CCHS Stugo 2011-2012

Stugo? It stands for Student Government, in the other states also known as Student Council, in Indonesia was popular by OSIS term. I mma tell a bit about my experince as Stugo member ;)

#August 16th - 2011

It was kinda shock when I was joining this class since I'm lacking of experience of being in school's committee; c'mon I just used to be a leader of English Club before. Lot of people (36 members) and hard to remember their name on my first days. Since I am a senior, I sat in the group of seniors on the very right side of the room. Stugo class is on 5th period on room 5105.

I met Rosa (The President of Senior Class), April (The Vice President of Senior Class), Clariza (The Senior Class' Representative), JR and Bob (he didn't come on my first attending).

We're talking about the spirit week. At first I just like "What The Hell?! Why do I need to drees up those away for a whole week?! I don't bring lot of clothes!" LMAO

Most of the time I remained silent. Often times Clariza and April tried to be nice and said "What do u guys think?" or "Do u have any ideas?". Upps Sorry Hell No, I have no idea at all about what was happening that time, I mean they're the way far and I just came today with all my lacking experience.

I even should go back to the Stugo Class during my lunch since we need to talk more about the Homecoming Dance with all senior members there.

#September 2nd - 2011

Fresmaen Inauguration + My first Assembly!!! Wohooo, it was a very looooooong Day!

I woke up at 2.30 a.m and slept at 23.00 p.m. I wore my white stugo shirt! Wohoo within my name printed in the back "RIDHO"

So today I should go to Stephanie's house around 3 a.m to get prepare for waking up our Frosh, Sergio, who is Stephie's cousin. So together with Peace, JR, Valeria, Keila, Suzzete and her twin, Stephie and her Mom we drove to Sergio's house. It took a year for Sergio's Mom to unlock his door while he was sleeping --" But we woke him up, Valeria slapped him with pork meat, LMAO cause it sounds "Plaaak". Sergio only wore his boxer, so we let him to get short but Hell No he was cheating by wearing Shirt, he should be what he was before, without taking a brush teeth and so. We "kidnaped" him and brought him back to Stpehie's house to make over him up! LMAO, he dressed up crazy like a sissy!

All the groups with each Frosh met at McDonald to take breakfast and we had plenty of fun time here! We're driving to school and didin't forget the "Banana Game" for the Frosh, ;p it was public humiliation for me, but who cares.

Since I brown slipped from 1st-3rd period for Assembly, so I helped preparing the assembly with others in the big gym. Really it was my first time and it was awesome! So in Assembly, the clubs and sports of this summer season will introduce their clubs and open the enrollment for new members. It was fun and unfortunately, we only can do 1 game in 2nd assembly. Apparantly, we had 4 games for each assembly that means we had 8 games! But since it's the way late so we canceled the game to save time. But no reason to ruin this event ;) And we should clean up back the gym and ready for next Period. I went to my 3rd Perid, People Leadership, since we still had about 15 minutes before it end ;D

1st Place at Class & 3rd Best at School

"Alhamdulillah !!! "...

It's the first word that come through my heart when school's committee announced the class rank, it's so unbelievable that I still get a chance not only to maintain my rank position at class but also to get in the 3-best-place at school.

What makes this so spectacular is it against my prediction before. As 2nd semester was flowing at the time, my rival Mia Andarina was really turn her mark on its ear. Ya, her scores were expanding rapidly that makes me so damn-afraid. No remedial even low scores in her score's history! How do I know? Because I list down every single score that I, Mia and Wilda got during the second semester. It is so uncommon for me to do such thing (list others' scores), but I do really am afraid of disappointing my parents.

What makes me so hopeless is a high gap of Math and Physic score between me and Mia, although there is enriching test for math but still it shows how bad I am. It probably happens because I was quite busy took care my student Exchange Program files, and participated on some competitions (English Speeches).

But again, Allah gives me a wonderful mercy for my last time before the flight to USA. I still get the 1st place within average score 92.23 (Damn it's high compare to my 1st semester's score : 89.73), even further I got the chance to join the 3-best-place at school (what makes me sad is my friend, Lalilatul Rizkah, the 1st-best-place Queen ever isn't get her annually achievement, she even doesn't get the 3-best-place, and not only me, but almost students felt shocked when the annoncement). And not only those, but in the end of my participation in English Club (when the class of XII begin, those who are seniors will be retired) I got double acievements of speech; 2nd Place of Erlangga Speech Contest and 1st Place of Dinas Pendidikan Riau Province (and school's committee announced it too in front of my mother)

"Ya Allah, you really give me unpaid bless never-endingly, let me become a good prayer all the time, and give me your bless of allowing me to go to USA if it's really your destiny..."

