Tuesday, 8 June 2010

my social skills suck

ga usah pura2 lagi, dalam hal ini gw payah banget.
sebutut2nya social skills gw, gw sadar sepenuhnya kalo gw orang yang dingin, ga bisa basa-basi, kadar ketertarikan terhadap kehidupan orang lain kelewat rendah, miskin emosi, kurang simpati, dan apatisnyaaaa...
efek terlalu rasional, tapi rasional dan logis kan dari sananya. kenapa harus ada efek sampingnya?
lama2 gw makin merasa kayak alien, meski di dalam pikiran sendiri doang. rasanya entah napa sepi...
aaah, butuh bantuan :'( paling nggak pelarian apapun...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010

hmhm...

mumpung malem2 dan ga ada kerjaan, sedikit mikirin masa depan ah...
bidang engineering yang kira2 bakal gw tekunin setelah lulus~ biomimetika dan aplikasinya! bisa gak yah dari teknik kimia... hmm =.= bisalah. bisabisabisa...
menurut gw, sistem2 dan mesin2 yang paling perfect diciptakan oleh mother nature : D coba lihat bagaimana alam mendesain metabolisme di tubuh makhluk hidup, atau mendesain supaya burung bisa terbang jauh sebelum manusia punya pesawat terbang...jadi nggak salah kalo teknologi meniru desain alam dalam perkembangannya. frasa back to nature emang ga ada matinya.
yang tadi nggak berkaitan, aslinya ane mo nulis ini. karena ini adalah tulisan tidak berstruktur yang dibuat jam setengah tiga pagi, gw mikir2 pengen bikin instalasi penyulingan air laut. boleh dong ngayal dikit : D air laut ini kan melimpah banget di indonesia, dan dimanfaatkan sesuai kebutuhan ga akan ada habisnya. jadi ada empat sistem di instalasi punya gw ini (ehem2) yang pertama, pembersihan polutan, pemisahan air laut dari mineral2nya, dan pengolahan masing-masing air dan garam mineral ;) di instalasi gw, sebagian air laut bakal dibersihin dari polutan-polutan macem sampah plus limbah2 gajelas dari hulu sungai dan kemudian dikembalikan ke laut. lumayan, konsentrasi sampah dan zat polutan berkurang. sebagian lagi air yang masuk ke sistem juga dibersihkan sedemikian rupa dari sampah plus limbah2nya, dan selanjutnya ketika murni tinggal air laut yang fresh, air laut masuk ke sistem berikutnya. air dipisahkan dari garam-garamnya (dengan cara apa gw belom tau karena gw belom masuk jurusan...biomimetika dengan meniru osmosis di membran sel oke tuh) sehingga menghasilkan 1. air bersih dan 2. garam dapur! garam dapur ini indonesia masih dikuasai garam impor! hey sodara2, NGIMPOR GITU LOH... lantaran garam dalam negeri jelek kualitasnya. padahal laut indonesia segini luasnya. harus ada yang perbaikin nasib garam indonesia plus petani garamnya... garam bikinan pabrik gw jaminan kualitas impor beryodium harga lokal hehehehehehehehe...
air bersih hasil penyulingan sebagian bakal dialirkan ke daerah pemukiman warga yang kurang air, gratis... dan sebagian lagi dijual dengan tujuan komersil biar teteup ada modal saya, jangan bangkrut... air produksi pabrik saya juga premium quality, bisa langsung diminum, hehehehe...
lokasinya di indonesia ini yaah, di daerah kering deket laut semacam gunungkidul kali ya? warga sana jadi ga susah air lagi : )
dapet darimana energi buat menjalankan sistem sebesar ini?
banyak dong : D sampah organik yang tersaring di sistem pertama bisa dibuatkan sistem biogasnya. atau sekalian gw bikinin tempat daur ulang sampah di sebelahnya? swt... terus energi matahari (pasti!) dan energi laut. mungkin sedikit energi fosil dalam jumlah yang masih dapat ditoleransi, jika efisiensi energi2 yng gw sebutin di atas masih belum sesuai harapan.
meski teknologi instrumentasi dan kontrol udah berkembang banget, gw ga mau terlalu tergantung sama yang begitu. warga sekitar juga harus dapet bagian kerjaan dong...
aduh2. saking senengnya gw karena tumben2nya punya ide yang rada bermutu gini, gw sampe keasikan sendiri dan mulai berpikir ke masa depan yang 'agak deket': tugas akhir gw bakalan perancangan pabrik dan 70% gw bakal pake ide gw yang ini kalo belum ada yang bikin pabrik macem ini... terus kalo udah lulus, bikin aslinya deh :D aslinya nanti, gw bakal kerjasama sama banyak insinyur dan ilmuwan dari beragam bidang, dan pasti juga dengan ahli ilmu2 sosial ~_~ (bekerja sama bukan ngebossin, ga punya cita2 jadi bos)

