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FREEDOM WRITERS

Dini hari kemarin saya merasa beruntung untuk dapat menyaksikan sebuah film Amerika produksi tahun 2007 yang bertajuk “FREEDOM WRITERS”, dibintangi oleh Hillary Swank serta beberapa actor dan actress berkarakter lain yang mengangkat cerita dari sebuah buku “freedom Writers Diary” yang ditulis oleh Erin Gruwell dan ide untuk mengangkatnya ke layar lebar datang dari Tracey Durning, seorang journalist, yang membuat dokumentasi tentang Erin Gruwell untuk ABC News program Primetime Live.

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Plot dari film tersebut saya coba kutip dari wikipedia:

The movie takes place in the early 1990′s until late 1990′s. Hilary Swank plays the role of Erin Gruwell, a new, excited schoolteacher who leaves the safety of her hometown, Newport Beach, to teach at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, where a new integration program has implemented where students of all backgrounds and races are put in classes together. Her enthusiasm quickly dwindles away when she realizes that her students (all at-risk students, also known as “unteachables”) are not the happy-go-lucky eager students she was expecting. Her students must be forced in to class by security guards and are segregated into groups according to race within the classroom. The tension is apparent every time students from one race look at those from another. Not only does she meet opposition from her students, she also has a hard time with her department head, who believes she should ……

… Meanwhile, Gruwell gives her students a project to write their diary in the form of a book. She compiles the projects into a book and names it The Freedom Writers Diary. Her husband divorces her and Margaret tells her she cannot teach her kids for their junior year. She fights this decision, eventually convincing the superintendent to allow her to teach her kids’ junior and senior year. The film ends with a note that Gruwell successfully brought many of her students to graduation and college. (wikipedia)

Beberapa phrase (memorable Quotes) yang tetap mengiang ditelinga saya setelah film berakhir adalah kalimat yang diucapkan oleh salah seorang tokoh murid (saya lupa yang mana), kira-kira bunyinya seperti ini, “ Saya tidak mengharapkan apa yang saya tulis (baca;tuangkan) dalam diary agar nantinya dibaca oleh orang lain, tapi lebih kepada apa yang dapat saya tinggalkan di dunia ini dari dalam diri saya…”.

Semua kejadian-kejadian yang saya alami dan hadapi sebelumnya tiba-tiba seakan menjadi terkait , Blog yang dibuatkan oleh Budi Ridwin dengan pesan “…sebagai diary aja, jadi bisa menulis apa aja dengan bebas pak…”, keragu-raguan sekaligus dorongan untuk mencurahkan (release) kegelisahan selama bertahun-tahun di kepala berbaur, dan akhirnya quotes diatas, menjawab keraguan saya selama ini. Saya selalu percaya bahwa, tidak ada kejadian di dunia ini terjadi secara kebetulan. Jadi, ikuti saja kemana angin berembus dan air mengalir…

Rekan saya Ayip telah melakukannya bertahun-tahun, he must be a very happy man, I sholud thank  him for inspired and influenced me. Terutamanya saya harus berterima kasih kepada Budi Ridwin yang telah mebawa saya ke dunia yang baru, never too late Guys…

Yoka Sara – Reborn!

I started year of 2009 by sending a short message to all my team (as always), clients and beloved friends -a notification of my Reborn !!-, an expression of the feeling I had, to begin the year to come and I still try to find out why (I had it) until today. Then in a few days after I found and managed to meet Budi Ridwin, and convinced me that he could bring our dream -for so many years- to come true, our own Website!

In the same January, a new member joint the Team, Kadek Indira, graduated from University of Gajah Mada, Yogyakarta. Then followed by my decision to assigned Citta Ilmiani (I meet her once only last year), a fresh graduate from ITB, Bandung, to joint forced and represent our Bali based office for our under-construction Villa project in Dago Pakar Resort, Bandung.

At the end of February, coming out of nowhere (or maybe I think on the web perfomance issue a lot) I come up with an Idea of a Collaboration for Opening Pages design with other respectful and extraordinary Graphic Designers (or beyond, I believed), Arief ‘ayip’ Budiman of matamera and Ade Adinata of Tiga Grafis, Iwan ‘no more long hair’ Sastrawan from  my own Architectural Creative Team and Tisha Sara Dewi -my beloved daughter- with a little encouragement of course.

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tisha sara dewi

And two days ago, Noorzacky Mubarook also graduated from University of Gajah Mada joint my Architectural Creative Team for 2 years to come, the Class of 2009 ( a tradition welcoming party awaits you and that for sure..).

A beginning with Intuition and Destiny, now I will learn how to walk….

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