Who Am I? Not Spiderman

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Jakarta Pusat, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia
Rizky Novrianto is just an ordinary human being who try to live his life as extraordinary as it can be. I like to be different. You maybe able to find someone better than me, but You may never find someone like me. I hope common courtesy hasn't die yet. Treat people the way you want to be treated and even more, treat other people the way they want to be treated.

Saturday, November 30, 2013

There are Always Sides to a Story

Imagine there are four people standing surrounding the Merlion statue near the Marina Bay, Singapore. One on the right side (is Atlas), one on the left side(is Blake), one on the back (is Chris) and one, sadly on the water because he has to be in front of the Merlion and yes, he got splashed by the water coming out the Merlion (is Dunne).

Then you ask them a report about, "What do you see?"
They are all looking at the exactly same Merlion, but are you sure they're going to report the same thing?

Atlas which stands on the right side will came out with report:
"I saw a Merlion statue, the water is splashing to my right side and there's a lot of people taking photo near the bay. I also saw the Esplanade Theater, Mandarin Hotel and The Float"

Chris which stands on the left side will came out with report:
"I saw a Merlion statue, the water is splashing to my left side and there are a lot of people eating at the food court there and sitting while having a good time. I also saw One Fullerton, Singapore Business District, the counter for Singapore River Cruise and a Starbucks a little further down the road"

Blake which stands on the back side will came out with report:
"I saw a Merlion statue, the water is splashing to the front side and there's a river before the Marina Bay Sand. I also saw the Hotel, the Helix Bridge, The Singapore Flyer and the Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands"

Can you guess what Dunne which stands (or rather float in the water) report will be?
"I f*cking saw a Merlion statue, the water is f*cking splashing right at me. It's f*cking cold in here and I'm tired of trying to float my self in the water and I have to keep on moving. All I can see is water everywhere. This is sh*t! Why do I get to be the one who stays in the f*cking water. This is f*cking b*llsh*t."

Does anybody got my point already?
They all saw the same statue, but even to where the direction of the water is splashing, they tell a different story, a completely and totally opposite and plus with anger from Dunne. 

This is life, we sometimes see a problem from one angle only and we don't even try to try another angle or another point of view. If we back on the case, How if there's more than just 4 views? maybe there's another Eric who stands at the Esplanade Park? or how if we put Frost on the top of Marina Bay Sands? there are always hundreds points of view. Sometimes we dare to speak out loud and scream out point of view without having seen all the point of view.

Now if there are only four point of view and we decided to explore another point of view, you may be having a better understanding of the issue. First you take the Atlas' place and now you understand why he reports what his report says, you take Chris' position and you're starting to get a grip on the difference, you take Blake's place and now you get the most of it. But then you saw Dunne's place. Then you're in doubt because you can't swim and you can't be in the water. So you start to make conclusion based on those three point of views. I would say, how dare you!!!

There are a very critical point of view rather than Atlas, Blake and Chris. Those three people are standing in a higher ground and having a good view of everything. But people sometimes forget the point of view from Dunne, the Point of view of the VICTIM. The one who suffer the most. You have to realize, yeah they also have a point of view and I can't say they have the most Righteous point of view, but by God they do have a point of view.

Based on the report, only Dunne's report looks angry. Why? because he's in the water, tired and he has the crap that the other three doesn't feel and let say, they all got the same amount of paycheck. We sometimes forget this critical point of view and sometimes we don't even want to explore another point of view. We are stuck in our own opinion and state it to the world as if we are the most righteous one.

All four of the subjects are speaking the truth and they are all true but with one catch. They are all only true on their own point of view. Chris will always against Atlas opinion because they have the exact opposite. Blake will never understand why Dunne is so angry because they look things on a different heights.

People will split into four or thousands different of groups for that matter.
Can't we just agree to disagree?

The most important point for us, the other people, the viewer who only know a story from one r two or three sides, where there are tens of another sides, always remember to stay neutral and don't join a cause just because one point of view then you create something that you will regret your whole life or even create a mass-damage that will need a very long time to heal.

People are having their own opinion and they are entitled to it because they have their own experience. We,who don't have knowledge to it, have a CHOICE... whether we want to stay neutral or we want to act irrationally before we know all the facts. 

For you Indonesian Doctors, please understand the point of view of the patient who charge very expensive on the medical bill, for all the tears they've shed, for all the hardship they endure to get money for medication, for all the expensive medicine they pay where they can pay cheaper for the same result but they don't know, and for 
everything.

