Hening

Yah teman-teman, saya gagal memegang komitmen untuk meng-update komik strip "Pucuk dan Cobi" seminggu sekali. Mungkin menggambar 3 panel itu kelihatan gampang bagi teman-teman *lirik anak seni rupa*, tapi karena menggambar itu bukan hanya sekedar melihat, jelas saja saya merasa kesulitan :P Sudah ada niat, seharusnya bisa tetep selesai dalam seminggu kan? Yaah sebetulnya saya tidak punya pembelaan yang berarti, saya hanya tidak mood nongkrong di depan Photoshop setelah pulang dari 7Habits...

Kemarin acara pelatihan itu selesai, tamat, the end, owari, enggeus we lah; tapi bukan berarti strip selanjutnya bisa diunggah dalam jangka waktu yang dekat.... Ada sebuah acara yang muncul tepat di hari berikutnya, yaitu adalah OSKM, Orientasi Studi Kaderisasi Mahasiswa.

Acara OSKM ini lebih memeras tenaga dari pada pelatihan 7Habits. Selain jangka waktunya lebih lama, para peserta juga diberi jatah istirahat yang sangat terbatas. Hanya untuk shalat dzuhur dan asar, Sodara-sodara! Di dalam OSKM ini para mahasiswa baru ditanamkan nilai-nilai optimistis, seperti "Anda sekalian adalah calon pemimpin global, kita *tentu* bisa melakukan berubahan! (baca: tanggung jawab sama rakyat! itu kursi gak gratis woi, banyak yang harus ngalah!)","Kita beruntung Indonesia memasuki era di mana 60% penduduknya dalam usia produktif. Tidak semua negara punya kesempatan seperti itu. 40 Tahun ke depan, Indonesia bisa berhasil di tangan kalian semua.","Orang Indonesia masih kompak, kalau satu membantu, yang lain pasti mau ikut membantu. Negeri ini penuh bencana tapi bisa diselesaikan asal ada yang mau memulai" ...dan lain sebagainya. Pembicaranya datang dari berbagai bidang dan cara menyampaikan pesannya pun berbeda-beda. Menarik, tapi saya tidak akan membahasnya kali ini =))

Sebenernya tujuan saya menulis lagi adalah sharing percakapan berkesan ini:
"Eh, kalau habis lulus ITB kalian mau ngapain?"
"Nikah dong..."
"Pas umur berapa?"
"23, itu kan udah dapet ijazah... tinggal dapet suami mapan, hidup pasti terjamin~"
"Kalau kalian mau nikahnya pas umur berapa?"
"Wah nawarin calon nih? Biro jodoh, biro jodoh."
"Enggak, cuma kira-kira aja..." 
"Hahaha, 27 sih." "Aku juga 27."
 *tos sama temen*
Sementara itu...
"Kasih tau dong ke depan" <--maen pesan berantai dari bagian cowok, cewek baris di depan
"Oh emm... (nama), kamu cantik deh"
*keempat cewek nengok ke belakang, cowok-cowok ngeliat ke arah yang sama*
"Ciiieeeee beneran dapet 23! Hahahaha"
"Eh eh eh eh, by the way, kalo nikahnya 23, kerjanya kapan ya?"
"1 tahun cukup lah..."
"Rakyat kelaparan?" <---saya nyeletuk nyebut spanduk yang tadi dilewatin bareng-bareng, kirain gak kedengeran
"..."
"...bener juga yah"
(di saat ini saya beneran kaget)
"Apanya yang bener?"
"Kalau langsung nikah, ngapain ke FMIPA?" *refer to herself*
"...untuk diturunkan ke anak?"
"Kalau anaknya perempuan lagi?"
"..."

College Days, スタート!

Yep, this is a mini photo album of my first week in ITB.

Back to School

Today, I found myself sitting in SMA Negeri 2 Bandung's chair, listening intently to long explanation about alkali metal salts and hydrocarbon. This felt weird, of course. I have been stated to be an alumni since a month ago, but somehow I got the honor to get a private lesson in chemical lab. 2 hours passed like few minutes that way... I thought such situation was improbable, hahahah ^^;

Before anyone can ask, here are what just happened:
In the morning, I canceled watching movie with my friends due upcoming test on 16th. You expect me to study at home, don't you? Well I did my best but failed miserably. The problems I tried to solve were really hard and no one at home can help (not even the internet!)... I felt reaaally frustrated... "Canceled to hang out with friends for nothing? I wouldn't let that happen!"...So there, I went back to school without making any appointment. It was miracle; a teacher offered help in busy day like that. THANK YOU! She even lend me this book...

What I learned today (read for your own risk :p)
> acetylene and propene (propylene) have triple bond, not double! (doh)
> solid NaCl doesn't conduct electricity because solid alkali metal, Al and Mn salts don't form ion...
That's why in electrolysis, water get reduced instead of the metal.
> Basic substances are most likely to form precipitate.
On the other hand, acid substances are easily soluble.
> Zn has full electron in d, so it is more harder to get reacted.
For the same reason, its oxidation number is only 2+.
The 10 electrons won't budge no matter what =_=
Zn don't react with NH_3, but react with KOH. Al react with both, form a precipitate, then the precipitate would dissolves when excess basic substance is added.
> ethyl acetate IS ester but hardly soluble in water.
It has weak bond between the C₂H₅ and O.
> saturated fat has no double bond. To get saturated fat, react fatty acid component with H₂. A double bond will be dissolved by (1) H₂.
> About the precipitate color...
it would be hard to memorize it without doing experiments.
Most precipitates (basic substances and salts) are white.
List of the exceptional:
Fe(OH)₃: brown (it is a rust, geez...)
FeS: black
Fe(CN): yellow
FeCl₃: light yellow
CuSO₄: blue
NiSO₄: green
KMnO₄: orange
PbI₂: yellow
components:
I: yellow
Ba: green
CN: orange
Cr: orange
[edit: scribd(dot)com/doc/36896579/Cation]

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Alright, I'm done with chemistry in this post. Hurraaay!
To make this post lighten, I will announce something (not so) important.
My brother and I are working on comic strips about our daily life. It will be updated weekly. If you are interested you can check it out riiiight here.
He does the writing and I do the drawing (*gasp* I'm selling my soul to the devil!). It's quite a work but I hope it can amuse you :3