1st Day of e.COM 2004

Whoa!!! Last night we started to "work-out" changing the layout
of the rooms after the Graduate School students finished their
classes, we started at about 9 PM. Well umm, this morning my
alarm turned on at about 4:30 AM and so I woke up..leaving the
alarm on (sengaja biar Kappa alias Nindya bangun) eh..malah tetep
molor ni anak! Trus alarmnya dia nyala.. gw pikir dia bangun, eh
enggak juga dia matiin trus tidur lageeeehhh... Ya ude gw
tinggalin ke kamar mandi... And when I came back 2 her room at
last she woke up ^_^ Kebo banget sich loe Nin ckckck...


The first day of e.COM 2004:
I told everybody yesterday 2 come the latest at 6:30 AM so we can
have a briefing so that the Re-Registration process could start @
7 AM. Ok so at about 6:40 AM I started the briefing and ended it
with a prayer 2gether 2 ask for help from The Almighty. Then I
asked them all to put their hands in the middle like people do
before a basketball game or American football game that I watch
on TV, "Ok guys..put your hands in the middle, if you can't reach
the middle support us from the back..on three say e.COM! OK?!
1..2..3..e.COM!!!!" hehehe cukup memacu semangat temen2
sepertinya :) Seneng jadinya.

Then there were a bit of prob's in the re-registration process,
as usual from the years before, registration has always been a
problem, hopefully next year's e.COM can improve the Registration
Division... After that @ 8AM we started the Opening with already
LOTSA participants at the lobby (a sight that we did not imagine
1 and a half weeks a go ^_^ at last, we reached our target number
for the participants). I, as the Project Leader, sat beside Mrs.
Patricia Gray Mowatt, a representative from BiNus IUP to give an
Opening speech. After Mrs. Pat, 'twas my turn for a speech, got
kinda nervous cuz there were a lot of people there, but then my
speech didn't even take 3 minutes so it was pretty quick.

After that the Opening Ceremony ended earlier than expected, so
before 9 AM the competitions could already start. And for the
whole day I was bringing a walkie-talkie around with me to keep
contact with Edo (e.COM's Security Division), Sam (e.COM's
Property Div.), JWC's Security (Protecom), JWC's Janitors (ISS),
and JWC's Building Management (BM). Wara-wiri..mondar-mandir
kayak orgil (org gila) gitu, bentar2 gw dipanggil ke lantai 2,
tiba2, lantai 4, trus lantai 3, abiz itu tiba2 ada masalah di
lobby alias lantai 1...fiuuhh capek juga... At the end of the day
we had an Evaluation Meeting (Eva we call it), and ended it with
a prayer. Oia! Sempet ada anak SMUN 1 Bogor bernama Dian yang
pingsan karena penyakit yang dideritanya..akhirnya Medical Team
qta (which consists of Makoto... Makoto... and did I mention
Makoto??) beraksi!!! JRENG JRENG Makoto to the rescue!!! LO-nya
dipanggil Aming..tapi karena anak2nya orang Bogor jadi panggilnya
A'Aming (bukan Aa' Gym yach sodara-sodara)..aduh si Aa' teh baik
pisan... Cieee A'Aming... And since I knew one of their seniors
in SMUN 1 Bogor whose name was Ninta, I said, "Udah Dian gak usah
pikirin Debate ini. Pulang aja dan istirahat, minta Teh Ninta aja
gantiin..hehe request dari Project Leader niy..." Dan abis itu
mereka pulang dan Dian gw papah ke bawah. Phew..what a day...


After the Eva, Nindya and I decided 2 go home after the
"work-out", but like the nite before we had to go before the
others. Karim dropped us off at Nindya's place, and the both of
us talked a lot bout e.COM 2004's 1st day..until we both got
sleepy.

But before that, while we were waiting for the Graduate School
students.. At first I was just talking with Winston, then came
Nindya..Marko..and Heaven... cerita2 anehlah qta..apalagi ada si
Ngemeng Heaven..tiba2 pas Heaven lagi ngemeng2 gitu..ada pengamen
bertampang Arab bernama Erich (haha no offense yach 'rich)! So he
took a chair and sat wit us strummin' a Fender-semi-accoustic-guitar
-that-I-wanna-bring-home-wit-me-but-I-didn't-know-who-owns-it,
ikutan cerita2 jugalah dia. Btw, Erich was "the outsider" in this group
cuz he was the only non-BiNus IUP student in the Committee and sittin'
wit us waitin' for the "work-out"...

