The Finish Line

These are some parts i love in episode 17 of How I Met Your Mother season 9.

First, it's the conversation between Ted and Jeannete when Ted was trying to get Robin's locket back:

T: I'm being crazy? 

J: Yes! How long have you been hung up on Robin? Eight years?! And you're still killing yourself to fetch dumb little trinkets for her. That's crazy! I don't think there's a word for what that is. 

T: Actually, there's a word for that. It's love. I'm in love with her, okay? If you're looking for the word that means caring about someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything they want, no matter how much it destroys you. It's love! And when you love someone, you don't stop, ever. Even when people roll their eyes or call you crazy, even then, especially then! You just, you don't give up. Because if i could give up, if i could just, you know, take the whole world's advice, and move on and find someone else, that wouldn't be love. That would be some other disposable thing that is not worth fighting for.

Second, the beach scene when Robin insisted Ted to tell her the reason why he wouldn't ask her to not being friends anymore to save his relationship with Victoria:

R: I would have understood, you know? I mean if you told me that we couldn't be friends anymore, i wouldn't have liked it, but i, God, i would have understood 

T: I could never do that 

R: Why not? Ted, okay, i insist that you tell me why not 

T: No way 

R: Answer the question, it's for the bride 

T: I'm not gonna answer the question because you know the answer. You want to talk about my top five? There's no top five, Robin! There's just a top one and it's you. And the only reason i'm saying any of this is cause i know that it's not gonna change anything, you and Barney are getting married today. If i have to hold the shotgun myself, it's happening 

And at the end of the scene, Robin flew away and Ted finally let her go. It's very relieving and saddening at the same time. You know, it's been eight years he has not move on and now she finally has to go. That marriage really is the finish line for him to wake up from his delusion that he would someday end up with Robin.
I know you can't easily move on. Maybe we said we already move on but there's always that tiny hope in your heart that you somehow gonna end up with him/her. Until you finally see the finish line clearly like Ted, it will always be blurry, you'll never really move on.

#throwback #olddays

I like the bit that Barney used in The Naked Truth, one of How I met Your Mother's episodes. It generally tells how anxious Marshall about whether he'd get his dream job ---to be an environmental lawyer--- since he realized his naked-hangover-of-him-video was still on Youtube while his interviewer were doing "Google search" test about him. Meanwhile, at a 24-hour diner, Barney were trying to apologize to Nora, his crush, for lying to her by lying again. I didn't know how to react to that. He's awesome yet weird -,-

Okay, back to the topic. Shortly, after she knew that he lied again, she stormed out but it's not Barney if he couldn't get a woman back again. Yes, she melt and for return she asked Barney to list and tell her all his lies that he'd been done to get a woman sleep with him. Then they sat down all night long. At the end of conversation, Barney asked for another date. She said no, but Barney still hoped she would say yes. And Nora said "how do you still think you have a chance with me?", and Barney answered "because you sat here all night, you could've left right away, but you didn't:"

And that part punched me. cause i've been there, like Nora. Except for the Barney's part, or the whole situation, it was not precisely like that.

It was so long ago but it still vivid in my mind when i was asked if i wanted to stay a little bit longer. And before i realized, i sat again, continue the conversation, all day long. Since then i kept asking "do i fall for him?" but the other part of myself convinced me that i wasn't. If i could ask a half part of me why she asked that question to me while i was half-certain that i wasn't fall for him, maybe the answer would be "because you sat there all day, you could've left right away, but you didn't".

