Studi Dasar Islam

Last Saturday, I had to delay my journey to Cimahi because I would follow one activity called Studi Dasar Islam. This program was held by DKM unpad or Dewan keluarga Masjid Unpad. At first, I didn’t interest with this program, but at least I followed this program.
This program was held at faculty of medicine Universitas padjadjaran, specifically in A5 building. This program was held for two days with the main program was “mabit” or malam bina iman dan takwa in Ibnu Sina Mosque.We had to stay there with our new friends and all members of committee. Each group had a mentor to accompany us during this occasion.
In a first day, I and my friend, Fina, came late. This occasion started at 08.00 PM, but I and Fina came at 08.15 PM. We came late because we got a long time for taking a bath and we lost for a while in faculty of medicine. I was so embarrassed because it. In a first day, we would follow super training from a good motivator named Mr. Felix Siauw. He was a mualaf, he moved his religion from Christian to Islam when he studied at IPB or Institut Pertanian Bogor. He was a good motivator because he explained clearly with easy views. He explained about three basic questions from our life, the three questions were Where did we come from?, Why did we have to live? , and Where did we back after life? The simple questions but I confused at first to answer it. Finally, Mr. Felix Siauw explained clearly that we came from Allah SWT, we lived because Allah SWT, and we would back to Allah.

After we followed super training from Mr. Felix Siauw, we had to move from Faculty of Medicine to Ibnu Sina Mosque. In Ibnu Sina mosque, we took a rest for a while before we studied about how to read Koran or we called it with “TAHSIN KORAN”. Before we studied Koran, we had to take a bath and we decided to back to our boarding house in De Surya. After we took a bath, we backed to mosque for studying “TAHSIN”. We studied about tajwid etc, it was so interesting. At night, our mentor explained us about DKM UNPAD and how to affiliate in DKM UNPAD. After we already listened about that explanation, we had to sleep in mosque before we continued this occasion with Salat tahajud.

In a second day, after we prayed, we did “Muhasabah”. Muhasabah was Arabian language that means one activity to muse and to realize our sins to God. In Muhasabah, I felt so sad. I remembered my sins to my parents, my friends, my teacher etc until I cried. After Muhasabah, we continued at second occasion, that was super training motivation from Mr. Karebet. It was amazing because we learned how to be the real agent of change. The occasion finished at 12.00 P.M, but I was so happy because I got a new experience and new friends, besides that I also get the gifts from the committee, the gift were voucher to eat, voucher for shopping, and voucher to cut my hair in salon.

I Am a Philatelist

I am sure that everyone must have a hobby. It is a normal if you have an unique hobby, for instance; collect some fishes, collect some red flowers, or collect stamps. Do you know friends? The last example is my hobby , yes I like collecting stamps, and a person who collect stamps called ‘philatelist’.

I am proud to be a philatelist, why? Because I am proud if I have already collected all kinds of stamps. At this time, I have collected for approximately more than one hundred stamps from all countries in the world. Unfortunately, some of my stamps have lost. Hmmm, it is bad.

My hobby for collecting stamps started when I was first grade in junior high school. I love collecting stamps because I am happy if I look many pictures in stamps. Perhaps, you don’t understand about “my own appreciate for myself”, it’s like if you want something than your parents give you more. Hmm, it is interesting, isn’t it? ^^

From all of my stamps, I love some. They are from London and Mongolia

Perhaps, you ask about a stamp from London or a stamp from Mongolia several times. Hmm, first I love London very much, friends. I love this country, so I love London’s stamps too. ^^V. Second, I like Mongolia’s stamps because Mongolia’s stamps are biggest than the others

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Friends, for collecting stamps it is not easy. Why? Because you have to encourage yourself especially your interest to love stamps first. Many people think that it is waste time to collect stamps from many countries in the world, but it is interesting to note that for others it is interesting, like me. Second, you have to search many stamps not only in one places but in other places too because your target is “collecting all stamps from all countries in the world” or you have to minimize your target become “collecting all stamps while period to period in Indonesia”, it is depend on you. Third, keep your hobby until you are getting old and feel enjoy when little by little you can collect all of them.

When I was in senior high school, I had a new hobby, write short story. Automatically, my interest to collect stamps lessen somewhat. Hmm, because of that, sometimes I forget where I put my stamp, oh do you know? it is not more. Hmm, It’s enough to remember, don’t remember it anymore. ^^

Now, I want to share with all of you with my hobby. I still love collecting stamps, but I don’t have friends who have same hobby with me. I hope you, whoever you are, can share about stamps here. It is interesting to note that collecting stamps is very interesting, believe me.