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Hal-hal Norak Yang Mungkin Sering Lo Lakuin Karena Belum Mengerti


Selama 21 tahun gue lahir dan hidup di Indonesia, gue udah makan asam garam dan asam lambung kehidupan di negeri ini. Indonesia adalah negeri yang indah, tapi sayang sebagian penduduknya masih suka melakukan hal yang (ntah sengaja atau tidak) norak dan berujung merugikan orang lain. Terutama orang-orang yang ususnya cuma 3 centimeter, alias nggak sabaran.

Jadi, hari ini gue bakal sharing tentang beberapa hal norak yang sering dilakuin oleh orang-orang pada saat menggunakan fasilitas umum. Apa aja contohnya? Here they are:

Norak di Lift

Lo sering nongkrong di mall? Mallnya ada 800 lantai? Lift adalah pilihan yang oke buat pindah dari lantai ke lantai. Soalnya kalo mau pakai tangga dari lantai dasar ke lantai 800, dijamin sampai ujung sana lo bakal kena hernia. Testis pindah ke mata kaki. Tapi, taukah bahwa penggunaan lift itu ada aturannya juga? Jadi gini, gue sering ngalamin, mencet tombol lift, terus nunggu liftnya tiba, begitu liftnya tiba, ternyata di dalam udah penuh manusia. Gue pun nggak ikut masuk karena udah nggak muat lagi. Hal itu gue ulang tiga kali, dan hasilnya selalu sama. Lift-penuh-gue-nggak-bisa-masuk. Gue bingung, kok lift sesak mulu kayak angkot ngejar setoran gini?

Nah, setelah gue coba perhatiin secara lebih detail, gue berada di lantai basement (lantai paling bawah dari gedung itu), dan lift yang dateng itu adalah lift dari lantai atas. Tapi begitu nyampe lantai basement, nggak ada pengguna lift yang turun. Nah.. Ketauan deh penyakitnya~ Dipastikan ada beberapa orang norak yang pengin pergi ke lantai atas pakai lift, tapi ikut turun dulu. Efeknya apa? Ya calon pemakai lift yang di lantai bawahnya, malah nggak kebagian tempat. Orang-orang ini ngira Lift itu semacam bus AKAP apa ya? Mereka harus ikut mampir di setiap terminal.


Ya, etika naik lift itu simpel. Kalo tujuan lo mau ke lantai atas, jangan masuk lift dulu pas liftnya lagi jalan turun. Kalo lo ikut turun juga, lo bakal bikin orang yang pengin turun malah nggak kebagian tempat. So, perhatiin arah panah di display liftnya ya. Kalo lo mau turun, jangan masuk lift yang panahnya mengarah ke atas. Jangan norak~

Juga diingat etika lain dalam penggunaan Lift adalah, biarkan yang mau turun keluar dulu. Jangan buru-buru masuk, kasian kan yang mau turun kalo lo dorong masuk lagi gara-gara lo buru-buru. Jadinya dia gagal turun, terus ngikut liftnya jalan lagi deh. Mengenaskan.

Selain lift, eskalator sebenernya juga ada etika penggunaannya. Saat kita berdiri di eskalator, dan kita nggak sedang buru-buru, berdirilah di sisi kiri eskalator. Sisain sisi kanan lo. Jangan berdiri di tengah-tengah, atau tiduran di eskalator karena rasanya enak kayak naik gondola. Nanti kamu ditangkep satpam, terus digoreng loh. Kenapa kita sebaiknya berdiri di sisi kiri eskalator? Biar orang yang sedang buru-buru bisa jalan ngelewatin sisi kanan kita itu. Nah.. Sekarang udah paham kan? Nggak boleh norak lagi deh.

