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The Minimalists

Jadi, beberapa hari yang lalu karena sudah kehabisan serial yang biasa di tonton, jadilah merandom mencari sesuatu yang bisa ditonton tapi yang tidak terlalu serius.
Lalu teringat, sempat baca di Twitter ada yang menilai kalau The Minimalists ini termasuk salah satu tontonan oke.
So basically, dokumenter ini menceritakan tentang orang-orang, yang menurut masyarakat, adalah orang yang termasuk dalam kategori sukses. But somehow they're not happy, they feel empty inside, then most of the time fill the emptiness by buying things, more and more and more.

Lalu orang-orang ini mempertanyakan ke diri sendiri sebenarnya sukses itu seperti apa?
Making more money?
Having more luxury things?
Own big house in a upscale residential area?
But then have having all those things, why it feels like there are something missing.

Lalu menurut dokumenter ini lagi, kebanyakan orang mengukur sukses itu memang dari materi, when they feel empty, they tend to buy things. But it won't takes time for them to feel it again, so they will buy more things.

*Lalu hening....
*Lalu melihat sekeliling yang tadinya semua barang pinjaman dari pemilik apartemen dan hari ini banyak printilan barang pribadi...
*Lalu flashback...

Waktu memutuskan beli bantal sebanyak ini memang karena suka aja... di kost-an dulu pun banyak bantal. Sebenarnya memang cuma butuh 2, 3 lah kalau ada tamu yang menginap. Hmm, sepertinya kalimat "kalau nanti butuh" ini yang selalu berujung akhirnya membeli barang-barang yang sebenarnya komplementari.

Kenapa harus punya televisi?
Kenapa harus punya sound dock?
Kenapa harus punya 2 handphone?
Sudah punya 2 handphone kenapa beli tab pula?

Kenapa kalau ke supermarket pasti beli makanan buat stok dan ujung-ujungnya ada saja yang kelupaan kalau sudah dibeli dan berakhir di tempat sampah karena keburu kadaluarsa?

Kenapa sering beli macam-macam kosmetik padahal tau kalau diri sendiri paling malas perawatan pakai krim ini pakai krim itu?

Kenapa selalu beli coklat dalam jumlah yang banyak padahal untuk konsumsi sendiri? dan masih punya coklat yang lain yang belum dihabiskan pula.

Kenapa merasa harus punya coat untuk 4 jenis musim dan masing-masing musim setidaknya harus punya 2 biar tidak kelihatan orang-orang kalau kita pakai coat-nya yang itu-itu lagi, itu-itu lagi? padahal sebenarnya 2 saja sudah cukup. Walaupun sebenarnya kemarin sempat berpikir pas winter sale berikutnya harus beli 1 coat lagi buat persiapan. *what the!?!?!?!?!?!?

Kenapa merasa harus punya banyak sepatu? harus punya boot untuk ke kantor, buat jalan-jalan di kota, buat kegiatan outdoor, buat ke acara semi formal, buat ke acara formal, dan itu baru satu jenis sepatu. Belum jenis lain, sneakers, 3 cm heels, 5 cm heels, flat shoes, sandals, running shoes. Belum lagi kalau mau mengkategorikan berdasarkan warna, biar matching dengan outfit.

Same thing goes for bags.
Same thing goes for clothes, but in a more complex categories.
Apa sebaiknya beli kindle buat bacaan elektronik daripada beli buku fisik? (But I love books!)
And I haven't mention for other printilan lain yang lagi terlihat di sekitar.
I do tend to buy barang-barang "lucu" yang judulnya buat menghias apartemen atau buat nanti kalau-kalau butuh.

Balik ke dokumenternya lagi...
Kenapa orang-orang jadi harus mempersulit diri buat mengambil pinjaman dari bank, buat beli rumah impian/apartemen dengan banyak ruangan. Padahal sebenarnya kalau seseorang lagi di rumah, persentase ruangan yang paling sering dijadikan tempat nongkrong adalah ruangan keluarga, kamar tidur, kamar mandi/toilet, dapur kalau rajin masak.
Dan beberapa dari mereka akhirnya melepaskan rumah/apartemen lalu beralih ke rumah yang lebih, lebih kecil... literally lebih kecil... lebih kecil dari 35 meter persegi ini.

