What an Amazing Grace!

I didn’t think that life was fair. King of Noon shone brightly on one side of the earth and left the other in miserable dark night. The wind blew from Aegean Sea and poured out raindrops in Tuscany, leaving Cyrene dried exhaustively. Others got rich families, beautiful faces, nice outfits, and I didn’t have them. My friends were bigger, stronger, and I stayed as a sprinkle of dust in the middle of the universe.

When I was 3 years old, I asked my mom why I couldn’t get my birthday celebrated in a party, just like my other friends. She told me that we were not rich enough to do that.

When I was 5 years old, I weighed only 20 kilos. My dad warned me not to play roughly with other bigger friends. Unless, he said, I wanted to be squeezed and crushed over like a tiny orange among stones.

I fought over a boy who mocked me at the school sand box. Well, nobody won. He grabbed my hair and I kicked his bottom. Oh, come on, we were just fifth graders.

See? I really thought that life was unfair.

Things only got worse. In junior high school, everybody called me ‘pedet’ – calf (the little baby of white cow). I knew I was not pretty, but at that moment, I realized, I was pale, ugly, skinny, and unattractive.

I rode a strange bicycle to senior high school. While everybody else got Avansa, Panther, Kuda, I got a mixture of federal bike and old junk. They named my old chap ‘Harley Davidson’ for its ridiculous body.

I wondered and pondered inside my heart;
Will I ever get higher education?
Will I go to the university?
Will I be able to travel away from my hometown?
Will I ever get any faithful real friends?
Will I become someone admirable and respected?
And the biggest question of all:
Am I worthy enough to be loved?
Are You there, God?
Yesterday, a pair of bright eyes asked me to write my life story.
So I searched for a pearl among sand grains in the beach.
I looked at the eve heaven, in case there’s a star left for me.
I wandered throughout the jungle of philosophy to find my precious ones.

Then I realized, I’ve got you, guys.
When I felt alone, I saw the angels surrounding me in this classroom.
When I felt needy, I remembered that you are my own sapphire and rubies.
Your laughter made me richer than anyone in the world.
Your smile showed me a spark of paradise.
Hearing your voices was the tolling bells of eternity.

I might not be taller,
But now I can walk tall with you by my side.
I might not be strong enough to climb a mountain,
But I know I can hold your hands when I fall down.
I might not ever go abroad,
But I am willing to stay like this for hundred years,
As long as I have you here with me.

I don’t know many things,
I don’t know much,
But I know how much I love you.

Yes, life is unfair.
I was not a holy person,
Yet God granted me with such a masterpiece.
He gave me you.
What an amazing grace!

Andrew's Biography

Born june, 10 1990 in bagan siapi – api (it’s a village near medan¬), south of Sumatra (Indonesia). My father’s name is Calves Candra, and my mother’s name is Permata Lianasati. My religion is Buddha and my zodiac is Gemini. My hobby is all sport especially basketball. When I was a child, I was live in medan (1992 – 2000). My address in medan is Jl.Krakatau ujung no.37, my house was very close to my elementary school in medan (Gajah Mada Elementary School). When I was third grade in elementary school, i started to attend some sport competition like soccer, badminton, and running. Then

I was graduated from :
• Santa Maria Regina Elementary School (2000 – 2002)
• Etika Dharma Junior High School (2002 – 2005)
• Petra 5 Senior High School (2005 – 2008)

Now, I’m studying in UPH (3dr semester). I also join sport UKM in UPH like Basketball, Table Tennis, and Modern Dance. When UPH made camp and festival program, I’m also join as the committee. I want to join UPH’s event organizer, but I never have an innovation for making program for UPH’s event. Moreover, in top of that, it’s was to many things in event organizer was related to music and I have no sense in music since I was a child. So I’m just can join sport UKM.

