Media?

Talking about media, people often thing about music and movies the most. I don’t really see TV and watch movies nowadays because of my new interest in cars. Well maybe I haven’t watch TV for years now, I really don’t know how people get any entertainment from those ugly boxes. All the things there are all boring. Ok, back to the topic. Recently, I bought some magazines and newspapers to find a cheap 2^nd car. A printed media sure is a big problem, compared to the electric media such as internet articles and journals, where we can just press Ctrl+F to find things. In this entry I would talk a lot about magazines that I have bought, some of them are Otomotif, Modifikasi and Motor. On those magazines, I find that buying expensive cars is not always good. A person who buys cheap cars can make their car as good as or better than the one that buys expensive cars. From those magazines, we are told on how to modify a car from every aspect such as exterior, interior, audio and many more. Personally, I prefer to modify the car from its exterior, since it would make me to be the center of attention on the streets (hehe).

From my researches through a lot of Medias, I found out that I find electronic media much easier to read and see, but printed media usually contains a lot more information in it. I know more information through the magazines I bought rather than the internet articles. From the magazines, I also see many advertisements; the advertisements there have a lot of elements in it. I guess learning the media chapter is also beneficial to me haha. It does make me to see things differently though, good in a way, bad in a way. Oh well, I guess everything in this world have its pro and cons.

-fred

WoW - Thompson 16

In the last few terms in the IB program, my grades is in constant acceleration of 1 mark per quarter, but sadly I think its gonna end really, soon. I just hope that this though is not a "self-fulfilling prophecy" type.

In the first term of IB I got the total of 29 out of 42, the second term is 30 out of 42, and the third one, just recently is 31 out of 42. So my total grade is somewhat stably increasing, which is good. All of those time, studying, I also played a game called "DotA" (Defense of the Ancient) a warcraft III custom map, made by IceFrog. But i have played that game since 8th grade, so I'm not really affected it's temptation to play because I already frequently playing it for the last 3 years. Meaning that "DotA" have little affect my study at today's state.

But now, a new breed of game have just come up, available to my hands. My brother, Bram wanted to play a game that he used to play with his friend. Now he is gonna do it again. A game named "WoW" (World of Warcraft). The reason for me not to play this game before (this already been out just few years ago) is because you have to pay it, also with credit card via internet probably. The paying stuff is just troublesome for me, so I can't play it. But now my brother pay everything for the game and now I could play "WoW" when he is not at home.

This new game might heavily affect my current grade to go downward due to the time spent on playing instead of studying. I tried my best for my grade not to fall because of it. My brother Ryan also played "WoW" giving me incentive to play with it even more.

Afraid that this might affect my grade or not, I have made a pack with my brother, Bram that if my grade gonna fall below 30 out of 42, he will change the password and I may not play until I get good grades again. That means one quarter without WoW, I could not afford that. So I just hope that in this term I could study well, with this new game that is available in my hands. Hopefully this does not give very huge impact on my grades.

Sadly after publishing this post, I will play "WoW" once again, since my brother is not at home.

"Resist the corruption within"

back to school

It's been a week at school, still doing the same thing, IB. But I had a good holiday. It's just alright though, my christmas and my new year were boring, nothing special. I went to China for the holiday with my family, and with tour. I met new friends, and thank God they were all friendly, and some of them were teenagers. In China, Christmas doesn't feel like christmas, and same as new year because in China, they celebrate chinese new year bigger than new year. I stayed for 11 days in China, went from one city, to another cities with airplane, sometimes bus. And everyday, lunch and dinner, we ate chinese food, with the same menu everytime. That sucks a lot. Almost everyone got sick at the end of the trip, including me. It turns out to be quite fun.

For my new year resolutions, I really want to become a better person that can influence other people. I want to focus more to God, that's the important one.

I just realized that Retreat is coming soon! Its one more week till retreat. I hope its going to be awesome because we really need the retreat, at least to relax, as the refreshment of the year. But we gotta prepare for the talent show, which is very lazy, because we don't have to time to prepare.

-del

First week of school... - Post 1 Frederick

Ok, first blog in this term. 1^st week of school is really hard for me. I slept like in almost all of the subjects. My first sleep in school was at Mr. Graham’s math class. I slept for like a half period. I was so tired that time, I also sleep full period on chapel and the 2 period man or myth biblical studies class. My friend told me that when I was sleeping, Mr. John wakes everyone except me. Then when everybody is awake, he touch my head, play with my ears, pulling my shirt and I was still asleep. Then I don’t know what he does next but everyone was laughing hardly, so I wake up. I noticed that everyone was laughing at me. I don’t know what happened, but it was embarrassing.

Move on, when I was in ITGS class, Pak Ruben told me that we should have go to school at 14^th January since UPH do so. I was really annoyed. I can have another week of sleeping until 1.00 AM if school starts at the 14^th. And tomorrow, 11 January should be a holiday also. Why should we go to school for 1 day and get a break again? Why shouldn’t it be a day off? School sucks.

I’m also currently finding a summer school for me to go with James and Giovanni. We are still finding one and couldn’t find one that is really good. The one that is really good is very expensive. Why would we pay like US$ 12000 for only a 1 month summer school? I could get a super Alienware desktop instead. Or maybe if you want a more academically opportunity cost, I could pay the SPH tuition fee thingy. Well I don’t know what I should talk anymore.

