New Species

Cabe-Cabean

A group of pseudo-scientists have discovered new species of human in Indonesia alive. Let's welcome the Cabe. In Indonesia cabai means chili pepper, while the pronunciation in a daily conversation might slightly differ into cabe (pronounce as chaw-bay). When they say "kecil-kecil cabe rawit" to someone it's likely to be a compliment for someone small in size to pack a punch (awesome skills). Nevertheless these pseudo-scientists think differently. They label these boorish promiscuous girl or prostitutes, and adolescent who dresses maturely as Cabe. The literal abbreviation is so vulgar, I won't write it here. It's an insult, yet this term is emerging and gaining popularity. Worst is that some may not know the meaning but use it freely and proudly.

Brilliantly illustrated by Mice

A newer species of Cabe

As I can't fathom why the hell they are honored to use that term, the competitiveness nature in the male species, they also want to have a catchy term for them, thus they come up with Terong-terongan (eggplant). Image plays an important aspect of Indonesian culture. They hate it when they're called Basi (means: outdated). I know that cabe-cabean has sexual innuendo. But why do they choose eggplant? The shape? size? or what? till now that baffled me.

"Terong-terongan"

So the obvious difference between cabe-cabean and terong-terongan is the gender. These new species currently fall within the same family called ALAY. Alay have some prominent characteristic when it comes fashion style, music prefernce, and their written language. So here's a few tips on how to spot ALAY

Alay Couture

Selfie pose typical of Alay

If you spot one and want to communicate with them, they are capable of speaking Bahasa Indonesia. However when it comes to the written, they use Alayan. If you love challenges in deciphering codes, you will love texting with Alays.

Alayan vs Indonesian

Micro Dictionary of Alayan

The Alays use capital letter and numbers as random as minds. Having hard time to write in Alayan? Don' worry we have the ALAY Generator to help you.
4Lr34Dy HAvin6 A 6re4t tIm3 w1th 4lay?

Last but not least

New Variation

XOXO

Teddy Bear

Tawuran

You can consider some (Not ALL) Indonesian male high school students are somewhat excessively "macho". Why is that so? Pick one or more the following choices:

A. Hot bodies

B. Leather & Bike

C. Gentleman

D. Athletic

E. Intelligent

The answer is none of the above. I don't know but to me the word that describe them is Coward. Many of those what-so-called student prefer to engage in unrecognized-by-any-sports-official-and-adrenaline-pumping extracurricular activity called Tawuran. As defined in Wikipedia as "a form of customary street fighting between gangs of school students in urban Indonesia." Isn't it fascinating that wikipedia waste a page on such trivial matter? 

Students should be competitive but not in a destructive manner. So usually tawuran start from a minor incident (mocking each other, staring, etc) which may happen to individuals or a small group and to solve the issue they need to squeeze the last drop of testosterone in their body by ranting to their friends. Having "uber high" level of solidarity they fight the so-called enemy. Then the enemy will seek revenge and thus the cycle continues. They prefer to solve issues by reenacting war complete with weapons (from sharp objects till modified belt). 

This is not a scene from Happy Feet 3 Nor Step Up 10

Hello Warrior!

So after displaying some "macho" behaviour this is what they do Best

Wait up Guys! You haven't Take a Bow! Gosh Rihanna won't be happy hearing this

When caughty by the authority

Students should be competitive but not in a destructive manner. So usually tawuran start from a minor incident (mocking each other, staring, etc) which may happen to individuals or a small group and to solve the issue they need to squeeze the last drop of testosterone in their body by ranting to their friends. Having "uber high" level of solidarity they fight the so-called enemy. Then the enemy will seek revenge and thus the cycle continues. They prefer to solve issues by reenacting war complete with weapons (from sharp objects till modified belt). 

When they think they're like this

When they are actually like this minus the cuteness

Meanwhile Ministry of Youth and Sports is trying to curb tawuran by asking the International Olympic Committee to use human target in the Throwing Event so that these hooligans can contribute in something. Wait a minute, there's incoming news. It seems that this won't be happening anytime soon as the current Minister who overlooks youths and sports is preoccupied with memorizing Indonesia's National Anthem so that he won't embarass himself in the future.

And the most nationalist award goes to....

Today's message is sponsored by

The Street Gang

Nb: this is not a generalization of all Indonesian students. and some parts of this text are meant to be  jokes.

XOXO

Teddy Bear

Clang Associations

First of all  I apologize to the remaining reader because it looked like I abandon this blog. Afarid not cause I'm dying to post but I'm in a place where it's difficult to be connected to the cyrber world. Super happy belated birthday to fellow blogger Rad & congratulations Andro for the job. 

