Amrik, negara (siap) ber-demokrasi

Terpilihnya Barack Obama sebagai Presiden USA pertama yang berkulit hitam, membuktikan keberhasilan warga Amrik ber-demokrasi. Dimana warna kulit dan ras gak jadi pertimbangan apakah seseorang bisa (atau gak bisa) jadi Presiden.

Terlepas dari pandangan orang Indo yang suka meng-identifikasikan Amrik dengan kapitalis/ anti-muslim/kafir/ whatever it is, sudah terbukti bahwa USA adalah sebuah bangsa yang dibangun dengan meng-amin-i Piagam Hak Asasi mereka.

Dibilang, tiap orang punya kesempatan yang sama. Buktinya adalah Obama, asalkan orang itu memenuhi kapabilitas untuk jadi Presiden, mengikuti jalurnya, menang (electoral) voting, maka despite warna kulitnya Obama pun bisa jadi Presiden.

Beberapa hari sebelum Obama terpilih jadi Presiden, ada kolom di koran lokal yang isinya sms dari pembaca- tentang opini mereka apakah Obama akan terpilih jadi Presiden USA atau engga.

Ada 1 sms yang bunyinya: 'Mana mungkin rakyat Amrik mau dipimpin sama Presiden kulit hitam. Gak mungkin Obama menang.'

Pernyataan yang sungguh pesimis dan sempit.

Mungkin disamain kaya warga negara Indonesia kaleee.

Dimana dasar negara boleh Pancasila, dan semboyan bisa Bhineka Tunggal Ika, tapi Presiden RI harus warganegara turunan Indonesia asli. (Dibaca: artinya kalau keturunan Cina, tapi lahir dan tinggal disini puluhan tahun, dan tampang bukan Indonesia asli, mimpi kali ye mau jadi Presiden).

Atau mungkin nanti kalau kita udah 100 tahun merdeka seperti USA, baru kita bisa menerima perbedaan (dangkal) seperti itu.

Belum lagi pidato kekalahan McCain yang sungguh agung, membesarkan hati.

Entah representatif atau tidak untuk menggambarkan bahwa rakyat Amrik adalah bangsa yang bisa menerima kekalahan dengan legowo, dengan McCain sebagai contoh pemimpin yang gak ngotot 'kekeuh' pengen menang.

Sungguh banyak yang bisa kita pelajari dari peristiwa President Election ala Amrik kemaren....

kalau saja kita bangsa yang mau belajar, yang rendah hati mau mengakui, bahwa kita masih kalah jauh dalam ber-demokrasi, belum bisa menerima perbedaan, belum bisa menerima kekalahan, yang para pemimpin-nya bisa mendahulukan kepentingan publik diatas kepentingan partai/golongan-nya.

Kapan yah.... Moga-moga peristiwa Pemilu Indonesia tahun mendatang bisa belajar dari peristiwa Amrik kemaren.

Dan rakyat yang milih parpol semoga diberdayakan dengan pengetahuan cara ber-politik yan benar, bukan sekedar bagi kaos gratis * sighed *

sumber gambar : politicalhumor.about.com

another one ...

Dalam 1 minggu 2 pasien meninggal. Both of them were girls, age below 23 years old, and died because of getting AIDS.

So it's just a matter of time whether they'll survive or not.

Sooner of later, I feel like doing something useless.

Gue jadi inget dalam sebuah perjalanan menyusuri pantai ParangKusumo, banyak jellyfish bertebaran on the way while we walked. And I didn't try to survive them because I knew no matter how they'd died anyway.

That's why I try to focus on something more worthed in the beginning like promotion and preventive care.

I really hope we don't waste life on something pointless in this life.
It's true that we've never known something worthed until we lost it.

cannot sleep -_-

nowadays we dealt with referal case from bahtera- local NGOs.
let say this girl, named H came for hospitalized 3 times in this year.
[i know this suppose to be secret, but i just can't keep it for myself !]
so bottomline she got HIV from her boyfriend, an intravenous drug user.

she came with loss of sight of her right eye, which we knew later on it caused by CMV retinitis -an opportunistic infection which happens a lot if your CD4 get below 50.
wasn't a good news at all, for her nor us.
we were doing as much as we could from medicine side, or even psychologically (that's what i thought) but seemed that H, our patient, has her own thought.

i assumed she still in denial phase. or didn't accept what has happened to her.
or maybe has something to do with whatever her personal problems, since her husband- whom she got the infection, was not being there.

anyway, she's 21 years old.
i know there's still a lot of similiar cases of HIV infected person in a very young age who desperate, loss of hope, any kinds of term describing that you just wanna end up very soon if you can. but HIV/AIDS doesn't come that way.
it comes very slowly and painful. and even if she got ARV-anti retroviral therapy- she had to manage to overcome all the side effects of the drugs.

still many young person out there who didn't know how much it will cost if you playfully of getting HIV by ... my example, multiple sex partners?

i was thinking, if i could choose any ways to spend my youth time with things that i like but won't cost that much, you know... getting as much friends doesn't harm you at all. but getting laid with them is a very different things.

deep inside H's heart, i assumed, if she could turn back the time, she would fixed all she had been done wrongly. but some things are just cannot changed.
HIV is not a temporary disease, once you get infected it will stay there as long as you lived.

then, this palliative state should have treated differently.
i would say to her,if i dare to say to her, to live her life at the fullest, enjoy her moment while she can. but no one would dare to say such things to her.
moreover, she has no capability for doing so.

in 3 words, (i'm not very good at counting i warn you) : it's too late.

i was wondering, if i do have several years (or months) left to spend in this world, what will i do?
traveling all over the world i'm sure. tell the people i love how much i love them?
i rarely saying those kinda things even to my parents...

i don't know because i've never been on that state.

just too tired for now.

Iklan rokok keren

Mudah-mudahan bisa jadi inspirasi buat mereka yang niat mau brenti ngeroko :-)



Keren kan ? ^^

Love this job !

My first home visit to sexual workers community, this job was a thing I have been done in the past for charity. Now I am doing it and got paid ! I don't have any objection about it !

Speaking about prejudice, I wrote in previous post in one of my bLog, that we shouldn't judge people if we hardly know them.
For example was this group, sexual workers that might not accepted and people tend to have sort of prejudice about them.
It is wrong to say whether what they did right or wrong, there are certain motivation that modified them to keep doing their job, firstly of course for money.
Even for 10,000 IDR ( that's one dollar ! ) they would get laid although they don't like the person.

And this group also vulnerable for getting STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) and HIV, not to mention the problem of convincing the clients to wear condom consistently for every sexual intercourse.

There are so many things come in my mind after the session. And so many questions about life itself. How to sort the problems out for their life. What's my part if I was capable to doing so.
But right now I am sure I am in the right track to pursue my deepest desire of all this time.