ASTRONOMICAL DATE between Me, My tab, and Mysore sky...

Hey hey...sunday morning here. How was the sleep, folk? I hope u got great quality sleep though.

Well, it is about the date last night that i had. I call it, ehm, THE ASTRONOMICAL DATE, because it is just a date between me, my tab, and mysore sky. Last night the date didnt go very well though because u know, rain came and i had to end it soon.

I usually do this kind of date every saturday night. I bring my chair to the roof top or sometimes just a sheet so i can lay down and have an intimate look to the mysore sky. I rarely see the falling star here, but so far, the sky is very interesting especially in summer like this time. I see some cloud and arrange my own character and a story goes there. One time i even ever fall to sleep under the summer wind breeze and wake up in the midnight. My house is kind of safe as i am the only one who stays in this building, so by locking the gate downstair i am sure no one will harm me. Well, call me a GEEK, but that is just me, i can find peace even just watching to the starful sky.

My tab is necessary, because u know, it is kind of the only friend i have. I bought this tab two years ago, before i fly to India, and so far i am happy with his accompany. Well, kind of awkward i call it a HE because that is how i take this tab, a friend, a date, an undefeated man. Can u imagine, which man in this world, can understand me, better than my tab? If i want song, he will sing. If i am lost, he will show me the way by his GPS. If i need information, he can always answer me. If i want to wake up early, he will wake me up by his alarm. He never rejects, never angry, always accompany hahah. So no wonder i consider him as the best man ever! I am so happy and grateful for having this tab. We are just...happily coupled *wink*...

Now hmmm about me and mysore sky. Truly i never imagine i will see a sky from India land. I always dream i will go to US or europe to continue my study. India has never been occured to me to fly to. I just heard about this country from the movies, Shah Rukh Khan, and well, the dance. Thats it! It never occured to me that i will really fly to this country.

Hmm, two years ago, i arrived here with confusion. I arrived in Bangalore airport, and cried for the first time. All the food are masala food! Gees, i didnt eat for one day after i arrive here and finally feel sooooo much "alive" after i saw KFC hahaha. Evdn there, i felt the chicken is kind of different. I almost run back to my country on my first week in India. But u know, as i am a government employee, it is not that easy to cancel a study plan. Many papers should be run in Jakarta for my study leave and it will be so much ridiculous to run back.

Mysore was also very harsh cold for me. The first week i got asthma almost everyday. I slept on the floor only because i still have no home. I walked to campus until my chappal broken hahaha. Well, what a hard time. Until finally, i got a home, bought a bike, and get adjusted. I also felt stupid the first time, because this is my second master degree, i already had Master of Education from my country, so for the first beginning in Mysore, i always ask "what the hell i am doing here?".

But now, almost two years now, i saw again Mysore sky. I know i will miss this sky. The wind breeze. The people. The food. I know for sure that I have studied so much in India. The professor just gave me the best of knowledge and i can never thank them enough for that. Not to mention some Indian author who wrote a very simple book for science that i can understand better. Not to mentiom the cheap price and i always choose to xerox it hehehe.

I will surely miss Indian food. I really dont know what i should do when i want to eat panipuri, or gobi, or butter chicken, God, how am i supposed to do for getting those food in Indonesia? In addition, i will miss this cold weather. And oh, the house, i can never have this kind of home for rent in Indonesia. And the people. I will miss the feeling when i sit in classroom, listenning to professor, and some friends i spend my time with. I will surely miss the street of mysore, the palace, the bakery.

Last night I whispered to the sky. I promised my adventure to seek for education will not stop until India. I will keep studying until I die. I will see again another sky from another part of the world. Right now, i am already doing some preparation to go either Japan, New Zealand, Australia, or even Germany. I will not stop here. I will see the same sky from  differnt part of the world. And u know, i did tell Mysore sky, not to be jealous, because whenever I am, I will always in love with the stars I saw on Mysore sky!

*wink*

Dedicated to Mysore sky, my tab, friends, professors, everyone that i met here, along my adventure to longlife education!

I will miss u all, surely...

Still in Mysore, April 20 2014

A friend, an enemy, a student.

NURUL KASYFITA

Graduates, think twice, act wise! ONCE IN A LIFE TIME IN INDIA, WITH LESS PRICE!

Hey hey hey, it's me again, babe!

Well, sorry for all the readers in Indonesia, this post will be in English only. As it is about the situation I am having currently in Mysore.

Mmm, right now I almost finish my study in Mysore University and it is time to throw that hat to the open air. Graduation, yay!