Norak di ATM

Gue juga pernah pengin ngambil duit gocap doang dari ATM karena itu sisa duit yang gue punya buat makan. Tapi begitu sampai di ATM, ternyata antreannya lumayan panjang, kurang lebih 4 orang berdiri di depan mesin ATM. Ternyata di situ ada 5 mesin ATM, 2 mesin tarik tunai, 1 mesin setoran tunai, dan 2 mesin non-tunai. Tapi mesin tarik tunainya rusak 1. Praktis tersisa 1 mesin tarik tunai yang bisa dipakai.


Nah, gue berdiri kurang lebih 10 menit di antrean mesin ATM tarik tunai, tapi nggak gerak-gerak. Gue penasaran, ibu-ibu yang paling depan itu sebenernya lagi ngapain? Apa dia lupa PIN ATMnya? Atau dia lagi main game Zuma? Atau dia lagi nonton sinetron Ganteng-ganteng Serigala di layar ATMnya?

Selidik punya selidik, ternyata ibu-ibu itu make mesin ATM bukan buat narik duit, melainkan lagi bayar tagihan-tagihan rumah tangga dan transfer sana-sini. Ini adalah contoh orang punya duit, tapi kelakuannya norak. Bank menyediakan mesin ATM beberapa jenis itu tentu ada tujuannya. Yang pengin setor uang tunai tapi malas ketemu teller bank, pakai mesin setor tunai. Yang pengin narik uang tunai, pakai mesin yang tarikan tunai. Yang pengin beli pulsa, bayar listrik, bayar kartu kredit, transfer uang ke berondong, pake mesin ATM non-tunai.

Kalo penggunaannya salah, efeknya ngerugiin orang kayak ibu-ibu di depan gue itu. Ada 2 mesin non-tunai nganggur di sebelahnya, tapi dia make mesin tarik tunai buat transfer-transfer. Itu adalah hal norak. Jangan ditiru.

Nyerobot Antrean

Malem minggu kemarin gue dateng ke kondangan nikahan kakaknya Supri bareng temen gue namanya Ryo. Pas gue lagi ngantre nungguin giliran gue ngisi buku tamu, tiba-tiba ada ibu-ibu berdiri di samping gue. Gue selaw aja ngeliat ibu-ibu itu tiba-tiba nongol. Terus beberapa saat kemudian, disusul ibu-ibu lain berdiri di belakang ibu-ibu itu. Di belakang gue nggak ada orang. Nah, pas giliran gue mau ngisi buku tamu, tiba-tiba ibu-ibu yang berdiri di samping gue tadi ngambil pulpennya duluan. Gue diemin aja, sabar. Gue nyadar dia ngelakuin semua hal dengan buru-buru karena dia tau sisa waktunya di dunia tinggal dikit. Rasa toleransi gue mendadak membesar setelah mengingat fakta itu.

Kelar ibu-ibu itu ngisi buku tamu, eh... ibu-ibu yang di belakangnya gantian ngambil pulpen. Sedangkan gue? Gue dianggap apa dari tadi berdiri di situ? Dikira gue ini cetakan tumpeng apa gimana? Pas gue masih diem nahan bete ngeliat kelakuan ibu-ibu itu, Tyo yang udah dari tadi kelar ngisi buku tamu, manggil dari kejauhan.

"Yuk Diq.. Masuk!"

Gue pun ngejawab dengan lumayan kencang dan ketus, "Bentar ya Yo.. Gue ngantre dari tadi, tapi diserobotin mulu. Maklum, pada nggak diajarin ngantre di sekolah nih!"

Mendengar jawaban gue, Tyo menahan tawa dan ibu-ibu yang berdiri di sekitar gue cuma membuang muka seakan-akan gue itu adalah roh halus yang ucapannya tidak bisa mereka dengarkan.

So guys, antre adalah sebuah sistem yang diciptakan oleh makhluk beradab agar tercipta sebuah ketertiban dan keadilan dalam sebuah kegiatan. Tujuan dari mengantre adalah membuat orang yang datang duluan, mendapatkan haknya duluan, yang datang belakangan, mendapatkan haknya belakangan juga. Jadi, semua orang mendapatkan haknya secara adil juga. Nah, nyerobot antrean orang itu sama aja ngerebut hak orang lain. Itu adalah perbuatan jahat dan norak. Kalo hak sekecil itu aja lo tergiur buat ngerebut, gimana Tuhan mau mercayain lo buat nerima hak yang lebih besar?


