Something has just hit my mind this morning.
While I was surfing the internet, looking for scholarship informations, my sister approached me and asked, (partly joked because she was playing with Aisya at that moment),
Sister: "Onti mau kemana sih?"
Me: "Onti mau ke Inggris dong, dadaaah."
Sister: "Kenapa mau ke Inggris? Kalo kita negara persemakmurannya mah gampang (beasiswanya). Kan kaya Belanda dan Jepang lebih banyak beasiswa untuk kita karena kita dulu jajahannya."
Boof!
I stopped look at my laptop monitor and stared my sister, who continued to play with Aisya. Maybe it's a common knowledge for my sister, but it's something new to me. Then I just realized why my sisters got their scholarship from those countries.
Colonization history! Yes of course! I didn't notice before, I was just like, "well yeah, okay, my sisters went school at Japan and Netherlands. Why don't I go to somewhere else?" without knowing that even to choose a country to study at is strongly related with history. Damn it.
Well, it doesn't mean that Indonesian can't get a scholarship from Britain, does it? My friend is studying master's degree in Manchester right now. She's a proof that Indonesian can study in England, not just citizens from its commonwealth. But yes, I have to say, scholarship from Europe especially Netherlands is much more than England has. Lots of Netherlands's scholarships are cover total tuition fees include living costs and even airplane tickets, while England has more bursaries (discounts) than full scholarships.
Yeah, I just want to share this information.
Gotta go, scholarships won't come by itself to my doorstep, right? I have to find it!
Cheers!
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Oasis
For half an hour before the class had ended, Mel ordered us to make a group circle. She said that we had to tell about our dream job. The interesting one was the job could be anything, even the job which didn't exist.
"You can create the job, imagine there's no limitation to what you want to do," she said. "You can have 2 minutes to imagine it."
I was so enthusiastic about the topic so I didn't bother to close my eyes to imagine it. Maybe I looked so ready that I got the first turn. I said my dream job is to become a writer, an author, or a screenwriter. Adit's dream job is to be a famous (and rich :p) football player. Ryan's is to be a game tester. He said that he wouldn't mind to sit and play games for 8 hours a day. Zulfa's is to be a director (they said that Zulfa and I should be a team to make a movie, haha). Atia got the last turn and he made us shocked with his dream job. He wants to be a scientist/lecturer in computational chemistry. Our last minutes spent to discuss his dream job because we confused about what kind of study is that?? :D
That was one of the interesting parts of my conversation class. When I got home, I remember what Mel says that "imagine there's no limitation to what you want to do". I think this is why I am ecstatic everytime I attend the class and everything about English.
I find the other side of me when I speak in English, the more confident me, well of course that's if I can tell something fluently, hehe. I feel joy and every word I hear is like a recreational to me. I'm flying with lines, chasing syllable in a wide green field, no limits. I can be whatever I want to be, playing with words.
That's not something I can find in "the real life".
When I got home, I could feel life-problems were lurking around me. Then they attached themself to my shoulders, as if to remind me: "hey, solve us! there's no time to imagine chasing some bloody words, or whatever it is!". So, I came back to my real life, life with soooo many demands, sometimes compulsions. We must think about how to get money, to compete, to live better, to live faithful, to please everyone.
Life, complexity at its best.
This conversation class, for me, is an oasis. An oasis which about to end. I'll have final test at Tuesday and Thursday next week. So, I have to find another oasis. Oh, and of course, writing, for me, always be an oasis. Writing fiction/poem in English? Perfection.
Actually this is one of the bad baffled scholar's diaries. Yes, I'm still what-so-called unemployed, if anyone's interested.
So, what's your oasis, anyway?
Cheers!
"You can create the job, imagine there's no limitation to what you want to do," she said. "You can have 2 minutes to imagine it."
