Haven't watched TV for quite some time, and yesterday I watched the TV series "Supernatural" when my sister played the DVD she just got. The story is about the Winchester brothers whose job was a monster-and-demon hunter. Quite interesting story, with some great action, a little drama, hilarious Hollywood jokes, and - the most important part according to my sister - cute & handsome guys ^^.
So, yesterday I watched the final episodes of season 4. What I found quite intriguing was the similarities of the ideas with Hideaki Anno's Neon Genesis Evangelion. Strange, huh? Well, I'll mention some things that I found to be resembling Evangelion:
- Both features the character Lilith. In EVA, Lilith is the Black-Moon Angel and the source of mankind (Lilim)... in Supernatural, Lilith is the so-called first demon created by Lucifer (remember, Lilith is Adam's first wife who refuses to obey him, according to some religious literatures).
...And both of them play important part in the series: bringing forth the End of the World... or the Instrumentality Project ^^
- Both features being called Angels. While in EVA the Angels are primarily the main antagonist a.k.a. the-ones-that-need-to-be-beaten-by-the-protagonist (Rei, Asuka, and Baka Shinji)throughout most of the series, in Supernatural Angels are pretty much like SEELE's counterparts.
They don't work directly, but performing shady, background, and stealth jobs to make things happen according to the destined fate... or the so-called "God's Will". and some Angels have the hidden agendas of their own, and using humans to perform their job. Pretty much like Keel Lorenz and Gendo Ikari using each other and other people to get their job done.
- Both features the end of the world. And what must be done to end the world is pretty much the same too!
*spoiler warning* In Supernatural, to release Lucifer from his prison, some sacrifices must be made - i.e. by breaking 66 seals which would unlock the prison gate, and apparently the last seal is a demon. The demon dies, the seal is broken, and Lucifer is free and ready to brought the Armageddon. See? that's pretty much like killing all the Angels are the key to brought Human Instrumentality Project into reality in EVA.
- For some reason, the End of the World is pretty much the same thing: New World without war, pain, and suffering, and all negative traits you can think of. All that is left is peace. and... both of the main characters refuse the offer to achieve such world. Shinji wants to live as a separate entity at the final moments of Human Instrumentality Project, and the main chara of Supernatural chose to live as a human in our imperfect world rather than achieving glory and peace at the cost of his brother's life. Pretty much like that...
**Though in the end, we don't know whether Shinji finally returned to Earth and live as a human with the others (the ending scene can be seen as Shinji and the others reverting back to human form and live on earth as they were, but it is also speculatively an end where it's only Shinji's concept of Heaven... nobody is returning to our world and everyone is simply dead. That's the End of Evangelion in my mind... but then again, that's the beauty of the EVA series: you can interpret the ending as you like - ambiguous till the end like V from V for Vendetta ^^), he did make the choice to not merge all human souls into one entity. (after turning the whole world into a primordial soup, Rei had gone through so far collecting the whole souls of humans, and after battling with MP EVAs and Asuka [illustratively] died, and all other stuff, you changed your mind... you're really BAKA SHINJI!!!)
- ah, both uses quite similar names for the Angels! Those who watched EVA would've recognized the name with -el suffix as the name of the Angels, like Uriel, Castiel, etc... and certain angels with Higher Level doesn't use the -el suffix, Zachariah in Supernaturan and Tabris for example - a.k.a. Nagisa Kaworu the gay-ish red-eyed boy with Impenetrable AT-Field and ability to control EVA outside the plug ^^
ahh... I missed Evangelion too much :D
That's probably the best Anime I've ever watched. Not at the quality of the animation, nor the characters, but simply the story and ideas behind them. And I like stories that requires quite some thinking...
Let's hope Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0 to be released as soon as possible. I'm curious about EVA-05 and the new pilot... Makinami Mari Illustrious. Still using the name of a WW II ship as a character name, I see. And since Gainax changed my beloved Asuka's name into Shikinami, why don't you change Kaworu's name into King George V Nagisanami, or Shinji's name into Scharnhorst Ikarinami? ^^
or Pen-pennami
and Aida Kensukenami
and Misato Katsuraginami
also Toji Suzuharanami
....
.....
......
ah dammit, Soryu Asuka Langley was a good name!
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Project Babylon
Officially, my next GUNPLA project would be called "Project Babylon".
It shall be my first attempt to combine scratch-building, GUNPLA assembly, hand-brushing, and maybe sculpting and kitbash. Maybe this one is a less ambitious project than my Sinanju Project (which is still unfinished), but surely this one wouldn't be less difficult.