My Biography

My name is Fanny Jatmiko, I was born 19 years ago, and I am the youngest child from three children in the family. Both my siblings are males. When I was a baby, I was the child that both my parents were waiting for, because my father wanted a baby girl, he said that if he did not get a baby girl he would not stop making babies. Fortunately after my two older brothers, I was born as a girl.
When I was still in kindergarten and elementary school, I was a very shy girl, and really quiet, especially when I was in front of a lot of people or meeting new people, I was very shy, I had a very low self esteem and I often not believing what I am capable of. I often felt that I have nothing to be proud of. But when I was in Junior High School, I realized that it wasn’t a good habit and I cannot live alone like this in this world and I have to interact with my surroundings. Finally, I decided to try and kept trying to change my bad habits. One of the factors that helped me was the fact that for kindergarten to senior high school, I had always been in different schools, where I had to face a new environment each time I graduated. Those new environments forced me to adapt with it. These factors had helped me to change from a shy person to become stronger. Different schools had made me loyal to my friends. Changes inside me started when I was in Junior high. One other factor that had helped me change my habit was when I became a part of OSIS in Junior High. During that time I learned to work together as a team and interact with a lot of people. Through that organization I had learned a lot of things and that was when I learned to believe in myself that I can do things and be succeeded. I started to think that no one is born without a purpose and skills, everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, and we just have to realize what we are capable of and use them for good purpose. I felt that I started to learn lot of things about life during my Junior High School.
After I graduated Junior High School, I continued my Senior High School at Petra 1, and when I graduated I chose UPH as my next place to study. After going through with this life, I realized that we have to use our time in this life as full as possible, we have to do wonderful and useful things to others surround us. Because from my perspective, how long a person’s live is not how long they have lived in this world, but it is merely how many percent that they used their life to do good things for others and themselves. Because of that, I have a dream, to be useful and bring positive attitudes to others surround me. This time, I am still in the process to accomplish my mission.

Great Adventure of Mine

Nothing can be done if we don’t have the courage to make it to be done.
It was on a sunny day in the middle of our campus long holiday between the even and odd semester. Not so shocking for them who have been used in this kind of stuff, but when it comes to me, a boy with the name of Hendrik Pian, it will be kind of weird matter. That’s about joining UPH debate team. Shocking? Yes for me because I’ve never ever joined such kind of debating stuff more over participating in a national competition. Without any long-solid preparation we were pushed to compete in the national competition with all university in Indonesia. The exact date was in 17th July 2009, placed at Brawijaya University; our group was consisted of 3 debaters, 2 adjudicators and 1 official. The competitors were almost from the state universities because most of them used to call this PIMNAS as state university competition, so for the private universities, don’t be surprised if you might become the second prior in this event. Our team must be used with some verbal and nonverbal mocking that comes from one-two or even a bunch of people who see us as new beginner or even maybe they don’t like our university or what, I also don’t understand why because I think there were no uses or need to ask them. Three days pass through and finally we’ve succeed till the quarter final but unfortunately our step must be stopped at that level because we failed against UAD. Me and my partners were quite happy and be very thankful for every party that have been supporting us so far. We were very proud of our achieving. For that short story, the reason why I said in the beginning that there must be a first time for everything.
I was born in Kupang, NTT on 8th July 1991 at the government hospital, live happily ever after with two sisters’ and one brothers, where the two of them were born after me. After I graduated from my high school at kupang, I continued my study at Universitas Pelita Harapan, by taking management department at the business school, because in the future I would like to help others to manage some of their stuff especially in the area of finance or business. Like whats happening now in the world where everybody is competing in all lifes area, whether to make profit or not but in the end is to fulfill their scarcity.
I’ve decided to go out from Kupang, the place I’ve born and grew up to Surabaya, a place in Indonesia that is well known as one of the center of business in Indonesia. I’ve chosen this place because of its complexity and pluralism in many kinds of aspects, and I think it might be an advantage for us if we can take the lesson in order to help us live this life with a better way. Sola Deo Gratia

My parents always said “we were experience of degradation but believe in god, he will rise you again together with me”. This word inspires me most. Many people miss their young ages with unexciting moment. They don’t want to try something new in their live. Nevertheless, many people said there is no excitement in their live. This is my life story. When I was 10, it was the first happiest moment I had. I was entering the junior high. I have many friends. I prefer play to study. In my dictionary there is no words study on it unless it was very urgent task. I was a very naughty person. My teacher refers me as an impudent person. I often tease the other people. I like to tease other people in order to encourage them than to annoy them. I tried to make them laugh in order to make them happy. In senior high I made brand new friends and it’s a lot of it. My high school life is filled with excitement and night experience. I have lot of friends, whom drunker. Most of my time at night, I spend it with drunken friends of mine. People often say night person is a bad person. But, I don’t think such a thing. They are a lost people who want to forget the real world. In this time my parents say their “gold words” on me. This is the third of happiest moment of my life.
The degradation their said is the past. Now, you must rise again if you are a man. Many people wanted to run from their past and their reality of the world (cruel of the world). They want to find another pleasure to please their selves. The past experience of mine was exiting. So I won’t say my life is boring, I have no good memories, or I don’t have special moment, etc. in other word never give up on yourselves. Many people try to deny it by doing nothing to their life. They construct a barrier in their selves such as routine work, closed their relationship with other. They will never understand the people heart. They will think the right things but it won’t an effective things. Many things in this world are right. But most of them are not effective. Why do I say so? , Here is my example. Last time I met with sick people. We help the sick is the right think. But, they do nothing effective by calling an ambulance. They just take them to save place where people can looked them. In my experience when we met such a situation we must calm down a think what I must do. Never ever said please help me. Most of the people will just looking around and do nothing. This is one of my experiences from my night life. So do the effective things not the right things.

