due to overwhelming infection of advertising, i've moved to another alveta's sanctuary.

• polisi mengeroyok mahasiswa
• polisi tidak sensitif saat menginterogasi korban percobaan perkosaan
• jebakan polisi, tilang atau uang damai? jelas jawabannya!
  
• salah tembak yang berbahaya
• CD/DVD/VCD bajakan masih merajalela
• aparat melanggar peraturan lalu lintas

kurang dana?
kurang armada?
... atau kurang moral?

pantas saja banyak yang malah tidak nyaman kalau ada polisi..

i'm stressed because i'm panicked because i'm lazing off in the midst of things to do because i'm too stressed to do anything

berita ini makin bikin kuatir..
ayo, dong UI... bikin kampusnya lebih aman...

btw, ada yang tau bisa beli pepper spray atau senjata kecil lain di mana?

academic and business world each has very different contrary idealisms, two sides that are not supposed to walk on the same path together. however, money still makes the world (and education) go around and with such minimum support from the government (give us that 20% budget you bloody Volvo riders!!) plus the so called social obligation to provide afordable higher education, what can an institution do other than making the most out of opportunities ahead ?

in my particular faculty, it has started to suck the hell out. aside from the effort to differentiate the education and business bodies apart (FA and PU with the same ending letters), the players on both institutions remain the same. a terrible sacrifice to the students and research development. even the rumors on the agreement to put class session first does not help much. there are still the lack of feedbacks, the lack of consultation time especially those acting as academic counsellor (so much for counselling), late grading and so on.

if there must be a business entity backing up the education activity, why not take pure, full-time professionals to run it?

well, alright.. some names are better known and trusted than other. even some occasional consultation job from academic perspective will also be fine, but honestly... at this level... it's just too much.

i had tried to understand. i really did.
i know projects will take up much of someone's time a lot, so i submitted my report early so there should be enough time for him to read it. i even submitted the drafts earlier while most of the others have not even finished or made their reports yet. guess what? with the deadline of the submission to the faculty getting nearer, my report has been handed to an assistant...

not in any intention to disregard the assistant's capability, but it's a bloody internship report! it's not some kind of assignment that can be marked by an assistant!!

*exasperated*

*sigh* who am i kidding? many others even having trouble getting in touch with their counsellors...

...and they said they want this institution to prevail...
who are you guys kidding, really?

SD: ngejodohin orang seenak jidat
SMP: saling nyebut nama bokap ato nama panggilan yang dihibahkan (ayam, bogel, dll)
SMA: er.. banyak kayaknya, tp berhubung gue cuma pake seragam putih-abu 4 bulan.. ga terlalu familiar
Kuliah (akhir2): ayo.. siapa kawin duluan..??
Ibu-ibu: Jeng, anaknya jodohin aja ama anak saya.. asik, kan kita bisa besanan...

*sigh...*
kenapa juga orang2 begitu terobsesinya sama kawin2an..??

"kalau saja artis-artis itu mengerti selingkuhan bukan untuk dinikahi, pasti perceraian di infotainment tidak akan seramai sekarang"

buku karangan Tamara Geraldine ini lucu. iya, ini Tamara yang nyablak dan dulu sering bawain acara sepak bola dengan serunya. cerpen-cerpen di dalam bukunya ini diceritakan dengan bahasa yang lugas, tegas, terpercaya :P

menurut gue, selingkuh itu salah satu misteri dalam hubungan manusia. beberapa cerita di buku ini mencoba menjabarkan beberapa alasan orang selingkuh dengan gaya yang jauh dari gaya sinetron tentunya. sayang cuma terbatas pada hubungan perkawinan (which i'm still unfamiliar with), ga termasuk pacaran, HTS, dll, dsb...

seru juga hubungan antarmanusia digambarkan melalui percakapan antara 2 punggung yang berhadapan, percakapan antara 2 orang (atau roh?) dalam antrian persidangan penentuan masuk surga/neraka, percakapan palsu 2 orang yang ada versi hati dan mulutnya juga percakapan (imajiner?) dengan christiano ronaldo (yang ini apa hubungannya dengan selingkuh, Tam?).

lumayan sebagai pelarian konsentrasi dari pikiran2 gue yang ga jelas akhir2 ini (plus, cover-nya keren!), makanya entri blog ini jadi ga mutu banget berapa minggu belakangan, maklum ajalah...

selain buku ini, kemaren baru beli Confession of a Shopaholic. iya, tau.. telat banget ya. tapi emang nyari edisi inggrisnya (british english has its own flavor which will be lost in translation) dan emang akhir2 ini makin ngerasa relate to those calling themselves shopaholics (gajiku hilang... huhuhu...).

oh, well.. back to work..

i've been through some major turning points in the 2-decade course of my life, most usually involved the transition of education institution i was thriving in. been making decisions in a short term after the exams burden were released and before the thoughts of impending future set in (i.e. graduation periods).

my next graduation period won't be coming until months from now and yet i've been stuck inside the "turning-point" syndrome for weeks now. i guess, the older we are, there are much more things to consider and to prepare and thus the earlier panic attack.

i don't like this.. these thoughts and considerations are tampering my consentration on today's more actual problems and projects, not to mention it disturbed my 8-hour nightly beauty sleep -.-

where to go?
what to do?

...why do i have to care?

ITCs, hypermarkets, malls, plazas, town squares, factory outlets, junctions, mini markets, city centers and even a shopping town are springing up all around Jabodetabek. while the new ones are starting to encounter difficulties in renting the shop spaces, no less robust is the construction of new shopping centers. The developments is said to be killing the weaker and less attractive traditional markets.

First question:
I reckon in Jakarta alone, dwell more than 10 millions people, but do they really shop that much?

Second:
Say, the shopping rate is enough to support every single establishment, then there must be enough income circulating around which is owned by only 50% of the population (considering the claim that the other 50% is poor). Damn rich community we live in, right? Then why the economy still cannot rise?

A shame reality of the life we live in that a profitable investment could not come from parks and community centers...