Culture Festival: GAMARVANI part II

Good evening! As I promised, I’m going to make a sequel of Gamarvani part 1. Because I only came for the morning part (parade) of gamarvani and came again at around 1 pm until 4 pm, so I’m just telling you a little experience of me coming to Gamarvani. And here it is. Check it out!

All of 10th grade in 3 Senior High School Bandung must come in the morning to join the parade. We’re all have to dressed in kebaya and pangsi (traditional clothes of Sundanese) and campaigning the event. The route of the Parade is from Jl. Bali, Jl. Belitung, Jl. Sumatra, Jl. Merdeka, Jl. Jawa, and back to Jl. Bali. It started at around 7 o’clock. There’re so many people gathered at Jl. Bali, especially students of 3 Senior High School. There are other participants of parade from elementary school too. They’re dressed in traditional clothes too, but with full attires and make ups. They brought some properties like posters, umbrellas, ritual offerings, flowers, etc. They looked very happy to participate in this parade.

My class only consist of 13 people, so we have to join with social class. At first I had to register our team for parade at a tent at Jl. Bali. Then one by one my friends showed up. We gathered and chatted while waiting for the committee. Then the committee told us to make 3 lines at the edge of the street orderly. Baiq(my friend from accel) entrusted her camera to Raka(my friend from accel, also a committee) so he could record or captured the moments while we’re doing the parade.

And then the parade started. We’re all shouting and yelling. The pathway was interferred by the large group of the parade. The streets are crowded. So many people were looking at us and maybe wondering about what are we doing. But we didn’t even care. We kept on shouting GAMARVANI till our throats hurts.

When we’re tired in the middle of parade, we talked and chatted about many things. I was introduced to some new friends, such as Dabim and Nova from XIPA3. I know them from Rezky, an old friend of mine from junior high school. And I was introduced to Faris, from social class. I knew him from Aruni, my friend from Acceleration class, and also my friend from the same junior high school. I’m happy to know them. They’re nice to talk to. And beside that, I always wonder if they’ll allow me to pinch their chubby cheek. Because I can’t stand their fluffiness!

Then the parade ended before we even realized it was. We rested for a bit before the committee opened the gate by watching Pencak Silat performed by Gadjah Putih Mega Paksi Pusaka. Many people who watched it are scared because the person who performed it was comprehended it fully. But they’re awesome, they danced like they didn’t know the meaning of  exhausted.

The gate was finally opened. I came in with my friends and saw beautiful decorations on both sides of the welcoming tents. The decoration team are awesome. And the one who came up with the idea to choose folklore of Nyi Anteh is awesome too. I love how well they described the story of Nyi Anteh into some drawings and paintings.

When I walked out of the welcoming tent, all I saw was a main huge stage and food tents or food trucks! I suddenly remembered that I’m hungry and thirsty from shouting GAMARVANI all the way at parade. I was looking everywhere, searching for good and delicious foods to eat. And there are soo many foods that I couldn’t choose one only! There’re also many communities tents. But people hadn’t come at morning because the main event hadn’t started.

I was so tired after the parade, so I decided to come back to my room. My friends wanted to take a rest too, so they went along with me to my room. They changed their clothes there and so do I. But I had to go to Daniel because I needed to unserstand some topics for the test.

I got back to my room to put the books and walked by myself to Jl. Bali. I waited for my friends at the front gate. There are already many people inside, and the music is loud too. When I called my friends, it turned out that they’re eating at Upnormal cafe without me! L. So I searched for another friend that could accompany me to go inside. Finally I found one! That’s Abbel, from XIPA9. He’s my friend that I knew because we’re from the same junior high school. When I searched for my ticket, Rezky accosted me. He said that his ticket was entrusted to Nova, but Nova is inside. So I decided to help him searching for Nova.

My body and my bag was checked. And as the regulation said, I must not bring weapons, narcotics, perfume, cigars, and foods/drinks from outside. I only brought some money to buy some foods or drinks, my phone, a comb, and my little pouch. But... my comb became confiscated item L But it’s not even a weapon. Why did they take it? Now I have to buy a new one L.

Me and Abbel surrounded the arena for about 3-5 times to search for delish foods and Nova. But we didn’t find him anywhere inside. So I called Rezky to tell him that Nova wasn’t inside. Then I continued searching for foods again. Abbel recommend me to come the one of the food trucks, that’s sushi stall. It smelt so good, and the taste is good too! The price was so so for sushi. Maybe something that I should complain about was the portion of sushi that was too small.

I came at around 1 pm so I could watch KV3 performing. Their voice and the way the harmonized their voice are the things that I adore from them. I watched them happily with Abbel while I’m eating sushi. Then suddenly Rezky came with Nova and Dabim. And the conversation that was going on between me and them was:

Me: “Rezky! Finally you got in here! Where did you find Nova?”

Rezky didn’t answer my question, he just smiled and laughed by himseld. But nothing was funny L.

Nova: “You must know Naura, I waited for him from 12 o’clock at my room to give him his

ticket! But he went around by himself so he was strayed. Why did you know about this?”