Of course we will need some kind of party for that what i call as "once in a life time in India" :-). Well, hopefully, this will not be my last graduation party as I am planning to apply doctoral even another two post doctorals ahead in the future, i hope. So, i call this event as "once in a life time in India".

We are having two polar parties right now. One, is initiated by FISA M, and the other is initiated by ISO M. As both are having followers from many countries, so both are equal to attend. However, as FISA M is previously formed then it is considered as "more legal, more authorized".

As i am an observer, i will not decide one thing before i undersrand what is going on in it, so I attended one of the ISO M meeting, and...i collected more and more information and finally come to my conclusions. Here are some of my observation and thoughts that may help u to make your decision, graduates!

One, these both are unofficial event
Hey, our convocation is still next year, people. So both the party either by FISA M or by ISO M is only the ACTING of having graduation, excuse my phrase. The real convocation is still next year. Just first thought, for unofficial event, why should spend so much big money as like mmm one month my house rent? If we can still get a picture, certificate, gown, food with only 1000 rupees why should pay more? Well, 2100 for unofficial (why, why?) and...1000 for the same unofficial (hey, why not?), think, think, graduates, think twice, act wise!

Two, transparancy Matters
Well, if the same unofficial event can be done with less price, it indicates that it can be done with less price. It is both unofficial, so why should pay more? Then, also, we need to know where our money going. Money does not grow on a tree, nor falling from the sky. We should appreciate each paisa that we spend. As the phrase says "ONE PENNY UNSPEND IS ONE OENNY SAVED". So again, think twice, act wise, graduates!

Three, BEEP for the metal certificate
Why we need a metal certificate? It will BEEP the metal detector in airport as i fly back home. And in Malaysia, as I will pass that country, they may open all my lugage for that BEEP :-). I dont want to get trouble on one metal certificate that i am dying to carry back home for its pricy cost. So, i want a good quality printed paper which i can frame later on as i arrive back home. Besides again, people, this is still unofficial. Why spend so much?

Four, MORE GRAMS for that metal certificate
Think again. We all will fly home with all things that we can carry from India. Of course this certificate will be included. So, think again, a framed metal certificate will ADD a few grams in our lugage back home, people. Why not carry a simple certificate and frame it later in home?

Five, both are equal
Ok, here is the most essential part. Both FISA M and ISO M are equal. In this event, they both are EVENT ORGANIZER. No such thing of getting a banned from International Centre or getting un official certificate. Both are un official. The official one is next year! So, if the others offer less price for their service, why should pay more? Think, think, think twice graduates!

Well, decision are now in your hand, people. Put one hand and say "2100 for graduation party" and the other one "1000 for graduation party". Just read my thoughts, think twice, and act wise!

Ok, sleepy now. Sleeping beauty has to sleep anyway :-). See u at the 25 guys! Lets have a ONCE IN A LIFE TIME GRADUATION PARTY IN INDIA, with less price and better service! Hope i can throw my graduation hat with all of u there, friends!

Off now. See u tomorrow, earth!

Still in India!
Mysore, April 5 2014

Nurul...

The Internship: Google versus Muggle!

Hey there!

Well, unusual than my other post, this post i will write in English, or, if i have time later i will translate for the readers from my country. Honestly, I prefer to write in my langugage, not because of my lack of English, but because i want what i write is well absorbed there, for the students, friends, back in my country, Indonesia.

But for this post, i would like to write it firstly in English, as I thought some of my ideas will be better delivered with this type of writing.

Well, tonight i had a great night with a movie called as The Internship. I saw this movie on BM teatre near Easy Day supermarket, but those was exam time, so well, this movie just pass me. However, i managed to get the DVD when i back to my country and well, after two months, i finally managed to watch this movie.

It has my two favorite stars, Vince. Vaughn and Owen Wilson. First time, i thought that this will be a boring or not too crispy comedy. Especially as i saw the pictures.

It started with two 30+ guys, Billy and Nick losing a job. They merely have a skill other than being a salesman, but in this internet era, well, they lost the job. Suddenly life becomes dark for them. Accidentally, one of them, Billy, hit a search in Google and found out that Google offers an internship during summer which will be followed by a full time job at the end of the internship for the qualified team. Suddenly these two guys, which has very low skill are accepted and should compete between those youth, genius and Google generation. Billy and Nick looks like a father in the kinder garten school. They join the internship with bunch of youngers with different era.

