Saturday, July 25, 2020

MASKER INI AMPUH ATASI JERAWAT

Hi guys...

Jadi beberapa hari ini aku itu agak sibuk sama kerjaan. Yah, walaupun aku Work From Home, tapi deadline yang padat bikin aku jarang bersihin muka sebelum tidur. Biasanya itu aku langsung ketiduran pas udah capek dan keesokan harinya timbullah jerawat-jerawat di mukaku. Sebenarnya kulit aku nggak terlalu sensitif tapi kalau nggak dibersihin biasanya akan berjerawat.

Kebetulan aku punya masker kunyit dari YuriBou dan aku mulai pakai. Aku merasa masker ini manfaatnya cukup terasa apalagi kalau misalnya aku berjerawat. Biasanya setelah pemakaian pertama, jerawat yang mau meradang biasanya mulai mengering karena unsur kunyit yang ada di dalam masker ini sebagai anti-inflamasi. Selain itu, masker kunyit dari Yuribou a.k.a Maison d'Belle ini sangat bagus manfaatnya karena bahan organik dan bisa digunakan setiap hari.

Kalau masalah harga, masker YuriBou ini teramat sangat affordable karena masker ini produk lokal dan berasal dari bahan organik yang mudah dijumpai di alam. Varian masker ini ada Turmeric/kunyit, Green Tea, Lumpur/Mud, Gold dan Susu. Kalau favorit aku sebagai orang yang berjerawat, masker kunyitnya memang bagus banget. Walaupun tidak sewangi masker-masker yang lain, aku lebih prefer pakai yang organik ini. Jadi maskernya tidak pakai bahan-bahan kimia di kulit seperti parfum, dll.

So bagi kalian yang mau pesan masker ini bisa DM langsung Maison d'Belle di Instagram mereka : @maisondbelle dan @maisondbelle.batam (bagi pembeli yang berdomisili di Batam).

Kemudian, mereka juga punya akun di Shopee : maisondbelle

Ayo kita semakin cantik dengan produk organik... ^_^

Thursday, July 16, 2020

SMART FINANCIALLY TO GET A WELL-BEING LIFE

Hi guys...

This is several times I have different thought from other regarding how to spend money.
I know money is not the real things in our life, but it can caused a big disaster in our life and our mentality.
I have shown several family broke because of financial issues, the children and parents fight each other just for ancestor property, a brother kill his siblings, etc.
Lack in financial side also can hurted the children a lot when they can't fulfill their dreams. Like several parents will be angry while children wanna new pen for her school or just need a computer for writing her dreams.
That is why I have opened my eyes about this issues and always think not to put my children under that circumstances. I don't want my children feel pity of theirselves and also I want them being a person who have pride in their life.

I saw many people living under other people shadow and some of them tear their pride just to get a shade under that person's umbrella. This is a big no no for me because I always think we should have our own competency in this life. So that, we will have our own umbrella. It's okay if that is a small umbrella, at least we are living under our own.

In my life path, I found several people who saw a rich man as a high person and powerful person even their behaviour is a reckless and can't call as human being. I ever saw a woman who raised her sons with gadget only and never talked to her sons heart to heart. I saw they count people based on the money that people have and based on the status.

Sometimes in other side I saw people just come closer to you as an ant comes to sugar. As long as you give them benefits, they will come closer to you. Until now, I really aware of these kinds of person and I feel bad about them. We can't say that they are our friends or whatever. I know some of them and I just be silence watching. Sometimes I thought is not fair to be so cunning to your close peoples. Even they are closed enough to you, you don't have rights to using them. They have their own dream and they tried to reach that. In other side, you just come and destroy their plan and dreams with your ego and laziness. This is can't be tolerate.

I have some suggestions for people who think life is easy because they never face it, don't ever put your burden in other's shoulder. It is not fair for them. Just try to smart financially and never be a lazy person who dreams of popularity without a maximum efforts. 

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

A LONELY WHALE - 52 Hz

Hi guys...

In this post today I won't share anything about Civil Engineer.
I would like to share about a lonely whale.

