14 November 2006
This boy is friendly and easy going with all of the people around him. No Wonder, as professional entertainer he can associates closely with the teachers and classmates and colleagues. His name is Martua Romero Derbi Nainggolan You can call him Derbi. He also has some various talents in sports.
In Saint Peter Senior High School, usually Derbie fulfills his extracurricular time with playing basketball. It can be understood because playing basket ball is one of his favorite hobbies. But he never dreams that one day he will become one of fencing athletes in Jakarta.
Actually, it is such an accident for him. On April 2006, sport teacher team of Saint Peter’s School, Mr. Albert, Mr. Mikha and Mr. Widi had an idea to take Junior High School and Senior High School student to be trained in order to follow local competition. “Because of Tantra’s idea (SHS student), Adit and I were asked to join the fencing practice” Derbie said. Every afternoon after school activities, Derbie and Adit practiced fencing guided by Mr. Widi. Besides as a Primary sport teacher, Mr. Widi is also one of PON fencing athletes represents for DKI Jakarta.
On June 2006, Derbi and Adit participated in regional competition. “Finally, Adit and I have been successful to achieve 4 medals. I get gold medal in gold kadit level and bronze in junior level. Meanwhile Adit gets silver medal in kadit level and bronze in junior level”, said the first son of two brothers. After this, Derbi and Adit continued to practice fencing because they had to represent Jakarta for national competition on July 2006. And the result was he reached 6 ranks in Indonesia.
Far before he has fencing sport, actually, Derbi, the old brothers of Tamara and Queen is well known for being advertisement model. It happens because of lucky, too. He told that someone from advertising agency asked him for his model in his agency when he and his parents were shopping in the mall. Derbi was five years old at that time. And Derbie himself agreed to do it because model is also one of his dreams. First of all, the pictures were published in daily newspaper, Kompas and other media such as advertisements for commercial houses, BATA shoes, McDonald, antimo and 008 advertisements.
When he was six years old, Derbi was asked for audition. This time he must follow casting test with Sherina in the Sherina’s Adventures movie. “I think there were more one thousands participants followed the audition. Then one by one was eliminated and fortunately, Frans, who was advertising model for Pepsodent and I passed this audition. Finally I am the one who has been chosen,” said the boy whose born on June 8th, 1990. Is Derbie also interested in TV cinema? “I do not think so because will spent my time a lot”, said Derbi who plays in TV cinema as Rafi in Indahnya Karunia-Mu.
Writer: Nico