First of all..
WELCOME DECEMBER!!!
Desember might be my third favorite month of the year since it means that holiday is coming soon and Christmast decoration all over the world.
And even though I am living in a tropical country, but still, seeing snow falling down in almost all of the TV shows, world-wide news broadcast-not to mention the chance to see various style combination of coats and boots (since I haven't got the chance to wear both in Indonesia :') *sobs), I am supppaaaaaa excited :DD
I was just came back from doing Capacity Building which this year name becoming "Holiday Camp".
At first I am anxious and scared for not being able to deal with all those physical training, since I haven't doing all those things for almost....3 years now? wew, time does fly.
But this Capacity Building was easier than....let say Outbond (re: pelantikan dari Pra-CA ke CA). No mental training. Yes, there are a lot of physical training but I still can "curi-curi" and the trainer will do nothing about it; maybe it's because there are more than 1400 people and they can't keep their eyes one by one-but still! besides the "nyemplung got" part, I can handle all of the activity well.
Thank God I joined BY in my high-school year so I am trained to be tough.
I am not complained much about the training (bukan anak BY kalau kerjaannya ngeluh!), not having the rempongness attack before the departure day (belum packing H-1 udah panik? btch please, anak BY bisa (dan harus bisa) packing dalam hitungan 30 detik tjoy), the ability of survive with the limited resources-with no complain-.
Not only the physical and survival matters, but all of the bravery I had (kaya punya aje lau San), all of the nekat habits that I had, the soft-skill, the leadership basic, I got all of that during my 2 years period of becoming an active member in BY. So, that was probably the best thing that happened in my high-school.
Indeed, the training was hard, it even go faaaar beyond hard. But it all worth the price. The value is priceless.
Remember when I was in my junior year and all those seniors saying that it might hard surviving the training but once you succeeded, you will get what you will not get in other places, I wasn't believe in any of those words yet now I really feel the value of joining 5 kinds of pelantikan, kumpul siang 3 days every week, all of 'em!
Dulu para senior selalu bilang, "anak BY itu pemberani, pasti sebagian besar kuliahnya merantau keluar Bali"
Well, memang sih kuliah di luar bukan ukuran keberanian atau kemandirian. But still, that was one of the indicators right?
And now I feel it. Aku bisa pergi ke tempat yang bahkan belum pernah aku kunjungi sebelumnya, sendirian. he he
Kalau bukan karena BY, mungkin aku ga bakal berani pergi sendiri ketempat yang aku ga pernah datangin sendiri naik kendaraan umum dan cuma berbekal info dari internet.
And that, was the privilege. With all of the information on the internet, the ability of speaking Indonesia (yaelah kalo nyasar juga di Indo-Indo sini kan?), apalagi bawa duit cukup. No reason not to be brave enough to go out alone, all by yourself. Remember, you are the only person you can count on, everytime, 7/24.
About the leadership skill.
Dulu kalau ga mau jadi leader malah dimarah, kena push-up.
So, we have to volunteer ourselves to become a leader in every chance that we got.
No sexism-even though you are the only girl on your batch, especially when you are.
No excuse to be spoiled or making yourselves exclusive just because you are the only girl.
And BY probably the place where I learned to be a leader for the first time.
With the chance for being elected as Ketua II in my batch governing period; I learned how to organizing an organization, how to make an event run successfully, how to work with people who didn't want to work with you, and the most important thing; how to learn from other people's ability and see things from different perspective.
And that skill was sharpened when I was joining my council in the previous uni.
I learned that being a leader means that you have to listen more, serve more, not being served by ones who have elected you and gave the opportunity to represent them.
I learned that being a leader sometimes means that you got no credit of all the works you have done sincerely, while take all the blame for all the mistakes and works that you've done imperfectly.
I learned that committing into something that you volunteerly signed means that you have to be ready every time they needed you, even that means you have to sacrifice something (re: waktu tidur, jalan-jalan, belajar, dan ehem, pacaran)
And this quote that I always remember about life of a leader, more or less sounds like this, "Diatas itu cuma ada tempat untuk satu orang. Dan itu alasan mengapa terkadang orang yang berada di posisi atas sering merasa kesepian"
You have to be ready to be lonely. Because sometimes when people need you, you're busy doing your job and that's why when you need them and they're not able to be there accompany you, you can't complain.
That was the risk of being a leader. But once again, what you will get after, it's priceless.
Remembering my year of becoming a student council member, I miss those good 'ol days.
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| PUSC 2014 full team-The Heart of True Leaders |
Just so they know, I miss them too. I miss having plenary meeting until late of night, brainstorming about the current issue, and probably the thing that I missed the most: the internal meeting with Commission II. I never felt like it was a meeting because my beloved Head of Commission always makes us feel comfortable while working and solving the problem. He never pushes us to be certain person;he takes us for who we are and ready to complement every each of us, he gave us the chance to grow yet still watched us to keep on the right track. He is such a good leader and I've learned a lot from him:))
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| ((pura-pura sipit sih bisa, pura-pura putih yang susah :"( hiks)) |
Also the amazing partners who elected become the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson OMG I am thrilled when I heard that they're both got elected:") Im'ma proud ex-partner! No need to explain how amazing they are since they've both elected to run the next 1-year-period. OMG I AM SO PROUD
Our commission might be the ansos-est commission among them, but I can proudly claimed that we have the strongest bonds too :D
I am 100% sure that one day we will see each other have reached all of our dreams and goals, reminiscing the nights that we've spent struggling-well, struggling doesn't seem the right phrase since I never felt struggling working with such wonderful person.
