Not Useless

According to older comic theory (probably around 25 years ago), the main difference between american comics and japanese comics (representing two largest comic industries in the world) is the panel distributions. We can clearly see that every panel has its own function, be it to deliver action-to-action, subject-to-subject, or any other scene. American comics are mostly comprises of  'action' scene, and not surprisingly the same thing also applies for japanese comics. However, japanese comics serves a greater percentage of 'situation' panel. Yes, those unrelated panels that only show sun ray, cloud, cicadas, and crowd of people. Those panels aren't useless, they are meant to make the reader understand the feel of the situation better.

So does every moment in our life.

That's it.

Angel Beats!

Setelah sekian abad (tentu saja berlebihan) tidak menamatkan satu seri anime, akhirnya saya berhasil untuk menamatkan satu. Dulu, nonton Busou Renkin cuma 18 episode karena dvd nya memang baru keluar seperti itu, lalu Kanon (2006) 10 episode, Heroic Age 7 episode, dan terakhir darker than black 7 episode. Eh, pernah juga saat masih freshie berusaha menonton Rozen Maiden 8 episode kayaknya, atau 6? Pretty much otaku? Probably, mungkin bagi kalangan teman-teman "standar" saya iya tapi tidak bagi teman-teman tidak "standar". Dan akhirnya, di exam period kali ini saya sukses mencapai dua accomplishment, menamatkan main Super Mario World dan menonton Angel Beats Sampai Tamat. Pesan moralnya?

Ya, dari bermain Super Mario World (via VisualBoyAdvance) saya belajar untuk memfungsikan save state sebaik-baiknya. Mungkin kesannya tidak penting, tapi esensinya adalah untuk menge-save setiap progress yang kita dapat. Ga deng, terdengar serius tapi lebih untuk mencari excuse. Tapi kalau sudah mulai main game sekali saat exam period harus ditamatkan, agar nantinya tidak ada alasan untuk procrastinate lebih lanjut. Satu quote berharga dari Mario.

(image courtesy from inintendo.net)

"What doesn't kill you, makes you smaller"

-Mario-

Lanjut deh, berikutnya Angel Beats. Terlalu spoiler kalau diceritakan secara lengkap, tapi mungkin ringkasnya bahwa bagi remaja (youth maksudnya) yang meninggal dengan penyesalan dalam hidupnya akan dibawa ke sebuah alam yang berbentuk seperti sekolah (ya, sekolah normal) untuk mereka menemukan kebahagiaannya masing-masing sampai penyesalannya terpuaskan. Saya seorang muslim, jadi tentu saja konsep kehidupan setelah mati yang saya percayai tidak seperti itu. However, seandainya dunia after life seperti yang dibayangkan oleh Angel Beats! pertanyaannya adalah apakah kita akan terbawa ke dunia itu apabila kita meninggal sekarang? Saya rasa hidup manusia yang terbaik adalah yang dijalani tanpa penyesalan (ini murni jawaban duniawi saya), karena after life yang saya percaya tidak necessarily senyaman dan sedamai yang Angel Beats! ceritakan. Sekalipun after life a la Angel Beats! terjadi, tetap saja kayaknya menyakitkan (walau membahagiakan) utnuk hidup di dunia semi eternal untuk mencari kebahagiaan. Intinya apabila anda orang yang agak anti anime tapi punya waktu untuk nonton american TV Series, ***** you (isi dengan kata umpatan yang anda rasa paling pantas)! Banyak entertainment dan juga value yang bisa diambil, kenapa kalian meremehkan anime dan manga awuakuawkauwk (ini cuma bercanda, yang penting ditonton).

(image courtesy from wikipedia.org)

"That's right. Our weakness is that we're stupid"

-Yuri-

arutaki.

Halo semua, kali ini saya akan menulis dalam Bahasa Indonesia. Saya akan mengumumkan tentang projek rahasia saya yang terbaru. Projeknya sendiri masih rahasia (terus kenapa diumumin -___-), cuma minta doa agar diberikan yang terbaik. Terimakasih banyak.

Sincerely,

Al Atiqi

Cutting the Edge

Do you know that life will be much simpler if we become ignorant? Yes. Ignore all the problems around you, or you can even ignore those problems that you face yourself. But that is definitely not the correct way of living our live (at least in my opinion). You need to be aware of what is happening around you and what you are doing.

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I don't know, I am just tired.

This is not the most galau post that I can make anyway, but it is pretty much galau indeed. And yes, sometimes running away works. And I hope this is pretty much the correct time. So non-mainstream isn't it? No.

Silver Spoon

During Victorian era, there were no passport nor driving license. Quite a "you don't say" statement isn't it? Okay, too much 9gag but story shall go on. So you must be wondering what kind of identity do they have? In fact social status and identity was very important back then, and you can definitely see those aristocrats in their expensive coat while the slaves wore their worn out clothes. So does look represent one's status? Pretty much, but what about middle income craftsmen whose hands looks more like a hand of slave and they do not have those expensive clothes either? They bring a silver spoon. In the spoon the family emblem is engraved, unlike slaves who does not have family emblem.

So what is moral of the story? Nothing. I just recommend you guys to read a manga called silver spoon. It is very good indeed.

By the way, looking at my old post and then..

Things are Gonna Get Messy

As mentioned in the title bar, a lot of things are gonna get messy. Firstly, I am currently taking a module named "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos". By looking at the title, you know what is going to be messy right? My grade -__- , well still hasn't sure about that but if I do not put an extra care to it it will be indeed very messy. Another  thing is my room. Speechless, I just find my comfort place in such place. As long as I know where are the things that I need, no problem then.

Okay, I wrote just for the sake of writing. It feels more like a personal blog now isn't it?

It's Not the Time Matters

Ever since walking on this earth, (most likely) human being has been exposed with rain. I expected that Adam and Eve was sent to any arbitrary place on earth, not a rainless deserts like Sahara or Gobi. And with rain, they need some mechanism of shelter. They stay on a cave, then build a roof, then used something to cover their top when walking outside home, and finally they invented a brilliant thing called umbrella. As time goes by, the umbrella that was made of wood and leaf changes into metal and plastic. Look at the two picture below,

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The top picture shows the evolution of the lower picture. Courtesy of random googled pictures by the way :p The technology is about 1000 or more years difference, yet they still look pretty much the same with the same imperfection - still not be able to protect you from the rain perfectly. Compare to communication device nowadays, it was invented less than 200 years ago. And it looks totally different right now, with much more extended function.

We may need the communication systems to evolve and we might not need the umbrella to evolve, because we are simply satisfied with umbrella. Enough whit this chit-chat, I want to tell you that sometimes things don't change. It might not be precise as we found that umbrella actually changes in shape, but not function. Interesting isn't it? Thanks to some friends who accompanied me to eat some pancake some years ago. It was nice, with some awkward flavor. While no one thinking how to make umbrella be more interesting currently, there must be someone who is thinking to make innovation for cellular phone systems right now in this earth. While some things don't change significantly, there are things that changes rapidly that you don't even realize that it has changed.