From Setiabudi to Pare, Kediri a.k.a. Hall Of Pals : Falin

woopsies ada oliv candid :p

Mood : dancing 
Music : Flyers by Girls' Generation 
warning: bad inglizzh - bad grammarz -- but writing -- bad bad -,- 

So this post is titled From Setiabudi 229 to Pare, Kediri It is a part of Hall of Pals Series, so the official title is Hall of Palls : Falin. 

another note : and I made this on first day of college, then continued it sometimes later after knowing she is in Pare, Kediri and i edited it today.  

some another note : 
Hall of Pals Series is stories about my memorable friends. Well all of them are memorable actually. Usually I found something that reminds me of them and decided to write about them. This writing was made after I saw my binder that was given by Falin.
 So far I already made four. The first one is Hall of Pals : Disa. it was posted in my old blog, but now my old blog is deleted.. yeah.. so I started over with this Hall of Pals : Falin. Maybe later I'll re-post and post the other Hall of Pals stories.
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She is my dancing friend, my fangirling friend, and secretly, my left-me-in-awe-friend. 
Her name is Falin, and she is one of the strongest people i've ever met. 
She left me in awe with her willingness and spirits, and beliefs to pursue our dreams. But, try to not spill out the secret kay ? the fact that she inspired me, its a secret ! sssshhh *karena saya tidak mau hidungnya ngapung. nanti kasian dia nggak bisa napas* 

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Pertama kali saya berjumpa dengan Falin, face to face, adalah ketika kelas jurnalistik. I didn't give her much thought until that day. Sebelumnya, saya tidak pernah berjumpa dengannya, dan kejamnya, saya menyebutnya sebagai teman Ana *jadi ceritanya dia itu dulu temen sekolahnya Ana dan jadi teman sekolahnya lagi sekarang* me and my depression sometimes doesn't know cruelty and that weeks I decided to secluded myself from society *danceritanyapanjang*, so that's very much what I got. 

I saw her listening intently to what the teacher say. I wonder how long she will stay focus. 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes.. well, she is definitely strong, or too scared to dork away because she is new. 

cruel, am i ?  but don't think I am heartless. I was. But now i quit being heartless. I as much as heart-full as you are, hopefully.

 And that was my first impression of the new girl, Falin. 

I didn't know that her 'stay focus' thing that day is probably an indication of how keen she is. 

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Year passed, and even though i got closer with Falin because I meet her in every journalistic class, but I didn't close enough to see the real her.

 It was on the eleventh grade, I remember. 

Dia bercerita di kelas menulis tentang menulis dan travelling. tentang bagaimana dia ingin sekali travelling kesana kemari dan menuliskan kisah travellingnya in a book.  She even came up with the mind-list of places that she want to visits.

Her thoughts amazed me. 

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But I should have guess that being with the same class with Falin will amazed me more. 

no we're not dressing recklessly -- its all for photo day ! and please don't see the height difference

Sewaktu kelas 12, saya diletakkan dikelas yang sama dengan Falin, 12 IPA 1 
dan selama di 12 IPA 1 itulah saya menemukan how keen Falin is *sometimes terlalu keen sampai jadi reckless*  

One day, Falin kena operasi appendix *iya so keren bahasanya* dia nggak masuk sampai lama banget. Then when she showed up in school, I didn't expected her to showed up this fast and more, I didn't expected she will climb the stairs to the fifth floor on her first day at school after surgery ! 

Sebelumnya saya pernah ber-experience dengan orang - orang yang kena surgery yang sama seperti Falin, dan mereka tidak pernah showed up that fast at school, dan mereka juga tidak pernah naik tangga ke lantai 5. Bahkan naik tangga ke lantai 3 aja kadang - kadang udah susah sampai harus merangkak naik *eya lebay* 
dan from what I heard, emang katanya kalau habis operasi usus buntu itu nggak boleh banyak gerak dan dipikir - pikir juga emang posisi usus buntu itu strategis, deket kaki deket upper half -,- 
Ya ricuhlah saya saat tau Fain mau naik ke lantai 5 karena memang kita ada kelas di lantai 5. Dia naik pelan - pelan dan sabar -,- padahal teh bilang aja gitu ya dia teh habis operasi, pasti kita switch kelas. -,- 
This kid is strong. keen. 
and she amazed me. 
karena saya dulu suka nggak masuk sekolah cuma gara2 pusing dan males 



She also had wish to study abroad. And unlike me, she dig so many informations -- sampai - sampai nyari informasi dari ujung bandung ke ujung bandung lagi -eya- sampai - sampai dia nyeret saya ke sebuah seminar tentang
 sekolah di luar negeri *dan setengah maksa* untuk ikut ke seminar - seminar sekolah di luar negeri lainnya yang akan datang (but in the end we only attended one seminar, though T_T)

When almost all of us failed the test, she is one of us that standing still, as bright as usual and emphasizing her other plan : Kampung Inggris. 

A couple of days after the depressing day when we found out our test result, she asked me 

13 Jul

Kaka zahraaaa. Kalo kita bukan dreamer (pemimpi) berarti apa dong?

 13 Jul 
 Jd maksud aku tuh kita bukan cuma pemimpi tp org yg bsa meraih mimpi itu. Bhs inggrisnya gmna y

i didn't give her the answer because I didn't even know if there is an exact word for that 

But I see what you did there... :P

Now, this girl is on Pare, Kediri, ke kampung inggris. Kampung yang sudah kami perbincangkan dari lama. Dulu planning kami adalah kesana bareng - bareng. atau scratch that - saya ikut Falin yang kayaknya udah lama banget emang mau planning kesana. to improve her english, as so she said. 

Secretly, silently, she put a bravery to dream again in my mind. 

Me who didn't have courage to dream on the last three years, silently, dreaming again. 

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I slowly swallowed my dreams.
But then yeah, i stuck here at Setiabudi 229, swallowing my dreams. not that I mind. I enjoyed being here. But sometimes my mind kept saying : what if. 

What if we went there together. 

Maybe I'll keep inspired, so I'll keep my dreams alive. 

Which is unlikely, now.


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From Setiabudi to Pare, Kediri 

Falin, I never said this before to you. But thank you for helping me dwelling with my dreams before. 

May you had a great life and found many inspirations as always. 

And don't forget to watch your words now ! 



Setiabudi, November 21
-z- 

ps. i use the binder you gave me ! whoohooo ! the binder is now safe with me, helping me here in setiabudi. it might be a great friend for resus, or it might be not. 

 “People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

 

*le me being melancholy. but its true.