Dewa Athena - OP

Though it has been too late to post, but it was February 21^st 2015 and it was Saturday. It was the day when SMAN 3 Bandung students was having an opening of the annual event called “DEWA ATHENA”. It’s been held for the seventh time. Dewa Athena is a interclass sport competition with various kind of sport including basketball, football, tug of war, relay, etc. Every class had to participate in every kind of sport. Besides, we didn’t just have to participate in the competition but also in the opening itself. It included into the sport lesson score.

It was been scheduled for us to be gathered at the Bali Sport Field at 6.15 WIB. The dress code for this event is white old shirt and black uniform pant. But for me, as the MP3 (Movie Production 3) member had to come there earlier at about 6 am.

The MP3 members gathered to divide the members into some groups to capture the moments at certain point. And I had to capture the moments at Aceh Street.

I don't really know what exactly happened on the opening of Dewa Athena. But it mostly the greetings from the chief executive of the event, Nissa Febriani the 11th grade student, the chairman of OSIS, M. Yasyril Mumtaz, and also from the headmaster of SMAN 3 Bandung, Mr. Encang Iskandar.

The opening was directed by the masters of the ceremony (MC) Firza Haikal and Nadya Rahmani! And right after the greetings ended, we continued with "run around Indonesia" and the most awaited...COLOR RUN!

Ghina, my partner for capturing the moment at Aceh Street has not had breakfast yet, also the run team will come in long enough time to eat, we was ended up having a breakfast before they coming. And right after we finished our breakfast, we went to the rendezvous point and we were just not waiting to long before a dozens people with white shirt came and kept running to the next point.

We just too exhausted to went after them so we decided to just walk joyfully back to the Bali Sport Field. And when we were arrived there, the color run had began. I was preventing from getting any paint on my jacket so I hid myself as far as possible from the crowd.

The opening was over. And next were the competitions.Our class, SEPADU SEPADAN had 4 competitions on that day. The girls futsal, the girls dodgeball, the boys dodgeball, and also the girl-boy badminton.

It was a great day although we only won a match. But it was really not a problem cause the real meaning of win is when we could get up from the loss.

DEWA ATHENA, FORTES FORTUNA IUVAT!

Bandung Breaks The World Record, 20.000 People Playing Angklung

I'm back! With a lot (maybe) of story about an event held about a week ago, it was Angklung for The World in order to celebrate the Asia-Africa Commemoration. It was also for breaking the world record, 20.000 people in any genders, any professions, any ages were playing angklung.

  

Me, as one of the student at SMAN 3 Bandung also took a part in this event. My class, X-2 and also my class' neighbor, X-1 attended the world record by playing angklung in Siliwangi Stadion not too far from SMAN 3.

We went there at about 30 minute after the bell ring, at 7 in the morning. We thought it was just a short time to got in there, but it was totally wrong. It was a sea of humans. Really, I'm not lying nor hyperbolic. It  filled by the students from the whole junior and senior high school in Bandung. The line was not really nice arranged so it took a bit longer to got to the gate.

Even in the middle of the long line, some of my friend had bought some kind of foods in a mobile mini market!

But finally we got in there for the awaited moment, to play angklung together, not to consider the most of people there that not even had played angklung before. But that was one of the greatness of the angklung orchestra. You could manage the whole players without have to teach them for so long.

When we got to the gate, we were given an angklung that would we play inside and I got a Mi (Java) angklung, a box of snack, and a white shirt that we should use during the event, all for free. The umbrellas were opened one after another and is some kind of bother that we couldn't see toward the stage clearly.

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We were having some try for the scoring time later. It was a bit disappointment that I got Mi that was not frequently played during the performance. Not in the "We are The World" song, nor the "Halo Halo Bandung". But it still was so exciting, and one of the exciting moment is when the city major had us sing "Halo Halo Bandung" with a little recomposition at the lyrics, "...sekarang telah menjadi lautan api..." that means and now it's been a sea of fire to be "...sekarang telah menjadi lautan angklung..." which means and now it's been a sea of angklung.

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And, it's the awaited one! The scoring from a jury from the Guinness Book of World Records. Before we began the scoring, the city mayor, Ridwan Kamil gave some greetings and led the counting of the participants. And theeeennn, here we go!

The conductor was a really young boy named Sandi, he sure was a really talented boy and I bet he'll be a success and great musician in the next era. We were playing a song, We are The World, featuring the vocal from Saung Udjo. It was a great orchestra, and I was amused so so much! And finally, the people of Bandung break the world record! 20.000 people played angklung!