Stay together, friends.
Don’t scatter and sleep.
Our friendship is made of being awake.The waterwheel accepts water
and turns and gives it away,
weeping.
That way it stays in the garden,
whereas another roundness
rolls through a dry riverbed looking
for what it thinks it wants.Stay here, quivering with each moment
like a drop of mercury.
— Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Jessie is leaving today to Indonesia. I miss her already 🙁
You will only be hurt a finite number of times during your life. You have an infinite number of ways to deal with it.
— Iain Thomas @ I Wrote This For You
I know you’ll be fine. You will always be :). Trust me.
Some pictures! 🙂
Performing 8 songs using angklung, after only 1 month of practice!
Me, in red kebaya costume :D. The dress code for women was kebaya and for men was batik, of course! (except this guy on my left hand side…)
The audiences learned how to play angklung too….
… taught by our lovely conductor, teh Ida (teh or teteh in Sundanese means "sister"). The audiences could instantly play Edelweiss! How awesome!
Not to mention, we had special guests from UK and Germany who came specially for this concert!!! They played kacapi suling and rampak kendang.
Finally, a group picture after the concert! These were the people who directly involved in making the concert happened, including the performers, two lovely emcees, stage manager, and photographers :).
Me and Jessie 😉
I’m still waiting for more pictures and a video of the whole concert to be uploaded. Stay tuned!!
* Photos courtesy of mbak Inne. Thank you, mbak!
This was us, the angklung team, performing at the Angklung Charity Concert at our campus, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. The concert was a SUCCESS! We all had a wonderful time! 🙂
Alhamdulillah, up until today, we have received a total of 916.52 euro and the amount is expected to increase as people can still donate through electronic transfer until 3 December! I’m so relieved!!!
Thank you all for coming and for supporting the event :). And thanks to the lovely one and only conductor, teh Ida, and to those who worked hard to make this event a success (including teh Desi!). Great job everyone!!!
P.S. this is the video (final version) I made for the purpose of fundraising, which was shown at the concert:
All I can say now is: BUSY! HECTIC! And I LOVE IT!
Tomorrow is THE DAY! Wish us luck!!!!
O Allah, make the Qur’an the spring of my heart, the light of my chest, the remover of my sadness, and the purger of my anxiety.
Amin ya Rab.
A woman worries about the future
until she gets a husband,
while a man never worries about the future
until he gets a wife.
— Proverb
Hahaha! This made my day! 🙂
The Angklung Charity Concert will be held in a matter of THREE days! I’m nervous yet excited. I have been BUSY preparing the details of the concert, like arranging the programs, writing ‘job descriptions’ for the stage manager, writing a script for the emcee, and reviewing the booklet. Phew! I like it though. I always like to be in charge with event planning (hell yeah, I was an event organizer before!!! hahaha). The fact that this is a charity concert makes me want to be more dedicated and involved! 🙂 We have only one more practice to go before the real concert. I hope we’ll do fine! Wish us luck!!!
I also got a surprising message today. I was offered to join the committee of PPI/e (Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia di Eindhoven or Indonesian Student Association in Eindhoven). I accepted it! Hehehe. Hopefully it’s going to be exciting! Busy life is waiting for me. Bring it on!
I met up with Jessie today at Usine (AGAIN for the third time in a week, can you imagine?!?!). I hadn’t seen her for AGES. She was busy and I was busy as well. It’s always hard to find a day when both of us were free! So finally we could have a hot chocolate today! I demanded for the meet up because she’s going to Indonesia this Thursday 🙁 (yes, during my concert!) and she won’t be back until January next year. I’m so sad. I’m going to miss her SOOO MUCH!!!! She’s the closest friend I have right now. I’ll be so lonely :-S
And no, I don’t need a boyfriend just because I’m lonely!!! 🙂
This aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives.
This freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth.
To be one with the truth for just a moment,
Is worth more than the world and life itself.
— Jalal ad-Din Rumi
A CouchSurfer from New York, Johanna, contacted me a few days ago to meet up for a coffee. So I told her to meet at Usine (again!).
It was a really AWESOME afternoon! We got along really well, which surprised me. She’s one year younger than me but she already had a beautiful baby! Oh it made me envy!
She’s really different than most Americans that I met. She’s more open-minded and more open to experiencing other cultures. I asked a lot of things about American culture and I discovered that there were many things I didn’t know! Well, I had a great time talking to her and playing with her baby girl, Bella. Bella was such an active baby! I felt we got along really well too!!! Hehhehe.
I invited her to the Angklung Charity Concert this Thursday and it seemed like she’s more likely to come. Oh I was excited! We were planning to meet up again — this time I promised her that I would be teaching her how to cook Indonesian food! 🙂