Selasa, 08 Mei 2018
Kekuatan Magis Es Teh Manis
Minggu, 29 April 2018
Melek Teknologi, Perlukah?
Minggu, 22 April 2018
Pribumi yang Mendunia
"Habis Gelap Terbitlah Terang"
Setelah jabatannya selesai pada 2010, ia ditunjuk menjadi salah satu dari tiga Direktur Pelaksana Bank Dunia. Hal itu menjadikannya wanita sekaligus orang Indonesia pertama yang mendapatkan kedudukan tersebut.
Ditinggalkan menjabat di Bank Dunia, Indonesia lalu mengalami kemunduran yang signifikan pada bidang perekonomiannya. Hal tersebut terlihat berpengaruh pada menurunnya nilai tukar rupiah pada saat itu.
Sebuah gebrakan terjadi pada 2016 saat Presiden Joko Widodo menjemputnya pulang untuk kembali menjabat sebagai Menteri Keuangan. Ia lalu membenahi kembali perekonomian Indonesia yang sempat merosot melalui program tax amnesty atau pengampunan pajak.
Pada 2014, peraih gelar Master of Science of Policy Economics dan Ph.D. of Economics di University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA ini dinobatkan sebagai wanita paling berpengaruh di dunia urutan ke-38 versi majalah Forbes. Lalu pada 2017 ia dinobatkan sebagai Menteri Keuangan Terbaik Se-Asia oleh majalah Finance Asia.
Pada 2014, terjadi insiden yang tidak terduga di Taman Bungkul berkaitan dengan penyelenggaraan bagi-bagi es krim gratis oleh perusahaan es krim Wall's di bawah naungan PT. Unilever. Acara tersebut menjanjikan pembagian es krim gratis sejumlah 10.000 buah. Akan tetapi, tidak disangka sekitar 70.000 pengunjung membludak berantusias untuk mendapatkan es krim gratis tersebut. Dampak negatif yang langsung membuat Ibu Risma marah terhadap pihak penyelenggara ialah akibat akan aksi tidak bertanggung jawab yang membuat tanaman-tanaman yang ada di sekitar Taman Bungkul rusak parah. Akibat insiden tersebut, Ibu Risma lalu dengan sigap memugar area tersebut dan menghantarkannya meraih penghargaan The 2013 Asian Townscape Award dari PBB sebagai Taman Terbaik Se-Asia pada tahun 2013.
Jadi, menurut kamu, siapa lagi Kartini masa kini yang patut dibanggakan?
(sumber data sebagian besar dirujuk dari Wikipedia)
Jumat, 13 April 2018
Living in Silence in A Quiet Place
"Stay silent, stay alive"
That was my first reaction while watching the trailer. "I must watch this", said me to myself.
A Quiet Place is a horror movie that was just released on April 6. You might have known that it is about a family who lived frightened of creatures that will hunt if they make a sound. IMDb rated this movie 8.2 out of 10. Whoa.. You probably have high expectation, don't you?
Here are 4 facts you might be curious about this movie:
1. Real-life Spouse
The husband and wife who played in this movie, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are a real life spouse. Perhaps that is why the chemistry was undeniably well-built. Krasinski himself not only played the movie, but also directed it.
Senin, 09 April 2018
A Book Review: SOPHISMATA by ALANDA KARIZA
"What happens when you dislike politicians so much, yet you fall in love with one?"
Not only talking about politics, the main characters prove us that there is beauty in differences. Even though both of them have their own dreams to be reached, they were unconditionally in love with each other. Sigi's character as a woman is really one of a kind. She is not afraid in delivering opinions, whether to her superior or Timur. She is also assertive in telling her feeling towards Timur, not like any common girls who hide their feelings and wait for miracle happened between them. There was one scene when she asked Timur about their relationship, is it black or white. I mean, who does that? Sigi always have principles that everything has to be black or white, she does not count grey in her life. She wanted everything to be clear.
Other than that, the conflict lies between her passion and what she was doing at that time. Timur emerges not to help her follow it, she does not need that because she always knew what to do.
For me personally, this book is giving such a newness in Indonesian fiction literature. The author delivered a fresh theme, which is politics, something that we are not so familiar about, and combined it with young love story, which is something that most of the readers are interested in.
Goodreads gave 3.6 out of 5 rating on this book, which I agreed. For those who are craving for a romance yet not cheesy, you might want to grab this when you stroll around at the bookstore.
(dindd, 2018)
Sabtu, 03 Februari 2018
About Time
Have you ever missed someone so bad like you are about to cry like a baby?
Sure, I have.
Can I ask, how old are you?
If you are around the one-fourth of the century, which is like me, I believe that you have felt the same.
Or
Have you got any best friend or just a friend that you could not imagine your life without them?
Sure, I have.
Most of my teenage life is full of memories with them.
My pre-puberty looks, my story of heartbreaks, my cheesy love story in high school or even my annoying daily-routine-mumbling about pimples. Believe me, they all knew it.
Sometimes, I think we are going to spend the rest of our lives with all of our silly jokes together. But, no, it's certainly wrong.
We are all grown up.
We separated one by one.
We are all apart by distance.
We are running out of time.
Time.
How far do you know about time?
It is not about what time you should get up every morning realizing that every second of your life is not going to be the same.
It's changing. Every second.
That's life, huh?
It is all about the thing you can not purchase.
It is all about the thing that you can not get back if you lost it once.
Time.
Turns out that I just lost it. Not once. But twice. Or even more, I guess.
I wasted my time.
That's the story.
The story of how stupid is one person when he/she is regretful of not making time with people they loved the most.
But I think it's too late now.
Nothing to be regret.
It is just a time to be ready for another losing.
Just be ready.
It is about time.













