Laboratory going Safety

Okay, first of all, I apologize for my posts are not made in English recently. It's simply because I'm quite busy with my "BPS" life (my work place) and rarely make drawings or illustrations. So, please enjoy the pictures below and I must tell you, I'm gonna do English (and illustration) posts again very soon. :)

Ehem...jadi kemaren 'kan aku pernah cerita kalau program BPS sudah resmi ditutup pada akhir November kemarin, dan sekarang kami sudah diangkat (sejak 1 Desember 2012 tepatnya) menjadi karyawan. Ya! Karyawan! Hehe. I always speechless kalau menyadari fakta ini. Tempat kerja saya ini dipenuhi anak jurusan teknik. Dan saya, ehem, MIPA.

Oke deh, anak MIPA yang suka menggambar. :D

Sejarahnya panjang. Jadi dulu itu memang perusahaan saya butuh beberapa orang lulusan sains murni (baca: kimia) untuk ditaro di lab. Dan saya juga pernah cerita kalau saya kemarin OJT paling lama di lab. Makanya aku sih udah siap-siap aja kembali ke "habitat" awalku waktu kuliah (as a lab rat, of course). Sampe-sampe di kosanku yang di Cilacap itu, barang-barangku masih kutinggal di sana. Karena emang biasanya tempat OJT yang didiami dalam waktu lama itulah yang bakal jadi tempat kerja kita nantinya.

Dan eh, saya salah sangka!

End of Chapter

Dear readers and friends, ternyata gak kerasa sudah setahun (gak bener-bener setahun sih) saya mengalami yang namanya "training BPS". Means, training-nya sekarang sudah selesai. Means, saya akan segera memasuki dunia kerja yang sesungguhnya. Di mana kesalahan seperti apapun, seyogyanya tak termaafkan dan tidak ada dalih "karena masih OJT" lagi. Well, begitulah. Kayaknya waktu cepat sekali berlalu. Pas lihat-lihat foto sebelum dan sesudah BPS ini, kok kayaknya banyak yang berubah ya. Inilah yang membuat saya tergerak untuk mengulas timeline BPS, khususnya dari saya pribadi. Buat yang sudah sering baca mengenai BPS Diary sepertinya sudah gak asing lagi sih. Tapi okelah saya bahas sedikit aja. Bahas dalam foto. (Lagi kelu nulis nih hehe).

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Cikole

Bisa dibaca di sini dan di sini.

Catatan OJT III: the Edge is Close

Hal yang kurang ngenakin kalau punya blog adalah, gerakan sama pikiranmu jadi bisa kebaca orang. Hehe. Yah.. tapi itu resiko sekaligus tantangannya. Bagaimana kamu berhasil mem-branding dirimu sendiri tanpa membiarkan orang mengetahui segalanya. Ok, without further ado, hari ini adalah hari terakhir saya di Cilacap. Bentar lagi bakalan capcus ke PLC setelah satu tahun masa pendidikan dan OJT di berbagai tempat.

A memento, for my lab head (a. k. a. my boss-to-be). In case aja, siapa tau saya gak balik lagi ke sini. Hiks.

The Three Options

This is a note about my friends. They have different thoughts about "what you have to do after graduate" and stuffs. But I'll just divide it up to three main thoughts. Some of them think that graduating a master degree after finished the bachelor degree is a big success, and it gets bigger when they have it free (means, they get scholarships). Some of them think that married in a very young age (say, in the early of twenty) is a success. And they need no other (the stuffs above will follow they said). Some of them think that having a great carrier in a great company right after the graduation is a very great achievement. Especially when they have some kind of ambitions, or have the kindness to "payback" to their parents (actually, it wouldn't ever fully paid, with everything your parents gave to you).

It's actually a picture of Jodie Foster. Made by me, a year ago.
Plain A4 sketch paper, pencil color and Photoshop.

How about my thoughts?

The Bloody KKW

Ehehm.. as usual, the "BPS Diary" will be written in Bahasa Indonesia (it's just too complicated to tell in English *ngeles).

Dari judul di atas mungkin sudah sangat obvious alias ketahuan banget kalau ini cerita detik-detik menegangkan dan berdarah-darah pas digentayangi deadline KKW. (Yang sudah lupa apa itu KKW, monggo buka postingan saya yang ini.) Yes, right. Jadi sekitaran awal Oktober kemarin, aku kelimpungan dengan KKW-ku yang belum kelar. Tau sendiri lah gimana perfeksionis dan terencana-nya dirikyu ini (baca: pemalas dan penunda). Akhirnya, dengan kekuatan "the power of kepepet" yang digembar-gemborkan Dewa Nuriz (siapa pula Dewa Nuriz? hehe), dengan ini KKW saya nyatakan:

SELESAI

TAMAT

THE END

Ternyata belum tamat.

