Holiday!

Is it just me or midnight is indeed the rightest time to make a blog post? Even I'm not that one who likes blogging so much tho. You know, right now I'm in the middle of a very long holiday. I mean it when I say very long, it starts from January 12th to March 5th (if I'm not mistaken), and this one's gonna be the longest holiday ever in my whole life.

I just finished my first semester at University, majoring in Public Health.
I want to talk a bit about my major, people who have no idea about this may say that all the graduates will work at Public Health Center (in my country, it is known as a place like hospital but 'more humble', because it mostly serves middle-low economic class people).
The truth is this major point ain't about to work in that one place. It is about how to increase the level of public health, and for the easy explanation I can say that if doctors first intention is to cure sick people, then public health graduates intention is to prevent people from disease with its many ways because in Public Health major, there will be specific studies like epidemiology, nutritions, environment health, occupational health and safety, health promotions, biostatistics, and health service management. And I tell you that's not as easy as people always think.

The truth that there will be people who always look down on this major will never fade away. I don't want to blame them, but sometimes the way they talk are just too irritating like we (Public Health students) don't have any bright future, like we'll do study, but we'll end up at a place with a low class, no fame, lack of earning because this major is (considered by them as) one of the strangest majors in the world. I'm not exaggerating, but really, that's the point I get from some ignorant people who talk nonsense about my major. And how dare those people easily laugh and think that Public Health Center is a low place whereas it saves so many people lives! And maybe I can't prove them right now about how this major is really important for the living, but watch me someday I'll make you guys know the taste of being reckless at concluding.
Well, I shouldn't be this angry anyway. Guess my anger is way too worth it for them. Sorry :p

Anyway, I'm gonna spend this holiday -like always- at home. I don't really make some big holiday plans that will cost much Rupiahs because, you know, I'm in the regret-for-being-wasteful situation. Lol. I'm almost 18 but my minds are sometimes even worse than a 10 years old kid's when it comes to saving money. Really. Especially when it comes to foods. I can't help buying good foods. Do you guys perhaps know the therapy to overcome this situation? Please contact me. Or maybe you can offer me a part-time job? That's also very welcome :D

Call me a kiddo, but I'm already sleepy at this hour in holiday.
Well, I'll be heading to dreamland, then. Bye!
Xoxo.

Soot

Suatu hari, Aghni, sahabat gue yang dalam hitungan bulan akan beranjak 18 tahun, nanya arti dibalik nama blog gue, Good of Soot, gue jawab "..nggak tau" But because that answer sounds too pathetic, I added "...soot itu kan jelaga Nos, noda yang item-item kayak di panci itu, yaaa semua yang jelek-jelek pasti ada baiknya..." Gue jawab dengan pede. Aghni nanya lagi "baiknya apa?"  Gue cuma bisa jawab... "nggak tau". Aghni tertawa keras. Gue juga tertawa. Menertawakan diri sendiri. That made me even more pathetic, right?

There is an exact meaning. But I don't understand how to say it directly. So in case Aghni has a walk to my blog, I guess you will find the answer here Nos :p

Soot. Jelaga. Gue juga baru tahu kata itu dari AADC. Ada di salah satu puisi buatan Rangga.

"..bosan aku dengan penat, dan enyah saja kau pekat. Seperti berjelaga jika kusendiri..."

Gue penasaran banget arti kata jelaga setelah denger puisi itu berulang-ulang. Akhirnya gue tau kalo jelaga itu adalah noda hitam, yang biasanya ada di panci-panci gitu. Tau kan? Nah, dulu gue nggak ngerti apa hubungan noda di panci sama puisi Rangga. Apakah Rangga merasa seperti noda panci ketika sedang sendiri?
Jawabannya tentu tidak.

Kata jelaga ternyata bisa dijadikan kiasan yang memberikan kesan gelap, sedih, muram dan perasaan-perasaan sedih lainnya.

Dan soot yang gue pake dalam nama blog gue itu, gue ambil pada makna denotasinya, meskipun gue nggak tahu apa kebaikan dari noda di panci, tapi yang gue maksudkan disini adalah sesuatu yang mungkin dari luar terlihat jelek, tapi pasti tetep ada kebaikan di dalamnya, meskipun cuma setitik. Tuhan aja udah menekankan kalau segala yang dibuat-Nya tidak pernah sia-sia.

Gue dapet satu tulisan yang sangat menarik di kompasiana.

“tak perlu dicuci sampai sebersih itu, kuali, panci, dsb.”

Aku bersungut-sungut, “kenapa?”

“Aku suka jelaga.” Katanya bangga. “Jelaga bisa memunculkan inspirasi bagi kalimat dalam karyaku.” Lanjutnya.

(credits to Winda Ari Anggriani http://bahasa.kompasiana.com/2011/10/12/jelaga-senyum-dan-rindu-400896.html)

Lihat kan? Kita udah dapet satu kebaikan dari jelaga. Menginspirasi seorang penulis :)

Jadilah gue pilih judul Good of Soot untuk blog gue. Sounds weird, indeed. But at least I know what I'm choosing ;) Dan siapa tau judul blog gue juga bisa menginspirasi orang, atau setidaknya menginspirasi diri gue sendiri.
 
Well, enough for now.
Bye! Xoxo

Greeting In Day 12 of 2013

I almost forget that I have this site. Lol.
It's January 12th in 2013. I'm not surprised that time flew so fast and I hope this year's gonna be another wonderful year. Well I don't know what I'm going to wish nor what are my resolutions actually, but I just want this one will be at least the same like 2012 where everything went rocky yet smoothly. Yea I don't say that my efforts to enter the University were that smooth but I just love how 2012 with its ups and downs brought me to a superb journey that I won't ever forget for my entire life. Much laughter. Crying eyes. High-spirits. Hesitations. Depressions. Disappointments. Fortunes. Amazing moments. New people. And in the end, 2012 closed my year cycle with peaceful and grateful mind. Thanks God for Your non-stop blessings. I can't without You.