Final Day of POM

Every meeting have its own ending. Although, this final POM won't be the last time we saw each other from ABN18 or the mentors too.
There were only 2 session for today. The mentors share some of their knowledge to their mentees. Our class mentors is Nila and William. Nila is from architecture major and William is from DKV major. So, the one who was sharing the knowledge mostly done by William. He shared some important points that we, the freshmen, have to know about the studies, lecturers, and rules at DKV major. He brought some examples from his first year tasks too, it was really great! His drawing is really good...

Before we went to the next session, the head class, George and two other of his friends, bought a strawberry cake with "18" candle on the top. 18 symbolized the class, ABN18. The cake symbolized our big thanks to the mentours, Nila and William. From what i've heard, our mentors are the most fun, laidback, and know how to have some crazy time. I felt like they're not really mentors, they're more like our hang out friends, whom we can chat freely with. I really had many fun times with them and also an outlook for the DKV major.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH NILA AND WILLIAM!!

The last session is the EXPO. Open house for the UKMs. All the freshmen can join their favorite UKM at each UKM stand. This EXPO also continues in every periode of POM. The DKV stand really outstanding and very creative. The HIMDKV's stand had an old fashion of Nusantara theme in it. The freshmen can buy pins, notebook and sketchbook. You can even get face sketches from the senior in HIMDKV. It was like a gallery in DKV stand.

There was this senior from DKV major that is really weird, crazy yet fun... He invited all the freshmen in the stand by saying this (in Indonesian) :

"Semua anak DKV!! Udah pada daftar TKH (Temu Keakraban Himpunan) belom?? Cepetan daftar... Nih liat temanya, "The Rise of The Nation"! Nasi dari segala bangsa!!! Di TKH ini kita akan mengajari kalian semua menanak nasi, memasak nasi goreng, pokokny ok deh!"

Is this suppose to be home economic stand or DKV stand??? That was my first thought when that senior said it. If that's really what TKH is about, i rather learn the cooking from my mom and not spend two hundred thousand ruapiahs for it... HAHAHAHA.... But of course, the DKV TKH is really about learning and having fun. That senior also gave an ultimatum :

"Kalo ga ikutan TKH, kalian semua nanti ga bisa gambar pas lagi pelajaran DKV!!"

WHAT THE H**L!! That was really creeping me out...

Another stands that really great is Paramabira. They had a mini concert at 12 o'clock. So, we could see them at their stand. I tell you, they really good... I hope i have the sample of their voices, but they're not for sale and i don't have any clue where to find it.
And that is it, the one week of POM. It was kinda boring at first, but... I think my class was really unified and fun. We even have the facebook, BINUSIAN 2013.ABN18! Yeah... That's it for now. I'll post some of the pictures later and post the TKH from HIMDKV and the inauguration. See ya!

4th Day of POM

Hi Guyz n Girls!! Sorry again for the delay of the 4th day. Yesterday, i went home so late, i just got back home about 8.30 p.m. So i didn't have time to tell u what happened yesterday.

So yesterday, we went to Anggrek Campus new building, computer laboratory. The first session was about Binusmaya and Binusian Blog. Binusmaya was made for the efficiency of the students. From Binusmaya, students can look at their college schedule, test schedule, test result, subject discussion in forum, and other things that students must know. Binusmaya itself can be opened only by Binusian. Binus also gives 1 email address to each students and that address can be used like yahoo or msn email.
For Binus Blog, students can post some of their exciting, unique, or other experiences in their blog. Binusian Blog is also as good as blogger or wordpress, and the layout can be changed too. So, maybe i'll change my blog from this address to Binusian Blog address... I will definitely tell you when i changed it.

The 2nd session is about religious gathering. So, the students were grouped in religion order such as, muslim, Catholic, Christian and also Buddhist. I don't know if there was a Hinduist... We gathered and played some games, shouted some praises to our Lord, and continued by eating together.

The last session of the day is the UKM Performances. UKM is the acronym for Unit Kegiatan Mahasiswa. It's like clubs or extraculliculer at senior high school. There are about 30 UKMs in Binus. Here are some of the UKM that i liked so much :

1. Klifonara, Klub Seni Fotografi Bina Nusantara. DKV major also have some lessons about Photography, so i think this club will give many advantages for us in the future.

2. Paramabira, Paduan Suara Mahasiswa Bina Nusantara. Binus Choir is really good, already has 4 voices in it, soprano, tenor, bass and alto. They performed really well yesterday, the sopranos can hit really high notes, the Head voice!! Paramabira also ranked in 3rd place when they compete in Spain.

