Damn, me! Back at it again with late posting.
Anyway, obligatory greeting as an opening of a paragraph. Check. As a part of my to-do (actually assignment), I will tell you a summary of what’s happening at HTTP. However, I will introduce you first to what is HTTP and stuffs I will talk about, despite you outsider will forget about this ahead of time, probably because you don’t like a wall of text telling about something you don’t seem to be a part of. Skip three paragraphs to dive into the summary.
HTTP is an abbreviation of HIMTI Togetherness and Top Performance, a big event that is held to welcome us, freshmen of Binusian, especially those who take School of Computer Science. This year, they bring up the big headline of “Passion, Innovation, and Togetherness”, which sums up most of their content for this year’s HTTP.
What about HIMTI? It’s a student association (Himpunan Mahasiswa) that focuses on information technology students (IT, TI in Indonesia, as in Teknologi Industri), thus the name (HIM)(TI). Established as the very first student association in Binus, its motto lies in solidarity and milestones, which they are currently trying to be a global organization. All in all, it is just like a higher level of student council at high school, but with (I hope) more real acts than words. Don’t tell me about my past about student council as I will never bring that up to the surface of my mind.
Now, for the event itself, for this year was held at Auditorium, 3rd Floor of BPPT II, M.H. Thamrin, Central Jakarta, starting at 9 AM until drop. I must admit, it’s the first time I go there and the building is VERY HUGE, doubly so because there’s more than one building. It’s a very very huge place.
Now, the storytelling part. The event starts at 9, but I showed up at 10.30, not because I can but yeah I just want to come at that time. However, I still have to spend some extra time to search for my friends because what does it means to attend a big event, alone, among people who has their own colony? I looked like a moron at that time but I don’t give a hell. After a long scrutinize and phone communication, I joined my friends. It was time for “games for audience” and they’re playing something like “continue the story” thing where one will spit out a word and other should say the word along with his own, creating a longer sentence each turn. Quite hilarious, I should say.
Good thing is that after game is recess time and we got ourselves a free meal and since I hadn’t eat since that morning, I was starving so bad. I explored the place (since it’s huge) and found my other pals and gals. Truth be said, we’re quite bored. Since I spent most of time being a silent explorer (I’m on my full form, ‘yo), I saw so many things. Food & Drink Stands, Bantex Stand (stationary brand), Varsity Jacket PO Stand, and of course a wonderful view of “adults” an open view from a high place filled with people I don’t know who. I was still bored, though, and spent the rest of the recess time wander off with my gang because I had no idea what to do.
The event started again with talk show. I’m not that kind of person who enjoy talk show unless the topic interests me, and since this is a part of the event that is purposely coined to the rundown, I have no choice but listening. Post talk show is something I don’t actually want to talk about – I’m DEAD sleepy, it’s visualization time, it’s going to be noisy. Good God my mental is ready, though I was having a hard time staying awake (sorry). The dance was quite captivating, but the rest is just okay. After that, recess time.
It’s boring since I have explored every place around the area of the event, so I decided to take a nap. Bad for me, as the committees was doing a thorough clean-up, so I was obliged to go out dreadfully. I took some selfie, though.
Recess time was over and it’s floor time, as in attendants are swarming on the floor since the seat had been taken out, leaving us room more than enough. First, there’s dance show. It’s indeed cool, but to justify, it’s not because of the girls. Second, band. Serves us quite a number of songs, both that I know and I don’t know. They delivered the song in a quite unique way, and I enjoyed some part of it. Third, ceremony. This time, we’re accepted as a part of HIMTI members, and it’s the second time we’re officially wore our Alma jacket. I forgot to memorize the march lyrics, and it was obvious that half of the “newly official member” didn’t either. Last but not least, rave party. One of the thing I like the very least. I decided to take a nap, with some consequences. I got stomped once and surrounded by people screaming like I’m a living sacrifice for their God. It’s noisy just with the music, let alone the chants they shouted.
The rave heated up the room and even though I wasn’t doing anything, I was sweating a little bit (compared to some of those party guy who sweats a lot, so much that they took their shirt off, leaving them with singlet). My phone battery drops to 1% and while I was talking to my GOJEK driver, it shut down. Long story short, I came home via TransJakarta and surprised that it had no traffic jam at all! I was indeed grateful for that.
That sums up all what happened in my point of view. If you are a next year freshman, make sure to come with your friends – it will make your stay more memorable (at least you’ll not feel bored alone, that’s it).
HIMTI – ONE FAMILY ONE GOAL
Photos are going to be added very soon – more documentation is indeed a better thing!
