One Versus Two Equals Three

As I have mentioned some time ago, I am an Indonesian (never forget the half-Asgardian guys, my daddy is Thor). Back on July 9th 2014 we had an election for the next president of Indonesia. There were 2 candidates running to be the president and vice president. Candidate number one was Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa whilst the candidate number two was Joko Widodo and Jusuf Kalla. 

Candidate number 1

Candidate number 2

If you live in Indonesia it would be a lie if you say that you can't feel a 'war' happen BECAUSE SOMETHING LIKE A WAR HAPPENED. Well not literally though. The supporters of Prabowo and Jokowi were showing their excitement and support for their politic idols. 

I could definitely see how Jokowi supporters wouldn't stop tweeting about how awesome Jokowi is and how terrible Prabowo is. However Prabowo's supporters didn't give the same reaction. They give their support for Prabowo, obviously, but I hardly saw any of them making fun of Jokowi.

I have an opinion about this election. Well actually I have tons of opinions about this but let's just see how many of my opinions actually make it to this post.

Both parties have their strength and weakness of course. Both Jokowi and Jusuf Kalla own countless of noble achievements. Jokowi, a man from Solo, has improved his hometown into a better place when he became the mayor of Solo. Jusuf Kalla helped a lot of Indonesian citizens during the tsunami back in 2006. Jusuf Kalla has done so many I didn't even know where to begin so I'm just gonna leave it at: He's a great man.

But let's not forget about Prabowo. There is no doubt that he is a powerful man. Oh very powerful. I even heard that even the toughest country's president is afraid of him. I don't know. A lot of people seemed to despise him THAT much. Some people may actually forget that he also had done so many noble things for Indonesia.

What I like about Prabowo is that he is a loyal citizen. His loyalty for Indonesia is without a doubt authentic. However to be honest, I do not like the people behind him. Also, I feel reaaaaaally bad for Prabowo. All he wants is to give the best for his country but it seems like his surroundings are either his haters or people who pretend to support him just because they want to be a part of the government. 

After the election that was held on July 9th, we had to wait until July 22nd to get the official result from KPU (Komisi Pemilihan Umum aka the committee who always take care of the voting and all that jazz). Between July 9th and July 22nd, televisions couldn't shut up about the election. It's basically all they talk about besides the plane crash of Malaysian Airlines MH17 (may God bless the victims' souls and their families) and the Gaza bombing (may God bless their souls as well).

Anyway, the media kept yapping about the election. Even some TV channels were biased towards a certain candidate. 

I did make a decision on July 9th. I chose a candidate that I wouldn't mention here. I didn't really tell anyone about it. I just think, "Why should I tell anyone about it anyway?" It is my choice and I had a deliberation with my brain even until the election paper was already in front of me. Until now I'm still not quite satisfied with my choice because I wish I could have voted for both because I do like both parties.

If Jokowi and Prabowo were in the same party, I would definitely voted for that one. 

I have so many things to say here but it would be very long so I decided to stop here. 

Since Jokowi and Jusuf Kalla were declared winners, I would like to say congratulations. I truly hope they can improve Indonesia for this next 5 years.

Disappointment

Before any of you judge me with any comments or whatever, I just want to emphasise that I'm a human (actually, half-Asgardian) and I have feelings. Some of you who actually take the time to read this post might think I'm an ungrateful girl and the next 10 year version of me might even think I'm being ungrateful, but I really need to express a feeling right now; disappointment. Oh and sad too.

Actually these feelings has left my heart yesterday night. In fact, right now I'm currently listening to Michael Jackson's Love Never Felt So Good featuring Justin Timberlake. A song never sound so good omG. 

But anyway, yeah. I was very disappointed and sad. You see I applied for university in several state universities. I applied through SNMPTN, SBMPTN, and SIMAK for University of Indonesia. I studied really hard for the tests except SNMPTN since it's direct admission.

I joined the intensive class for these tests preparation for like one and a half month. Full time! From 1 PM to 5 PM. I even studied at home, again, because I really need to master it. Okay, maybe not as hard as some other students and I do take a lot of breaks as well but it's not like I didn't study at all! 

I always came to class. Maybe not 100% attendance but I dare to say that my attendance is 90%. My try outs score didn't turn out to be that bad! I was a science student during high school (I still kind of regret the fact that I chose science pathway but the past is the past) thus always being in the top 10 for social science is not bad at all. Believe me, I am grateful for that.

However it turned out that I didn't pass the tests. Any of the three I just mentioned. Since I still wanted to go to state universities, I went to Malang and Surabaya with my dad. I signed up for 2 other state universities.

This time I didn't study as hard as I did for the previous tests, but I still study a little bit. During the test, I actually felt like I nailed it. I thought maybe I had a chance. However God has another plan for me. 

I was so disappointed because some of my friends who didn't even study as hard as I did, passed the tests. What I also hate is that some people kept trying to cheer me up by being wise and said, "Don't be sad! God has the best plan for you!" 

Yes, I know that God will always have the plans for me. Always. But the more you say 'Don't be sad', the more I get sad. I really really want to study in state university. I want to know how it feels like to go to a state institution since I'm always a private school girl. 

I also want to make my parents proud. Many of my parents' nieces and nephews went and still go to state universities. I want to make them proud by getting in to state universities as well. Apparently God has a better plan for me in a private university.

Now I have completely moved on from it. I am happy to say that I am a private university's student. I am very proud to say that I am a university student. I am also proud to say that I am a student at Pelita Harapan University. I thank them for accepting me. I hope I will make great memories there!

And I thank my parents for not demanding too much from me. I'm glad that they are very supportive and wherever I go they seem to be okay with it.

