Thai Last Day

Woke up this morning and realized: this is the last day I am in Thailand.
“This is the end, huh?” I said to myself.
As everybody else who got himself in the very near the end of everything,
I remembered things that happened to me.


I met people from around the world and learned varieties of culture.
England, Finland, Canada, Japan, Kenya, Germany, Thailand, Myanmar, and Pakistan.


But of them all, my heart is missing people from Pakistan the most.
Of course I will miss everybody around here. But I do feel something special towards these Pakistanis.


They are Braji, Panji, Jenny, Pate and Naveed. They are all really kind.
They welcomed me with a warm heart. I love them like my family.
Even though it was kinda hard for me to talk to Braji and Panji because they're still learning (or maybe they're just shy, Idk.), I love them, they are all have a very big heart to welcome stranger like me as someone really special. And they are special to me as well. O I miss them already!


It is hard to describe something that you can't touch or see,
but in most cases, those are things that have more value than the tangible things.
I feel love in them. I like this family.


Because of this family, I see that it is possible for my family to be closer than before.
I think it would be nice if we throw ourselves as a family into God's hand,
so He would make our hearts be filled with joy and love.

“If you seek God in everything, you will see that your will get more than the ones who don't.
You will get love.”said Naveed. Wow, It is the very true!
Sometimes we see that other people which are out of God's hand seem really prosper,
while we are desperate in this life. But in the end, we will realize that God always has a better plan,
He filled our life with quests that set our feet to know Him better each day,
and that is worth more than every diamond in this world!


I love these Pakistanis, and I love God that kindly brought them into my life, even for a short time.
Thanks God, You are really fascinating! :)

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Pelajaran Dari Koyo Cabe

Hari ini saya akan bercerita betapa Tuhan itu Maha Ada. Ada di dalam segala aspek kehidupan kita. Tuhan itu ajaib, karena Ia dapat berkata-kata melalui orang-orang, melalui kejadian hidup kita, ataupun melalui firman-Nya dalam alkitab. 

Materi KTB (Kelompok Tumbuh Bersama) saya hari ini berkisar tentang Jaminan Bimbingan Tuhan, tentang bagaimana Tuhan dapat menuntun kita melalui hal-hal seperti berikut:

1. Firman Tuhan
   

   Mazmur 119:105

   
   

   Firman-Mu itu pelita bagi kakiku,
   terang bagi jalanku.

   Melalui prinsip tertentu yang kita dapatkan pada saat kita membaca satu bagian Alkitab. Bagian yang kita baca itu memberi kesan yang kuat dalam hati kita.
    
2. Roh Kudus

   1 Korintus 2:12
   Kita tidak menerima roh dunia,  tetapi roh yang berasal dari Allah, supaya kita tahu , apa yang dikaruniakan Allah kepada kita.

   Kisah Para Rasul 13:2-3
   Pada suatu hari ketika mereka beribadah kepada Tuhan dan berpuasa , berkatalah Roh Kudus: "Khususkanlah Barnabas dan Saulus bagi-Ku untuk tugas yang telah Kutentukan bagi mereka." Maka berpuasa dan berdoalah mereka, dan setelah meletakkan tangan ke atas kedua orang itu, mereka membiarkan keduanya pergi .

   
   
   Roh Kudus bisa bekerja dengan memberi kesan yang kuat/dorongan yang kuat dalam hati kita. Juga melalui orang lain yang berbicara kepada kita (saat khotbah, renungan, dan sebagainya).
    
3. Nasihat orang lain

   Amsal 11:14
   Jikalau tidak ada pimpinan, jatuhlah bangsa,
   tetapi jikalau penasihat banyak, keselamatan ada.
   

   Orang yang lebih rohani dan yang pernah mengalami bimbingan Tuhan serta mengerti kita, bisa dipakai Tuhan untuk menyatakan bimbingan-Nya.

Saya ingat sekali pernah suatu kali saya terjebak dalam kecelakaan kendaraan. Ada motor sembarangan nyelip dan akhirnya menabrak mobil yang sedang saya kendarai. Pada saat saya sudah berhadapan dengan si ibu pengendara motor tersebut, terlintas dalam kepala saya satu ayat dari amsal:

 Amsal 15: 1
Jawaban yang lemah lembut meredakan kegeraman,
tetapi perkataan yang pedas membangkitkan marah.