This morning I saw a Youtube video about a whale which always making sound with high frequency. People called it by Whale 52 Hz. This whale is quite often found by a scientist and last on 2014, this whale still detected in the ocean.

Generally the whales will give a sound with frequency between 10 - 40 Hz, but this strange whale always gave the sound with frequency 52 Hz. People said that this whale can't hear so that they always giving the wrong frequency. In the ocean, whales will go with their group and because of this whales can't called his group properly, he is alone now.

When I saw a video about this whale, I just feel sad about him.
Not only human can feel the loneliness. The whale will feel the same too.
Even he is strong and powerful, he still feel lonely because can't found his group or friends.
So, when you feel lonely, maybe you can see this whale life.
He always be alone because he can't call his group.
At least we are as human still can found other person in our daily life. You can't imagine what this whale feeling because can't meet other whales in a big ocean.

Hmm...
This is a sad fact I just know within this morning.

This is that whale...

Thursday, July 09, 2020

Trying Make Up after 28 years

Hi my blog readers!!!

Nowadays I am in the phase of trying new things in my life.
Actually this is because on this 2 weeks my sister used to do her Make Up Character for her YouTube content and Instagram. This begin on last Monday I tried to learn how to apply make up on our face.
With her help, I mean she gave me several instruction at that time like which Make Up we can used first and which brush we have to use, I was success to apply Make Up on my face.

But, because this is my first time to apply whole make up by myself, I was wrong in putting shading in my face. I put the black brown shadow on under my cheek bones too much so that my looks in real is more uncomfort to see. At least that is what I feel.

I took several pictures about that make up and I saw the result is awesome on picture. This is several pictures I took during my Make Up Experience by myself.

 This is I made last Sunday...

 This is I made yesterday night before sleep

  This is I made yesterday night before sleep

  This is I made yesterday night before sleep

 This is I made yesterday night before sleep

How do you think?
Maybe next time I can try my own Make Up with more natural looks. ^_^

Thursday, July 02, 2020

MY FIRST FLOWER PRESERVATIONS

Dear all the readers of my blog.

Nice to meet you in this awesome time, event we are on the hard times of COVID.
I believe you are all well and I hope we always be.
On this week I start my new hobbies. Yeah... That is Flower Preservation. Or you can called it by dried flower.
Sometimes I thought this is insane because I am the person who always have new things running in my mind. When somebody asked me about what is my real hobbies, I can't call it because I have so many interest in doing the things differently.

Like, in this week, beside working as general Engineer I should be, I do a hobby which is so awesome for myself. In the lunch time I went out and saw my garden full of grass. But in the middle of that grass, I found some little flower and I thought it is so beautiful.
So ya, I took it, and think to preserved it.
First of all, I think will buy a resin and make a resin art.
But I changed my mind in second and I just put that flower in between a book and press it.
In the middle of the night, I am curious how it will be and I go again, checked my flowers and press it by iron. That is like ironing my flowers.

After I saw the result, I feel so happy to see it.
That flowers looks so beautiful dry and it is so awesome and fit into a craft paper.
I have some idea to put it in frame or make a DIY card.

So, maybe soon I will make that one.
This is some pictures of my flower preservations.
I took that pics on the night time, so maybe not looks so good.






Thursday, June 25, 2020

Perbedaan Nilai Index of Continuity dan Drop Test pada Block Integrity Armour Stone

Hai teman-teman semua...

Pada postingan ini aku mau cerita tentang sedikit perbedaan antara Index of Continuity dan Nilai Drop Test pada Armour Stone. Oke jadi untuk istilah-istilah yang berbahasa Inggris disini aku jelaskan secara tidak langsung saja ya.

Oke, jadi Block Integrity itu lebih kepada ketahanan dari armour block dari crack ketika armour stone atau armour block ini dijatuhkan. Maksudnya disini begini, jadi kan dalam pembangunan breakwater atau bangunan coastal lainnya itu ketahanan dari armour stone atau kalau bahasa Indonesia-nya itu batu-batu gede yang ada di tepi laut itu kan sangat penting. Secara nantinya batu-batu itu akan terhempas gelombang air laut yang biasanya itu sangat besar. Jadi perlu adanya ketahanan dari batu-batu yang besar itu. Nah untuk penilaiannya di internasional itu istilahnya dikenal dengan nama Block Integrity.