Lalu melongo... kemarin aja agak-agak menyesal kenapa dapatnya 35 meter persegi... kan kalau nanti ada tamu langsung berasa jadi sempit (lagi-lagi kalimat "kalau nanti..."). Padahal dalam setahun ada berapa tamu sih yang datang... nah, iya sih. Trus tempat yang paling sering dijadikan tempat nongkrong sebenarnya cuma sofa di depan tivi... then why I thought that I need more spaces?

Terus dokumenter ini jadi agak-agak melipir ke masalah lingkungan... karena tingginya tingkat konsumsi manusia berdampak langsung dengan lingkungan.
Lalu teringat berita yang sempat terbaca mengenai semakin tingginya permukaan air laut di bumi, semakin menipisnya lapisan glasier di beberapa tempat di dunia, semakin panas bumi ini dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, semakin menipisnya sumber daya energi, semakin banyaknya limbah yang susah terurai...
Melirik ke kantongan plastik/kertas yang setiap belanja apapun pasti minta... lalu menyesal seharusnya tidak boleh lupa buat bawa kantong belanjaan sendiri setiap hari.

Akhirnya 2 hari terakhir ini, berujung dengan kegiatan beres-beres apartemen, merelakan beberapa barang untuk dibuang, merelakan beberapa pakaian untuk disumbangkan... tapi masih tidak rela buat melepaskan banyak barang dan sebagai pembenaran cuma bisa berpikir, barang-barang lain nanti saja direlakannya... setahun lagi.
Lalu berniat no more buying clothes, no more buying cosmetics to try, no more beli cemilan-cemilan, no more belanja yang tidak penting! (sebaiknya menunggu winter sale nanti #eh) and always put grocery bag in my bag, whether I plan to use it that day or not.

Less stuff... I try to...
*Trying to pursue myself that rather than buy those things, it will be better if we use it to buy flight tickets, because I read somewhere:

spend money on experience, not things
or
collect moments, not things
Oke ini termasuk pembelaan...

Kesimpulannya:
The Minimalists ini bukan tontonan yang tidak terlalu serius.

Picture use in this page is taken from www.theminimalists.com

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After 5

Have been here for about 5 months.
When I got up on the plane 5 months ago... I was excited.
Well, I actually had trained myself to be as excited as I could or my 16-18 hrs flight would be so miserable.

The 3 first week was like... mmm
Could that people stop asking me whether I like being here or not?
Cause they said "Oh you will be. It's quite here, the city is clean, the transportation is great, it's cheaper than any country near it" and so on and so on.

People was saying nice stuffs about being here, but I haven't see anything near. It's like they said A but I got L.

One said to me to write about living here, you know, for killing time.

Yup, I really need something to killing the time.

Two things for sure that I like being in here, I'm free hopping from another city to another city..., outside this country and yes, money can't buy everything, even though it can buy Gundam and et cetera that close to few hours distraction from unpleasant feeling each time I start touching it.

I made a promise to myself, posts after this would be about how great my time in Europe, I hope it helps me to kill the time.

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Can't Hardly Wait (Literally)

Have something worth to wait for tomorrow and the day after it and the day after it and the day after it!

Shit happens, yes Ladies and Gentleman, it's real.
It's like mood swing, life will completely bland without it.

So I have a messy life lately, wake up late every morning, hoping daylight shorter than night time, wishing weekend come sooner on Monday and so on and so on.
Then starting to think, what is the word 'tomorrow' imply? Hope? Treasure? Surprise?!?!

So instead dreaming everyday is a holiday, I start to create this slightly creative thought.
Have something that you can't hardly wait for the next day. Kinda hard to create a thing, right?
Well, actually, nope.

Starting with I have to finish my job tomorrow. Naaahhhhhh...
So what I've thought for the last few days...

Make a schedule for watching my serials.
Remind me of my childhood when I can only watched telenovela every Wednesday afternoon. Always waiting Wednesday afternoon for that.

Cleaning up my room!
I don't wait weekend for this. Just when it looks messy before bedtime, then I'll need to fix it the next day... or two.