Tapi saya gagal menuruti firman Tuhan itu, saya mulailah "percakapan" itu dengan:

"Eh, hati-hati dong kalo bawa motor!"

akhirnya saya jadi adu mulut dengan si ibu itu. Kacau. 

Hal tersebut tidak akan pernah terulang lagi. Roh Kudus yang telah melintaskan ayat tersebut di kepala saya, dengan sengaja saya abaikan. Dan saya malu akan hal tersebut. Ga lagi-lagi deh.

Pengalaman yang kedua terjadi beberapa minggu yang lalu. Ceritanya leher saya keseleo gara-gara stretching sambil nguap lebar-lebar. Asli leher saya ga bisa ngeliat ke arah kiri, trus kalo naik kapo (minibus ala Bangkok) harus pintar-pintar nyari tempat, supaya bisa noleh ke kanan dan tahu bisa turun dimana. Terus, saya tempelin leher kiri saya pake koyo. 

Suatu hari, habis bible reading, terus berdoa, saya mau mandi, dan sekalian saya coba lepasin koyonya. Dan itu susah banget! Bayangkan saja, selama 2 hari itu koyo ada di leher saya dan sudah betapa kuatnya lem koyo itu nempel di kulit saya. 

Pelan-pelan saya tarik ujung koyonya... Sreek... Awww... Tuh air mata udah ngintip di ujung jendala mata, koyonya baru kecabut dikit. Saya sampe tarik napas dulu, baru lanjut lagi. Sreek... Astaga sakitnya... Aduh... Ketika saya sedang ber-aduh-ria, tiba-tiba dalam hati saya ada yang berkata: “Seperti inilah Aku akan mencabut dosamu.” Sontak saya bilang: “Iya Tuhan... hiks...” 

Tuhan itu ajaib. Koyo aja bisa dijadiin alat pembimbing umat-Nya. Dan emang "koyo"nya Tuhan itu mengena banget, karena tema doa saya pada waktu itu bisa dirangkum dalam satu pertanyaan: 

"Tuhan, kok dosa saya itu-itu aja ya, Tuhan? Wong ya ganti toh.. Kapan saya bisa lepas?"

Dan Tuhan berikan jawaban pada saya melalui koyo tersebut, Tuhan akan bantu saya melepaskan dosa itu, walaupun itu pedas, sakit, pelan dan sampai saya harus mengeluarkan air mata. 

Roh Allah sungguh bekerja dalam kehidupan orang-orang yang peka terhadap suara Tuhan. Kita bisa minta kepekaan pada Tuhan untuk mendengar suara-Nya. Ayo, jangan segan-segan datang kepada Allah. Pada-Nya ada banyak karunia yang bisa kita dapatkan.

Sekian.***

Gombal Words

I love to write. I just write everything that I think moves my heart, special things, special thoughts, or  anything that is unusual for me.

And all of those stuff were added up in a book, which I don't want to call it 'diary' because it is very kiddo and hillarious, but to be honest, it does the exact same thing as all other diaries, except, it is a spiritual diary. It's not that serious, it just explains about my feelings and all of the things which happened to me but somehow, it's always related to spirituality (I don't know why).

So, I came across this book today and found a VERY hillarious --I don't know-- what ever it is...
Just look at it.

"As I open my eyes today, I think of You.
The light, the air and even myself,
make me realize;
You are awesome.
I've seen the orange sunset lately.
Sometimes it mixed with with purple here and there.
I admire You, God; The God of beauty;
and also in Your artwork, Your heart and power!
May I love You, God?
For loving You will always be the best feeling in the world!"

AHHHAHHAHAHHAHA! :D
"Sunset", "purple", "beauty", "may I love You?" Ahhahhhahha.... How 'gombal'!
Gombal is an Indonesian word which refers to an exaggerating situation to make someone you adore (crush or lover) impressed by flattering him or her with unnecessarily true words.

But you see, this is the most interesting part: YOU CAN NOT GOMBALing GOD.
I'm sure you know why. Because, every exaggerating word you say about Him,
like "the most beautiful", "the most awesome", "the greatest"; that's all true.
There's no good thing above Him which makes your words untrue.
Just try to say something about your crush or lover in a gombalism style:

Honey, you are the prettiest creature in the world.

Babe,do you know why this sky is so dark tonight? That's because all of the star is on your eyes right now. You are the most beautiful girl ever.

Hey, I thought somehow, you secretly might be the most powerful superhero ever. Because I feel like the most defendless villain ever when I see you in the eye.

