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Friday 13 April 2012

Friday Top Five: Favorite Fall Out Boy Songs

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The first Fall Out Boy song I have ever heard was “Dance Dance”. I fell in love to the music and the beat—it always successfully brings my mood up again every time I listen to the song. Since then I tracked every Fall Out Boy songs and albums. And they really fit my music style. Their songs are full of youth spirit; loud yet dynamic music. Maybe they've got weird lyrics (and much too long song title) but it contained deep meanings.

Too bad they decided to decompress—referring to what Pete Went’z said instead of hiatus. I’ve been missing the band for a long time and could only satisfy my yearnings by listening to their songs on my player. So, here’s my Fall Out Boy five favorite song from each of their album. It’s a hard choice anyway, for I really like their songs and every song is my favorite—no exaggeration.

Tuesday 10 April 2012

Paska Viesta!

A bit late to share about Easter, eh? But my Easter holiday was fun. I spent the Holy Week serving  Maundy Thursday, Easter Vigili and Easter Sunday Mass.

I spent the easter eve by having a late dinner with the altar boys—some boys (plus a girl) night out, eh?
...and going to the cinema with fellow altar servers on Sunday, watching The Raid for the second time. Yay!!! nb. Thanks for Sandy for treating all of us.


The Holy Week was so hectic that costs my health. I got a quite severe flu since Sunday evening. But I ain't even regret it because I had an extraordinary week.

Friday 6 April 2012

The Awesomeness of Being an Sixth Semester Undergraduate Student


Might wonder why I disappear from the blogworld? It’s because I’m not really good at managing my time. Some people would easily spare their time for blogging. But I find it hard to share anything while my mind works busily around my academic live.

It’s the fifth week of my sixth semester. It has been awesome. I take some Industry-Organizational Psych class which subjects are very interesting. In every meeting, we discuss about organizational behavior, career, competence at work and people in organization. I also take Counseling class, where I learn the basic of being a counselor (although I don’t consider being a counselor in the future). 

The most important class I take is the Research Methodology class. Here, I prepare myself to write the so-called thesis. Dear Lord, my scholarly life is at stake in this class. Because the final project for this subject is a thesis proposal. I really hope I could finish a fix thesis proposal at the end of this semester and started doing my thesis next semester. Wish me luck!

Because I want to be really serious on doing my Research Methodology assignments, a lot of my time wasted   being used for journal hunting and literature searching. I still surf the web every day—I even spend more online time than usual for this purpose. (Even though I spend 1/8 of the browsing time scrolling down the 9gag hot page).  Two times a week, every Research Methodology class member has to upload their research progress at our campus web called the Psyche. This is why I'm getting very busy; because I have to do loads of research.

Psyche is awesome. I think your college or university must be having this kind of site too. Some of my friends assumed that our campus is the only institution which have this kind of interactive site. Well, they could be wrong. I believe that out there, sites like Psyche are plenty.

Tagged with “Psychology Classroom Hybrid Education”, Psyche offers a lot of useful feature like study material download, class online forum where you can discuss academic-related-talks in the site and project (assignment) submission. We even do our quiz online here in Psyche. It also provides academic information and announcements like scholarship or student exchange offers. Of course, it can only be accessed by Unair’s Psychology students. But here’s some sneak peak;
the Psyche dashboard
Recently my campus Information System Department developed Psyche into some kind of local social-network. We could send message to the lecturers or fellow students. We even can chat the like the Facebook-way chat. It also have a profile page, a dashboard and wall. 

the lesson page
Here's my Organizational Behavior lesson page. The lecturers of this subject likes to uploads a lot of learning supplement like articles, journals or text books.

The Psyche web is only faculty or so-called-local-level site. For the university or the bigger scoop level, there's UACC or Universitas Airlangga Cyber Campus. UACC controls every academic activity like your academic schedule, academic calendar, attendance record, grade book, study plan for particular semester (I don't know what it is called in English, but here we called it "Kartu Rencana Studi"), achievement record (like when you win something) and many more...

Oh, the other awesome thing about Psyche is the text notification service. As I said before, we submitted our assignment through the web. Every time the project deadline gets closer, Psyche will intensively text you about the approaching deadline. Not only texting about deadlines, every time a lecture (or anyone) posts in the forum, Psyche will generously tell you through text. Once, I received about 50 texts notification in a day from Psyche because a class forum gets so active. (un)Fortunately, this service cannot be disabled.

My college friends even joking about Psyche who sends message to someone a lot more than boyfriends (or girlfriends... or someone who have a crush on another) do.