The theme is my favorite character from Fate / Stay Night, Gilgamesh ^^ - hence the Project is called "Babylon". For those who doesn't know about Gilgamesh, here's the pic and link to some details:
"I SHALL PWNZ YOU ALL, LOWLIFE!"
Little details about concept that is going on inside my head:
Painting - simple. just paint it all gold, since Gilgamesh uses a golden armor... but, Which gold? I still can't decide between ACE Hardware's frame color Gold, Tamiya Leaf Gold, Testors Metallic Enamel Gold, or my old buddy Mr.Color Gold.
Decals - need to make custom decals. Gilgamesh's cuneiform markings on his armor and sword should be done during holiday
Weaponry - this one needs scratch build and/or sculpting. Need to make a 12-15 cm long replica of Gilgamesh's sword Ea - the one and only Anti-World Noble Phantasm ^^
and also some kitbashing maybe, especially funnels. I want to simulate Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon with numerous funnels instead of polearm and swords ^^
and the most important thing... which MS should I pick as the basis for the project?! which MS resembles Gilgamesh's attitude and armor?
I still can't decide... MG Zeta Plus C1 or A1 is the major candidate, followed closely by MG RX-178 Gundam Mk II and MG Hyaku-shiki... any suggestions? I don't really like the designs from SEED and 00, so Universal Century shall be the era of my choice...
ahh... hell... I need to study again for Thursday's SPSS exams!
and here's some random Azu-nyan pic ^^
I'm also in a K-On! fever right now :D
Azu-nyan is my current favorite girl, followed closely by Mugi, Mio, Yui & Ui... and don't forget the nutty airhead Sawako-sensei ^^
K-On! is just hilarious... and the music really gets to me!
yup, need to get back to studying! see ya later, my blog!
* Sinanju, please don't be mad at me... T.T
It shall be my first attempt to combine scratch-building, GUNPLA assembly, hand-brushing, and maybe sculpting and kitbash. Maybe this one is a less ambitious project than my Sinanju Project (which is still unfinished), but surely this one wouldn't be less difficult.
The theme is my favorite character from Fate / Stay Night, Gilgamesh ^^ - hence the Project is called "Babylon". For those who doesn't know about Gilgamesh, here's the pic and link to some details:
"I SHALL PWNZ YOU ALL, LOWLIFE!"
Little details about concept that is going on inside my head:
Painting - simple. just paint it all gold, since Gilgamesh uses a golden armor... but, Which gold? I still can't decide between ACE Hardware's frame color Gold, Tamiya Leaf Gold, Testors Metallic Enamel Gold, or my old buddy Mr.Color Gold.
Decals - need to make custom decals. Gilgamesh's cuneiform markings on his armor and sword should be done during holiday
Weaponry - this one needs scratch build and/or sculpting. Need to make a 12-15 cm long replica of Gilgamesh's sword Ea - the one and only Anti-World Noble Phantasm ^^
and also some kitbashing maybe, especially funnels. I want to simulate Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon with numerous funnels instead of polearm and swords ^^
and the most important thing... which MS should I pick as the basis for the project?! which MS resembles Gilgamesh's attitude and armor?
I still can't decide... MG Zeta Plus C1 or A1 is the major candidate, followed closely by MG RX-178 Gundam Mk II and MG Hyaku-shiki... any suggestions? I don't really like the designs from SEED and 00, so Universal Century shall be the era of my choice...
ahh... hell... I need to study again for Thursday's SPSS exams!
and here's some random Azu-nyan pic ^^
I'm also in a K-On! fever right now :D
Azu-nyan is my current favorite girl, followed closely by Mugi, Mio, Yui & Ui... and don't forget the nutty airhead Sawako-sensei ^^
K-On! is just hilarious... and the music really gets to me!
yup, need to get back to studying! see ya later, my blog!
* Sinanju, please don't be mad at me... T.T
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Jakarta Anti-Tobacco Day
Bunderan H.I.!
Enjoy Jakarta!
umm... what is it to enjoy in this overheated, polluted, flooding city?
well... actually there was a plan for a photography Hunt of Medilens during Jakarta Anti-Tobacco Day at Bunderan HI, but somewhere along the way it got cancelled.
Bicycling is healthy. Jogging is healthy too. Inhaling gas from motorized vehicles are not. So it's good to have a car-free hours on a Sunday morning like this ^^
one of the reason was due to the inability of the Medilens members to gather on Sunday Morning (Maroon 5? "Dying slow on Sunday Morning, and I'll never want to live" ^^).
