Powerful Profession with a Weak Definition

I am so nervous about my first day as an intern tomorrow that I was suddenly inspired to search about architect profession. I've found that in my country, there is no certain regulation regarding the definition of architect and what is the job of an architect. And I also found out, that my country is the ONLY country that doesn't have that kind of regulation. This creates a fuss such as violation of Garis Sepandan Bangunan (hell, I don't know what you call it in English), violation of Koefisien Lantai Bangunan, and so on.

Now I found the definition of architect (not in a form of a legal law, so it still not regulated) that is an expert who is competent in architecture and practice of architecture is a practice conduct by an architect in architecture field. And then, it is also said that someone who already practices in architecture field, and trust me there are many, but haven't got neither license nor profession certificate, is not going to be considered an architect.

What about my senior who already got so many projects when he was still in college a.k.a undergraduate? Does that mean anybody can do practice of architecture without even have to be an architect? The law about this sector is still weak. That's why so many violation of regulations about building happens a lot. There is no clear definition to whom the law concerned. In the current law it is only said as 'service providers' (pemberi jasa), but it is not defined whether it is the architect, or the engineer, or the mechanical engineer, etc. And by regulations about building I am not only refer it as the formal law, but also regarding how a building should be design, regarding its aesthetics, and its users comfort and needs. But still, that is some other thing.

The most important thing is the definition of architect and its job field, after that how to be a registered architect. If there is no such thing, then my entire college study is a waste.

Officially a blog-walker

There's this one thing I like about blogs, other than my own blog, that is... It is every time I blog walked I will find something interesting among people around the world. I can learn of how people think, how they react to their everyday occasion, how is their life doing. I can also learn something from them, such as religious blog that contains, umm what do you say it, some chapter from their bibles, or even social problem in their neighborhood and better yet, their country. And the most interesting part of all is that I don't have to know the blogger. Well, I mean, I'd like to know bloggers from all over the world, but in context of blog-walking is like walking on the city street all alone. You may see a lot of interesting shops, stuff, activity, person, anything... without having to know or be known. It's a one time occasion that's not gonna repeat, yet you earn a lot of experience.

I don't know about you, but for me, that's just interesting! I should do this (blog-walking) more often to keep my mind in shape. :)

The word 'miss' is missed!

So I'm going to talk about a certain word that I'm terribly filled with right now, but not in the capability of an expert though. Just in the simplest way that anyone would describe the same word, which is... *drumrolls.......*

miss.

The word miss have a lot of meanings, right? You can use it to describe that you didn't hit a target, or it can also be a noun for a girl or woman who haven't get married yet, or, as in my case, to describe the feeling of desiring someone else's presence. I don't know the origin of the word, but I think it is also used to describe the absence of something or someone.

Today, when I was in the bathroom taking a you-know-what, I kinda thought of the connection between the two meaning. You desire someone's presence when their presence is MISSING from you, right? So maybe, when someone says to you 'I miss you', maybe what it probably mean is her/his presence is being missed from your life by them (miss as in absent, or, idk, lost, maybe?). But then again, you probably would say 'I miss you too' in return so that would also mean that your presence is being missed from his/her. Well, to be not around someone is by choice of one or the other, or even both, right?

Wow, tough. Here, let me ease you up by sharing something about my language. In my language those meanings have their own word. Miss, as in desiring someone else's presence, which I talked about earlier, is 'kangen' or 'rindu' in Indonesian. Usually my language uses words that are being adopted from foreign language, such as music becomes musik, or escalator becomes eskalator. But not the word miss. Well I guess that's mean the feeling of missing someone gotta be a very ancient feeling.

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Why the hell did I write about this, you ask (or not). My lovvve is in a remote place right now that he doesn't have signal to even text me... By signal I mean, literally. The communication transmission haven't cover the entire island of Kalimantan (Borneo, as you know it), so...voila, lack of communication. :(

PLAYscape Design Competition

There is this design competition that I am interested in. It's called the PLAYscape. You can check it out in here and if you aren't that interested, I beg your kindness to help me find some idea :D. I'm planning to surf the city but I haven't found the right time yet.

The city I'm choosing is certainly Jakarta, and not Bandung. Bandung has a very potential abandoned landscape but is already a city with so much greenery. And it also got many outdoor activity held in the public area, so it's not a so much difficult case to create a great design in Bandung. But, Jakarta is some other thing. It also possess many potential abandoned landscape, but almost zero activity were held at those public area. I guess it's because it's not interesting to a metropolitan citizen, and also not safe and hot. Not much people would like to go somewhere outdoor and public with so much more activity can be held indoor (mall, game center, etc.), not to mention the traffic. With so much problem, I think, Jakarta would be a potential site to design a playscape with its own uniqueness. The second reason to choose Jakarta would be: it is where I live.

