05-05-05

Today is May 5th, 2005. Today is my 21st birthday. Today is yet again I want to start writing again.

Last weekend, I and several of my friends of class 2001 [Andi, Endah, Inoi] were invited to be a facilitator in LKO [literally Training on Leadership and Organization] HMIF 2005. We participated in the outbound session [I have to make sure that the term is correct; it is either outbound or outbond; or there are no right English term for that matter]. Our task is relatively simple. On day one, we were paired and handled a group of trainees in conducting a simulation on Teamwork and Team Building. On day two, we were asked to be in a certain point in the outbound track, and again giving simulation to every group of trainees which were hiking on the-quite-of-a-stroll-cross-country-track.

Between those two days, we were sleeping in a quarter which up to 16 people can sleep in their own bed. Before bedtime, one of the other facilitator, Hamdan of class 2002, asked a question: “What is your 10 wishes for now?”. The question is quite simple, and he also added that the answers were need not in order of importance or priority. They would have to be simply wishes. He then gave example of his own wishes: He wants to have an income of more than Rp. 50, 000, 000,- a month [about a little more than US$ 5,000,-] because of what he wishes next: He wants to pay the national debt of our country, Indonesia.

I answered his questions:

1. I want to graduate from my undergraduate education this year: year 2005.
2. I want to go on a road trip with my friends in the dorm. It is possible when we visit Anto’s [the landlady’s son] wedding day in Jakarta.
3. I want to make my work environment physically enjoyable by particularly buying a headphone [done] and a USB multi port.
4. I want to write again, I want to experience again writing with all my heart since I wrote the review of the book Einstein’s Dream of Alan Moore for my Bahasa Indonesia assignment in high school.
5. I want to talk, to have an intense chat with my brother.

We actually didn’t get to the number 10, we were too sleepy. But I have stated my wishes here, and on my birthday, I declare that I want to try to make them happen.

And just a little bit of reminder, I also declared another statement that night:

I want my time gives meaning to me and people around me.

Happy birthday me…