This is my latest artwork, almost similar to my July Graduation poster. A poster design for Biosystematic subject and also a report for our small-field lecture which took place at Bandung local zoo on November 2nd.
Made it in almost 3 hours, started from today’s 7 PM to 9 PM, helped by my friend’s Wacom Bamboo Pen (Thanks so much, Peni!). It’s actually my first time using Bamboo Pen for work. Feel so awkward, but also excited to get my own comfort position in holding the pen :)
Life is tough for tropical mammalogists. They work on a group with a limited number of species, maybe 150 at places like the ones we are in, and most of those species are bats and rats. Other than monkeys, most of the large mammals in the Amazon are rare. To detect them, mammalogists look for signs — scat, tracks, scratch marks, anything to let them know that a species is here. Worse, they have yahoo ornithologists reporting weird bats, and clueless botanists seeing rare deer. But they have to follow up on these reports. They also have to work night and day. Some mammals (monkeys, for example) are out in daylight hours, but for most, nighttime is when they are active.
Paragraph above was one of the excerpts from a blog post of a scientist featured in NYTimes.com. As I read the rest of the post, I began to take my interest in studying about mammals and also got an idea of becoming a mammalogist someday.
The mammalogists are both quiet and even-tempered.
Sometimes I wonder why there were really quite a few mammalogists (or maybe even other type of wildlife biologist) who were willing to spend their quality time blogging and posting about their new discovery about animals they were observing. The NYTimes.com post was actually written by a scientist too, Douglas Stotz. He’s a Conservation Ornithologist and is active in programs to preserve biological diversity and threatened habitats, both in the Chicago region and in other countries. This fact reminds me of a reply mail from a wildlife biologist that I mailed first via his Facebook account. He (the biologist) said to me that most media articles like those you read in National Geographic, Animal Planet, and any science media were written by journalists who are in charge of ‘following’ the life of scientists. He didn’t told me why weren’t the scientists themselves wrote the articles for National Geographic and such. I thought it was enough for me to ask him about that because he’s a wildlife biologist who works inside the lab, not observing things directly on the field.
Well, what I’m trying to say now is that I’m currently not really interested in being a ‘pure scientist’. I don’t like being in a lab too long and I don’t like putting myself too much concerned with one thing. I don’t know if this perception of mine would change someday or not, but at least I keep trying to love what I do now and what’s real life’s been teaching me since I entered the university life.
I’m trying, Mom, Dad. I’m trying to hold my responsibilities as a person who’s already willing to study in an institution called Institut Teknologi Bandung still.
I’m not in a sad mode or what right now. I just need to do things like this (talking about future) to keep me stay still in my real line. I’m not doing this kind of thing (studying Biology) just to get a Bachelor degree or popularities. I want to make my parents and family proud of having a child studying in ITB. I want to make the future of Biology in Indonesia bright. I want to make a change. A change for what’s real related to what I’m studying in real.
In the name of Allah SWT, I’ll begin my own real journey. I will keep trying to do what’s best. Please wish me so many lucks in studying about Biology and such.
Cheers :)
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