kony 2012

please spare half an hour to watch this video

update:

so apparently the KONY 2012 action received some reactions.

one of them is from this Ugandan who lived in US

well everyone is entitled for his/her opinion. Though I don't give a green light on spending for such souvenirs. There are other things that we can do such as spreading information, which I think is more significant.
Decide for yourself what to do.

XOXO

Teddy Bear

Labels

People tend to label each other. And when they put the labels on, it's more often have negative connotation.

The first word that comes to my dacron-filled head is the word FAT. there are many synonyms for the word FAT like beefy, big, bovine, bulky, distended, dumpy, elephantine, heavy, inflated, jelly-belly, lard, large, obese, oversize, plump, porcine, portly, potbellied, swollen, whalelike and the list goes on. 
The same thing in Indonesian language which is GEMUK and the synonyms are gendut, gempal, gembrot, tambun, etc.  Not only these words are used to describe the state  of their physical size but if you think carefully, I believe there's another intention which is to add INSULT. Some of the synonyms even suggest that overweight people are comparable to animals when it comes to weight and/or size.

Source

 Let's look at the case of Afriyani who killed 9 people in a car accidents. If you read the news (I'm so sorry for not giving any link coz I'm too lazy, I believe you can google yourself) many reporters added the unnecessary body size description. According to my observation, the prevalence of describing body size (especially for the plus-sized subjects) shoots up concurrently when the subjects did criminal act. Many comments in the forum or facebook called Afriyani PEMBUNUH GENDUT (translation: fat murderer). The word Gendut or fat to me is to add up insult to her. I seldomly hear people shout "YOU THIN MURDERER". Do you get my point? 

in this case even the body size is linked to other negative characteristics that may or may not be true

Implication: the existence of fattist (def: discrimination on the basis of weight, esp prejudice against those considered to be overweight). Developed countries are trying to prevent fattism and incorporating these sensitive issues in their education. While developing countries, well... are still struggling with providing education, let alone spreading the correct contents.

The second word is that comes to my mind is the sexual orientation i.e homosexual, especially gay. I always wonder, in Indonesia why criminals (murderer particularly) who happens to be homosexual tends to get excessive media coverage e.g Ryan Jombang and Mujianto from Nganjuk. Why does sexual orientation create such a fuss. How come when there is Heterosexual killer or rapist don't get the same amount of media coverage? And there's no headline like HETEROSEXUAL KILLER CONFESSED KILLING 20 WOMEN. or HETEROSEXUAL KILLER IS STILL AT LARGE. 
In Indonesian the synonyms for gay are homoseksual, penyuka sesama jenis, etc. I find it weird with the usage of the term penyuka sesama jenis. The word jenis (translation: type, kind) is loosely applied here. What are you intending to say? I can say that a man likes a woman, they are penyuka sesama jenis (they are in love with the same species).

Even interspecies relationship is a celebrated thing

By labelling other people, we are allowing discrimination to happen which is incorrect on every level. I'll discuss discrimination in other post. 


XOXO


Teddy Bear

My Watching-Movies Pet Peeves

Although I'm not a movie-freak, I do enjoy occasionally watch movies.

Nevertheless, some people, whether they suffer from massive and severe brain injury (that I hoped they'd just prefer to undergo surgery just to have their brains lifted), or suffering from lack of conscience or maybe sanity, they just keep appearing to agonize other moviegoers. here are the few basic rules.

1. Each movie has ratings, not measure with the number of stars but the appropriateness of its content. Well,  blame it on both parents and the employee at the movie theaters, there will be some "little angels" watching movies for adults. I've seen children left in the movies where there are bloody and murder scenes. Thank God that they remain quiet, but I don't know whether their silence is indication of scare or others. Some movies need parental guidance, which more often taken lightly and the parents never bother to GUIDE their children. You won't know how these sexual, gore images,  and violence might affect them in the future, being exposed to such experience at a tender age. Another thing with having children in the theaters are they will  produce unnecessary remarks, e.g In the X-men movie when Wolverine was sniffing for the presence of their enemy, a child asked his mother "Is he having cold?" For heaven sake, Mommies and/or Daddies please bring your child to a propriate movie and GUIDE them.