About My Self

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Joyce Hana S.W.
Business Management
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In the first, I want to introduce about myself, my name is Joyce Hana, I am 19 years old. I had took my academic from kinder garden until Senior High School in PETRA. Now, I’m on the third semester in UPH and I choose Business Management for my major. Why I choose this major because since I was a child, My Father is always persuade me to continue his job, although I have two other elder sisters, but they don’t like all about business. In the University, both of my sisters take a design major likes Design Communication Visual and Design Interior, It doesn’t connect with my father Company. My Father has a Oil Company. So, since I had already known about school program, my father persuade me to choose all about business likes Marketing, Accounting, Finance, etc.
Surely, I’m not feel it likes a force from my father, but I feel very enjoy with it. I make it likes a hobby. Since, I sit in elementary school. I likes to selling something example likes accessories, hand-made cover book, pins, pens, etc. and when I was on Junior High School and Senior High School, I’m often to join some competition likes stock competition, business competition, business plan competition, etc. And I have already got 10 achievements from that competition. I’m very proud with it, because I can make my father’s dream becoming true. And also I join many companies or corporation likes MLM, Product Selling, etc. I trust from that experience, I can be able to continue my father’s company as well as my father and other employee.
As soon as possible, I really want to finish my school, so when UPH has a holiday, I’m not take the holiday but I take a short semester to take a advance class. It gets many effects for the how long I can finish my school. Why I want to take a short semester because in other hand, I don’t like only theory to practice my capability but I want to practice in the real life. But my Father is often to advice me, I must finish my school in the first or take a full concentration in my school Activity. After it, I can be concentration in the business.
So Far, it’s only about my education on Business Major and for the future job. But definitely, I have another activities outside my education. Likes now, I’m a member in SYN Group Charity, in once a month, My group organization will held a social charity, it likes to gift ( based food or “SEMBAKO”, going to house to house of many children who didn’t have any parent (panti asuhan), going down to street, and have many others social program. I’m very enjoy and proud with this community, because we can learn to give other people or a poor people. Until now, I have been participate on 12 charity in 2 years. For me, It was a great activity.
That’s all about my short explanation of my Daily Activity or my School Activity. It’s true that until now I was being in UPH but I’m still counting day by day to finish my School as soon as possible. Sometimes, I feel so bored with my School Activity, I must wake up earlier, and spent a whole day in Campus. But in other hands, I must do it, because it ‘s very useful for my future. I must be passion maybe for 2 or 3 years again.

Sugiarto's Life Story

I was born on a cold midnight at Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. Until now I still live in Surabaya. When I was 8 years old, I love to eat star fruits. One day I go to my grandparent house. They have a star fruit tree and their star fruit tree was full with rape fruit. I ask my grandfather if I can have some, and he say yes. So I start to climb the star fruit tree and pick some of them. But after I pick the star fruit I realized that I can’t climb down the tree. I sit at the tree crying and hoping that someone will realize that I can’t climb down the tree. After about 3 hours my father starts to look at me and he surprised that I was at the star fruit tree and can’t climb down the tree so he pick a stair and carry me down.

My name is Sugiarto Hans Winata. I was born at 14 of April 1990. I started school when 4 years old. I go to VITA kindergarten school. I started my elementary school at 6 years old. At the first grade I got the male perfect attendance awards. When I was at the 6th grade of elementary school, I followed the mechanic extracurricular. When I was graduated from elementary school I go to junior high school at Cita Hati Junior High school. When I was at junior high school that was for the first time I followed the basket ball extracurricular. After I graduated at the junior high school I go to Cita Hati senior high school I chose the social when I at the second grade of senior high school. And at the 3rd grade of senior high school I become the crew for the English competition. After graduated from the senior high school I went to UPH Surabaya until now.
I have 1 little sister and 1 little brother. My little sister is in the 3rd grade of junior high school and my little brother is in the 6th grade of elementary school. They’re very precious to me. When my little sister was in the 3rd grade of elementary school we used to fight each other because we want to use the television, which channel that we want to watch or even what game in play station that we want to play. I watched how my little brother born when he was still a baby he was very cute but after he grow up I think that he was annoying. Even sometimes we fight but I care about them.

From the story I gave, I conclude that the most important thing in life is family. Even sometimes your parents may hurt you but that are for the best for your life. They just want you to get the best.