ISEF- Islamic Education Festival

ISEF was one occasion which was held by Techonology Institute of Bandung. People who held this occasion attached to GAMAIS or keluarga mahasiswa ITB. There were many competitions that were held by the committee to other people include ITB and others. The chain of event were held in ITB, Ganeha street Bandung. The competitions which were held such as writing contest, education seminar, Gamais Award, Gamais Cup, Month of donation, and book's discussion.

That one which interesting for me than the other competitions was writing contest. The purpose of writing competition were to create an ispiring writing of education in Indonesia, introduced people that Islam is a religion which can solve this problem and improved the ability of writing. The theme which was taken for this competition was “Pendidikan Islami dan Kaitannya dengan Peradaban Masa Kini”.

Writing competition was held on April,1 until May,8. The process to send our writing was very easy. You can sent the writing on email or by post it to the post office. Because of that, it was easy for us to follow this competition.

At first, I didn't want to follow this competition because too many tasks that I had, so it was impossible for me to follow this competition, but finally I followed this competition on May, 8, yeah.. it was the last date to send the writing and I had been beginning my writing.

Writing competition was divided into three categories; short story, essay, and poetry. At first I would follow short story category but I thought it was difficult to make one short story in a flash in the pan. Because of that, I decided to follow essay categories.

I didn't know why I followed this competition suddenly. I didn't have the first planning to deal with. At least, I wrote my essay fast and tried to send my writing on email to the committee. Ouch, trouble came. I didn't know why I couldn't send an email, whereas it was approximately mid night, hmm. Perhaps, it was over from the time which the committee deal with.

I remembered that I had two account email, one in gmail and others in yahoo. When I tried to send an email in my gmail account, it couldn't be sent but when I tried in my yahoo account, it was sent. Unfortunately, I was not sure if it had been sent because when I tried more to send it, it couldn't be sent again.

Perhaps, I just prayed in order to my writing was received by the committee. That was not confirmation that I received, but no problem, it was my absolute error. It was interesting to note that “nothing to lose” became my principal when I followed all of competitions, because finally I always won the competition :D, I hoped for this competition too. :)) amin.