An Avid Gamer

I used to dream to make my former hobby (i.e gaming) as my long-life job. You know, the kind who dedicated their lives to bring the best performance in the MMO game championship, like this team. Unfortunately, I’m no longer an avid gamer myself because of certain reasons.

Then, I moved on and temporarily become an avid reader. I bought several famous novel book from Sidney Sheldon — like Master of The Game and Mistress of The Game. And then I realized that my budget wouldn’t support my hobby as a reader, so I ceased.

A Fine Harmony

The instrumental of the day for me — at least for today. This instrumental has a fine harmony, one that can assist me in escaping time and entering an alternate reality — as long as the song is played, of course. Enjoy 🙂

A song by Jimmy Wahlsteen – Roots of Levant (432 Hz)

Spiking New Ideas

Wired news site said that Elon Musk — the one that founded PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX — has a radical idea that he wants to merge human brains with AI — he even launched a company just for that purpose. Honestly, I disapprove this idea and hope that someone powerful will spike this idea from becoming a reality.

Brain Fried

Summarily, a brain fried term means that your brain is overworked, overloaded or something like that that makes you don’t feel like doing things especially the things that require thinking, even the things you love doing the most.

For me, this occurs after I’m sitting still in college for several hours straight and doing assignments by sitting for a very long time. Feels like I don’t have a me-time, even when actually I still can afford to do the things I like when I want to. It’s just . . . it’s different.

Chuckle: A Painful Laugh

Usually, I chuckled when I wanted to suppress laugh because the opportunity weren’t appropriate. For instance, when I was insulted but there wasn’t anything I could do, I’d just chuckle to mask my offended feelings. Or of course, when it was about work.

But obviously, I prefer laughing out loud to a chuckle. It’s giving you more freedom and releases more happiness hormones — I always get them mixed up. But my self-image sometimes is more important than mere hormones, so I go for the former.

Opaque Dreams

One of the opaque things in life is dreams. They say it has hidden meanings beyond what are seen but . . . I still don’t get it.

Back when I was able to lucid dream, it was one of the greatest moments of my life. I remember dreamed having a bicycle race where it was sunset and in the middle of the grass field like above — plus the asphalt where I and my opponents were competing and minus the flying balloons. Once I realized that I was dreaming, I went flying off the track and going towards the sun. No kidding.

Why would I dream such a thing? What are the meaning lie beyond it? What am I supposed to do next? Honestly, I don’t know. But I hope that I can lucid dream again. Someday.

Jolted Out of Thought

Two words: Climate Change

Hopefully this got people jolted out of their thought enough to realize that the climate is changing. It’s not normal in my opinion. Things got out of hand, it’s raining everyday and although so, Bandung city feels hotter than 3 years prior to my arrival here.

Mind the Journey

Once I heard that the process is more important than the results. I think that they’re equally important. Maybe — just maybe — we’re trained to put our standards so high we forget that each man has different journey occurring in his life. We’re trained not to mind the journey.

But the journey is important because that’s when and where we’re developing and maturing ourselves. With growth, comes happiness — and wisdom — because we’re able to see the world in a wider point of view.

I know that climbing the mountain is a hard journey, but usually it’s worth it. Usually.

 

Cranky When Exhausted

It’s not uncommon for us to be cranky when tired.

I am prone to being cranky when I’m already exhausted by college assignments. Staring at my PC for hours, having absolutely no idea what I was doing or writing and also hoping that my GPA wouldn’t disappoint me.

Measure a Student’s Worth

I don’t blame companies who prefer hire talented and students who already achieve so much in their academic. But, the problem is what will happen to those who never join any competitions or achieve anything worth noticing. Are they still worth something?

Apart from something quantified like GPA — and achievements and sorts — companies usually consider the projects they’ve done and their expertise to measure a student’s worth. If you’re an expert at lip service, there’s a high chance that you can convince them to hire you. But, are we worth something than that, or even less?