THE JUNK YARD

Cast Away (Part IV): Highway to Hell

2009-07-10T04:22:00.000-07:00

Finally, the day that everyone in the KKN is waiting for...the day of observation!

A lot of rumors flying around concerning how are the condition of each unit's village, and today is the time to see the truth. My unit is assigned in the Dusun Ngaglik, KelurahanPagerharjo, Kecamatan Samigaluh, Kulonprogo. As I have mentioned in my previous notes, it is located in a mountanious area. As a usual KKN Reguler destination, the place is also located so far away from Yogyakarta. Although this note is titled "Highway to Hell" I refer the "Hell" part not as the village, but as whole shitload of work that I'm gonna do in the village:D

So, in order to get there, we are guided by this DPL (Dosen Pembimbing Lapangan) Assistant, Mr. Jeffry. Mr. Jeffry will lead our unit as well as several other who is also located in Pagerharjo...there were about 6 units if I'm not mistaken. Our rendezvous point is in some bridge at Godean. It's an easy task to find the bridge. It's quite big, and you only have to go west from Tugu 'till you find it. If I say "easy", it doesn't mean "not far". To get to the meeting point,the road is smooth and pretty wide for two bigass truck side by side, but it is far enough to melt your butt in the motorbike's seat. But in the end, we, and the other unit manage to get there.

After the meeting point, we continue our journey to the place so far away. I figure out later that the meeting point was not even half of the trip. But the road are still fine in my opinions. There were some up and downs, straight road, everything we usually found in Jogja. However, it were all change when we took the first turn to the left. The road is not so friendly anymore....well..there were still ups and downs, only far more extreme. I've been warned that there are a lot of 45 degrees road, and I think it was all a joke to scare us...and It turns out that to mention it 45 degrees is only to ease our mind. Not only extreme ups and downs, the road also twist around like burritos! It was a roller coaster ride I tell ya! The mountainous area has indeed provide some difficult geographical challenge for the untrained drivers as well as for automatic and two strokes motorcycle! Good thing I've borrowed my friend's motorbike.... Now, If I say "extreme", it doesn't mean not far! Those extreme road last long enough to make you bored to death. The worst part is, just right about when you wanna kill yourself, when you think that maybe jumping off the cliff isn't a bad idea after all, you reach your destination--"

Before we goes to the village, we stop by at the Lurah's Office to get some briefing. The briefing was short, mainly emphasizing on the need for us to adjust with the society's culture and value. After that, the Head of Dukuh (hereinafter Pak Dukuh) pick us up to show the way to the Dusun Ngaglik.

Now lets talk 'bout the village. The weather was cool....the water runs well and clean...the existence of electricity....cell phone friendly.....the view was quite amazing....but wait...where are the people?? where are the...houses?? It turns out that right now is harvesting time for clove plants. So everyone is too busy harvesting. For an area with such economic depression like Samigaluh, I bet the folks wouldn't just sit around smokin' when they know that they could generate some cash. So our observation (that is mainly going to be carried out in interview method) wasn't so sucessful at day one. We only have a session with Pak Dukuh today. Well, he explained a lot of things anyway...such as the structural organization of the village, the important person living there (such as pak ustadz and such), population, and the current problem that the people are dealing with. The main occupation of Dusun Ngagglik are farmers. And they have a problem at farming --". One important thing about KKN is that you have to pay attention on what the society needs instead of what the society demands. We see that the whole problem in Samigaluh is on the marketing of their product. This is the problem that we should fix, but this needs to go through acknowledgement by the DPL and also discussion with the people (which currently unavailable due to harvest time).

Now what about the houses? as far as I see, there are only three houses and a mosque on sight. It is just about then when we find a map of Dusun Ngaglik. The Dusun was H.U.G.E. Now imagine a mountainous area with cliffs all over the place, logically, people would build their houses in an area where the land are relatively flat. Now keep imagining because that is not how these people in Dusun Ngaglik thinks. They actualy build their houses in the cliffs! So no wonder there are only three houses on my sight, the other are below me or located behind the jungle --". I find more houses and meet some of the people on my way around the Dusun.

It's a good thing that this is Friday so there is Jum'atan. A time when people gather in one place. That moment of course, becomes the time of meet and greet with the gentlemen in Ngaglik. After the interview failure in day one, we planned to have a meeting with Ngaglik people tomorrow night. Which is also a routined schedule of society's meeting. The people in Ngaglik have a lot of these schedule, it would be best for us to adjust with those schedule so it is not giving too much burden for the people:D

My first overall impression of the village was : Except for the stupid distance and terrain, it was all okay:D
I can't manage to take any pictures of Ngaglik, but I have a few shots of Samigaluh:
Samigaluh is located somewhere on that mountain
Some view from Samigaluh...nice!You don't see this kind of road very often in Samigaluh...

So that is it folks, I'm gonna sleep over at Ngaglik tomorrow so there aren't gonna be any update on the cast away....See ya!

Cast Away (Part III): The Guilty Parties

2009-07-07T07:38:00.000-07:00

Today in the Cast Away....to put it all simple, today is about getting to know each and every person in my unit!

In the KKN Reguler, we are basically choked by deadlines. The short given time is the main cause of such thing. As a unit, we've met each other at 3rd of July, and we are going to get down to business in the 14th of July. The timeframe between these dates are used for observations, making work programs, and in my opinion, the most important thing, is team bonding. Why do I think its important? When we are already deployed in the village for real (at 14th July) it would be all about executing the program. Which means that the unit should already perform as a team. It need a relax environment to actually knows 8 people that you would work together in 1,5 months. And where we going, the atmosphere would get a little bit more tense. To know them in such condition is a bad idea.

Therefore, me, as a person who really like to skip a meeting :lol: decided that this morning's meeting with the unit is somehow important. Not to talk about the whole KKN thing but to get to know them better.

The first time a meet those eight people, my first opinion is "this group is not so much fun....they we're all...quite". We are not spending a little time that day, we were together for like more than 5 hours, yet, they're still quite. This is not fun. However, today it was all changed. My previous opinion is a true example of a short and untested thoughts that's just flying over in my head. My unit turns out to be just fine (at least up until today that is:D). The Unit consist of 9 people coming from different majors. We have one from Medics, one from psycology, one from pharmacy, one from economy, an IT student, another one from Industrial Engineering, one from Civil Engineering (I don't know if that is the correct English for "Teknik Sipil") and two from Law. That is almost the whole neighborhood of UII. The idea of that is for the unit to e able to help the society in every aspect that there is. The meeting was filled with jokes, non-sense, and stupidity. It's is all I need to see that I'm going to have a great time :lol:

So ladies and gentlemen, here are some short introduction of the guilty parties (based on my memory order):

Ardi (a guy, he study drugs and stuffs). If I describe a person who never wear jeans, having a long beard, always rush his way first to do a prayer, you probably could already see the image. Yup, he's that kinda guy:D But to label him based on his looks is just unfair, because he turns out to have a very nice sense of humor. And the fact that he is an assistant for some lecturer in Pharmacy means that this is a pretty smart dude. This is a good news because drugs is probably something that is important when shit happens. And it is not some field where you can make up a solvency based on abstract thoughts. You gotta have the basic and you need to know just what to do. I really hope this guy could put his knowledge to the test when the time comes

Ika (a girl, if she graduated, she would be a doctor). To imagine her as a doctor based on how se act today, I see a crazy woman treating patients. One of the loudest girl on the group. She actualy take some quiz in facebook and conclude that she would find one of the villagers as her true love --". But in the field of medics, she already shows her ability to know what indication is what desease....cool.