What about your academic life? Is it as awesome as mine? Or do you have a similar campus site like I do?

Thursday 5 April 2012

Working Is...


As an Industry-Organization Psych student, I learn many things about human in organization—specifically in the work setting. I learn about forces that push you to do your best effort while working, skills required to do a job superbly, managing yourself and others, how to be a leader and a manager—and the differences between them, developing yourself and others around you, managing your career,  and many thing else.

It gives me a lot to think on. I never really work before—though I have done some freelance job—but in class, I learn about the ‘theories of doing things right while working’. All those theories and realities of work tell me that the working-life could be… harsh. I find out the most important thing for you to survive at work is your skill. What I learn in school this whole time can be easily set aside. Well yeah, knowledge is important but without knowing how to realize it, your knowledge means nothing. Values you hold and the right attitude are vital; it helps you to behave properly in various conditions.

*sigh* Could I really endure my future work life? Do I have proper skill, competencies and capabilities needed to do my work? Can I earn proper wages with my abilities I have now?

Have you ever wondered about those things too? After a long contemplation in classes I attended, working for me now, seems to be more than earn money for life. Working is more likely studying in some organization (or company) and you get paid for doing it. By setting this mindset (of get paid for studying) while doing your job, hopefully you wouldn’t be burdened with the tasks.

Happened to me once, when I did my job as a tester whose job is to administrate some psychological tests and score it. It was exhausting. That time, I had to handle a class of 20 naughty Senior High schoolers outside town—2 hours from Surabaya. The deadline for the test scoring was so short that I did it in a rush. Yeah, you guessed right, I wasn’t paid quite properly.

But then I think again. I learn a lot that time. I learn how to conduct myself and control my emotion in front of those badly behaved students. I learn to work under pressure. The paid means nothing compared with what I learned through working.

What about you guys? Have you anything to share about working?

  

Looking Through My Eyes: THE RAID

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I started April by watching Indonesia's Box Office Action Movie; The Raid.

There are lots of brutal fighting scenes, gun shots, some explosions and blood; lots of blood. Lots of dead bodies  victim of the battle. Oh yes, this movie is full of violence (even a girl like me not even feeling sorry for watching so much blood spilled over many times in this movie).

The Raid offers something different like I've never feel before while watching other action movies. Watching The Raid is like riding a roller coaster for approximately 100 minutes.It started smoothly (sweet and sentimental—kind of romantic, if I may say) until then you have to hold your breath. Next thing, you will find yourself gasping in awe, clinching your fists and feels the adrenaline rushing from the first 10 minutes until the end.

The fighting choreography is superb; they use pencak silat (Indonesian martial art) almost in every fist-to-fist scene. Its special effects are awesome—the wounds and the bloods look pretty real (Indonesian usually sucks at faking blood). The dark ambiance of the scenes blended with the score really helps to build the tension.

Actually, the plot of this movie is quite simple; the police versus the bad guys, although it also have a background story of brothers rivalry. It also simply sets in a soppy apartment building. And if you like conversational-based movie, you won't find too many dialogues here. But once they say their lines—beside cursing, it's something strong and meaningful. Despite the simplicity, they packed every detail perfectly you don’t have to think too much about the story; you just watch and enjoy it flows. But still, I noted some moral value from this movie about friendship, loyalty and brotherhood.

Oh, by the way, the lead actor, Iko Uwais, is cute. And Doni Alamsyah, one of the supporting actors, is cool as always.

Iko Uwais

So, if you want to see some real action with some real blood spilling moments, The Raid should sit on the top of your “Must See” list.

Tuesday 3 April 2012

I Wish I Could Sing This To You

Been trapped in this feeling—you know what I mean, for a long time. Recently I found this song way too late, because you could consider this song to be out of date (huh?).

If I had a chance, I will sing this song to you.
Or maybe, instead of looking for a chance, I have to make the chance myself and sing this song to him...



Sorry for the melodrama moment.


Monday 2 April 2012

Story of a Pottermore Beta Tester

So... I've been ranting about Pottermore, now that I've got my welcome e-mail I have already live my life as a Hogwarts' First Year Student.

If you asked me what Pottermore is, my answer would be: "A site where you can really experience what it feels like to be a witch/wizard who went to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardly". You can experience reading the Harry Potter book in a whole new way.

If you are interested, you can continue reading about my experience as Pottermore Beta User.

note: 
This post is image heavy and contains spoiler for Pottermore which will be opened to all in October.

Images are belong to Sonny Pottermore and JK. Rowling. I own nothing.