The story of a Dictator

Choose your dictator

Once upon a time in land where everyone tweets, came a what-so-called white knight in a shining armor riding a horse, claiming to be a hero in that land that would save its people from the claimed-to-be-evil shamas. These shamans tried to cure the people based on their knowledge and in return they asked for money for their services just like other jobs. They went to the school of Shamanry which is quite expensive and unfortunately as many people would like, not all could be enrolled to this school. Not all shamans are rich, definitely not after they'd done with school. These service rendered by them are unique despite the same school they wet, just like personality, these shamans' service can't satisfy everyone who came to seek their help. Due to the complex nature of the situation, some people start to tweet their objection against these shamans, while other still believe in them. The shining Knight who had the messiah complex, saw the opportunity and grabbed right away. He started to slander these druids and gaining support from many people. As he felt almighty, he demanded these shamans to surrender on his term without regarding the shamans wellbeing and feelings. So he trolled all of them who opposed him and become the dictator of the land. He hired the pseudo-shamans, who claimed have the ability to hex, summon rain, heal, exorcise evil spirit, create invicibility, and make fortune out of nothing, to satisfy the people and fill in the quote for shamans.  For the identity of the mysterious dictator shall remain a mystery until someone's willing to hire a PI (private investigator) to find out his true identity. The End

*this instant fabrication is based on a true happening in a land where tweety has become an adjective and with heavy seasoning of author's wild imagination.

o...kay???

I believe you've heard the quotes above. The medical field in Indonesia currently is in hot water thanks to the extremely balanced report by the irresponsible media. MANY (NOT ALL) journalists or claimed to be so, in Indonesia, disregard the journalism ethics and standards. Only God and their employers know their credentials. That's why I emphasize the importance of education; reporters of journalist coming from a zero background in journalism knows nothing and write freely without thinking the repercussion. You can google more about Journalism ethics and standards. As I remember a good article should be objective, balanced, accurate and etc. An infamous, cheesy, and lame online news in Indonesia often publishes two or more news on the same story with very catchy and questionable title and with difference of one or two information in between those news. Not to mention other newspaper that mostly consists of crime news with the garnishing of sexually arousing vocabulary that would just "educate" our people. How on earth people will get educated if they only read crime news, cheesy article, and worst of all distasteful in everything. But not all of the newspaper are like that;  Kompas, The Jakarta Post, and Jakarta Globe are a few examples of reputable newspaper that highly regards journalistic code of ethics and they are very thorough in their work. Lousy piece of work vs better article. judge yourself. Malpractice of the journalist.

Doctor is supposedly to be an honorable profession. I've met many good and great doctors, but I've also met individuals in that field who are not doing their job properly. I believe that there must be corrupted individuals in every occupations including medical field. But NOT ALL are corrupted as what they irresponsible media like to claim. A series of event degrade this honorable profession, plus one doctor, who is a member of the parliament and a moron,  publicly humiliate her own profession and will not apologize. She herself was deemed responsible for the lost of clause smoking ban law. I'm so keen in this topic because of I'm very interested in the reason of those who are loud against the doctors. Though the doctors and nurses are sworn to save life even if one of these haters are dying, I wonder if these hooligans will sign for DNR (do not rescucitate) if they're dying as a sign that they are true to their words. But I have the feeling that they are the embodiment of hypocrisy.

That's it for my random thoughts

XOXO

Teddy Bear

Idol

As you might have known, the number of reality shows are increasing especially talent shows. ................(put some random country name) Idol, So you think you can dance, The Voice, X factor, etc. those are just a fewsamples of famous reality show. These things are serious, considering the  people behind the scene,producers, judges, casting agents, etc. But  there would also some reality shows who would only last for one season, just google it, you'll find some.

Somehow I encountered this Indonesian online talent show called StarVoices. According to their website is a singing show or rather competition held online through social networking twitter and has been goin on since 2011. Currently they are in Second season. They said that this competition will be run like the one on TV which I don't know which format, american idol? x-factor? the voice? or maybe their own format(which never appears on TV)?

For further info you can click here. There are four judges and a host.The judges commented through twitter. After looking at the judges section, my face are like

whooooooot?

