Do you live in Bandung?
If yes, you should have known SMAN 3 Bandung, haven't you?
At least, you've ever heard it before, right?
Are you really are an Indonesian?
Do you love your culture?
If yes, do you know what is Matswapati?
As wikipedia said, Matswapati is the binatara (great) king in state of Wirata, the king who rules the kings. It is an Indonesian puppetry figure.
But, not. It's not what I meant.
Matswapati is an event that being held by SMAN 3 Bandung to deepen the teenagers' knowledge of Indonesian culture. It was held on last Saturday, 27th of September 2014. It also held for celebrating Bandung's 204th anniversary.
I will not tell the whole activities and agendas in Matswapati. But I will specifically tell you about how my class member were decorating our stand.
We decorated it on the spot, a day before Matswapati. It was not such an effective time for us to decorate it well. We decorated it in hurry, because there was no much time. Our stand theme was Arjuna that brings archery. Beside we decorated the stand for selling items, some of us make costume for Davy who was becoming Arjuna.
It hadn't ended yet, so we continued it on D-Day. Some of us went to stand and arranging all items for sale, some others adorned the stand with ready properties, and the rest was drawing on a cloth for stand's background.
One of them which was drawing on the cloth was Fadhilla Najmi, or usually called Falla. She is one of my class' creative student. We wrote down "Arjuna" on the cloth and gave some pattern to beautify it's appearance.
I helped a bit, but then Fathiya asked Falla to accompany her to the toilet. But I found that they went to the food court. Oh hey, they was tricking me. Haha. Not, that was not the reason. There was a reason why they went to the food court instead of going to toilet.
And I was following them then we ate lunch there until the T'sT performance. When we went back behind the stand where we decorated stand's background before, the background had done. Yes, I just helped a bit, I'm sorry guys! :))
Overall, Falla said Matswapati was nice, not it was great. The problem is the weather that was so hot and there were not any tent in front of the stage. That caused the visitors were lazy to watch the performances and chose to just listen from the food court, or watched from inside the stand. It was totally hot weather and so dusty although the firefighters had sprayed the water to remove the dust on the field over and over again. Another problem is, we felt thirsty even though we had drunk ice lemon tea, milo, and many drinks. It must be because there were not any mineral water there and the sweet drinks just make us more and more thirsty.
Falla, Fathi, and Maria went back to home at about 5 pm. And I stayed there until almost the last performance cause I really wanted to watch Barsena and Glenn's performances. I was being picked up at about 7.30 pm when Glenn Fredly was performing his last song.
For me, personally, I like this event. It was a great event!
Know Your Culture! Love Your Nation! And happy 204th anniversary Bandung City!
