Where's my brain?

[Note: basically just me geeking around]

Hello internet!

It’s been sooo long since my last post. Actually I have a lot of drafts to be posted, but I am too busy dealing with my existential crisis these past months.

Anyway, 2016 is a roller coaster for me because I’ve been both up and down this year. Mostly because of college stuff RIP Nay’s GPA. But hey, there are a lot of cool things happened this year and I’ve found a lot of new fandom this year since I’ve been fandomless since 2013. Here’s my list of my personal memorable things of 2016.

(WARNING! THESE LIST ARE BASED ON MY OWN TASTE, AND PLEASE DON’T JUDGE ME T_T)

MOVIE OF THE YEAR: KIMI NO NA WA

Demm time lapse

and this realistic phone drawing that makes me want to own one even though I’m not a fan of the brand

You’ve probably guessed it guys! As a long time Japanese geek, Shinkai Makoto-sensei’s work always amazed me. Especially his movie’s arts and animation. Who doesn’t love those realistic arts and timelapses?!

To be honest, I am not really enjoying the story line of his another legend movie, 5 cm per second (I am sorry sensei) and I personally rate the movie score 7 out of 10 because the slow and quite confusing plot line (I know a lot of people may disagree, but once again this is my personal opinion). However, Kimi no Na wa deserve a 9/10 score for its story line and 10/10 for the animation. First the plot is not as confusing as 5 cm per second, and this is not only my opinion because some of my non-movie geek friends (who doesn’t usually enjoy nor understand non-mainstream movie) can actually enjoy this movie. 

Secondly, it’s quite biased but I am pretty excited since I first heard the movie in 2015 that the main character voice actor is Kamiki Ryunosuke. He’s one of my favorite Japanese young actor, and believe me he can actually act. I recommend Kazoku Game for his drama and 2014 Rurouni Kenshin live action for his movies. He is also in Spirited Away! He’s the one that lent his voice for Boh (that big annoying baby lol)

I am sorry for comparing Kimi no Na wa with 5 cm per second. I know Kotonoha no Niwa is as good as them, but I don’t really think a lot of people know the movie *peace ^^v*

Honorable Mention : Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Deadpool

I grew up with the Harry Potter’s Wizarding World so it’s obvious that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will deserve the Nay’s Personal Movie Award.

And yes Deadpool! I am not a huge Marvel fangirl, but when finally there is a superhero movie that the main character is actually an antihero... I can’t even describe the happiness *tears of joy*. The story line is actually decent (in my opinion guys), but the cinematography is superb and stunning. Also Deadpool is the first movie that I can watch the opening credit over and over 

EPISODE(S) OF THE YEAR:  Erased (Boku dake ga Inai Machi) Ep. 8

I actually wanted to give this anime series the “Nay’s Personal Anime of the Year Award”, but I only watch this anime series in 2016 so it won’t be fair enough. As you people might already know, a lot of people recommend this anime and you can find a lot of reviews even spoiler of this anime earlier this year.

I gave this certain 8th episode a special place in my brain because there was this one particular scene that made me shed tears and .... gah I can’t describe it. Just watch it by yourself! *brb sobbing*

Everyone go watch this scene by your own eyes!

Honorable Mention: Stranger Things Ep. 4

In summer this year, there was this Stranger Things boom where everyone talked about this series. As the result, I decided to try to check this series out and I got bored in the 1st episode. However I forced myself to watch the next episode (so I can relate to the internet), and to tell you the truth it keeps boring for the first three episodes. But after the 4th episode, I finally understood why a lot of people love this series maybe it just because my brain is sluggish af. Stranger Things now is one of my reason to be excited for 2017. Yeay!

NEW FANDOM OF THE YEAR: BLACKPINK AND AKDONG MUSICIAN

Finally after those K-Pop trend that happening since 2006, I’ve actually listened to K-Pop music other than PSY’s Gangnam Style. Of course thanks to Youtube for this to be happened. BLACKPINK is a rookie girl-group (just debuted this year) so it’s easy to catch up their songs (so far there’s only 5 songs from them, and 1 of them is a acoustic version of the other song) but my recommendation is Whistle and STAY because I love recommend things ^w^. And as Akdong Musician or AKMU, my friend recommended it to me and I liked it since the first time I heard them. My favorite so far are: 200%, How People Dance, and Be With You.

