Be Reminded

Ada beberapa ayat Al-Qur'an yang pengen gw post disini sebagai self reminder aja.

Q.S Thaha: 130
"Maka bersabarlah engkau (Muhammad) atas apa yang mereka katakan, dan bertasbihlah dengan memuji Tuhanmu, sebelum matahari terbit, dan sebelum terbenam, dan bertasbihlah (pula) pada waktu tengah malam dan di ujung siang hari, agar engkau merasa tenang."

Interpretasi naif gw ini adalah perintah untuk sabar menghadapi apa kata orang. Caranya gimana? Sebutlah nama Allah di waktu-waktu yang ditentukan: solat. Nggak eksplisit nyebut subuh, dzuhur, ashar, magrib, atau isya. Tapi kita tahu dengan keterangan waktu-waktu di atas itu kurang lebih adalah solat 5 waktu plus tahajud.

Q.S Thaha: 131
"Dan janganlah engkau tujukan pandangan matamu kepada kenikmatan yang telah Kami berikan kepada beberapa golongan dari mereka, (sebagai) bunga kehidupan dunia agar Kami uji mereka dengan (kesenangan) itu. Karunia Tuhanmu lebih baik dan lebih kekal."

Ini untuk mengingatkan gw bahwa jangan lihat kesenangan orang kemudian ngebanding-bandingin sama kesenangan sendiri. Apalagi di sosmed. Karena toh kesenangan juga adalah ujian.

Q.S Thaha: 132
"Dan perintahkanlah keluargamu melaksanakan salat dan sabar dalam mengerjakannya. Kami tidak memberi rezeki kepadamu, Kamilah yang memberi rezeki kepadamu. Dan akibat (yang baik di akhirat) adalah bagi mereka yang bertakwa."

Kalau ini reminder bahwa solat itu memang nggak gampang loh, bagi gw pribadi ya. Belum bisa tepat waktu, karena kalau lagi di tengah-tengah kegiatan sesuatu gitu pasti tanggung: "nanti 15 menit lagi". Jadi, memang harus bersabar. Gw menganggap bahwa sesuatu yang diperintahkan sabar itu adalah sesuatu yang emang bukan main-main dan nggak gampang, salah satunya ya solat. Bersabar artinya, bersabar menunda pekerjaan dulu karena sudah waktunya solat. Bersabar untuk berhenti nonton atau ngobrol karena sudah waktunya solat. Bersabar kalau lagi solat, pikirannya jangan pengen cepet-cepet beres gara-gara gak mau ketinggalan gosip, misalnya. Overall, berjuang dalam sabar karena ini adalah untuk mencari ridho Allah juga Sang Pemberi Rezeki.

Q.S Al-Anbiya: 35
"Setiap yang bernyawa akan merasakan mati. Kami akan menguji kamu dengan keburukan dan kebaikan sebagai cobaan. Dan kamu akan dikembalikan hanya kepada Kami."

Sudah jelas: Kami akan menguji kamu dengan keburukan dan kebaikan sebagai cobaan. Another statement bahwa kebaikan pun adalah suatu cobaan. Kan ayat itu nggak menyebutkan bahwa "menguji dengan keburukan sebagai cobaan". Tapi, keburukan plus kebaikan adalah satu paket cobaan.

Q.S Al-Anbiya: 37
"Manusia diciptakan (bersifat) tergesa-gesa. Kelak akan Aku perlihatkan kepadamu tanda-tanda (kekuasaan)-Ku. Maka janganlah meminta Aku menyegerakannya."

Ini pengingat banget: "nah lu tuh suka buru-buru, wa!". Wajar sih karena sifat manusia diciptakan begitu, tapi bukan untuk dipelihara manja, melainkan untuk dimanfaatkan bijak. Jadi inget masalah nikah. Atau apa pun lah yang suka ditanya orang kalau basa-basi. Bisa aja kan ada kasus: "iih pengen cepet nikah" terus orang tersebut berdoa: "ya Allah, mudah-mudahan aku cepet nikah". Ya gw juga mau sih nikah, tapi nggak doa gitu kok, beneran :p. Maksudnya, Allah juga tahu kok waktu yang tepat buat kita untuk akhirnya mampu mengemban rezeki yang selama ini kita minta.

Kalau ada yang sama-sama merasa diingatkan, alhamdulillah. Tapi insyaallah tujuannya ini sih untuk pengingat pribadi aja. Sebelum akhirnya ketumpuk sama jumbled information on my brain. ;)
Oh, ada lagi sih ayat yang pengen gw share. Al-Anbiya juga (currently recite it), tentang penciptaan bumi, I guess. I'll share on the next post.

Cheers!

You Look Like My Next Mistake

I was scrolling on my Path timeline and suddenly found photo of my ex-crush aka someone who sent a rejection message by sending no message at all this early June and I am still trying to get over him lol and I was speaking to myself:

"Look at that face. You look like my next mistake. Yeah, that's what I should've said the first time I saw you."

And I was like, *gasp*

I literally recited Taylor Swift's Blank Space while I had no intention to sing at all.

Oh my God, now Blank Space is a complete sense to me.

I FEEL YOU, TAYLOR SWIFT.

Laugh Like An Idiot

I have a lot of spare time. Even in the office. I get bored easily and the only way to entertain myself while pretending to work is browsing Youtube.