Belajar, Berbagi, Bergerak Bersama

Alhamdulillah, tahun ini saya diberi kesempatan untuk mendapatkan ilmu lebih dan teman-teman baru dari seluruh Indonesia dengan bergabung dalam keluarga besar Pertamina Foundation Scholars - Sobat Bumi Angkatan 3. Sebuah peluang yang hanya didapatkan oleh 460 mahasiswa dari berbagai penjuru nusantara. Pada tanggal 28 November hingga 2 Desember 2013, kami berkumpul bersama dalam 3rd Gathering Pertamina Foundation Scholars di Taman Wisata Gunung Pancar, Sentul. Seluruh pemuda hebat dari Sabang sampai Merauke berkumpul untuk belajar, berbagi, dan bergerak bersama. Kami diajarkan bagaimana mengenal potensi dan kelemahan kami dan bagaimana mengolahnya, diajarkan menjadi pribadi yang menyenangkan, diajarkan melayani sesama dan kemudian diajarkan berani membuat sebuah perubahan. Favorit saya dalah saat Pak Rhenald Kasali hadir dengan materi diskusi sebuah perubahan, bagaimana menjadi pribadi yang hebat, kisah-kisah inspiratif mahasiswa nya, dan sedikit presentasi mas Timmy (@alfatihtimur), tim Pak Rhenald, yang ternyata adalah founder dari kitabisa.co.id. Menarik sekali bahwa tidak ada materi mengenai bagaimana menjadi seorang pemimpin seperti halnya acara motivasi lainnya. Semua yang diajarkan berkaitan dengan moral yang baik dan kemauan untuk menjadi agen perubahan. Mungkin karena sesungguhnya semua pribadi adalah pemimpin yang pada dasarnya mengerti bagaimana cara memimpin. Hanya saja tidak semua orang mempunyai cukup keberanian untuk melakukannya, hanya saja tidak semua orang mempunyai cukup moral yang baik untuk menjadi pemimpin yang benar.

Taman Wisata Gunung Pancar, Sentul, Bogor

Makan siang di camp sobat bumi

 Ini yang berperan sebagai Mahar di laskar Pelangi. Dia bagian keluarga PFS 3

Outbond. Saat kebersamaan dan kebahagian jadi satu

Pembangungan Victory Tower dengan kerjasama seluruh keluarga PFS 3 :-)

Awalnya saya berekspektasi hanya akan mendapatkan ilmu dan teman baru, tapi ternyata setelah menjalani semua hal disana, saya merasakan beban moral dan tanggungjawab yang semakin besar. Tanggungjawab akan pengetahuan yang lebih. Bahwa saya yang mengerti sedikit lebih banyak harus menyebarkan dan mengajak teman-teman saya dan masyarakat lainnya untuk ikut tahu apa yang saya tahu dan kemudian bersama-sama bergerak bersama. Benar kata sahabat saya, Ririe Rachmania, bahwa setiap kesempatan adalah tanggungjawab. Semoga saya bisa mengemban amanah ini dengan baik. Untuk memulainya, saya akan berbagi materi yang pernah saya dapatkan dalam pelatihan di blog ini dalam jangka waktu dekat.

Seluruh keluarga PFS 3 dari Sabang sampai Merauke

Main-main ke Pertamina pusat di Jakarta.

Iseng ke photo boot di Festival Sobat Bumi kantor Pertamina pusat  

Mengusir kebosanan 26 jam perjalanan di bus

Killing time

Meskipun saat ini saya hidup dalam jaman yang serba saling menyalahkan tanpa solusi, melihat pemuda dari seluruh Indonesia dalam gathering kali ini, membuat saya yakin dan optimis akan kemajuan Indonesia 20-30 tahun kelak, saat kami, para pemuda sekarang, telah diberi kepercayaan lebih untuk memimpin negeri ini. Dengan berbagai logat dan bahasa, kami berbicara dalam satu hal, membawa Indonesia menjadi lebih baik. Saya berharap semangat itu tidak berhenti sampai disini. Semoga aksi kami nanti nya akan berdampak positif bagi lingkungan dan dapat menyebarkan semangat ke seluruh masyarakat Indonesia dan dunia.

Indonesia, bersabarlah, ijinkan kami belajar sekarang, untuk kemudian mengabdi kepadamu kelak.