They, then, made a team with Lyle, a clumpsy manager, Neha, an Indian with low self esteem, Yo Yo from China who just know discipline as the only language, and Stewart, who mostly plays with his gadget. It is a comedy of a gap between the Google and the Muggle. :-) that is how i call it! Google and Muggle, it just has rhyme, doesnt it? ;-)

Who is Google? Well, Google generation is the young one. The Lady Gaga generation. The one who was raised by computer games, gadget, chatting, twitter. The one who only knows smiley for smile expression, need to put hashtag in each of their language, and mention his mom on facebook, even if his mom is sitting next to him. I call this generation as BOWING GENERATION. As everywhere they go, they always bow to their gadget. One second they sit either in train, bus, plane, what they do is just pulling out gadgets and bow! Their head is always bowing to the small inches of the gadget! Reading lines by lines, or typing something and laugh by themself. For couple, or husband and wife, this is the generation who type mostly :-* to their spouse account, but seldom do it in real. This is what i refer to, as life without essence. Talking to no one in real is like having a cigarette without tobacco or drinking beer with zero alcohol. This generation is refered in this movie as the youth. The google generation, i call it.

And who else is the Muggle? Well, I borrow this expression from Harry Potter actually. If u are not familiar with Harry Potter, there are two kinds in Harry Potter, one is the wizard, ones who has magic power, and the other kind is the Muggles, the ordinary people, or, i said as the one who doesnt know anything what is going on in the world. Just to simplify the world OUT DATED :-). I think that i mostly fall to this generation. In this generation, we were born in 1970-1980. We were raised by hoola hop, running on field, playing kite, and very seldom we have the video games to babysit us. In my age of growing, i dont even have a complete channel tv. Even tv was black and white at that time. We dont even understand what twitter is, or else, what instagram is. Thank God if we still know how to use Facebook and. Whatsapp so the Google generation will not be more laughing on us.

In this movie, Vince Vaughn as the director, really make the gap between Google and Muggle become connected in such a sweet way. The Google, well, we know that they are superior. They know everything just based on their finger tips, everything is just a click away. In this movie, both Billy and Nicky get shocked that the young even know about Star Trek but both Billy and Nicky doesnt even know what instagram is. The phrase "the older know better" really lost its meaning. The Google generation really shows that they know more than the elder. Everything is just one click away!

However, what has lost from the Google generation is overcome by the Muggle here. Google generation has lost what so called as real life experience. They grow up in the safest way, until they can not smell the fresh air, due to pollution, they never fall and hit the ground because they are babysat by the computer and tv, they dont know how to communicate with people, as they just know how to type and read. Google generation lost the power of dream, the confidence, the courage to fall and get stand again. Because in Google generation, help is just to push the F1 button, if u dont know something, just Google it, if u lost, GPS is there for u, if u dont know how to back park your car, there will be the navigation, and even if accident happen, there will be air bag so it will be minimum injury. But the Muggle generation, they are tougher. They are raised by the wind, running in field, fall down, get injured on knee, and stand again. This what has lost from the Google generation. They even forget the smell of the old dusty book in library due to those pdf books, or how fun it is to read the ordinary dictionary instead of using those instant translator ;-).

And this is so sweet how Vince brought all into the movies. He showed that the Muggle should learn lots of knowledge from the Googles and to keep up with them, but also the Google should learn from the Muggle about courage, real life communication, real fighting, confidence, the fun of fail and stand up again. Google generation has all what it takes to be success theoritically, but in practice, they should learn from the Muggle. The Muggle like me who was raised by type writer not a computer, yes, we type more careful than those youngers because they can easily delete the mistake by pressing BACKSPACE button. That makes us, the Muggles, more aware of failure, but yet more careful and has more courage. But again there is no BACKSPACE button in life, u can not UNDO life. When trouble comes, u can not SKIP or ESCAPE it. U should face it, thats it. And this is what a Muggle generation is enriched with. We are not the bowing generation, we are the stand up generation, we face life, and deal with it! We have the confidence to dream and to fail at the same time!

However, Muggle generation is not the God of the era, they also need to learn from the Google generation. Once in a while, they should learn how to post a picture on facebook, or how to type by a computer and that spacing is not done by rolling a rolling sheet on your typewriter, but by pressing a space button on a board named as keyboard. The Muggle should be adapted that life changes. People do not listen to walkman anymore, there is ipod or MP3 player. There is no more Video tape, everyhthing is on youtube to download. We dont use floppy disk anymore, but yet we shouold know that is a thing so called as pen drive. Otherwise we will be left behind by the age. Maybe we can not use more of the twitter, but we should know that there is a twitter. In this movie, Billy is hillariously saying that ONLINE as ON THE LINE :-) to show how Muggle he is!

