Things & Words

Hi!

What's up? 

This is the last week of midterm test and so far it all went well. I'm studying hard (and eating even harder, no wonder that I gain some weight during this midterm test lol) and I hope that I will get good scores for all the subjects! Aamiin... 

After a long hiatus of myself not making any poems or stories or any literature kinda thing, I miss my time to make one. So, I take a look on my old work and smiling while re-reading it. I was so innocent back at the time and life has been more challenging years by years, I'm not that girl in my work anymore. I can see that all of my work is almost related to sadness. Hmm... Interesting much? I know myself better and better thru analyzing my work because it actually represents me, represent all things that happened and making me.

It's my very first book: Collection of short stories (2014)

I'm thinking to start posting my work here, in my blog. My work are all done in Bahasa Indonesia because I'm not a pro to make masterpiece in English, my grammar sucks :p Gonna post it on the next post... So, stay tune!

Much love!

Cheers,

Gendis.

Why and What

Why do I blog?

Oh, hi! It's gonna be a short post, I promise.

I'm answering my own question to myself as an opening for my seventh post here. I've been blogging back in the days, but never committed to do it well. I kept being a lazy little blogger and didn't even care with this thingy. You can still open my old blog Cotton Candy and Chocolate and you can totally judge me. I am that girl, I've been experiencing that time. Now, I would like to make a commitment to myself to blog. I want to 'photograph' my life in words, publish it in this blog, so I can read it again in the other day. I have to admit that it feels awesome to have a blog, even that I've just written less than 10 posts here, but hey! It's my blog anyway :p And I'm not sure if there is anyone that is interested to read my blog, but it's fine as long as I don't do something bad, yeah? So, the blog is basically my e-diary. 

What's going on?

Move on to last month report, September was great. Kinda shocking, but it was not a big deal, really. I thought last month was the time that I adjust to the society in my major at the campus and I'm pretty sure that I'm going to rock it well as the time goes by. I told you before in my last post that I'm majoring in something that I can call it my passion, but not my people. I already got some projects to do in this third semester with some new people and there are some struggle to work with them. I just met them and I might yet accustom. I mean, all of my besties in the first year are all in the same major which is Journalistic, except me. In Public Realtions, I'm trying hard to fit in. Maybe I'm just feeling insecure to live the college life without them in the class. 

Bonus a selfie with my best partner for reporting a news this week, the "eyebrows on fleek" girl, Icha.

And her lips! Lips on fleek.

And now, hello October! Please be nice because I know someone whose birthday in October is a nice person :)

Cheers,

Gendis.

UMN TV: More Than a Team

Hi!

A little hiatus since my last post. Campus started on August 31st, tasks keep coming to make me busy. The third semester feels like anything related to boring. Some of my best friends a year before is going to the different major, which is journalism. I'm majoring in public relations, my passion, but not my people inside. I'm still trying to comfort myself in this situation, like compromise myself that everything's going to be okay.

Now, I would like to tell you my story with UMN TV, a media campus that I have joined since the second semester.

I want to share an experience I have done this summer holiday with UMN TV. I'm chosen to be the leader for the booth UMN TV open at UMN Expo. I got zero experience of being a leader, except being a leader of some kind of artsy events. I know this kind of event is easy to lead by some of the members of the UMN TV though they are awesome, but I also know that myself are not quite able to direct people, since I'm more like a worker not the boss. It feels awkward at first, but I'm trying to look for an idea, how do I manage this team. What I got is, lots of things to learn. Especially, I know myself better because it drives me to look inside myself and talk to myself and ask who I am actually. 

I worked with awesome people, some of the members of the UMN TV. They help me to build a believe that we can make this thing work out. Even though, the fact that our booth doesn't run smoothly. There were some obstacles we faced, tear fall, but hey! This is my first time and I can't judge myself that I'm a loser, aight? We did it and I'm proud of my team!

Booth UMN TV at UMN Expo 

 From left to right: Frisa, me, Barnez.

Enough with the throwback, now move on to yesterday's moment. Yesterday, September 23rd, was the first time I am in charge as a cable man, also as a camera person at Talent Night Miss UMN 2015. It was very challenging for me because you know, that was my first time. But there will always a first time for everything. It turns out fun and I'm happily proud of myself. I know there were lots of mistakes I did, but I learned a lot and leads me to be better next time. At the event, some trailer of our program on UMN TV was playing and I just felt so happy at that time and so proud of my team. The feeling, it was so irreplaceable.

Me as the camera person.

Members of the UMN TV that is in charge of the Talent Night Miss UMN 2015 day 2.

From left to right: Me, Kak Sella, Eka.

On UMN TV, I'm in charge of the program, Enjoy Your Weekend. It is a program that will guide you what to do on the weekend and how to have fun. But not just that, Enjoy Your Weekend will also give you some good information and education as well. You can watch our program like Enjoy Your Weekend, Lensa Mahasiswa, Sparklist, Jam Santai, UMN Sport, and Meja Redaksi at tv.umn.ac.id or at the YouTube UMN TV starts October 5st. (P.S. Please subscribe our YouTube channel)

I worked with 10 incredible people in this program, which is Kak Melanie, Kak Yovita, Kak Baby, Kak Ebi, Kak Sisi, Kak Arief, Kak Akmal, Eka, Samuel, and Elisa. To run this program is never easy, we met some problems, we failed, but I know if we have faith, we will make this program our bundle of joy. I just want to say that I'm so proud of them, like really proud.

Not full team.

Top: Me, Eka, Elisa, Mas Ecopark Ancol, Kak Akmal, Kak Sisi, Kak Melanie, Samuel.

Bottom: Kak Baby, Kak Ebi, Kak Yovita.

It is not easy to be in the team of UMN TV, you gotta have a strong will and passion to hang on, a faith that will guide to brightness, to success. I'm a newbie here, not even a year, but I am falling in love with my team. They all teach me to always give the best out of me to build this dream together. At this time, I'm writing this, I feel bad with myself. I know I haven't given my best, I haven't done anything for UMN TV like others have done, I may not the person they adore. I'm still fighting through the dilemma I have in my heart, between my personal life and this UMN TV life. I hope God leads me to the brightest decision and makes everybody happy.

I surrounded by great and beautiful people, who will always there to support me and drives me to break my limit as big as theirs. Great teamwork, great family. They are, literally, everything to me in my college life so far :) Because, yes, UMN TV, we are more than a team.

Dear UMN TV, I hope we can strengthen our bond and be the number one in everybody's heart.

Cheers,

Gendis.