Most of them just had an exhausting exams on Friday, so I think they could use a good sleep till noon on Sunday ^^. Even the club chief doesn't feel well on the day before yesterday, and I myself was not in a good shape too. I've been ill since 4 days ago, but it got quite severe since thursday... after taking antibiotics for 3 days, I feel a little better and I can go for a little walk on Sunday.
After my business with PERKI (about ACLS) is finished, I decided to take a walk on the car-free Jl. Thamrin, starting from Bunderan HI. It's crammed full with people, doing all sorts of things to celebrate and promote Anti-Tobacco day. From jogging, physical exercises, bicycling, wet themselves on the big fountain of Bunderan HI, join a "balap karung" contest, and even smoking ^^. Funny isn't it? There are still a lot of people enjoying their cigarettes on Anti-Tobacco day ^^
Here are some other pictures I take during my solo-hunt:
(All photos taken with Olympus E-500 DSLR. Image resized to 600x450 with Photoshop to fit my internet connection speed ^^)
It's a Hot day, comrade...
Golden Glow
a fluorescent egrang? ^^
BALAP KARUNG!
Don't trip yourself, mate!
Bike Lane. Kids ONLY.
Bike to Work... with NOS
Exercise under the flare ^^
My Bike, My Wife.
Oh, and there were a lot of unique bicycles on the street! From classic, antique bikes from Netherlands-Indies Colonial era, to Harley-Davidson look-alike... and even more antique bike collectors were there, showing off their collections and even wearing Meneer (it's "Mister" in Dutch, pretty much like a honorific for Foreigners back in Colonial era) clothes... I guess they can be considered as an Otaku too? ^^
And here's one of the most unique accessory a bicycle can get: a cannon ^^
A Bike-mounted cannon
Target on sight. Fire at Will!
And there was a tandem-bicycle (a bicycle with side-passenger seat on the left) full of EPIC WIN: the bicycle was repainted in camouflage colors and there are 2 boxes of ammo box with markings on the side-passenger seat
"100 ball rounds + 50 tracer rounds
Cal. .50BMG
Fire-Linked Browning M2 Machine Gun"
too bad I can't take any photo of it - the owner forbid me T.T
but he said that when he finished customizing his bike, he'll put it on a kind of "Unique Bicycle Show" or something like that, and everyone may take some pics... Is there any such thing as "Unique Bicycle Show"? ^^
anyhow... today was fun ^^
Now I need to get back to my daily life of a Medical Student... Studying heaps of books and handouts in limited time... Cramming statistics and practice using SPSS is the menu for next week's exams!
* Sinanju, please wait till I finish all the exams!
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Photography: Hobby vs Mall Security
taken from my note at Facebook...
I'll put on the pictures later...
To make it short, Kelapa Gading held an event called Jakarta Food & Fashion Festival. In an event that big, Photographers lurking around the area is inevitable. From media photographers to hobby photographers like me. Of course, official photographers wore an ID Tag to identify them as a committee of the event.
But to my observation, there's so few of the DSLR-using people who wore ID Tag!
I counted about 12 out of 15 people who brought DSLR along with them didn't wear any ID Tag or dressed with a proper committee shirt.
Among these 12, 3 or so are PRO Photographers (fellow photographers can't mistake the EOS1, big lens, and that "aura" of Pro ^^).
Then about 7 of them appears to be in their late teens or twenties, implying that they're either college students, amateur photographers, or young photography hobbyists - including me (3 of them even brought tripods).
And the rest are some rich people who bought DSLR cameras only to look cool and use the DSLR as if it was a pocket camera. What a waste. Fuck off and die.
Anyway, as I stroll around took some pictures (for my own pleasure and entertainment), two mall securities with their handy-talky cornered me and asking for some credentials. WTF? My arguments were:
1) DSLR are now available for those who want to have it and have the money - not only for those with occupational needs. That means, nowadays people with DSLR doesn't mean that they're occupational photographers. Hobbyist like me who took pictures for myself and wouldn't post a picture to mass media can have a DSLR if they had the resources and decide to buy one. Even those rich, photography-blind, smartasses can have one!
2) You apprehend people with DSLR, but you let loose people with pocket cameras. Okay, so next time if I decide to be an event-spy or unofficial media agent who wants to take pictures of the event without any credentials, I'll just bring my pocket camera. because you let that happen!