Untuk menilai Block Integrity itu umumnya orang-orang memakai test drop atau test dimana batu itu dijatuhkan dari ketinggian 3 m ke bawah dan disambut oleh batu-batu lainnya. Nah, pada test drop ini biasanya akan diketahui nilainya tuh. Adapun peraturan internasionalnya itu biasanya mengikuti aturan dari CIRIA SP83.

Namun, di tahun 1989, LCPC itu mengeluarkan test report yang menyatakan bahwa sebenarnya Block Integrity itu juga bisa dilihat dari nilai Index of Continuity-nya. Jadi itu pengambilan value dari Index of Continuity lebih berdasarkan kecepatan suara/sonic velocity. Jadi itu testnya lebih menggunakan alat, dimana alat itu bisa mendeteksi crack yang ada di dalam stone itu sendiri. Nah untuk Index of Continuity itu biasanya nilainya semakin besar akan semakin baik. Untuk nilai ini, biasanya peraturan internasional akan mengacu kepada EN Standard 13383.

Tetapi, dalam pemakaian nilai drop test dan Index of Continuity ini sebenarnya ada kelebihan dan kekurangannya masing-masing. Jadi kedua test ini dapat digunakan berbarengan untuk mendapatkan hasil yang maksimal. Hanya saja, nilai Index of Continuity ini tidak terlalu relevant karena crack pada stone itu bisa saja terjadi beberapa hari setelah waktu blast dari armour stone ini. Jadi crack bisa saja terjadi setelah si batu ini diletakkan/disusun di tepi pantai karena crack bisa dipengaruhi oleh water saturation dari air laut itu sendiri.

Nah, Manual Rock yang biasanya dipakai oleh engineer nih, merekomendasikan untuk kita menggunakan test drop untuk melihat Block Integrity dari Armour Stone kita.

Monday, June 15, 2020

SIMPLICITY IS ELEGANT, RACIST MINDSET EVERYWHERE

Today morning one of my friends sent me several iPrint newspaper (local and international). She sent me an international magazine too and I have an excitement to open that magazine. I thought most of you ever heard about that magazine and my eyes catched a very simple and elegant way how the designer of that books cover their magazine. On the first page they only wrote a simple words with a black background. I am noticing the words and what is the message they want to deliver.

I ever learn in my popular writing class before, the good writer is the person who can deliver their thought even if to un-educated person who read their article. So that, this proverbs can applied to the good graphic designer also. I thought the good graphic designer should have an ability to deliver their message based on their creation. I just feel blessed to understanding what is the point they try to say in that magazine, even I haven't read an article inside.

The big message I got from that magazine is talked about racism in US. I thought racism exist everywhere. Not only a very big country in this world. Even a racism exist in a very small village in unknown place. I ever faced that once. It was not a black and white racism. That is most like religion and race racism. Some majority people sometimes thought their race/religion/origin place/skin color is better than others. Lucky my mom always told me that we can judge people based on their character. Means, we see what they do to theirself and others. So at that time we can see they are good or bad.

Once I growth and now I saw there is no bad and good also. Everyone have their own perspective in life and they will run their life based on that. With that kind of thinking also, you will forgive somebody easily. But, even I understand that, sometimes our ego take over our actions. Sometimes we become annoying and very mean person in front of any other people eyes.

If you think about life in a very big frame, at that same moment you will feel don't care about the things. Life will be like that only. People will be like that only. All bad and good will be exist whatever we have done in our society. This is because all of us are human and have their own thinking and desires. As a human, we should more understand to be human. That's all. Because sometimes I saw peoples who told to the world that they are humans but they can't do what the human should do. They are egoist and don't have shame even to their friends. 

