The internet connection is going slower. I’m going to write out from my bloated chubby belly.
Hmm. What happened today? Not much I suppose. This evening I went to cinema and saw A Night At The Museum. Funny movie. It reminds me of Jumanji-sort of flick (maybe because Robin Williams is there). I like the Easter Island rock character. I think the movie is targetting the children audience. Glad I still got a seat on the back row. 75% viewers were kids! Well, I’m a sort a child at heart, so, it’s….fun.
Speaking about kids, a friend of mine, an UAE born Lebanese said, “Indonesian likes comics.” He told me about his Indonesian housemates who reads comics and enters KasKusdotcom (Wait… isn’t it KasKus are mature content? Aria Giovanni, Chairmane Starr, Aiko whatever…etc. Don’t ask where the hell did I know these names). But, yeah, how true, Indonesian identic with comics. Not about the comic creators, but comic consumer. I read comic since I can read and understand long sentences. Everytime I can get a hold of old copy of Nina’s, it feels so nostalgic, plus I didn’t only read them. I think I read them all, any comics which printed and publicised in circa 80’s to early 90’s. Now, I read mostly Japanese manga and sometimes Korean manhwa, which I have downloaded hundred times and keep bulking up my external hard drive (geez, 40G is not enough, hey?). I like the weirdness of the manga story can be. Some are overwhelmingly original, some are sweet high school love story with a bit of twist. Some are hell of gross, some are heaps of erotic flushes. All kind, all themes are wrapped in style, in such artistic flair, in yummy-ready-to-digest package.
Eventhough, not all reader enjoy comics, but one of my buddies back home, Comicman are currently developing a new method of teaching by comics. I think he has been doing it for years and he finds a positive remarks out from the students he teaches. Well, you can’t always learn Biology from the literature books, right? Be there like Internet and comics, perhaps? (I found Encyclopaedia are more thorough and acurate than school books sometimes!) People are thrill with alternative. I mean, if they can go further on grabbing the understanding in unorthodox way, why do not give them the availability of facilities? And one more thing, I do not like, no, I hate, really really hate people who barricade others’ possibility to growth by all means. Can they be education, economy, creativity, information, religion, talents, everything! I hate a sort of high profile education faculty department who literally block the sources of academic information for other student from different not so profitable schools. C’mon guys, sharing is caring, isn’t it? If I can see, schools or colleges or universities, per se, become a sector base of business. Students pay the money to get lesson, the school boards receive the money in exchange of lesson. Education is indeed expensive, but who made it first? Is the higher expense school means the higher ego? Is like, oh how sorry, no library card for too average people. How about the less smart people, don’t they deserve to broaden their knowledge? Knowledge is power, is very true, the thing is, is knowledge also affordable? I think it is up to knowledged-power people who ‘own’ or ‘create’ the institution.
Ok. Well. Enough speaking about institution shit. What? Comics! Yes, comics. I love comics. I love reading, actually. My mom always brings home books or anything with paragraphs whenever I bored myself silly. I spent too much on books, too (books are expensive! Damn!). No joys can make me happy as books do. Of course, my favourite place to read it would be on the toilet (all my family members do it, my sister will read all the shampoo bottles tag when reading material is inadequate). I think I saw that somewhere, a picture of magazine racks inside the toilet… Was it Ikea? 😕
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