Norak di Jalan

Lalu lintas di Indonesia menurut gue adalah lalu lintas yang paling kacau sedunia setelah India. Bedanya, di India, yang lewat nggak cuma kendaraan bermotor yang dinaikin cabe-cabean, tapi ada sapi yang sering lewat juga. Di India, sapi lewat harus dikasih jalan, lebih istimewa daripada ambulan. Makanya kalo ada sapi nyeberang, kendaraan langsung pada berhenti. Begitu ada sapi tidur di jalan, macet pun terjadi.

Ngelihat kepadatan jalan dan kemacetan yang luar biasa adalah hal yang lumrah. Kepadatan jalan dan kemacetan itu bukanlah hal yang bisa dihindari apabila jumlah kendaraannya emang jauh lebih besar dibandingkan kapasitas jalan yang disediakan.

Tapi yang lebih menyebalkan dari kemacetan adalah orang-orang norak di jalan yang memperparah kemacetan itu sendiri. Contohnya yang kayak apa? Banyak!

Berenti di lajur kiri pas lampu merah adalah salah satu contoh kelakuan norak orang yang memperparah kemacetan. Harusnya saat berhenti di lampu merah, lajur kiri yang ada tandanya "Belok kiri jalan terus" nggak boleh diisi lagi. Biar apa? Biar orang yang mau belok kiri bisa melanjutkan perjalanan, bukan ikut ngantre lampu merah. Kalo orang-orang yang pengin belok kiri ketutup jalannya, ya akhirnya kemacetan semakin parah dong ya.

Berenti di lajur lawan saat menunggu di perlintasan kereta juga menjadi hal norak yang sering dilakukan orang Indonesia. Logikanya gini deh, kalo para pengendara di seberang kiri dan kanan sama-sama menuhin jalan dan saling ngisi juga jalur lawan, apa pas palang penyeberangan kereta dibuka, mau pada saling tubruk-tubrukan? Mbok ya kepala itu diisi nutrisi otak yang cukup, jangan diisi semen to.

Dan pengguna jalan norak yang paling gue sebelin adalah yang berikut ini, orang yang nggak mau ngeliat lampu sein orang lain. Sering banget gue lagi nyetir, terus mau belok kiri, gue nyalain lampu sein kiri. Pas mobil gue udah lumayan miring kiri, tau-tau ada motor ngeduluin gue dari kiri!! IYA!! DARI KIRI!!

SAPI BALET! BADAK NGONDEK! BERUANG PUBER! SINGA ALAY! Kan gue jadi kaget! APA ORANG ITU NGGAK DIAJARIN KALO KITA NGGAK BOLEH NGEDULUIN DARI KIRI? APALAGI NGEDULUIN DARI KIRI, ORANG YANG MAU BELOK KIRI?! Orang yang kayak gini, gue harap dihalalkan buat digiles lehernya pas di jalan raya. Amin.

Sayangnya, di Indonesia, siapa yang galak dialah yang benar. Atau, siapa yang ngerasa lebih miskin, dialah yang menang. Misal gue nabrak pemotor yang ngeduluin gue dari kiri, gue yang bakal disuruh bayar ganti rugi dan ngobatin karena gue pake mobil. Iya, yang dianggap kaya, disuruh tanggung jawab meskipun yang salah yang mengaku miskin. Hukum jalan yang aneh ini sering dimanfaatin orang-orang norak.

Nah, itu aja dulu SEBAGIAN dari hal-hal norak yang sering gue liat di sekitar. Gue harap elo nggak ngelakuin hal-hal itu. Kalopun elo lakuin itu karena nggak tau, sekarang kan elo udah tau, jadi semoga elo bisa jadi pribadi yang lebih baik saat menggunakan fasilitas umum. Kalo bersedia, boleh bagikan postingan ini di sosial media, biar orang-orang yang belum tau, bisa nyadar juga.