By the way, I'm going to try to post twice a day because of my absence for a week. Hohooo... This is what I've been going through all those days:

This is what my teammate doing for almost 2 weeks.

This is what I made in 32 freaking hours, just to fix what she threw on me (just the landscape, so that does not include the building and the aisle). I'm not bragging or anything, but it takes effort to finish something and laziness is not the key that helps. God, what have she been doing all those times. I really can think of something worthy.

Uh, if you're wondering what competition it is, it's the Tropical Architecture Design Competition 2013 by International High Learning from Singapore. Maybe you should join it next year, it's fun! :D

bubarkan saja biar tenang

I forgot, something happened in my country media today that I am so ashamed of that I'm going to use my language instead, so no people from other country know the stupidity in it. By the way, the video will show something incredibly inappropriate on minute 1:53 or so... Voila, my beloved country... :)

Katanya juru bicara, kok ngga bisa menyampaikan pesan dengan baik-baik? kalo apa yang mau disampaikan benar adanya dan efeknya baik, disampaikan dengan kepala dingin juga semua orang bakal denger dan bakal respek, ga perlu pake nyiram orang dulu. Ih, ga sadar umur ya, Pak Thamrin udah lebih tua gitu, ga ada rasa hormat apa? kayak dibesarin di kandang babi aja. orang di agama Islam dijunjung tinggi juga kan menghormati orang yang lebih tua. Yah gue ga akan ngasi unjuk ayat apa ato kata-kata Nabi Muhammad yang menekankan hal tersebut, tapi plis deh, orang ateis aja tau orang tua itu harus diperlakukan dengan baik. Disiram kasih sayang, bukan teh, err..

Pokoknya, gue sebagai seorang muslim, ga sudi dibelain sama orang yang bahkan ga bisa ngejaga harga dirinya sendiri. Gue ga rela dibelain organisasi yang memilih preman emosian untuk jadi juru bicaranya. Yang gue relakan adalah kalo organisasi itu untuk mengkaji ulang isi al-Qur'an untuk ditekankan ke masyarakat dan bukan justru mencontohkan tindakan anarkis. supaya lebih rela lagi, dibubarkan saja.

Two pages A1 paper filled with blood and tears thanks to my useless team mate

Wew, it's been a while since my last post, huh? That's because of this international tropical architecture design competition from Singapore that should be fun, but because of my useless teammate, who disappeared at the moment I really need her the most, my entire time was spent on making 5 pages of project brief, 2 pages of portofolio (in A1 paper, you imagine, ALL ALONE squeezing the thoughts out of my brain to fill TWO PAGES of A1 paper, while the other team doing it FULL TEAM, consists of 4 amazing people!), and also finishing the design itself. The earlier distribution of jobdescs weren't working since two of my teammates were unavailable (one of them hide, yes, SHE HIDES from me like I'm some kind of mass murder psycho...tho I kind of act like one...SINCE SHE ABANDONED HER JOB).

Geez, all she had to do was design the garden while I design an entire four storeys building, and all she ever made was an entirely, massively unfinished SketchUp. And there I was, setting aside all my hobbies and didn't even sleep calmly (wait, did I even sleep, oh yeah, for 12 hours...in FOUR DAYS!) while she....fuck it, I don't even care what she was doing while I was trying hard to make something worthy.

Lesson: never EVER create a team with someone with whom you can't learn a thing from. Cause he/she shall be useless for you.

Quote(s) of the day

Seems like I've spoted a light from a place I believe as my vantage point. I'm in such a blissful mood that I turn into a quote sucker and search for quotes about light in google. I intended to choose only one that I find the best, but I can only manage to reduce those quotes into two. Without even recognizing the person who said it, here are the quotes I find the most appealing...

 “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
-Terry Pratchett-

 “There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.”
-Leonard Cohen-


 Have a delightful life, everyone!

Advice

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What's all this?

I've just realized that for the past three post I've been rambling about random things. So the time has come for me to claim what my blog is going to be. *drumrolls please*

First of all... why did I use the name "insatiable tweeting" for my blog, also with incorrect grammar too by not using capital letters for title. Well, I didn't want it to be a title at first. *lol

I was a blogger back when I was still in high school, 11th grade. But then i got too busy that I intentionally abandoned my former blog. Then now I'm all settle in college, I started again surfing the social media. First, I made a Twitter account and an Instagram account (yes everybody, I just started Twitter and Instagram in college, third year). But then few months later Twitter and also Instagram didn't fulfill my appetite of publishing my thoughts (what an attention whore I am) so I started my second blog (yes everybody, in year 2013 I just started my blog). Therefore, voila! Insatiable tweeting, because tweeting is just not enough.