3. B-Voice, the Binus radio station. B-Voice had been working with some famous radio station in the city, one of them is 101.4 Trax fm. You can also learn how to interview people and broadcasting.

4. Stamanara, Seni Tari Mahasiswa Bina Nusantara. The dance club has many genre from break dance to latin dance. Of course, they also have the cheerleading and modern dance.

5. Nippon Club. This is where the Otaku of anime and manga gather. They're not only join this club because of the anime manga, but also the tradition and language classes that can be found in it. Such as, Japan literature class, kendo, matsuri festival, and many more. Any anime and manga fans would LOVE this...

Those are my favorite clubs. Sadly, i can only choose Klifonara for now. I'm afraid DKV major has many tasks to do. If i join too many clubs, i wouldn't have time to come to every lessons. I'm also joining the HIMDKV, so that makes it 2 club that i'll be joining.

That's all for the 4th day... Read the final day of POM too!

3rd Day of POM

Hi everyone!!! Today's POM is already finished... Today, we weren't studying at Syahdan Campus, instead, we studied at Anggrek Campus. The Anggrek Campus is not too far from Syahdan Campus.

Today's subjects were also 2 of the DKV's subjects. They are Audio Visual and Motion Graphic. Basically, the 2 of those subject referred to animation and film. Audio Visual gave some learning about the difference of things that can be touched and the things that can only be seen and heard. As for Motion Graphic, we learned about advertisement and film itself. Advertisements such as, HP laptop, Coca-cola etc. is advertisements that requires motion graphic. Motion graphic itself is not animation or new media, but it's the mix of those two.
See this commercial HP laptop, u'll love it! Jerry Seinfeld and Pharrell

The last session is TOEFL. It's a must for every POM students. I have to tell y'all, Binus TOEFL is so hard... Very different from other listening, reading or structure that we've done at school. It's hard, but i guess i've done mine good enough. Hope i could get 500 above for the TOEFL.

Well, i'll post the 4th day tomorrow, BYE!

2nd Day of POM

Sorry for the delay of this post... I didn't have any time yesterday. Yesterday i went home late.

So, yesterday was the fun part of POM. We got the chance to enter 2 of the Visual Communication Design's subject. It's called Brainstorming and Visual Sequence.
In Brainstorming session, we were pushed to let out all of our ideas in certain time and draw it in 4 pieces of paper. We had to think 1 object, for example; i chose CLOUDS. And then, draw it into different pictures. For the first paper, i drew clouds as the real clouds in the sky. For the second paper, i drew cupcakes with the fresh cream on the top. So, i imagine the clouds is the fresh cream. Do you get it?
For the third paper, i drew trees. The clouds acted as the leafs of the tree. Then, for the fourth paper, i drew a person that wears a party dress with fluffy scarf. The clouds was the fluffy scarf.
That was the brainstorming session. We had to draw all of it in 40 minutes. It's not easy to find an object and then drew it into other objects.

For the Visual Sequence session, we were given 4-6 sentences from a song. There were 4 songs (different title of course). And we chose one song and drew 4 pictures to describe those 4-6 sentences from the song. You can describe it with reality picture or maybe symbols such as shape or any other objects. I chose Ello's song, it's called "Masih Ada". It was similar with making a video clip, but with drawings or symbols. Of course, we drew it in certain time, 40 minutes.

After joining those 2 sessions, i just knew that design major will be very hard for us in the near future. I felt beaten up after those sessions.
Luckily, we have Social Awareness session. Each class was ordered to bring different basic food such as, rice, clustered sugar, tea, noodles and condensed milk, etc. And then, 15 students from each class had to decorate the stands for selling those food to society around university. The decoration time is 30 minutes and the neighborhood around Binus already had coupons to exchange it with the foods. One certain rule, the seller MUST NOT drag the buyer as if it's in traditional market or Mangga Dua. The seller can attract the buyer with the decoration and a mascot from each class. But, in the end, everybody shouting the people that came into Binus, try to persuade them to buy the foods. Hahahaha...

The last session of the day is the Togetherness. Every class was ordered to have cheer (yel-yel) about their class and perform it at the stage. There were some creative cheering and some of them were sucks.... But then, it's really fun. Just to think what cheering they would perform. At the beggining and the end of the session, the students were instructed to make human waves, but only ONCE! The students couldn't stop though... We made the human waves 5 times back and forth... Hahahahaha...

It was a fun day...