Disa (a girl, study psychology...and I think she needs a psychologist). Another loud one. Don't they have a self curing method in one of their subjects? because seriously, she needs one! I can't say much about her academic ability yet. It hasn't been shown (but she proposes to bring onions to resist vampires --"). Doesn't really matter though, because attitude is all that matter in the end. And I think she has that.

Adi (a guy, a student in the regular program that deals with money) He is an example of a quite guy, didn't talk that much, but when he does, it is nothing but stupidity. I like that! He study economics but knows well about computers and technology. He has some working experience so I think he used to work in a team. He is the treasurer of the unit. Not because he wants to. But it is all a mere consequences of his own choosing to study economy.

Trias (a girl, my former classmate) As a law student, is nice to have one of your own kind to get confused together...now she insist that her nickname is fifi and tell everybody to call her by that name, but I think it's all bullshit. So I still call her Trias or Tri for short. She is the secretary of the unit, and one of her role is accepting sms from our chief and dispatch it to everyone in the group. My biggest concern is that there is a possibility of us having the same idea of a program....hope it won't happen.

Yeta (a girl, she build buildings) . Finally we have someone quite.....she probably carry the biggest burden in my unit. Unlike the others, she is being requested to build a bridge (or at least design it) by the villagers. But burden or no burden she still manage to give interesting idea at the meeting. Nice one!

Terti (usually mistaken as a girl due to his name, the computer geek) He is the Chief of the Unit. Why? it's because he speaks fluent javanese, he talk too much in the first meeting, and he initiate the voting of the leader. For a person that carries a lot of responsibility, he seems pretty relaxed and not forgetting to discuss all of the crucial things. I don't know what the future holds, but I'm sure hoping that he will lead us good.

Ana (a girl, a rare kind in industrial engineering) the most quite person in the team. So there is not much to say about her. But she did laugh at all the jokes that was flying around....well I guess if you can't make jokes then to laugh along with it is something cool! Btw, a person that study biogas a.k.a shitgas and live to tell the story must have something to be proud of :lol:

And the last one is me.....

So that is my Unit, a group of people that I asked and I will give a full cooperation with. My view about them might change in the upcoming days, but I hope that it change to a degree that I respect them more. Because in time of crisis, a true character would reveal itself. Such moment is possible to appear and I can't wait to see how we're gonna handle it:D

If I could choose, I wanna Yoda (coz he's green), Darth Vader (so he could play with Yoda), Optimus Prime (not because he's a robot, it's because he is a talking truck! cool), Homer Simpson (my role model), and Yuki Nagato (alien, powerfull, beautifull:D). But everything is not always go as we want it, so I'll acept the team given to me...i hope they do to.

So how about your team? or what kind of a team do you prefer?

Cast Away (Part II): UII (hopefully) Goes Green

2009-07-05T06:24:00.000-07:00

Another day on the Cast Away! Pake bahasa indonesia aja ah :P

Sebenarnya belum secara resmi di "Cast Away" sih, cuma keseluruhan prosesinya sudah cukup membuat diriku terisolasi dari dunia luar, dan kegiatan-kegiatan sudah mulai tidak rutin.

Judul kali ini berkaitan dengan Tema KKN Reguler UII, yaitu "Kesehatan Masyarakat dan Lingkungan" dan juga aktifitas berupa pembekalan dalam bidang penghijauan. Lalu kata "hopefully" itu menunjukkan bahwa kesuksesan program ini masih berupa harapan semata. Pembekalan dalam KKN kali ini ada empat bidang plus pembekalan Dakwah Islamiyah (biar keliatan UIInya...). Empat bidang itu adalah Tata Ruang, UMKM, Biogas (also known as ShitGas:D), dan Penghijauan. Tiap unit wajib ngirim perwakilan satu orang untuk mengikuti satu bidang pembekalan (kecuali dakwah islamiyah yang harus ada 1 laki 1 perempuan). Saya sih milih penghijauan aja...soalnya tata ruang dah disikat anak teknik sipil di unitku, biogas jatahnya anak Teknik Industri, UMKM buat yang berpusing-pusing di Ekonomi, Dakwah Islamiyah buat siapa aja asal bukan aku...dengan berbagai pertimbangan yang matang (dibumbui dengan sedikit kejadian saling tunjuk antara fraksi Fakultas Hukum di Unitku) diriku terpilih untuk menjadi wakil lingkungan bagi Dusun Ngaglik, Desa Pager Harjo, Samigaluh, Kulon Progo (makin kesini lokasinya makin spesifik:D).

Mari memulai dongeng ini dengan menceritakan sedikit kronologis peristiwa hari ini dan juga hikmah-hikmah yang saya ambil dari tiap-tiap peristiwa tersebut...

Pertama, sebagai warga Indonesia yang setia menganut nilai-nilai kebudayaan dan kebiasaan masyarakat Indonesia, pelajaran yang saya petik hari ini adalah: Pikir dua kali kalo mau datang on-time...ato mungkin malah gak usah datang on-time. Berangkat dari rumah jam 10 pagi, pergi ke rumah pacar (namanya vicky) dulu (dia mau nemenin...lebih tepatnya dipaksa nemenin:D) bagi yang tau jarak dari rumahku ke rumahnya vicky, silahkan prihatin. Terus berangkat jam 11.30 ke UII Jakal....sekarang semua yang tau letak UII jakal silahkan prihatin... karena estimasi perjalanan sekitar 45 menit + God Knows What dan nyampe tepat jam 12.30 (jam dimulainya pembekalan sesuai jadwal resmi dari universitas). Sampe disitu...gak ada orang...

Mungkin disini saya yang bodoh karena melupakan bahwa orang Indonesia sering memasukkan faktor "ngaret" ke dalam jadwal acara (ini gak berlaku buat nonton di Bioskop). Kalo acara jam 2 ya jadwalnya jam 1...dengan begitu orang-orang akan datang jam 3....and guess what, panitia emang baru siap untuk mulai jam 3--" Tepat seperti yang terjadi tadi, jam 12.30 gak ada orang, jam 1 baru pada datang, sekitar jam setengah 2 baru mulai. Tapi gak papa lah...berdasarkan prinsip demokrasi yang dianut Negeri ini (yaitu sering melalui voting) maka yang banyak adalah yang benar, karena saya dan hanya segelintir orang yang on-time, maka saya salah.