Udah kayak gitu cerita2 aneh..the topic was:
"Orang2 Cacat" yang jelas kalo Winston & Heaven pasti cerita
tentang kejadian2 pas O'Days...And they talked 'bout Yanze (if
I'm not wrong his real name is Yanuar)... Yanze jangan tersinggung
yaaaahhhhh... We didn't mean any harm ;)

He was saying, "Mau marah.."
and then "Mau nangis.."then
"Mau mati.."and at last on the last day of the Outbound at Lido he
said, "Gw udah gak mau marah, mau nangis, mau mati lagi.."
Temen2nya, "Trus apa donk??"
Yanze, "Mau pulang.."T_T

Yaa ampyuuunnnn!!!! (taken from Tante Tika's saying) That was
just some part of Heaven's story of O'Days...Then Erich continued
the story of a debater he trained for the National Debating
Competition..she won Best Speaker or sumthin' like that (correct
me if I'm wrong), pokoke kalo udah Debate! Wuidih seru dan pinter
banget dech nge-debate-nya.. tapi di luar ruangan debate...she is
sooo...soooo...duh gimana ngejelasinnya yaa...??

Pokoke kalo ngeliat kelakuan ni anak yang dipanggil Natha (kalo
gak salah) di luar ruangan debate, lo gak percaya dia pinter
debate, en kalo gak pengen ngerjain dia pasti lo gemes sendiri
ngeliat kelakuan dia atau malah pengen ditabok saking dodol en
dudutznya ni anak >_<

So here goes part of the story, kalo mo detailnya tanya aja Erich
langsung, wong dia sendiri yang jadi coach-nya tim Jakarta yang
ada Natha-nya. Jadi ceritanya lagi nginep di hotel, trus mo makan
menggunakan jasa room service.

Dia buka donk buku yang ada di meja di ruangan hotel..dan
dibaca-lah.. "Laundry Service.. Receptionist.. Room Service..
Bell Boy.. umm...ini makanan apa ya??" dengan lugunya dia berkata
begitu..gimana gak gemes loe?!Trus temennya ada yang ngebukain
bagian menu-nya dan nunjuk ke list makanan. Udah gitu dia baca..
"Beef steak...ini tuch ayam atau makanan apa ya??"

Temen2nya,"Aduh Natha, baca yang bener donk beef itu apa?"

Natha,"Beef itu..daging sapi.. Ok...umm..itu gak pake ikan 'kan?"

Temen2nya,"Aduuhhh..ya enggaklah.."

Kemudian dia liat bagian Dessert...Natha,"Se-po-nge keik..." (sponge
cake mxdnya tapi dibaca kayak bahasa Indonesia gitu...)

Temen2nya,"Aduh Natha...itu bacanya sponge cake!" (cara yg benar
mengucapkan ala bahasa Inggris)

Natha,"Oh iya..se-po-nge keik..." (tetep aja dia baca ala Indo
T_T)

Udah kayak gitu mo nelpon Room Service, dia gak tau nomernya,
temen2nya suruh dial 911..dan dia lakukan itu...Luammaa banget
kagak nyambung2, ditanyain donk ama temen2nya, "Koq lama?"

Natha, "Sabar..nanti juga pasti nyambung.."

Trus ada seorang temennya yang "berbaik-hati" nge-dial nomernya
buat dia..pas diangkat suara di ujung sono mengatakan, "Laundry
Service, bisa dibantu?"

Natha nyerocos ajah, "Iya saya mau pesen beef steak gak pake ikan
dan satu se-po-nge keik.."

"Umm..sebentar yaa..saya sambungkan dengan Room Service."

Setelah tersambung dengan Room Service, Nathat nyerocos lageeh,
"Iya saya mau pesen beef steak gak pake ikan dan satu se-po-nge
keik.."

Abis itu dianterin-lah ke kamarnya...and the rest of the story
you won't understand it if I write it, and it wouldn't be funny
at all if I was the one telling you people.. Udah ah panjang ajah
ini entry.