biayanya darimana yah ngomong2 (kalo dari kantong sendiri beli tanahnya aja kagak mampu) minta sponsor pemerintah? sponsor dari milyuner indonesia? sponsor dari united nation? argh sebodo deeeeh...

Monday, 5 April 2010

bintang jatoh 5 april 2010

abis balik ngelayap sama pacar (btw kok akhirnya gw punya juga yah.) gak sengaja gw liat langit, eeh langitnya bagus bener! persis planetarium. hahahaha. ternyata dengan polusi cahayanya yang parah mampus mampus di bandung masih bisa keliatan bintang2 kelap kelip dari yang rada2 redup sampe yang terang banget. banyak banget bintangnya, di bekasi aja belom tentu bisa liat dan satu-satunya tempat yang pernah gw kunjungin yang bintangnya lebih oke dari hari ini itu di kepulauan seribu doang.
dengan semangat 45, kami naik ke tempat yang elevasinya lebih tinggi dan stop di salah satu spot yang paling luas sudut pandangnya. meski diliatin orang lewat dengan pandangan aneh (pemandangan aneh kan kalo lu malem2 jam 11 di tempat sepi liat 2 orang cengo ngeliatin langit kayak nunggu permen jato) tapi tetep asik ngeliatin bintangnya... wehehehehe...
terus dadakan ada bintang jatoh! waaaaa, gw kaget berat. akhirnya setelah 18 tahun idup gw di bumi gw bisa liat bintang jatoh juga. langsung buru-buru ngucapin keinginan, dan entah napa yang spontan gw inget cuma gw mao banyak duit o_o

Saturday, 3 April 2010

cek resolusi

resolusi mental di tahun 2010 yang gw buat salah satunya adalah... jrengjrengjreng... mengubah diri sendiri jadi lebih pede. kedengerannya klise ya? masalah kepercayaan diri ini juga punya banyak solusi klise instan cepat ala internet yang buat gw udah kagak ngefek samasekali. resolusi ini, setelah tahun 2010 2 bulan lagi setengahnya terlampaui, belom ada hasilnya.
gw suka mikir, kayaknya gw punya inferiority complex (entah asalnya darimana dan gara2 apa) di mata gw, gw nggak punya kelebihan berarti dibanding orang lain yang membuat diri gw...yah...punya tempat lah di mata orang... ngerasa basi gitu. simpel lah.
gw ga pede sama penampilan gw, rasanya semua usaha untuk memperbaiki penampilan gw sia-sia banget. padahal first impression itu kan penting yah... tapi ini bikin gw ga peduli penampilan. ke kampus pake kostum seadanya bagai baru bangkit dari tempat tidur. sebetulnya ini malah bikin first impression orang ke gw makin berantakan kan? tapi gw nggak cukup pede untuk pake baju yang bagusan, duh amit2 kronis abis...
okelah gw ga pede sama penampilan, orang masih bisa bilang: yang penting hatinya... yang penting skill nya... blebleble... ginian udah nggak ngefek ke gw. gw ngerasa ga berdaya dan ga mampu jadi orang yang berguna :( padahal kata psikolog yg kmrn di kampus, harusnya gw ga boleh ga pede karena potensi gw banyak...hah?
orang biasanya nggak ngerti dan ngatain gw nggak bersyukur lah dengan segala sesuatu yg ada di gw, cari perhatian, fishing for compliments lah seakan gw begini dengan sengaja.
jujur ini sangat ganggu kehidupan sosial gw. gw ga gitu peduli juga sih... tapi jelas ganggu. yah, emang dasarnya introvert, ditambah gini gw mau ngomong aja males, karena gw berpikir orang nggak ada yang mau denger gw, dan ampuun...awkward banget cara ngomong gw beserta isi omongannya. akhirnya gw memilih diam. gw juga berpikir gw kalo di depan orang itu kayak debu kosmik ye... ga keliatan dan ga ada istimewanya dan ga punya hak bicara. mending kelaut aja daripada bikin sakit mata.
perasaan dulu gw ga gini-gini amat. gelora masa muda memudar? masa sih gw udah setua itu? apa yang bikin diri gw sendiri menilai diri gw sendiri begini kejam?
ah. gw diomelin abis-abisan sama seseorang gara-gara ginian. isi omelannya ga usah ditulis, tapi intinya "elo mau usaha buat maju kagak?!"
yaah... mumpung tahun 2010 belom kelar, gw coba lagi deh : D

