My Great Activity

Life As Bayu

Hi, it’s me Bayu. Have you ever imagine what I have done in this life after I became young adults? For some people, try to imagine someone’s life is hard enough and useless, but for me, it’s good and you can learn from people that you meet. Sometimes I’ve imagine that If I have a lot of money like Bakrie, if I have transportation like my friends have, I would like to be a successful entrepreneur. For some people who have all of the things that I mention above, sometimes, they don’t realize that they have the opportunity to be a great person. But some of them are forget with their parent’s wealthy. They forget that it isn’t their own wealth, but it is their parent’s have.
Now, I would like to tell you, how the successful story begins. It was started with poignant condition. I came to Bandung in 2005, and study at UPI in English Department. First time, I didn’t know Bandung very much, because it was my first visit to Bandung. I choose to live far from my parent to make me brave and to find the characteristics of a good man. My father leaves me when I was 3 years old, he pass away in car accident when he has a meeting in Surabaya and my mom try to struggle by her self to fulfill our needs. She is the great woman of my life. After I graduate from high school, I decided to take study far from home. I took SPMB and choose UPI Bandung and UNEJ Jember as my choosen university, and thanks God I got UPI as place of my study.
It is very nice in Bandung. The weather, the condition and the people are easy going. I try to know the streets in Bandung by bring map everywhere I go, so I can knew it fast. When I start study in Bandung, I only brought a mattress, radio, iron, cupboard and other thinks that I need to live in Bandung. I don’t have a motorcycle; it has been sold in Jakarta because I need money to study here. I also don’t have a computer; meanwhile a student needs a computer to do his task in study. At that time, I always think: “Oh, there are people who cannot study and don’t have anything that you have today, so praise the God, and make an effort if you want it.” From that time, I try to make a small entrepreneur act, which is to sell snacks and mineral water in my campus. I collect the profit that I got to buy a computer. I find second computer and it was Pentium 2. It’s not so bad, because I can type my assignment in my own computer although it is still Pentium 2.
After some times, the Computer was broken because of the bad electricity in my boarding house. Oh God, at that time, I was in fourth semester and had many task from lecturer and have no money to buy a new PC (Personal Computer). I went to the PC service center to repair my PC, but the operator laugh at me, he said: “Wow, what a great prehistoric PC is!!!” I really hate he said that, because it is my precious PC. I leave the service center and try to call my friend who knows about PC. He is my best friend, he said that he will find me a good computer but I have to work with him in his service center. Know this opportunity, directly I accept the offer.
After a week I work there, I got my own computer, it was AMD athlon, and it runs great. Besides I got the PC, I also got the knowledge about the hardware of PC and its software. After I finish work at that service center, I opened my own PC service center with my friend and until today the service center still open and give me profit, praise to God. That is why I always dream if I have a lot of money and the facilities, I would make bigger company for my entrepreneur. But it is okay because the entire entrepreneur is started from the small entrepreneur and it will be a big company.
So, that is the story of my activity from the beginning I live in Bandung and until now I still do the effort, which is to graduate from UPI as soon as possible. That is my next success target. Pray to God, and make the effort!