As the end, here’s the list of things I am waiting in 2017 (may change and increase):

SHERLOCK SEASON 4!!!!

Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyoujin Season 2

Akdong Musician’s comeback

Guardian of the Galaxy vol. 2

Emma Watson as Belle in Beauty and The Beast

Dedicated to my fellow Indonesian Muslim youngsters out there

Hi internet! Since this is dedicated for Indonesian, I’ll do my best to write in Bahasa and less offensive as much as I could. (I tried, okay?).

Sebelumnya, saya adalah seorang mahasiswi di sebuah perguruan tinggi negeri Indonesia. Saya muslim keturunan. Orang tua saya juga muslim keturunan. Keluarga kami bukan keluarga ahli agama. Bahkan saya bukan seorang muslimah yang bisa dikatakan “baik”. Seperti yang anda dapat lihat dari blog ini. 

Baiklah, langsung menuju ke topik utama. Indonesia adalah negara dengan jumlah penduduk bergama Islam terbanyak di dunia. Meskipun bukan negara yang menganut ajaran Islam sebagai dasar hukum utamanya, tidak bisa dipungkiri bahwa aturan Islam dan budaya Islam sangat kental di tengah masyarakatnya. Bukan berarti Indonesia tidak mengakui agama lain, tapi mari kita ambil contoh sebagai berikut:

Saat bulan Ramadhan, merupakan hal biasa jika kita temukan tempat-tempat makan memasang tirai sebagai bentuk penghormatan terhadap orang yang berpuasa. Di Indonesia, hampir semua tempat umum memiliki tempat untuk umat Islam melaksanakan ibadah solat (bahkan saya pernah menemukan tempat solat di suatu lembaga pendidikan di pinggir Jakarta yang mayoritas isinya adalah non-Muslim). Istirahat siang di berbagai acara umum di Indonesia sering disebut “Ishoma” yaitu Istirahat, Sholat, Makan. Televisi nasional menayangkan tayangan adzan setiap hari walaupun hanya waktu maghrib (hingga beberapa teman-teman non-Muslim saya hapal doa setelah adzan). Hal-hal ini merupakan hal yang biasa bagi orang Indonesia, bahkan bagi orang-orang non-Muslim. Maka tidak salah untuk mengatakan bahwa aturan Islam merupakan bagian dari kehidupan masyarakat Indonesia tanpa disadari.

…. Okay enough with the formal intro!

Jadi sebagai muslim yang lahir dan besar di negara ini, aku ga tau gimana rasanya jadi muslim minoritas. Karena itulah sejak akhir 2009 aku suka nyari-nyari info gimana rasanya tinggal di tempat yang muslimnya sedikit (thank you internet, especially youtube). Gimana rasanya nyari tempat makan halal, karena di Indonesia hampir semua tempat makan halal. Gimana rasanya ngatur waktu untuk sholat, karena di Indonesia nyari masjid/mushola gampang banget. Gimana rasanya puasa waktu summer, dan lain-lain (because I had too much free time). Akhirnya aku ketemu beberapa temen online yang sesama muslim dan tinggal di Amerika, Inggris, dan Kanada. Sebagian besar mereka iri sama aku yang tinggal di Indonesia karena melakukan ajaran Islam di Indonesia bukan hal yang aneh. Tapi ada satu pertanyaan dari temen online itu yang bikin gue tergelitik untuk bikin post ini “Do your parents let you dating? Because I’ll die if my parents ever knew I date someone”. Actually this was from around 2010 so it’s kinda outdated. Orang yang nanya ini ke aku adalah seorang cewek muslim dari Kanada yang ga berjilbab dan bahkan hampir ga pernah ke masjid.

Hahahaha! So, seorang Muslim dari negara dengan umat muslim yang minoritas, pacaran itu merupakan hal tabu. Sedangkan di Indonesia,yang paling banyak umat Islamnya sedunia pacaran terang-terangan itu udah kayak menghirup oksigen.

