Having Fun with Pesimism

An Indonesian is a person that take all of their resources for granted.

• An Indonesian couldn’t have invented the heater/air radiator. Most of us will never experience extreme cold the whole year round.
• An Indonesian couldn’t have invented the refrigerator. We don’t need to save food through winter, we can access our fresh food all year around.
• An Indonesian couldn’t have invent a trash can. We eat most of our produce including animal organs, and when we're done, we litter! We have a lot if bacteria to decay it.
• An Indonesian couldn’t have invented sun tan lotion or sun block. Our skin has enough melanin to survive daily life.
• An Indonesian wouldn’t enjoy sitting in the park, under the sun, and read a book. We have the sun all year around, why enjoy the existence of the sun when we have it every day?
• An Indonesian couldn’t have invented the umbrella, there’s too many banana leaves and big surface leaves lying around to cover us.
• An Indonesian couldn’t have invent the sleeping pill. We can get sleepy when it’s too hot or too cold.
• An Indonesian couldn’t have invented the fertilizer. What ever seed we throw on the ground, will grow anyways.
• An Indonesian couldn’t have invented mining. We’re content of what we have on the surface, why bother digging deep?
• An Indonesian wouldn’t have invented the barbel. We're poor, we can't be obese and we can't afford cars. We lift things ourselves.
• Best of all, an Indonesian couldn’t have invented the plane. We fly with mystical powers :D 

Hmmm what else? 

(Why invent a basket when you tie your fish on the back of your car?)

Orangutans, Deodorant, and The Dark Side (a.k.a Work)

There’s a lot of things that triggered this blog today:

1. Orangutan

I saw a picture of a blind Orangutan from a friend that was accompanying a rescue mission in Kalimantan. It put my heart in a shredder! Orangutan has been an issue since the palm oil trees have been massively expanded through out our country in the past 5 years. Palm oil plantations have been viciously protecting their goods because the Orangutans have been eating them. How can you blame the Orangutans? Their homes have been chopped down, they have no food but palm oil, and they don’t speak people language. Really? How could you blame them?! They won’t get it.

2. Documentary

I saw this documentary on the BBC knowledge about making deodorant. No biggie actually but it got me thinking that mass products like this would definitely need massive amounts of raw material, all to make the cap, the body, the deodorant, the label, the color, the roller, and everything. They produce thousands, if not millions each day. Now how did they pull off on getting raw materials every day?

3. Work

I work in mining which isn’t mining at the moment. However, I still get that ‘look’ when people start yapping about how bad mining is. It’s one of those big industries that take a lot, as does palm oil in point 1.  Hey, I’m not going to argue on how bad it is. But it will be done! Admit it! You love your gadgets, and electronics, and technology run by machines. And you love how cheap its been for the last 5 years. If it’s mass product, it’s gonna be cheaper, and that means point number 2. So guess what? Mining will be done!

4. Internet

I just love it. I do. Reading this is evidence that I do love the internet. Just saying

I was in a dark place sometime in my life and I have blamed almost all the industries, the malpractice, and anyone that came from big industries and making tons of money out of it but doesn’t seem to care about the environment. There are tons of environmental issues and it seems to just keep coming.

Now, I've crossed over and seen the other side. I've seen and learned a lot! I’ve also though hard around these 4 points and a few more, and I try and try to figure out how this mess can come to an end. I’m a bit megalomaniac you see so, these things about me as a hero saving the world, pops in mind all the time. Don’t worry, it usually fades. Now, the wisdom of my whole contemplation falls in to one brilliant answer which is, all of this was cause and could be saved by ME. Tadaaa! 

Didn’t catch that one coming now did you? Yes me, the consumer, which also means you, him, her, they, us, our ancestors, and our future children. The market has always driven production. With 5 billion (and maybe more) people in the world, we can justify… it’s a ginormous market. If every one wanted to take a shower and use soap with palm oil, say bye bye to Orangutans. If you want that latest playstation, then be ready to wipe up cute cuddly aminals (not typo) that you probably haven’t heard of before. That’s life! I'm not judging anyone, I'm just saying. That's what's gonna happen. 

For me, I try to reduce what I buy, use, and want. It's down right freakishly hard and I usually fail anyways. But I keep on trying. I have that guilt every time I buy something, which is good and it reminds me to think twice about a purchase. If I reduce the amount I consume, then something out there might stay alive a little longer. 

I believe wise consumerism is the answer to every single environmental problem. One important thing I learned about enviro science in school is, it’s human driven. I still believe it now. *pending on buying ipod nano but still browsing about it's cool function as a watch :P

I Used to Think... I Don't Anymore

I had this blog store... for.. more than a year! Better published than stored although its just a paragraph. 

I use to think that the ‘redneck’ dialect was pretty heinous, with all the white trash y’alls and stuff. I just recently (not!) watched ‘The Blind Side’. I changed my perspective. Now I refer it to the ‘American’ dialect. It’s how a lot of Americans talk. And for some reason, not really sure what… but Sandra Bullock made the hoedown talk a little more charming. Now I can see that it’s just another dialect, nothing less than another cultural characteristic. And I don’t see Britney Spears being as trashy anymore… oh how I’ve grown wise :) 

I still think that Hollywood is overrated though…. Not that it matters…

And it's a great movie. 

Picture was taken from here.

Hollywood Suck!