Sekian postingan gue hari ini. Kalo elo ada pengalaman lain tentang orang-orang norak saat menggunakan fasilitas umum, silakan share di kolom komentar ya!
Ciao!

Why You Should Be A Morning Person


What is one thing most successful people have in common? They get up extra early and make the most of the morning. Here’s why:
Waking up early gives you time to think before the buzz of the day begins. To put it simply, the early morning is “you time” — a time to lay out your priorities for the day and make progress against them, before others are demanding your time and attention. It puts you firmly in control of each day.
Of course it is awfully hard to get out of bed, but that’s exactly why early risers have the competitive advantage over everyone else. They tackle the day while others hit the snooze button.

  • Virgin Founder Richard Branson wakes up at 5:45am, even when he’s on his private island, and uses the morning for exercise and breakfast before starting work for the day
  • First Lady Michelle Obama starts her day at 4:30am for a workout before her kids wake up
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook gets up at 3:45am every day to catch up on email, hit the gym, and make a Starbucks run before heading to the office
  • Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz gets up at 4:30am to get a workout in (often a bike ride with his wife) — and of course to make some coffee to get his day going
  • Disney CEO Bob Iger rises at 4:30am and uses the early morning to read the paper, exercise, listen to music, catch up on emails, and even watch TV
  • Vogue Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour wakes at 5:45am to play an hour of tennis before work demands hit
  • GE CEO Jeff Immelt wakes up at 5:30am and gets in a cardio workout while reading the paper and watching CNBC

Did you notice another consistent trend among all of these ultra-successful people? Everyone’s morning ritual includes exercise as a key component.
In addition to the overall health and fitness benefits, studies have shown that moderate-intensity exercise for 20+ minutes produces a mental and emotional boost for the following 12 hours! This means that these business leaders are likely more clear-headed, effective, and productive at work as a direct result of their morning workout. The exercise time also allows them to think and problem-solve without interruption, so they hit the ground running once they get into the office. Morning exercise is an incredibly efficient use of time.

In addition to waking up extra early and exercising, here are a few more morning habits to get your day moving in the right direction:
  • Drink 16 oz. of Water Upon Waking — Rehydrate after your 7–8 hours of sleep
  • Make Your Bed — Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity throughout the day
  • Eat a Healthy Breakfast — Fuel your body for the demands of the day (led by energy-packed fruits and vegetables)
  • Drink 1–2 Cups of Coffee — Give yourself a morning boost while reaping the proven health benefits
  • Catch up on the News — Use the quiet time to know what’s happening in the world around you
  • Prioritize Your Day — Establish your top priorities and think about how to tackle them
All of this sets you up for success before your “work day” even begins, whatever form that may take for you. Being a morning person isn’t reserved for just C-level execs. Everyone will benefit from implementing these good habits.
Think it’s not possible for you because you need the extra sleep? The experts would say to get to bed earlier the night before to make the early wake-up call tolerable.
These tips and success stories help motivate me to get out of bed when all I want to do is sleep a bit more, and hopefully they also inspire you to make the morning your secret weapon!

A Beginner’s Guide to Hating Indonesia

Photo by Rizki Arrida, kiddiesm.deviantart.com

Four Tips on Managing that Symptomatic Love-Hate Relationship with Your Country

“Of course it ends up badly,” said a friend, toying with his paper cup of overpriced coffee. “This is Indonesia, what do you expect? The people are dumb and stupid, they’ll never be able to appreciate such a thing.” The friend was Indonesian.