Saturday, June 13, 2020

LIST OF JOBS FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTS

Hi all my log readers...
Maybe you remember last time I post about my Kaizen activities target.
Believe me, it's quite bit hard to follow that one for me. At early stage I'm feeling so excited to start. But that feeling was faded slowly and left behind. Now, again I saw myself and I feel a little bit guilty because already made a bad commitment to do some KaiZen activities.

As a human, I again want to try. At least I still have hope to be better daily. ^_^

Okay. In this post I would like to share about what kind of jobs, the Civil Engineering students can get after they finished their study.

1. Work in Construction Sector
This is sure. All of Civil Engineer student can work in construction sector. You can be Employer, Engineer or Contractor in every side of Construction sector. Depend on your path, where you will go. If you joined in contractor sector, you will see the field more than Employer can see. I mean, in your daily life might be you will face several problem which it can develop yourself to be more experience in construction field. If you become Engineer, or sometimes we called as consultant group, you can learn more and sometimes you need to be advance in design. You should know more and more. There's no time for saying I don't know because consultant is like a bridge between Employer and Contractor.

2. Being Analyst at Bank
If you like to study about investment analysist in your college before, maybe you will be a good member for an analyst in the bank or some investment office. I mean you will decide how big the effect of your money to a project. This is not only construction project. You can decide which bussiness will being good based on your investment analysist and financial analysist.

3. Being Investment Analyst for Property Sector
These kind of job is almost same like being analyst at bank. Being an investment analyst for property company made you can decide which step that company need to take for gaining more profit. It is all based on the ROR or MARR you can choose.

4. Work in Manufacture Company
If you have a big interest in Project Management or Quality, maybe working in manufacture company is not a big issues for you. Work in manufacture has a little bit difference with work in project site. In manufacture, mostly you need to apply Value Engineering to increase your optimize your Life Cycle. In project, you need to solve the problem which is more not typical from one to anothers.

5. Work in Oil and Gas Company
In Oil and Gas Company, they need Civil Engineer also as their facility and maintenance people. They need structural engineer too for help them to design their platform. All of their platform need Structural Designer to making sure their operation will not failed in the middle.

6. Open your Own Bussiness
This is all people can do is, STARTING YOUR OWN BUSSINESS. Being a Civil Engineer will help you to manage everything better because you will have the good logical thinking based on the practical phase.

7. Work in Hotel
In hotel, they need Facility Engineer to making your all of building systems working well.

8. Become A Lecturer
If you are the person who likely to share to others, you can be a lecturer. You can teach the next Civil Engineer.

9. Become A Tutor for Some Skilled Courses
This is same like in point 8.

10. Work in Airport
You can work in airport as engineer. You can make schedule for the flight or do some engineer's work there.

11. Work in Marine Company
Marine company work in many port and coastal area. Of course they will need you as civil engineer for doing some marine activity like dredging, reclamation, etc.

So, there's many ways to applied your skill or knowledge in this world. All based on your wish and your path.


Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Financial Investment Analysis in Conceptual Design Kali Besar Restoration Project Based on Benchmarking Process in Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project


Abstract Research Plan

Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia which is located in the northern Java. Jakarta is divided into five sections and has a population about 10 million people. The city is the most popular in Indonesia and has the rate of growth of urbanization. The history of the city began with the small city, called Batavia or Jayakarta. The old city (Batavia) is located in the north of Jakarta as a center of Dutch Colonial in pre-independence time. In this region there is a river that has the function as center of city and transportation hub of human activity. However, because of the population growth in Jakarta and urbanization increasing of the city, this area is becoming congested and polluted.
 
The biggest problems facing Jakarta besides flooding and congestion is pollution of water bodies. From 13 rivers in Jakarta, there is no one worthy as raw water source. One of rivers that no longer have a function as a body of water and raw water provider is Kali Besar. Long times ago, this river used to be inland waterways in Jakarta. But, it change after people evolve urbanization paradigm.
 
On the other hand, the government has a plan to improve the city and reduce pollution. One of the chosen path is the restoration of Kali Besar River which is the source of the city's history. Lack of budget funds make the implementation of this project stunted and not optimal. Based on these problems, the authors find solutions to attract investors to finance construction work in that project. Investment feasibility analysis will be carried out in Kali Besar restoration project. Value of the investment feasibility analysis will be obtained by using the method Life Cycle Cost, Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR).
 
