Ordinary Boy Who Pursue Happiness

My name is Muhammad Afif Izzatullah.

It’s carved to me when I was delivered to this complicated world. That fabulous name is given by my beloved parents by the first time cause I’m the first child of them.

I have happy family who always there for me whatever the situation and condition I feel by. They are:

My Father                 Drs. H. Imam Mahfudh

My Mother                Hj. Rosanah, S.Ag.

1st Sister                 Sania Rifa Zaharadina

2nd Sister                Annisa Salsabilla

I’m just ordinary people who have an extraordinary ambition. My family is not too rich or poor, we are just standard family who pursue happiness in this world. As a first child I have responsibility at least to lead my two young sisters to walk in the true line. Although I occasionally clash with them but it is never mind as we still love each other and soon get well relationship again.

I’m usual clever enough person who always want to smile every day. I grew up and be Junior High School and Senior High School student. I very thank to God because the environment in my home and school changes me become a good person. Now I’m more mature and can think more rationally. I am an independent person who like motivate myself to establish my path way to be a good person. I mostly manage my own business by myself as I can do it, because I don’t want burden my parent and be a good son. Since I ever lived in dormitory and traveled alone I’ve learned to socialize and being independent enough to take care of myself.

If with my friends, I also have both bad and good personality. My friends describe me that I’m disturbing people, critic and etc. But they also think that I’m a funny person, could be ask for cooperate (in discussion), kind, creative, clever enough, and so on. But I’ll struggle certainly to close bad attitude door and open as wide as the good attitude door in my life. Because I’m conscious that I’m just a usual human that couldn’t be a perfect one.

Most people said I look like my mother let in physic and behavior. I am so close with my mother and father because our family is a democracy family that everybody could say every problem and sharing with each other. In my home, I sometimes help to do daily assignment, but just in small part. For example: tidying and cleaning my room, washing my motorcycle, cleaning the bathroom, ironing my cloths, and washing my dish after eating. But all of those things rarely I do if I have some busy assignment from my school.

I’m so grateful have a kind parent who always takes after me and cares about me. Without them I’m zero, but because them too I can be a hero. When I have some troubles in my school they always beside me. With their precious words I always get many advices that very help me to do something about my future. So what I have to do now, requite all of their merits that have been given to me with be an independent person and be a success person who make happy my parent without burden them anymore.

Along my entire life, I interested with many things actually. It could be divided into 3 parts: sports, education and entertainment. In sports; playing badminton, basketball, soccer and swimming are the top one that I most interested in. If education; I very like with math, drawing, science and researching. Therefore I join extracurricular with named KIR, that’s a researcher club. I also like music, playing guitar, reading, writing, and internet in my entertainment part.

As I have too many interests, so I more spend my times in my school and my other club. In my school I join KIR extracurricular (a Researcher Club) like I said before because I very like with writing. We are all people who like researching gather in this club and we usually join competition from city till national grade. Beside that KIR also trains our skill to make scientific paper for college later. Until now I’ve written more than 10 scientific paper. These all are result of my struggling and sweats in my beloved KIR club.

For sport I join basketball club since I’m tall enough than my others friends. I also ever had joined PUSRI swimming and badminton club when I was Junior High School. I join so many sport clubs like this because I want to keep my body fit and healthy when I stuck with my routines.

For art, I join 2 D (Two Dimension) club which has activities drawing, painting and coloring. We do this activity every Saturday in my school. Beside that I’m also one of member school’s choirs in my Junior High School and Senior High School. I also have a band with 5 members, I’m as a guitarist together with my four other friends. Nevertheless, I’m sure that these all activities are very useful for me to develop my right brain of art.

I also active enough in other organization like ‘Boy Scout’ in my elementary school, School’s Student Organization in junior high school, GEDS (Global English Debate Society) in my English course, ACMY (Al-Qobah creative Moslem Youth) near with my home, and other little organizations. Because, being involved in community activities like this, make me learn and find big valuable things for myself and my future. About the time, honestly I pursue all of them in my times, because I very want to get many experiences as long as I still young and have many chances to do it. Because pursue this very useful things make me move forward when I construct my future foundation.