3) Due to my argument #2, I asked them back. If photography is forbidden, WHY CAN'T YOU ENFORCE IT? See? you let loose 12 people with DSLR without ID Tags and hundreds of people with pocket camera or phone camera to take pictures as they like! And you do something only to one of them (me ^^). You call that enforcement? I can conclude that you SUCK at your job.
4) Again, If photography is forbidden, you did nothing to inform the people who brought their DSLR unauthorized. Come on, DSLR are BIG! You can't mistake a DSLR bag with a pocket camera bag, can you?
After defending my arguments for about 10 minutes, they let me go easily. "Alright, you may go around." Without telling me not to take pictures anymore or so. See? You really SUCK at doing your job, you know?
I took several more pictures then head home. Along the way home, I managed to see the "No cameras allowed" sign which is hanged on top of the ceiling. and that's the only sign. That's it? That's the only effort to forbid photography on the area? You can't be serious. Who would bother seeing the sign if there are a lot of kiosk and stands on the area?
So, Mister Ad* and Ri**i, you took wrong Hobbyist Photographer to apprehend :D
I suspect you intend to gain some more money by preying on lone photographers like me, yes?
my dear, that's called an extortion.
bad luck, chummy. I wouldn't give my precious money or - most importantly - my PRIDE to be taken down by people like you ^^
if you asked for my money like a beggar, maybe I'll consider giving you some... you really SUCK at doing your job, you know that? :D
and to the management of " LP ", please change the sign with a better one, or just put them down anyway. It's useless. You can't restrain or limit the people's spirit of photography.
Onward Amateur Photographers!
I'll put on the pictures later...
To make it short, Kelapa Gading held an event called Jakarta Food & Fashion Festival. In an event that big, Photographers lurking around the area is inevitable. From media photographers to hobby photographers like me. Of course, official photographers wore an ID Tag to identify them as a committee of the event.
But to my observation, there's so few of the DSLR-using people who wore ID Tag!
I counted about 12 out of 15 people who brought DSLR along with them didn't wear any ID Tag or dressed with a proper committee shirt.
Among these 12, 3 or so are PRO Photographers (fellow photographers can't mistake the EOS1, big lens, and that "aura" of Pro ^^).
Then about 7 of them appears to be in their late teens or twenties, implying that they're either college students, amateur photographers, or young photography hobbyists - including me (3 of them even brought tripods).
And the rest are some rich people who bought DSLR cameras only to look cool and use the DSLR as if it was a pocket camera. What a waste. Fuck off and die.
Anyway, as I stroll around took some pictures (for my own pleasure and entertainment), two mall securities with their handy-talky cornered me and asking for some credentials. WTF? My arguments were:
1) DSLR are now available for those who want to have it and have the money - not only for those with occupational needs. That means, nowadays people with DSLR doesn't mean that they're occupational photographers. Hobbyist like me who took pictures for myself and wouldn't post a picture to mass media can have a DSLR if they had the resources and decide to buy one. Even those rich, photography-blind, smartasses can have one!
2) You apprehend people with DSLR, but you let loose people with pocket cameras. Okay, so next time if I decide to be an event-spy or unofficial media agent who wants to take pictures of the event without any credentials, I'll just bring my pocket camera. because you let that happen!
3) Due to my argument #2, I asked them back. If photography is forbidden, WHY CAN'T YOU ENFORCE IT? See? you let loose 12 people with DSLR without ID Tags and hundreds of people with pocket camera or phone camera to take pictures as they like! And you do something only to one of them (me ^^). You call that enforcement? I can conclude that you SUCK at your job.
4) Again, If photography is forbidden, you did nothing to inform the people who brought their DSLR unauthorized. Come on, DSLR are BIG! You can't mistake a DSLR bag with a pocket camera bag, can you?
After defending my arguments for about 10 minutes, they let me go easily. "Alright, you may go around." Without telling me not to take pictures anymore or so. See? You really SUCK at doing your job, you know?
I took several more pictures then head home. Along the way home, I managed to see the "No cameras allowed" sign which is hanged on top of the ceiling. and that's the only sign. That's it? That's the only effort to forbid photography on the area? You can't be serious. Who would bother seeing the sign if there are a lot of kiosk and stands on the area?
