This comes from a sightly privileged adult, yeah I'm a sandwich gen, but at certain point of my life, my dad earnt enough that I went to pretty good school and college.
A lot of Indonesian are pretty uncritical, so by being slightly critical and/or tricky, you can go a long way, either you can put the work + trick and climb that ladder, or go all trick and basically do nothing.
Again, you actually have to understand what you do and understand it well so you can game the system, and be humble enough to cover all bases, someone out there is smarter than you, yeah your smarter than most, but someone out there is better.
Our driver license is worth shit, I don't have one and I drive better than most.
Things I hate? The fact that religion - not just Islam, mind you - is so ingrained in society, like it's not a personal thing, it's a thing that government actually give a shit about.
Also, just religion in general.
People often said there are 250 mill something person in Indonesia, 97% of them Muslims, half of them female, you should be able to find someone, right?
Fuck no.
If you reduce it to someone emotionally available who is kind and live in and around you - like 20km ranege - , you reduce it to basically 50.
Now I find one, hits all the checklist, but through sheer luck, she's a frickin Catholic.
