Showing posts with label recis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recis. Show all posts

Saturday, November 17, 2007

A Tribute for A Friend..

November 16th 2007,

we've lost our friend.. a good guy, a cheerful man in his own way.

Vivaldo Juliandri has passed away on November 16th, 2007 at 18:30..

He was part of us. He will always be..

Let us pray for him.. he is in a better place now..

May he rests in peace..




Aldo had been attending Regina Pacis since kindergarten. We've always known him as a quiet and cheerful guy. He was a good boy and friendly.

Aldo had his own special look that made him so recognizable. His thick beard and mustache made him looks unique and funny in a good way..

In high school, he was part of X-A class of 2005. Most of us knew that X-A put on a hilarious performance when some guys danced and wore balloons and everything, he was one of the guys whom confidently shook their body like crazy that day.. *I will never forget this though^^*... and later on the class performed a drama, with Aldo as the lead character. He confidently improvise his character and made the drama as memorable as the dance was..

I was also in the same class with him at that time. He was chosen as the class' mascot together with a girl *Ardel*.. For us, he was not only a mascot of this class, but he was the one who put us together, especially for X-A students. Without him, the class would not be as solid as it was back then, he was the glue that put the students together. Even though he looked shy and introverted, but when he was given the lead character of the drama, he was very brave to show off his talent to cheer people up. He jumped off the stage and just playing around with the audience. That day was amazing, and we were so grateful to have him as our friend.

Well, now that he has gone, we will always remember him and he will always be with us.

After this particular event that had just happened, we have to realize that life is so unpredictable. God has His own plan for us, so we just have to try to live our life to the fullest and be grateful for what we have.

May you rest in peace, dude.. We know that you are in a better place right now.


There he is, waving happily on the last row, right hand side.

Monday, November 5, 2007

The Interrelation between Friends, Family, and Life.

This is our first collaborative essay that we’ve written “together”. The idea comes from my personal experience, but Mimi started to gather it into words first, and I just added bits and pieces here and there. So basically, it supposed to be that it’s Mimi’s first collaborative essay that she has written with me. Hahaha… In the process of making this article, it actually really made me think, reflect, and look back to what I’ve done in my life. As the result, here it is, the essay that has been written by two persons who have a different personality but live in the same thoughts and look at the magnificence in life from the same perspective. =)

Maintaining friendship and your relationship with family is not an easy thing to do. Especially, when you're studying somewhere away from your "comfort zone"... You tend to either always hang around with your buddies, or staying at home with mommy and daddy as much as possible when you get home. Creating a comfort zone is not an easy thing to do either, it takes months for you to be able to adapt and put some effort to trust and get to know new people. And if you already have created another comfort zone in your life, how could you easily give it up just for ridiculous reasons. I mean, isn’t that supposed to be that you’re not jumping from one zone to the other but try to maintain all of them so you could sense a “home atmosphere” wherever you go?

Some people say, Family is the greatest treasure in your life, some other says Friends are the greatest treasure in life.. Well.. they both are true.. We can't live without family and friends, but how are you going to balance them out? And talking about balance, it is important to balance everything in life, isn’t it? Balance your body and soul as well as your mind and your conscience. I mean, how can you say a person is mature when he even cannot show his mental and emotional maturity to the world? From my view, when the time for you to live alone has come, it’s time for you to be able to keep up with life. It’s like applying the “theories” of what you’ve learnt so far from your family to your own life and how you behave towards your surroundings.

Sometimes, at some parts in our life, we get carried on with our friends and forgetting our family, it happens most of the time, even though on some cases it was the other way around... So which one do you think is better to put on your priorities to? Friends, family, or both? Well, ideally it supposed to be both, but how could you really balance them both when the situation demands you to weight your friends more than your family or even the other way around? Does that mean that you are a defector for your family or friends? Or a betrayer for that matter? Well, I don’t think so. I think it’s just the matter of understanding and knowing which one is worth more in what situation since both of them are precious.

One of my friend told me that she has a friend who has given up on his friends for his family.. I mean, it’s just crazy. It’s ridiculous. How come you just give up on your friends just like that? Hello, family won't be around forever as well… and one day, you will just have to live your life alone without your family around… I hate to say this, but I know someday the time will come. And when it has come, how you will carry on living without having your friends beside you? Come on... Even my mom said it was crazy to give up on your friends… I know that family is important; they have a deep relationship and huge influences in your life. You wouldn't be wherever you are now if it was not because of your family. Family prepares you to interact with other people in order to survive in the world, while friends ARE the people whom you interact with in the world… For me, friends are like family too. The difference is just that Family is the family that God has given me without allowing me to choose who will be the member of my family. But friends are my “family” that God allows me to choose who’s going to be mine… so they both are priceless. How could I give up one thing for the other when they both have the same significant role in my life? Somebody once told me that friends will always come and go, but it’s not gonna happen if you can maintain it… as long as you can maintain the friendship that you’ve created, they will just simply stay forever in your life. I mean, how could you let go of something that is precious to you because of some silly and immature reasons? Come on…grow up kiddo..

