Horse Riding Vs. Dragon Riding

Yesterday, I just finished the third book if the Inheritance trilogy of Eragon. Honestly, this is one of my favorite book. One of the most interesting part is the bond between the rider and the dragon, how they actually love each other even maybe more than the love of man and woman. How they feel each other as if the other being is part of themselves. It's truly an amazing kind of bond.

Before I started to read the last 2 chapters of Brisingr, I just finished my horse riding session. Then a thought come to me... It's actually not much different with the bonding between a horse and its rider. Well, in some ways at least.

I already thought of a horse as some kind of a dragon before, when a stallion, a big one suddenly held his head out of his room and blocking my way in the corridor, it surprised me. I know that horses could be big, their shoulder is taller than me, and when I say big, it really is means big!! Well, though some could be as small as a dog, such tiny little dwarf horses!!

Well, when only the head and the neck suddenly came up and blocked my way, I really thought and felt as if a dragon's head and neck blocking my way. It really is felt that way.

Then again, in the book it is described that when the dragon and its rider is flying, even though their minds are not connected, they still could feel what the other being is doing. A horse and its rider could do the same. I'm serious, it might seems that I'm exaggerating, but I'm not. A horse is very sensitive and they could feel if their rider is afraid or not, even little body movements of the rider could affect the horse. A horse rider could also feel the horse, when it's moving, even when it just wants to start moving, when the horse is comfortable or afraid.

I have some horse lovers as my friends and I've seen them loving their horses like their own child. They can talk about their horses literally the whole day... (which make people that's not so fond of horses suffers of boring and striving to continue the conversation a lot.. lol) I think it is the same case with the dragon and the riders too :D

Well some people think that horse riding is easy, that the horse is just an animal that you control without depending on the animal's will. Hm... it's totally wrong. Yes, horse rider do control the horse, but the horses also has their own will. When the horse is not cooperating, it is very very difficult to ride them if it's not impossible.
Horse riding is a sport that's not only the human is responsible of winning or losing. If you see the sport, they always announce the name of the horses too, it's always considered that they are partners, not a master and his animal. They often stay with the same partner, very rare that they'll change, usually if the rider change partner it is because of some injuries that will make the partner impossible to be rided.

The same as the rider and the dragon, horse rider and the horse will need a great trust of each other in order to be a great partner. You can see show jumping for example, that trust of their partner has to be very high. Of course, since if you fail during high jumping, it really is could cost the horse rider live and permanent injury for the horse.

For me, horse riding really is like dragon riding in the real world. :D

Kesendirian

Aku jatuh cinta
padanya yang selalu ada
dikala mereka tak ada

dikala ku suka
dikala ku duka

aku menikmatinya
dikala ia di sana
ditempatku berada

aku membencinya
dikala mereka menyapa
dan ia pun sirna

kumencintainya
lebih dari yang seharusnya

kumenyayanginya
padahal benci kuseharusnya

sunyi ia
walau ia disana

keegoisan cintanya yang membara
mengikat diriku padanya

cemburu ia
mereka merenggutku darinya
mengusirnya
dan ia pun pergi dengan murka

tetap saja
ku jatuh cinta
pada egoisnya
pada diamnya
pada cemburunya
pada murkanya
yang membuat rindu bersuara

12 Years Ago

“Alaiz! What are you doing? It’s dangerous to sit near the window!”, gasped a woman in her thirties, almost dropping the big basket full of fresh baked breads that she was carrying. She hurried to the little boy’s place, going up the stairs that was located near a big window where the boy sit and gazing outside.

“There’s a big smoke over there mom. It started a few minutes ago”, he pointed to a big grey smoke from one of the buildings about 1 mile away towering to the sky. He just sat calmly, gazing as if a lot of things are crossing his little mind.

“Oh my God, it must be the oil store on the central street…” shock, fear and desperate were all there in her face. Her hands covered her blue eyes along with her sighed before she took Alaiz’s hand in a hurry and dragged him down the big stairs. It was quite a big house with nice furnishings, but certainly old. The paint was fading away and the big living room was simple, very humble for the size.