"Prettiest", "most beautiful", and "most powerful". Those are gombalism words.
But try to say that to God.

God, You are the prettiest ever. (TRUE)
God, You are the most beautiful. (TRUE)
God, You are the most powerful. (TRUE)

All of those, just become true whenever you say that to God, aren't they?
And bonus for today, another CENGENG thing I said to God.
(Cengeng means whiny and very kiddy)

God, who are You?
Why do you want me to live a life? (*it's like asking what is the purpose of my life, but in a hillarious way)
You are awesome in the way that I can't handle.
Why did You want to love a person like me?

Ahhhhahha... Even I can't help but laugh. :D :D :D :D 
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TRAPPED: Page 3

Tis' so sweet to trust in Jesus...

 The third page of TRAPPED

'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, 
 and to take him at his word; 
 just to rest upon his promise, 
 and to know, "Thus saith the Lord." 

(end of 3rd page)

*Desc: Even if you think you've already made friend in Him, that Bad Guy would always threw his best to make you doubtful about your trust unto your best Friend.

KMUTT Graduation Day

TODAY is the graduation ceremony of KMUTT students. Wew!
There are a lot of flowers bouquet, dolls bouquet and Photobooth everwhere!

It's so fun to be there to take pictures with friend, but since I went alone 

(at first I didn't really decided to go there, I just wanted to find breakfast),

I just took photo of everyone.

Check 'em photos out!

 

The  ungraduated students gave farewell to their seniors.

Look at the girl! The umbrella with stars are so cool.

 This is my favorite one! Very awesome. They sell 150 baht each. Great!

 

It's so fun to be there. Congratulation for all graduated students of KMUTT! :)

Bonus: "She is a He". 

Found a 'female' graduated student.

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God Has Surprised Me

Imagine you are in a narrow and long road. You may stop for a while and realize that you don’t know why you are there. Then things like these come to your brain:

“Why am I here?”
“Why should I take this path?”
“What is the last junction before I took this path?”
“If I take another path, what will I find there?”

Now I am on such road. Why should I be here in Bangkok? Why should I take this money ‘robbing’ student exchange program to Thailand? Two or three times, I heard some discouraging words from people which were ignorant. Yet, I felt weaken and drowned in a situation; asking “Why am I here?”.

Then God surprised me.
I had a new family and new friends. A new understanding of who God really is.
I met Tim Eady, Natalie, Naveed, Pray, Christian, Yoshihiro and Sam. I met kak Reksi, kak Solya and kak Christian. They are all good christians which made me feel that my decision to go to Bangkok is the very right thing I could ever choose.

I love them, escpecially Tim Eady. He is an associate pastor of Christ Church Bangkok (he is like my father, but older; 60 maybe, english man). In the first day when I went to the small group meeting after Sunday service of youth there, I met Tim and others. Tim talked a little bit about the parable of talent and our needs to become the faithful and fruitful servants of Jesus. 

After that, we held a discussion about ‘confirming’ which is a public declaration of faith right before Bishops. It’s like confirming to everybody that you are really comitting yourself to follow Jesus. After the small group meeting, I talked with Tim privately and pulled out my confusion of infant baptism which is for some people, are not really a baptism. And I asked him that I want to declare my faith once more since that decision was purely mine, not of my parents. I also asked him to pray for my family. Then Tim asked me to join him in prayer. Tim asked God to come upon us and help me, and cast away my problems. Then in the lines of his prayer sentences, here came the words from my lovely Lord via Tim:

Do not fear. You are mine. You belong to me. I still have work for you to do.
You will have peace passes human understanding.

I was so happy and overwhelmed into the point where I broke into tears. It was so beautiful, my friend. To be declared by the Holy God as His possesion; It’s more beautiful than being declared as a powerful King or Queen. I’m not exaggerating. This question has troubled me for a long time; "how do I make sure that I have my part in His kingdom?" (I knew the answer was by believing, but what kind of "believing"? "Am I on my right path?", that kind of question). Then it was answered on that day. I am His possesion and I will not be taken away from His hands anymore.

I fell in love with Jesus once more.
His love had captured me again. I kept repeating those sentences in my head days after and my tears silently just poured out whenever I remembered it. I was so happy and believe it or not; I couldn’t keep my hands to let my bible idle on the table anymore (sometimes I skipped my lunch, searching for a hiding place like a quiet zone in the library to pray and read His words). Reading His words brings peace to me. I feel like there is a real change which is going on in me. I love Him more. I just really in love with Jesus. Why is He so beautiful and lovable? I can’t get over Him.