I was so enthusiastic about the topic so I didn't bother to close my eyes to imagine it. Maybe I looked so ready that I got the first turn. I said my dream job is to become a writer, an author, or a screenwriter. Adit's dream job is to be a famous (and rich :p) football player. Ryan's is to be a game tester. He said that he wouldn't mind to sit and play games for 8 hours a day. Zulfa's is to be a director (they said that Zulfa and I should be a team to make a movie, haha). Atia got the last turn and he made us shocked with his dream job. He wants to be a scientist/lecturer in computational chemistry. Our last minutes spent to discuss his dream job because we confused about what kind of study is that?? :D
That was one of the interesting parts of my conversation class. When I got home, I remember what Mel says that "imagine there's no limitation to what you want to do". I think this is why I am ecstatic everytime I attend the class and everything about English.
I find the other side of me when I speak in English, the more confident me, well of course that's if I can tell something fluently, hehe. I feel joy and every word I hear is like a recreational to me. I'm flying with lines, chasing syllable in a wide green field, no limits. I can be whatever I want to be, playing with words.
That's not something I can find in "the real life".
When I got home, I could feel life-problems were lurking around me. Then they attached themself to my shoulders, as if to remind me: "hey, solve us! there's no time to imagine chasing some bloody words, or whatever it is!". So, I came back to my real life, life with soooo many demands, sometimes compulsions. We must think about how to get money, to compete, to live better, to live faithful, to please everyone.
Life, complexity at its best.
This conversation class, for me, is an oasis. An oasis which about to end. I'll have final test at Tuesday and Thursday next week. So, I have to find another oasis. Oh, and of course, writing, for me, always be an oasis. Writing fiction/poem in English? Perfection.
Actually this is one of the bad baffled scholar's diaries. Yes, I'm still what-so-called unemployed, if anyone's interested.
So, what's your oasis, anyway?
Cheers!
Monday, January 23, 2012
Oh My Goood :))
Honestly, I feel a bit uncomfortable to put these Sherlock Uncovered videos (because of the SOPA issue). But I can't bear my excitement to share. Somebody has already uploaded it on Youtube. Well then, you know, once it's uploaded, the whole world can see.
I think my favorite is at 4:10 in Part 2. LOL. What creature are you, Ben? You possess a face of heaven and a deep tiger-in-a-cello voice yet sometimes can show some derpiness. :))))))))
Okay, this is 2 am. I blame you again, Sherlock, for making me sleep this late. :p
Cheers!
I think my favorite is at 4:10 in Part 2. LOL. What creature are you, Ben? You possess a face of heaven and a deep tiger-in-a-cello voice yet sometimes can show some derpiness. :))))))))
Okay, this is 2 am. I blame you again, Sherlock, for making me sleep this late. :p
Cheers!
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Sherlockian All Over the World
I was lurking on fandom, again. And this is what I found:
I just had a moment of realisation while watching the Sherlock titles.
I love us.
I love everything about us. I love the basis of our show; I love where it takes us, I love the people behind it, I love the people in it, I love the visuals, I love the soundtrack, I love the heroes (though they refuse to be), I love the villains, I love their relationships, I love the authorities. I love the fandom, I love our jokes, our stories, our ideas, how much we study each episode as if our lives depended on the conclusion. I love the suspense, I love the complexity, I love the humour, I love the terror, I love the sensuality, I love the mystery. Everything.
Sherlock is not just some detective show. It’s the detective show. Our show.
THIS.
p.s: i think i should make Sherlock tag
Cheers!
Friday, January 20, 2012
Loyal Fandom is Loyal
What Daily Mail UK said about The Reichenbach Fall's Sherlock:
1. He was helped in his plan by pathologist Molly Hooper who arranged a cadaver to replace Sherlock's 'dead' body on the floor and she would create a death certificate and arrange for paramedics to being him back to the morgue where she would help him escape.
2. It wasn't Sherlock that fell from the roof but Moriarty. When he shot and killed himself on the roof, Sherlock wrapped him in his coat and threw him over the ledge.