Some Hang-Out Places in Pekanbaru

Pekanbaru is a small clear-environment city. If you are looking Pekanbaru from the outside, yup, it's boring enough. And talking about hang-out places, you may be hopeless to find out. But NOT for me, this small city is homey, comfortable, and I love it. So, here I go, I will share you some of hanging-out places where you can spend a whole your day, you visit if you are outside visitors or just to make you know where you should be when you inned.

#1st - Ciputra Seraya Mall

CS for short, is one of the complete malls in Pekanbaru, and it's stated on Jalan Riau No. 58. This mall become so crowded on the weekend. It's bloated of teenagers almost of the time, why? Because as for me, this place was made for teenagers (I guess). This place is a perfect place if you want to hang out with your friends, watch movies in 21 cinema (located on the highest floor), sing songs at Queen Studio, buy shirts at LEVI's or 3Seconds, have a coffee break at J'CO, take a photo at M Studio or on the Photo Boxes outside 21 cinema, have a lunch at Pizza Hut, KFC, Solaria, Rice Bowl even the Food Court (on the floor bellow 21 cinema) with variety of cuisines. Sometimes, there are also some events held in this place, such a music show. So, if you are looking for hanging out place, this Mall is highly recommended. (y)

#2nd - Pis Burger

Sick of Mall atmospheric? You can come to this cozy place, located in Jalan Sumatera. This place is a hanging out place for (usually) "Anak Gaul" Pekanbaru. This place sells Sandwich, Burger and so on, and I guarantee those are DAMN delicious. And the good news is there are so many similar food places along jalan Sumatera that sells variety of foods and drinks in such omelet, fuit soup (Damn Fresh) and ect. This place is even cooler at night. So, come here, feel the fresh air with your "Gaul" friends and take that delicious burger!

#3rd - Waroeng Steak & Shake

Find a cheap delicious and awesome steak? This is the right place, the price rank between Rp 7000 until Rp 21000 (for the import steak). Waroeng Steak is lied on Jalan Gatot Subroto and serves original steak, sirloin, tenderloin, black pepper, beef steak, chicken steak and many more which are served in hotplate. COOL. This place is comfortable and also crowded by teenagers and couple on the night and weekend since the cheap price with the delicious foods and the fresh drinks. The Mocha Milkshake and Cappuccino Float are my favorites, they're yummy and it no lies!

#4th - Soeman H.S Library

Reading books in library? Sounds boring? Nope when you come to this place, this is the biggest library in Riau regional. After it had been refurbished by government, it becomes a cool modern-Riau-art-architecture 4-floor building within complete facilities such as Discussion Rooms (the Place where I often study together in doing homeworks), Cafe (that sold delicious foods for lunch and breakfast, but what I can say is those are quite expensive for me), Children Library, Internet Cafe (You should come on the early morning to get one seat here, and then you can browsing for FREE), WiFi, Meeting Room (usually for Event place), and many other cool facilities. Even you almost forget this is just a library!

#5th - SKA Mall

Hanging out is not only with your friends or boy/girlfriend right? Hanging out with your family may become an alternative to spend your free time besides tighten your relationship with your Dad and Mom, ;). Yup this is the right option where you can spend night with family. The main activity you've got to be here is SHOPPING, usually I come here with my family for monthly shopping, and I love this moment because we will have a dinner after that. Not only it, there are also some cozy places here such as J'Co, Solaria, A&W, Popeyes, BreadTalk, Papabunz, NAV (a karaoke palce for family) and many more. But a thing that really awesome is the city view on the rooftop when you park your car on the rooftop park. Damn, you can see entirely Pekanbaru from here, even at night, it will become so DAMN Beautiful, wanna try it? Come Here!

#6th - BREAKS Cafe

This is what I call a CAFE ! Damn this place is so awesome, modern, cozy, and elegant. The coffee and other drink are exceptionally delicious, and the price is appropriate with teenager's. Located on Jalan Sudirman, just open in Sudirman City Square, and by foot you can browse anything near this cafe such as Bank, Food Places, Shopping Boutique, Gallery and many more. O ya, there is also shisa in breaks cafe, similar way to enjoy tobacco in the different media, but I remind you that this is the same like you are smoking from cigarette which contains Nicotin and TAR, dangerous for your health dude. And what make this place is so special is the Italian atmosphere as the theme of this cafe. I even ever saw that there is the old school car parked here, cool!