In my community activities I have some different roles. First in my class I ever have been a class leader because our class leader always changes every week. Despite of just one week but I could learn leadership even though in a small part. I also ever had been a vise-captain in school’s student organization when I was Junior High School. It was so difficult to share my time but I could handle it with my effort and got many experiences about lead many people at that time. In soccer I usually play as a ‘midfielder’, ‘shooting guard’ for basketball and ‘single player’ in badminton. But my skill is just usual if it compares with my other great friends. If in GEDS (Debate Club) I usually be a first or second speaker, it’s so help me to talk before public. And I also ever had been a researching captain. So I have full responsibility about my researching result. All of these experiences are very important for me to step and move forward in my future pathway.

My extraordinary ambition now is Go Abroad. I have some objective why I very want to do this.

I want to study about everything in other countries and get many information also education from there.

I very want to school in other country especially countries which have developed technology. Because stay long time and get educations at there, can give me an inspiration about how my future is established.

I very want to meet many friends from other countries, study about their culture, history, learn about the situation in their city and get a big experience that I very dream before.

I realized the world is not too narrow like usual people think about. So I want to open my eyes that so many place and activity I have to feel out.

I want to travel, get some fun journey in big country out there.

If I success do it, I will use all of those experiences to build my best future both for myself and my country. And make Indonesia can have good relation with other countries. All of those are my personal goals to go abroad. But I emphasize the main goal of me is to find and look for fabulous experience that I haven’t done it before and make proud my parent.

The biggest problem for me along my entire life is quarrel with my friends. I agree with proverb: 1000 friends are too less but 1 enemy is too much. If I have even though just 1 enemy, my heart can’t be comfort. Cause I always think how to recover my friendship. But I’ll force myself and throw away the prestige feeling one in my heart to apologized with my quarrel’s friend and throw the enmity one to make comfort my heart again. And the second situation that I feel difficult to solve it is when I got bad score in school’s lesson. But if I just regret and do nothing it can’t change anything. The things I have to do are just study hard again, find my minuses, praying and fix my bad score.

When I step in my path life, I got so many hindrances and obstacles definitely. The obstacle that I often feel it is when I try to stand up again from one failure. For example when I failed in one research competition, I felt despondently at that time. Because I had done full effort and spent much times to do it, but the result was so disappoint me. I thought that I wouldn’t do again any research because it was just wasting my energy and times. But I realized that one failure was a key to be successful. So many scientist in past had many failure but they were success because of it. Thomas Alpha Edison needed much failure to discover many useful things like a lamp. So I thought that I have to follow their path and studied more about researching. I began to learn about scientific writing again in internet, books, and ask with everybody who has many experienced about this. And finally I got that result. I success to stand in the first place in one scientific paper competition. That was a very awesome and fabulous achievement for me. Because, not only my name but it also bring credit to my school and my family.

Those all above is a little describing of me and my life. But like everyone else, I’m still an ordinary boy who be nothing without any people helping. So in this provisional world I just carve in my deepest Heart:

“I’m Just an Ordinary Boy Who Pursue the Happiness like Everyone Else”

Best Quotation  : “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve”

Best Motto          : Take a chance because you never know how perfect something can turn out to be

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Flashback to 2009 Memories

Along of I made this blog at the end of year 2009, so I wanna go back to my memories in 2009 and write it down here. Truthfulness there were too many events happened to me, from the smallest until the biggest one. But I’ll write the event that I very remember that, or we usually said as “Unforgettable Moments” in my 2009 memories. Check it out.

1. Get out from beloved dormitory

Getting out from beloved dormitory was the first unforgettable event I would write about. I was very both happy and sad at that time. So many joy and grief events happened when I lived in dorm around 1 year with my friends. But there was one thing that we all very hated when we were living in dorm. That was “RULES“. So many prohibition we got in dorm: couldn’t go out in certain time, must entrusted Laptop, night studying (KBM Malam), forbidden to bring handphone and many again rules that was very against with us. But, although in dorm had so many rules, we could learn to be more discipline especially in conceiving the time.

Beside that bad rules, living in dormitory also gave us many unforgettable happy moments. Gathering with roommate and dorm-mate is the best moments ever in my life. We could play guitar and sing together, study about lesson together, do homework together (:P), eating together, play basketball, soccer and many things that I would really really miss them so much.