Etttsss tapi tunggu dulu. Semua ini belum berakhir! Aku masih punya Pe-eR bikin presentasi powerpoint si KKW ini. Hmm sebenarnya sih udah nyicil sejak KKW dibuat, karena saya biasanya lebih mengedepankan tugas yang agak kurang penting tapi penuh detail seperti bikin powerpoint dibanding makalah-nya yang jelas-jelas harus mencapai 20 halaman A4 itu. Ditambah lagi, saat itu kepalaku mumet gak ketulungan. Mencari inspirasi nulis KKW itu ternyata gak segampang nyari bahan buat ditulis di blog. Hmm at least kalau di blog aku gak terlalu concern soal judge dari pembaca. Ini ruang publik lho. Tapi KKW? Yang bacain mungkin pembesar-pembesar di PLC sana. Sekecil apapun kesalahan, bisa jadi poin minus buat kehidupan trainingku. Terus, sempet-sempetnya pula gigi geraham bungsuku impaksi sehingga ada beberapa minggu penuh darah (karena habis cabut gigi) sebelum KKW selesai. Oke. Pembukaannya kepanjangan.

The Nusakambangan Project

So there's a small island south of Cilacap, Indonesia. The name's Nusakambangan. Despite its famous title as "the Indonesian Alcatraz", it also a tourism object that you might want to see. But well, it only has beach and ancient ruins from the Portuguese's conqueror era, it's quite worth to see. In addition, I don't really like beach. Because you know, I don't like to be wet, and I don't like to swim. It's a thing that only the lazy-bones could understand. lol.

Btw these are some photos we took from the island.

A view from the boat: there's a Pertamina ship! Woo hoo.

And Here Comes Alice (Again)

I told you in my previous post how much I love the kids' illustrated book. In fact, the reason why I put so many illustration in my blog is that I'm in the middle of practicing the children illustration thing. Not every illustration here is for children, though.

And I really love Alice In Wonderland. That whimsical feeling is a great influence in my artworks. By the way, I made this piece by accident. I didn't mean to draw Alice, though. But it just turned like this.

Another Alice In Wonderland?

The Gray Area

I am an over thinker. Yeah, that's for sure. Ini topik yang kontroversial dan saya katakan di awal bahwa saya belum menentukan sikap dalam hal ini.

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This activity is killing me.

Jadi beberapa hari ini tiba-tiba aku terngiang lagi dengan wacana yang sering sekali kudengar sejak aku masih SD. Ya. Bahwa menggambar makhluk bernyawa itu haram untuk orang muslim. Dalilnya? Banyak sih. Terutama di hadits. Aku yang gak tau banyak tentang kualitas hadits, tetap saja gak menemukan banyak cara untuk berkilah atau bahkan mencari pembenaran. Sempat pas SD sampai dengan SMP itu aku berhenti menggambar makhluk bernyawa (mostly, human. because human is the most perfect creature, yet the most amazing object to draw).

Crooked

Not sure if I make this right, but it happened that I drew this illustration while my mind was wondering (or you can say, crooked) and the IF's topic this week is "crooked" so I think it may be fit.

Wondering Mind
Color Pencil on B5 plain paper, Photosoph-ed.

Bizarre, no?

Awkward Days?

Ini sebenarnya bukan cerita yang penting. Tapi aku gak tahan untuk gak menceritakannya. Jadi gini, kira-kira saat ini mukaku mungkin bisa digambarkan seperti ini:

Semua ini ada alasannya.

Lima hari yang lalu

Ada acara training ISO, tempatnya di Bandung (O.M.G dah berjuta-juta tahun kayaknya aku gak nginjek Bandung yang notabene tempat lahirku ini). Dengan menghalalkan segala cara yang halal dan permohonan izin yang berlapis-lapis, aku yang sebenarnya belum boleh ikut-ikut dinas ini akhirnya diizinkan ikut, tentunya dengan syarat dan ketentuan berlaku. Dari Cilacap itu, kami berangkat pagi-pagi (13/09) dengan kendaraan travel yang kami sewa. Totalnya ada empat orang yang ikut, dua cewek dan dua cowok.

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So here I am. Doing my "KKW" with an incredibly slow speed. The history repeats. It was like, my 7th and 8th semester of college (with "skripsi" or my final project) life is coming again - in an uglier form! Hehe. Sorry for being so extra (or "lebay").

This is what happened. I got the projects, and then I think about how I am going to do the project. And then I'll plan about how I'll finish the projects. And then I'll figure how the project will turn out. See? Think. Plan. Figure. Where's the "do"? I think that's the part where I used to stuck.