Feasibility analysis research done by applying a comparative study between Kali Besar Restoration Project (Jakarta) and Cheonggyecheon Restoration (Korea). Author choose Cheonggyecheon as benchmarking project because it has function and problem identic with Jakarta.

Special Purpose

Looking at the problem from Jakarta City and its development, this research has a spesific purpose:
a.       Knowing the investment analysis of river restoration project in Conceptual Design River Kali Besar Restoration program (with methods IRR and NPV value).
b.      Knowing Cheonggyecheon River Restoration History as a best benchmarking which applied the same project.

Importance of Research Planned

This research is very important because it gives solution in Indonesia and some other countries are experiencing the same problem (water polluted). Most developing countries are still have major problems such as environmental pollution and city planning. This research is important to provide a solution and settlement overview of the urban planning activities, like a restoration project. River restoration can provide flood protection function (Hwang K. Y., 2004) and measuring the rate of water flow (Park, 2007). River restoration aims to improve the quality and function of rivers and to restore the to support healty and thriving ecosystems. Improved landscapes and views of waterways can increase property values by between 6-8% (TCPA, 2005). Life Cycle Cost Analysis is the important thing to develop investment feasibility to build this project in Indonesia.

KABUR


... hidup memang tidak seperti hidup
Aku memang bukanlah aku
Camar-camar yang terbang tidak lagi hendak akan hinggap
Karena musim hijrah sejatinya tak pernah beku
Angan-angan pengharapan memang saling menatap dan terungkap
Percayalah kawan, mimpi itu semuanya semu...
(Malam Bersama Angan –Yelna Yuristiary, 2013)

