Harder than fiction

First post of the year. Have you guys seen movies such as the Notebook, or the most recent, The Dilemma. Both of the story reflects some sort of story that might exist in the real world. The difference is, it makes good yet entertaining or even touching movies.

Let's say the Notebook. (Spoiler Alert!) The mother of the female leads character have to live with the man who she didn't fully love. Touching eh? No people in the world would want that kind of live!

Then, the Dilemma. There are situation where you don't know wether you have to tell your best friend an ugly truth. In the movie, it might be entertaining for the audience, but believe me people, you don't wanna be in that position.

From that case situation you'll find that those kind of things are more than possible to happen in one's life and it would be very hard to deal with. You also might find your life in an author's book. Anyhow, as we always knows, life is stranger than fiction, and we can do nothing but live it and let it flow.

Saturated

Ever feeling done anything and even though you seems happy, but you're not? Or feeling saturated?

Funny to know that happened. You're laughing, you're playing, you're hanging out, but inside you're not. You feels something is empty, and you wonder how to fill it. How sucks is that? The possible answer to do recover from that is to find some getaway.

The getaway could be anything. You could get some lone time to think or to enjoy yourself. For example, if I feeling that, I'll go to the city alone, and hunt some good photos. Or I could have a lone time in Starbucks and have a cup of coffee..

That's just a possibility. I know it sound somewhat gloomy, but it doesn't mean that I'm feeling that, but well, I just feel want to post it. A short one.

Koreksi Itu Penting!

Setiap orang pasti pernah membuat kesalahan. Dari kesalahan yang kita buat, pasti ada yang merasa risih, sebal bahkan benci dengan kita (gara-gara perilaku kita yang salah itu).

Nah, disinilah ada 1 masalah yang dapat dimulai. Ada kemungkinan teman/rekan/saudara kita yang menghindari kita gara kita pernah buat salah ke mereka. Mereka menjauhi kita dan kita dibuat bingung dan bertanya-tanya; "kenapa begitu?"

Nah, yang perlu ditekankan dari ini, harusnya mereka-mereka itu langsung mengatakan kepada. To.The.Point. Kasihan mereka yang bingung karena merasa ditinggalkan. Kalau mereka tidak diberitahu apa kesalahan mereka, bagaimana mereka mau berubah?

Anyway, itulah pentingnya komunikasi.

Jocks Vs Nerds/geeks

There are caste in high school, the popular one most of them called jocks are in the higher and highest level while the lower class, mostly nerds or good boy/girls.

Jocks is a classic North American stereotype of a male athlete. Usually they 'rule' the high school along with their popular girl, and not only in US, but also in my country, Indonesia. They usually do whatever they want for example bullying schoolmate they considered as nerds, loser and so on. They usually think they're strong, cool, and popular, plus they don't care about their academic stuff.

Nerd is a term often bearing a derogatory connotation or stereotype, that refers to a person who passionately pursues intellectual activities, esoteric knowledge, or other obscure interests that are age-inappropriate rather than engaging in more social or popular activities. They usually considered as uncool people and usually, the higher class won't even see their existence. Nerds could be those who study all the time, those who didn't join any sport clubs, or those who aren't popular.

There are one unique statement that crossed my mind recently. Jocks are one of those who 'rule' the school, but know what? The world are being ruled by nerds! Can't believe it? Should I say, Bill Gates? Mark Zuckeberg? James Walles (founder of Wikipedia)? And the genius Einstein?

Be ware Jocks! Be ware you popular kids. Your reign won't be long! Enjoy it while it last. You geeks and nerds, stay positive! You could rule the world. And you could rule the jocks too.

Well, I never say jocks can't be as successful as nerds or nerds and geeks will always success. To become someone in the world (meaning: success), you need more than lucks! You need to work hard and have faith to achieve it. Cheers!

The Power of Kepepet

Oke, sekarang lagi ujian semester/ulangan umum, dan saya masih sempat-sempatnya ngepost (dan ngetweet di twitter!).

