If I could change my role in life someday, I would like to be the head --or often called Oyabun-- of Yakuza gangster in Japan. Yakuza, also known as gokudou, is Japan’s native organized crime group. The Japanese police call them bouryokudan which means violent group, while the yakuza call themselves as ninkyou danta or chivalrous organizations.
There is something very interesting about them that has made my eyes open. They are bunch of bad guys doing criminals (semi) publicly, but you know what—they have dignity that any other villains do not have. The nature of the yakuza group is remarkably strict and very organized. Besides, they are friends for those who do not interfere, but they can be an absolute violence to people who get through their way.
Yakuza has been rooted from very long time ago since the mid-Edo period. They used to be involved or participating in gambling, stealing goods or some other commercial activities. In modern era, they change forms and operations into group which practically works in human and drugs trafficking, debt collecting, possessing night entertainments, and many more.
There are two icons to indicate a person as Yakuza member; full-body tattoo and cut fingers. The yakuza members favor tattoos or body murals. This full-body tattoo is mostly covering the entire torso, front and back, arms, and mid-legs. Therefore, Yakuza always wear long underwear and shirts covered with coat or suit. The other hallmark of Yakuza is typically having cut-off finger(s). This ritual called Yubitsume is a form of apology if one does not do their task well.
I know what they are doing is criminality, but my mind and conscience appeal me to be a part of them to feel how it is like to be different yet dreaded Yakuza even though just for a day.
Rabu, 24 Desember 2014
The Chosen One
Not everybody could be the one who got the ‘best’ luck of role in his or her life. If anyone got it, he or she would followed by interesting things throughout his or her paths, just like in the films. The one who got the ‘best’ luck is called The Chosen One, which means that he or she is deliberately chosen by destiny, and somehow becomes some a figure called “From zero to hero”.
This man that I will describe is likely the chosen one. His name is Ryusuke Tsukumo, a neurological scientist studying human nature at the Metropolitan Police Agency’s National Research Institute of Police Science, Japan. He is from a Japan drama titled "Mr. Brain". He tackles fundamental questions about human nature and overturns a few commonly-held beliefs along the way.
When the story started, Ryusuke Tsukumo was a popular male host from Tokyo. One day he walked home on foot when suddenly he had an accident that a big wall fell onto his head and made him apparently lose his old identity and renew it one year later. He showed up again when he was about going to ISP laboratory, but unfortunately found a bomb. Then, Ryusuke got arrested himself for allegedly setting off an explosion.
He became a genius that even people around him could not think the way he thought. For example, during his interrogation, he answered the questions using his keen sense of intellect and knack for deductive reasoning and turned the questions back on his interrogators, setting up inferences that pointed to a more likely suspect, things that he could not do in the past when he was still a host.
People think that he is crazy, but in fact he is just too clever to understood. The destiny in his story might has replaced from the accident, the fate that has chosen him to become a hero in his own life.
This man that I will describe is likely the chosen one. His name is Ryusuke Tsukumo, a neurological scientist studying human nature at the Metropolitan Police Agency’s National Research Institute of Police Science, Japan. He is from a Japan drama titled "Mr. Brain". He tackles fundamental questions about human nature and overturns a few commonly-held beliefs along the way.
When the story started, Ryusuke Tsukumo was a popular male host from Tokyo. One day he walked home on foot when suddenly he had an accident that a big wall fell onto his head and made him apparently lose his old identity and renew it one year later. He showed up again when he was about going to ISP laboratory, but unfortunately found a bomb. Then, Ryusuke got arrested himself for allegedly setting off an explosion.
He became a genius that even people around him could not think the way he thought. For example, during his interrogation, he answered the questions using his keen sense of intellect and knack for deductive reasoning and turned the questions back on his interrogators, setting up inferences that pointed to a more likely suspect, things that he could not do in the past when he was still a host.
People think that he is crazy, but in fact he is just too clever to understood. The destiny in his story might has replaced from the accident, the fate that has chosen him to become a hero in his own life.
Deciding Our Fate
Have you known what you will be or where you will go? In general, we are led by our parents to attend school to prepare us what we will be in the future. School is assumed to be the ultimate place where people obtain knowledge of basic sciences and there are levels for it ranging from primary to higher ones. But apparently, what school does to us is just setting similar standards of expertise which is, actually, somewhat less proper to our need or talent.
In school, teachers teach us basic lessons of sciences and socials and in each semester they will ask us to do the final exams to measure the extent of our understanding on what teachers had taught us. We can assume that what teachers do at school is just choking us lessons and giving us tests that not all of us can fully understand. And unfortunately, we who can not stand such standards will be told as a person who will not have bright future. Sadly, they are not aware that a person’s proficiency at school can not determine his or her fate.
