The Golden Note of Smith

​ ​​Some clipped statements from the video: 1. My father says I have to be a dentist or a doctor, because he says within a month I can get more than S$1000 2. My father usually tells me that i have to work harder in my exams, or else I would become the person who drives the garbage truck and those cleaners in the street 3. I don't really hang out with people from the Express stream in my school (it seems like an acceleration program for outstanding students), because most of the people in the express stream, they look down at us. 4. ... so they tend to see us like we're nothing. This video is quite encapsulating my perception of how the current society is being constructed. 1. How narrow our perspective in valuing others This video shows how we are built to think that there is somebody worth more and less than us. How easily people value and judge others based on their economic status, prestige, and academic me...

An Epilogue If I have to mention the quickest moment in my life so far, I will mention that it should be my college life. It is so quick as if it does not let me take a short break and breath to tick all my bucket list. Entering an Economics degree program at Universitas Indonesia, my head was full of plans and expectations. At the end, my last year is enough to fulfill my self-expectation. Being a Country Representative of Indonesia to ASEFLYS2 Indonesian Delegates and Chairs in Asia Pacific Model UN 2017 Open Recruitment of EDS UI 2016 My First Business Competition in College Life! My college life was the first moment stepping outside my country's horizon, meeting people from diverse countries, and befriended with uniquely different people, from the nice and friendly to hardworking and highly-achieving. College life transforms and challenges me to be a different figure; I learn about leadership and building network, I push myself to talk to stranger...

An Epilogue One of my life resolutions is starting to write about my life; talking about life principle, personal development, the value of a relationship, parenting, religion, society, education, and other things that haunt my mind. The main reason is simply that I think about it a lot, and most of the time, I just save it for myself and a few people. For now, I hope to regularly write about things that I am wondering about. I am not the best at writing and I do not have to be the best to write it, right? Here, I do not have the concern neither to teach anyone, ask for sympathy, nor brag about anything. My only expectation on writing this, is that at least it can be meaningful for me personally at least and for everyone who reads this blog, hopefully. Do not feel good enough about yourself? Feeling left behind? Toxic thinking? Reaching twenty years old is the scariest thing in my life. Not scary in a literal way, yet because of the perception that there is an escalatin...