For me, how good a talent shows depends on the format, and the judges. A GOOD judge has a GOOD credibility. Let's take American Idol, for the first ten season the judges are almost well rounded. Simon Cowell, who are famous for his notoriety, is a good producer who handled Westlife, 5ive, Il Divo, etc. He has credibility in his hand. Though his tongue is sharp enough to kill people, what he says is kind of true. While Randy jackson handles the musicality like the pitch, rhythym etc. Paula is like the middle person who handles, musicality, fashion, and sometimes buffering Simon's toxic comment. All of them know their field.

BUT, for this show it's like I don't even have heard their names on TV or radio. How credible are they? Some of them did post their singing online and i'm kinda lazy to post them here. To me, their singing-wise are not that top notch (if not they wouldn't be wasting time judging online), I don't know their music background, are they self-taught? studied at a prestigious school like berklee college of music? received scholarship to study in Royal Academy of music? Who knows...

 Sharp ears, are important, but can't stand on its own, you need to have strong music background too. So that they can explain what's lacking at least for basic stuff. Though some of you may comment that music is art, thus theoretical background is not important. I beg to differ, I borrowed from a site Music theory provides a universal way for musicians to understand the vital elements of music. and from our beloved wikipedia In a grand sense, music theory distils and analyzes the fundamental parameters or elements of music—rhythm, harmony (harmonic function), melody, structure, form, texture, etc.

Being a judge is easier than the contestant. He can say whatever he wants to the contestants cause his butts are not on the line. At the same time being a judge should be more difficult too, provided he has sense of responsibility. The end-result of their show will reflect how good they are... or sort of. Those I can't stand are the judges who are lousy but have the mentality of I'm-greater-than-thou, and those who give useless comments

That's all for today

XOXO 

Teddy Bear

Disclaimer: I'm not paid to advertise any of the programmes above. Nor do I have any connection to the shows mentioned above.

Random Fun

I apologize to my readers (if there's any left) for abandoning the blog for quite some time. I'm preoccupied with so many things. hence i beseech your understanding.

As you know Psy's Gangnam Style has dominated the music chart lately, I believe. After sometimes it has become overrated, though some of you may still enjoy the music. I think I had enough.

I came upon a video done by Indonesian who recorded or rather organized a whole flash mob using this song in Bundaran HI, which is a famous landmark in Jakarta. It has gain its 'fame' due to the notorious some law enforcers who have the sharpest eyes to spot traffic offenders, and needless to say impose heavy fine on those who purposely or accidentally break those rules in this area. enough about Bundaran HI

here's the video

Happy Holiday Indonesia #5

So I was curious and traced back their previous videos. So the uploader of the video is Edho Zell you can follow him on twitter, just watch at the end of every videos. He's very creative. The Happy Holiday Indonesia series are several "games" which are more like pranks performed by a group of people that either makes you cringe or laugh. So I will post the rest of the series. Beware of Expletives for almost every 30 seconds.


Though it's not holiday yet. Hope you'll enjoy the videos

Happy Holiday Indonesia #4

Happy Holiday Indonesia #3

Happy Holiday Indonesia #2

Last but not least. Warning! do not watch before, during or at least 1 hour after meal.

The first episode of Happy Holiday Indonesia

Although I'm not a big fan of your hairdo, kudos to Edho Zell for the creativity and the gang for the courage for performing those stunts.

XOXO

Teddy Bear

Disclaimer: I'm not a member of their group, not paid to promote and advertise their videos, and not resposible to anything that happens to the viewers

Very short post

I'm so sorry for the very late and short post, as I'm quite busy these days.
The very next picture is a must guide for all parents.

Babies Dos and Donts

Last, I'd like to wish happy fasting to all my Muslim readers.

XOXO


Teddy Bear

Clubbing

Any of you love clubbing?
Call me weird but clubbing is not my cup of tea (D'oh the closest tea beverage you'll get in that place is Long Island Tea). I'm not the type who enjoy loud music (i'm preserving my auditoric range) and I can't really relate to the type of music they play. And I think the entrance fee is quite expensive, though at the end i'll spend the same amount of money on some random stuff. I believe in retail therapy Lol.

By The way I'm not judging anyone.

Some people just love clubbing so much and I don't mind at all. Please go ahead spend some time there rather than wasting time on other activity like illegal street racing (rolling eyes).

Anyway for those who happen to like clubbing these are some videos of dance reference:

 

part 1

part 2

part 3

I think he forgot to put one more, my one and only move, The Clumsy move i.e accidentally bump, smack someone, spilled some drink on a fancy dress/ suit, and knocking yourselves out.

Oopsie

Thank you jemdahunk for enlightening me with those killer moves :)

XOXO

Teddy Bear