On the other hand.. Like i said before, sometimes we get carried on with friends and forget our family. Have you ever feel like you are embarrassed to be around with your family and your friends at the same time?.. Well I felt it too… From my view, friends and family can't be put together at the same time, and I haven't figured it out why until now. However, just remember, family made you who you are now. They support you and they teach you how to affiliate and survive in the social community with different kind of people in it.. There is no reason you should be embarrassed of them. We can spend some quality times with them and appreciate them as the group of people who have known you since you were just a fetus… haha.. *exaggerate dikit*.. and take care of you.

It’s true that family has an important role in our life. It moulds us to become a person who has a characteristic that life demands. And I guess, the way we behave and interact with others will always reflect to how we have been brought up by our surroundings, especially family. It’s really interesting that some people have a different way of thinking, the way they “see” things, and interpret the things that happen in their life. For example, some people see life as a really interesting gift that God has given them, and it’s beautiful. Although sometimes it’s a bit tough, they take it as a challenge. But on the other hand, some others think that life is such a big pain in the ass that even God has worsen it by giving obstacles in life to make life even harder. The way these people think will affect their surroundings and their future. And I believe the people who are really demanding and have a high expectation in life beyond what they could possibly get are the people who don’t know how to be grateful to what they already have and they just simply will never be satisfied regarding to what they have achieved. And therefore, they will give up something precious easily because they don’t know which one is priceless and which one is worthless; giving up their friends or family for one another as an instance? *me being nasty.. =P* apropos to that, seems like they have less abilities to see life from its different perspectives. Pity.

Now, its’ your decision regarding to how you are going to balance out your family and friends in your life. Both of them have great influences in your life, and personally, I think it is best for us to keep both of them as close as possible. Friends and family are different, yet very similar in some kind of way. Friends and family will always make us feel like we’re home and we’re belong to the world. We’re not outsiders. And it’s such a delight and comfortable feeling to know that we belong to a certain community. Without one of them, it would have been like half of me is missing. Therefore, I will treasure both of them in my life. How about you? =)

Written by:
Mimi dan Pigi, November ‘07

Sunday, October 7, 2007

ik ben (g)een Recisian

Dag iedereen,

I've tried to post it in English, but my Dutch has already ruined my English. wakaka... The words just don't show up. so, i'm just going to post it in Indonesisch.

Alle, kisah gue jadi begini..

dulu pas gue masih belom sadar gue ini sapa, *nama gue sapa, pribadi gue seperti apa, bakat gue seperti apa, dll, dsb.* alias masih balita gituh. nyokap gue daftarin gue ke TK Recis ato apa lah namanya dulu gue kaga ikut campur. wakaka... Hari2 di TK gue dah kaga inget, tapi yang pasti dulu bestfriend gue itu namanyaArdelia Ganadi *yang sama2 dari TK mpe SMA di Recis, kalo ada uni-nya maw masuk juga ga lo del?*. Ekskul pertama gue yang bener2 menarik *echt spannend en echt plezant* itu nari. wakaka...

trus masuk SD, gue masih diantar jemput sama nyokap gue dengan mobil starlet putihnya yang dikenal oleh semua satpam di Recis, jadi untung juga karena tiap gue nanya ke mereka "pak, mami udah nyampe belom?" trus mereka bisa jawab "ooh, di belakang neng" ato "belum liat tuh neng". bener2 menyenangkan jadi gampang nyari mami, wekeke... *makasih pak satpam* lalu mulai taun pertama di SD, gue bertemu dengan 1 orang menakjubkan yang namanya Althea. ini orang bener2 sahabat sekaligus rival langsung gue. soale dari kelas 1 SD mpe kelas 6 SD kita saingan sampe akhirnya gue mengalah : ok, lo emang lebih pinter dari gue. wakaka.... bayangin aja ntu begimana dari kelas 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, 5A, 6A sekelas terus dan kami berdua selalu jadi murid kesayangan guru2. wakakkaa... *bangga*

masalah pas masih SD : gue dan Althea emang jadi murid kesayangan guru2, tapi gue bukan jadi teman kesayangan teman2. wakaka... di SD itu 6 taon, banyak musuh yang gue bikin kayaknya. khikhikhi... maaf ya. mulai dari sahabat gue sendiri : Diana Hartono dan keluarganya. trus akhirnya juga kayaknya berantem deh sama lo, del, trus berantem juga sama Rini Yulianti, trus ada lagi gituh kayaknya. banyak de. pokoknya gue di SD ini bener2 bukan tipikal orang yang disukai oleh semua orang. wakakka... *rese gitu lah* sebenernya bego juga sih gue, karena gue mau gituh cari musuh, tapi bis gimana dong, waktu ntu gue belom sadar sama diri gue ndiri si. jadi maaf yah teman2!

