Went around 9gag today and came across a Derek Sivers' video below.
Since I've been practically living in the internet for quite a while now, I can understand this one completely, and quite personally too.
It's true that people really feel like they just can say anything to anyone because the person they're talking to is not in front of them, this applies to phone and texting as well. And sadly sometimes they can just go say bad things without thinking because they think they're talking to some kind of an NPC who won't feel a thing about it.
Have you ever been in an internet forums? I'm sure most of you have, since the fact you're reading this shows how capable you are in the web life, and usually those kind of people have at least one forum as their shelter. But have you attended its gathering event? If you do, I'm sure you notice how some people you usually talk casually there behave; shy and don't talk as much as they do there. XD
I remember my friend said that, "conversation between lovers usually don't end up well in messengers or sms". And I experienced it myself during those 2 years I had with my ex.
I've been trying to treat people over the web as a real person, I even became some kind of life counselling center for some of my friends because of that. But there are times I forget how talking to other people should be, and made a mess out of it. I really hope I never make the same mistake again. :<
By the way, you might want to look at the rest of the videos on YouTube. They're quite heart-warming and made me realized stuffs I usually forget and/or not paying attention in life.
I'm sorry for not posting as frequent as I used to these days, I guess the stress from my past final project really made me want to tell stories to people. (Hence the movie o_O)
Anyway, here are the late updates: -I'm employed now at PT INTI. The same place I went during my trial period back at college; which means, -I'm living at Bandung, again -I still don't know jack about electrical engineering, though this is no suprise to most people who knows me D: -I gained 1 kg!!
And as the last but might be he most important one, because this is one of the main cause on my lack of posting: I'm playing ECO Indonesian server \o/
For those who don't know what this game is, it's a Japanese MMORPG developed by SquareEnix (!) that is filled with cute girls (!!) and other stuffs that will take forever to mention. @_@
You should go and read about it in the net for more details, or you can just play it. It's fun. o/
God, it's been soooooo~ long since I came here... Is everyone ok?
Sorry for not updating the blog up till now, got A LOT of.. err, "homeworks", to catch up. Been playing a whole lot of stuffs since I earned my temporary freedom. Mainly Starcraft 2, Fallout New Vegas, Borderlands, CoD Black Ops, Medal of Honor, etc etc.
See, I got a lot of homeworks. @_@
And it didn't stop there, I got a new homework thanks to my brother who introduce it to me in the first place. Now I also play Team Fortress 2 to boot. There goes my normal daily life I guess. XD
Well, I kinda forgot what I want to write now, so I guess I'll end it here for the time being. Be seeing you guys later.
I never thought I'd reach this phase after 6 years.. All those time of being fed by things I don't want to know, all those time of faking to the world showing "I'm okay" face, all those time of merit-less efforts knowing that I won't use anything out of those so-called knowledge in real life..
Yet I have to admit, I regret none of it.
It was said that God will answer your prayers in ways you might never comprehend, at least for a few years. This is just His way to answer some of mine, although I frankly had forgotten a few of them.
But I know that I have at least became a better man than I used to be.
So, by all means, thank you God. And thank you to everyone who had prayed for me to reach this final moments..