Find something looks good to wear for the next two days.
A small mix and match project just for fun.

Look out for the calendar, mark the date.
Arrange birthday thingy for friends.
Admit it! You love surprise. I do, I think we all do. Even just a "happy birthday there" sent through Whatsapp, Line, SMS, iMessage or any apps that on the list under Social Networking category.

Find the best time to buy something.
Search a book title at Goodreads then decide when to buy it.
Open Skyscanner every Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning, digging for cheap fares.
Even when I ran out of ideas, somehow I manage to order something online and make them deliver it on a specific time. Well, I ordered biscuits a couple days ago and asked them to bring that looks-delicious-snacks on Monday. I love Monday then.

Now, we're back as a planner (but spontaneous things will never fail me)
I still have a lot of things that are worth to wait for umm 4 months ahead *LOL
Okay, this life is getting more excited.

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Random Thoughts, Random Feelings.

I'm all about questions.

Each question resulting its own feeling(s).
Some are rhetorical, some are curiosity, some are just questions.

I'm a question since I don't get what others imply.
Exist as a result of lack of understanding, lack of knowledge.
Occur because of dissatisfaction.

and no answers provided to stop them flow.
There will always a deniable to confront it.
Another questions then created.
Build a massive big dark hole in every inch of the brain.

A mix feelings then appear.
Bewilderment, anger.
Serenity, nonchalance.
Something like financial graph from unhealthy economic condition.
From the bottom rise to the top, then crash down.
Crawling from below, and not waiting to reach to the top, crash again

Like there's no end...
There's no light at the end of the tunnel.
"Maybe I should wait."
"For how long?"
"You need to be patient."
"Why?"
"To see what these will become."
"For what?"
"Hope not for another bigger and darker hole."

I really need to believe that there's something worth after all of these.

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The Second Place Is The First Looser!

I was someone who'd like to compete, with myself or to compete with others, quietly *blushing.
Sounds strange, I know.
I'm not a real ambitious person. I mean everyone, basically wanna do better.
I do like racing, racing with time, which is hardly impossible. I enjoying pushing myself to do more before time is out.
I like being in the first place. But it doesn't happen many times. So I kinda enjoy being and get used to be in any number on the line.

It just sometimes, there're times where people tickling me, make me felt that they're underestimate me. While I thought I've done pretty good than someone else, but whose got the perfect score... It makes me wanna poke them and say "Hey, I can do better, so you may sit down and watch me doing it".

Well, that underestimated feeling definitely kills something.
Remember when I lost my temptation for adventuring, I loose my appetite to compete. I let everything slip away. I don't care anymore, everything could happen as it please. I just don't care.

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The Mind Game

I could buy a book because its cover,
I like the whole a-band-music album by hearing the intro of one of their single,
I can make a drink to be one of my favorite because a sip of it,
I can decide I like a guy because the way he thinks,
I can really hate a person because I don't like one thing that he ever did to someone that I even don't know,
I won't eat food that I don't like, but I actually have never tasted it before,
I can do something just because I wanna do it, without any intention or purpose,

So whether I decide to do, to hate, to like, to buy and much more others to, it doesn't always because of  a make-sense reason and it doesn't have to take more times. I just do things that I think that's the best thing to do in that second.

Short, I know, but what the cerebrum do is not something that I know best. Sometimes I'm hoping something to be happened. And I overthink it, so when I wake up in a morning, feels that thing has happened, yesterday or in some other day in the past, not kind of dejavu. 'Is that real, or just my hallucination? Or I happened to think it's true just because I want it to be true?'


It's only 2 percent of my body weight, but IT choose what fits the best for that moment. The book's cover can be looked tempting NOW, cover that I've seen so many times. So why NOW, not yesterday, not when I first time saw it? Have I got more knowledge that gets me here and assume I like it NOW? I like that vanilla ice cream, but not this one. I want this, NOT that.

I want it that for tomorrow, not for now, now doesn't suit it.
I want that thing, but I want it in blue and in bigger size, 5 percent than its size now and I want it wider.
So actually, I don't want that thing because it's not what I want.

Haah!?!

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