All about Indonesia nowadays

Buat para penggemar blog ini (which is gua sendiri, hiks) mulai hari ini konsep blog ini akan berubah. Konsepnya akan menyerupai gua yang lagi siaran. Enjoy it...

Beberapa hari ini gua lebih banyak melihat Wakil Presiden dari pada Presidennya. Mungkin karena gua yang kurang memantau media massa kali ya...
Gua hitung-hitung gua cuman liat SBY 2 kali, dan JK 5 kali dari 7 berita tentang mereka.
Tapi di koran dan berita yang gua tonton banyakan JK emang nongol. Kebetulan gua memang membaca dan menonton all things bout bussiness waktu itu.
Sementara itu setiap gua liat SBY, dia malah sedang melakukan charity movements gitu deh untuk rakyat kecil nan kesusahan.
Apa mereka berdua udah sepakat yah untuk mengambil peran masing-masing seperti itu?
Atau emang SBY sekarang udah kalah pamor?
Atau itu siasat mereka masing-masing untuk pemilihan berikutnya?
Gak tau deh...

Sementara itu pula, gua sempet ngobrol-ngobrol ama Direktur Komersial di kantor tetangga (tetangga kantor gua maksudnya) tentang apa sih yang bakal menjadi jalan keluar buat Indonesia di tengah keterpurukan bangsa ini...
Berawal dari pembicaraan mengenai Buha Hutajulu (satu fam ama gue) dan M. Tambunan (pejabat tinggi Telkom), pembicaraan melebar menjadi bahasan mengenai produksi dalam negeri.
Sang Direktur mengatakan kalau jalan keluar buat bangsa ini adalah "kalangan menengah ke atas mau susah". Kenapa bisa begitu gua pikir, terus dia menjelaskan:
"yang dapat membantu perekonomian Indonesia adalah produksi dalam negeri. Sayangnya kalo kita memacu produksi dalam negeri, kita akan menekan impor barang-barang luar. Ternyata hal itu membuat bangsa-bangsa lain enggan meminjamkan hutang pada bangsa kita. Karena pada dasarnya bangsa asing itu meminjamkan hutang (baik pinjaman dana atau yang purely charity) itu cuma strategi saja, agar negara yang dipinjamkan membeli produksi-produksi dari negeri asing tersebut. Otomatis kalo produksi negara asing peminjam dana tersebut running terus, ekonominya juga running terus dong... Sementara negeri yang dipinjamkan akan terus bergantung pada negeri asing tersebut.
Nah kata beliau lagi, kalo emang kita sepakat untuk mau tidak menerima pinjaman asing, itu berarti kita sepakat untuk susah bersama.
Gua jadi kebayang India jaman Mahatma Gandhi gitu. Hmm... kalo emang itu satu-satunya jalan keluar, pada mau ga ya? Gua pikir-pikir bentar ya...
Give me sometimes to prepare my self to be poor kayaknya...

Waktu itu juga gua lagi nonton bareng temen gua, dan ada diskusi group gitu tentang masyarakat Tionghwa. Gua males banget deh yang begituan masih dibahas. Akhirnya kami berdua menemukan kesepakatan: dengan diamandemennya UUD 1945 sebenernya hak kita dan mereka udah sama koq. Dan kalaupun masih ada ketidakadilan di level praktek itu mah masalah perorangan yah untuk memperjuangkannya.
Gua sendiri kalo misalnya gua mengumpat: "dasar cina..." itu gak lain dan gak bukan adalah kekesalan gua akan sifat-sifat dasar yang jelek dari orang cina itu sendiri yang beredar di khalayak ramai. Sama sekali bukan gua mengusir teman-teman gua itu dari Indonesia maupun mengungkit-ungkit masalah asal mereka. Sama aja kayak gua mengumpat: "dasar jawa" (yang katanya suka memendam kekesalan) atau "dasar batak, suaranya bagus" (hahahaha... orang batak gitu lho).

Which one will you choose?

Which one will you choose?

1. A very nice, diligent, clean, good-mother, conservative woman you love (a normal love), that you know she will take care the rest of your life, or
2. A girl that can make you wild and crazy in love

If I asked to choose one of them, I would say: “I don’t know”. It's a hard question for me.

Yang gua benci dari suatu film...

Beberapa waktu yang lalu gua nonton sinetron di Televisi. Kisahnya waktu itu adalah beberapa calon siswa baru di suatu SMA sedang dibariskan pada suatu rangkaian acara orientasi siswa (mapras atau ospek). Waktu itu seorang gadis (pemeran utama) dipanggil ke depan dan diberi hadiah sementara yang lain masih berbaris di belakang.

Inilah yang paling gua benci dari sebuah film. Film itu harus berkisah tentang seseorang atau sepasang kekasih. Waktu itu gua sedikit bertanya dalam hati: kira-kira siapa yah nama gadis yang berada di baris kedua kolom ketiga itu? Rumahnya dimana dan kayak apa orangnya? Yang pasti gua gak akan pernah tau nama gadis itu. Karena itu suatu sinetron. Dan profil gadis itu tersembunyi selamanya. Lenyap bersama habisnya adegan itu.

Beda banget sama kehidupan yang sebenarnya, waktu kehidupan bukanlah tentang kita saja, melainkan ada juga teman-teman di sekitar kita yang mungkin mukanya jelek dan tidak elok. Waktu kita bercakap-cakap dengan dia dan terkadang memikirkan kehidupannya. Di sinetron gua gak menemukan kehidupan seperti itu.