Mulailah pembekalan penghijauan. Di kelas ditemukan beberapa penghuni fakultas hukum, beberapa teman dari fakultas lain, dan teman-teman yang baru kenalan on the spot. Lalu datanglah seorang bapak, trus dia mulai ceramah. Inti dari yang diomongkan adalah: Mahasiswa bakal dapat dua bibit pohon untuk ditanam, kalau tanamannya ancur, nilai KKNnya juga ancur. Aturan yang sederhana dan bodoh! Jadi universitas akan secara sepihak menyalahkan mahasiswa KKN apabila ada tanaman yang mati. Padahal tanaman, layaknya makhluk hidup lainnya, bisa mati gara- gara mereka kurang beruntung alias takdirnya aja. Banyak faktor yang bisa mempengaruhi kelangsungan hidup tanaman. Bisa saja karena faktor bibit itu sendiri yang memang lemah (atau kebetulan lemah...kalo ini mahasiswanya yang gak beruntung). Ato mungkin karena faktor-faktor eksternal seperti: Tanah jelek, Air susah, Air mudah (tapi beracun), pupuk jelek, Ternak bego, dan lain-lain. Walaupun nantinya kegagalan akan lebih disebabkan oleh mahasiswa bego dan ngasal, Universitas seharusnya tidak membuat aturan yang sangat berkesan menuduh seperti itu.

Beberapa hal lain yang disampaikan menurut saya hanya berupa pengalaman-pengalaman terdahulu dan pentingnya pemberdayaan masyarakat saat KKN, jadi agar mahasiwa memberikan pemahaman yang diperlukan oleh masyarakat supaya nantinya masyarakat yang kerja sendiri (dengan sedikit bantuan fisik dari mahasiswa). Berdasarkan cerita-cerita orang sih prakteknya gak pernah seperti ini....satu hal yang terpikirkan oleh saya adalah suatu solusi yang praktis, efisien, dan hemat biaya bagi masyarakat...hanya terlintas lho...jadi gak sempat diproses oleh otak kesayanganku (keep the brain clean :P)

Lalu...trus mana Penghijauannya?? kan sudah berselang sekitar 1 jam saat bapak itu tadi bicara....ternyata....Bapak itu tadi hanya memberikan pegantar....WTF!?

Munculah seorang bapak lagi...yang ternyata dari Dinas Kehutanan, meminta maaf karena keteledorannya mengiyakan janji mengisi pembekalan penghijauan padahal pada jam yang sama dia ada kondangan --". Alangkah malangnya nasib bapak kedua ini karena bapak yang pertama telah sukses menjemukan penonton. Bapak kedua menampilkan slide-slide powerpoint yang menurut saya gak penting. Secara keseluruhan, yang dibahas adalah masalah persentase jumlah hutan yang ideal suatu wilayah (yaitu 30% dari luas wilayah, dalam bentuk hutan negara), Definisi Hutan dan Pohon (menurut saya gak penting karena pohon itu ya yang seperti gambar diatas itu, dan kalo banyak pohonnya baru jadi hutan), ciri-ciri hutan (ya banyak pohonnya itu tadi), asal-usul hutan, dan hutan lindung. Baru sampai beberapa slide terakhir dimana orang-orang sudah mencapai titik puncak kebosanan fisik dan mental, beliau menampilkan tata cara menanam pohon dan kondisi-kondisi yang memungkinkan untuk penghijauan....ternyata tidak semua tempat bisa jadi paru-paru dunia...penghijauan sebaiknya dilakukan waktu musim hujan, bukan saat matahari lagi lucu-lucunya kaya' akhir-akhir ini. Juga ad apertimbangan luas lahan terbuka, ketersediaan bibit, dan tenaga kerja.

Sesungguhnya sangat sedikit yang bisa saya dapatkan hari ini, mungkin agak berbeda buat teman-teman yang nantinya ditempatkan di daerah Panggang. Bapak kedua tadi dengan antusias memberikan wejangan tentang keadaan di Panggang. Eksotisme wilayah pedesaan dengan segala mimpi buruknya...sebuah daerah yang penghijauannya harus dimulai dengan niat yang kuat, karena mungkin emang pol-polannya cuma bisa sampe niat doang :P.....

Mengenai tempat saya nanti, saya juga sedikit khawatir. Tema Lingkungan kali ini akan sangat cocok untuk ditemani dengan program penyuluhan tentang hukum lingkungan. Hukum yang beberapa pasalnya menyatakan kalo nebang pohon sembarangan itu bisa dipenjara. Padahal, di Samigaluh, mayoritas penduduknya berprofesi sebagai penebang kayu.....keliatannya bakal konyol nih....

Dan ternyata pembekalan tidak harus sesuai dengan prodi masing-msing mahasiswa..karena setelah bercerita dengan teman-teman yang lain, pembahasan di bidang lain banyak juga yang akhirnya off the topic....Demikianlah pembekalan hari ini berakhir, setelah memastikan diri bahwa nama sudah tercantum di absen, saya buru-buru meninggalkan lokasi karena sang penunggu tercinta juga sudah hampir mati kebosanan.

To be continued....tapi bukan besok soalnhya besok gak ngapa-ngapain^^ hooray^^

Cast Away (Part I): The Beginning

2009-07-04T08:02:00.000-07:00

Hi Folks!

As you all know, I'm a college student. And as a college student, I do everything that i have to do in order to get me out of college (by means of graduation of course). For Universitas Islam Indonesia student, it happens that there is this activity called KKN (Kuliah Kerja Nyata) in which student are obliged to take if they want to graduate.

The definiton of KKN itself, varies. If you asked The Old Dudes in the university ,which is the organizer of the whole program, they would say that KKN is a program in which UII Student would have to serve their community. Since in KKN student are being diseminated in villages or any remote areas, this definition is somehow...sad but true. However, the people in the village would see it differently. They would see KKN as a big help (in anyway they see what "help" is) or they would see it as something annoying. As for the UII Student, I believe that they still cannot exactly make a proper definition of what KKN is. Is KKN an obstacle or a challenge? is it something worth your 1 months or is it a waste of time? is it something fun or stupid? Confussion is normal since they're not there yet (at least I'm not there yet). Like it or not, this is something we have to do.

Now why the hell am I writing all this? It all started this morning. Today is the day when everything starts. We are not sent to the village yet, but some meetings were arranged so that we kinda get the idea of what's ahead of us. To make it simple, the village where I'm going to conduct the KKN is in Samigaluh, Kulonprogo, a mountainous area, 2 hours drive with motorcycle from jogja, people work as logger (based on the reports), lots of financial debt, thank God there's water and electricity, and the whole nine yards. That is my condition. KKN are divided in a lot of units (mine is 8), some enjoys better condition than me, and so unfortunate for those who will experienced worst condition. The whole point is that I will experienced something different for the next (averagely) 45 days. Meeting new friends, new society, in a new environment. It would be such a waste to let it all dissapeared when this program is over. I'm thinking that I would write down everything that I experienced everyday, writing down about everything that I see and my opinions for that particular moments. Will my KKN be fun? don't really especting that...but If KKN should be taken seriously and fun at the same time, then writing is the best way to do it.