These things which God had already prepared for me long before I went to Bangkok are really surprising to me. Kak Reksi, another Indonesian from Kalimantan which I’m really sure that I wouldn't have any chance to meet her unless I enroll to the student exchange program; she is the leader of our small group of bible study; I got fellowship in her and she was a really good sister in God. She taught me and others a lot about bounding a good relationship with God. Not to mention other member, kak Solya and kak Christian, they are v-nice friends.

Naveed also, a very calm and gifted friend. He has in him a handful of knowledge which He believes come from the grace of God. He told me many stories, serious and really serious matters (one of the stories was a vision about That One bad guy from hell, and I just stopped him before he started telling the whole story because the street was so dark and I had to go alone a few yards before I reached home at that nigt :p ).

See? There are a lot good and unexpected things which God had have provided for me. I am happy that I always be in my trust of Him. I’m happy that out of so many people, He already chosen me as His belonging.  And I am ready to work for Him.

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Comic: Blanket and Ikan Pepes

Blanket and Ikan Pepes: a piece of my childhood memory.

*Description: I always wonder why I develop a weird habit since I was a little: pulling my blanket to cover my ears. I don't know why, but it helps me feel protected, until one day, my mom revealed this story. It really soothe me to think of my father held me in his arms while singing his song: Jesus, My Only Savior.

No Woman, No Drives

I found a very hillarious and truth-sounding video which was inspired by the popular jamaican song by Bob Marley: No Woman, No Cry. But instead linking his feeling about miserable relationship between a man and a woman, this Arabian (maybe) guy  from a channel named Alla Wardi (I don't even know if it was his name or not) made a music video about woman and their no-permit-of-driving situation they have to face.

Here it is: No Woman, No Drive

Beauty in Distortion

Have you ever listen to a beautiful classical music and you realize that it was neat?
I believe that there is a correlation between the tidiness of the notes and the enjoyment we feel.

BUT, there are some exceptions in this thing, actually, a lot of them; which I found on Indie music. One of them is this "hellish" and "alienist" song by Jared Sosa and Jamie Renee Williams. It is not neat for me, it feels like distortion, but I really like it. It really is something. Check it out:

Hair Cut: My Mother Will Disown Me

Apparently, I can't finish the third page of "Trapped" Project until this weekend.
So I made another comic about my new haircut.

 

 

Fin.

Train of thoughts: What the heck was I thinking?

can't sleep. thought something.

sometimes you just can't fathom
everything that had happened around you.
and the only thing you can deal with it,
is to let it go. like it's not a real problem.

whenever I think about this kind of thing,
I just kinda feel lonely.
but i'll accept that not everything in this world
is meant to be understood by lack-of-knowledge
creature like human. you just have to accept.

it's fine to be have principles.
at least you know that you're a lil' better
than some people that just wandering around
making joke on theirselves and their lives,
because you have something that they don't have:
something you believed as purpose.
but i doubt the purity of that type of life.
for your action probably has an ulterior motive in it.
to find what is right by holding some belief rather than 'go with the flow',
has the high probability that you want to make yourself right.
And I don't think that self-justify action will lead
you to your satisfaction of being "right"-er than other people.

but I can be wrong by other people's telescopes. I don't know.
It's just me with my thinking. I can't make other people
agree with me, for it's only myself that somehow
has a little bit control of my thoghts.
if there are some people that turn out to be agree with me,
it's just because they let themselves to agree with me,
therefore, I still have no control on their desires,
for they set their action on their own, not me.

anyway, i just want to see things more 'objectively'.
because most of things that surround
and haunt me all of my life are biased thoughts
that were derived from external subject.
i don't mean to say that they controlled my thoughts,
but I just let my guard down and gave myself
to be controlled by other people's thoughts.
i failed to be objective.
i know we can't one hundred percent be objective,
because the only thing that you can belief is your existence,
therefore, you will see everything based on your sight,
and make things subjectively valued by you.
but we do know clearly that we can filter
things we received, importantly abstract thing such as
thoughts, for i belief we have conscious as our heritage
from our anchestor. Be myself-subjective will be better
replacing 'objective' word.

whoaa... bedtime. already sleepy thinking of 'deep' things like this.

The Comic: TRAPPED (2nd Page)

Hello fellas! This is the second page of the comic Trapped: Squeezed by Love.
This is The One that I met...