Well, pengalaman saja ya, saya sudah menyicil ulangan umum dari hari Sabtu, jadi weekend kemarin benar-benar saya pergunakan untuk belajar. Tapi apa yang saya rasakan? Saya merasa tekanan itu ada, dan saya merasa tidak mengerti apa pun yang saya pelajari pada weekend kemarin, sekalipun bisa, merasa tidak mantap.

Namun menjelang hari "pertempuran", saya belajar kembali, dan merasa apa yang saya pelajari lebih mudah dimengerti. Mengapa?

Menurut teman saya, itulah kekuatan dari kepepet. Mental dan fisik dipaksa oleh syaraf untuk melakukan sesuatu lebih dari yang kita mampu, atau setidaknya mendorong kita hingga mencapai titik maksimal.

Well, percaya atau tidak percaya deh!
Oh, weekend kemarin saya menyicil dari bahan-bahan yang saya anggap sulit, hari ini relatif lebih mudah, apa karena itu ya?

Fisika vs Mat in my opinion

Ini adalah 2 dari 4 pelajaran mematikan di sekolah, terutama SMA. Menilik pengalaman yang saya alami di kelas 3 SMA IPEKA Puri ini, saya mendapat satukesimpulan:

Pada pelajaran fisika yang diajar oleh Mr.R, murid-murid serasa masuk ke dalam cronosphere dimana para murid merasa waktu melambat, ya memang, waktu pelajaran fisika saat diajar oleh Mr.R amaaat lama dan panjaaang.

Sedangkan pada pelajaran Matematika yang diajar oleh Mr.Y, saya merasa kami dibawa terbang dan diajar dengan kecepatan cahaya yang berdampak pada lamanya waktu yang dirasakan saat pelajaran meskipun materi yang dibawakan sudah sangat banyak!

Jadi, jika harus kupilih, takkan kupilih keduanya! Sorry, but no thanks!

Don't Judge a food by it's images!

Well, talking about food here, no about photo! Surely you ever heard the quote: "photograph does trick". Well, really I have to admit that (for I'm a photographer, rookie, to be frank), because that is what photographer should do.

When I came into a restaurant and ordered food based on the menu's images, I often found that the food served was different compared with the menu's images. For example, Chicken Katsu in one Japanese Restaurant looks big in it's menu images, but in contrast, it is really small! These kind kind of problem can be found in some fast food restaurant, but not in Toni Jack's .

The (not so) brand new Toni Jack's

Toni Jack's used to be known as McDonald's which is owned some by Mr.Bambang R. In one Toni Jack's restaurant, I saw images of burgers which were very tempting, for it looks big and juicy. I ordered one. And I quite surprise after knowing that the burger is smaller than it looks, and the patty is thinner. Then I look at the images again and I realize, that they use the same size of the bun and the same thin patty as I eat in the images.

The actual size of the burgers. Wanna see the images menu? Visit the closest Tony's Jack!

What makes it big and tempting? The answer is, the photographer. The photographer succesfully shot them and makes it tempting because that's what they get paid for.

So, in conclusion, we can't always blame the restaurant for using unactual size for it's menu, sometimes, blame the photographer!

PS: Toni Jack's is almost the same as Indonesian McD. The difference comes on the name of the menu, and the prices which was cheaper. "Better than that one" is the motto. Provokative isn't it?

Back To The Reality

After 2 weeks of heaven (holiday and study tour), now we (I'm) are back to the real life. Back to school, back to work, back to the reality. Fok.

2 weeks of happiness were swept in a second by my lovely physic teacher who gave us exam. 2 weeks of happiness were blown in a millisecond by hills of assignment. 2 weeks of cheers were destroyed by nightmares of exams!
Gosh! FOK!

Enough blabbing about that. Look forward. There're million and billion ways to cheer one up in extreme (stressful) condition. Those things could be their hobbies, movies, their idol, or their pet.

DO NOT let your work/school/assignment stressed you up. If you could, you're the one who have to make them stress(?). And don't forget to balance your life between job and rest, if you're not able to, maybe you're life will be shortened..