Youtube is kind of my playground. I mean, imagine, I can actually find everything in it. Google is of course the ultimate search engine, but when I want to understand something quickly (because I'm a visual person), then Youtube comes in handy. I can watch news, listen to some music, watch inspiring talks and videos (Ted Talks, for example) and of course laugh at silly things.

My current fav channels on Youtube for laughing my ass off (alias ketawa bego) is Pewdiepie and Edho Zell. Idk guys, but for me they're hilarious.

I knew Pewdiepie from Rendy, my former office friend. He used to play some games in the office (at lunch break and after hour) which apparently had stories on my liking: Sherlock Holmes (forgot the real title), The Evil Within, Outlast, Outlast: Whistleblower, DreadOut, and Daylight. I loved watching Rendy played it because I was too coward to play those horror games by myself, haha. But I was excited to follow the story, especially Outlast series (like, best horror game ever!). One time Rendy talked me about a guy whose reaction is always funny towards the game he plays. He typed Pewdiepie on Youtube search and yeah this guy is pretty much yell and swear at everything, haha.

Here, take a look when he played Surgeon Simulator. My, the game itself is stupidly hilarious:

From his videos, I have watched some amazing games, like The Last of Us, Beyond Two Souls, Heavy Rain, Life is Strange, Infamous: Second Son, and Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy. All are story-oriented games, I mean, Pewdiepie also plays other games too like Mortal Kombat, GTA, horror and some random funny games. But those are my favorite, as you can tell, due to its good story. Well, what's funny in Pewdiepie is his sarcasm, swear, and 9gag-ish jokes which gets me everytime. He has became my daily dose of laughing since January this year.

The second channel is the one that I found just recently, about 3 days ago. He's one of Indonesian Youtubers who posts funny parody and sketch comedy. Usually I found them as boring and cheesy, but this Edho Zell guy is somehow spontaneously original and amusing.

Here's him doing parody of Syahrini:

I found his channel from Dagelan's instagram, an absurd comedy compilation that most of Indonesian can relate. Last Wednesday night I watched almost all his videos and probably scared neighbors by laughing in the middle of the night. I think parody is funny because it's true. Go check Sacha Stevenson's Youtube channel too that depicts how (most of) Indonesian behave on her "How to Act Indonesian".

So, yeah, those are my escape from routine at the office or just simply one of ways to.. laugh like an idiot whenever I need. :)))
What's yours?


Cheers! 

:')

"You know what you should do? Get a scholarship in England, Hawa."

"I've tried, really."

"Don't give up then. It takes hard work and huge amount of effort. But it's well worth it in the future. The pain is only temporary, the victory is everlasting. Jeez, how cool was that, haha, I just made my own quote."

"Hahahaha, I was just typing that I should write your words on top of Big Ben picture, print it, and frame it."

"Hahaha, I'm flattered. Maybe I should make a living from making quotes. Right, that would be a good career choice."

"Yeah, you should."

You, narcissistically funny guy. Thanks for have crossed my path for a while. :')

Healing A Wound

Everybody has a scar.

Some prefer to hide it. Some write it into a cheesy poem. Some sing it. Some heal it with pray and happiness. Any way, we are walking pass each other without knowing the real struggle inside.

We are all imperfect. Smile over the pain. Live over the tears.

I wrote it 3 days ago in the morning at office. Feel a bit broken-hearted back then, haha well not really about "love", but yes a bit broken. My self-esteem somewhat dropped at that time. You know, the time when you feel vulnerable and unwanted.

But then I realized that everybody might be feel the same way, with a different issue.. that everybody is struggling inside, hiding the pain with smile and laughter.

I do that recently. There is a chaos in my mind (probably due to the woman jumbled-boxes-mind thing that I wrote on the previous post :p), a battle to categorize and finish every tasks. Sometimes I feel so alone and broken. But life goes on, I have to function as human, means I have to do daily routine, I have to socialise, I have to do this and that. And some of the things that bumped to me along the days, weeks, and months can lift and cheer me up--which is nice. :)

So, Hawa, you may be feel bitter in the morning (or night, depend on the event :p), but eventually you will feel better.

It is true the stimuli of both physical and emotional pain is processed in the same way in the brain. Basically our brain cannot distinguish which wound is physical and emotional because both are coded in one language: "hurt". What I'm trying to say that an emotional pain is like a physical damage, that finally recovered as the time goes.

Well.. that's what life all about, eh? :)

Oh iya, satu lagi, hampir lupa. Karena tadi pagi juga felt miserable about moving on (oh God no, it's not about my break up) and then my best friends from Hayang Nyingkah United comforted me with these golden words:

Kalo kata Veness: "Yakin aja sama apa yang udah dipilih. Soalnya mau milih mana juga pasti ada resikonya."

Kalo kata Mei: "Yang tidak mudah dari N salah satunya memang ini, tapi untuk itulah kita bikin U, biar sama-sama menguatkan dan H kita akhirnya tercapai."

Yes, Hayang Nyingkah United (HNU) is a Whatsapp group. Dibuat karena kami bertiga memiliki visi misi yang sama (you Sundanese probably can guess it easily :p). Sori advice-nya Mei emang rada decoded hahaha, typical Mei. :))

Cheers!