So, Mister Ad* and Ri**i, you took wrong Hobbyist Photographer to apprehend :D
I suspect you intend to gain some more money by preying on lone photographers like me, yes?
my dear, that's called an extortion.
bad luck, chummy. I wouldn't give my precious money or - most importantly - my PRIDE to be taken down by people like you ^^
if you asked for my money like a beggar, maybe I'll consider giving you some... you really SUCK at doing your job, you know that? :D
and to the management of " LP ", please change the sign with a better one, or just put them down anyway. It's useless. You can't restrain or limit the people's spirit of photography.
Onward Amateur Photographers!
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Saturday Night Fever
Hell. I am tired. Really Tired.
What do you expect when you took a little too many activities? For me, I think I can manage my time and I expect to finish them all according to meticulously designed plan of mine. All I got is a complete mess.
I haven't had a good sleep for months. for the last 2 weeks, I only sleep for 2 hours or so, 4 hours tops. And now I feel I'm dozing off during lectures too often.
Now my minds are unclear and I'm exhausted, but I have a lot of work to do: Finishing my Research that due on May 14th, calling and managing participants of ACLS - there isn't many of them but it's time-consuming since the Contact Person of PERKI is rather hard to be contacted, writing article about AIDS for monthly bulletin, study for Mid-block exam which is next Friday, and... finish building my Sinanju ^^
Oh, I prefer to do the last one mentioned, above all else except sleeping :D
especially after witnessing the conflict between fellow club members which IMO are utterly prodigal... and I just can't calm down when the issues are getting worse - maybe due to my lack of sleep. well, more details of this conflict are to come soon... When I have time (probably tomorrow) to settle my mind and gain peace, I shall write about it as objectively as I can... my current opinion about this case: "You guys want to show off your superiority by making trouble over trivial things? Fuck off and die." [negative-charged emotions are building up inside me ^^]
by the way, my Sinanju's current progress are stalling. I just finished the legs, but I think it'll be the same until next week... I'll have the time to assemble the arms, backpack, and weapons after the Mid-Block exams...
I just want to rant about my bad weekend - because I can't have some rest - for now. Hopefully I can finish some of my jobs tonight so I can have a little rest - 4 hours of sleep is a must... Otherwise I'd start flipping out into Flippy from Happy Tree Friends :D
What do you expect when you took a little too many activities? For me, I think I can manage my time and I expect to finish them all according to meticulously designed plan of mine. All I got is a complete mess.
I haven't had a good sleep for months. for the last 2 weeks, I only sleep for 2 hours or so, 4 hours tops. And now I feel I'm dozing off during lectures too often.
Now my minds are unclear and I'm exhausted, but I have a lot of work to do: Finishing my Research that due on May 14th, calling and managing participants of ACLS - there isn't many of them but it's time-consuming since the Contact Person of PERKI is rather hard to be contacted, writing article about AIDS for monthly bulletin, study for Mid-block exam which is next Friday, and... finish building my Sinanju ^^
Oh, I prefer to do the last one mentioned, above all else except sleeping :D
especially after witnessing the conflict between fellow club members which IMO are utterly prodigal... and I just can't calm down when the issues are getting worse - maybe due to my lack of sleep. well, more details of this conflict are to come soon... When I have time (probably tomorrow) to settle my mind and gain peace, I shall write about it as objectively as I can... my current opinion about this case: "You guys want to show off your superiority by making trouble over trivial things? Fuck off and die." [negative-charged emotions are building up inside me ^^]
by the way, my Sinanju's current progress are stalling. I just finished the legs, but I think it'll be the same until next week... I'll have the time to assemble the arms, backpack, and weapons after the Mid-Block exams...
I just want to rant about my bad weekend - because I can't have some rest - for now. Hopefully I can finish some of my jobs tonight so I can have a little rest - 4 hours of sleep is a must... Otherwise I'd start flipping out into Flippy from Happy Tree Friends :D
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Sunday Stroll (April 26th 2009)
Jakarta, 09.00 P.M.
It's been quite some time since the last time I write something, and now I'll write about what I just did today...
After a blasted array of inhumanly merciless exams of Humaniora bloc, I managed to spend some time to take a nice walk around the city to relieve my tension… Well, not literally walking around since walking around at noon in 32-34oC temperature would be a futile attempt of stress-relieving…
Anyway, since my younger sister has just finished her High School National Exams and she would like to eat some delicious treats, we went to Pacific Place, a mall combined with Ritz-Carlton Hotel Jakarta, where most of the things inside I wouldn’t bother to take a look due to the highly tagged prices. We went there only for one reason: Pancious ^^
Pancious is, well, a pancake restaurant. The name came from “Pancake” and “Delicious” combined in a unique way… but what matters the most here is the taste, not the name. Indeed it’s expensive, but the pancakes are worth the money we spent. Simply delicious. Even the standard, butter + maple syrup pancake/waffle tastes soooo good ^^.