masuklah gue ke SMP. di SMP sifat gue yang "brengsek, sok ngatur, berasa paling jago, dll, dll" masih menyertai. jadi di taun pertama gue punya sahabat2 yang namanya Rama Sudibyo, Elisabeth *moffats*,Priscilla *Pristo* Budihardjo, Rini Yulianti *again*, dan Angeline *tuyul* tapi toch, tetep berantem lagi di akhir taon. wakaka... yang sebenernya gue sampe sekarang menyesal sekali nggak bisa kenal mereka n sahabatan sama mereka sampe kini. Karena mereka ini bener2 orang2 yang baik dan mereka tuh selalu support satu sama lain just like a TRUE BESTFRIENDS. oh ya, gue juga ada 2 sahabat waktu ntu namanya Yoana *YoPa* Paula dan Stephanie *Anie* Amanda Bintoro. Itu juga akhirnya pas SMA dah ga pernah deket lagi, cuma mungkin interest nya berbeda ato bagaimana. tapi thanks yah, udah pernah masuk dalam hidup gue. wekekkee...

lalu... taun kedua SMP, image gue dah jelek sekali deh sebenernya waktu ntu kayaknya. tapi berhubung gue dapet kelas yang asyik, dan agak2 gituh bersama dengan anggota2 geng yang mereka namakan THE CANTEENERS gue secara tidak langsung juga terbentuk jadi orang yang mungkin asyik tapi brengsek gituh. wakaka... *gataw itu jadi makin parah ato ga*. naah, sahabat gue pas waktu ntu namanya Chaterine Tanuwidjaja yang sampe sekarang masih keep in touch sekalipun udah nggak pernah ketemu lagi. We're just growing to be different people. tapi gue masih bener2 seneng karena kita masih bisa nyambung sekalipun pergaulan dia dan gue udah ga sama lagi.

lalu akhir taun ketiga, saat di mana gue bertemu dengan sahabat2 gue sebenarnya. Sabina *PIPIT* Satriyani Puspita, Aristyo Rahardiyan, Gerry Gunawan Saputra, dan Khanti *ACONG* Paramitha. WOW, they're just UNBELIEVABLE! bahwa gue yang NERD bisa bertemu dan berkawan dengan mereka dari dulu sampe sekarang, itu gue sebenernya ga habis pikir. Dari situ gue ngerti apa kata persahabatan sebenernya. Lo ga perlu jadi orang yang populer ato sok ngerokok ato sok2 jago ato sok2 nakal ato sok2 lainnya *kan kalo kita gituh anehnya semakin nakal kita pikir itu semakin keren* tapi tanpa jadi begitupun lo bisa sadar siapa sahabat lo sebenernya. sahabat yang nggak cuma seneng2, tapi juga selalu support satu sama lain. yang gue berasa lucu sih, pas SMA kita semua pisah, pipit ke sanur, tyo ke cc, acong ke SMUKI, gue tetep di recis, geri ke sekolah atlet; dan sekarang kita semua lebih PISAH lagi ke lain negara semua pipit ke Taiwan, tyo ke Ausi, Geri ke Denmark, gue ke Belgi, dan acong tetep di Indo. tapi rasanya sekalipun kita jauh, kita tetep deket di otak dan hati, dan gue yakin nanti pas kita semua pulang pasti bisa ketemu dan kumpul lagi bareng2.