Well, overall, this is a great movie. Mostly recommended by me. This is a good movie how a gap between the elder and the younger is being communicated in such a sweet way. Not by hurting each others, or by saying that the elder knows better. Surely the Muggle has more experience and ready to fail more than the Google generation, but to study more theory in order to avoid un necessary failure is also not a big sin, isnt it? And Google generation, u guys should stop bowing once in a while. Shut down those tab, laptops, and those smart phones. Once in a while, go outside, smile to people, i mean really a smile not a :-). Running in field, feel those pain when u fall down. This world is a bigger place instead of those two inches screen gadget! Smell the coffee and wake up! I mean, real coffe, with caffeine, not the simulation coffee u saw on your laptop screen! :-)

Ow and to make it sweeter, Vince put a cocky character played in British accent, from one of the student who finally fail by his cockiness. A sentiment of an American to a rigid British, i suppose. Just my opinion, anyway. :-)

Again, u should watch this movie to feel how i feel tonight. It is truly a great and positive movie to watch. Light, but yet enlighten u, in such a good way!

Sweet, but not oversweet! Has a moral value, a sympathic communication between a Google and a Muggle. Marvelous!

Then what happened with Billy and Nick then? Hmm, of course, as one of the Muggle, even u can read the reviews by google it, Google generation, or download it by youtube, again, as i am the Muggle, I suggest u to watch it by your real life experience then ;-)!

Mysore, April 1 2014.

Me, whom is still in India!

Untuk para calon pemenang hidup: INCREDIBLE U! INCREDIBLE ME!

Hey hey there!

Ni saya lagi nih. Meskipun saya sdh disuruh istirahat oleh asisten prof hari ini, yah mata saya menolak utk tidur. So, drpada berkelahi dg mata yg gak mau bobo, mending saya menulis yah! Oh ya, trmksh yaa msh sudi membaca tulisan saya. Meskipun yah, isinya gak lebih dari tulisan picisan hehehe.

Kali ini tulisan saya adalah ttg bagaimana memenangkan hidup. Wuih, seriusnyaaa tulisan :-). Tentu saya bukanlah pemenang hidup, belum, tapi saya juga belum kalah, selama saya msih hidup, well, saya dapat dikatakan pejuang hidup. Tentu lucu ya membaca tulisan bagaimn memenangkan hidup dari seseorang yg seringkali "terjungkal" oleh hidup seperti saya. Tapi anggaplah saya seorang yg gagal yg saking serringnya gagal jadi bisa memetakan kekuatan musuh hehehe. Tapi jangan ditiru kegagalannya ya. Semoga tulisan ini bisa sedikit memberi penyejuk bagi siapapun yg sedang sulit hari ini. Karena seperti yg saya sebutkan, kita didesain untuk jadi LUAR BIASA. Yes, the incredible. INCREDIBLE U, INCREDIBLE ME!

Jegalan hidup itu macam macam, kawan. Ada yg mendapatkannya dari kesulitan keuangan, akademik, kesulitan menemukan pasangan, kesulitan berkompromi dg pasangan, perpisahan, penyakit, korupsi, macam macam lah. Ada yg mendapatkannya di saat masih kecil sekali seperti Najwa, anak saya, yg hrs tdk beribu di usia yg msh sgt kecil. Atau saat dewasa. Atau saat tua renta. Ada yg mendapatkan jegalan hidup dari orang lain semisal orang tua, suami, istri, atau anak. Ada yg mendapatkan jegalan hidup dari dirinya sendiri. Bagi saya, saya adalah penyebab kesulitan yg dialami Najwa. Saya juga penyebab kesulitan bagi diri saya sendiri. So, bagi saya sesakit apapun yg saya alami, saya berusaha menutupinya. Saya menghukum diri saya sendiri dg itu. Yah, jika pun ada satu dua keluhan muncul di status fb saya, itu pasti telah melewati kadar pedih yg bisa saya tahan. Walau bagaimanapun, saya hanyalh ibu yg merindukan anaknya. Sesalah apapun saya...

Ok, lantas bagaimana ya spy kita bisa menjadi pemenang hidup? Hmm mungkin lebih pasnya adalah bagaimana kita tidak kalah dengan jegalan jegalan hidup? Saya menyebutnya BISTIQ. Wuihh jadi ngiler kaaannn ingat bistik daging di Indonesia heheheh. Apaan tu BISTIQ? Bagaimana BISTIQ bisa membantu kita dalam menghadapi jegalan jegalan hidup? Yuk, mari membaca...