Well?

Andaikan..

Hidup di kota besar, tempat jutaan orang menanam dan memupuk mimpi. Terlalu banyak pengandaian. Berbagai lika-liku mengenai Indonesia beserta penduduknya.

Andaikan saja orang-orang mau mengantri.

Andaikan para angkot tidak serampangan, pastilah lalu lintas menjadi lebih tertib.
Andaikan para polisi tidak mau kompromi, pastilah orang semakin hati-hati.
Andaikan saja para pejabat tidak korup, pastilah negara menjadi lebih baik.
Andaikan saja jalanan di pedalaman lebih rata, pastilah pengunjung dan perkembangan daerah lebih banyak dan baik.
Andaikan tidak ada urbanisasi, pastilah kota besar menjadi lebih lenggang.
Andaikan bajakan dilarang, pastilah para artis menjadi lebih makmur.
Andaikan orang tidak membuang sampah sembarangan, pastilah segalanya menjadi lebih bersih.
Andaikan orang tidak merokok, pastilah angka kehidupan semakin tua.

Andaikan...

Sedikit dari pengandaian di atas. Namun, pikirkanlah:

Andaikan bajakan dilarang, pastilah sebagian orang menjadi pengangguran.
Andaikan tidak ada urbanisasi, pastilah banyak orang yang dirugikan.
Andaikan tidak ada sekolah dengan tugasnya yang banyak, pastilah para siswa tidak siap menghadapi hidup.
Andaikan para angkot tidak serampangan, pasti, ada beberapa pihak yang terlambat.
Andaikan sampah tidak dibuang sembarangan, kemanakah para pemulung mencari sesuap nasi?
Andaikan orang tidak merokok, darimanakah pegawai perusahaan rokok mendapat penghidupan?

Andaikan, oh andaikan....

Sedikit banyak terinspirasi oleh Imagine - John Lennon

Pesimis vs Optimis

Optimis dan pesimis. Saya rasa itu adalah hal yang umum dimiliki semua orang, dan keduanya memiliki sifat yang berlawanan.


Sering kali orang beranggapan bahwa sifat optimis itu baik karena dengan bersikap optimis, kita dapat berjuang dengan sepenuhnya tanpa gentar, sedangkan, berkebalikan dengan sikap optimis, pesimis, sering pula orang beranggapan bahwa seseorang yang bersifat pesimis adalah seorang yang kalah sebelum bertanding, karena ia hanya memikirkan segala sesuatu dengan negatif.

Pandangan ini memang ada benarnya, namun, tidak selamanya pandangan tersebut benar. Sifat pesimis itu ada baiknya dikembangkan!

Ada kalanya optimisme bersifat menghancurkan. Contohnya, seseorang sudah begitu yakin akan mendapat nilai bagus di ulangan/ujiannya, ia merasa bisa dan yakin akan hasil pekerjaannya, namun jika didapatinya nilai nya mengecewakan, ada kemungkinan ia akan jatuh, dan sulit untuk bangkit, sedangkan orang yang pesimis dengan catatan ia tetap berjuang semaksimal mungkin, tidak akan mudah hancur.

Dari kasus tersebut terlihat, jika seorang yang optimis, bila ia berhasil ia akan senang, namun, orang yang pesimis, apabila ia berhasil, ia akan sangat senang, karena ia takkan menyangka akan mendapat keberhasilan itu. Sedangkan di kala gagal, optimis dapat menghancurkan, sedangkan orang pesimis ketika mendapati kegagalan tidak akan jatuh sebanyak orang optimis.

Jadi, dapat disimpulkan, pesimis itu baik, asalkan kita tetap berusaha semaksimal mungkin. Karena ada orang bijak berkata:

"Mengapa harus menyerah kalau masih boleh dan bisa pasrah?"
-Joger-

Notes: Pasrah itu juga salah satu ciri pesimisme yang baik untuk diterapkan. xD

School-holm Syndrome

Ever heard of Stockholm Syndrome? No, it's not Muse' song but it is really a syndrome. Let's see some explanation:

Stockholm syndrome : a psychological response sometimes seen in abducted hostages, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker, regardless of the danger or risk in which they have been placed.