Naura: “Because Rezky said that I had to help him finding his ticket so he could get in. I was

searching for you because I was pitying him. Why do you keep laughing Rezky?!”

And finally I know why he was laughing by himself. That’s because he was embarassed.

Anyway, I didn’t get satisfied only by eating one food. So I searched for foods once again with Rezky, Nova, and Dabim. We found something that seemed delicious. It’s called Bite Box because we eat rice/mashed potato in a small box. The packaging is cute, and the portion is enough for me. I ordered Dori with green rice and with cheese toppings and nori crumbles. It’s delicious!

I took some photos with my friends in front of the stage. After Ashar break, the field had become more crowded. I watched the rest of the event until 4 pm. There were more people came there. I even met my friend from junior high school and from Duta Anak Bandung. I waved and said hello to them. But the area had become dustier, and I couldn’t breath freely because of the crowds. So I decided to get out of the field before the committee closed the gate. I said goodbye to all my friends, and thanked them for today. It was such a tiring but happy day!

Culture Festival: GAMARVANI Part I

Hello buds! Today I wanna tell you briefly about an event called GAMARVANI. Gamarvani is Sundanese culture festival that was held by SMA Negeri 3 Bandung at Lapangan Bali on Saturday, 19th of September 2015. I came and I had a lot of fun! I met some old friends from junior high, or people that I knew before. The event was pretty cool even though I only attend it in the morning for joining parade and left before the main event started.

There are many people when the gate is open though it's still morning. I have exchanged the receipt to ticket one day before the event, so I just need to get in and get body checked by KANST. When I walked in, I have to walk through a tent, where the story of Nyi Anteh was being told by the decorations inside the tent. The decorations are beautiful, especially the huge ones that's attached to the stage. I saw the pictures and videos that my friends sent, and I was mesmerized. It was shining at night!

Overall, GAMARVANI is such a huge event, and it succeed, and I'm proud of it. There's nothing better than knowing your own country's culture!

p.s.: I'll continue this post, so see ya later!

My New Friend

Hello everyone! I want to introduce my new friend, his name is Satria Ahmad Ramadhan. I know him from acceleration class in 3 Senior High School Bandung. Before he entered acceleration class, his class was in X-4. If you look from his outer appearance only, you'll see him as a quiet, shy person, and a smart and diligent guy. But actually if you talk to him, he's very talkative.  He's tall, has white skin, and has shrill voice.

Satria is on the left

Satria was born in Bandung, 24th December 1999. He's the first child in his family. he has one younger sister and one younger brother. He lives in Jalan Sarijadi B8/100. His blood type is O, the same as me! so I guess there are some similarity between me and him. Maybe the moody side, or our expression  when we're angry.He was once had an accident and the doctor had to operate his eyes and install tubes in his body.

He loves robotics as much as he loves anime. He loves robotics because he thinks it's cool, and robotic is one of the greatest technology humankind will ever had. He has started to love robotics since he was small. He repeatedly wathed Trasformer movie when he was small. He also played robotic games, toys, and stuffs. In junior high, he was once won a robotic competition. He and his team made a land maker robo. The function of the robot is to save the victim of earthquake by moving the debris in the area.

Land Maker Robo controlled directly by a Handphone. He participated it on Parahyangan Robotic Competition 2013 : Operation: High Risk

His hobbies are playing piano, reading encyclopedia and other books. assembling robot, and playing games. He likes to play sad songs on piano. I guess that's why he looks like a melancholy person. He likes playing C&C 4 Tiberian Twilight game and playing Touhou game. He likes the character from Touhou game, Youmu Konpaku. he said that the most important thing when searching for an anime to watch is the video quality. There are some anime that he likes, such as Gosick, Angel beats!, Steins;Gate, Clannad, and Chuudeko.

C&C 4 Tiberian Twilight game

Youmu Konpaku

He likes monochrome color.  He likes horses. He wants to enter DKM, KIT, and PMR as his extracurricular at school. He likes listening to all songs of Owl City, and he likes a song which titled fireflies the most. He likes Big Hero 6 movie. Since he's little, he never leaves The Amazing World of Gumball cartoon. This quote of lyric isn from Owl City-Fireflies

"I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems"

He barely study at home and make notes in class, but he has always been smart so he never worry about that. He wants to study mechanical engineering further in ITB. In the future, he wants to be a manager in a company. He has a dream that he will be robotics father for the world. He wants to have a house in Saudi Arabia, near Makkah. But if he can't buy it there, then he'll buy a house in Japan and lives there. His motto is knowledge may not means everything, but everything without knowledge is nothing.

He and his team won the robotic competiton

I think that's all for now, thank you for reading, have a nice Sunday!

