Cinta Shinta Milik Siapa

Rahwana menculik Shinta!!
itu kata berita
Rama pun murka seketika

Tapi pernahkah kau tanya
pernahkah kau tanya pada Rahwana
kenapa

Cinta memang gila katanya
bila sudah cinta
apa mau dikata

Mungkin aku JANCUK!!
kata orang Surabaya
tapi bila dengan inipun tak bisa kuketuk pintu hatimu
dengan airmata apalagi kugapai cintamu
di tengah tangisnya untuk Shinta

Lain Rahwana lain Hanoman
mungki ia tak seperkasa dan memiliki rupa seperti Rama
ia pun tak segila Rahwana
tapi dalam diam ia memendam rasa
pada Shinta

Cinta sunyi gagah berani
api dunia tak sebanding api asmara katanya
dibakarlah ekornya dan habislah Alengka
semua demi Shinta
katanya


Tapi pernahkah kau tanya Shinta
sesungguhnya cintanya milik siapa

Apakah benar untuk Rama
pemenang sayembara yang perkasa

Atau justru untuk Rahwana
yang bertindak gila demi mengemis cinta

Atau malah untuk Hanoman
yang membakar diri demi cinta Shinta

Cinta Shinta milik siapa


2012
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note:
Bagian jancuk pada Rahwana terinspirasi dari sajak Sujiwo Tejo dalam bukunya Jiwo J#ncuk dengan kalimat asli sebagai berikut:
"Jika dengan jancuk pun tak sanggup aku menjumpaimu
dengan airmata mana lagi dapat kuketuk pintu hatimu"

Canting Electric

Last Saturday, I went to my previous senior high school because I invited  by one of its extracurricular, Youth Science Club or Kelompok Ilmiah Remaja (KIR) in bahasa. They asked me to teach them about how to make canting electric. Canting is a traditional tool to make batik. We use canting to draw the pattern on the cloth before we soak the cloth in dye. We draw the pattern with hot wax so the one with hot wax pattern on it will not colored by the dye.

Canting and Wax

Stove to Make Hot Wax

In the traditional way, we need to boil the wax to become hot liquid wax and then we scoop it with canting before we can draw the pattern. This traditional way can be harmful to the batik artist because they will repeatedly inhale the gas from hot wax. That can cause the plaque in lungs. Moreover, the power source for the stove that used to make hot wax usually use kerosene. That will be expensive and not energy efficient. So, at the end of 2010 my friends and I participated in competition held by Directorate General of Intellectual Property, Ministry of Justice & Human Rights Indonesia with Canting Electric as a topic. We became finalist and the only team come from undergraduate student in Electronic Section. We competed against older people even some of them have PhD, and we lost :P

Scooping Hot Wax With Canting

Drawing The Pattern

I told the story to Youth Science Club in my senior high and they asked me to teach them. I taught them last Saturday with more simple version of canting electric based on Jogajakarta student's prototype. Its very simple, we used metal bottle of vitamin C, we disassembled solder as a heater, and chopstick for the canting handle. We put it together with iron wire.

Making Canting Electric Together

When I taught them, and explain how its works, they looks like full of curiosity. They asked many questions, something that we think simple and need to explain it in simple words. I realized, its feels amazing how we can inspire younger generation and make them more interested in science and engineering. I think I want to came by again and teach them something next time :))