Kakiku masih menekuri tanah kering yang sedikit retak karena tengah dilanda kemarau. Balai bambu yang kududuki kelihatan sudah tua dan rusak di bagian atapnya. Bagi anak-anak seumuranku, balai bambu ini sangat cocok dijadikan tempat tidur siang, tentunya dengan tambahan sebuah bantal di sisi kepalanya. Namun tidak bagi orang dewasa. Kaki mereka tentu tidak akan cukup sehingga mungkin nanti akan menjuntai di salah satu ujung balai-balai ini.
Tepat di bagian atas balai yang ditutupi daun rumbia kering berwarna cokelat tua, terlihat seekor nyamuk yang terperangkap bingung. Hendak terbang keluar dan melepaskan dari atap balai yang mengerucut ke atas, tetapi sepertinya nyamuk ini kehilangan arah. Ia hanya berputar-putar dan terkadang seperti menabrak atap rumbia yang sudah bolong-bolong di beberapa sisinya itu. Sinar matahari yang terik memasuki lubang-lubang itu dan membentuk garis lurus hingga menimpa beberapa bagian bawah balai. Tidak panas, pikirku. Aku merasa sedikit melayang-layang tertiup angin sepoi yang berhembus menyelinap ke bagian bawah atap balai. Mamak yang tadinya tengah membersihkan ikan yang baru saja ditangkap Bapak sudah masuk ke rumah. Bau amis masih tertinggal di halaman. Poni, si kucing belang kesayanganku terlihat bahagia dengan jatah insangnya di siang itu. Aku memejamkan mata, menikmati angin, menikmati bau amis ikan, menikmati wangi putik jambu yang terkadang serbuknya terbang dibawa angin.
Seketika, mobil jeep hitam menerobos halaman barak kami. Deru mesinnya mengaum sebelum tiba-tiba mati dan meninggalkan kepulan debu di jalan pasir yang ia lewati. Dari dalam mobil keluarlah tiga orang pria lengkap dengan rompi hitam yang bertuliskan ANT. Ant? Semut? Tidak mungkin pikirku. Bergegas pria-pria ini menghampiriku yang tengah beristirahat di balai.
“Mana Bapak?” tanya pria pertama yang memiliki perawakan sedikit lebih tinggi dibanding dengan kawan-kawannya.
“Om siapa?” aku kembali bertanya.
“Sudah. Jawab saja. Mana bapakmu,” serang pria kedua yang badannya gempal seraya mengeluarkan pisau lipat dari dalam saku celananya.
Mendadak nyaliku ciut. “Di dalam,” kujawab sekadarnya.
Setelah kujawab pertanyaan itu, kedua pria tadi pun segera bergegas masuk. Tidak sopan, pikirku. Tidak ada berucap salam, apalagi mengetuk pintu. Sedangkan aku ditemani oleh pria ketiga yang wajahnya paling tampan di antara dua teman-temannya. Hanya saja ia tak cukup manis karena malah menyorongkan pisau lipatnya di punggungku. Dingin. Akupun kaku karenanya.
Tidak lama berselang, terdengar suara gaduh di dalam barak kami. Tapi anehnya tidak ada suara Mamak dan Bapak. Entah kemana mereka, pikirku. Pintu sederhana barak yang berwarna putih itupun aku pandangi sambil tetap duduk kaku bersama si pria nomor tiga ini. Terdengar juga pecahan kaca di dalam barak. Entah kaca apa. Kaca piring, kaca lemari, cermin atau apalah. Yang pasti bukan kaca mobil. Ya... Kami tidak memiliki mobil. Satu-satunya kendaraan yang selalu digunakan Bapak adalah sepeda ontel tua dengan stang yang sudah karatan yang teronggok di sudut halaman barak.
Tak lama setelah bunyi pecahan kaca itu, kedua pria tadipun keluar dengan muka yang kusut. Kecewa dan merasa dipermainkan. Setidaknya ekspresi itu yang aku tangkap dari raut dan gerak gerik mereka.
“Nggak ada?” tanya si pria nomor tiga.
“Sialan. Dia kabur. Jual aja anaknya,” jawab si pria nomor satu.
Bergegas pria nomor dua dan tiga memboyongku ke jeep mereka. Mulutku dibekap. Aku meronta hebat. Kedua tanganku diikat di depan. Lima menit meronta, akhirnya aku merasa kelelahan. Diam. Menuruti semua perkataan mereka. Masuk ke mobil. Duduk di jok paling belakang bersama lelaki nomor tiga. Lelaki yang paling tampan.
Mobil melesat pergi meninggalkan barak kami. Tidak ada satupun tetangga yang sekadar melongok siapa yang baru saja datang dan pergi. Apalagi keluar rumah. Mungkin mereka sedang tidur siang, pikirku.