:)

P.S. The announcement for SBMPTN was exactly on my 18th birthday so please understand how sad I was.

A Friend from Venezuela

I'm sure some of you have seen it on the TV or the newspaper about the chaos that's happening in Venezuela. Well I happen to have a friend from Venezuela and I owe my friend this story. My friend tells me what actually happen in Venezuela, according to this person's point of view. So as I have promise my friend, I will tell you the story of what is happening in Venezuela.

According to my friend the situation in Venezuela is really bad just like we've seen in the news but it's actually worse than that. My friend says that the government took all the media from the people. 

"We have no media, all of them taken by the government. Which they use to distort the facts. Right now the president is talking about how we set on fire various Mercals (basically supermarkets from the government), which is most probably false." - My friend.

My friend also says,

"They've been saying we're burning things so many time already you can't imagine. A few days ago we 'burned' a commissary, which is perfectly OK today." 

I might think what my friend means by "which is perfectly OK today" is who. Thus what my friend is trying to say might be that the commissary who's said to be burned is actually doing perfectly fine.

My friend continues, 

"According to the government, everything (the economy, the insecurity, the protests) is United States fault. Maudro said the US is paying to protest. Once he said Venezuela's violence was Spider Man's fault. FOR REAL. Also it's soap opera's fault."

My friend says that it's horrible how 'this man' is in the government. My friend also says that it's horrible how the media distort everything.

What my friend says about the social media in Venezuela ,

"We basically don't even have newspapers, since there's no paper for it. There's people out there dying, and then there comes the president talking about 'peace', about how everything is US's fault, about how we are supposedly 'promote violence', and basically making fun of us.."

I give my friend my empathy and ask my friend ow could the government do and say that to the people of Venezuela and why do they involve the people and take over all the media.  

My friend replies,

"Well, it's pretty tough to say how many people still believe him. Since there's no media, and not everyone has access to social media and international channels as CNN (which the president just kicked out from Venezuela). We believe most people are against this government but the last president elections were pretty much fraudulent."

My friend then says that my friend didn't read my question carefully and misread the word outside thus he continues, 

"From outside [the country] everyone has been giving us a lot of support, CNN helped us a lot by broadcasting Maduro's 'speeches' and covering the protests. We've seen lots of messages from Europe, USA, Asia supporting us. Also from other Latin American countries. Everyone knows this government has destroyed us economically, socially, politically... except for the government itself and their followers, it seems."

I am told by this friend of mine that the story itself is very long and complicated. My friend says that it's about 15 years of history. 

I ask my friend if they have access to blogs and stuff other than this specific social media that my friend mentioned and my friend says,

"We do have access to blogs, we could say Internet is our only media. As I told you, some people is able to get informed through it, but the low strates of society don't. Since they represent a big portion of our population, it's crucial they know about all that's going on so they can group with us too (some have already). It's planned to go out on street with banners explaining the whole situation: since there's no public media, we're the new media."

So anyway this is the prove of my promise to my dear friend in Venezuela. To tell you the truth I don't know how things are now there. The last thing I know, Venezuela's foreign minister accuses US Secretary John Kerry a murderer.

I hope people read this so you can know about the whole situation in Venezuela from the citizen's point of view.

Brand New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014! I KNOW IT'S LATE BUT WHATEVER WOOHOO! Anyway my brother is FINALLY home! He came home like... 2 days ago? AT 3 AM! I was just about to go to bed when he sent me a BBM saying that he's on his way home and I should wait for him so he can get in to the house since he doesn't have the keys.

So it's a brand new year! I actually have got my very first disappointment this year and it's not even 1 month yet. But maybe it's not my weekend, but it's gonna be my year ;D Does that italic sentence sound familiar to you? Well it's a slice of All Time Low's iconic lyric from their song, Weightless. I really do hope that it's gonna be my year.

Entering 2014 of course I have tons of things to worry about. Now I know worrying stuff is not good for your health since it increases your stress level and all, they say. Well the thing is, how can you not? 

How do Ujian Nasional, SNMPTN, SBMPTN, Universities, examinations, and a lot more other things. I'm seriously worry about the SNMPTN deal though. I'm currently a science student in high school and the last thing I want to be is a scientist. Therefore I want to transfer from science to social. BUT I'M NOT SURE IF UNIVERSITIES WILL ACCEPT SCIENCE STUDENTS THROUGH SNMPTN AND I'M REALLY WORRY!

Wish me tons of luck for all the things I'm going to have to go through please! Thank you and see you! :D

The Catcher in the Rye

Semester 1 of Year 12 is officially over guys! I'm overjoyed ahahahahaha. I'm supposed to be preparing myself this holiday for Ujian Nasional and SBMPTN since it's only 4 and... 7 months away, respectively?

Anyway I decided to read The Catcher in the Rye a few days ago and I just finished the book a few minutes ago. I loved it! It really was a great book. Even though Holden Caulfield seemed to be a little bit of a rebellion and all that jazz, I did wish he was my older brother. Lol. 

I just learned that this book was published on July 16, 1951 which was exactly 45 years before I was born. Oh how exciting! I loved how this book expressed teenage angst. I knew that this book was banned in certain countries and I did think it may be because of the explicit language used. Since the book started, it already included a lot of swearing such as "Sonuvabitch" and friends.

To me personally, it was fine. I wasn't really the kind of person who'd change easily after reading a certain book however giving age limit for readers would be nice. At least 15 and over perhaps. 

Holden here was a clueless 16 year old boy. He seemed to unable to enjoy anything and rather pessimistic to me but I did think it was all because he didn't know who he really was. He kept changing his mind and was still looking for his identity. 

Well overall I did think it's a great book. So much love for J.D. Salinger!