Monday, 29 March 2010

kucing

kucing. kata orang bawa penyakit. kata orang ga bagus dipelihara cewek. kata orang nggak setia. kata orang cuek sama majikan. kata orang serem mukanya. tapi buat gw kucing itu makhluk paling manis sedunia...

kucing gw di rumah ada dua. yang satu si belang abu2 yang udah gede dan jutek, yang satu lagi si kuning yang masih muda2nya dan super kepo. si belang dipelihara sejak 3-4tahunan lalu, dan waktu awal dipelihara si belang dekil, kurus, dan luka2 gara2 sering berantem. sekarang RAMBUTNYA (rambut, bukan bulu kata ibu guru biologi) sampe mengkilap dan halus kayak iklan sunsilk dan badannya bulet kyk kucing anggora. si kuning dipelihara dari masih kecil dekil ceking sampe sekarang udah lewat setahun udah rada gede, tapi masih bawel dan gemar berlarian kesana kemari...

kucing gw si belang sukanya tidur di pangkuan. suka nyamber kaki gw pas lagi gw jalan. nempelnya sama gw kalo gw lagi pulang. si kuning sukanya tidur di pendopo, di atas majalah2 yang ditaro nyokap.

atau kucing yang di kosan gw. dekilnya setengah mampus, ada eksimnya, dan udah rada2 tua (giginya udah ompong dong!) biar dekil dan tatapannya memelas, tapi habis dikasih makan dia pasti melingker di kaki gw sambil ngeliatin gw. aduh malu =.=

kucing, manja dan sok imut. bukannya sok imut yah, tapi emang imut, gimana dong? yang bilang kucing nggak sayang majikan itu nggak pernah punya kucing. kucing sayang majikan. dengan dia duduk di pangkuan gw pun, gw tau kalo dia seneng dan nyaman sama gw. dan bukannya dia nggak peduli sama orang. dia juga butuh waktu sendiri, butuh privasi bo... dan itu yang sangat gw suka dari kucing: kita sama-sama cinta privasi!

kucing. agak nggak rela nyebutnya sebagai binatang peliharaan. buat gw kucing itu bukan peliharaan, kucing itu partner. sahabat. anggota keluarga. apapun! cuma di samping kucing2 gw, ditemenin aja gw udah seneng banget.
kucing2 gw, sehat selalu ya : D

36 tahun dan masih single

mentang2 baru banyak ide, jadi borongan nulisnya.

kemarin gw baca status temen gw di fb bunyinya kira2: mieke rose peramal cinta umur 36 masih belom nikah, bah...gara2 kelebihan 15kg makanya cowok ga ada yang mau kali yah.
gw kaget juga. loh, emang napa kalo umur 36 masih single? salahkah? dan ya ampun, dangkal sekali pemikiran bahwa cewek yg kelebihan 15kg itu gak ada yang mau.
kalo dipikir2, emang kenapa sih kalo 36 tahun masih single? ganggu orang lain? emang kalo peramal cinta terus dia mesti cepetan nikah? dan emangnya nikah tuh wajib ya?
kenapa, kenapa orang usil banget...

the beatles

akhir2 ini gw jadi sering bngt denger lagu2nya the beatles. ampun, ga heran sampe sekarang band ini tetep terkenal dan laris lagunya. lagu2nya ringan, tapi maknanya dalem (sotoy)
ada lagunya yang gw suka banget. judulnya yellow submarine.
in the time when i was born, lived a man who sailed the sea... lol... liriknya begitu ringan dan ceria. entah napa lagu ini bikin gw rileks dan santai...mungkin mirip sama perasaan om john lenon dan om paul yang lagi nge-fly waktu ciptain lagu ini.
dan satu lagi lagu yg berkesan itu across the universe (meski sampe sekarang gw ga ngerti maksud liriknya apa!) membuat gw merasa tenggelam dalam imaji abstrak lirik lagunya... jai guru deva om...