They serve other creatively combined pancake and waffle delicacies, like waffle-ice cream, pancake-cheesecake, burger pancake, omelet pancake/waffle, etc… but no Dolphin Pancakes though ^^. They’re all look delicious, but my wallet keeps me from buying them… I’d just go with a standard pancake, because I’d rather spent my Rp 42.000,00 (about ¥400) for 4 jars of Mr.Color Paint than for 2 pieces of pancake with a vanilla ice cream and few blueberries or oreo chunks… Ah that reminds me, I haven’t made any progress on my Sinanju… Please be patient, Sinanju. I’ll resume on working your arms & legs as soon as I have more time to spend…
After costly dining at Pancious (I envy my sister. She seems to eat A LOT but gains weight a little to none…) we just stroll around the mall & laughing at the ridiculously expensive dress and shoes they got there… and how could these people with too much money bought a pair of shoes that costs even more than 2 PG Astray while right outside, there’s still people struggling to get food as a daily basis.
along the way I came across this book on a bookstore: "Full Frontal PR [Public Relations]"
so this book would like to teach us how to be a Public Relations like Full Frontal, eh? Enforce yourself with Sinanju, and slice everyone who's not listening to you... quite an effective way to be a good public relations... ^^
Then, before we went home, we came across a local supermarket that sells some imported goods. I remember Danny’s article about Snyder’s of Hanover Pretzels and soon I began the hunt ^^.
After some time, I found the LAST Snyder’s they have… And it’s on SALE (maybe 50% off, I don’t know exactly but the other items on the section was on “buy 1 get 1” promo), so I decided to loot it due to curiosity ^^. It’s expensive (for me). Costs about 3 Mr.Color paints, and it’s the on sale price? Then the real price would cost the same as 6 Mr.Color paints! Damn all the taxes… Money from tax in Indonesia most likely ends up in our corrupt government. All the political bullshit to rationalize their actions of gaining wealth, self-supplying and self-fattening makes me sick.
Well, this post has no intentions to criticize politics or other heavy things, I’ll just continue… Next is a funny pic...
Same item for different species ^^
Next up is the nostalgic sector of the supermarket… they sell traditional Indonesian snacks, toys, and almost-extinct sweets like these:
Warung-style goodies! Ahh... those sweets brings back memories...
My childhood snacks are here! ^^
Charlee and the chocolate Factory ^^
It’s almost 10 years since the last time I had a cigarette-candy, or “lizard eggs” (“telor cicak” – that’s how we used to call the multicolored, smarties-like, candies in Bogor, I guess)^^ sweets, or Charlee gums… brings back memories back from my elementary school days, where everything seems to be fun (“God’s in His heaven, All’s right with the world” ^^)… These items should be cheap – almost as cheap as dirt, since a whole package of cigarette candy should cost no more than Rp 500 (¥4.5) at the local market – but since it’s entered the mall, the price increases over tenfold. What a way to gain profit…
That’s all for today, now I need to get back to work. Medskills, TEMILNAS research, and AtmaSEARCH activities are waiting…
I’m still in high spirits of attending Medical Faculty, even though the Humaniora bloc has blasted my motivations… I just can’t see the correlations of memorizing to the letter from the book of Ethics, or understanding the crappy outdated way of thinking from the Church, and being a good doctor… I personally think that religion doesn’t take part in morals and ethics of a good doctor, or good people.
There are many good people without religions, as well as there are a lot more indecent people with religion.
It's been quite some time since the last time I write something, and now I'll write about what I just did today...
After a blasted array of inhumanly merciless exams of Humaniora bloc, I managed to spend some time to take a nice walk around the city to relieve my tension… Well, not literally walking around since walking around at noon in 32-34oC temperature would be a futile attempt of stress-relieving…
Anyway, since my younger sister has just finished her High School National Exams and she would like to eat some delicious treats, we went to Pacific Place, a mall combined with Ritz-Carlton Hotel Jakarta, where most of the things inside I wouldn’t bother to take a look due to the highly tagged prices. We went there only for one reason: Pancious ^^
Pancious is, well, a pancake restaurant. The name came from “Pancake” and “Delicious” combined in a unique way… but what matters the most here is the taste, not the name. Indeed it’s expensive, but the pancakes are worth the money we spent. Simply delicious. Even the standard, butter + maple syrup pancake/waffle tastes soooo good ^^.