I'll try to write this story everyday. Due to the lack of internet connection in the place where I'm heading, I will not be able to update the article everyday. I'll write it down in papers first (I hope that writing in papers is not considered as a sin by the local behaviour), and give updates as soon as I get my hands on internet connection. Depending on my mood,I'll write it down in English or Bahasa Indonesia. I will not write it in Hyrogliph because I don't have the font. The stamina of my eyes and fingers would also be a consideration on how much article that I'll post later on.

Will it be usefull? I believe so.

It would be a kind of Journal for me. It will help me track recording my activities there. FYI, KKN students are obliged to make reports in the end, this story will help me remember lots of things. I see some movie where the story reolving around someone's note, so if shit happens to me, this note could be turned into a movie :lol: .And to imagine if I manage to write one article everyday, it would be a 45 new articles on my blog^^

As for those who hasn't take the KKN, this story would serve as an image of what you will experienced. There is Regular and Extension type of KKN. I'm taking the Regular one. Lots of people see that this is the worst type that you can drag yourself into (damn, what am I thinking). It's faster than the extension type, but it is so much farther and you have to stay there for about 30 days. So the things that i write might be the worst case scenario which is perfect for the future preparation (I mean, if everything is perfect, how prepared it is that you need to be?) I really hope that my story be useful to such people.

For those comrades of mine, who is also taking the KKN now, you could compare my story and yours. Let's see who has better program (and luck). If it turns out that you are more lucky than me, feel free to pity me and laugh. But if it's the other way around, go laugh at yourself...KKN should be done in a fun way anyway^^

for the others...well, let's just see this as a story of mine:D

Dirgahayu Bhayangkara

2009-07-01T00:08:00.000-07:00

Mungkin kalau hari ini saya tidak meng-akses Kaskus.us, saya tidak akan tahu bahwa bapak-bapak dan ibu-ibu Polisi kita sedang berulah....eh, maksudnya berultah (yang ulang tahun profesinya, bukan individunya lho ya). Memang negara ini punya banyak hari-hari bernama, beberapa penting untuk diingat seperti Hari Kemerdekaan yang bertanggal merah, dan beberapa sangat tidak penting karena tidak libur.

Nah, apakah Hari Bhayangara ini penting? Pertama, karena hari ini tidak libur, jadi masuk kategori tidak penting sesuai definisi sebelumnya. Tapi tunggu dulu, suatu ulang tahun bisa menjadi sangat penting bagi pihak-pihak yang terafiliasi, dan sayangnya sebagai warga negara Indonesia, mau tidak mau saya memiliki afiliasi dengan Polisi. Maka dari itu harus dianggap penting (lagian mumpung saya ingat hari ini HUT Polri--")

Sebuah Ulang Tahun alangkah baiknya untuk dirayakan dengan melihat ke belakang, kepada hal-hal yang telah tercapai sebelumnya. Dan sewajarnya hal-hal yang baik terus ditingkatkan, yang jelek disembunyikan (seperti biasanya). Untuk HUT yang ini adalah HUT ke-63. Sudah selama itulah polisi melayani masyarakat. apakah kita merasa telah terlayani dengan baik? mungkin untuk beberapa masalah jawabannya "ya", sedangkan masalah-masalah lainnya jawabannya "ya...ya jelas enggak lah". Jadi apa saja sih yang membuat orang tidak pernah puas dengan kinerja polisi? bukankah mereka punya cerita sukses nembakin teroris? nangkapin pedagang narkotik? Melancarkan Lalu Lintas (walau sering kabur disaat situasi tidak terkendali)? ngerazia SIM? ngawal konvoi Harley? Polisi dan segala kompleksitasnya...itulah yang menurutsaya selalu membuat orang tidak puas....

Polisi adalah pekerjaan yang penuh tantangan, mereka adalah garis depan penegakan hukum di Indonesia. Artinya, mereka harus tahu hukum. Bukan cuma dasar-dasarnya tetapi juga segi praktisnya. Kesalahan di bidang hukum ini bisa-bisa membuat seorang penjahat lolos dari hukuman atau, yang lebih buruk lagi, orang tidak bersalah malah mendapat hukuman.

Polisi terkadang ditempatkan di posisi yang sulit. Hal ini menurut saya menyababkan kinerja mereka sedikit terganggu dan polisi tidak bisa sepenuhnya disalahkan (tandanya mereka tetap salah walaupun sedikit). Polisi sebagai penegak Undang-undang, haruslah patuh kepada Undang-undang tersebut. Masalahnya UU di Indonesia banyak yang kacau! Kenapa? Soalnya anggota DPR pada tidur! Kok bisa? Namanya juga Indonesia...nah, kekacauan hukum ini yang kadang membuat polisi bingung dengan wewenangnya. Mana yang jatahnya dia, jatahnya kejaksaan, KPK, Dishub, Hansip, sering jadi tidak jelas. Ahirnya melayanglah efisiensi kerja para polisi itu...salahnya polisi? belum tentu. Karena pihak lain juga tidak tau apa-apa saja jatah mereka.

Polisi juga ditempatkan di posisi yang rawan penyelewengan, baik oleh mafia peradilan maupun mafia kepolisian sendiri. Kadang penyidik di lapangan sudah beres dan bersih kerjanya, atasannya tiba-tiba dapat mobil baru. Kadang polisinya sudah bener semua, Jaksa atau Hakimnya sudah dapat mobil yang harusnya dikasih ke atasan polisi tadi. Atau mungkin semua sudah dapat mobil gratis, beda-beda tipenya berdasarkan pangkat dan "keemberan" masing-masing. Polisi bekerja dan menyandarkan keberhasilannya pada suatu sistem yang mana variabelnya berkaitan erat satu sama lain. Sistem inilah saudara-saudaraku sekalian yang seringkali terkontaminasi di bangsa ini...salahnya polisi? bisa ya bisa tidak.

Adakalanya juga polisi memperlakukan sesuatu dengan tidak sepantasnya...contohnya membuat SIM yang mudah (dengan cara membiarkan calo-calo berkeliaran bebas di kantor polisi) dan mempersulit warga yang mau melaporkan pencurian. Mereka kerap berperan sebagai pengatur daripada teman dari masyarakat. Dalam prakteknya Polisi sering berperan sebagai hakim di tempat untuk menyelesaikan perkara-perkara kecil. Dengan image yang tidak friendly masyarakat tidak akan menganggap mereka sebagai "pihak yang akan menolong menyelesaikan masalah", tetapi lebih sebagai "pihak yang kalau tidak diturutin malah lebih gawat urusannya". Hal ini penting mengingat kepercayaan publik sangat penting dalam sukses tidaknya kinerja Kepolisian. Kerjasama antara Polisi dengan seluruh pihak akan menjamin penegakan hukum yang lebih baik (walaupun kalau semua taat hukum, Polisi pada nganggur dan magabut kaya' di Singapura)

Dongeng saya di atas menunjukkan bahwa umur Polisi yang semakin tua, malah menimbulkan berbagai masalah yang harus mereka hadapi. Manusia selalu berkembang, apalagi penjahatnya. Dan sangat sulit memang untuk memiliki fleksibilitas agar bisa mengikuti perkembangan tersebut. Happy anniversary Cops Dude! Semoga makin tua makin bijaksana!