usm itb

kemarin minggu ada usm itb (yang bikin gosip nybar di kalangan anak2 unit panahan kalo saraga ditutup, ga ada latihan, dan ga bisa lari2 dan ternyata ttp buka)
tadinya sih gw niat liat2 anak2 usm. mo liat tampang2 potensial yang bakal jadi adek tingkat gw nanti, huhehehehhe...
kalo dipikir2, kenapa mereka mau2nya masuk sini ya. belum pernah uts tiap jumat? mau ujian belajarnya gali lubang tutup lubang? standar nilai A yang udah rendah mampus tapi ttp sulit dijangkau? atau anak2nya yang ga nahan pinter+rajin banget?
ternyata ga salah juga masuk sini : D

Sunday, 20 December 2009

gitu deh

suka mau nulis, tapi bingung mau nulis apa... gw bener2 baru nyadar kalo gw ternyata bener bukanlah orang yang perhatian terhadap lingkungan sekitar. salah satu cirinya, gw belum tentu ingat secara detail kemarin ngapain makan apa aja sama siapa. atau tanggal hari ini. asik! kehidupan gw pun datar-datar aja. ga ada yang terlalu spektakuler buat dijadikan tulisan atau entah karena gw yang kurang sensitif, dan pemikiran-pemikiran gw sering muncul di saat yang kurang pas (munculnya sepotong-sepotong lagi, bikin bingung kalo mau ditulis jadi akhirnya ga nulis) tapi sekali2 mungkin perlu dipaksa nulis...

Friday, 18 December 2009

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

limapuluhsatu

...
argh, ga terungkapkan kekesalan gw. gw cuma dapet limapuluhsatu untuk mata kuliah fisika dasar 1A... imut banget. limapuluh satu.
area 51 itu bukannya tempat yang konon pernah menjadi tempat kontak dengan makhluk luar angkasa? kabar ini belom dapat dibuktikan kebenarannya. tapi yang pasti bener nilai uts fisika gw berada di area 51 an lah...
kraukkk. ngeheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... *di pinggir jurang, meneriakkan kekesalan dengan sepenuh hati*
angka laknat limapuluhsatu ini merupakan tamparan buat gw, karena gw gak menyangka nilai fisika gw bisa sejelek ini. dari smp-sma ga pernah sekalipun nilai fisika gw di bawah tujuhpuluhlima. dan waktu ngerjain uts fisika kemarin, gw merasa nilai gw ga akan lebih jelek dari 65, karena soalnya memang tidak terlalu sulit dan sudah pernah dipelajari di sma. cuma satu dari lima soal yang gw memang bikin kesalahan fatal, sisanya yaa...bolehlah dibilang cukup meyakinkan. gataunya, nomer2 yang gw anggap cukup meyakinkan itu cuma dihargai 10, 9, 12, dan 16 dari 20. WTF? jawaban gw yang indah2 cuma dihargai segitu?
memang sih nilai gw jauh di atas rata-rata satu universitas (bayangkan nilai rata-rata 30!) tapi buat gw ini sangat menyebalkan. apa sih yang bisa dibanggakan dari nilai limapuluhsatu? baru pertama kali ada ujian yang gw bisa ngerjainnya, tapi cuma dihargai limapuluhsatu. indeks C. cukup? ngehe! semua soal tutorial dari dosen udah gw kerjain dengan sukses dan pede-pede aja bakal dapet bagus. tapi kenapa limapuluhsatu? why, why, why Delilah? why? ngeheeeeee... nilai macem apa ituuuu...

(agak2 tenggelam dalam perasaan kecewa terhadap diri sendiri)

Wednesday, 7 October 2009

semakin banyak belajar, semakin banyak tidak tahu

merasa jago fisika? kalkulus? kimia?
well, saya nggak.