For you Indonesian Patients, please understand all the hardship that those doctors went through, all the money they spent on the education all the time they spent on studying to make people healthier, all the tears they've shed during the exam and the training as young doctors, all the time they spent staying up late worrying about your condition, All the efforts they gave when they give you surgery, and for everything.

We all have faith in life. If we don't know a single clue about what we're talking about, talk from a neutral position and don't judge. Don't get easily angry or condemned when we don't actually know the true reason behind it. 

STAY NEUTRAL AND KEEP MOVING FORWARD.
I just hope the world can be a better and peaceful place to live.
Let the people who had the quarrel finish it before the law, and for the rest of us, lets just watching it silently. Don't fall into someone's agenda setting that easy.

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Why Statistics.... Why.....!!!!

Let say I'm going to have a party next Saturday at my house and you are all invited. But then you're all going to ask me, "Where's my address?" To be better in describing it, I'm going to draw a map for you, and I'll ask this to you, "How much do you want me to draw my map as close as to the reality?"

"100%" one of you might scream.
Then I start to draw my 100% close to reality map with 1:1 scale. Now, can you imagine how big it's gonna be and how big is my paper will be?

"90% is enough" some of you might say.
Okay, I wont draw at 1:1 scale, but then I draw the map to the very last detail up until the rocks, the plants and the trees. 

"80% is enough" you might say.
Well, I might still have to draw every names of the buildings and every turns that you have to make.

So on and so forth, and In the end I just draw some roads and some landmark you can use as a guidance to find my house. The result of the map would be so simple and focus in pointing my house and how to get there. In the process, I will (kind of) ignoring the fact that is exist in the reality and ignore it so it won't distract you to reach the goal, which is to find my house.

Well, isn't that how statistic works?? or all mathematical model works for that matter. We try to draw a simpler form of a complicated matters in order to find our goal and in the process, we hold other variables constant.

If I think that way, then I would know that statistic is actually meant good. But and it really is a very big BUT, Sometimes statistic is just simply like crap... Sorry for you guys who love statistic to death. Why? because statistic is no more than just a tool to help you count and not with the decision. 

I give you a sample,
if there's a data of the level of happiness of 20 people correlated to their income.
Darn it, I can't make a table here? so let's make it like this. pretend there's a table, with a heading : Subject | Happiness Level | Income
A | 100 | 1               K | 100 | 1
B | 200 | 2               L | 200 | 2
C | 300 | 3               M | 300 | 3
D | 400 | 4               N | 400 | 4
E | 500 | 5               O | 500 | 5
F | 100 | 1               P | 100 | 1
G | 200 | 2               Q | 200 | 2
H | 300 | 3               R | 300 | 3
I | 400 | 4                S | 400 | 4
J | 500 | 5                T | 500 | 5

As you can see with naked eyes, I mean without using any application, there's a connection between income and happiness and it is a very good and strong correlation. Every time income increase by 100 points, happiness level increase by 1 point.

Now, you can change subject T's level of happiness from 5 to 1. You can re-regress the data, the R squared will decrease from almost 1 into only around 50% something. Just because one anomaly where subject T has income of 500 but yet still uhnappy.

So, in the statistics, there are only one data that shows anomaly from the other data which means only 5%, the R squared value can decrease up to 50%. Well maybe because that one anomaly is very extreme. But this is to show you that Statistics not always picturing the truth model. For subject A until S there are a very strong relation, but because of subject T, it decreases and the statistics just made up a formula consist of Constanta of each variables.

Well, once again I am innocently stupid and a little bit selfish, so this is just a personal opinion of someone who never like to use the Quantitative Method. Nevertheless, it's true that statistics help you to serve a concrete evidence of a relation, but then again... to fully hold on to that, I think it's not quite right. It's just numbers. What we measure and interpret as a human being is far more precious than just the result of a statistics number.

The thing that I hate the most is that when you didn't actually see a connection then you push a connection to exist by creating so many arguments into it. That's what happen with my final assignment. Aaargh.... The data is like so random, and I can't seem to find a good correlation among the variables, but I feel like I have to force a correlation there.

There are so many other variables connected to happiness other than just income. let's say is that person married or not, how's the education, how's the family condition, how's the children, how's the environment and so on and so forth.
Back to the sample of how much or a reality that I want to portrait. If I want a 100%, I should incorporate all the variables. but then again, how long my formula will be. So then I should decide which variable that needs to be controlled in order to crate a good model to picture the reality as close as possible. The problem is, not that easy to choose from that various variables, I don't know which one should I control. 