1st Day of POM

Fuuhhh..... Finally, 1st day of POM has ended. I gotta tell y'all, it's quite boring. I took Visual Communication Design for my major at the univ. But the first 6 hours of POM (somekind of orientation for Bina Nusantara University students) was about BINUSIAN learning, SMART Goal and culture. It was like a seminary rather than a simple presentation. Some of the students--Including myself--almost slept in the middle of the presentation. But, i tried not to. It would be rude for the presentators.

In every session, there was an online post test. That test was made for the students in order to refresh and summarize all the presentation. This test not only for my class, but for all of 1st periode of POM at Binus and it's a competition between my class-ABN18-and the other. We are aiming for 1st place in those online post test.

The only session that gave energy and big laughter for today's POM was a session from HIMDKV (Himpunan Mahasiswa DKV / DKV's College Students Circle). It's consist of Design students and we can get into this circle by joining their event called TKH (Temu Keakraban Himpunan). Although design major at Binus is known for its many and hard tasks, the design students at this circle seem very carefree and really enjoy their studies. They still can be cool and make many events, such as Plaza design and TKH.
This time, the TKH will be held on 18-20 August at "Pondok Gedeh", Cianjur. The title is "The Rise of The Nation". It was said that students will get many advantages from this event. I'm looking foward to it, can hardly wait for it...

O yeah, HIMDKV also has its cheer (Yel-yel)... It sounds like this (In Indonesian)

Design Grafis Univ Binus
Lantai dua dekat kakus
Bikin tugas sampe kurus
Masih untung belum mampus
Design Grafis Univ Binus....

I like this cheer, hahahaha....

"Eccentric yet Kind" Doctor

Yesterday, i went to doctor for checking my health. I've been sick for almost a week, i have cough n flu non-stop in that one week. As my mom didn't stand the sound of my cough again and again, my mom told me to go Dr.Andreas. I've never been to that doctor, although my dad n my lil' bro had gone there to have some diagnoses and prescription. I heard, this doctor is really good, even my lil' bro who had Dengue Fever symptoms, recovered in about 3 days! And he didn't have to go to hospital...

I finally went there. The place is in the low-middle class neighborhood. It's a private practice and many low-class people went there for prescriptions. The place is really simple, not a doctor-like practice. When i finally got my turn, i entered the doctor's room. There are some points that i made me think this doctor is kinda eccentric :

1. The doc didn't work alone, his wife become a doc's assistant. Kinda like nurse. I think it's romantic since they do this work together for a long time. They are an old couple. They corrected each other mistake in the doc's room.

2. The doc is a very strict teacher. He repeated that the drug must be taken I HOUR after u eat. "If you eat breakfast @ 7a.m, u take the medicine @ 8a.m". He repeated that over and over again.

3. The couple (doc n his wife) didn't open the practice at their home. So this small practice in the middle of low-class neighborhood is actually a rented house. They think it will be troublesome if they open their practice at their home. (It's kinda weird, cause usually all doctors private practice is at their home, so it's more convenient that way, right?)

4. The couple are REALLY HONEST. There are no doctors that will show u their medicine REAL price. Dr.Andreas show the original price of my medicine from the box is Rp.254.000. He gave me half from the box, so it will be about Rp.125.000. And with a bottle syrup for cough, all of them is about Rp.150.000. The doc said, "With this, u know that i'm not lying about the medicine's price. I gave u the real price." Usually, doctors can give the medicine price in any price they want. But this one, he really showed his price. He is so kind...

5. Talking to the doctor and te nurse didn't feel like talking to real doc. The first impression u get is u're looking at ur friend or ur neighbor. So, they checked me while talking about the election. Dr.Andreas also talked about how boring being a doctor.
Dr. Andreas : "U know, being a doctor, i always do this everyday. Everyday, from the time it's open until it closed. Do you want to work like this?"
He asked that question to me. The tone is like he's bored with his work. How unusual.... (Well, if it is me, i will. Why not? u already had a job!)

Those are some points that i can tell u about the doc. U'll be laughing if u met them, it'll be nothing like a doctor. It's like you're chatting with ur grandma and grandpa. But then again, they really did their job excellently. They prescripted and give the medicine, so u don't have to go to drug store (their medicine price even cheaper than buying it at drug store).
I think, they did their job like this because they wanted to help people. They become doctor and nurse to help those who are unable to have prescription from hospital. They already had succesful children and a good life, so i think, they didn't do this job for money. They really are loyal to their job. I hope, this can be a model for you guys out there who want to be a doctor.

Not becoming a doctor so you can only look for money, but to help people with a sincere heart.