2nd Task of Creative Writing

 A Little Story of Mine

Life is never flat. That is the way one of the commercial film’s catchy phrase saying about their product but it also happens in my life. Our lives, even we often think or feel it is flat or boring but in fact it never that boring. You born to this life, I believe for some certain meaning but you just don’t find it yet. Well, it is your task to find it out later while enjoying living in his world. My life is just as ordinary as a person could be but later you still don’t know idea if it will be extraordinary life. Life is so unpredictable but you can choose to live in what life with what destiny. I born as the second daughter in my family which consist of three female siblings. It is a very special position because as the second of three people, you can have both one older and one younger sibling. I came from middle class family who living just in an average life. My parent is a religious person, my older sister and her husband also religious people but my younger sister and I are not really like that. However, I do believe in my religion and God. I hope to believe in this religion in the rest of my life as a loyal Moslem forever. 

with my late grandma

I originally came from Semarang, a city that called the capital of central Java, Indonesia. However, I felt so pity if I just lived in Semarang in the rest of my life so I challenge myself to try independent life as boarding house’s student even the city just about 3 hours from my hometown. Yogyakarta is my choice. It is a nice city with nice people. I applied as 2010’s new student in the most favorite university in this city, and I accepted after being rejected by around five universities in different cities before. As new student who lived almost 20 years under Parent’s guidance, it is difficult but later after you get used and quickly adapted, no problem at all. Meet new people, new place, new environment are the best thing that you can get from life’s experience. Yogyakarta has two main elements as far as I concern. They are youth and culturism thing. This city is full of youth atmosphere as it known for “City of Scholar”. And this city is the right place if you want to know more about Indonesian culture especially Javanese culture. Recently, I just joined a totally new activity that I never try before. It is an activity that you can do your mission to preserve our traditional music instrument, Gamelan. Well, I’m not a professional player but I enjoyed as an amateur playing Gamelan instrument as I join our beloved English Literature’s Gamelan club known as “Prasasti” short of “Pradangga Sastra Inggris”. Here, we learn to play the instrument with a different feeling. Our genre is to be exact are contemporary so we have different way to play Gamelan without being left by new era with the modern generation. It is really satisfying to be a part of a young generation that realize about our local culture. I have already tried at the first when I was still in first semester to join Saman dance club but due to my lacking ability in dance then I just drop out. I have this intention to learn more about our local culture because I have no feeling of patriotism because actually I'm a big fan of Korean culture (music, film, drama, etc.). After joining Prasasti, I think I felt less guilty about that culture matter. That’s all for now and my life still goes on…

with "Prasasti"