walk hard

for every once in a while you found a movie that betrays your expectation in a good way. you expect it to be another shitty comedy, but it turns out to be one of the funniest comedy i've ever see. 

i'm talking about dewey cox, played by John C. Reily.

Just like life. you'll meet people that betrays your expectations in a good way.

the point is, life will surprised you. 

the last day of college was 6 months ago. i got 6 months of breaks. staying at home, sleeping like crazy. now before you judge me for being lazy, let me give you this: i - well, all of us - go to school for 12 years, since i was 6, non-stop. from monday to saturday, monday to friday at high school. then after about a year breaks, i went to college for 5 years. non stop, monday to friday, sometimes without sleeps. so don't you dare accusing me of being lazy. it's you who chose to conform to society's standard.

you know what happened if you take 6 months to do practically nothing? you get mental health gets better. have you ever think how fast paced our life is? monday to friday, commuting for hours, works 9-5, then on the weekend, you go the mall. have you ever imagine how fucked up that is? that the fact overworking - instead of efficient working - is lauded in our society? that people brags about lack of sleep? 

anyhoo

if you look at my post, it gradually changes from being angry and bitter to still bitter, but not as angry.

seriously. 

i got 6 months reflect about things, which i believe is a privilege that not everybody could afford.

imagine it like this, you've been walking for 16-17 years to reach your target, or for some, just walking aimlessly, following the flow. after 17 years of walking, i stop, i took my time to enjoy it. sometimes i look back, and thankful for how far I've come, and looking forward to new things. 

that new things? it's on the horizon. i got a job. and i'm very excited about this. it's corporate, but i go to work with sneakers and t-shirt, and most of time will be spend outdoor, well, outisde jakarta. it's a nice change of pace of those highly disciplined to the point it's ridiculous karawaci.

so yeah. cheers to the new chapter of my life.

this is character development for you.

when you read new52 after beating arkham knight, you'll realize how much the status quo have changed.

first, arkham asylum/blackgate is actually functioning as prison/correction facility, you know, that nobody can't just escape at will. this means batman needs new villain, and other than joker and riddler (riddler stuffs happened in the past tho), all batman villain are new.

and this time around, characters do get development. they're not in endless circles unlike the 90s and the 00s, which made comics popularity went down.

spoiler alert.

two-face origins altered a bit, and it turns out he knows who batman is all the time. fucking hell it shocked me. it makes the interaction between two-face and batman deeper and more intriguing.

joker finally feels that this cat and mouse game is boring, and going full attack on batman, the results? two great joker arc in 3 years.

harley finally realized that joker is sick bastard, moves on, and actually doing good, albeit still morally ambiguous. hell, she and ivy watched movie together in civilian clothing.

two highly educated psycho villain watching movie together used to be unheard of.

i love the fact that as long as plant is not involved, ivy is a good guy. even when plant is involved, she won't just flat out murdering people. and harley now goes on robin hood-esque adventure. and i'm shipping these bruce-harley relationship.

harley actually - thanks to batman erasing her prior criminal history - got a job as a therapist, and i love her new origin story. she grew up in abusive environment, and actually earning her Ph.D by herself.

harley teaming up with ivy to save bruce? 

and the fact that joker is so bad, batman's rogues gallery actually agree to team up and help him save the city, is pretty badass. 

some fans are angry for the change. but i guess that's the different between manga and comics. manga's status quoe changes all the time. sasuke goes from good to bad to kinda good to bad to good. so does vegeta. 

and the fact that status quos are changing, it means the stories are progressing. and it's good.

all in all, i love new52. i love the fact that DC is letting the writer to write the story to develop DCs characters.

Masa Orientasi Semu

Masa orientasi siswa itu indonesia banget: ga substansial dan ceremonial.

Alasan orientasi siswa adalah agar siswa akrab dengan budaya institusi sekolah/universitas dan tentunya mengakrabkan angkatan.

I call bullshit on that.

Fucking collectivism comes to mind.

Indonesia ini negara kolektivis, semua apa kata orang, nanti orang mikir gimana. Individualisme itu hina.

I call bullshit again.

Sebenernya, deket sama senior juga ga ada guna nya.

Masalah perkuliahan/sekolah? Ada pembimbing akademis/wali murid. Masa soal "jangan ngelawan guru" harus diingetin senior, itu akal sehat aja.