Our school grades depend on the exam results, whereas it is almost impossible to expect the results of the exam to be all great as teachers have generalized the lessons to the whole students in class despite their differences. In fact, all of us has different capacity of brain and way of thinking. Therefore, the exam results can not be taken for granted that they determine our fate.
In brief, our differences cannot simply be measured by the school and its formal exams. The grades we get from the exam will not affect where our lives will go. That’s why it is we ourselves who have to do our best to decide our own fate, not the school or the exam.
In school, teachers teach us basic lessons of sciences and socials and in each semester they will ask us to do the final exams to measure the extent of our understanding on what teachers had taught us. We can assume that what teachers do at school is just choking us lessons and giving us tests that not all of us can fully understand. And unfortunately, we who can not stand such standards will be told as a person who will not have bright future. Sadly, they are not aware that a person’s proficiency at school can not determine his or her fate.
Our school grades depend on the exam results, whereas it is almost impossible to expect the results of the exam to be all great as teachers have generalized the lessons to the whole students in class despite their differences. In fact, all of us has different capacity of brain and way of thinking. Therefore, the exam results can not be taken for granted that they determine our fate.
In brief, our differences cannot simply be measured by the school and its formal exams. The grades we get from the exam will not affect where our lives will go. That’s why it is we ourselves who have to do our best to decide our own fate, not the school or the exam.
Rabu, 08 Oktober 2014
Dream
My friend Nisazka Syaula’s dream job is to be a successful designer. For Nisazka, her dream job has to have the word ‘success’ in it because she wants to totally devote to her work. She loves to design both shoes and dresses, and prefers none over the other. As such, she would be fine with doing only one of the two, although if she is able to work on both, it would be twice the fun for her.
When she was sixteen, she had planned to go either to Esmod or Lasalle, or other places abroad in order to accumulate more experiences. However, her mother told her that she should enter ITB’s FSRD instead, since it has a fashion designing major, which is what she is fond of.
Sazka has a plan that five years from then she would move to either Tokyo or New York to continue her studies. That would require her to get a postgraduate scholarship to pursue her passions in fashion business. After that, she would start her own professional career in fashion runaway, and she aims to be an international designer. Since she has finally begun her journey to be a successful fashion designer, she is going to take her dream and everything about it seriously – after all, it will become her future job.
By: Christian Listiyanto
When she was sixteen, she had planned to go either to Esmod or Lasalle, or other places abroad in order to accumulate more experiences. However, her mother told her that she should enter ITB’s FSRD instead, since it has a fashion designing major, which is what she is fond of.
Sazka has a plan that five years from then she would move to either Tokyo or New York to continue her studies. That would require her to get a postgraduate scholarship to pursue her passions in fashion business. After that, she would start her own professional career in fashion runaway, and she aims to be an international designer. Since she has finally begun her journey to be a successful fashion designer, she is going to take her dream and everything about it seriously – after all, it will become her future job.
By: Christian Listiyanto
Kamis, 04 September 2014
Welkommen
Yooo this is sazka making a new blog for my english assignment.
I actually had english lecture back in my first semester in Bandung Institute of Technology--when I was in Tahap Persiapan Bersama, but.........unfortunately I have to relecture it because I had an E for english T____T it was sad I couldn't tell to my mom that I was failed in my English subject... and then I figured out that the reason was I didn't do the midterm test!!! I was sick and forgot that I had to take the midterm test, and then I forgot to take the make-up test as well...
So, here I am, retaking the course in STEI 2014 class. I promise to my mom not to be failed anymore so I need to take this seriously. I have now been already arriving twenty minutes earlier before the class starts--absolutely not the old me who was always late for evey single class--sitting beside my new friends Christian and Calvin typing a new blog for my English assignments. Yes, I make this blog twenty minutes before the teacher asks about it.
Hoho peace and love, Sazka
I actually had english lecture back in my first semester in Bandung Institute of Technology--when I was in Tahap Persiapan Bersama, but.........unfortunately I have to relecture it because I had an E for english T____T it was sad I couldn't tell to my mom that I was failed in my English subject... and then I figured out that the reason was I didn't do the midterm test!!! I was sick and forgot that I had to take the midterm test, and then I forgot to take the make-up test as well...
So, here I am, retaking the course in STEI 2014 class. I promise to my mom not to be failed anymore so I need to take this seriously. I have now been already arriving twenty minutes earlier before the class starts--absolutely not the old me who was always late for evey single class--sitting beside my new friends Christian and Calvin typing a new blog for my English assignments. Yes, I make this blog twenty minutes before the teacher asks about it.
Hoho peace and love, Sazka
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