They serve other creatively combined pancake and waffle delicacies, like waffle-ice cream, pancake-cheesecake, burger pancake, omelet pancake/waffle, etc… but no Dolphin Pancakes though ^^. They’re all look delicious, but my wallet keeps me from buying them… I’d just go with a standard pancake, because I’d rather spent my Rp 42.000,00 (about ¥400) for 4 jars of Mr.Color Paint than for 2 pieces of pancake with a vanilla ice cream and few blueberries or oreo chunks… Ah that reminds me, I haven’t made any progress on my Sinanju… Please be patient, Sinanju. I’ll resume on working your arms & legs as soon as I have more time to spend…
After costly dining at Pancious (I envy my sister. She seems to eat A LOT but gains weight a little to none…) we just stroll around the mall & laughing at the ridiculously expensive dress and shoes they got there… and how could these people with too much money bought a pair of shoes that costs even more than 2 PG Astray while right outside, there’s still people struggling to get food as a daily basis.
along the way I came across this book on a bookstore: "Full Frontal PR [Public Relations]"
so this book would like to teach us how to be a Public Relations like Full Frontal, eh? Enforce yourself with Sinanju, and slice everyone who's not listening to you... quite an effective way to be a good public relations... ^^
Then, before we went home, we came across a local supermarket that sells some imported goods. I remember Danny’s article about Snyder’s of Hanover Pretzels and soon I began the hunt ^^.
After some time, I found the LAST Snyder’s they have… And it’s on SALE (maybe 50% off, I don’t know exactly but the other items on the section was on “buy 1 get 1” promo), so I decided to loot it due to curiosity ^^. It’s expensive (for me). Costs about 3 Mr.Color paints, and it’s the on sale price? Then the real price would cost the same as 6 Mr.Color paints! Damn all the taxes… Money from tax in Indonesia most likely ends up in our corrupt government. All the political bullshit to rationalize their actions of gaining wealth, self-supplying and self-fattening makes me sick.
Well, this post has no intentions to criticize politics or other heavy things, I’ll just continue… Next is a funny pic...
Same item for different species ^^
Next up is the nostalgic sector of the supermarket… they sell traditional Indonesian snacks, toys, and almost-extinct sweets like these:
Warung-style goodies! Ahh... those sweets brings back memories...
My childhood snacks are here! ^^
Charlee and the chocolate Factory ^^
It’s almost 10 years since the last time I had a cigarette-candy, or “lizard eggs” (“telor cicak” – that’s how we used to call the multicolored, smarties-like, candies in Bogor, I guess)^^ sweets, or Charlee gums… brings back memories back from my elementary school days, where everything seems to be fun (“God’s in His heaven, All’s right with the world” ^^)… These items should be cheap – almost as cheap as dirt, since a whole package of cigarette candy should cost no more than Rp 500 (¥4.5) at the local market – but since it’s entered the mall, the price increases over tenfold. What a way to gain profit…
That’s all for today, now I need to get back to work. Medskills, TEMILNAS research, and AtmaSEARCH activities are waiting…
I’m still in high spirits of attending Medical Faculty, even though the Humaniora bloc has blasted my motivations… I just can’t see the correlations of memorizing to the letter from the book of Ethics, or understanding the crappy outdated way of thinking from the Church, and being a good doctor… I personally think that religion doesn’t take part in morals and ethics of a good doctor, or good people.
There are many good people without religions, as well as there are a lot more indecent people with religion.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Ninth Entry: Holiday
LOG 8
April 10, 2009
part 1: free from humanity
It's easter holiday here, at last I can take some rest from Humaniora studies at campus. The medical education unit arranges a curriculum that aims to make us, 1st year med students, to be more humanistic, caring, and empathic towards people... what they don't know is that the curriculum of Humaniora makes the students- or at the very least, me - to be less human. Literally, since I feel apathy towards humanity issues are better than "save the people, save the world" approach...
and what disgust me most is that we need to study "Religion" and Civics. go to hell, all politics and bureaucracies! even the Church itself is a politic-mongering power with "divine intervention" disguise...
my spirit to be a doctor weakened a little because of this curriculum. Practically all things to be learned from this curriculum is useless, except the Biomedical Ethics and Culture Studies. I decided to attend medical faculty to help people with my talents - NOT to "Serve God" or "Serve this pathetic country"... I don't believe in God, and I don't respect nor trust politicians in my country. period.