SOMEONE HELP Meeeee.........!!!!

This modules really should be taught in one whole semester rather than just in 4 weeks.
Oh Statistics.... That is another science that's not align with my way of thinking... just like economics. Aaah, thinking about my economics exam makes me sad again...
I think i should really prepare to re-take this modules next semester...



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Sunday, November 24, 2013

The Issue of Trust and Openness

I sometimes don't understand how in the world my mind works. There's an exam for tomorrow for the Economic Modules, which I hate most and now just less than 12 hours, all I can think of is writing a blog. Accompanying with mixed berries fragrant that I just bought for only S$1.95, so soothing and sweet.

So, it actually quite late and maybe a little too old as a news, but I just got an inspiration from this morning conversation about trust and the issue of Indonesia and Australia's relationship. Even though I'm an Indonesian, doesn't mean that I am 100% at Indonesia's side on this. Sometimes I wonder when I should say that I'm on Indonesia's side or I'm one Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's side. 

Maybe it is because of my lack of knowledge and my plainness way of thinking, but I wonder, is this a national issue or personal issue?
I don't know who taps who and on what purpose, but basically I have a way of thinking, "If you are an honest person, living in a world without any mean to hurting someone else or corrupting, why do you need to keep a secret?"

Secret is for bad people. Well, even though Vermouth (from Detective Conan manga) once said that, "Secret makes a woman, woman..." Well, she is a bad person (or at least involve in a bad organization).

Now, if I receive nothing but salary on my bank account, why do I'm afraid if some day at any day or time, some people come barge in and check my bank account? I would have no secret, I don't even need to ask, "Where's your court order?" or something like that. Well, go ahead and by all means check. 

Or for this issue, if someone wants to tap my phone, well by all means, please do.
The problem is maybe I'm not that significant of a person to tap. But this is a word that I'm planning to keep, "If one day I reach the top and I'm a significant person, I will try not to have a secret so I can keep myself like an open book."

If you want to know about me, well other than read this blog, the simplest thing is to ask me directly with a straight question. I won't lie, because lie is just for bad people. Why do you lie? because you're hiding a secret... So, a secret just makes you lie. Why bother having a secret.

Well, I'm not a woman anyway, so a secret will only make me a woman, hahaha....

I read this and think about this once again, a word, "SELFISH" comes into my mind. Well, I do hate the word, but sometimes I do think I'm selfish on this matter. A secret sometimes rises in purpose of protecting someone's feeling from hurt or pain, and back to the story of Hard Truth or Sugar Coated Truth. 

I always feels like, "This is me, deal with it!"
I don't like to keep a secret, so sometimes some people do hurt by knowing a fact about me that they actually regret to know. Well, this is life, deal with it. OMG, I sound so mean....

But yeah, if you want to, you can tap my email, my facebook, even my bank account, but please don't misuse it. The actual problem is not how am I going to handle you knowing my secret, but it's more like, how you're going to deal with the truth about me. See, it's actually not my problem, it's yours.... hahaha, I am selfish, DARN it...!!!

Yeah, for everything that matter, I won't endangered a good long-nurtured relationship just because I offended that you tap my phone. There's no secret there, just the truth. I'm not going to be offended.

Why in the world a country needs to have a secret?
Is that a mandatory thing?
That one country has to have a plan to invade another country?

What are you afraid to be revealed if there's nothing to reveal anyway?
I hope these question won't show up in tomorrow's exam.

Maybe because I never been there, so I don't know what really is happen when two nations create a collaboration in economic or other sector. Is it really your right hand is shaking hands and your left hand holds a knife? Is it really like that? 
Man, that is so fake...

Now it's settled that I'm Selfish and Innocently Stupid....!!!

The truth can also remove all the doubts and speculations. There actually a method in media world of how to handle the media during a crisis. Rather than spill only a little information and make the media research for the rest or speculate over the small details, it's better for you to spill all the beans and make all the facts to be known and let the truth to be out in the open. With that, no speculations and doubt will exist and people will eventually stop chasing you to milk out the truth.

It is also will be a boring world... hahahaha....
There's no rush in chasing a secret.

But, in my opinion, no matter how open I am to the world, well, God creates human beings differently one to another, so somebody will still keep secrets to satisfy all the secrets hunters out there. Just not mine...


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Friday, November 8, 2013

Shoot!!! I'm 29....