B, berdoa.
Saat kesulitan menghampiri kita, maka yg pertama kita temui adalah Allah, sang pencipta. Karena tak ada satu pun daun yg luruh di muka bumi ini tanpa sepengetahuan Nya. So apapun yg terjadi dalam hidup kita pasti sdh diketahui oleh Allah dan dg seizin Nya. Maka sebagai makhluk Nya, kita harus memohon pertolongan Nya. Berdoa berarti memasrahkan segala usaha kita dalam keputusan Nya. Doa bukan berarti kita lemah, doa berati kita mensinergikan kekuatan kita yg maha kecil ini dg kekuatan Nya yg Maha Besar. Doa melipatgandakan usaha kita yg dg kekuatan Nya. Kita mengandalkan Nya dalam doa kita. Dan ini yg terkadang kita lupakan. Kita merasa terlalu sanggup utk menanggung beban hidup sendirian. Percayalah, kita tak akan sanggup. Kita perlu Dia, yg Menciptakan kita. Andalkan Dia, Libatkan Dia dalam setiap usaha usaha kita. Wong kita cuma makhluk, gak usah sok! :-)

I, ikhtiar.
Setelah berdoa, maka kita perlu ikhtiar. Jika Anda sedang sakit, Anda harus bergerak, berusaha mencari pengobatan yg bisa menyertai doa Anda. Ingat, yg menyembuhkan bukan pengobatannya, tapi ikhtiar kita yg di ijabah oleh Nya. Jika saat ini Anda sedamg dililit kesulitan uang, maka Anda harus bergerak menjemput rejeki. Ikhtiar kita pun tetap berada dalam kerangka ridho Nya. Dengan ber ikhtiar, maka kita adalah pejuang pejuang hidup. Yg tdk akan menyerah dengan pisau bunuh diri atau pun narkoba. Ikhtiar merupakan action dari doa kita. Itu yg harus kita lakukan.

S, syukur or sabar
Well, ini dua formula. Saat ikhtiar kita mendapatkan hasil yg sesuai, maka syukur yg hrs kita kemukakan. Sadar bahwa dalam keberhasilan ikhtiar kita, ia lah Allah yg mengijabah segalanya. Sadar bahwa dengan pertolongan Nya kita msh bisa brikhtiar dan akhirnya berhasil melewati satu demi satu jegalan hidup. Misalnya penyakit Anda sembuh, atau Anda akhirnya bertemu jodoh yg Anda idam idamkan, alhamdulillah, Allah lah yg mengijabah segalanya. Syukur hrs dikemukakan saat ini.
Namun jika ternyata obat juga belum ditemukan, atau kesulitan keuangan msh mendera Anda, saat ini sabar yg harus Anda ingat. Perlahan lihatlah ke bawah, cari orang orang yg hidupnya di bawah Anda dan belajarlah kekuatan dari mereka. Bukan berarti Anda bahagia melihat mereka menderita, namun karena sebagai pejuang, Anda perlu bantuan dari pejuang lain, untuk tetap kuat. Untuk tetap berdiri, menghadapi jegalan jegalan hidup berikutnya.

T, tawakkal
Tawakkal berarti berserah diri pada Allah. Bukan, bukan berarti menyerah. Tawakkal dilakukan saat usaha sdh dijalankan, doa sdh dipanjatkan. Tawakkal berarti kita berserah diri pada keputusan Nya. Sadar bahwa wong kita cuma makhluk yg biar dicabut nyawa saat ini saja tak bisa melawan. Dengan tawakkal, kita sebenarnya sedang menitipkan kepedihan hidup pada Nya yg Maha Mengerti dan Maha Mendengarkan. Dan dengan sifat Nya yang Rahman dan Rahim, kita berharap ia akan Meraih kita dalam kasih sayang Nya. Tawakkal bukan berarti lemah. Tawakkal berarti kita menyandarkan diri kita pada yg Maha Brkuasa. Bukankah sangat nyaman, memiliki sandaran yg super seperti Allah SWT? Untuk Anda yg sedang sakit, Anda bisa tidur lelap sejenak, sadar bahwa Allah akan menyelesaikan masalah penyakit kita dengan cara Nya. Yg penting kita sdh berusaha, kita sdh berdoa, maka tawakkal lah yg hrs dijalankan. Tawakkal, metode menyandarkan diri pada yg Maha Sempurna...