#7th - MTQ & Taman Labuai

Where are the biggest events often takes place? The answer is here, at Jalan Sudirman near Simpang Tiga region. MTQ is a large area where the majestic Idrus Tintin buliding located, there are also some unknown unused buildings here. At the morning, this area is so fresh and many people have a jogging here from Parit Indah Street, Taman Labuai and MTQ Area. At afternoon, still this place is crowded by runner and also some boys who play football. While on the other hand, at night, this place is so match for a couple, but the bad thing is there are so many perverts here! But what can I say for sure is this place is always crowded at night, many food sellers sell their foodstuff especially, the most widely, roasted corn. Feel the night air under the night sky accompanied by the lined street lights and the atmosphere downtown, it is the romantic and also the coolest place at night. Even when there is an event here (usually there are almost 3 or more events that be held per month here). Come here anytime you want and take yourself care !

#8th - Car Free day Area

Are you a citizenship of Pekanbaru? or Do you ever go to Pekanbaru? Nope if you never join this weekly activity. Car Free day a.k.a CFD takes place on Jalan Diponegoro and Jalan Gajah Mada at Sunday morning. This event is so famous that all people from all social status, ages, man or woman are coming here. There are many activities that you can involve in here such as jogging with you friends or boy/girlfriend even your family, doing calisthenics that instructor-led, biking, playing football, or just seeing those for FREE. And often, government held a race walking activity and featured by awesome door-prizes such as Bike, TV even a motor cycle! This place also become a good hot spot for photos hunter, so prepare your camera well. And after doing training, it's for the best you have a breakfast, I recommend Buryam Jakarta for well since this place sells a yummy porridge and you can drink a bottle of ice tea, it's a perfect option for teenagers. Exercise, be sweat, have fun and have a good breakfast with your friends. So come here, change your outfit, refresh your mind and keep your body fit by leading healthy life style!

Saturday-12th February - The worst Meeting Ever

Feeling so nervous when Saturday was coming, because I didn't want to miss my meeting of extracurricular for the 4th times! I'm afraid that if the meeting was canceled again, it would impect to my juniors and so will seniors. But I had prepared anything a week before, the matter (about "Recount Text") which I made in PowerPoint, exercise papers and also the information about valentine day. Even I've planed to use Multimedia room, so not only be comfortable but also it would gave a new atmosphere in my meeting.

Everything sounds good, until I realized that the Multimedia room had been used by school's committee and another extracurricular. I felt confused, but I didn't give up hope, with Adli (my best friend) I went to the cafeteria to talk to ma'am Valin, we begged her to let us to use her room, but useless, she couldn't because she had another appointment.

5 minutes left before the rang, I still in chaos in finding a place, but a fortune came up to me, the Multimedia room was unused, so I moved with dispatch to use it, but the most unpredictable problem appear, there was no "infocus" in that room, I'm quite shocked since I sure that I saw the infocus 2 days ago. Otherwise I needed it to present my matter. And another is the room was extremely dirty with the rest of food (nuts and bananas) and drinks.

Ok, forgot about it, I would present it by myself (w/o PowerPoint). And the ball rang, Mia (my club mate) announced about the meeting in Multimedia room. 3 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes passed, but I just saw 5 juniors (then 1 excused to leave because she had a course, 2 came very late) and 6 seniors who came to our meeting.

I felt really disappointed, even Sarah (my secretary) always mocking at me with that FUCK situation. I just wanted to give up, bu Hey! What was I thinking about! I'm the leader; I had to take a responsibility at all cost. So I just started the meeting poorly, I even looked stupid when I told the matter, even it sounds relly boring!

Since it was impossible to give them the exercise papers, I turned to the game section; we played "Truth or Dare". So Echa (my club mates) start turning the bottle. And out of the blue, the door was opened and I saw the teacher (whom I hate the most). This Ms. Nur**** (DAMN!) then asked to me "What the hell is this?" "Why you are here?". I was shocked and directly talked to do negotiation with her, I said "Hmm.. Ma'am may I use this room, I promise to clean it",
She replied "Oh NO I can't, I want to lock this room",
Then I said "But ma'am let me lock this room and I would give it to Pak De then"
She responded “Still NO, from now on, I am the one who has the right to hand this key", she continued "Ok, stop let you out and clean this room!"

FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:'( :'(

Not only to go out and disperse, but she also ordered us to clean the rest of another club and school's committee in that room!!!
I looked at the face of my club members, I felt so ashamed to my members. All feelings; Angry, Sad, Disappointed, Ashamed, etc, mixed in my mind and heart! I really wanted to cry out loud! She even asked me "are you sick", I hardly said "Nn..no", but in my mind I surely said "Yes, I'm sick of you BITCH!!!

It was not finished yet, after cleaned the room, we tried to continue our game in my friend's class, but still I can't accept it, the game even more boring and unclear. Oh God! Why these all happened to me ;'( !!!

I (do) wanted to SCREAM! and run away from the fact that "I'M THE WORST LOSER LEADER EVER". I'm so sorry for my FUCK guidance :( I just want to do the best as hard as I could, but the fact was in the other hand. I realized that it might be true when you heard that "Man proposes, God disposes", no matter how well you tried but if God says "NO", it is all nonsense and bullshit :( !!!

Even though the meeting lasted an hour, but many sad things happen to me, even I was late to go to my Course. Otherwise I had a Periodic Test that time. Fortunately, it was not yet starting, but still, everything that had happened has made me unfocused in doing my test! I just resigned for everything.

:"( (even I still felt so sad when telling this experience, I just even hope that my club members never read this, because I don't want they know my feeling, I'm the leader who has to be strong in facing anything! Although the fact is I'm weak inside)

YES Bina Antarbudaya, "Never Ending Experience"

Have been long time no post huh? Ya I've been busy with these damn school's tests and other old activities, o ya from now on I start to re-active in my English course at LIA, since I've been postponed a term ago.

Eheem,
OK, this time I would like to share my best unforgettable experience I ever had :D

1st Chapter - The Gate's Opened

Let me start from the background. On March 2010, Ma'am Falin (my English teacher) said to me that there was a form of Student's Exchange Program from Bina Antarbudaya. At first, I totally surprised that time to hearing that kind of program. I forgot how many sheets that form consist of, but I guarantee it's quite complicating. I took that form, but I just got started to fill it 3 days before the dead line! haha. Then I collected my form within Rp 150.000,- (as postage and register fee).

O ya, this is the Download-able Form of Bina Antarbudaya, you can both check and download it.
:) Especially for the First Grader.

On 9th May 2010, 49 students (including me) of my school , SMA Negeri 8 Pekanbaru and another schools in Pekanbaru took the 1st test. At 8 in the morning, all the candidates entered the hall to hear the speech of our principal. We got the "Tanda Peserta Ujian" (sign of candidates) paper, I had gotten number 213.

There were 3 kinds of test we took.

• General Knowledge Test (but I bet that was not "general" anymore!); In Bahasa
  

• English Multiple Choices (A lot easier); In English
  

• Personality Essay (The topics were really strange for me); In Bahasa
  

And the result was there were 18 students of my school and some candidates from another schools passed it. Alhamdulillah I am included as one of those 18.

2nd Chapter - AFS Gank ; The Second Family

I was feeling so proud when school's committee announced my name and another 17 candidates in front of all the school members at ceremony. But look, the second test was coming soon! From that time, Kak RP, Rizky Putra,(my senior, who is Bina Antarbudaya-Jenesys Program) and another kakak, often do the briefings for us.

But it's not at all, I honestly didn't know well all the others 17 candidates in spite of they are my school mates. From the first meeting, we decided to choose me as the leader (Gosh!). But what made it's unique is my initials is also RP! (same like Kak Rizky Putra who was become a leader in his year), ya I know it's just a coincidence.

The students and the parents started to make the budget funds, rent a bus, was booking a hotel, decided the communication fee & consumptions even made the attendance list -.-". O ya, one more thing was the license to principal since we would take the second test during the semester examinations, it means we had to undergo the supplementary exams.

At 9 o'clock in the evening of 11th June (when the opening ceremony of FIFA world cup 2010, holly crap, I didn't watch it!), we were ready to go to Padang (our chapter, since Pekanbaru is not yet be a chapter).

This is the link for the Information of Padang Chapter ;)

(I remembered that I am the second after Anjani who was coming, while Adli was coming late -.-")


The journey from Pekanbaru to Padang took about 6 to 7 hours (I forgot how much it's exactly). O ya, besides us, the 17-candidate from SMAN 8 Pekanbaru, there was also our friend named Hafiz Oktri Putra from MAN 1 Pekanbaru, he was also one of us; the candidate who passed the first test.

Not many happened on that night besides Anjani and Widya who were capturing the photos of us who are down-on-our-luck, yup our horrible-sleeping face. These are what they had done, good job guys, keep it up !