And what is this blog about? Hmm, at first I was intending to fill this blog with posts about architecture. No, I'm not going to post my assignments to request feedbacks or my notes of my professor's lecture. Yes, it is going to be my personal views about architecture. But then again, I'm an attention whore. There's going to be posts about my personal feelings, just like the posts before, but still the main course is architecture posts.

Second topic that is going to be all over my blogs would be traveling. It might be culinary, activities, or architecture again. Depends of what I find whilst traveling. Though it's not going to be as often as architecture topics, regarding that I'm still at college.


So that's that everybody. The insatiable tweeting blog for you, take it or leave it! :)

Another sucker of the ugly truth

Today I did a little blog-walking and I found a mildly amusing blog. It is none other than the Hanzi Smatter blog with the address hanzismatter.blogspot.com. It is where Tian, the blogger, publish email sent to him about chinese writing tattoos. So those who sent it usually requested translation from Tian regarding the meaning of their chinese written tattoos. Most of them chinese writings are misused.

The amusing part is that the email senders; some are the tattoo owner, some are not, are completely clueless regarding the meaning of the writing they've agreed to bear on their bodies for the rest of their life. They all bear in mind (and body) that what is carved in their skins had been their confidence boost, their definition of themselves, their hopes of what they wanted to be, et cetera, et cetera, in the most honorable way, just because it was in chinese, the writings that is uncommon for them. Thus, what is uncommon is always considered...kewl...

But they all had their doubt on their own, probably, impulsive decision. So they asked Tian via email and nervously hoping for an answer. Just to accept Tian's sharp comments such as "Another sucker of the gibberish font." or a translation of the real meaning from the writing, which mostly not the meaning the owner hoped for.

So...(I'am about to point out once again about the breaking down of my life, so if some of you are tired of my meaningless babbling about my misfortune, I'd understand if you close this blog immediately. But for those who aren't, proceed) to have this chinese written tattoos misuses, it came to my mind about my own 'tattoo'.

Let me tell you about my 'tattoo'. I made the decision to take the 'tattoo' as my companion to strive along in live. The 'tattoo' which meaning I thought I understand properly. Now that I've stumbled into a translator called "The Truth", I've come to realize that my tattoo is just a carved reminder of my shameful, wrong doing, thoughtless action that I chose to cope with the rest of my life. And that just feel awful.

It is awful to know that the tattoo artist is a big fat liar. And it is awful to know that the tattoo artist is myself. And it is most awful when some other people knows the shameful meaning the tattoo brought more than I do.


Moral of the story: To carve a tattoo that you don't recognize, is just so wrong.

Today's Life Event Revealed: Standup Deception

So since the mental breakdown I had yesterday, I repeatedly tried to self-heal myself by saying this: "Head held high, girl, and welcome your ultimate utter failure." And there I was this afternoon, with my love, attending a Standup Comedy Festival in Senayan, Jakarta, trying to dig some joy and laughter out of my black hole.

I'm not particularly into standup comedies. It's just that I like how comics use their character, either their mimics, body language, or speech, to turn some usual occasion they had, from the extraordinary to the most ordinary little things, into something we thought we also had. In the most funniest perspective we never thought we had. That's what I call, and that's where I intentionally, voluntarily letting some other people deceive my mind.

And thus one thing I've come to realize today what had been the X factor of these serial problems I had lately. It is that I was to deceitful that my own mind deceive myself about one important thing that had been the fundamental guideline of how I live my life.

I was too confident that I thought I can handle any problem, any obstacle, any unfortunate events, anything, with my cunning tricks. But then I realized, it is not cunning at all. Since it was lying that I had been doing.


God, oh God help me for I am beginning to imagine throwing myself away...

Mood weather: cloudy with a chance of breaking out loud

Damn, it's my first post to my second blog but I'm about to stuff it with utterly sad feelings. But here goes...

Have you watch "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball"? Well, I'm 21 years old and I'm quite inspired by the main character's attitude towards failure. Umm, what's his name again? Oh, Flint Lockwood, yea. I'm not gonna dictate you about the things I've learned from that movie, but there's this some stupid stuff that occurs in my days lately that reminds me of one of the scene in this cunning movie.

So, those who haven't watch it, hang on there for a moment... Those who have, well, do you remember when the big disaster with big food weather happens, what did Flint, as the one responsible, do? He hid himself in a trash can. And when his father found him there, I don't quite recall what's his line but he said something like this: "I'm not useful, so I throw myself away like these junks (in the trash can)."


Yeah, right now, that's kinda something I'd like to do. Throw myself away...