Mungkin film dan sinetron juga harus bertanggung jawab atas peningkatan sifat egoisme di seluruh dunia ini. Dan mimpi-mimpi gak jelas dari banyak orang di seluruh dunia.

Karena itulah gua suka film Independence Day. Pastinya karena film itu gak cuma menyorot satu kehidupan, bahkan film itu menyorot seluruh kehidupan dengan men-sampling beberapa kehidupan yang sedang berjalan. Gosh, gua suka banget film itu.

Hmmh... bagaimanapun juga gak segampang itu membuat film yah. Ini cuma goresan kekesalan gua aja tentang film. Dan gua akan terus suka menonton film koq tentunya.

History of Bo

Since lot of people ask about my nick name Bo, I feel like it’s important to share the history of this word.

The story begin about four years ago in Bandung Institute of Technology, my bachelor campus. That time, me and my friends (Ico, Jeki, etc.) used to apply the words ‘bo’ at the end of our sentences. This word have some tension of 'k' consonant, so it sounds like 'joke' with 'j' replaced by 'b'. So you can say it like this: ‘bok’. For example:
Iya tau ‘bok’, bener banget tau ‘bok’... (Yes ‘bok’, it’s very right ‘bok’)
This word actually common in whole town. Announcers of almost young-market radio stations frequently used this kind of Indonesian language style.

In the development of this word, me and my friends utilized the word in order to replace the subject of ourselves. This time the word still use the ‘k’ tension. For instance:
Eh ‘bok’ (mengacu ke Jeki), tau ga lu… (hey ‘bok’ (regarding to Jeki), did you know…)
That time the usage of ‘bo’ regarding subject of person also familiar in several towns in Indonesia.

Then we made ourselves different by deleting the ‘k’ tension and add ‘w’ tension in it. So it became ‘bow’. It sound like we say “saw” with ‘s’ replaced by ‘b’. Don’t forget to adhere your both lips and bring them forward a little to say this self-invented word.

This word ‘bow’ stay quite long until one day my other buddy, Roy, replace my name with this word. Since that day, my name was replaced with that word. Surely, completely, perfectly all sentences which emerge my name-Sahat-in it, replaced by this word. But this time, the tension ‘w’ in ‘bow’ deleted. So it’s perfectly ‘b’ followed by ‘o’: ‘bo’. The way to say it is likely the same with the previous one ‘bow’, but the consonant ‘w’ erased. The sound became quite warm in my ears.

Not spend much time since he called me like that, I also used the same word to replace his name. In order to differentiate my nick with his, I used capitalization in writing. And as you can also realized, we don’t need differentiation in two-ways chat. I used to wrote ‘Bo’ for his nick name in every message I sent to him that time. I also got my name wrote down as ‘bo’ that time. I didn’t know if my friend realize this or not till now, it’s just my personal convention. Why he got the capitalization? The answer is simply because he is older than me.

Afterthat, our both friend Vanny, ruined everything. She used to called both of us 'bo'. Before, she used to call us with our real name. Then we got confused if she said ‘bo’, cause we didn’t knew to whom she talked to.

As a punishment, Vanny also given that title for herself. We both use to call her ‘bo’ till now on. In the beginning it’s hard to applicate, to understand who is the subject of one topic. But then we could overcome it and all of us now easy to understand what we talk about.

Now every single person in the Fellowship are known as Bo. It’s made us easy in sending the broadcast SMS. We just made only one template for all of us. Such as:
Bo, Met Natal & Tahun Baru ya…(Bo, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year )

That’s way I popular with the name SAHATHUTAJULUBO

Driving Engineering (Engineering Everyday)

Yesterday I went home, together with Mr. Kayatmo EL 1964, while my self EL 2001. As a young-fascinating and respectful man, I offered to drive the car home. As usual he would dropped me in one place adjacent to my home.

That was our new track home. The last time I went home with him, we took the highway. This is the second time I drive, and I completely didn’t recognize this new track.

Along the way, Mr. Kayatmo gave me directions and suggestions needed. Gosh, trust me it’s really hard driving in Jakarta after the office hour. Mr. Kayatmo made me nervous along the way. With all the words suggested to me, I became very confused. Sometimes he said: “took the right side”; then “take the left side, there’s U turn in front”. A minute later he said; “we must be very left, definitely left” while, I was second from rightest track that time. It was definitely annoying. This is the map I made to make a picture our track.
The red arrows are the car movements.


Actually I was impressed by his driving skills. One opportunity I was home away with him, but that time he drove the car. Yes, he is a really great driver. Imagine what the age of him now is… I did really want to know his secret in driving like that.

That afternoon, after the long driving from our office, I implied “truly sorry sir, I have a mess driving”. Then he replied, “not mess, but unplanned”. He added “if you want to drive, planned it from the time you start the engine”. First time I was a little hurted with all his words along the journey, but then I realize something, something great:

"If you are an engineer, you must have the engineering souls in all you do, even driving”

I realize something, that old man, wanted to teach me something. Something that force me to think. But not just usual thinking, but a detail thinking. In all aspect of my life. That is to become a real engineer.

Wondering what is the really good plan for my only once life. I will plan it, and God will take care of it.