The Tide of a Human

The day someone was born will be most of the time considered as a special moment and worth the celebration. It makes sense because it’s the mark of a person’s existence in this world and for many families the presence of children is a blessing. When the children grow up, most of them are accustomed to the idea that birthday is a special celebration because it’s the day they “arrived” to the world. Also, having another year added is believed as a new opportunity and new phase in life. Later on, how birthday is perceived would be varied into two major point of views, which are the basic idea of giving thanks for another year or a new phase in life and the "advance" idea of a specific moment to have fun celebrating their life. People love birthdays, they like to make it as the moment for doing something different remarkable. Thus there are many routines and habits related to celebrating birthdays.   [...] the basic idea of giving thanks for another yea...

Prayer has always been a messenger medium from us to God. Unlike million years ago in the time of the prophets, we live in an era where believer “see” with faith not eyes, thus the way we communicate with  God is through prayers not as lucky as Moses did back then with a more of face to face method which actually more convenient somehow. Prayer is so essential that in a Sunday service there's a specific prayer prosession called intercession (cmiiw) to pray for everything (asking guidance based on what the preach was about, family, people who are sick, church, student, worker, country, even single people, etc.). So yeah prayer is something very basic and important in a religion. It's so important that the phrase "the power of prayer" exists. It is powerful when it's done right, right? It makes people feel calm and secure for most of the time. Prayers are powerful because it has the possibility of being "converted" into a miracle (with the perm...

Working life has been a theme for many TV Series. In K-Dramas and Japanese Dorama there are a lot of them. One of the popular working life K-Drama is Misaeng: Incomplete Life (2014). This drama was based on the webcomic "Misaeng" by Yoon Tae-Ho (20-01-2012 until14-10-2013) . The 20 episodes drama is aired in TvN station, written by Yoon Tae-Ho (original comic) and Jung Yoon-Jung and directed by Kim Won-Suk. At the Baeksang Arts Award 2015 this drama has won three awards (best actor, best newcomer actor and best director). Misaeng’s main character is Jang Geu Rae, a former Go prodigy player who struggles to adjust his life as an employee with no college education background in a busy company. Due to certain personal reasons, Jang Geu Rae, who spends his entire life in Go Academy, only has a GED certificate because after high school he had to work for his family and had no chance to attend college. He got accepted in the big company through some sort of wild card from the dir...

Once we are attracted to foreign language, we’ll be pulled directly or indirectly into the world of vocabulary. That leads us to our first engagement with the act of translating because starting from there we’re going to be directed to open the dictionary (online or printed). As we all know, finding the definition of a certain word in another language is one of the basic steps in learning a new language. Basically we are already used to it, it doesn’t even have to be another country’s language, the closest example is translating the regional language to the lingua franca language (Javanese to Indonesian). Sometimes we even have to translate certain words into the same language using the synonyms or rephrase the sentences to make them more clear. People also have different reasons for why they have to translate, from daily purposes, study, to work. Translating is one of those important things in life, whether it is for personal or professional use. The interesting side about translating...

Drawing is not only a hobby for me but also one of the coping way I choose to feel relieved and calm. It’s a media to express something unspokeable inside my mind. One day I want to draw something different and surreal. After I drew a beautiful beach girl, I came with the idea to draw her, the girl with balloons necklace and a crown.           She actually represented me, how I felt. I feel under pressured and got lot of thoughts. I got war inside my head and problem with this and that. There is something that is not cured yet. In this drawing, she has a crown which means she actually has power to reach her dreams. She got knowledge and will to learn more. The heart means that she cares about the people around her, the unlucky people who suffered from poverty and also animal and nature that struggle to stay alive side by side with the “growing” world. She actually has love inside her. But her lips are petrified. She can’t speak a lot be...