Tampil dengan BANDOS ITB, di Blitz dan ITB…
Wah, gw akhirnya ada juga media untuk nambah jam terbang. Bermain bareng BANDOS ITB bener2 sesuatu yang baru dan menyenangkan. Ngeliat para dosen2 itu bermain musik bener2 buat penyegaran.
Penampilan pertama gw bareng BANDOS ITB itu waktu di Blitz. Ga nyangka bisa tampil di sini. Penontonnya cukup banyak. Om-om dosen bilang ktnya penampilannya lebih bagus daripada pas latihan. Lagu2 yang dibawain sendiri ada 6, “Prahara Cinta”, “In the Stone”, “Still a Friend of Mine”, “If I Ain’t Got You”, “Stand Up for Love” sama “You”. Ada beberapa kendala yang gw temuin, yaitu:
1. Gw belom pernah nyanyi trio, dimana gw dan teman2 (Dinda dan Dhien), harus berbagi suara 1, 2 dan 3. Karena gw cowo, cukup sulit untuk menyocokkan dengan kedua wanita bersuara merdu ini. Tapi, ini adalah sebuah tantangan. Dan ketika kita berhasil melewati tantangan, maka kita akan berada pada level lain.
2. Lagu2 yang dibawain itu, cenderung lagu2 cewek. Lagu “in the stone” earth wind and fire aja dinaekin nadanya… Ini karena mereka udah pernah bawain ini lagu dan sudah cukup fix kuncinya.
Tapi itu dia, semua tantangan positif itu harus dijawab. Dan Alhandulillah, waktu itu semuanya berjalan dengan lancar.
Penampilan yang kedua yaitu pas tampil di ITB, my campus. Tampilan kesekian kalinya di kampus (gw pribadi, hehe). Selain 6 lagu yang udah disebutin di atas, ada juga lagu “Cinta”-nya Chrisye sama “Kenangan Terindah”-nya Samsons. Jujur aja, untuk kedua lagu ini, latihannya cuma 1 kali. Jadi, cukup ga pede juga bawainnya. Dan lagu kaya gini, bukan lagu yang biasa gw nyanyiin. Tapi ya, coba aja lah…
Gw harus nurut dulu sama apa kata pendahulu2…heheh untuk fit in… nah, wal hasil… ada beberapa nada yang fals, gw nyadar banget pas tampil lagu samsons. Lagunya itu nadanya dinaikin jadi nada cewek. Jadinya, gw kebagian ref-nya… Karena kurang pd “tea”, ada beberapa nada yang slip. Ya gpp-lah… selalu ada evaluasi.
Yang pasti, pengalaman pertama dan kedua ini sungguh berkesan karena memberi suasana yang baru dalam hidup gw…hahaha.
God creates all the sciences
As a moslem, i always believe that God is one, has no parent and has no child, and nothing’s like God (Allah). And subhanallah, not only that I believe in this statement in and out my whole soul, but science has once again proved that. Subhanallah, subhanallah, subhanallah. I have no idea that my Astronomy major has introduced me to what is called the bridge between religion and science. Allah (God) says in the Qur’an that we have to always reach for knowledge in order to get closer. What i understand about getting closer to God is that knowledge can enrich the concept of things in the whole universe and in life so that we can feel humble. And what science do i mean?
Well, it’s the big bang thing. Astronomers believe that the universe was born through such explosion called “Big Bang”. Nobody can explain it. We can only try to “describe” it, like written in the article by Peter Marshall. So after the big bang, there came the universe. This is how I’m going to explain about how science connects with religion.
When the universe was born, the space and time were formed. In fact, the term “space and time” is inseparable with the universe. It means, before the universe was born, there never was what is called “space” nor “time”. Can u imagine that? Einstein said that there must have been a “Spirit” that once created the universe. Observations have shown that there needs to be a miracle that can form a universe like shown.
So prior to the birth of the universe, what exist is, i believe, immortality. As far as i’m concerned. Mortality is caused by specifically “time”. So when there is no time, everything’s considered immortal. Logical enough.
To sum up, I entirely believe the “Spirit” that i’ve been talking about is God (Allah SWT), subhanallah. And that GOD CREATES ALL THE SCIENCES. We never creates even a single form of science. What we do is basically, trying to find out what God has written in all over the universe (through science). Once again, we don’t really explain things, we can only try to describe things. It is what it is, that’s it.
