It may have gone out of date to be posted, hehe.. but, yeaa.. it’s not bad to be shared, and to make my blog meatier.

 

Well..

On the last April 17th 2008, I got 2 announcements. The first one is that I failed the Nestle MDPT pre-test. I wasn’t dissapointed, because i was very unprepared when i did the pre-test. I even didn’t know anything about the recruitment process. So, I could take it easy.

The second one is that my team announced as the semifinalist of PDDC, the product design and development competition that held by Teknik Industri dan Mesin UGM. Not only my team that should go to Jogja to run the semifinal phase, but also 2 other teams from ITB. One thing that passed through my mind is JALAN-JALAN!!! Hohoho..yeaahh

I should be absent on my lectures, and also the assistant meetings, for a week. I had to leave my Pemodelan partner, therefore I brought her a daster batik as she wished.

 

From Bandung to Jogja. April 23rd ’08.

My team and 2 others departed to Jogja together, on the 23rd of April, by night travel train. It was just as usual, like another trips. I chatted with my friends and ate some doughnuts. Some others ordered nasi goreng as their dinner, whereas the train nasi goreng is never been delicious .

Cause my team hadn’t finished our presentation file, Yan – the one that sat beside me – took his laptop outside and did the presentation file. At that moment, I already had been sleepy, so I decided to sleep. And so does Yan, he didn’t make our presentation file finished properly. In teh midnight, he decided to stop writting and sleep.

I couldn’t sleep like a top, I was always awake anytime the train stopped for a while at the small station.

From the beginning of the trip, I had a bad feeling. I paid attention to a man who wear a cap during the trip, sat 3 chairs in front of me. I just felt that the man was a little bit strange. But i don’t want to think negatively. I remembered my mom’s message “always pray and dzikir to Allah during your trip!”. That’s why all I do is ask Allah for my salvation.

The train stopped again. And for once again I woke up. I looked at my watch. It was 2 a.m. I looked at the window, there’s only dark, no shine at all. I didn’t know where we were. I looked around my wagon. Almost everyone was asleep. But the strange cap man was not there. I just thought that he went to the restroom, as he did before.

I was ready to sleep when the train began to move again. But suddenly, a woman who sat in the front seat was screaming after someone snatched her bag, “Aaaaa…JAMBREEEEETTTTTT!!!!”.

Everyone woke up in sudden. Some passengers tried to catch the snatcher, but unfortunately th snatcher had jumped from the train and ran into the farm when the train had moved faster.

I was very shocked, and immediately I made sure that Yan’s laptop was still under my foot. I thanked God that I and all my friends were fine. There were nothing’s stolen. The woman who was snatched was still crying and going on at the snatcher.

 

Who was the snatcher?

Actually there are two snatchers who acted as the other passengers, sat on MY RAILWAY WAGON (!). But they pretended like they didn’t know each other. They didn’t sit adjacently. One of them turned out to be the one whom I paid attention from the beginning of my trip. Yes, the strange cap man. Another snatcher is the one who sat in front of the strange cap man. Damn.

 

Modus kejahatannya adalah sebagai berikut:

1. Kedua jambret tersebut turut menjadi penumpang dari Bandung. Duduk terpisah, pura-pura tidak saling kenal.

2. Selama perjalanan, satu per satu dari mereka mondar-mandir, pura-pura ke WC (gak tau sih, pura-pura apa emang beneran beser). Kemungkinan, ini lah cara mereka untuk men-survey penumpang mana yang ‘layak’ dijambret.

3. Selama perjalan juga, mereka saling berSMS. Mungkin progress report ke satu sama lain. Kan pura-pura gak saling kenal, jadi ngorbrolnya lewat SMS deh. Atau mungkin mereka chatting pake aplikasi semacam shmessenger juga seperti saya. Haha.

4. Saat kereta mulai bergerak jalan perlahan (dari kondisi berhenti di tengah jalan atau stasiun-stasiun kecil), ini lah saat mereka beraksi. Biasanya sasaran empuknya adalah orang yang duduk di bangku paling depan (dekat pintu keluar). Kalau penumpang lainnya…mungkin agak sulit dijangkau, tapi tetap tak menutup kemungkinan sih. Jadi, satu dari mereka berlagak bagaikan abis dari WC masuk ke gerbong, namun dengan gesit menjambret tas penumpang yang duduk di bangku terdepan, lalu langsung berlari kembali ke arah pintu keluar, dan loncat lah dari kereta (ingat! Kereta sudah dalam kondisi bergerak jalan, jadi sulitlah kalau kita mau mengejarnya). Satu orang lagi kemungkinan besar sudah lebih dulu loncat dari kereta.

 

Nah, kejahatan jambret seperti ini memang sudah sering terjadi pada kereta malam. Mama saya pun pernah menjadi korban saat masih muda dulu. Ya, dulu. Jadi, modus seperti disebutkan di atas sudah dipraktekkan sejak berpuluh-puluh tahun yang lalu. Yeaah. Dahsyat.

 

Jadi, untuk teman-teman yang berniat untuk melakukan perjalanan dengan kereta malam, hati-hati lah. Jaga barang bawaan anda dengan baik. Usahakan, tas yang berisi barang berharga selalu dipeluk, dan ditutup selimut. Dan tentu saja, mulailah perjalanan anda dengan berdoa.

 

Untuk para jambret yang masih ingin menjambret, berTOBATlah.. Masih banyak cara yang halal untuk mencari uang. Berdoalah selalu, agar dibukakan pintu rejeki selebar-lebarnya. Insya Allah, perut tak akan kelaparan, walau tanpa njambret.

 

Lho, kok bahasanya campur-campur gini?? Maaf..maaf.. Incase of jambretnya gak ngerti bahasa inggris, jadi biar pesan saya dapat tersampaikan dengan baik pada si jambret, dan berhubung saya gak pandai nulis dalam bahasa jawa (mungkin si jambret orang jawa.. ), maka saya gak pake bahasa inggris dulu.. *ngeles…*

 

-to be continued-