dulu sih waktu sma merasa jago. tapi sekarang nggak lagi...
saya sadar kemampuan kalkulus, fisika, kimia saya masih selevel sma. dan level sma berarti ilmu saya masih sangat pas-pasan. dan di level sma itupun saya bukan 'ace', masih ada langit di atas langit, dalam artian saya hanya sedikit lebih unggul dalam bidang-bidang di atas dibandingkan rata-rata teman sejawat. saya harus tahu diri, kemampuan saya masih pas-pasan dan belum terasah, dan menerima bahwa proses belajar saya dimulai dari nol lagi...
tapi meskipun saya masih pas-pasan, saya janji tidak akan putus asa. saya harus ingat tidak ada orang yang jadi expert dalam waktu sekejap. masalahnya, apa saya mau bersusah-susah untuk jadi expert? HARUS MAU. saya bukan tidak bisa kalkulus, bukan tidak bisa fisika kimia, hanya BELUM BISA. saya tidak boleh minder terhadap rekan-rekan lain yang lebih dahulu bisa dari saya. meskipun saya tidak dituntut untuk punya nilai A semua, tapi saya HARUS mau belajar. tidak butuh otak yang jeniusnya keterlaluan untuk menjadi sukses. setiap saya jenuh, saya harus selalu ingat yang saya tulis disini.


bandung, 7 oktober 2009

teknik kimia? teknik fisika? seni rupa! haha =D

kenapa sekarang saya jadi bingung, mau teknik kimia apa teknik fisika?
...masa sih saya bakal membiarkan diri saya terbawa arus begitu saja.

saya masih punya waktu 2 bulan lagi sebelum isi kuisioner pemilihan jurusan lagi sih. tapi saya bingung. teknik kimia tuh ngapain dan teknik fisika tuh ngapain terus apa aja yang dipelajari, saya bener2 bingung. dan saya bener2 bingung minat saya dimana. intinya satu: sains. sains yang mana? mau ngapaiiiiinnnnnnnn???????
...sial.
yang pasti ga akan saya pilih itu teknik industri, soalnya bukan gw banget, gitu loh.

cita-cita saya, mengembangkan energi terbarukan. rancu kan? teknik fisika, apa teknik kimia dong? suer, apa dong?
minat saya apa? saya jadi bingung sendiri.
sedikit OOT. saya ingin di negara khatulistiwa ini sinar matahari dimanfaatkan dengan baik. salah satu caranya ya, solar energy. energi surya yang lebih efisien, murah produksinya, dan ramah lingkungan jadi alternatif bahan bakar minyak. rekening PLN bakal jauh lebih murah karena sumber energi gratis: matahari. ga perlu impor-impor minyak. ga perlu ngebor-ngebor. ga ada acara minyak tumpah di laut. menarik untuk diteliti. impian saya, perumahan-perumahan yang baru akan dibangun nanti mau bekerja sama dengan saya untuk mengembangkan pembangkit listrik tenaga surya terintegrasi. dan apapun berapapun penghasilan saya, harus cukup untuk membawa orangtua saya wisata keliling dunia =D
(saya memang ga percaya ada jurusan yang lebih berprospek dari jurusan lain. tapi saya percaya, rejeki itu tergantung dari bagaimana kita mengusahakan dan memanfaatkan kondisi yang tepat...)
dulu saya pikir teknik kimialah yang mempelajari energi terbarukan ini. ternyata yang fokus ke energi terbarukan versi solar energi, teknik fisika. lho!

saking bingungnya, saya jadi tergoda pindah ke seni rupa saja.asik kan. ga usah ribut fisika kimia segala macem! lulus dari seni rupa, berangkat ke bali, buka galeri seni, berkarya sepanjang hayat di pulau dewata deh =D

argh plis deh, masa udah susah2 masuk sini mau pindah jurusan. lucu banget...

Thursday, 1 October 2009

lab work

At first, i didn't think lab class will be so fun. even before the lab class, we had been asked to write a 5-pages journal consisted of the purpose of the experiments, tools and material being used, work steps and so on. i did the stupid journal on my bed, as i fell into my unconcious mind, deeper, and deeper...
those work steps are fairly long and complicated. i was really bored.
but when i was in the lab class, i was amazed. there were so many funny and cute lab equipments inside. there was a sentrifuge machine. it's such a cute machine that rotate fastly around 1000rpm to sentrifuge a sample. when we burn something, we don't use spiritus anymore; there is an integrated gas system. and there is also a cute machine with cute name. it is called soxhlet. its main purpose is to extract an active compound from organic material. soxhlet is such a cute name for such thing, isn't it? i am really not sorry to be in an science engineering major!

Sunday, 13 September 2009

random




Your Love Sign is Aquarius



You fall in love as easily as the next person, but you do it on your terms.

For you, love is always unconventional and even a little freaky.



You're an independent and inventive person. You are drawn to someone wacky and totally cutting edge!

It's hard to predict who you'll fall for next. You don't even know yourself.







oh, exactly sooooo right...