 

(end of second page)

Yeah, it was Jesus. Later I'll tell how He became my friend.

See ya! :)

The Comic: TRAPPED (1st Page)

Hello, I think I can't upload the picture tomorrow for it'll be a busy day for me, uni stuff.

So this is it! The first page of the comic Trapped: Squeezed by love.
I don't mean to make you wait by only uploading the 1st page only,
because I didn't plan to color the images in the first place. IT needs a lot of work and time.

Anyway, please enjoy!

(the end of the first page)

Who was it? Please stay tune!

See ya next week! :)

Update of Upcoming Comic

This is the screenshot of my upcoming comic that I'll upload for the first time on Saturday this week.
Please stay tune! :)

hint: I use Amatica, the same font which was used by Dan Stever, the awesome animator I found on youtube, in the video 'Identity'. Check out his youtube channel on : http://www.youtube.com/user/danstevers

Upcoming COMIC

Whaazup, reader! Today I come up with some sort of 'commitment':

I'll make a new post every Saturday starting today! "HOOORAYYY!" #ConfettiAllOverTheScreen

And another thing is, I will upload a new comic about... I don't know what's that, just see it later. I've done that comic like a week ago, and I wasn't really sure uploading that stuff because it's kinda personal. Yeah, turning something personal into public needs a lot of consideration.

Let's finish the announcement stuff, because I'll tell you guys today about one of my subject at campus.
It is SOCIAL MEDIA class which is amazing because we're grouped with 3 or 4 other classmates and the group's project is to make a website or anything to pursue people liking the page or website using the social media technique that we've learn at class.

So.... MY group make a page in Facebook called
#DrumRolls



Yeah, I know. Before I can say "Gummy Bear's Yellow Pants", you'll already threw me a question related to the name. "What's that useless Hey Yeroga thing?" said the haters.

That is the abbreviation of our names.
He (Hendry Wibowo)
Ye (Jeremias Kuitunen)
Ro (Rowena Rurita)
Ga (Gabriella a.k.a cool girl)

And for Jeremias, the member from Finland, J usually pronounced as Y.
That's why we called it Heyeroga (Hey! Yeroga).
Sounds a little lame, but NEIN!! We're COOL! (just kidding (not really :)))

What do we do to attract viewers and likers (haters, turn around and suck your lollipop, you're not allowed here)? We make lame jokes. We make lame videos that actually really attract people to like our page.
Just see our lame stuff on our page: facebok.com/heyeroga

If you find it lame, try to point out the lame-ness (leave an advice and make yourself worthy to be listened).
Otherwise if you find it awesome, try to notification-bomb us by liking EVERY thing on the page, photos, albums, comment, or anything. We like it, seriously.

Thanks for watching reading,
See ya next week!

Dan Stever: Identity

Hello guys!
I recommend you to watch this christian animation by Dan Stever.
It helps me to reconsider my action everytime I sin. We as new christian tend to bring our sack full of past sins, but we have to move on and let God refine us day by day. Just watch it, say no more.

Dan Stever: Identity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ-WuFAlQlY

Have a nice weekend :)

Bule Bego. Chatuchak Story

Akhirnya setelah sudah hampir 2 minggu nyampe di Thailand, niat buat ngeposting pengalaman di negeri gajah ini kesampean. Jadi hari ini, saya mau bercerita-ria tentang perjalanan kemarin ke Chatuchak Market.

Dimulai dengan kepergian room-mate saya berlibur di sebuah resort yang agak jauh, maka saya ditinggalkan sendirian home alone kayak anak terlantar (berhubung biaya nginap di resort itu mahal, saya langsung mengabsenkan diri dari daftar kehadiran liburan itu). Sedangkan, teman-teman student exchange lainnya masih pada ngorok di kamar masing2 karena kecapean semalam menjelajah kebun ular (dari namanya saja, saya sudah merasa geli :D).

Saya sengaja mengambil kesempatan ini buat mencoba nge-bolang (bocah petualang) sendirian di tengah kota Bangkok yang luas ini. Soalnya selama ini, kami para  exchange student (ES) selalu didampingi Thai Buddies (mahasiswa universitas KMUTT yang membantu para ES selama masa orientasi di Thailand) dalam segala aktivitas jalan-jalannya.