Movie Alone the movie

2. I hate people who talk during the movies whether it's a phone call or unnecessary and/or stupid comments. Please don't go to watch in the movie theaters if you have the tendency to utter comments, I don't want to hear other thing than the narrator itself or the director's comment. And don't chit chat while watching. Which part of "Do Not Talk"-warning-showed-before-the-movie-begin do you not understand.

can I shove the whole pop corn and the box to your mouth?

 

please shut up B**************tch!!!!!

 

 

3. Some people have long legs or short enough to disturb other people who happen to sit in front of them. I beg thee to not kick or eve worse put your leg on the seat. Even when people have the U-shaped head like this 

just use your imagination

 

 

You're not allowed to kick or to put your feet on the seat (or someone's head)

not only they look ugly, they STINK! ps: are the Hobbit's feet modeled after your feet?

4. Coming late is a big NO-NO. please manage your time properly. I spend some money not to watch your figure, but to watch movie. I don't care whether you have a stick-figure or morbidly obese, please get the hell of my sight.

The next thing I want to happen to these ignorant people:

1st offence: Stern Verbal Warning

2nd Offence: Kicked Out!

With additional prize like:

Put their pictures in the "Hall of Fame"

Or you can redeem this voucher:

A Good kick to the head to knock some sense into you

Or

Spend some quality time in the endless pit, courtesy of the Spartaan!!!

XOXO

Teddy Bear

Move over Jack Skellington here comes The Sliding Nurse (read: Suster Ngesot)

Have you heard the news about a girl who wanted to play a prank on her friend? So she dressed as Suster ngesot and tried to scare her friend. While maybe her dress and her act was so unbelievably real, she received an early Christmas present from the security guard which was a beautiful kick in her face. here's for the  news: http://bandung.detik.com/read/2011/12/11/202807/1788499/486/satpam-apartemen-galeri-ciumbuleuit-tendang-suster-ngesot

source: picture.

These are my opinions:

Girl, the only thing that you need to do was to do was to tell the security guard that there would be a prank happening and gave the description to the security guard. I think they wouldn't mind helping you if you had informed them. Geez, just because you owned a unit there doesn't mean that you can do whatever you want there

In her BLOG she tried to justify herself by choosing the lift barang so that it didn't disturb other tenants. Er... girl as far as I know some people used the lift barang regardless the presence of the tenant's lift. What happen if there's old people with a heart condition and if he/ she happened to be in the same lift. 

I'll discuss about her conclusions. 

1. Mengapa pihak apartment tidak berterus terang saat memberikan info ke Mamah saya di Jakarta , pada pagi hari sampai siang hari tersebut. Mengapa mereka memberikan berita  bahwa saya(Mega) melakukan hal yang meresahkan warga apartment?! Kenapa pihak apartment tidak memberitahu dan menutupi bahwa telah terjadi tindakan kekerasan tersebut.

Q: Is there any obligation from the management to tell her parent's that they managed to sort of prevent an act that was seemed as an act that may bring inconvenience to other tenant s(the least) or an act that threatens other tenants (the worst), was carried out by their daughters. Did she have sort of agreement with the management if I kissed the security guard's sole (read: there's anything happen to her) due to her thoughtless act please inform her parents.

2. Saya baru satu kali melakukan hal tersebut dan saya melakukan itu karena sebuah settingan saya dan teman – teman saya. Jadi sebelumnya yang berada di dalam lift dan luar lift itu ialah teman” saya yang sebelumnya sudah tahu terlebih dahulu kecuali satu orang yang akan kita berikan surprise.

Q: Yeah amateur, that's why you got yourself a very early Christmas present. Have you ensured that there'll be no other people in the lift that were not informed of the prank like the security guard. Why not do it in your own unit instead of taking place in the what's considered public area.