Friday, 11 September 2009

magic lock-mocked lock II

oh, it's not about my success in opening the lock. i still haven't achieved this. i am just happy that my parents also couldn't open the front gate with their own duplicated key. i'm not the only one who can't open the gate properly.

another wierd story : you are not alone

last friday morning, as a result of simultaneous water drinking in the morning, i needed to go to the restroom in the middle of chemistry lesson. so i permitted myself out of the class and headed into the girl's restroom.
the first year freshmen building where the lesson being held was quite an unique building. when you look at the building from above, it forms an octagon. each of the class was built theatre-like, the front row on the lowest elevation and the last row was on the highest elevation. because of this theatre-like structure, the building stood really high although it only consisted of three floors. there were two classrooms on each side of the octagon, and to reach the other classroom in another sections, you need to climb up and down several stairs (matched to the height of classroom elevation)on the top of these stairs was where the restroom located.
this building's restroom, i believed was designed improperly. no natural light. it is a really, really small room about 2x2 meters divided into two lavatories. it is possible that extremely morbidly obese person almost couldn't fit into the lavatory. both lavatories door were open, so i just went into one of them. i shut the door and started doing my business. soon after i closed the door,
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
there were terrible noises in that restroom, outside my lavatory. it was the sound of door violently closed and opened repeatedly, combined with loud banging on the door of lavatory beside. i didn't think wind blows is a good excuse for this since the restroom was not exposed to open air. at first i thought it was people rushing into the restroom, but as i listened, the noises grew more and more terrible.
"what the hell this person is doing?" I thought so, when suddenly out of nowhere, a faint scent of perfume spread on the air around me.
the scent grew stronger inside the tiny cubicle until the point i couldn't stand anymore, so i pushed open the cubicle door to see what kind of bad tasted person who made loud noises and applied too much of terrible-smelling perfume in such early in the morning.

but there was no one. the other cubicle's door was still open. it was really silent, only the sound of water dripping from the tap inside the cubicle. there also was a scientifically incorrect thing occured, there was no freaking perfume scent outside my cubicle. that strong, irritating scent of terrible-smelling perfume was disappeared just like...nah, disappeared like that.

huh?
oh shit, there must be something wrong.

i rushingly stepped out of the restroom with uneasy feeling without looking back, and sat back on my desk inside the classroom. i told nothing to my classmate, although she asked why i had such weird expression on my face.
silently, i promised myself not to go alone into the restroom anymore...

Thursday, 10 September 2009

magic lock-mocked lock

when i first arrived at my dorm, i never expected this.

my dorm has 2 layers of protection from the outside world. first is its main gate, and second is the door to the house.
the household caretaker duplicates the keys of the main gate and the front door, in case i come home late and she's alreadly asleep. so i have the duplicates of those keys. indeed.
one day, i came home late. so i have to open the gate with my key. the key is inserted to the lock.
one minute.
three minutes.
five minutes.
ten minutes. hey, what the hell? the lock wouldn't open! it's dark already and i want to go to bathroom quick!
struggling with frustation, led by natural instinct somehow the lock was finally opened.
every other day, i still can't open the stupid lock properly. nah. it is even more frustating if i am in a rush. hey i'm late but this damn lock just wont open! i secretly hope they forget to lock the gate, but somehow the gate is always locked in the first place. i guess i have no choice...
after several frustating failure attempt to open this gate lock (can't be helped!) usually i start to use violence to open the main gate. violence has made the newly-duplicated key suffers sooo much. the outer layer of shiny paint of the key is well-scratched, well done. eat that, key! i mean, i felt like the lock and the key is mocking me. or am i just dumb? it is such a weird lock indeed. it's not user friendly. especially unfriendly to me. it needs extra force to insert the key, and you need to twist the key as you pull the lock to open it. when it's finally open, you can't pull the key out of the lock unless you lock the lock first. weird, eh? stupid well-made, expensive lock system...


i thought everyone has a problem opening this damned lock, but one morning i was late. i rushed into the front gate...dang, the gate is locked again. i get my key out from my purse. Here, lock, i don't like you and you don't like me, so let's make peace out of this...
for the longest five minutes of my life, i struggled to open the lock as i swore swearwords inside my head. luckily, the girl whose room is beside my room came. she was going to go too. so i ask her for help.

"hey, could you please open the lock for me using your key? i have trouble opening this gate with my key..."
"sure."

