapi nyaman kok karena di kereta dapet flat-bed bukan kursi ekonomi kayak di pesawat, jadi ya asik bisa selonjoran. Nyampe Ulyanovsk dijemput sama temen gue Julio dan seorang senior di kampus, langsung registrasi dorm. Gue sekamar sama 3 orang cewek dari Turkmenistan. Namanya Aynabat, Nargizha dan Makula. Semuanya baik dan cantik. Sayang kendalanya adalah mereka sama sekali ga bisa bahasa inggris. Even a simple word like; thank you. Mereka bengong ga tau mau jawab apa. Yang bisa bahasa inggris dikamar gue cuma Nargizha, jadi dialah yang selama ini berjasa dalam mentransliterasi ucapan gue ke yang lain and vice versa. Kadang ada juga sih yang berusaha berkomunikasi sama gue pake google translate atau bahasa isyarat. Kayak waktu itu Aynabat ngomong ke gue yg lagi bengong tiduran dikasur:

"Suci, you are boring"

Gue kaget, anjrit. Terang-terangan abis bilang gue ngebosenin. Terus gue diem, mata gue tertumbuk pada layar netbook nya dia. Ternyata dia lagi buka google translate dan maksudnya adalah, "SUCI, KAMU BOSAN YAAA?" Hahahaha -_________-

Ya gitu lah. Banyak kejadian-kejadian lucu disini cuma gara-gara salah nangkep ucapan. Banyak kejadian yang membuka mata gue lebih melek. Oya, sebenernya gue mau pamer foto, tapi sayang ini pake laptop temen gue, males mindah-midahinnya hehe. Yaudah, gue ngantuk. Tidur dulu ya, assalamualaikum. Kiss kiss!

Untitled.

Hi, blog. Just realized today is the last day of September. Time flies so fast, eh. And that's sad, considering October might be my last month in Indonesia (until I don't know when), since, yeah, remember this? I finally got the letter of acceptance for a scholarship I applied on March, Alhamdulillah. You kno' I've been waiting for oh-so-long period of time. It seemed so unreal to me. It still is. Me? Moscow? Next month?

So..........I'm sort of busy preparing for visa and stuffs. Not THAT busy actually (I still have loads of spare time, laying on bed, watching DVDs heheh) but I realized, the time is getting closer and closer. Yet, there's still SOOO MANY MANY MANY things I'd like to do before I go, like, hanging out with friends, going to Green Canyon with Ipak, volunteering on Java Jazz Festival 2012 (did I ever tell you before? Yes, Peter Gontha picked me as a volunteer! I'm lucky, I know. But still..I couldn't join -_- ) or spend the nights together again with Ardi, Albi, Yogi & Ryan in Bandung just like we did last May & July. Etcetera. Etcetera.

By the way, I kinda feel like being left behind somehow. People are busy with their works. Chasing dreams. Then I look at myself & ask, "Have fun wasting your time, huh?" geez, I need to do something useful instead of spamming on my Plurk timeline with no one seems to care haha. Everyday I wake up all alone. Go out of my room and find no one but Lucy, my furball. We play for a couple of minutes and she ends up scratching my leg. So I walk back to my room. Learn some Russian-Phrases-For-Dummies or sing and duck-dance like a dumbass. I don't blame anyone for being so busy tho'. I simply need someone to talk to. Is it normal to feel this way? But hey, think again! That's what a blog is for, right? To spill it all out. To empty what's on your mind. AND I THANK YOU, BLOG. For being such a good listener.

Sincerely,

Forever-Alone-Guy.

"Ini aku! Putra ayahku! Berikan padaku sesuatu yang besar untuk ku taklukkan! Beri aku mimpi-mimpi yang tak mungkin karena aku belum menyerah! Takkan pernah menyerah. Takkan pernah!"

Andrea Hirata (Padang Bulan)