Dream Theater

This is not about music. In fact, I know none about that band. Yeah, this is about the dream theater, literally. Well, this thought has been wandering inside my head for quite some time. In my mind, I imagine myself as several persons who act in some kind of boring theater.

The first person is the artsy one. She loves to draw so much and can't live without it. She adores the freedom and whimsical artist life. The second is a nerd one. She's a geek who loves studying and will be very happy if she can enter prestigious college(s) until she's tired of schools. The third is the workaholic type who has ambition to reach as high as possible the carrier she's been living in. The last one (okay, I said I have SEVERAL, not only four, but let's face it I have to make this short and readable), is the phlegmatic-home based-peace lover-simple girl who will be very happy to live an ordinary simple life: doing house chores, a little busy by a small-wages-regular job, live with her parents until she's got married and think about nothing but her new family.

This is not a battle-themed theater, nor a boring satire (I already said boring, actually). Since all four of the roles are important, you might be wondering: Who's gonna win? Well, who's the heroine, actually?

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And there are 4 persons in my Dream Theater. Illustration by Me.

A System Failure

Apa yang anda pikirkan ketika mendengar istilah "akselerasi"?

Anda yang lulusan teknik mesin, atau paling tidak, menyenangi bidang otomotif tentunya sudah tak asing lagi mendengar kata tersebut. Menurut salah seorang teman saya yang malang melintang di dunia permesinan dan otomotif, akselerasi berarti "perubahan kecepatan, atau percepatan". Hmm hal ini sebetulnya tak jauh berbeda dengan makna istilah tersebut dalam Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI).

akselerasi /ak·se·le·ra·si/ /aksélerasi/ n 1 proses mempercepat; 2 peningkatan kecepatan; percepatan; 3 laju perubahan kecepatan (http://www.kbbi.web.id/).

Ketika saya bertanya lebih jauh, teman saya ini melanjutkan bahwa semakin tinggi akselerasi suatu kendaraan, maka semakin baik karena dibutuhkan waktu yang lebih sedikit untuk mencapai suatu tempat, dibandingkan dengan kendaraan lain dengan akselerasi lebih rendah. Terdengar seperti hal yang bagus bukan? Karena zaman sekarang ini, yang katanya globalisasi, semua hal dianggap tidak berhasil kalau tidak cepat. Cepat pun, tentunya cepat yang berhasil. Bukan cepat yang gagal. Lah emangnya ada "cepat yang gagal"?

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Persepsi, dan seterusnya

Salah satu teman saya di twitter pernah me-RT tweet saya yang kira-kira isinya begini:

@xxxxx: Ginilah kerjaan pejabat --> RT @tweedledew: "Makan pagi di Padang, makan malam di Medan, tidurnya di Surabaya."

Padang - Medan - Surabaya - Bandung - Padang (dengan 4 maskapai yang berbeda. Semacam unik).

Pertamanya sih speechless banget baca tanggapan dia. Kok ya lucu aja gitu masa saya dibilang pejabat. Apalagi konotasi pejabat di negara ini gak bisa dibilang bagus. Coba kalau dia ke Teluk Kabung terus liat saya jadi apa di sana. Saya yakin dia akan menarik ucapannya itu. Tapi ya sudahlah.. di negara ini kan kebebasan berpendapat sudah diatur undang - undang toh? Hehe. Tapi yang lucu lagi tuh, kalau di tempat saya berasal, ketika saya mengatakan kalau saya kerja di PT A, dia nanya "Di pabriknya atau pom bensin-nya?" Hehehe. Biarlah mereka menyimpulkan sendiri. Itu kan hak mereka untuk buat persepsi. Betul?

Rescued

When I read the topic for Illustration Friday (YES! I've been long gone from this world) in my email last week, there was one that came to mind. I think I need to draw somebody - or something - that need to be rescued from the abyss. You know I really like this quotes:

if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you (F. Nietzsche).

So if you want to rescue someone or something that might fall - or nearly fall into an abyss, you shan't look too long into it for it will tempt you to fall. Ah, whatever.

Rescued from the abyss.

REALLY, you don't need to read this one below.

Look, I am so sorry for not keeping up my promise (oh, did it a promise?) to post about my Ramadhan in Padang. Am I busy? Well, everyone is busy. I just not really have it to make a nice post. You know not everything I post is nice. I have a twitter and it's just pathetic that lately I've been making such horrible tweets. Am I that negative? Ugh.. guess I need to take a break (actually, I've took one last 2 days but it never seem enough). Honestly, it's been 5 months and I haven't got any fancy to my current "daily-activities" (you know what). I didn't - or haven't - enjoyed anything here. And my anti - social level is raising day by day. One of my acquaintance-neighbor once said "hey welcome to the real society"! Cynical as it sounds. This society is just not my cliques, no matter how hard I try to fit in. Uh, oh and I blab to much. THIS IS BAD! Does this mean that I am apparently the one who's in the abyss and need to be rescued? I don't know. I always exaggerate everything.