Rabu, 13 Januari 2016

Smartphones Era



"Mobile phones have made life worse, not better."

            Mobile phones or gadgets are one of many modern technology that people have nowadays. It comes with a various shape, size, color, function, feature, and of course, price. Some people use their phones for texting and calling, while the others use it for their daily activities and their lifestyle. Nowadays, it seems that almost everyone including old people, kids, and even poor people have at least one. Well this is reasonable because now there are many cheap phones from a famous brand, and many expensive phones too but with more feature and better design. But, having a phone as one of the lifestyle nowadays make many people think that mobile phones / smarphones / gadget are not good for their life, many people thinks it was better when phones is not as importance as nowadays. People addicted to it, spend more money from it, waste a lot of times in front of their phones. But, is smartphones really that bad? Are there only a few good things comes from this revolution of technology?
            Well I admit that we spend more time with our gadgets rather than go outside and socialize with others and these phones makes us “addicted”. But, we can use these phones for socialize without even meeting face to face, I mean isn’t that better than have to travel a long way just to meet somebody? Or have go to nearby payphone and pay some money just too call a friends for only 5 minutes? This technology make people from far away closer to us, it really easy to communicate now, we can talk to people from anothers country, we can send a message without going to mailpost. It’s a good thing. But does it takes away our social life? I don’t think so, there are few people that really “addicted” with smartphones and refuse to go outside, I personally use my phones to keep in touch with my friends, we make a plan about hanging out together via our smartphones. I think it’s better than not having any phones, we can still have our social live with the help of this advanced technology.
            Do we spend more money in this smartphones era? Yes of course, these smartphones are really expensive and not worth the money, if you CHOOSE the expensive one. I mean, these phones are expensive because of reason, branding, cool design, durable hardware, HD screen, high memory and RAM, High Resolution Camera, and of course many feature (microsoft office, movie maker, photo editor, web remote desktop, and many more), and of course people will think it’s expensive if they don’t understand what makes them expensive, or because they don’t use any feature from those smartphones. The most expensive phone now is around 6-7 millions IDR with a lot of feature and function, and these feature is not meant for everyone. So, if you use your phones only for websurfing, calling, and texting, of course spending that amount of money is just wasting your money. Just like me for example, my phone is around 3 million, and i bought it in the second condition, why? I think that phone is enough for me, it has enough battery duration, memory, and feature. Because I only use my phone only for Flash Drive, read an E-Book, Email, texting, web surfing, phone calls, and some application that help me with my daily activities such as Reminder, Alarm, universal remote. So, what I trying to say is, there are no expensive phones, you just have to choose it wisely, if you don’t need those 7 millions worth feature, then just pick anything else. There are many really cheap phones from a famous brand (Microsoft and Samsung), with only around 1-2 million you can have your own smartphones.
            So, Mobile phones or gadgets, are really useful, it’s one of the best innovation of all the time, almost anything can be done with the help of gadget (and internet). So, spending some of your money for this cool stuffs is not really bad. So, the addiction, the bad effects, or anything bad comes from gadgets are mostly our faults, this tech are made for us, by ourselves. We just have to use it wisely and it will become the most helpful technology with a lot of function. Then, from all the words I wrote above, you can assume that I really disagree with the “Mobile phones make our lives worse” statement. I’m really grateful that I live in this mobile phones era, which anything can be done easier with modern technology, especially Smartphones and the internet. But it doesn't mean this generation is lazy, we just able to develop and use technology better.

Great Time in Sukapura Village

Wassup guys? Not long ago, we just comeback from Sukapura Village for our schools annual event : Bakti Desa. So, it’s about trying to live a life in the village as the villagers. All of 11th graders were sent to Sukapura to attend this event.
Before we went there, the students are divided into several groups with 4-5 person for each group, and I groups with Auzan, Rian, Adit and Ihsan, each group will stay in one family house. We were sent there for 4 days and supposed to help and join our family members doing their daily activities.

The First Day

We were gathered at school in the morning and went there by truck. Of course the truck is really crowded because of ourselves and our stuffs. The trip was quite boring (bcuz of traffic jam) and uncomfortable for me because of the crowd. But once we arrived there, I felt satisfied because the fresh air and nice views. Then we gathered in the Village Hall to have lunch and proceed to go their own family house. We didn’t do much on the first day because we just supposed take a rest, meet our family, and looking around the village. By the way, the head of our family is Mr. Adeng.
Oh right, in the evening, my group along with others group went to some farms with a great views and took some photo there.