3. Mengapa satpam tidak datang kepada saya sampai saat ini, salah atau tidak bersalah pun sudah seharusnya Satpam itu datang kepada saya. Hanya sekedar berbicara tidak ada salahnya kan? Dan tidak ada yang perlu di takuti dan di tutupi ketika kita tidak  merasa bersalah.

Q: Why does he need to spend time chit chatting with you when you're the one partly to be blamed for and you jeopardized his career. Whether he's innocent or not, which depends on the court, he has the right to meet you or not, Dear. 

4. Dan pelajaran yang terpenting ialah “ MORAL DUTY REQUIRES ME TO CALL THE ATTENTION OF PUBLIC”

*Mengapa ? karena etika dan moral itu mencerminkan bangsa yang baik. Jangan sampai dengan kejadian seperti ini mencoreng hal tersebut. Pertanggung jawaban itu penting, dan kepatuhan hukum ialah salah satu syarat utama.

*Mengapa ? Jangan sampai sebuah institusi di cap seseorang yang emotional akan tugasnya, jangan samapi ke arogansian menjadi lambang sebuah institusi tersebut.

*Mengapa? Siapapun saya atau siapapun yang di perlakukan hal seperti ini, tidak pantas mendapatkan kekerasan seperti ini.

Mau siapapun korbannya, apapun korbannya, penghuni apartment atau bukan. Satpam tidak berhak bertindak kasar seperti itu.

Q: Don't be a drama queen and don't further embarass yourself in front of public. Are you an expert of ethics and morality? judging from your statements and immaturity, I still doubt about your ethics and morality. The security guard acted that way as a reflex to ensure the safety of the residents in the area  and there was a prior incident with the same MO. If I was the referee I would give the security guard a yellow card and you a red card.

Here is the video, judge yourself:




XOXO


Teddy Bear

Movie Review Arisan2

I'm sorry but the last thing i want to spend my money on is Indonesian movie. I may sound like a snob, but considering the theme of Indonesian movies most likely revolve either cheapskate soft porn or horror (believe or not our local ghosts/spirits or whatever-you-called have evolved e.g "pocong ngesot", "arwah kuntilanak duyung" Yoohoo! Disney or Pixar maybe you can come to Indo for collaboration of Cartoon/Horror/Cheapskate Soft Porn movie called "the kinky little kuntilanak mermaid"),  or combination of both; I might as well gamble my money watching unknown foreign movies. Yes there are several outstanding Indonesian movies worth-watching like Garuda di Dadaku, Laskar Pelangi, etc. Blame it on my fluffy cotton/feather/dacron combination fillings of my head, I'd rather watch Indonesian movies on local channel if I still remember to switch channel while waiting for addictive series.

 

Ok so I was brought to watch the sequel of arisan! i.e. arisan!2 not to be confused with the kinky Arisan Brondong! (which is the bad example of Indonesian movie and No I didn't watch this movie)

I had watched the 1st arisan! movie. It was quite refreshing in a sense there was no other movie that brought up this socialite-type of movie in Indonesia. plus with a ground-breaking gay theme lol. So in the sequel of this movie, Nia Dinata brought up the importance of image in Indonesian society especially in the upper class society in this case. But that's only the surface beneath that there're other much more complicated matter and yes Kinkiness. What we considered twisted is not uncommon in our society. You can read Moammar Emka's Jakarta Undercover for reference how bizzare Jakarta can be. But sometimes I doubted how real the conditions written in his books. I mean he can just fabricate some stories just to make his books more interesting.

The overall story personally is not as exciting as the first one, but as Nia was still able to bring up some hush-hush topic in such a way it deserved my time and money.

Some points about this movie:

 

The gay brondong (played by Rio Dewanto) managed to steal the spotlight. However, his version of effeminate guy is not very convincing. In reality it's very hard to imagine this kind of trait in the gay context. it's like he's holding back. But like many brondong who likes to tweet here and there, take pictures whenever they can and then tweet it, his role is entertaining in a way.
 