Absolutely will see them on top!
Once I have dreamed to continue and becoming the Chairperson of the council, though.
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| Throwback almost one year ago, The Inauguration Day. |
I remember that me and my BY buds, Angga, once made promise that we both have to rule the Campus and becoming the leader of our organization.
At the beginning of the recruitment period, Angga was so sure about joining the student union while I was confused. I feel like the union wasn't the right place for me, I feel like I belong to the student council, even the student council's socialization on my orientation week was boring (and it reflect on how people see us, boring -_-//)
but I want to be on the same organization since we used to worked together.
Then Angga said, "Kalo kamu emang feeling more likely to join PUSC, then go ahead. Nanti aku jadi Presiden di PUSU dan kamu jadi Chairperson di PUSC. Biar anak BY yang rule PU"
So, I applied to the student council and he applied to the student union. Thank God we're both accepted.
Then on the inauguration day, I took the photo above and uploaded on my Path account with the caption "Guidebook 2015? Amin"
Why Guidebook 2015? Because usually in the front of the Orientation Guidebook, it's consist of the welcoming speech from both Chairperson and President, so it was kind of our prayer to be able to write down our speech on behalf of Chairperson and President.
Unfortunately, we're both couldn't make it! Hahaha
But he is still serving on the Union, as one of the Minister. Keep up the good work, bro:)
Sometimes I feel like I missed having hectic days with all of those organization stuffs.
Especially when all of your close friends now having a high position on their organization-Meryka as Vice PUMA, Angga as Minister of Student Activity, James as Chairperson, Feli as Vice Chairperson.
Joining committees is quite challenging, but signing into an organization needs more effort and commitment.
At some point I feel like I'd like to join one in here: I even almost signed myself on the student council.
But then I have a second thought, I feel like I don't belong there. Moreover, I don't want to found myself in disappointment and work under-pressure if it happened that the student council here is not like what I expected it should be-and I know it is not.
So for now I just joined a committee. I even choose which committee I would like to join.
Arrogant? You name it.
I just want to give the best of me in every committee that later on I will join.
I don't want to join committee just for popped-up and exist on campus, even if it's mean that I have to join, let say, the Equipment Division.
Well, no offense. If there are no Equipment Division the event will not run successfully. Every division are important
But there are some person who applied with no direction or goals, and they will just apply the "easy" division just because they only want to join in many committee and seems to be the world most busiest creature.
My favorite division to apply? I still think that Event Organizer will suits me best to develop myself because I'd love to organize things and see all of the schedule run based on the plan.
Then, I found myself doesn't feel satisfied enough.
I still feel that I haven't see and learn enough from people.
I decided to join a new zone; Volunteering!
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| "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others"-Mahatma Gandhi |
Hopefully I could accomplish all of those organization goals and make a better future for Indonesia, even for the world!
I wish that all of my expectation about these volunteer thingy will be fulfilled.
What I've became on both organization?
I am becoming the Social Media Admin and Head of Human Resources and Research Development.
Well, from the first thing first.
I apply as the social media admin because I want to experience in the field of virtual public relation.
I thought that becoming an admin will be not as hard as this, but honestly, we have to think first then watch all of the things that we said because it will be read by a lot of people. We have to choose the proper word and make people interested to look at the information.
Go on to the second position.
I got this acceptance email on D-1 of my Capacity Building Departure.
I was applying as the Head of Treasurer and Controller (the same old comfort zone), Public Relation (I don't know why I got interested in PR thingy lately.....), and Human Resources and Research Development.
This is really a nekat move since I know that a lot of people that have more experience will apply and I have to take the risk to be eliminated.
But then I think, it is now or never. Besides, I have nothing to loose.
At first, I was intended to apply as the manager only for TC division, but it seems that we applied for manager for all of the division we're interested into.
Honestly, I was thinking about placing the HRRD staff on my first choice because.....I love to do research, I love to discover new things, I love to see facts with numbers in order to convince other........(LOL)
But I think that I would like to have more experience in TC field, and I also have a background on it, so I placed it on my number 1 choice.
This problem with me, I still afraid of leaving my comfort zone.
Thank God, He always gave the best for me. I am choosen as the Head of HRRD.
Yes, I feel excited but also I am nervous because this is a completely new field for me.
Hopefully I could do this job with the best effort that I have because this job was a humanity mission in order to make a better nation-completely match my vision :))
I still got a lot of bucket list to do, yet I feel like I haven't got much time to do it.
With all of this soft-skill development, I have to remember my main job to make my parents proud.
The main reason why I am not joining any of organizational activity in my campus (but end up having more outside :p), is because I would like to have a better grade than I had in my previous uni.
No excuse to let them down because this is the second-and last-chance to make them proud after what I have done to them (emang pernah ngapain sih San?)
Yaudah sih gitu aja, mau hibernasi lagi abis Capacity Building.
See you on top, lads!-
Sandya :*