Hasnood Dorm mate

2. Journey to Padang and Lampung With Family

You know what I am very waiting for when holiday, yeah, that’s go vacation to somewhere to refresh my mind. In 2009, I and my family went to Padang and Lampung for holiday. But in different time. We aimed to go to lampung to visit my uncle and aunt since we had been long time visit them. It was not a vacation. Otherwise, we went to Padang just solely to get a vacation. We went to many beautiful and interesting place in Padang. Such as: Japan cave (Lobang Jepang), jam Gadang, beach, and waterfall (I forgot the name). Spending holiday with my family is the moment that I very really never forget it. Unforgettable memory.

Waterfall journey

Lobang Jepang

3. Happy Events with My Beloved KIRANA Extracurricular

If I have to tell all events with my beloved KIRANA members, I think this blog will not get enough capacity to save that. Because you know, so many events that happened to me and my friends through this KIR activities. From research, made briket, coconut oil, oil presser, bio-pore,  joined many competition, breaking fasting together, near with senior and the most powerful KIR teacher “Pak Usboy”, and many activities again I did together with KIR.

In SNI Scientific Paper Competition

4. Breaking fast Together (Bubar) with my JHS friends

This moment happened in Ramadhan, when we were getting stuck with ramadhan fasting. The moment that impossible for me forgot it, when I and my old friends Pusri Junior High School gather in PTC to break of fast together [Bubar (Buka Bersama) we usually said in Indonesia]. Woo,, it was really freaky awesome time when we met again after one year separated. We took many photo for reminiscence in our deepest heart respectively.

That was so fabulous, since each of us had many story that we wanted to share to. We smiled, laughed, and eat together when adzan Maghrib had been shout out, and even we took around 10 long tables in order we could eat together, nearer. It was very unforgettable experience in Ramadhan for me.

Bubar 2009

Parking Field PTC

5. Lebaran with Big Family

After did fasting 30 days in Ramadhan, we all Moslem in the world celebrated the winning day Idul Fitri or usual we said as Lebaran. In Lebaran 2009, we all of my big family gathered in my grandma house to meet and forgiving each other. The memories that I very liked this day because I could meet with my funny and happy cousins. We played together, chat each other tell about jokes, news and many things that must be made my mouth always smiling and laughing. HAHAHA~ you know that was very glorious happy and funny time in my life.

I and My Cousins

6. Join AFS program

This was a program that can make my dream comes true. AFS stand for “American Field Service” which provide an opportunity for undergraduate students to Go Abroad. My objective now is to go abroad through scholarship and with AFS program I have a chance to reach it. In 2009 I and many of my friends joined this program, but must passed the test first. There were 3 test in this: 1st test was about general knowledge, 2nd test was interview, 3rd group dynamical. And luckily, I passed those three test. But we couldn’t satisfied yet, because we must write and show our  goodness through the papers in order to get host family and after that we can live in other country around 1 year. The final result would announced on 2010. So I’m still very waiting for this announcement.

3rd AFS test

7. Alkena (Album Kenangan/Reminiscences Album)Photo with My Classmates

Because we InsyaAllah will graduated from high school next year, our generation will make such a kind reminiscence album for all of students who graduated next year. Because of that plan, our class decided to take photos in “Punti Kayu” with theme GO GREEN. So at the day we wanted to take the photo, all of my class member included me, used green cloth. We took care about earth condition nowadays, Climate change, global warming, all of those must be prevent one of the way with do such a movement like us.

Finally, our class accomplished getting many photo each people. Before the photo attach on album, we have to edit first. Since our class theme is go green, so our template for ALKENA is full of green color too. It’s very glad to edit and write our idea in this template, because that album will be separated to all of students and they will read our writing for reminiscence.

XII PSIA 7 Member

XII PSIA 7's Boys

Those all above are some of my unforgettable events happened in 2009. Beneath it all still many again my happy moments in 2009, but all these seven are enough to front for all of my 2009 memories. You know:

–we cannot redo the events in past, but we have big chances to do for the future better than past—

–so keep moving forward to reach each of our dreams—

5. Lebaran with Big Family

After did fasting 30 days in Ramadhan, we all moslem in the world celebrated the winning day Idul Fitri or usual we said as Lebaran. In Lebaran 2009, we all of my big family gathered in my grandma house to meet and forgiving each other. The memories that I very liked this day because I could meet with my funny and happy cousins. We played together, chat each other tell about jokes, news and many things that must be made my mouth always smiling and laughing. HAHAHA~ you know that was very glorious happy and funny time in my life.