If you’re anywhere involved with the general political or cultural talks of Indonesia with the locals for just more than a week, one thing becomes clear: We love to hate the country.
We love to laugh things off cynically, say that things will never work here. We laugh at hyper-patriotic people, people who are actually in love with the country. They are naive and stupid and pretentious and what have you.
#IndonesiaBanget
We love to claim how much potential we have. And yet this claim always has to be supplemented by something like, “But sadly there are too many bad things in this country, we need a lot of work, but the government is unreliable and the industry is too conservative,” and so on.
Because we love hating so much, I thought I’d give a few handy pointers about healthy hating.
  • DON’T: Hate to Excuse Failures

A lot of people do this. They work their asses off in their early twenties, hoping to achieve something new, different, and edgy in conservative, plain Indonesia with creative experimentation — only to find that their years of hard work gets rewarded by lazy claps of like eight people on a good day.




You know the story. They become jaded 30-year-olds who keep claiming that Indonesia sucks and cannot appreciate talent, and how the industry refuses to evolve. All that shit you’ve heard a million times before from every other 30-year-olds.
There are facts here. Many Indonesians do suck ass big time when it comes to appreciation of the arts and sciences (funding, anyone?). Many parts of the industry are conservative and resistant to change. All of those are true.
But if you waste the remainder of whatever you have to pursue your creative career on this hatred, will you ever get anywhere?
Also: if you’re too used to cynically hating society when things go wrong, who’s to say you won’t blame the Japanese or the Australians when you finally get that big break to move out of the country, but still find yourself stuck in the rat race, somehow?
Shit happens, you know. And it’s not always in Indonesia.
  • DON’T: Hate to Substitute Thought

Here’s something that might surprise you: I hate political satire. There are some really good ones out there that make us think, but those are few and far between. Most are designed to make us laugh — and feel good about ourselves, as if we already did some critical thinking.
Laughter against the government and the politicians has become so prevalent that it has become ingrained into its functioning. There is nothing subversive about them.

Are you aware which TV channels produce them? Exactly.

What I have noticed is that all this inverse racism against Indonesia functions in exactly the same way. Go on, try and enter a conversation and bring up some critical point, a critical social symptom currently happening.
And then, out of the blue, just say something like “Yes, it happens because we live in Indonesia.”
There is hardly a more effective way to end what otherwise could have been a critical conversation. We hate Indonesia because we don’t want to think critically about its problems.
  • DON’T: Hate to Escape Love

You’ve all heard the story: A guy walks up to the stage and preaches about how Indonesia is awesome, and everybody claps.
When he gets down, he whispers to his friends, “What I said was bullshit. How can I love Indonesia when the reality is so terrible?”



Photo by Rizki Arrida

It’s too easy to read this cynically, how all our love is really a fake. But if that were true, would we really be so prone to anti-Malaysia sentiments and hyper-patriotic chain text messages?
But what if it’s the hate that is often faked? What if you really love Indonesia, but are too ashamed to admit it because the reality is too terrible, so you whisper to your friends just to come across as not naive? Which is why, at the first sign that it’s okay to show love (in racism, in chain text messages, in patriotic creative gatherings), you get really excited?
Look: I know hating is trendy, but really, don’t do it for the sake of looking cool and critical. It’s true that hyper-patriotism is a terrible right-wing attitude — a whole other topic of discussion — but at least those right-wingers are brave enough to be honest about themselves.
  • DO: Hate What’s Happening — Not a Name that Stands for It

When you live in Indonesia, there are so many things deserving of your hatred. But there is one critical distinction we must make. Is it racist to say that most Indonesians suck? No — of course most Indonesians suck, because most people on Earth suck.
What’s racist is when we say how most people here suck because they are Indonesians. What’s chauvinistically racist is when we say we are awesome because we are Indonesians.
Similarly, all the terrible things that’s happening around us are not happening because it’s Indonesia. Sure, most happen to be the faults of some horrible Indonesians in power under a corrupt system, but they are not horrible and corrupt because they are Indonesians, are they?
And don’t think I’ll let you off easy: When we say we love Indonesia and the amount of talent it has or the kind people, let’s face it: Those people are not full of talent, kindness, and compassion because they are Indonesians. They made some correct decisions in life and had some good luck, and they just happen to be Indonesians. Big surprise!