Mengakrabkan dengan sistem sekolah? Ada guru, ada buku panduan, ada website. Masa kamu sebodoh itu gatau cara daftar ekstra kulikuler.

Mengakrabkan dengan teman? Teman ospek SMA saya cuma satu ygsampe skrg masih deket, itu juga bukan krn ospek, emang cuma karena punya kutual interest, deketnya pun setelah lulus SMA.

Biar kenal guru/dosen? Kamu ga bakal dimarahin juga klo masih baru dan nanya "pak A itu yg mana"

Agar tidak kurang ajar dengan senior? It's fucking common sense. Senior juga ga minta disembah sujud kalo ketemu harus nyapa "ka/mba/mas/bang," asal ga petantang petenteng aja. Ah sbenernya petantang petenteng senior yg waras juga ga peduli, banyak hal yg lebih penting dibanding recokin junior.

Koneksi alumni? Berapa banyak sih yg kebantu direct krn alumni? Klo almamater banyak, ga usah kenal itu. Emangnya mentang2 sandiaga uno alumni PL, trs anak PL bs sekonyong2 masuk? Ga juga kan. Tetep anak itu harus memenuhi syarat, faktor koneksi ga lebih dari 5%. No, 1%.

Segala pesantren kilat, latihan kepemimpinan, bullshit semua.

Anak2 yg ikut pesantren kilat tiap mau puasa, ga bakal tiba2 hafal quran, ato jadi lebih baik. Leadership2 juga gt. Memangnya paolo maldini ikut begituan? Orang2 yg dipilih jd leader karena emang punya x factor yg dibutuhin seorang leader, bukan training ecek2 pake motivator ato baca buku self help.

Semuanya alasan buat yg lebih duluan masuk sekolah ngerjain yg belakangan. Coba cari mahasiswa gap year, jadi pas masuk seumuran seniornya, itu senior juga ga berani ngapa2in.

Gw kuliah ga ikut ospek, i turn out fine.

Masalah jadwal kuliah? Tanya tata usaha. Daftar UKM? Tanya tata usaha. Bayar kuliah? Keuangan. Nilai? Akademis.

Iya seminggu pertama pasti awkward, tapi ya normal lah awkward, orang baru kenal, awkward di hari pertama sekolah/kuliah ga bikin mati, toh biasanya dosen/guru nyuruh bikin tugas kelompok dan kemudian akrab sendiri.

Because honestly, i hate people told me to do shits.

This is what normal people do right? No. Having common sense is special now.

saya kadang selalu mikir, "ayo lah, masa sekedar cari tau cara bayar kuliah aja harus di empanin, dan kita bayar dengan mau disuruh2 bikin yel gapenting yang taun depan udah lupa" gw punya ekspektasi tinggi sama manusia manusia ini, masa iya, gitu aja musti di empanin.

ternyata, memang ada khalayak emang perlu di empanin hal sesederhana kalo parkir pararel jangan rem tangan.

terlalu menggebu ingin terlihat kompak, jadi malah kompak semu.

kekompakan ga bisa dibentuk dengan cara dimasukin ke kelompok random, dan dipaksa untuk jejogetan. mungkin awalnya bisa tidak awkward, toh tapi akhirnya banyak faktor yang bermain soal kekompakan apa nggak.

mirip teknik pdkt lah. ada teknik-teknik yang terbukti kalau dipakai bisa membuat kamu mendapatkan si dia, tapi toh akhirnya bagian mempertahankan ini yang susah.

Tenonet

saya selalu percaya kalau tidak semua orang punya wajah oke - in widely accepted standard, symmetrical face is beautiful, so there's that - tapi wajah oke bisa ditemukan dimana saja. termasuk gerai Londre depan rumah.

"YANG BONENG BRAY"

boneng cuy

mbak-mbak Londre depan rumah eke bentukannya mirip Yoon So-Hee.

kayak begini, cuma tambah jilbab sama logat daerah aja.

oh dan mbak-mbak indomaret yang mirip daanish, model di video klipnya tulus yang sewindu.

kita sibuk bicara rasisme padahal masalah yang lebih darurat itu diskriminasi kelas.

tentu saja orang-orang yang situ liat di pacific place, no matter how bad their bone structures are - which i consider as the true selves, because come on, it's who you are physically - because they could cover it in millions rupiah worth of make up and maintenance. 

there are women who never wash their own hair, selalu di salon.

ada teman saya yang cuci mukanya 11 tahap.