“Tapi kan beda di luar negeri sama Indonesia? Budayanya free gitu, wajarlah dia ga boleh pacaran” – Hmm.. iya sih. Tapi lo tau ga sekarang berapa banyak anak muda Indonesia yang udah kayak anak muda luar negeri itu? (or I would say no longer v*ir*gin)

Well, disini aku bukan bermaksud sok suci apa gimana, cuma kadang aku ngerasa sedih ngeliat di medsos banyak temen-temen muslim Indonesia yang pamer sama pacarnya. Aku pribadi sih seneng ngeliat banyak temen-temen yang mulai berjilbab, dan jilbab sendiri sekarang udah jadi kayak barang umum. Tapi buat kalian yang berjilbab tapi masih foto pelukan sama cowoknya. Coba deh tanya hati kalian sendiri, ada rasa bersalah ga dalam diri kalian? Well bukannya gue ga setuju sama pacaran. Nyari jodoh emang ga salah, malah mungkin wajib (hahaha even though I’m jomblo myself). Ketika lo pake jilbab tapi ngelakuin hal kayak gitu… dimata gue itu cuma pencitraan, ga beda sama oknum-oknum yang memberikan janji manis tiap 5 tahun sekali. Aku ga bermaksud untuk kampanye semacam Indonesia Bebas Pacaran 2017 atau semacamnya. Bahkan orang tuaku sendiri ga pernah secara terang-terangan ngelarang anaknya pacaran. Your life is your choice mate. This is just my opinion, whether you agree or disagree it’s all up to you. 

Gue sendiri udah pake jilbab sekitar 10 tahunan, tapi gue masih ngomong sarkas dan kasar in my daily basis. Kalo mau ditulis ke”bobrokan” gue sebagai seorang muslim mungkin bakal ada post baru tentang hal tersebut.

[I promised myself to write regularly since I made this blog, but hey I’m one of those massive procrastinator ever born to this universe.]

Hello Internet!

It’s been a while since I write on this blog. Actually I have about 7 unfinished draft to post in this blog, which most of them are rants about my (not so interesting yet full of sh*ty events) life.

From these days of college life I’ve been doing, I got conclusion that if my sins made as a chart, then more than 48% of my sins probably comes from getting pissed off by my classmates. I’m not saying I hate every single of my classmates as a human being, but I hate them for saying things like “equality”, “solidarity”, and so on but in fact they treat each other differently because of “School Caste”. 

“What’s school caste” you asked?

Well I got this term from a Japanese drama I’ve said it right I was a massive Japanese freak, named 35歳の高校生 (35 sai no koukousei, tr: 35 y.o. High School Student). 

According to the series, school caste is a rank system which classify folks in your class based on their what so called “popularity”. So, the upper rank in this school caste is basically those people who can rule the class even though they’re not the class leader or what so ever (or if I would say people who’s bossy AF) and the lower ranks will automatically follow the lead of these upper rank folks. The upper ranks, can do things freely but the lowest ranks can’t, to put it simply the discrimination is so frickin high. Even people from lower ranks can’t talk to people from higher ranks because it’s gonna lower the rank of higher ranks people. I know there’s no way in a real life this caste would exist, but there will always be a group of people who lead and people who got lead in every social environment.

In my class, there is no clear caste but somehow it’s exist. For example, when someone who doesn’t usually talk that much in class (one the lower rank peeps) give an idea about something, the class would not really care about the idea. But it will be another story if the one who gives the idea is some popular folks or the one who is bossy af (upper rank), the class will hype. I don’t know about your classes guys, but I believe this also caused by natural preference of human for following those who can lead and has a charisma.

Well, as someone who is ignorant af like me I don’t really have a problem being in lower rank or upper rank, but for some people this thing is a big deal. As I said before, there will always be those who lead and who got lead, but it’s also a human natural instinct to be treated equally. Especially by people in the same environment, in this case classmates.

If this post offends anyone I’m sorry in advance (_ _)