Human vs Machine

First day on a new job.

My game is changed.

I love it.

As a child, I always thought that everyone would pick red as their favorite color.

I know it was wrong.

One of my kindergarten mate loved “blacks”. Other said “silver”. But heck, I still pick red card as my seat badge.

In fact, I started to color my sky in every “standard kindergarten painting” using red, made them golden dawn or beautiful sunset, whilst everyone picked blue crayon and drawing plain “standard” sunny day.

You can pick blue, black, or silver. But I love red. I always do.

ps. Ayo Mi, balapan tah? :))

Menjelang berbuka semalam, ibu saya di Jember berkirim SMS:

Ass. sdh buko ya jgn lupa berdoa kl makan. Mama td lht imelmu

Imel?

Ibu saya bukan pengguna internet. Ada sih akun YM, tapi itu juga dibikinin adik bungsu saya.

Sejauh saya ingat, saya belum pernah kirim imel ke Jember. Paling banter cuma surat biasa. Kadang telegram yang kira-kira berbunyi “putro waras artho telas ttk hbs”.
Itu juga dulu. Disebuah jaman dimana THR tidak habis untuk upgrade HP, dimasa saya masih semester awal tertindas kecanduan kuliah. Saat internet masih seperti sedia kala™.

Surat atau telegram. Itu saja.
Tapi berkirim imel? Wah, belum pernah deh.

Dengan sedikit penasaran saya berbalas SMS:

Lihat imel dimana ma?

Yang dijawab:

Di warnet tempat Irma. Dimuka gambar komputer ada 2 bungkusan & tulisane hebat bhs Madura-an,

Disini saya mulai ngeh.

Yang dimaksud “bhs Madura-an” mestinya adalah slang untuk “bahasa inggris”.
“Gambar komputer ada 2 bungkusan” tentunya merujuk ke aktivitas narsistik tak terkendali tempo hari.

Dan yang dimaksud “imel”, tak lain dan tak bukan ya blog nggak mutu ini.

Saya cuma cengar-cengir di taxi, maghrib tadi.
Nggak semua ibu pernah membaca “imel” putranya lho :)

Saya sendiri bukan tipikal breakfast-guy. Jarang/males sarapan.
Dan juga tipikal night-owl. Susah tidur sebelum jam 3 pagi.

Jadi ya.. ramadhan atau nggak, dari segi makan dan tidur, serasa nggak ngaruh.

Dari segi selain makan dan tidur, sebetulnya sih ya juga agak-agak nggak ngaruh.

Maksud saya begini.
Yang namanya berpikir, bekerja, dan berdoa itu sudah semestinya merupakan satu framework yang terintegral. Tightly-coupled.

Kalau anda bekerja, mestinya ya berpikir donk. Proses menetukan “kurang 3px kekiri” atau “lebih baik mod_fcgi ketimbang lighttpd” itu kan proses berpikir dan bekerja. Hanya saja saat mikirin itu saya sering lupa berdoa.

Mungkin lupa berdoa yang membuat kita merasa souless.
Seperti jadi pipa PVC. Dilihat jelas mengkilat; dipegang terasa kokoh. Tapi mudah rusak saat dipukulkan.

Nah, buat saya disitu doank beda ramadhan dengan bulan yang lain. Yang jadi simbol pengingat untuk selalu berdoa jadi lebih banyak.

Urusan makan dan tidur? Ya tetep nggak ngaruh :d

ps. Tapi SMS massal yang memakai pola seperti “Ramadhan telah tiba bla bla bla…” dst bukan kategori simbol pengingat. Simbol annoying tuh.

91% Geek

I never consider myself as a geek.

I mean I hate wedding party because wearing a jeans on that particular occasion would placed me in very awkward situation. The so-called collective manner and my practical reasoning work in mutual-exclusive way.

Or probably this would be perfect time to pay more attention to Geek Etiquette.

Well, maybe.

Well, let’s cut to the chase. I’m now having creativity blocks. Pretty much the same with writer’s block. If you do happen got Darth Vader action figure and Camel and GoF on your desk, geek block may be a correct phrase symbol to you (ps. I wear jeans too). Your mileage may vary, but I assume you get my point.

In normal situation (okay ‘normal’ is subjective) I have these hand picked, time-tested, quality-assurance selected methods to break the blocks. Funny, they don’t work anymore for me.

1. Writing copy of codes, old ones or new ones. Copying code, I mean actually typing it not just humble CTRL-C CTRL-V, is kinda like dragging’ our ‘creative brain’ inertia with ‘mechanic brain’. Typing without thinking, eventually, will start ‘creative brain’ to run.

2. Learning other subjects that is completely different with our task at hand. Useful when we got bored with current project(s).

3. Blogging. Reading as you are now.

4. Music. As FL Studio and guitar.

5. Vacation. I did. Surf’s Up was cool. Mr. Brooks was chilling. The Messenger was shocking. Alone was frightening. Can’t wait for Bourne Ultimatum.

Beside these fives, any more ideas how to break your creativity blocks? I’m listening.

....last Saturday.

Observed location of train accident yester Friday.

Meet my mom in a guesthouse, somewhere around Gedung Sate…

...with my sister, Irma. She used to blog too.

And spend the evening with The Horde in Excelso.

It’s a very short trip since I already back to Jakarta, that very night :)

..ugh, my back…

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Mark Twain

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