All About Me

Hello! I’m Naura Salsabyla. I was born on 23rd of December 2000. I’m a 10th grader at 3 Senior High School. My class was X1, but I took acceleration class test and the result is I’m qualified enough to be in acceleration class with 13 other people from other class. I’m happy because I can get into the acceleration class but I’m also sad because I have to leave my friends from X1. But I have to catch my dream, and being in acceleration class doesn’t mean that I already have my way to ITB, but that means I have to work hard and harder than I usually do. I have to catch up to my freinds too, because they’re some great competitors for my studies here.

This is my personal blog, so I’ll write everything that’s concerning me. I’ll start from the basic story of me.

I was born as the first child in my little family. My family only consist of 3 people; my dad, mom, and me.  I have always been loved by them, because I’m the only child in my family. I have never been feeling lonely, because there are always many cats around my house. I really love cats, even if they’re the domain cat ones. I love flowers too, because my dad were always brought me to his flower gardens, flower field, or his greenhouse in Lembang. The first flower name I know was euphorbia. And I was introduced to many kinds of flowers other thau euphorbia, such as; sedap malam, edelweiss, gerbera, esther, roses, and orchids.

My dad is Mr. Romli Kurniadi. His age has almost reached half the century. So he had been experiencing salt and sour in his life. In the future, I also wanna be like my dad, a professional (automation) engineer. But being an engineer doesn’t mean that he can only do the things that concers his job. He also knows everything about being a great enterpreneur in farm sector, flower sector, electric field, and many other fields. He has always been being my idol figure for my career.

My mom is Ms. Yuniarti Dewiani. She is really caring and kind to me. My mom has a franchise for kids learning center. The learning center itself provides math, arithmetic, English, and computer course for kids. She’s the one who taught me about how to speak, how to read, how to write, how to calculate, and many other how tos. My mom made me attend swimmng course, table tennis course, arithmetic, vocal, piano, keyboard, violin, and drawing lessons, and I’m thankful for that.

I’ve finished my study in Krida Nusantara kindergarten, Krida Nusantara elementary school, 5 Junior High School Bandung, and now I’ve entered 3 Senior high school. I’ll make 3 Senior high school as my stepping stone to study at ITB and MIT.

I have many hobbies. They’re singing, reading comics, listening to music, playing piano and keyboard, making handicraft, I and I also love travelling, and eating. I like singing any song that come into my mind. I like reading webtoon comics. I was once loving Japanese manga like One Piece, Conan, Air gear, Bleach, Death Note, and other comics because the influence from my cousin. But now I don’t have the time(and kuota) to read that, so I read webtoon instead of reading Japanese manga. I only like listening to songs that are on my playlist. I like maroon 5, One direction, Girls generation, Hozier, Sia, Justin Timberlake, Austin Mahone, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Ed Sheeran, and many other singers. I’m not a big fan, but I love their songs. I like playing Yiruma’s songs, OST from korean dramas, or classical and pop western songs on piano. I have an accoustic group with my friends from junior high. We covers many songs that we like. Actually I have only experienced travelling for about 10 times. That doesn’t make me a backpacker. But someday, I will. I sometimes complain about how my cheek being chubby, or my hips and calves getting fatter. But thats’ because my own greed for food. I love eating. Especially trying new kinds of food if I ever visited a new place. I love sushi and sashimi the most.

I like doing sport too.  I can play tennis table and a little of tennis. Even though it’s not a routine, I love swimming. My skin has become darker because I was forced to attend swimming course when I was 5 years old until I’m 10 year old. I like making handicrafts because my dad is an expert in doing that. I was once joined scout too, in elementary school, and scout taught me about making many things with used things.

I like cute, and sparkling things. I like shopping. Of course girls do love shopping. Buying new things with my own money (saving a little money) feels much better than ask mom to give me money. And those new cute and sparkling thing I bought (clothes, shoes, jewels, books, matched theme pencil case its contents) always motivates me. I love blue,white, and pink colour.

I’m a moody person, but not always in a bad way. I don’t like studying, but I have to because I’ll make tons of money (hahaha) from doing that. Aamiiin. I’m an extrovert person, I always express my feelings with gestures and many face expression. Maybe people don’t like me because I’m too noisy. I like laughing with my friends and I don’t want to see my freind being sad. Because I could be affected with their sadness.  So I always try to look happy in front of many people. But even though I’m an extrovert person, I can’t just say no or complaint to things that I don’t like especially to people whom I cared about. And sometimes people know this, and just take advantages from that.

I like public speaking so I became a student council member, and became a candidates for the head of student council. I got the vice president title after the elction. I tried to be Duta Anak Bandung too. Too bad I only got to be a grand finalist. I realized that I’ve wasted so many time by joining all that organization things. I would’ve been using those times to study harder. Many people asked me why didn’t I take the OST or LKO or other organization in high school. And that’s the answer.

I have so many mottos in my life. But some weird quotes that I read kinda affect or change my vision of life in some weird ways too. Like “The best way to take revenge to the people who insulted you is being more successful than them.” Or “Work hard so you can shop harder.” Or “Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.”

I think that’s all about me. Thank you for reading this post. I hope you enjoy reading or searching something in my blog. Have a nice day!

Aaand gonna upload them pics later! the connection is so slow :(