Lalu... masuklah ke masa SMA, dengan image jelek yang gue bawa gara2 YEARBOOK sampah. maaf ya teman2 kalo yearbook dulu jelek dan nggak mutu, gue dah berusaha semaksimal mungkin buat menerbitkan buku itu sendiri dengan Devina *Depi*. kita nyari sponsor bareng tapi yah begitu itu... panitia yang lain....... *rasanya pengen nangis de*

di taun pertama gue di SMA, sangat2 kelabu deh.. di saat gue mau masuk suatu grup tapi dibudakin, kalo ada tugas gue dsuruh kerjain sendirian dll dll dan akhirnya gue enek dan berenti n sekarang gue benci banget ma grup itu. wakakaka... ITU GUE GA PERNAH MENYESAL untuk keluar n berenti dibudakin. gue bener2 bersyukur sekali bahwa gue nggak terbawa2 ke dalam grup itu dan jadi orang yang mungkin tidak berguna. soalnya dengan keluar dari grup itu gue bisa dapet temen yang bener2 temen. Fiona *Ona* Gunawan, Rafaela *Rafa* Jessica, Gisela *Tink2* Nishia, Jessica *Jebok* Ariawan, Monica *QK* Claudya, Irene *Iren* Marcella, Lavena *Deph* Esperanza, dan lagi2 Yoana *YoPa* Paula. gue bener2 berterima kasih banget sama mereka, di dalam pertemenan kita banyak konflik2 yang itu sendiri juga ga lepas dari ke-brengsek-an gue. wekekkee... gue rasanya jadi orang kok brengsek bener ya?

dan akhirnya di kelas 3 SMA, gue punya SEJUTA teman2 yang najis najis baiknya... dan SEJUTA sahabat2 yang najis najis kompaknya. gila... 3B!!!!! gue bener2 bangga sama mereka. gila2... dan yang pasti ga lupa juga bahwa gue punya 2 orang sahabat yang bener2 mengerti gue... Daniel *Niel* dan Fabian *VB* Sulaiman. mereka ini orang2 yang bener2 deket di hati gue. khikhikhi... untung di akhir taun gue di Recis, gue bisa mengenang banyak kejadian menakjubkan dan bukan kejadian2 brengsek macem berantem dan bermusuhan ato apa lah...

hmph, sekarang gue dah di Belgi dan gue bener2 kangen sama mereka semua. sama temen2 gue yang pernah mengisi kehidupan gue. kita ini tumbuh sekarang di lingkungan yang berbeda, ga akan heran kalo jalan pemikiran kita udah nggak sama.

berantem ato rusuh karena perbedaan jalan pikiran itu biasa...

yang luar biasa itu kalo ......
dengan jalan pikiran yang berbeda, kita masih bisa bersatu dan bisa menamakan diri kita "Teman" dan masih bisa kumpul dan saling sayang
gue yang sekarang udah berubah sekalipun sisa2 jalan pemikiran anak SMA kelas 3 masih belom seutuhnya hilang. sekalipun apa yang gue liat di sini nggak bisa kalian liat, dan apa yang kalian liat di ujung dunia mana nggak bisa gue liat, gue harap kita sebagai alumni 2007 recis masih bisa menyebut diri kita ini sebagai ANGKATAN 2007 yang nggak cuma berarti kita lulus di taun itu, tapi juga kita utuh sebagai suatu angkatan..
Ad veritatem, Per caritatem...
gudlak buat semuanya... dalam studi, dalam masalah hidup, dalam cinta, dll dll...
groetjes en kusjes van Belgie,
dina budiarto


PS : jadi, ini hanya kisah di masa lalu, kalo ada yang tersinggung mohon maaf yah, ini hanya kisah masa lalu.. ;)

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Tribute to Recis..

Responding to my good friend's tribute to Recis,

I've been in recis since I was only a baby... My brother and cousins were all attending recis, so recis was actually part of my family... When the first time I attended recis, 14 years ago, I never knew that recis would affect my life THAT much... I hated going to school.. *I guess I was a spoiled little girl back then*.. However, now I wish I could turn back time to my school years..

Recis has taught me not only academic stuffs, but I also learned how to be a human, an educated human being, who is prepared to survive in the "world"... In this school, we belong to a great community that is diverse in personality, but somehow we managed to unite as a group of students in Regina Pacis High School. I remembered once my teacher said something about "sense of belonging" *I didn't know what exactly he was talking about, guess I didn't pay attention then :p~*, anyway I think that is the reason why I love recis so much. I grew up in this particular place, from a spoiled lil girl until now I am a young adult who has learned how to live life to the fullest. Even though I'm off to college now, I still think that I belong to recis.

Recis has given me the meaning of friendship. I've met my best friends * yeah its plural*, and it was the MOST wonderfulestestt time of my life.. especially my high school time, it was really the best 3 years of my life. Now that I'm in college, it's all different, we mind our own business, and not bothering other people. It's so individualistic here, and its gonna drive me crazy eventually :p~... Somehow I am used to be together with my friends, I felt secure and comfortable then..