*CLICK*

O_o;

i have stood there for five minutes and she didn't even need to move her hands to open the lock!
so i thought the problem is on my duplicated key. but it is a two bird in one shot, i was wrong again. one morning i was late again. i rush into the front gate...sure, the gate was locked again. i got my key out from my purse. and i had spent ten minutes to open the lock violently when my household caretaker came.

"what's the problem?"
"my key wouldn't open the lock! i'm late!"
"is your key unfit?"

*i handed her my key*

CLICK~!
"it is just like that. why can't you open it?"

oh man. i felt so humiliated. they seem to have no plan replacing the lock, though...

college life is so fun

yes it is. i never enjoyed myself like this before. when i was in high school, i almost had no life: it's all about school, course, school, course, blah, blah. i spent 12 hours of my life at school (wondering what kind of school that held its students for that long? it's a school that located about thirty kilometers from your house with stupid transportation system and operates from seven to three fifteen) then another three hours in the course almost everyday. great, just great. i know those all pay a great deal to my achievments now...(what ACHIEVMENTS?) i thought college life would be no different with the previous life i had. but i was very wrong.
first, the schedule is irregular. well, sorta irregular. it's actually regular, though. oh my, i'm so inconsistent. fixed schedule, for the freshmen regulars. but the hours are so not busy laah... on monday, i have three classes only, six hours total. on tuesday, i have four classes, so far this is the busiest day still. on wednesday, i also only have three classes. thursday, friday, saturday, sunday is long weekend. tee-hee. on thursday our faculty only have labs. three hours only. and on friday, there is only one classes. i really love it. between second and third classes, there is a four hours length recess. i can go to the mall to eat my lunch, oh boy. i really love it. more time to socialize and hang-out which i almost had no time to do back in the highschool.
second, i don't have to ride on vehicle and sit and sulk for thirty kilometers on the road anymore. i can simply walk from my dormitory...err, it is not exacty a dorm isn't it? cheap. healthy. and if i am going to be late, i can take public transportation. also cheap, but still cheaper walking for sure. it has been my dream to walk to school again since the dawn of time...
third. food, food, cheap food with great taste everywhere. dammit~! however i can burn off those calories by running. free sport facilities. running on the running track. run for your life. i love exercising, love it love it love it love it love it...
fourth, i don't need to bring a lot of heavy books anymore. sorry dude, it's over now. there is still no single professor rails at me for not bringing my textbooks. textbooks are not to be carried everywhere anymore. college textbooks are for correcting your sleeping position, or if you ever meet someone you really want to crash, college textbooks are the one you have been looking for. college textbooks, however, makes you look so smart if you can stand carrying them everywhere...
and finally i have an extracullicular activity that i really like!
ARCHERY! HA! i never wished to be involved in such cool activity! i am an archer, archer, archer, archer... (i'm a snotty beginner archer indeed) i am planning to be in robotic unit too, but i wonder what kind of people are inside the robotic unit? me however i am still going to try it later!
i hope i'll enjoy this game until the very end!

Wednesday, 22 July 2009

useless rant

i am not satisfied with the answer 'everything is god's plan'. that's an excuse to everything. if i get one million dollars this morning, that's god's plan. if i bang my head into the wall now and get stitched on my head, that's also god's plan. if i eat too much junk food and later become morbidly obese with several cardiovascular diseases, that's also god's plan. becoming morbidly obese is a god's plan, wow. spiritually speaking, i don't grasp this concept very well. i do believe god exists though, unlike some close minded assumption that people like me are always an atheist (again, what do religious people have against atheists?) there must be a great designer for everything in this universe. it is only i have different views over this creator. for me, this creator is a lot like programmer, the creator's motto is everything happens for a reason. it's a causality. the creator creates complex programming language that includes scientific laws and human free will inside. so the understanding of god's plan is quite different in my mind. god's plan is everything happens for a reason naturally, so there is no such thing as fate. famine and world hunger is the result of former action of nature, so do disasters. there are no such thing as miracle. it is just a sequence of actions and reactions from you, people around you, people everywhere, or anything that results in something you really like. vice versa for bad luck. it's indeed god's plan that i'm morbidly obese from eating so much junkfood, but don't blame god! spiritually speaking, it's our choices that moves god's plan. everything has its consequence. spiritually speaking, i think people's life span are also in God's plan, god gives choices: which life do you want to live? the life that ends after 50 years, 70 years, or anything you like? bah, all these nonsense talking gives me headache.