The Party...

2009-06-25T09:43:00.001-07:00

This is merely a result of "nothing-to-do-day"

the Green Frog is Ricky, The Brown Dog is Pierre. and Jun is the Pink Rabbit. I will post some individual review and photograph for each of them soon enough (if I remember:D)

enjoy:D

1:1 Gundam, and Those Crazy Japanese

2009-06-11T08:16:00.000-07:00

Now this is insane!

This is not a work of photo editing, this is the Real Deal! A 1:1 scale Gundam is almost open for public in Japan!

This probably shows how the Japanese is always a step ahead of us. I'll explain the "a step ahead of us" part later on, because now I wonder what are the reason behind them being so smart? maybe the double nukes that blown up in their neighborhood creates this brain mutation as well as motivation... Take a look at the example like in technology, economy, etc. By the time Smart Phone becomes a hype in our society, every Japanese people already have one, even those who are not so smart have a Smart Phone. That explain why the Japanese are not so excited about iPhone. When we are being ignored by Microsoft in selling their Xbox360, Microsoft go crazy buying lots of Playstation 3's exclusive titles just to increase their market in Japan. When our government officials are trying their best to avoid being put at fault or resigning from their position if they're indeed proven so, their government officials are already killing themselves (literally) when they have scandals.

When I ,as a Gundam enthusiast (and I believe it's not only me), am complaining that the prize of aGundam model-kit always increases, the Japanese built a 1:1 Gundam...They're like mocking at us! They build such majestic-jawdroping-nonsense if I may say. I mean, why do they build this 1:1 Gundam? It is definitely not for Bandai's market reason. Without this 1:1, Bandai still getting lots of money from the people that complains about the increasing prize of a model-kit. My best guess is that it is build for attracting people to come to some amusement park located there. My second best guess is, that it is for some lazy blogger have something to write on their blog...for that I thank the Japanese.

Maybe some nation have something their good at and something they're not good at. I take that as part of how human we are as well as how nations are. As for the comparison with the Japanese, well, at least we know how to cook fish, and they don't.

All photos are credits to this lucky guy who had the chance to see it live!

The Call of Duty

2009-05-23T07:10:00.000-07:00

The heart of the armed forces is its soldier. Can't have no soldier without recruitment. And the best way to recruit new soldier is by selling the armed forces through good advertisement. I get this idea after seeing U.S Navy's advertisement in a video game magazine.Sorry due to the low quality of the picture, but I'm gonna tell what's on the writing below the image of that machine. It says:

"Because bomb-sniffing does not work well underwater"

Then those tiny letters on the lower part of the picture says:

"It locates and destroys underwater mines at the command of an operator who's nowhere in the vicinity. And it's just one example of the cutting-edge technology you'll be able to get your hands on when you become a proud part of the U.S. Navy. To learn more, visit navy.com or call 1-800-USA-NAVY"

This is what I called good piece of advertisement. It delivers the message just right, it understands the target, packaged and placed in the proper media.

This advertisement is placed on a Video Game Magazine. As we all know, joining the Navy means that you are going to get your ass whoop the Rambo style. I heard stories that they will drown you to find out that you actually, well...drowned. Now people who played video games, as we can imagine with our wildest imagination, are hard to drag and trained with military 101 lesson. So you can't just put an advertisement saying "Join the Navy, and we'll train all day long!" or "Join the Navy, then you could only Play at your Station" or maybe "Join the Navy, and we'll drown you!". People who are addicted to video games are tends to be the one with high interest of technology. They want to try new toys, exciting things, but minus the training and drowning. So tell them to join the Navy. But isn't normal human brain will relate Navy with usual armed forces discipline and training? or worst, Pearl Harbor? Then don't tell those thing on the advertisement. Just like the advertisement above, tell those gamers that Navy is giving out new toys! Therefore the chance of those gamers pissing their pants even before they line up to get a military style haircut might be reduced (giving more stylish cut could also help them not to wet their pants actually).

Another piece of advertisement I founds on the internet is this:
Yup, don't need to tell you what's the writing there. I don't really know where is this advertisement is being put, but I think that it is perfect to be put in a store selling hiking/backpacking stuffs. You probably already see the big idea of this advertisement. It's to tell those adventure lover that by joining the Navy, instead of spending your money on travel cost, you'll get free adventure and getting paid as a soldier! It's basically an all win situation for you! And an all win situation is what everyone is looking for. Maybe an advertisement in a fishing equipment store would say that the Navy would lead you to great fishing spot all over the world.

In the Documentary movies made by Michael Moore, the Fahrenheit 9/11, it shows how the recruitment officer of U.S Navy tries to convince this dude who like music. The conversation goes very much like this:

Military Recruitment Officer aka Military Dude: Hey, wanna join the Navy?
Music Dude: emmmmm, I don't know
Military Dude: Well, what are the things that you like the most?
Music Dude: emm, music? playing bands...
Military Dude: oh, by joining the Navy, you can play in the Navy's band, you'll have concert all around the world! sound interesting?
Music Dude: I guess so...

So the Navy is suddenly become a place to conduct your hobby instead of defending your country. Not that it is something wrong though, because the Military Dude's main concern is how to get more people (sounds like a Multi-Level Marketing) in any means necessary allowed by the law. Is it working? well at least the music dude is guessing that Navy is indeed interesting.

Now let's see a recruitment pamphlet on from my country
Looks a bit boring...and I haven't seen any advertisement not the similar type as this one. Don't mind the requirements on the right side, its just the stiff looking people on the left side of the picture is creating this not fun atmosphere. the only good news of this advertisement is that it clearly states the free of charge registration.

I think that these day's recruitment advertising does not have to look so patriotic. Because each and every people already have their own definition of a patriot. Even George W. Bush claimed that he is a patriot. So blowing up issues on patriotism is somehow out of date. You have to make the Armed forces at least looks exciting. Therefore, instead of saying that you'll get your ass whoop Rambo style no matter what, the Navy say that it would be an adventure. Instead of saying that you might get your butt shot by Somalian Pirates, the Navy says that you'll get your hands on the latest technology. The Navy tells you that you'll sniff the underwater bomb, without saying that the bomb might sniff back at you (and boom!). It all comes down to which way recruits more people.

Revoltech: Suzuki

2009-04-30T21:43:00.000-07:00

Now it's time for me to introduce the only robot in doko demo issyo line-up. Please meet: Suzuki.Since doko demo issyo is dominated by cute animals, Suzuki seems to a bit lonely and attractive at same time. If every story gotta have a villain, probably it's his role. I like to set him up as the bad guy, chasing around the others with huge drill in both hands.I don't really know the history of Suzuki, but it appears that he has some sort of musical taste...talk about combining the rough and the soft side of him I guess...