I woke up at November 4, 2013 and suddenly it hits me, shoot!!! I'm 29.
Yeah, some people just said that it's just number, but I think it's something more than that. Age-wise, the number is increasing, means that I already lived in this world for 29 years. But time-wise, my living quota on this earth is decreasing by one more year. Yeah, no one know for certain of when we will die, but there's nothing wrong to always "just in case", even though my management background keep telling me to always "Just in time".

I don't actually know why do I don't like birthday so much. Maybe it's because that one faithful year when I receive one suicide attempt as my birthday gift. Well, the darkest year everrrrrr..... and up until now, at some point I sometimes loose the confidence in me and think that "What makes me so special?"

Year is just a matter of number and I always have this jargon of "Live life to its fullest" and I think to myself, "Why I can't even enjoy myself of this faithful day of the year?"

To think back again on a motivational story, our birthday is actually a day when we should be celebrating the day of our Glorious Win. Our conceiving process itself is already a winning story where we defeat other sperms in the race to reach the one ovum. Finally when we finally success to be born in this life, is another winning story on its own. So birthday is celebrating that day.

Is that so?
Yeah, maybe I don't feel that special... I might be just a lucky sperm to ever reach the ovum because of the other sperms are lost. hahahaha....

Well, to think that once again...
The day of my birthday is November 4, and I was staying in my mother's womb for about 9 months and 9 days. So the day I was conceived was around January 25. Based on Islam believed about soul, that God put soul in me after 40 days since the Sperm meet the Ovum. So based on that random calculation, my original birthday should be on March 7 not November 4. Because that's the real first time I was sent to this world. hahaha....

Maybe based on that random calculation, someone should made an apps on that.

I sometimes feel that I have an old soul inside me and now I hate that the age is actually catching up. No I'm old inside and out. Well, 29 is not that old, but still I feel like now I should have been like more mature or something and I don't feel like it. Maybe I really do wish that my age is stopped at 25 and I'll be 25 for the rest of my life until I die... hahaha...

Nothing is actually change even though my age is one more year added. I'm still me, as awkward as possible me. Because I always believed that "There's no point in growing up if you can't be childish once in a while..."

But by being 29, there's a responsibility for a person with this age, especially coming from Indonesian culture. The pressure of getting married will be more and more crazy. Well, not that I'm surprised since this pressure has been on me since I step on my 25 years of living on earth. 

Now that I think of it, why do I make it so gloomy about my birthday. Maybe it also the first time after several time celebrating it with my special someone. Damn it, I really should've getting use to this. Life is changing all the time. Well it might be catching up to me too fast and I'm not ready. 

As a tradition, I always removed my birthday from my facebook on the 1st of November. I'm (not) sorry, but I don't want my Facebook wall is crowded by thousands, eh no... hundreds, not really, tens (quite right) of my not-so-close Facebook contact. So I always removed it near the day. I just want the one who write on my wall is someone who really remember my birthday, which will really means a lot to me because they actually remember it or the one who care to check on my Facebook wall.

And also I'm not too keen on too much festivity, hahaha....
I don't want that some people conspire behind my back and then throw me some flour and egg, OMG, that is so high-school. But I don't know it's a sad story or a good one, but I never had that experience. Either my circle of friends are too serious or they're just don't feel that close to me to do that. hahahaha....


Meh... birthday....
There are 250 millions people in Indonesia, if it divide by the number of days in a year 365, it will resulted the number around 684,931 something. So it means, by average it should be 684 thousands people having the same birthday. But I only found maybe only 3 people that share the date and month of my birthday. I always thought that November 4 is an exclusive date... hahaha... or I'm just simply not having much friends...

For that, to my (not so much in number) friends that has been congratulate me on my birthday either because you really are remember it or because of you really are trying to find it out, all I can say is THANK YOU... and shhhh, keep it a secret... 
For my housemates + 1, the Ice Cream cake is like super nice!!! Thanks.
For you, who are the first person that congratulate me, a special smooch from here.

My wish this year is still the same like all the previous years, "Give me the power to read minds....but with my hair still intact" hahahaha.....


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Sunday, November 3, 2013

Law is a Collective Agreement in Regards of Corruption

Smoking is forbidden in several places, but then again if there's a community of smoker smoking in the same place that actually is forbidden, are they breaking the law?
Crossing the street is ought to do at the zebra cross or pedestrian overhead bridge, but if everyone is crossing at any place on the street, are they breaking the law?
Eating inside the MRT is forbidden and could be fined by the law, but if other people doesn't care about that and take no action, are those an act of law breaking?