As a single girl, it kills me to watch Hollywood movies. Hollywood loves the idea of finding love and exploits it hard both in good and bad ways! I can't speak for those that are in a relationship. Does Hollywood torture you too with exposing all of love's problems and dilemmas?  Do they?

So here are my 3 most annoying moments about love, being single, and Hollywood (which actually means, I really want it to happen to me but there is no way in hell that it would!!!)

1. Sex and the City 2, the movie.
Aidan says to Carrie, 'You're not like other women'.
Now is THAT a pick up line or what? A man, like Aidan says to Carrie who is already wrinkled that she's not like other women, when in fact she shops for shoes rather than pay mortgage. She is so a like other women. Now Samantha is not like 'other women'. I bet you, Sarah Jessica Parker just needed to hear that and inserted it in the script!

2. Eat, Pray, Love
When the dude (can't remember the characters name) says to Liz 'You don't need a man, you need a champion!'. Yeah sure he didn't explicitly imply it for himself but come on! The hell with champions, lets go with Greek Gods who muscles to destroy the universe. Even Hades, god of the underworld that lives with demons and worms, has a great body! Which comes to my last moment.

3. Crazy Stupid Love
I just watched it. Loved it because Steve Carell was and is awesome (in every movie)! But that's not the reason this movie made it to this absurd list. It made it because Ryan Gossling just had to take of his shirt off!!! To be honest, he's a bit too big and muscular for me, but I'm not complaining. Like, how much crueler can you go? OH.... A LOT! He plays this womanizer that falls for the PG-13 girl. Right! *rolling eyes


And for the record, I think every man should have a classic 'Ray Ban' sunnies that suit their face. I swear it makes the face stay in its 20s.

Dear Hollywood, KMN! (Kill Me Now! Just learned it from The Big Bang Theory. Love it!!)

Maybe I should just go indie!

A Looser, I Am! But Loyal.

I’m back on Wetar and I’m ready to roam the rubble of the virtual world. I need to be in front of my computer screen more and play around with the Indohoy website. It’s a great positive energy to do the website, more than  my likings besides watching the 3^rd season of ‘the Big Bang Theory’. I so clique with those guys! I’m a geek!

On being more in front of my computer: I have failed my own challenge. I wasn’t able to maintain writing every 2 days, especially inline with my blog purpose to state the important. Apparently my life isn’t filled with important things. It’s filled with absurdity and non-sense. Well, be a little fair, significant important stuff isn’t a 24-7 thing. Even I need sleep!

So, I have failed this challenge with only succeeding 16 posts, and numerous delays. As much as I feel like a looser, I’m proud to make it as far as I did considering I have never thought that I can write something worth reading (I'm so Indonesian, seizing the best of the worst things :P). And I will still keep on blogging because I have too much to say anyways. 

With this I close this failed challenge and hope that I will triumph the next. 

 Just thought I'd post these long loved friends. Remember this post? 

Yeah, these babies are forever lost. They have accompanied me well. It is said that one loves like ones love of shoes. Being said that, I'm loyal. That's why I'm still in Wetar :P

Justs Todays Likings

Sometimes, I really like my life on Wetar. As I fold up my underwear to be stored, I had a warm fuzzy feeling about how nice life is as simple as it is. I have one room, and not one house. I don't do the dishes, the laundry, clean the bathroom, or floor of the house, and I don't even have to pay a certain person to do it. I chose to fold my underwear because I want to and I took all the time I have.

I also like the feeling that outside, there's an ocean. Although I can't jump in to it directly because there are river mouth crocs (and not the sandals), I like seeing the horizon, showing me that there's nothing in front of me every morning. The future does not exist.

I also like the fact that I lay bricks to think. I can choose and change meditation methods anyway I please. I have friends that are wise, funny, a pain in the ass. I look forward to sleeping in my double bed, my overly expensive pillow (although still cheap in its class), and my blanket since 2 years ago that keeps me warm from the AC that I don't really need. Most of all, I like the internet access right now, to share the simple things in life that I like.

I also like Steve Jobs for Sylvia. You just gots to love people driven by excellence :)

Cutting Balls for Entertainment!

It’s between being curious and bored that really drives me to try and do something new. Wetar actually has more entertainment than Jakarta sometimes. It’s all a matter how creative one may be. Considering I’ve been here for almost 4 years, I must like the creative atmosphere the island is giving me :)

People always revert to the predictable entertainment and forget that there are other things to do. One thing that I can do on this ‘developing establishment’ is participate in surgeries. I’ve seen the removal of a lipid lump on an employee’s back, with his permission of course. It was a horrifically interesting. Doctors are sadists and we need them to be. 

One of my most entertaining experience was spending 3 hours cutting Jack’s balls off. Now, calm down, Jack is the bosses pet dog. So it was OK to have a non-medical staff to help out. So, I dragged myself to the clinic to see such a fascinating ‘show’. For guys, they really think I’m a sadist since I helped out and I must be some man hater or lesbian, but I'm neither. I love men :D. For me, balls or no balls, it was exciting to see a surgery. Yes, it was that boring and I was that curious. It wasn't any different to the other surgeries I've seen but the guys, including the doctor, seem to squirm of the process. Not to mention, he hates dogs. 

Now this particular experience might not apply to all sites or jobs or situation or whatever, but let be noted that you can find something to entertain yourself. You just gotta do it.

If cutting balls is not your thing, maybe the typical entertainment is really for you like watching people get drunk, having a karaoke sessions, and learn how to slow dance :D