Pohon-pohon ketapang di sepanjang sisi jalan dahannya meliuk-liuk dihembus angin segar. Daunnya berdebu, kotor. Mobil jeep yang kami tumpangi naik turun karena adanya beberapa bagian jalan yang berlubang. Sepanjang jalan juga masih lengang. Hanya ada mas-mas penjual sayur di pertigaan depan yang sibuk mengemasi barang dagangannya. Sepertinya ia juga tidak peduli dengan mobil jeep yang sebentar lagi akan melewatinya.
Selangkah lagi menuju gerbang keluar asrama, mobil kami akan berhenti di pos jaga. Sebelumnya lelaki nomor tiga menutupiku dengan selimut kumal yang bau. Dia bilang aku harus diam. Perintahnya kali ini disertai ancaman dengan pisau lipat yang mengkilat ditimpa cahaya matahari. Aku pun hanya diam di dalam selimut bau. Mobil menurunkan kecepatannya perlahan. Si sopir yang juga merupakan lelaki pertama menyapa si satpam di pos jaga. Ada sedikit tawa sepertinya antara mereka berdua.
Mobil kembali melaju kencang seperti kereta api tanpa rem yang akan melindas apa saja yang mencoba menghalanginya. Jalanan berlubang pun tidak lagi dipedulikan. Aku masih berada di dalam selimut bau. Kepalaku pegal karena tertekuk. Aku menggeram, memberi tanda bahwa aku lelah. Si lelaki nomor tiga menarik selimut itu. Tersenyum, manis. Aku tak habis pikir, mengapa lelaki setampan ini malah menjadi penjahat, si penculik anak.
Lewat kaca mobil yang buram dan berbaret halus, aku menerawang ke luar. Tempatnya sudah berbeda, pikirku. Tidak ada lagi pohon ketapang, kedai kopi sekitaran asrama ataupun sekolahku. Tempat ini sepertinya lebih jauh dari tempat-tempat yang pernah aku kunjungi sebelumnya. Tidak ada juga rumah-rumah di sepanjang jalan. Yang ada hanya perkebunan sawit yang gersang. Satu dua pohon tengah berbuah. Ada juga beberapa tandan sawit yang telah siap dipanen sepertinya. Aku kembali melihat ke depan. Jalanan juga sepi. Di kejauhan terlihat sepasang suami istri yang sepertinya baru pulang dari berkebun.
Mobil jeep belok kanan, menuruni jalan tanah yang tidak beraspal. Di belakangnya mengepul debu yang niscaya memicingkan mata siapa saja yang berusaha membuntutinya. Sekitar 200 meter dari persimpangan jalan tanah tadi, akhirnya kami berhenti di sebuah pondok kecil. Pondok ini terbuat dari anyaman bambu yang cukup rapi. Atapnya ditutupi daun rumbia, sama seperti balai-balai di depan barak, pikirku. Di sekeliling pondok terdapat sebuah kandang ayam yang cukup besar dan kamar mandi darurat. Ayam-ayam mereka juga tergolong unik. Sepertinya ayam kalkun, cirinya sama dengan yang pernah aku pelajari sewaktu di kelas Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam kemarin. Pria nomor satu pun mulai meloncat keluar. Mengetok pintu kayu yang reyot. Tidak lama, menyembullah kepala seorang wanita paruh baya. Ia mengenakan kebaya hijau dan kain pinggang bercorak batik. Tradisional sekali, pikirku. Mereka sepertinya terlibat pembicaraan serius. Sesekali si wanita mengangguk. Entah mengerti atau tidak dengan pembicaraan si pria nomor satu. Bersamaan dengan itu, akupun dikeluarkan dari jeep pengap ini. Ahh... Leganya. Namun aku masih sadar, aku diculik sekarang. Tapi aku tidak lagi meronta. Mencoba menjadi anak baik dan akan kabur jika nanti ada kesempatan, pikirku.
Cuaca sudah mulai gelap membayang. Sinar matahari yang tadi menembus sela dedaunan mulai samar. Langitpun mulai berwarna jingga. Pembicaraan pria pertama dan si wanita dilanjutkan di dalam pondok. Kami dipersilahkan masuk. Hingga larut malam mereka masih asyik berbicara. Kali ini peserta diskusinya ditambah dengan pria nomor dua. Sedangkan pria nomor tiga masih menemaniku di sudut ruangan. Masih mengancam dengan pisau lipat yang tidak begitu menakutkan di malam hari. Mungkin karena cahaya yang menimpanya tidak sebanyak di waktu siang. Aku masih gelisah. Ingin pulang, bertemu mamak dan bapak. Meskipun mereka sudah menghilang dari barak kami tadi siang. Masih saja aku ingin pulang dan mengadukan kejahatan ini ke tetangga-tetangga kami, meskipun tidak semuanya mengenalku.