3. Fans have suggested that Moriarty was behind the kidnapping and wore a mask that looked like Sherlock - which the detective then put on Moriarty's dead body before pushing him off the roof. Or it was one of Moriarty's henchmen who had surgery to look like Holmes but was killed and replaced Sherlock's 'dead' body on the ground.
4. Holmes jumped and landed safely in a rubbish truck that was parked on the street, providing him a soft landing and allowing whoever was in on the plan to hide in there with a body that replaced Sherlock on the ground.
5. Sherlock's brother Mycroft was also in on the plan and arranged for the cyclist to knock Dr Watson down, causing enough of a diversion for Sherlock to pretend to be lying dead on the pavement before being safely taken away in the back of a waiting ambulance.
6. Dr Watson either imagined the fall from an hallucinogenic drug that makes you realise your worse fears, and imagined he'd seen his friend's body on the ground when it was actually someone else.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2087814/Sherlock-fans-internet-share-theories-Holmes-faked-death.html#ixzz1k0SkPJco
And here, one more thing. Fandom curse Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss as well as they praise them, a lot. Well, it's all only jokes, you know, and it's amusing. The duo also has a Twiiter acount and they often tweet about Sherlock, but mostly tease us to guess what happen in the next Sherlock episode. And here one of the fan creation about them:
Haha, I don't even change the capslock font. If you as freak as I am, or if you already watched A Study in Pink, you'll understand. It was Sally Donovan's line :))))))
Cheers!
It was one of the most nail-biting television cliffhangers in recent years that left viewers on the edge of their seats.And it summed up the speculations of how Sherlock faked his death:
1. He was helped in his plan by pathologist Molly Hooper who arranged a cadaver to replace Sherlock's 'dead' body on the floor and she would create a death certificate and arrange for paramedics to being him back to the morgue where she would help him escape.
2. It wasn't Sherlock that fell from the roof but Moriarty. When he shot and killed himself on the roof, Sherlock wrapped him in his coat and threw him over the ledge.
3. Fans have suggested that Moriarty was behind the kidnapping and wore a mask that looked like Sherlock - which the detective then put on Moriarty's dead body before pushing him off the roof. Or it was one of Moriarty's henchmen who had surgery to look like Holmes but was killed and replaced Sherlock's 'dead' body on the ground.
4. Holmes jumped and landed safely in a rubbish truck that was parked on the street, providing him a soft landing and allowing whoever was in on the plan to hide in there with a body that replaced Sherlock on the ground.
5. Sherlock's brother Mycroft was also in on the plan and arranged for the cyclist to knock Dr Watson down, causing enough of a diversion for Sherlock to pretend to be lying dead on the pavement before being safely taken away in the back of a waiting ambulance.
6. Dr Watson either imagined the fall from an hallucinogenic drug that makes you realise your worse fears, and imagined he'd seen his friend's body on the ground when it was actually someone else.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2087814/Sherlock-fans-internet-share-theories-Holmes-faked-death.html#ixzz1k0SkPJco
And here, one more thing. Fandom curse Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss as well as they praise them, a lot. Well, it's all only jokes, you know, and it's amusing. The duo also has a Twiiter acount and they often tweet about Sherlock, but mostly tease us to guess what happen in the next Sherlock episode. And here one of the fan creation about them:
DO YOU KNOW WHY MOFFAT AND GATISS TROLL TWITTER? THEY’RE NOT PAID OR ANYTHING. THEY LIKE IT. THEY GET OFF ON IT. THE CRAZIER THE SHERLOCK FANS FREAK OUT, THE MORE THEY GET OFF AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT? ONE DAY JUST POSTING ELUSIVE TWEETS WON’T BE ENOUGH. ONE DAY WE’LL BE WATCHING THE MOST HEARTBREAKING HOUR AND A HALF OF OUR LIVES, AND MOFFAT AND GATISS WILL BE THE ONES WHO PUT IT THERE.
Haha, I don't even change the capslock font. If you as freak as I am, or if you already watched A Study in Pink, you'll understand. It was Sally Donovan's line :))))))
Cheers!
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