Maka setelah meditasi beberapa menit (cuma beberapa menit, ga kayak Lizen, salah satu ES yang konon katanya, kata dia sendiri malah, meditasi berjam-jam setelah digoda bencong Thailand di 7 Eleven), saya memutuskan hari ini saya akan pergi ke Chatuchak Market. 

Market seperti apa sih Chatuchak Market itu? Market tersebut adalah market yang menjual segala cheap stuff yang berbau Thailand. Jadi biasanya banyak suvenir yang bisa dibeli di situ. Seharian saya udah denger banyak banget pengunjung yang berbicara dalam bahasa Indonesia. Ternyata kawan-kawan setanah air beli suvenirnya di Chatuchak Market. Karena harganya murah, bisa dibagi-bagi ke temen satu kampung tanpa merobek kantong (dengan sadis) ... :p

Flashback. Akhirnya jam 11 pagi, pakaian udah rapi, badan udah wangi, dan map udah di tangan.  Saya lihat peta, titik awalnya dari Pracha Utit 21 (dorm kami), tapi perasaan kok jauh banget ya dari jalur BTS (sky train)? Karena bingung sendiri, akhirnya saya datengin pemilik Bistro di lantai 1. Tanya-tanya sebentar, akhirnya ketahuan kalo Pracha Utit yang ada di peta itu berada di distrik yang lain. Jadi Pracha Utit road itu ada bejibun di Thailand, bahkan Pracha Utit kami ga ada di dalam peta itu (anehnya saya dapat peta itu dari kampus). 

Akhirnya Pi Aeh dan Pi Yam (pemilik bistro), ngejelasin gimana cara pergi ke Chatuchak, malah petanya digambarin sekaligus nomor bus dan berhentinya dimana (bonusnya: dikasih nomor telepon kalo ada yang mau ditanya).

Keluar dari daerah dorm, saya ambil bus 75 dan bertolak ke Big C. Dan dari Big C, ambil bus nomor 76 ke daerah Krung Thonburi Road. Dari sana, lanjut ke jalur BTS (stasiun Wongwan Yai) dan ambil tiket ke Stasiun Mo Chit (42 baht = 14700 rp), stasiun terdekat dari Chatuchak. FYI, Letak stasiun Wongwan Yai dan Stasiun Mo chit ini dari ujung ke ujung. Jadi saya melewati 14 stasiun sebelum sampai ke stasiun Mo Chit. Bisa dibayangkan betapa jauhnya tempat yang saya tuju kali ini.

Sesampainya di Stasiun Mo Chit, langsung kelihatan padatnya daerah Chatuchak, apa aja ada di sana, dari pengemis sampe pemain saxophone jalanan juga ada. Masuk ke Chatuchak, yang kerasa pertama kali adalah hawa panasnya, udah padat, panas, semua orang berebut oksigen, lengkaplah sudah. Tapi semua pengorbanan itu terbayar karena banyak yang bisa dilihat dan diamati di sana.

Galeri. Salah satunya adalah galeri artis-artis yang memampang banyak sekali creative painting yang profesional banget. Biasanya artisnya duduk di galerinya sendiri, jadi bisa tanya-tanya. Ada 2 galeri yang paling saya suka. Galeri 1, karya (lupa namanya)... Ini nih karya-karyanya:

Dan Galeri 2, draw in illustrator (namanya lupa juga) dengan karya-karya ini:

Draw in Illustrator ini ramah banget dan bilang: “If you wanna take a photo, please take the picture of the art only, not including me. I’m not comfortable with social networking.” Tapi dia ngomong ini sambil berpose. Sambil ketawa, saya motret dia beserta karyanya dan ngomong, “That’s okay, I’ll post it on facebook, twitter and instagram.” 

Topi.

Setelah itu, saya berenang di antara lautan topi super murah yang harganya Cuma 30 baht (10500 rp), setelah lama-lama memilih sampe yang punya muak ngeliat saya mondar-mandir aja, akhirnya saya beli topi-saya-bundar berwarna cokelat. Lumayan...

Thai Massage. Setelah itu, saya nyari second-hand book store dan setelah menjelajah kemana-mana, akhirnya.. ga ketemu juga. Tiba-tiba di samping saya, ada orang jepang yang tersesat terus nanya direction ke tukang buah (orang India) pake bahasa Inggris. 