PS: Ms. Jess, can u swear in this blog? Please, just a few words. :D

Ordinatio - XV

I remembered that in the last 2 weeks of school Ibu Monica, Ibu Kristianti, Ibu Antonia, and Ibu Elyse already mentioned that my hair was long, long enough to break the school's rule about boys having long hair. I bargained with them so that I would not be cut for holidays are near. I succeeded keeping my hair even though they rejected my bargain, they were just too kind.

A day from today my hair would be cut, but I am curious about the school's regulation why does boys are not permitted to have long hair? Every regulation and rule must have a reason why they are made, and on what purpose does this regulation is made? I will ask of the person who are in charge of making this rule to have a discussion with me, if I find the reason of this regulation is sharp, I would oblige to the regulation, and if not I would fight for it.

This regulation could be interpret in other word in a government language which is ban boys with long hairs. As I learned about ban in economic is banning is a blunt strategy, Mr Eric gives the class an image of a ban is same like there is a cancer on your hand and the easiest way to eliminate it is just to cut of your hand. It makes your cancer goes away, so does the benefit of having a hand. Therefore of course an alternative way to cure cancer is chemotherapy, which is sharper by eliminating only the cancer, with your hand still attach.

I would assume possible reasons why the regulation have made tis rule, perhaps their objective is to look neat. By having the students look neat, the school's good image is kept. I would say perhaps the majority of boys that have long hair are messy and perhaps look like pengamen or gangsters. In this reason I would say that for a sharper solution why not just ban messy hair instead of long hair? For long hairs could be neat, we could tied our hairs if we want to.

I would also assume that a cultural thing, this reason is a tricky one for it's assume that the majority of people is not comfortable of seeing boys with long hair. One way is that I have to make a poll that is this assumption really true. Also if they mentioned Indonesian culture, I have not seen and Indonesian culture that should have short hair, instead why not see our Chinese culture instead they have long hairs until it's braided.

Another assumption is that they would say that long hair would interrupt our studies having our hair blocked our ear and eyes. This is not true, in fact girls with long hair usually have their ears covered by their hair, are they interrupt by it? I guess not for many girls have long hair still achieve high marks. If they the school still persist we could tie our hair or use hair band would be a sharper solution instead of banning the long hair itself.

By the start of the school I would want to search who is in charge of the school rule, the first one would ask is of course Mr Chris, may this troublesome curiosity would be put to rest real soon.

Genius - Thompson XIV

Tuesday, 18^th of December 2007

My previous thought is are proved when I watch my brilliant brain in National Geographic channel where they are discussing a kid who is a prodigy of playing a piano.

My ambition rises to make a genius or a prodigy when I would have a child.

The formula of genius is an early education and do an activity that they enjoy and willing that sits in hours and hours.

For genius are relative to the surrounding where a genius already spent their time early on education while other spends their time on other activities that do not gave them benefit to academic skill or externalities on academic.

I myself sometimes considered as a gaming prodigy as for half truth jokes in my social life. I remembered that in my child days I would spent hours and hours on video games. Reading faqs and walk through secret and forgot all about time have spent on it. (I have read many rpg faqs&secrets, a lot about ragnarok online, and about dota)

But realizing that I have spent my time doing those, I could see in the future that by having a game prodigy do not have a great future nor have a great present time as your parents would get mad at you. Therefore I would say it is not beneficial.

Now I am no longer good at games, I just now some theories that I have read but in practice, my reflexes and precision of timing have dulled. I have spent less time in video games compare to my schoolmate who does addicted to play games.

I have a friend called Jesse Thomas Lybianto, he said to me that his early childhood life is reading books. I looked at his present time now that he could write essay and writing very neatly and nice, which compared to me, I am not good for in my childhood time I seldom to read at all.

I want to create a genius and if possible made a genius out of myself.

What is a genius anyway?

I would say they are relatively smart at something on a major scale of people of their age.

Perhaps if a so called genius at something is to be compared to people who spent the same amount of time of that certain activity that they do, are their skills are the same?

Narrowing it down, genius is produced by genes, time spent on that activity, amount of concentration or passion on that activity, and an positive externalities on other activity that would benefit the activity of their genius skill, which have greater amount relative to the normal major scale of their age.

The difference between talent and genius is that talent have no factor of relativity of age comparison.

I must say that in the previous though of mine, I am confused in the difference between genius and talent. Diligence could produce talent, but it does not made them sound smart for their activities they are doing are taken into account in the eyes of people, while genius sometimes people do not take into account the time their spending on the activity their doing or other activity that gives positive externality on it. I must say that do not read much on the previous though for it is relatively inaccurate and imprecise to this though.

Jesse Thomas Lybianto... lucky bastard...

Talent - Thompson XIII

Sunday, 9^th of December 2007

In my school days in SPH in art class they would say “talented!” to tell the people who are smart. Yefta started that. Even such word is supposed to be a joke, I indulge myself with dilemma. So what is the difference between talent and diligent (rajin).

After several dilemma I have reached a conclusion

Here is my definition of talent and diligent

Diligent: Something that a person do repeatedly and taken into account of their activity therefore their skill are polished of doing that activity. A direct purposed skill

Talent : Talent's skill is produced because either gene or externalities that do on their daily bases of activity. An indirect purposed skill produced

People are amazed that we could do something that are relatively good skill from them. Sometimes the do not take account the time we take to do that skill, therefore they do not take account of our diligence.

Most people are amazed if we had talent. For they do not take account on our certain activity that we had which make impacts on the certain skill that they are amazed. Also, because of the talent that we had, we are not tying as much from others therefore we amazed people because we do some skill that are good because we looked as if we are not trying.