Yeah of course they are!
but the question remain is that, "Who's going to catch them?"
Ash from the Pokemon series with the tagline, "Gotta catch them all"...?

More often in my experience, at the corner there are some police who do the same act of law breaking. So what is law and how it could happen. It might sound so scientific but no, I'm not a bachelor of law and I'm no lawyer either. But this is just a perspective of a man who's dreaming that someday in the future he can be a President. Hahahaha....

I think Law is a collective agreement that made by several people. In some places it was made by the Legislative part of the government. They were the one that should be the representative of the voice of all the people of a nation. But then again, are they really? it just like Statistic, they are just a sample of a nation. Now are those sample really is representing the whole population? the question remain a mystery.

Law is a consensus, so if a group of people do the same act of law breaking, they are collectively breaking a law. If they can do that secretively, then there's a very big chance that they can avoid being punished. There are officer of the law, but they are no God and they don't have an all around eye that can actually watch every move we made.

This is why corruption can grow so fast and hard to control. If a person is corrupting, then another person can report him/her to the officer of the law. The problems nowadays are that this corruption act is done by a group of people. So who will know now? Can we actually count on the Police on this issue? I don't think so.

In the old days, a person is doing an act of corruption and he does that individually without sharing it to his superior or peer. Then his superior or peer know about it, the only reasonable act for them is to report that person. Now it all has evolved. When you do an act of corruption, you have to involved your superior and peer, so they know and have a shared investment on the act of corruption and they will be simply silenced.

That is why the act of corruption is hard to cope with. This action is involving to many people and they are all in consensus to break the law. Doesn't matter the reason behind the act, but an act of law breaking is a breaking of the law itself and has to be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of applicable laws.

How to break this?
It actually simple but so hard. You just need to break the consensus among the group. You don't need all of them to confess, you just need one. Just one honest people that can resist a temptation of bribe money. That's simple right? But the problem now is, to find that one person.

That person actually doesn't have to be an honest person, they can also come from the heart-ache person from the group that got an unfair share. They can also break down and report the act of corruption. Which this kind of source is harder to find.

I'm not saying that finding an honest person is easier, but an act of corruption can form a group basically because of an consensus and every person already know his/her share on the result of the corruption act. So this heart-ache person is sometimes comes out of luck and surely we can't depend on that.

Now, let me tell you a story.
There's a civil servant, working with monthly salary let say around S$2,000 where his friend with the same degree of education but working in a private area can earn triple. At one faithful day, a person offer him a bribe in amount of S$100,000 in order to make his path easier in taking care of some matters.
This honest man is ready to report the man, but suddenly he got a call from his wife, telling that his son just got hit by a car when he's playing around and she's gonna need money for the hospital treatment.
This man is thinking hard, living in Singapore with only S$2,000 a month is hard enough. Now he can get 50
months of salary in one simple moment and his son right now needs a big amount of money where he's barely has any saving account left in the bank.


Now, based on this dilemma of the story, what would you think that honest man will do?
Well, it's not that I take the side of a corruptor, but for every action there must be a cause behind it. To cope with the result of an action, we must first understand the cause.
Sometimes, the system that creates an honest man into a corrupt man. Salary level can be a factor of people doing corruption. But then again, when civil servant got a raise, a nation complaint because it's their tax that paid the salary of the civil servants. Where in the private area, the salary can be double even triple.

The constraint of rising the salary is always the Budget of the Nation. Money can't buy us happiness but I'm sure it can buy everything else including the honesty of a man.

Now back to the topic of Only Need One Person To Break a Group of Corrupt People, How to simply do this? The first step is actually will seems unfair, That is Increase the salary of the top management first. If the boss is adequate in terms of salary and he's not a greed person, he can be the pillar of anti-corruption in a department.


At first, it might cause some kind of jealousy and a big salary gap. But in the future once the corruption has been able to tackled, we can start to gradually rise the salary from top to bottom.

Maybe I do live in my ideal world and still thinking that it actually need only one honest person to tackle even the biggest corruption case. This is actually the act that can be done by yourself. So for those outside whom ever think, "I'm just a person in this big and corrupt world, what can I do?"

Now you've found your answer...
Are you involved in a project in your office?
Are you know an act of corruption is happen around you?
Be that "ONE PERSON" to break the collective act of corruption...

Are you ready....?
BLOW THE WHISTLE!!!!!


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