I miss the Molecular Biology, Physiology, and even Biochemistry...
part 2: Election
I'll just cut it short: I hate the democracy system in this country. I want to kill all the politicians in this country who wanted the position at Legislative for their OWN sake, i.e. they will definitely CORRUPT - thus, they don't need to be elected, but ELIMINATED, permanently.
part 3: *GUNPLA* ^^
after all the negatively-charged issues above, here comes the balance of my Chi, source of my positive energy :D (sorry for the exaggeration ^^)
finally I managed to spend some time on my beloved beautiful Sinanju.
This MG kit is awesome! Loads of runners and decals, the most complicated (and the most expensive) GUNPLA I have up to now. I'll definitely took my time on building this babe, as she'll be my masterpiece...
up till now, I made little or no flaws in cutting and sanding, but painting is a bit difficult. All those curves and "embroidery" linings doesn't come in separate parts, so I need to put a lot of effort into details... I tried to use Testors Metal red + Tamiya detailing brush for the chest "embroidery", the results was pretty satisfactory but it took 4 hours of regulating respiration rate and staring intently at the part I want to paint while my cerebellum is desperately trying to balance-control the movements of my brushing hand... my hand ended up cramping all night long...
anyway, here's the current progress of my Sinanju:
Kinda reminds me of Alpha Azieru...
Sinanju is truly beautiful, isn't she? ^^
*note:
custom parts used:
AKO Creation stencil decal #13
AKO Creation Metal Energy cable medium
colors used:
Tamiya Acrylic - Metallic Grey, Metallic Blue, Black, Royal Blue
Mr. Color - Metal Black, Burnt Iron, Character Red, Gold
Humbrol Acrylic - Gun Metal
Testors - Metallic Red
***** Happy Gunpla-Building!!! *****
End of Log 8
April 10, 2009
part 1: free from humanity
It's easter holiday here, at last I can take some rest from Humaniora studies at campus. The medical education unit arranges a curriculum that aims to make us, 1st year med students, to be more humanistic, caring, and empathic towards people... what they don't know is that the curriculum of Humaniora makes the students- or at the very least, me - to be less human. Literally, since I feel apathy towards humanity issues are better than "save the people, save the world" approach...
and what disgust me most is that we need to study "Religion" and Civics. go to hell, all politics and bureaucracies! even the Church itself is a politic-mongering power with "divine intervention" disguise...
my spirit to be a doctor weakened a little because of this curriculum. Practically all things to be learned from this curriculum is useless, except the Biomedical Ethics and Culture Studies. I decided to attend medical faculty to help people with my talents - NOT to "Serve God" or "Serve this pathetic country"... I don't believe in God, and I don't respect nor trust politicians in my country. period.
I miss the Molecular Biology, Physiology, and even Biochemistry...
part 2: Election
I'll just cut it short: I hate the democracy system in this country. I want to kill all the politicians in this country who wanted the position at Legislative for their OWN sake, i.e. they will definitely CORRUPT - thus, they don't need to be elected, but ELIMINATED, permanently.
part 3: *GUNPLA* ^^
after all the negatively-charged issues above, here comes the balance of my Chi, source of my positive energy :D (sorry for the exaggeration ^^)
finally I managed to spend some time on my beloved beautiful Sinanju.
This MG kit is awesome! Loads of runners and decals, the most complicated (and the most expensive) GUNPLA I have up to now. I'll definitely took my time on building this babe, as she'll be my masterpiece...
up till now, I made little or no flaws in cutting and sanding, but painting is a bit difficult. All those curves and "embroidery" linings doesn't come in separate parts, so I need to put a lot of effort into details... I tried to use Testors Metal red + Tamiya detailing brush for the chest "embroidery", the results was pretty satisfactory but it took 4 hours of regulating respiration rate and staring intently at the part I want to paint while my cerebellum is desperately trying to balance-control the movements of my brushing hand... my hand ended up cramping all night long...
anyway, here's the current progress of my Sinanju:
Kinda reminds me of Alpha Azieru...
Sinanju is truly beautiful, isn't she? ^^
*note:
custom parts used:
AKO Creation stencil decal #13
AKO Creation Metal Energy cable medium
colors used:
Tamiya Acrylic - Metallic Grey, Metallic Blue, Black, Royal Blue
Mr. Color - Metal Black, Burnt Iron, Character Red, Gold
Humbrol Acrylic - Gun Metal
Testors - Metallic Red
***** Happy Gunpla-Building!!! *****
End of Log 8
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