7th National Folklore Festival

what is 7th National Folklore Festival (NFF)? it's a cultural event held by my faculty student senate (BEM FEUI). it consists of traditional dance and choir competition, held in three consecutive days.
in this committee i work in Documentation and Design (Docdes) division, in which i was the vice coordinator, with Danar as coordinator and Hanni, Adel, Hendy, and Santoso as my staffs.
at first, i didn't even know what NFF is. when my college friends formed this committee and persuaded me to be a part of them, i just said yes because i want to add my activity (that time, dude, i loved joining many committees). as simple as that.
of course i experienced some downs (and maybe...a few ups i could hardly recall?) at this committee. through nearly nine months of the making (this committee began working in July), there were times when i lacked motivation, or tired, or mad, and others. when D-day is coming i'm not even excited. i just wanted this to end as my last committee (which is later proven to be wrong lol)
and D-day came!
here are few words to describe it: beautiful, lovely, poignant, soul-opening
beautiful, because traditional dance and choir, i just realized at that point, is simply beautiful.
lovely, because i immediately fell in love with traditional culture much more than i ever did before.
poignant, because it was NFF which can make me love traditional culture deeper.
soul-opening, because it opened my heart and mind that traditional culture is simply dazzling and relieving.
i simply love the performances. it was, for God's sake, very, very, beautiful.
next year i would like to skip two days full of classes to watch next (8th) NFF made by my juniors. i love it so much i could never forget what i feel when i watch the performances.

here are some pictures i took:

LOVE.

occurrence of the right time

so yesssshhhhbaby it's holiday. when you got all the time in the world to jerk around! spread the love and happiness!

so i feel this importance to write my holiday bucket list so i could mark some accomplishment of my plans. here we go:

1. post about 7th NFF and all throwback events i feel like posting here
2. cut my hair shoulder long (oh well...)
3. learn to play guitar
4. draw and/or paint as much as i want! don't get your artistic soul rusty, Jude.
5. make a 5 days do-it-alone challenge and accomplish it
6. take photos as much as possible on my holiday trips
7. read books in '1000 books you must read before you die' as much as possible!
8. watch Game of Thrones!!! and other series i've been craving all this time
9. befriend someone in my neighborhood (i really doubt this though)
10. try making some DIY accessories
11. add at least one DIY decorative ornament in my room
12. try reading some historical literature
13. go to a place new
14. fix my biological clock
15. try jogging regularly in the morning
16. finish that anime series 'Monster'

aaaand to be continued!