“Mom, why do they hate us?”, asked the little boy slowly. His mother stopped, she looked at her young son’s blue eyes, and sighed. She went down and hugged him, when she finally released her hug, she tried to say something but nothing came out from her mouth. “Did we do some kind of crimes?”

“No, dear, no, we didn’t do any crimes”, replied her helplessly.
“Then why do they want to harm us?”
The woman sighed again and again, cannot find any words to reply her son’s questions.

There had been news on the street saying that the country was in a bad economical condition. The food prices had gone up steadily, small riots appeared sporadically throughout the country, and now, things had gone to the worst. Alaiz hadn’t gone to school for days now and none of the people had gone out from their home either. Everyone hid in their homes, full with fears.

“Is it a crime to have blue eyes?” he asked again.
When his mother just about to reply, they heard a lot of shouting and swearing from the street, coming near.

“Alaiz, listen to me. You have to hide.” She said with determinations shone from her eyes. “I’ve made these breads for you, hide them with you, you could survive with these for days. If those brown-eyed people broke in, all you must do is hide. Don’t cry, don’t make any sound. No matter what happen, no matter what you heard, don’t come out from you hiding, don’t even try to find me or dad. You hear me? You must stay silent!” Drops of water already on her blue eyes. She hugged him tight and whisper “you must survive”.

Bribery

Yesterday we came to this topic in our chat, yup "Bribery". This topic is no stranger for me, for I was raised in a country that lives with the slogan of "money could buy everything".

Not only to get illegal things legal, but even to actually get the process of something legal done! Depends on the amount of the bribery, it can goes very very fast or without the bribery, well.. maybe next month if it's not next year...

You can also get various things that's unusual, well for example, VIP room and treatment in jail. It was known to public that if you pay enough, your jail room could be transformed to a spacious luxurious room that your family, friends and business guests could visit anytime they want with TV, telephones, internet, .. basically, anything you want and need.
Well, as long as you have enough money to bribe everyone involves.

Back to the first topic, it came from my Romanian friend, she's writing a report about the events in her country and she came to this event budget that's written literally on it:
Bribery with invoice
Bribery without invoice

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My reaction was WOW!!!!

Ok, it's not a new thing, also in my country to get permission of this and that, there's no other way other than bribing the officers, even though you are eligible to actually do the event without problem, it's just that the officers will find some 'problems' if it's done without bribery. Well, if you want the process gone smoothly, you need some under the table transactions.

It is a common knowledge and secret. That's how the things done. I know even a big international factory that was operating in my country was closed due to the high amount of 'unrecorded expenses'...

Well, usually the bribery expenses are something that's not officially acknowledge, so everyone tries to cover it, so in the accounting section, the bribery money is always written as 'various expenses' or 'unpredicted expenses'. But the way they do in Romania was... just.. WOW.. they literally just write it there, without shame or any acts trying to cover it..

"BRIBERY"

Updates

Yeah... again.. blog ini terbengkalai untuk sekian waktu...

Well, setelah exam selesai, dan tak ada lagi keharusan untuk belajar, hilang lah juga pelarian dari belajar, blogging, dan terbengkalai pula lah blog ini hahahahahahaha
I'm so honest, am I? :)

Lalu setelah masa liburan yang amat singkat itu, dimulailah masa internshipku di reception, SPA, sports and leisure. Cukup sibuk kadang kadang, lumayan menyenangkan. So far, I enjoyed it much.

Well, I love it much more than the F&B :) hehehe



Di masa masa tanpa internet ini... aku kembali ke my old habit, reading books... yup, aku kembali melahap novel novel, dan urge untuk menulis cerita pun muncul kembali. Begitu banyak jalan cerita yang telah muncul ke benakku, dan seperti biasa, terinspirasi oleh mimpi, tapi tak sempat tertuliskan.. sayang sih rasanya, tapi ya.. kita lihat ya, semoga aku bisa menuliskan beberapa cerita di masa masa kerjaku ini.

Things to do:
save money
reserve a place in Fromagerie
reserve a place in Manege
buy some drinks for the weekend party
find out the phone contract
read more books