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

Fanaticism

The definition of fanatic: a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal.
  
A motorcycle club is a group of individuals whose primary interest and activities involve motorcycles.

Maybe you've heard the news about outlaw motorcycle club in Jakarta and several other provinces (Bali, Makassar, Semarang) in Indonesia which is quite a trend. 


(only applies to those useless motorcycle club) Generally I'm Ok with motorist, except in Indonesia. Why, first of all, MANY but not all motorist are bad motorist. In Indonesia there's unwritten law that the weakest is the strongest. It goes like this; whenever motorist (the weaker one in this case) hit a car or anything bigger, and when it's brought to law enforcer, he tends to side with the motorist regardless the motorist is wrong or right. So the law of the jungle applied though there is law regarding traffic. Thus it helps motorists here to acquire the POWER RANGER SYNDROME (i.e the feeling that they will triumph over everything especially after wearing helmet) and sure thing many motorists are the first to get angry whenever they are involved in an accident and whether they did or did nothing wrong. Oh by the way you'll see everyday many motorists break the law and don't give a sh*t about it.

True Enough

Secondly, we all know not all Indonesian can afford to ride in a cool Harley Davidson. Let alone fulfilling their daily needs yet they like to throw away their money. When the government planned to remove subsidy for fuel, many of you demonstrate and wrecked many public property (without thinking that those public properties are paid from the taxes). And mindlessly wasting fuel on convoying or by doing illegal street racing, not only you burn your money, you also disturb public safety. The last thing I care is that those illegal racers died from accident. I bet most of the members of those useless motorcycle club own lousy motorcycles that are indecent enough to be displayed in the public. I strongly you switch your motorcycle to something more useful like

these things are much better than yours

Many of those motorcycle clubs are associated with negative things. Brainless Bimboes who think they're cool enough to bully other just because they're  members of motorcycle club. Or the number of  deaths annually caused by motorcycle-club-related-activities. Or dimwits who assault other student.
Motorcycle clubs should be banned or they should be registered and heavily supervised.

Seriously they look worse than this

Nevertheless I'm all in and even salute those motorcycle club that are helpful to the society like this. Or Patriot Guard Riders who provide funeral escorts for military veterans, Freewhelers EVS which use motorcycles to provide an out-of-hours emergency medical courier service. These are some of the examples that not only need to be followed but replicated if necessary.

Thank You Mice for the genius depiction of those mindless underage motorists

Fans of Celebrities

Are you excited about Super Junior's concert? I'm not. I don't get the KPOP wave all over the world. Though I admire their hardwork for whatever they do, I just don't get it. I don't find their dance move attractive let alone the girlband who tends dance with funny hand gesture or what i prefer say "trying to act cute". I'm scared of their die-hard fans or I say fanatics. There must be something wrong with their (i mean the fans) head. It's like they are in a cult or something. Die hard fans named themselves ludicrously and defend their celebrities until they die.

Many sprouting Indonesian bands like to mimic (or rather copycat from their dance, songs type, hairstyle, ) their Korean counterpart. If you happen to browse youtube, many Indonesians attack new-bands-who-happen-very-korean-like and saying that their song or whatever are plagiarized. (plagiarism is like the IT word lol). Fans (there are two extreme forms of fans, on one end are those who are smitten by the stars, and on the other end are the haters) do stupid things, for example there's this 1st generation korean-look-alike band called SM*SH, and voila an overseas band called SMASH was attacked by SM*SH fans. I laughed my ass off. Not only that Morgan De Toi which is a renowned brand also was attacked by those dimwits (just because one of the members named Morgan). That's the consequence for having imbeciles as fans.

Morgan de toi's admin had to explain to them that the profile is not Morgan from SM*SH LOL

Anyway Yesterday as I watched TV, there was news about Super Junior's fan (they called themselves ELF, I wonder why) who waited in Soekarno Hatta Airport for nothing, as the couldn't meet their idols. SuJu sneaked out of the airport using other secret pathway (devilish smile). So they cried and complained. It was disheartening to see them crying like one of their family members passed away. They even patronized some luxurious hotels just to hunt them.  The only one who could smile (besides me) is Angkasa pura who definitely received lots of money from those ELF who parked their cars or motors for hours.

I can't bear to pay the parking fee

Another funny thing was that some of those disappointed ELF said that they ONLY want to see their idol. We all know that they can't justify that. There's no way in a million years that fans, especially Indonesian fans who even treat antagonists in soap operas as if they are truly evil in real life, Only want to see them. I think Suju did the right thing. Who knows what might happen to them from:

scratched

Hematoma

A bite

or even

In Aussie they threw stuffed wombat, who knows maybe someone in Indonesia decided to throw Durian at such accuracy.


XOXO


Teddy Bear