IQ, ikhlas dan qanaah
Ikhlas dan qanaah adalh dua hal yg berdampingan. Sekali lagi, wong kita ini cuma makhluk, tak lebih kuat daripada semut di hadapan Allah, maka ikhlas dan qanaah atas apapun ketentuan Nya adalah cara paling cerdas yg bisa kita lakukan. Ikhlas menunjukkan kita cuma makhluk yg tak berdaya. Karena hanya dengan ikhlas dan qanaah kita bisa melanjutkan perjuangan kita, sepedih apapun itu. Ikhlas berarti menerima ketentuan akan takdir Allah, apapun itu, seberapa pun kadar nya. Tidak mudah untuk menjadi pribadi ikhlas. Tentu kita akan cenderung membandingkan hidup kita dg orang lain. Tentu kita akan berucap "kenapa dia sehat saya sakit ya Allah, kenapa dia berpasangan saya sendiri ya Allah? Kenapa dia kaya saya seret ya Allah, kenapa dia punya anak saya belum ya Allah? Musti, kita akan berbuat seperti itu. Saat inilah Qanaah berperan. Sepedih apapun hidup kita, kita harus percaya bahwa Allah tidak pernah Menzalimi hamba hambaNya. Hanya mereka yg tdk sadar, bahwa ia hanyalah hamba, yg berpikir Allah menzalimiNya. Karena hanya mereka yg sombong, angkuh yg mampu menuduh Allah, sang pemberi hidup telah menzalimiNya. Dan mereka tentu bukanlah hamba. Mereka lah Tuhan untuk dirinya sendiri.
So kita harus selalu berbaik sangka akan ketentuan Allah. Karena jika Allah hendak menzalimi kita, tentu kita sdh dimatikan saat ini juga, so seluruh dosa kita dibalas tak brujung di akhirat nanti. Tapi kan tidak, se sulit apapun itu, kita masih hidup, dan berarti masih ada waktu untuk bertobat, mencari jalan terbaik untuk mengakhiri hidup ini. Lagian, meskipun kita berburuk sangka pada Nya, toh tidak merubah keadaan, malah membuat hidup kita bertambah sedih. Lebih baik kita selalu berbaik sangka pada Nya, apapaun itu, berapapun kadarnya.

Nah, akhirnya, apakah kita telah jadi pemenang hidup? Jika kita mampu menjalankan BISTIQ, tentu, jika pun akhirnya penyakit itu tak jua pergi hingga ajal menjemput, maka kita akan meninggal dalam kesyukuran. Kita akan meninggal bahagia dalam senyum. Karena kita sedikit pun tak berburuk sangka akan ketentuan Nya. Kita, hingga akhir hayat, tetap percaya bahwa ini adalah takdirNya dan kita menerima itu dengan ikhlas. Kita telah berdoa, berikhtiar, kita sabar, kita bersykur, kita tawakkal dan akhirnya ikhlas serta qanaah. Meskipun kita akhirnya meninggal dalam perjuangan hidup ini, bukankah meninggal dalam baik sangka dengan Allah jauh lebih baik daripada hati kita penuh dengan kekesalan pada Nya? Toh hidup kita tidak akan berubah dengan kesal pada Nya.
Jika pun kita akhirnya berhasil melewati satu jegalan hidup, kita pun tidak sombong. Kita tetap memijakkan bahwa Allah lah penyerta segalanya. Bahwa kita tidak akan berhasil tanpa bantuan Nya. Ah, betapa mudah dan indah nya hidup saat kita mampu selalu menggantungkan diri pada Nya. Bahkan saat sakit menjadi saat termanis untuk berzikir pada Nya. Saat sendiri menjadi ramai dengan menyebut asma Nya. Saat tak punya uang, jadi penuh hati karena selalu mengingat Nya. Kesulitan bukan menjadikan kita jauh dari. Nya, tapi justru jadi jembatan kita menitipkan seluruh hidup kita pada Nya. Pada Allah yang Maha Kuasa.

Dan jika Anda mampu menerapkan BISTIQ ala saya. Well, Anda lah sang pemenang hidup. Anda lah the incredible! Mari kita berusaha, menempatkan Allah dalam setiap langkah kita. Agar kita menjadi pemenang dalam hidup ini. Agar kita menjadi the Incredible, incredible u, incredible me!

Mysore, 1 April 2014.

Masih di India :-)