For this Photo Session, I try out a new background color which is red mahogany, turns out to be a pretty nice one, but i still prefer the conventional black or white. The red mahogany background adds a touch of darkness feels towards the object. It fits for some figures, but I don't really know how it would look like in capturing cute figures (such as Spawn and Chucky:D)The square head of Suzuki can be turned in order to display different expression of him. It is far easier to change his face compare to the other Doko Demo Issyo that needs a snapping to cto do that (which sometimes is a pain in the armpit). The big square shape though, creates some difficulties to stand him up, it creates this unbalance proportion in him...but I have handled some revoltechs so it's not that much of a problem for me:D

Almost Broke

2009-04-27T15:42:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I did something which I called -in my normal state of consciousness- as : not so smart

Well, you see, I watched this movie called "Knowing". You can check out the review or the synopsis of this movie in many places, but certainly not here. The massage that I get from this movie is how the ability to know the future (especially the disastrous one) is so not cool. Despite the great special effects, explosion, storyline, this movie scared the shitload out of me. I don't really understand why...it's not a horror movie, it's just like any action thriller movies I previously watched.

Therefore, since I go to the Cinema for stress relieving purposes, after "Knowing" is over I decide to watch Disney's "Race to Witch Mountain", a movie about two Aliens and a cab driver (wait, that makes it three Aliens then). But again, you can check out the review and synopsis anywhere but here. Although it have some cool special effects too (movies these days....too dependable with special effects...not that I don't like it though),It's completely in a different class compare to "Knowing". Nevertheless, it was a stress relieving movie.

I went to buy a photo frame for my tanks before getting home. It's just then I realized that I have spent my every single valuable precious piece of paper called money, which mean that I have to survive with no cash until I don't know when.

It's not a problem anymore though! Since today I just received some payment from some work that I've done. Lessons learned that:

1. I have to make sure the amount of money in my wallet, and try not to neglect the fact that there are only few of it;
2. Just because I am a bit stressed after watching a movie about the end of everything (whoops, almost spoil the whole story there :D), it doesn't mean that I have to watch a Disney Movie to balance it (try Dreamwork's instead);
3. It's not wise to watch two movies at the same day! It suck out my money too fast! Better use a Debit Card so I don't feel a thing!
4. Make sure that X-men Origins is not gonna premiere soon! I really want to watch this movie, looking back at my condition yesterday, I almost end up watching only the poster instead of the actual movie;

Analisis Pasca Pemilu

2009-04-21T08:28:00.000-07:00

Sebenarnya sudah agak lama terbersit niatan untuk menulis tentang hal ini. Namun dikarenakan perlunya observasi mendalam, saya memutuskan untuk menungu sejenak.

ya sodara-sodara, kali ini saya akan menulis tentang para Caleg kita yang menderita stress setelah pemilu. Observasi yang disebut diatas sebenarnya hanya untuk memastikan bahwa para Caleg yang kehilangan akal sehat mencapai angka yang lebih dari satu. Ternyata benar, ada di sini, terus di sini, emmm...nah ini ketemu satu lagi. Entah berita itu benar ato salah, yang jelas memang ada tendensi kegilaan yang dapat menimpa para caleg tersebut.

Setelah saya amati dengan seksama (layaknya mengamati gambar-gambar "serupa tapi tak sama") kegilaan Caleg bisa dibagi dalam beberapa kategori:

1. Gila emosional: mereka yang kalah lalu memaki-maki dan menyalahkan KPU, pemilih,DPT, caleg lain, bilik suara, kertas suara, Hansip, tinta pemilu, starbucks, pokoknya semua selain dirinya sendiri. Jika bertemu yang seperti ini dicuekin aja, mereka cuma cari perhatian menurut saya.

2.Gila tak bermoral: mereka yang kalah lalu tidak bersedia memberikan uang yang dijanjikan kepada masyarakat (money politics pada dasarnya sudah kotor, jadi sebaiknya dilakukan penuh itikad baik, kejujuran, dan integritas tinggi untuk mengurangi kekotorannya), atau mungkin merampas barang-barang yang pernah diberikan saat kampanye seperti TV, karpet, dll. Mereka ini menjadi rela untuk membuang harga dirinya karena kekalahan, dan tega untuk mempermainkan rakyat kecil...menurut saya yang seperti itu sama saja dengan orang gila.

3.Gila beneran: keliatannya yang seperti ini sudah cukup jelas. Mungkin karena terlalu banyak tekanan dan utang mereka jadi seperti ini...kasihan...

4.Gila tapi kepilih: Percaya atau tidak, yang seperti ini juga ada lho :D

Berbagai cara dilakukan berbagai pihak untuk mengantisipasi amukan caleg-caleg gila ini (waduh! serem amat). Salah satunya seperti yang dilakukan oleh Rumah Sakit Jiwa Marzoedi Mahdi di Bogor, mereka menyediakan kamar VIP bagi para mantan caleg yang kurang beruntung ini, walaupun sebenarnya mereka yang mengalami gangguan jiwa tidak begitu ahli dalam membedakan mana ruang yang VIP dan mana yang bukan. Lalu melihat latar belakang para mantan caleg yang menggila ini karena faktor keuangan, menurut saya charge untuk ruang VIP akan menjadi tidak terjangkau bagi keluarganya (kecuali kalau mereka superkaya...tapi kalo superkaya kok masih bisa gila ya?)

Kita sebagai masyarakat juga harus mengantisipasi munculnya mantan caleg gila tak bermoral seperti nomor 2 diatas. Mungkin ini untuk pembelajaran bagi pemilu-pemilu di masa datang, baik itu milih presiden, caleg, gubernur, kades, dsb. Antisipasinya berupa:

1. Jika mereka memberikan suatu barang saat masa kampanye, ada baiknya penyerahan tersebut dituangkan dalam perjanjian. Inti perjanjiannya adalah si caleg/kandidat ini tidak berhak untuk mengambil kembali barang yang telah diberikan dalam situasi dan kondisi apapun, tandatangan siatas materai (Rp 6000, itung-itung modal lah:D... kalo barangnya lebih murah dari Rp 6000, suruh calegnya yang beli materai!).