Aku menggeram, menandakan ingin berkata sesuatu. Si pria nomor tiga akhirnya membukakan plester yang dari tadi siang menutup mulutku.
“Om, saya mau pipis,” laporku seperti seorang anak TK yang baik-baik.
Sekilas pria nomor tiga meminta persetujuan dari kedua rekannya. Si pimpinan komplotan, pria nomor satu mengangguk. Tidak terlalu memerhatikan.
Akhirnya aku dan pria nomor tiga pun keluar dari pondok. Cuaca di tengah kebun karet ini sangat gelap. Satu-satunya cahaya temaram yang ada hanyalah lampu kecil yang tergantung di depan pondok sebagai penerangan halaman sekitar. WC yang kumaksud tidak cukup jauh. Si pria nomor tiga mengantarkanku sampai di ambang pintu WC. Aku masuk. Sebelumnya aku bilang juga kalau aku hendak buang air besar juga.
WC ini sangat darurat, pikirku. Bagian dindingnya yang terbuat dari anyaman bambu sudah rapuh. Keran air aku hidupkan. Sebenarnya aku tidak begitu ingin pipis. Kupandangi setiap sudut WC. Ada satu lubang besar yang ada di bagian atas dinding. Tepat membelakangi pintu yang dijaga oleh pria nomor tiga tadi, pikirku. Aku harus memanjat ke situ. Kususun ember dengan posisi terbalik. Tanganku meraih tepi lubang. Dengan segenap tenaga kunaikkan badanku. Tidak terlalu tinggi, aku sampirkan kaki di bagian kanan lubang sehingga kini posisi badanku setengahnya sudah berada di luar. Suara keran masih berisik. Sebelum melompat keluar aku sempat berteriak sebentar,
“Om, tunggu ya. Sebentar lagi.”
“Iya,” jawab orang di seberang sana.
Hati-hati aku melompat ke sebelah dinding. Di tengah gelap aku mencoba berjalan menjauhi WC dan pondok. Terus melangkah menuruni jalan setapak berjenjang hingga tiba di tengah kebun yang lapang. Di situ tidak ada pohon sawit. Hanya ada beberapa pohon kapuk di pinggirnya dan rumput yang beberapa tumbuh setinggi pinggangku. Menyeramkan, pikirku. Namun aku harus pulang. Jauh di seberang lapangan ada pondok kecil juga. Sepertinya tidak ada penghuninya, pikirku. Di belakangku suara orang berteriak-teriak. Suara pria nomor tiga dan dua rekannya. Cahaya senter mereka terlihat seperti kunang-kunang yang terbang kesana-kemari.
Kupercepat langkahku. Terkadang kakiku juga tersangkut tanaman puteri malu yang berduri. Tertusuk duri, sedikit sakit. Tak apalah. Yang penting aku bisa lari dari komplotan orang jahat ini. Aku menuju pondok gelap itu. Pondok yang berbentuk rumah panggung ini sudah cukup reyot. Sepertinya sudah lama ditinggalkan pemiliknya. Di bagian dinding juga telah dililit batang tanaman merambat. Atapnya juga dipenuhi sampah dedaunan yang jatuh dari pohon-pohon di sekelilingnya. Tangga menuju terasnya juga sepertinya tidak lagi dapat dinaiki oleh orang dewasa. Baguslah. Setidaknya aku dapat bersembunyi di balik pondok ini.
Aku melangkah, menuju bagian belakang pondok. Ada satu triplek lebar di belakangnya. Sudah uzur sama seperti pondok ini. Tidak jauh di belakangku kudengar si penjahat-penjahat tadi masih mencariku.
“Kemana dia?” teriak satu diantara mereka.
“Mungkin kesana,” jawab yang satunya lagi.
Sedangkan aku masih menyelip diantara dinding pondok dan triplek tua yang ada. Seketika karena saking takutnya aku ingin pipis. Tak banyak berpikir, aku akan pipis di sini saja. Di tempat persembunyianku. Pipis di celana saja, pikirku.
Sambil jongkok aku pipis di celana. Hangat. Namun aku sedikit heran, kenapa hangatnya menjalari hingga kedua betisku. Padahal aku sedang jongkok saat ini. Tiba-tiba kakiku ditarik salah satu penjahat ini.
“HEI KAMU!!!” aku terkejut.
Sesaat aku sadar, aku bermimpi. Kubuka mata segera. Cahaya terang membuatku silau. Mamak sudah berada di depanku dengan muka yang masam. Apalagi kalau bukan karena aku kencing di celana. Aku hanya tertawa konyol.
“Bangun. Bersihkan itu dengan itu,” ucap Mamak seraya menunjuk air kencing dan air ember yang ada di teras barak kami.
Secepat kilat aku duduk dan mulai menuruti apa perintah Mamak. Di dalam hati aku sangat senang. Aku tidak diculik.