The Second Day

On the second day, we were supposed to follow and help our family to do their job/duties (Farming). But unfortunately, our family took a day off on that day, so we didn’t have any job to do than washing the dishes. But later on, our friends from different house/family invited us to join and help them farming. So, rather than being such a lazy bum, we decided to join them.
We were asked to clean the farm by taking out the weeds/wild grass from the soil. It is really exhausting, because we had to work in the afternoon in the middle of the field/farm below the sun, and with worked with a hunchback position. We stopped before we finish taking out all the wild grass because we were supposed to take a bath for Jumaah, so we just say thanks and sorry for leaving early.
After praying and having a lunch with our family, we supposed to help our family again, but we still didn’t have anything to do beside doing the dishes because our family is taking a break from doing any job. So me and my groups went to others group house, we intended to help their family with their job, but we ended up having a meal, drank a coffee, and chilling because it’s raining outside.
Later in the evening, after the rain stopped, we decided to take a walk around the village but we ended up going to the nearby mountain. It’s really tiring of course, because the track and my slippery sandals, but we made it and took a photo there. But because it was almost sunset, we couldn’t enjoy the views for too long because we had to go our house.
I think that’s all for that day, we didn’t do much because our families day off. We just chilling, dinner, and resting for the rest of the day.

The Third Day

This was supposed to be our last day doing activities with our family because we will continue the event by camping in the nearby soccer field.
In the morning, there are some kind of health service in the village hall from my school (it’s part of the event), so our parents went there and the students getting prepared for distributing a groceries for the villagers.
After that, all the students were gathered in the soccer field to do the next event : Camping. I really didn’t want to, because think it’s unnecessary and pointless (seriously, what’s the point of camping only a few meters from the village?). There were no camping ever mentioned before, we just told to camping a few days before we go here.
But lucky me and my friends, the camping is canceled due the rain and the fog. We were asked to stay the night in our own house once more, so we did. We didn’t have anything to do after because the schedule is messed up.
In the night, our class decided to fill the boredom by gathering us for gathering night in Thalitas House. Of course we’re up for that, it’s really hard for our class to gathering together, I was really glad and excited for this gathering, even though in the end, some of our classmate wasn’t there for some reason. We had a dinner together that night, have a chit chat, sharing our thought of each other, sharing stories, playing truth or dare and many more. We stayed up til’ the next day, we just took a nap for a few hours.

The Fourth Day

This is the day we went home, our real home. We woke up in the morning, took a bath, packed, and say goodbye to our family. We took some photo with them before we leave. Then we went to the Hall and finally went to our school by truck again. And this event is officially over.
That’s all for this year Bakti Desa. We really had a good time there, good memories, great views, great experience, especially our class gathering night. I really hope we will have a similar gathering again soon.
Thanks for reading, I think i write too much for this post.


Bye.

Babi Ngesot

                How is it going guys? Let’s talk about books. Even though i don’t read much book or novel (actually never did), but the first book I’d ever read (others than comic) is “Babi Ngesot”, yeah I know, it’s not even a novel, it just a Comedy, Personal Literature book by Raditya Dika, a famous blogger (before the fame), writer, and now a comedian, actor, and a producer.
Babi Ngesot is the 4th book by Raditya Dika which contain a comedy based of Dikas life. So it just basically something that happened to him, but he wrote it and make it more funny to entertain the readers.  There are 18 stories of his life in this book and I find all of them funny, that’s why I like to read this book (and his others books), even though I’m not into reading books.
There are a lot funny stories, such as his experience being bullied as a junior in his highschool, sleep paralysis, having a boil (Bisul) in the armpit, attempt to cure his possessed maid, first-blind date that goes wrong, and many more. Of course, those stories is well written and really funny, even the one about sleep paralysis, which supposed to be creepy (it kinda does actually).
Because I can’t write a summary of all the stories, so I’m just gonna write my favorite part from my favorite story : Java Cats. But of course, it won’t be that funny because I just retell it with my own words and in English. SPOILER AHEAD.
So, Java Cats is radits band when he was studying at Adelaide. It mostly tells about he gathered his band, they practiced together, and they sent their demo record to Sydney for Band Audition. Unexpectedly, their “Bengawan Solo” record is accepted and they can advance to the next round, which is to play on the stage in front of the judges in Sydney.
My favorite part is when they discussed about costume to wear on the stage seriously, and then Radit said “Let’s wear a Food Costume! Cesar and i gonna wear a bread costume, Darius wear a lettuce costume, and Gideon should wear a BANANA Costume. Then, in the end of our performance, we hug each other and we make a Sandwich!!”. Then his friend lose his patience and said “Well first of all, we’re discussing costumes seriously. Second, THERE ARE NO SUCH THING AS BANANA SANDWICH, DUMBASS!”
That was my favorite part and story. Come to think about it, it doesn’t sound so funny anymore because I wrote it. Well then you should read it yourself to make it funny.
So, in my opinion, this book is really funny and entertaining to read. But there are some jokes that overused in many part and it make those jokes less funny. But I doesn’t make the overall book any bad or unfunny, I still love this book as well as Radits others books. So I think it’s a good book/series for people that prefer light and funny material than the story-focused one, just like me.
So that’s all for today, i think I shoudn’t pick this book for this blog because it’s not a novel, but this is the only book I read and I can’t read a book that have pages as many as a Dictionary. So I can’t help but choose this book. But It’s worth to read ! I hope you have a good time reading this book (if you will).
Bye.