2.Jika tidak ada perjanjian seperti diatas, jangan menerima barang-barang yang bisa habis atau sulit dikembalikan. Misalnya diberi celana dalam, akan sangat sulit jika celana dalam itu sedang kita pakai, eh, ketemu sama calegnya, dia minta deh celana dalam pemberiannya itu (yang sedang kita pake). Atau dikasih durian (waktu itu lagi musim durian) kan langsung dimakan dong! nah swaktu calegnya kalah, dia minta duriannya dikembaliin, padahal musim duriannya sudah lewat, bau duriannya aja dah gak ada, lagi-lagi kita yang direpotkan. Selektiflah dalam memilih caleg khususnya dalam memilih pemberiannya (makin lama makin ngaco nih tulisan).

sebelum tambah hancur lagi, saya ingin buru-buru melompat ke kesimpulan saja. Erat kaitannya fenomena ini dengan faktor keuangan sang mantan caleg yang menjadi amburadul karena kekalahan di Pemilu. Betapa disayangkannya hal ini, karena ini menunjukkan bahwa kampanye yang berlangsung tahun ini masih material-sentris (ada gak ya istilah begini?) artinya caleg berusaha memikat hati calon pemilih menggunakan iming-iming barang atau uang. Kampanye untuk menjadi anggota legislatif itu pun dilakukan tanpa keikhlasan. Orang -orang seperti ini yang nantinya saat terpilih akan mengabdikan awal masa jabatannya untuk mengembalikan modal kampanye, baru setelah itu (kalau masih ingat) berjuang (kalau sempat) untuk (kalau bisa tidak usah) rakyat. Atau mungkin rakyat Indonesia memang cuma bisa dipikat oleh barang dan uang? Bisa saja, dan kalu anda memang rakyat yang seperti itu, semoga tips yang saya berikan diatas bisa bermanfaat.

Revoltech: Tetsujin 28

2009-03-19T08:33:00.000-07:00

Just recently I take some picture of my action figure. It's Revoltech's Tetsujin 28.

Tetsujin is a legend. Created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama in 1956, several TV adaptation has been made, including the US version called Gigantor. Tetsujin was also mentioned in Urasawa Naoki's 20th Century Boys, where the main character imitate tetsujin as his robot drawing in the year of 1960. Shows how Tetsujin gives much influence in the past as well as the present.At first, Tetsujin was build for military purpose. Things happen, didn't really goes according to plan, then Tetsujin ends up as a civillian robot. The number "28" shows that the construction of the robot has failed 27 times, and finally completed in its 28 attempt. It is remote-controlled, three stories high, and piloted by Shotaro Kaneda.
I really like the classic feel of Tetsujin! its rounded shape, memorable nose, jetpack, simple, clean, and looks strong at the same time! it's eyes show determination, warmness, and kindness. You can call it a robot with a stereotype protagonist style, or you can also call it having all aspect that a hero should have!
As for the action figure, it range from statues to gasaphon, from static figures to movable ones, from more then 30 cm to less than 7. I myself, choose the ones come from revoltech. It is equipped with some changeable Tetsujin's hand, alternative head (one with yelow eye and the other with red), jetpack flame, torn-up elbow, and a stand base. Very photogenic but the shape makes it imbalance and hard to pose. I really like this action figure, from the scale 1 to 10 i'll give Tetsujin a 9.5 (pardon my subjectivity of course :D)

for more pictures please visit my flickr

Beneran Pocong

2009-03-05T18:28:00.000-08:00

Anggota Keluarga Besar Perpocongan Indonesia bertambah lagi!!!

Ya, The Real Pocong yang gentayangan sejak 5 Maret 2009 ini secara tidak langsung mengklaim bahwa pocong 2 dan 3 itu palsu semua!

Mungkin sambil mengikuti euforia pemilu 2009, pocong yang ini seolah-olah mengkampanyekan dirinya "heh, aku pocong yang asli lho! gak kaya' pocong-pocong yang lain! pilih saya sebagai caleg 2009 yaa!"

kok pada gak bosen-bosen ya bikin film beginian...

Revoltech: Kuro

2009-03-02T05:50:00.000-08:00

Another Doko Demo Issyo

He is more of a "Black Toro"

This is a Limited Edition Figure by the way :D

I really enjoy taking pictures of Kuro.

He is somehow more photogenic than me...haha!

Solusi untuk Ponari

2009-02-22T05:06:00.000-08:00

Berita tentang dukun cilik ini mungkin udah agak basi ya...

Sekedar untuk me-refresh ingatan kita semua, Ponari dipercaya dapat menyembuhkan berbagai macam penyakit dengan cara mencelupkan batu ajaib ke dalam air.

Seperti yang dapat diliat pada gambar di bawah ini, Ponari sampai harus dipengangi tagannya oleh orang lain saking lemasnya. Wajar sih kalo ngeliat jumlah orang yang datang ke dia.

Padahal kalo memang mau efisien, Ponari tinggal nyari kolam renang terdekat, celupin batunya di kolam renang, trus orang disuruh antri buat ngambil air kolam renang itu. Pasien tinggal bayar Rp 6.000,- untuk biaya masuk ke kolam renang (masih jauh lebih murah daripada ke dokter), trus Ponari gak perlu capek-capek nyelupin batu tiap menit, cukup sehari sekali, dan itu bisa dilakukan sepulang sekolah! Dengan demikian calon pasien senang dan Ponari bisa melanjutkan proses untuk mencapai cita-citanya (yang saya yakin bukan untuk menjadi dukun).

gambar diambil dari sini

My First Gundam

2009-02-20T06:48:00.000-08:00

I've finally finished building my first Gundam Kits!This is a High Grade(HG) 1/144 Gundam G-Savior -Space Mode-. Since I'm not a very big fan of the anime (yet), so I can't really describe the history of this Kit. I don't really need to see the anime to admit that this is one hell of a badass robot and I build it basically because I enjoy doing it.

Gundam Model Kits have two ways of execution, by painting (and sometimes customizing) it or no paint at all. It is one advantage of Gundam model kits. Since the Kit itself has already colored by Bandai (even though with a pretty lame colors), simply by assembling it then the Kit is ready for display.As for this one, I already taking it to next level (for my standards of course). It has been re-painted with an airbrush, apply some water-slide decals, and some lining with 0.05 marker tip. It was a pretty expensive and tiring process, but it really give this whole feeling of satisfaction!This Kit is given to me by my girlfriend:D it was about two years ago (if she did not do that then I assume that I will never like model-kits). At first, I was only doing the assembly without any paint. Time goes by, I need more challenge and my dad gives me an airbrush set. Since then, there's nothing that hold me from re-building it!

Even though it is still far from perfect, everyone can see that the builder is a complete rookie, this kit will be the one that I'll always remember.

Naruto Gabung PKS!??

2009-02-18T23:40:00.000-08:00

Kampanye Caleg di Indonesia memeang meriah sekali! banyak yang biasa-biasa saja, dan sering kali ada yang ngawur juga. Tadi saya menemukan gambar ini saat browsing internet.
Boleh sih dibilang kreatif...tapi saya kok yakin kalo Bapak Drh. Nonot Suhartono memakai gambar Naruto tanpa seizin Masashi Kishimoto yah?? trus gambar naruto-nya kok lebih mendominasi dibanding foto calegnya:D

saya dapat gambarnya dari situs asing lho!