Therefore, I was really sad when I graduated from recis *not that I was sad for graduating from high school*...But leaving recis was like leaving a piece of myself behind. Fortunately, I was recruited to the yearbook committee, so at least I can give something back for recis.. I designed some of the pages in our yearbook. I put my best efforts in this book, I'd rather given up my vacation than neglecting the tasks I had on making this yearbook, because I knew that recis deserves the best.. I could never pay back for whatever recis had given me this past 14 years..

So anyway, after putting on and off all kinds of recis' plaid skirts, I finally have to put it off for good, but I will always treasure all the memories behind recis' special plaid skirt.. haha.. *sounds cheesy, but I do think that recis' skirt is beautiful*

enjoy the yearbook..^^
i'm sorry if there's any mistake or whatever in the yearbook...

ps: I know my grammar sucks.. that's why I write this blog, for practice.. ^^.. don't hesitate to make corrections.. thanks... ^^

a tribute to recis.. =)

I’m not brave enough to call myself as a true recisian because I didn’t graduate from recis senior high school. Although I didn’t finish my high school for the very last semester, (which I regret it now) but I really thank recis for teaching me a piece of something of what we called life. As a representation of my gratitude, I want to write a bit of the things that I’ve learnt at recis for 13.5 years because it definitely has contributed something in to my life, something that I’ve missed since I left it. Something called a true friendship.

Thus, it goes like this…

Some people might think that you go to school just to study so you can get your academic qualification regarding to prepare yourself for your further academic studies. But from my perspective, school life is not just about studying mathematics, science, history, religion, sociology, geography, and whatever it is…for me, school is the first place to understand about the other side of life.

In my kindergarten years, I learnt how to draw, how to read numbers, and how to write and read a letter by letter in the alphabets… but besides all of those things, I’ve learnt how to believe in myself, how to interact with others, how to appreciate the friendship that I’ve made by not being selfish, and respect other people; and more so as I grew up until I reached my high school years.

In my high school time, I knew many things, I learnt many things, and tried many things. I knew how to gain a self-esteem, make self-consciousness exist, have and defense your own thoughts when brainstorming with others, trust your conscience, and also knew the magnitude of a-friend-support, knew how it’s like to have an additional “family”, knew the meaning of friendship, animosity, success, failure, triumph, disappointment, solitude, solidarity, happiness, and a bit of how to communicate without having to say a word… at that time, I also learnt how to forgive, how to love others, how to maintain friendships, how to be sincere and not be a hypocrite, how to tell myself not to be selfish and sacrifice for others, creating a bond of brother-sisterhood, I learnt how to wag without have to feel guilty (ups… =P), and those kinds of things… things that I’ve learnt besides mathematics, history, geography, and whatever it was…

Realizing that it’s been a while since the last time I explored a folder called “Old Stories” in my document, yesterday, I gave it another look and started to laugh immediately, looking at those silly pictures but full of reminiscences. It was my high school memories, which was the most delightful time in my whole life hitherto. It was so wonderful and I realized that I’ve been missing all of those things since I came to New Zealand,,, at the school that I’m attending now, there’s no such thing called ‘a true friend’; they all just an ordinary people which will always come and go in my life. And that’s what I’ve missed…the laughter, the moment, the exultance, and the other things that I used to share with my friends, which I couldn’t do any of them now. In here, I have to do and go through everything by myself. Feel delighted and contented without have to share it to anyone, and feel wretched and dejected without have to tell anybody, coz… oh well, no one cares though... It makes me become so numb and so maverick. But since then, it turns out to be so fathomable relating to what I’ve been looking for since I lost it. I didn’t realize that I’ve been craving all of this time, wishing that I could turn it back to my high school year since I realized that I really missed them and the laughter and those memories in my life that we’ve created together… T.T


Someone told me years ago, “high school is the best time you will ever have in your life. Enjoy it.” at first I thought, how’s that possible? But now I knew that what that person had said was true… it was the best.

And since then, I knew what they called true friends…
They are friends who are miles away but always there for you whenever you need them.
Friends who are really understand you; accept and love you for who you are…
Friends who will not stab you from the back, but support and walk with you side by side…
Friends who are miles away and will still call you at midnight and sing happy birthday to you on your birthday when no one else does…
Friends that know instantly if there’s something wrong happens to you even when you try to lie to them… and they will ask, “Please tell me the story…and don’t worry, your secret save with me…” with a comforting smile.
Friends that will hug you and comfort you when you cry and say, “It’s all right…”
Friends that tell you “you will always have me” when you feel you’re left behind and alone…

So, do you guys feel the same thing as I do?



Dedicated to all of my irreplaceable friends who are miles away but really close to my heart... I will never be able to thank you guys enough and tell you how grateful I am to have friends as great as you guys… yay! ^^