Sarah Sechan, who's one of my favorite celebrities due to her wittiness, played dr Joy. Yes... she owned her part and created a personality for dr Joy. I'm expecting her witty remark when she played dr Joy but it wasn't there. Her acting is better than her role in Madame X.
 

Of all the senior actor available why did Nia have to choose Pong Hardjatmo? It's like he's playing the role of Om Gery half-heartedly. I can sense disgust radiating from him while acting. I thought Tio Pakusadewo would be better playing Om gery
 

dr Tom, played by Edward Gunawan. After spending some time in Singapore and lastly in United States I was expecting some hot heavy American accent for his role, but there was none. It's like this awkward accent that came out. But it's still not as painful as the mix indonesian-english with the prominent trilling  spoken by the socialites.
 

There's this threesome scene between Molly, Meimei, and dr Tom. It was beyond absurd. What the heck was that? what's their relationship? though Meimei did mention that the two are her friends

I remembered when Meimei went to Vesak celebration in Borobudur, Sakti mentioned that she's following something newage. Hello!!! since when Buddhism is a part of newage thingy. I agree if he's referring to her treatment in the island is considered newage, but not to Buddhism.

 

Dear Nia, of all the available hairstyle why do you have to choose Poni Lempar or maybe curtain hairstyle, which is a big turn off, for Tora. You don't have to pick this hairtyle in order to show how flamboyant Sakti can be.

that's all for today
XOXO

Teddy Bear

PRONUNCIATION

OH my God have you heard this Indo's relatively new song titled "MAGIC"
It Just irritates me how they pronounce the word "MAGIC" through out their song. What the lead singer enunciate is MEIJIK. it's so FTW. Is this band sponsored by a pharmaceutical company who produces Troches yes It's MEIJI? Did they give you the famous antiseptic sweets so that you can mention the company's name through out the song?

Puhlease if you want to sing about song using foreign word. Get it right!!! I know maybe you don't have enough English lesson during your school time but still this is a basic word! M-A-G-I-C its not pronounces as [mei-jik], it's [maj-ik]
It's killing me just to know that you don't know  how to pronounce this simple word. You don't have to watch Harry Potter just to hear the correct pronunciation of this word. I'll sue you for assaulting my ear due to your stupidity.

And one more thing. This is for the radio announcer who doesn't know how to pronounce the word GENRE [zhahn-ruh]. If you think that you're a radio announcer and you still enunciate this noun like [jen-re] please resign and take more intense English course or let a primary school child teach you, I bet children nowadays are more proficient in English than you are. Your confidence in pronouncing the wrong way just show how Stupid and persistent you are. Please don't claim that you're working let alone interested in music industry without knowing how to enunciate this word properly.


XOXO


Teddy Bear

How motorcycle works in decreasing number of population!

Since our country has problems with population control, our government comes up with a brilliant idea: Motorcycle.

Yes Motorcycle

How the mechanism of motorcycle works in curbing our population.
1. Motorcycle is one of the unsafest mode of transportation available.  Motorcycle works as the bringer of the accident, actually it's not the fault of the motorcycle but the motorcyclist himself. So yeah by having more motorcyles available on the road, not only it chokes up the traffic, it increases the risk of accidents. Don't we love it. We know how motorcyclist ride their vehicles, LIKE MOTORCYCLIST FROM HELL! they diregard the signs, taking opposite lanes and etc. So with those characteristics, voila! we have more accidents happening. By having more accidents, we have more casualties, furthermore if they died it just helps with the number of our population.

 
See how increasing motorcycles contributes to the chance of decreasing our population :)

2. In case you don't know, our motorcyclist spend more time on the road than anybody else. Guess what by spending more time riding those motorcycle, they're producing worse SPERMS. yes ladies and gentlemen, lower quality and quantity of SPERMS. The heat from the machine is simply bad for the sperms. That's why by having lower quality and quantity of sperm, the chances of fertilization is lower hence lower birth and therefore our target of decreasing number of population works. YAY!

Notes from an sarcastic and angry teddy bear towards simply imbecile motorcyclists

XOXO

Teddy Bear