My First Summit! Gn. Gede 2958 mdpl

Rara : Wil naik gunung yuk
Wildan : Kapan?
Rara : Jumat depan
Wildan : Gunung apaan?
Rara : Gede
Wildan : Ayo deh. Temen gue juga kayanya ada yang mau ikut

Berawal dari percakapan random di kantor, akhirnya jadi juga naik gunung yang agak dadakan ini. Persiapan cuma 2 minggu dan Wildan yang jadi lawan bicara gue di atas justru ngga jadi ikut karena H-1 tepar. But then, the show must go on. Gue dan beberapa teman lainnya tetep lanjut daan as you can see in above pictures, kita muncak! Akhirnyaa impian untuk summit terpenuhi setelah 2 tahun yang lalu gagal muncak di Semeru karena kondisi team yang tidak memungkinkan. Kali ini aku senang! hehehe.

Anyway yang menuju puncak Gunung Gede bersamaku di atas ada Pak Surachman, Riyan, dan Mas Dana. Awalnya mau nekat muncak bareng rombongan sebelah gara-gara bangun kesiangan dan udah gaada mereka di tenda. Tapi untungnya setelah belum terlalu jauh berjalan papasan sama mereka. Dan mereka ternyata baru selesai nyari air, belum muncak. Emang terbaik lah mereka mereka ini. Pas muncak, mereka juga yang konsisten nyemangatin dengan bilang "Gak jauh kok Ra, bentar lagi juga sampe puncak" bahkan dari awal pendakian :')

Aku Bersyukur

Belum ada batasan yang jelas mengenai seberapa jauh mata kita bisa melihat
Selama masih ada partikel cahaya yang terpancar,
aku asumsikan tak terbatas

Belum ada batasan yang jelas mengenai seberapa jauh kaki kita bisa melangkah
Selama ada kemauan,
aku asumsikan tak terbatas

Belum ada batasan yang jelas mengenai seberapa banyak kepala kita bisa menyimpan memori
Selama bisa dioptimalkan,
aku asumsikan tak terbatas

Untuk melihat hal yang lebih indah dari biasanya, dan menyimpan memori yang lebih berharga dari sebelumnya, aku melangkahkan kaki ku lebih jauh..

Lalu..
Aku menemukanmu
dan aku bersyukur.

(September 2018 - Puncak Gunung Gede, 2958mdpl)

Jogja!

When talking about holiday destination people would generally split the options to three: 1) Mountain, 2) Beach, 3) City tour. Those who likes cold and calm ambience will choose mountain, those who enjoys sun and sea salt will choose beach, while those who dislike both will choose to do city tour. For me those option is not even an option. If there are any possibilities to do the three of them at one time, I would prefer to not choose only one, or two. I am a type of person who doesn't care where the road leads me to, as long as I go with the right companion, I will be amused.

Last weekend, at the end of July, the long awaited getaway finally realized. Me and my best companion, Ardini and Ana - whom I acquainted from University's Community Development Program 3 years ago in Bojonegoro, have planned this since a year or even two years ago when I just graduated from University. The plan was only a discourse until Ardini bought the ticket for me and Ana to force us go. Long story short, Ardini, Ana and Rose (Ana's friend) departed from Surabaya on Friday morning and arrived in Jogjakarta on Friday night. While I just arrived in Jogja on Saturday morning due to the night train from Jakarta.

We rented a car with a driver to take us to places we planned to visit that day. Our first destination was Mangunan, a highland with pine trees and extraordinary view of Jogja.

There is this place called Kebun Buah Mangunan which was built to provide the best spot to see hills and rivers of Jogja. From here, you can see an extraordinary face of Jogja. You would not even realize that this place is in Jogja if you only see the picture. Pardon me if I am being a hyperbolic, but it's true!

The access to Kebun Buah Mangunan is pretty easy as the local government already built a proper road for two cars to pass. Even it is located in a highland, you don't have to spend a lot of energy to walk way up since the distance from parking lot to the view-point spot is not so far. Ardini has backbone issue that made her unable to do mountain trek or walk too far but she survived here, so.. you will survive.

The next destination in Mangunan was Pine Forest.
But I guess I'll continue the story later..
So.. til next part of the story!

Edo's Farewell

Aku suka melihat kedua matamu..

Seperti lautan kala bulan baru yang keduanya tampak saling menahan rindu

Diam-diam bergelung gemuruh menahan amarah dan entah

Kemudian saat pagi datang, ia kembali berubah tenang. 

Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shootin' stars?

Rizka Andenty's Wedding Day

Reunite.