Photo by Rizki Arrida
 

Let me say this again: Living in Indonesia, there are so many things deserving of hate. And hate can be good— it can make you take to the streets, it can make you strive to build better alternatives.
It’s just that, you know, be straight with what you’re hating. Don’t just slap on the name “Indonesia” to everything and call it a day. That’s lazy thinking.

The idea of a culture, a nation, a society, is a fluid terrain borne of the tensions of the multiple meanings we assign to it, each and every day. Each action we take in its name, each curse under our breath against it, each passage we write about it redefines it in the greater dynamic of the world.
Don’t love a name and mask it with false hatred because you are unsure of the world. Love precisely this uncertainty, the endless potential of the empty name, instead of some nonexistent transcendental essence.


Hate, but hate healthy. Hate against the system, not some abstract name. Hate without prejudice and dogma. Hate with a critical mind.

33 Websites That Will Make You a Genius

The web is increasingly becoming a powerful resource that can easily help you learn something new everyday. These awesome sites are just what you need.

“I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein

There is a good chance you’ll be able to put at least one of these learning tools to good use and come out as a better person than you were last year. Here’s a list of websites that will make you smarter

1. BBC — Future — Making you smarter, every day.
2. 99U (YouTube) — Actionable insights on productivity, organization, and leadership to help creative people push ideas forward.
3. Youtube EDU— The education videos that don’t have cute cats in boxes — but they do unlock knowledge.
4. WikiWand — A slick new interface for Wikipedia.
5. The long read (The Guardian)— In-depth reporting, essays and profiles.
6. TED — Great videos to open your mind on almost every topic.
7. iTunes U— Learning on the go, from some of the world’s top universities.
8. InsightfulQuestions (subreddit) — Intellectual discussions that are not necessarily genre-specific.
9. Cerego — Cerego helps you build personalized study plans based on your strengths and weaknesses to retain knowledge.
10. University of the People— Tuition-free online university that offers higher education in multiple course streams.
11. OpenSesame — Marketplace for online training, now with 22,000+ courses.
12. CreativeLive — Take free creative classes from the world’s top experts.
13. Coursera— Partnering with some of the top U.S. universities, Coursera offers massive open online courses for free.
14. University of reddit— the product of free intellectualism and is a haven for the sharing of knowledge.
15. Quora — You ask, the net discusses — with top experts and fascinating back and forth on everything.
16. Digital Photography School— Read through this goldmine of articles to improve your photography skills.
17. Umano -Explore the largest collection of audio articles powered by real people. Dropbox has acquired Umano. Brain Pickings is a great replacement for 17.
18. Brain Pickings— Insightful long form posts on life, art, science, design, history, philosophy, and more.
19. Peer 2 Peer University or P2PU, is an open educational project that helps you learn at your own pace.
20. MIT Open CourseWare is a catalog of free online courses and learning resources offered by MIT.
21. Gibbon— This is the ultimate playlist for learning.
22. Investopedia — Learn everything you need to know about the world of investing, markets, and personal finance.
23. Udacity offers interactive online classes and courses in higher education.
24. Mozilla Developer Network offers detailed documentation and learning resources for web developers.
25. Future learn — enjoy free online courses from top universities and specialist organisations.
26. Google Scholar  — provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
27. Brain Pump — A place to learn something new everyday.
28. Mental Floss — Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games.
29. Learnist — Learn from expertly curated web, print and video content.
30. DataCamp — Online R tutorials and data science courses.
31. edX — Take online courses from the world’s best universities.
32. Highbrow — Get bite-sized daily courses to your inbox.
33. Coursmos— Take a micro-course anytime you want, on any device.
34. Platzi— Live streaming classes on design, marketing and code.


What are your favourite learning tools that are not listed here.
“What could be more important to a learner than proficiency in good thinking?” Peter Worley