Dan si orang India menjawab dengan logat indianya yang sekental kecap. Setelah si orang Jepang selesai nanya, saya langsung samperin itu orang nehi-nehi dan langsung tanya di mana second-hand book store,

“Oo.. Ok, OK, Al tel yuu wheree the second-hand buuk stoo... Yu siii hir,”
sambil nunjukin board gede gambar peta Chatuchak di belakang gerobaknya,
“We are hierrr... Ent the second-hand buuk stoo der in seksien 27, jassd go to the menstlit, fo-low deload antil yuuu faaaaain de colnel”

(Translation: We are here, and the second-hand book store there in section 27. Just go to the mainstreet and follow the road until you find the corner)
Mending dia pake bahasa tubuh aja deh ngejelasinnya daripada pake kata-kata yang malah bikin bingung. #tepokJidat

Setelah nyampe di second-hand book store, saya ketemu Thai Massage, dan karena paha saya pegel, mungkin akibat hampir 2 minggu jalan-jalan terus tanpa istirahat, saya delay dulu ngeliat liat buku dan langsung ber-massage-ria. 

Yang mijit saya adalah ibu-ibu tomboy yang tenaganya ngalahin kuda. Sebelum mijit dia nanya, mau sejam apa 45 menit (harganya beda tergantung durasi). 
Saya langsung bilang: “45 minutes!”
Tapi dia langsung narik kaki saya dan mulai mijit dan aduhaaaaaiiii... enaknya, 
lalu dia bilang: “1 hour is good...” Sialan! Dia pake trik! 
“Ok, ok, 1 hour..” akhirnya saya menyerah pada kehidupan Thai Massage yang licik ini. Hahaha :D

Ini dia ibu-ibunya:

 

 

Suvenir. 

Setelah itu, saya liat-liat buku dan... ga beli. Hehehe :p Soalnya uang saya udah kepake banyak buat ongkos doang. Yang penting kan pengalamannya #MenghiburDiri

Setelah 3 jam jalan tanpa henti, saya duduk sebentar beli Orange Juice sambil ngeliat-liat situasi pasar itu. Ngeliat bunga-bunga plastik (saya ambil fotonya, soalnya emak saya suka bunga), dan orang dari berbagai negara sibuk ngomong pake bahasa nenek moyangnya sendiri.

Saya kembali jalan dan sight-seeing (bahasa kerennya orang yang kepengen beli tapi ga punya uang :D) suvenir dan tas-tas yang keren. Harga di sini rata-rata murah, tapi untuk barang yang branded, harga tetap sama. Ada backpack keren yang kepengen saya beli, tapi ternyata harganya, hehehe... you know what I mean. Ini salah satu toko tas kulit yang saya samperin.

Bule Bego. Setelah 6 jam berlanglang Chatuchak, akhirnya, saya malah beli mangkok (40 baht) (mangkok itu perlu buat anak kos) dan pembatas buku (3 biji 60 baht) (pasti berguna buat diselipin di surat, biar ada Thai touch-nya).  Setelah itu saya pulang ngambik rute BTS lagi.

Ngomong-ngomong soal BTS, saya seneng ngeliat sistem kerja BTS, karena jujur ini adalah pengalaman pertama saya naek sky train, and I’m excited!  

Dan ada cerita lucu dan menyebalkan tentang perjalan pulang saya di rute BTS. 

BTS 101: Lihat peta rute BTS, pencet nomor yang tertera di stasiun yang dituju, lalu masukin koin sesuai dengan angka tersebut.

Dan ada bule bego yang super bego dan bego. Dia masukin koinnya dulu baru mencet nomornya. Terus dia sadar sendiri kalo belum pencet nomor, lalu mencet tombol cancel berjuta-juta kali. Aduh mas bule, ya mana keluar koinnya. Ga rela koin 10 bahtnya di telan mesin tiket BTS yang buncit karena sering makan uang haram (NB: mesin ini sering error, beberapa kali saya liat layar mesinnya error setelah orang udah masukin koin), dia tekan lagi tombol cancel-nya sampe akhirnya... “***ERROR***” kata layar mesinnya. SEMUA orang yang ngantri, termasuk saya jadi pindah ngantri ke mesin sebelah yang antriannya sendiri udah panjang. Petugas datang, dan semua jadi heboh. Dasar...

Dari BTS, saya ngambil bus dan sempat tersesat karena saya stop di Big C yang salah (banyak Big C di sini), tapi untunglah saya bisa ngontact Pi Aeh dan Pi Yam sampai saya pulang dengan selamat ke dorm saya.

Maka berakhirlah perjalanan nge-bolang. :D