Right now, I'm not talking about that Stockholm Syndrome. It's also a syndrome, but it occurred in my real life! This syndrome is seen in 12th Grade Science class in my school, but I believe that it happened in other school as well.

I name it: "School-holm Syndrome".

School-holm syndrome: a physiological response, usually seen in senior year student of the Indonesian high school (grade 12/ 3 SMA), in which someone show something they probably never did before.

Sign and Sypmptomps:
1. The student will act crazily, example, they immidiately formed a formation of table soon after the physics teacher tell them to do some (home)works.

2. Student studying either math or physic or chemistry or some other subject(s) even though there are no exam at all that day, during recess.

3. Student's stares are blank, understand less or nothing at all during lectures.

4. They're starting to see things that they learned in science or social in daily life, to things are not important. For example, when a student see a rat, he/she imagine the anatomy of the rats, the digestive system or even it's nerve system!

Complication:

May cause fever, cough, influenza and several other disease if reached the worse level. And sometimes, could lead to mental breakdown (okay, I'm kidding!).

Those are the symptoms shown based on today's (July 28th) observation during school. My classmates really did symptom number during the first recess, and it happened to me too! So, what do you think? Are those statements true? Or if you found more symptomps, please tell me, so I am able too add more. Thanks! Cheers!

Long Live SCHOOL, hoek!

Free View at XXI

Free viewing at the cinema?
It is definitely not buy one get one promo from either BCA, or other banks.

It is about watching movie with No Cost at all.

One of my teacher, my Biology teacher (Mr.Boni) told me once that he had try to watch free, in cinema. How did he do it?

1. Come to cinema.
2. Choose which movie do you want to see.
3. Look at the time table, then set the time.
4. Leave the cinema, or if you want to, you can sit and wait there.
5. About 15-20 minutes after the movie started, look at the entreance, make sure that no one's there.
6. Enter the cinema.
7. Pick an empty space, enjoy the movie.

To be frank, I don't think that this advice is good enough, because you'll miss quite a time of the movie. And you can only do this to watch 2nd class movie, or let's say, non-blockbuster movie.

For me, I have coincidentally experience some better way to watch movie with no cost. It happened on 29th of May 2009, I planned to watch Terminator 4 with one of my friends, after school. I was a little bit late, and he's inside the cinema already when I arrived. He text me his seat already, and I rushed to the cinema, and I arrived in front of Studio 1,XXI,Puri Indah Mall. Then I told the ticket checker (anyone know what it should be called?) that my friend was inside already, told her that he showed 2 tickets, and I told her the seat of him. Then she allowed me to get inside the cinema, and of course I enjoy the movie.

Later, I asked my friend if he had my ticket, and he didn't say no. And when I was about to pay him for my ticket, he was a little bit confused, wondering why I gave him that money. Then in our way home, he told me that he didn't buy any ticket for me! So, it mean that, I watch that movie for free!

So, from my experience, we can conclude a better way to watch a movie for free! Here is the step of it:
1. Come to cinema.
2. Choose which movie do you want to see.
3. Look at the time table, then set the time.
4. When the movie started for about a minute to five, rush to the entreance of the cinema (studio), told the ticket checker(s) that your friend or friends is inside, then told them a seat number, pick it randomly.
5. They will let you in!
6. Pretend that you're looking for your seat, and in this moment, all you have to do is find an unoccupied seat.
7. Enjoy the movie!

How's that? Sounds good is it not? Well, probably you might be able to apply on those tips only in the weekend or on public holiday, when the cinema is full. And the failure possibility? Not sure about it.
But, try it if you want to! I take no responsibilities at all if one of you who apply those tips and get caught on the process of doing it.

Reminder: this tips can only be used on XXI or 21

Peace! x)