(Lagi-lagi) Aliran Sesat

2009-02-13T05:14:00.000-08:00

Saya barusan ngeliat artikel disini

Akhir-akhir ini bikin aliran sesat makin banyak aja, entah baru ketauan ato emang baru dibikin. Mungkin jumlah aliran sesat di indonesia lebih banyak dibanding dengan kesuksesan pemerintah sekarang. Aliran-aliran tersebut juga menawarkan ajaran yang makin aneh dari hari ke hari. Tapi yang kepikiran ama saya itu kok ya ada aja orang yg masuk aliran begini yah?

Seandainya saya gabung ama aliran sesat seperti link diatas, keliatnnya saya gak bakal masuk surga...lha duit tabungan aja gak sampe 7 digit....

menyedihkan...

Revoltech: Toro

2009-02-11T06:19:00.000-08:00

Toro is one of my favorite figure!
He comes from the Revoltech line-ups!
Revoltech is a figure line-up coming from Kaiyodo Company. The fun part of revoltech is the moveable joint that gives us a wide range of pose for the figure. They come with lots of accesories, not so expensive price, and tons of characters! I myself have a lot of revoltech in my collection, and still thinking of adding some more.

For this Revoltech, his name is Inoue Toro! He is from the Doko Demo Issyo (DDI) series of Revoltech. It took me awhile to find out that he is a game character. I don't play the game since it's only available in japanese. It's basically the figure itself that attract me to buy it.

There are three changeable faces for Toro (kinda reminds me of Nendoroids). Each face really captures the expression and emotion of Toro. There are no other accessories included (maybe it's due to the fact that Toro is the first character from DDI) but we can use the other character's accessories.

Menuju Negara Anarkis

2009-02-03T22:02:00.000-08:00

Kemarin (3 Februari 2009) terjadi aksi demonstrasi tentang pembentukan Propinsi Tapanuli. Akan tapi yang menjadi highlight bukanlah penyampaian visi & misi para demonstran tersebut, melainkan tewasnya Ketua DPRD Sumut karena tindakan massa.

Anarkisme dalam pelaksanaan proses demokrasi kita memeang sudah bukan hal baru. Kurang lengkap rasanya kalo demonstrasi gak ada dorong-dorongan ama petugas, mbakar ban, lempar-lemparan batu, dsb. Inilah demokrasi ala indonesiaJadi ingat kuliah dosen sosiologi hukum saya dulu (kuliahnya baru selesai bulan yang lalu jadi masih inget:D). Beliau bilang kalo demokrasi, tirani, oligarki, dkk itu merupakan suatu siklus. Sebuah negara demokrasi bila lepas kendali akan berubah menjadi negara anarkis (mungkin kita lagi mengarah ke situ kali ya??), dan kalo udah anarkis, dibutuhkan seoraang Tiran untuk menstabilkan keadaan...

jadi kalo demonstrasi-demonstrasi 2 bulan kedepan selalu makan korban kaya' gini, besok pas pemilu pilihlah pemimpin yang Tiran....itu kalo orang bego ngambil kesimpulan:D

Tapi jika keadaan anarkis seperti ini terus berlangsung -atau memburuk-, kemunculan tirani sangatlah mungkin.

Machiavelli pernah berkata,
"Here a question arises: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.... Men are less concerned about offending someone they have cause to love than someone they have cause to fear."

Anarkisme menunjukkan tidak adanya rasa hormat dan saling mencintai, sehingga akhirnya hanya bisa dikontrol oleh rasa takut...

kok ini blog jadi serius ya?

berita tewasnya Ketua DPRD Sumut bisa diakses disini

The Wings of Redemption

2009-02-02T17:36:00.000-08:00

This is my next attempt on taking pictures of my figures.
Still using the same camera, but now the background is my room's wall. I thought that a piece of paper would look too "clean" for this figures.

The model for this session is Spawn: Wings of Redemption II. It's a statue from Todd McFarlane Toys. Todd McFarlane is an artist who invent and sculpt this product.

Todd McFarlane does not only make Spawn Statues though , he also make Dragon (it's very cool I think), video game characters and movie characters figure. There are also statue of an athlete (damn, this guy is all over the place..).

But personally, I think that Spawn is the coolest line-up from McFarlane...and perhaps I'm not the only one who feel that way, because Spawn is the best seller among the other.

Spawn is a comic book character. The author is McFarlane himself -why am I not surprised-. Usually, McfFrlane releases two series in a year. This one in the picture is coming from the Spawn Classic Series.

Spawn Classic Series is the re-issue of the previous Spawn Statues. This one is The Wings of Redemption II aka. WOR II. the predecessor is of course, -except if you're bloody dumb in math- The Wings of Redemption.

It only takes about two years to make this figure becomes rare and expensive. Similar case happen to the WOR, which right now is very expensive and hard to find.

So, the next time there is a new release, get it before it gets rare...but make sure you got the money first...

Palindrome

2009-02-02T04:00:00.000-08:00

racecar, rotor, level, civic, madam

See any similarity between those words?

These words can be read the same way in either direction. It's called Palindrome.
Not only words, but phrases, numbers, and unit could also be a palindrome.
for example: 12321, step on no pets, dammit i'm mad, etc.

Hey, there are indonesian palindromes too!
kasak, kusuk, kasur rusak, etc. (I think Indonesian Palindromes are harder to find...)

I don't really think that this is an important matter, but it's just that even the things which we considered as unimportant sometimes have a name (and a cool one too). So it means that there are people out there thinking that palindrome are something worth to think.

...right now i'm still thinking what are the other indonesian palindromes...

Nendoroid L

2009-02-01T08:45:00.000-08:00

One of the things that I love to do is collecting figures.

I really think that this hobby comes in one package with photography, because I don't wanna end up acquiring figures today, and already forget about it in the next day...
So here is my first step on taking my hobby to the next level.

I start off with a very ordinary mini photo studio, perfect for the poor and amateur photographer wannabe. Using a Fujifilm Finepix E510, a large paper for a background, and a flashlight with tissue to soften the lightning...o, by the way, I use books instead of tripod, and use my hand to hold the light.

The result is Nendoroid L

Nendoroids are figure line-up from Good Smile Company. They specialize on making chibi form of anime/manga character. It Comes with three changeable faces and some accesories. Nendoroids are pretty expensive and rare sometimes, but the uniqueness and cuteness makes it hard to resist.As for this character, he is L. The main character of "Death Note". He is a genius detective, with the intuition that could make Detective Conan pee in his pants. the gloomy attitude, the way he sits on chair, or how he hold cell phones is something that the Death Note fans would always remember.

an Introduction...

2009-01-24T10:03:00.000-08:00

Hi, welcome to my blog.

Usually people introduce themselves when they meet each other. Since this is the internet, and I don't actually meet the people who read this, so introduction is not necessary.

But considering the fact that I cannot come up with a better writing than an introduction, so it does become necessary -I get confused by now-.

Well, before the confusion starts to get me asleep, I'll tell the reason why this blog exist. The reason is because I wanna to, and I can. This is going to be a place where I write most of the things that are burdening my brain capacity. It evolves around anything that gets attention. It is justified because it's a Junk Yard anyway.

enjoy your visit!