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But well, forget about my KKW blabbing. It's something I have to do, not to blab about. Today is my college's 55th anniversary. It's a little late when I noticed because I turned my blackberry updates off so I didn't know when my friends suddenly changed their display pictures with the college's anniversary logo. Of course I didn't want to skip the excitement, so I also changed mine. I put my signature on it so people won't steal it. Artwork stealing is so "in" nowadays! Duh!

The "tweedledew loves you" part was my idea. Sorry! :P

Kerja vs Pekerjaan

*Instead of doing my "KKW" project (oh yeah, I'll blab about this ugly part, later), I have something in my mind. It's not really motivating, though. It's just for sharing. Not to mention that this is not really applicable, it's just a random thought. So yeah, read as you like. It's in Bahasa Indonesia. I'm too lazy to make it English, fyi. :P

KKW? What?

Jadi gini..

Sebenarnya, apa sih yang kita cari dari bekerja dan pekerjaan itu? Apakah uang? Apakah jabatan? Apakah self-esteem? Apakah... (isi sendiri).

Aku pribadi melihat kerja dan pekerjaan sebagai dua hal yang berbeda namun gak bisa dipisahkan. Kerja itu.. semacam kegiatan yang kalau tidak dilakukan, malah jadi tanda tanya besar: kalau gak kerja, mau ngapain?

If you can't fix it, STOP breaking it

At the end of August I was concerned by the shocking news from the west Kalimantan. You may have heard about this very sad story, about that died, burnt, orangutan. Yeah. That was really pathetic. I mean, smoke a confused animal and burnt it this cruel until it die; I was like, really?? We have to end this misguided act. Don't blame anyone. Or any industry (even if they are deserved it). Just, we people have to be more caring, or at least don't do anything harmful.

An orangutan campaign poster, made by me in 2010.

Maybe we should just stop being apathy. The world spins and time flows, and the nature even older, and broken. Same thing with the orangutan. Why do you think there are animals conquering the village? Because we people took and broke their village (yes. the forest) first. Remember this kid, Severn Suzuki said in the United Nations Nature Conference back in 1992?

Drive to Survive

What I bring to work.

Kostum pabrik.

Akhir-akhir ini aku disibukkan dengan aktivitas di tempat kerja dan tempat tinggal sementara (baca: kosan). Tempat kerjaku ini letaknya di kawasan industri di Cilacap. Sedangkan tempat tinggal sementara-nya, kira-kira 4-5 KM dari tempat kerja (gak terlalu yakin juga sih soalnya aku buta jarak). Gak kerasa juga tau-tau saja aku di sini sudah mau sebulan. Dengan pekerjaan yang mulai terfokus (must I say, this is OJT IIIb!), dan tugas-tugas yang mulai jelas.

Kostum lab.

Ada berbagai macam hal yang membuatku kerasan dan juga kurang betah di sini. Yah..maksudku, memang selalu ada lebih dari satu sudut pandang dalam melihat sesuatu hal, termasuk pekerjaan ini.

Cuma satu hal yang agak menyebalkan di sini. Di sini super duper sepi (ini opini yang tercipta dari pemikiran lebay penulis semata) kalau dibandingkan dengan Jakarta (ya iyalah). Terutama dalam hal transportasi umum. Untuk orang yang gak bisa nyetir apa pun seperti aku, ini jelas kerugian besar! Sejak SMP aku terbiasa naik kendaraan umum untuk sekolah. Bahkan sampai kuliah dan kerja sampingan itu, aku masih setia dengan kendaraan umum meliputi angkot, ojek, dan bis damri.

Two Versions of The Sky

First of all, I want to tell you that if you wonder where my latest post has gone, then I must say I hid it somewhere safe, until everything is getting back to normal. Sometimes you write things you think is right, while forgetting about other’s point of view. It’s just, I have no idea how to make things right, unless you tell me to. And I need it to be clear. You know, I’m not the brightest person in the world I can’t always decode your signs. But once again, seriously, I only write and draw, I mean totally no harm. I don’t mean to make anyone unpleased because my words are as sincere as I can spill without any special signs. But if I do so, just tell me straight ahead and I’d figure how to fix it. Like this hiding thing.

And well, this is the beginning of Syawal month, and three days ago we were just celebrate the Eid el Fitr. So.. Happy Eid Mubarak! Taqobalallohu minna wa minkum. May Allah accept our ibadat during Ramadhan, and forgive our sins so we can start over, starting this month.

The last day of Ramadhan's morning sky, taken with my BlackBerry 9670.