Well honestly acting all newbie is fun at first but slowly its became pretty annoying when a newbie address u like u are really a newcomer.. and treat you like, euh u know..
Damn, it's kinda mean to say that, you know? People smart in their own way, I believe.
@Ryuuna : Hahaha, I know whom you are talking about That's why I kept on reminding you to stop.
there aren't many people who really interested in language (especially literature). even teenagers nowadays like cheap love story more than classic literatures, ckckckck... maybe it's because Indonesian people themselves don't appreciate writers, eh? once I told my mom that I wanted to go to Japanese Literatures major for college, and my mom said that I won't get any job after I graduate and I'll live as a hobo for the rest of my life .__.
Yea, I agree with that, and come to think of it, there's only a few of classic writers in Indonesia - for I rarely found a huge pile of those kind of books (translated into or originally written in Bahasa) in the bookstores... okay, I don't linger in bookstores so I don't know the actual condition, but I believe that my words above is close enough.
Hey, about that "living as a hobo" thingie, you could say to your mom that you could be a lecturer! *kicked* Well, yeah, I've felt that too - but I took English Literature and Philosophy (hell, yeah, like Indonesian appreciate Philosophies --a).
For Indonesian literature, I'm afraid I also don't read much of this... but I highly recommend Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Buru tetralogy, and my sister seems to like Dewi Utami's Saman and Larung. All of these have been acknowledged by the international world, as they have been translated into English.
Talking about literature, I rarely have the "stamina" to read long books unless I managed to get into it after a few boring first chapters, like Pride and Prejudice. I really do prefer reading short story anthologies, such as Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince (needless to say, his stories were NOT happy. Trust me on this).
@ Xiao Ling: I'm also glad I've studied English outside public schools :p I usually end up being the one correcting the teachers back in high school. Oh, parents usually think learning languages isn't really important because it doesn't seem as difficult as engineering or medicine. For Japanese literature, you can always get a job as a Japanese teacher at school or tempat les (I forgot the English term XD) , since a lot of schools have Japanese as a subject now. The "living as a hobo" thing is pretty harsh :p Also, as Ben said, if you take post-graduate studies on Japanese as well, you should be able to become a lecturer in universities.
Hmm, Pramudya Ananta Tur? Sounds familiar somehow. And wow! You have Oscar Wilde's books? Do you have Dorian Gray (<- was a fanatic of)?? Yea, since when a gothic writer wrote a fairy happy story?
Bertrand Russell's Berpikir ala Filsuf? Okay, perhaps I'll look for it. Thanks for the compliment, but right now I've set my eyes of VCD - though I would gladly learn those majors.
And, damn! I typed it wrong! I am studying in a public school - though we used English less than your school, I believe.
speaking of truth, actually I also seldom read Indonesian literatures *smacked* I like fantasy and angst, and a little bit of romance (but NOT pure romance coz mostly books with that kind of genre are cheapskate *smacked again*). If the first chapters and/or the summary is boring, I usually put that book aside and look for another one.
@Ryuuna : Were you in International Class? I was in Olympic Preparation Class (a very small class where all the students are being prepared for Science Olympic only), and the 'regular students' (that's how we called them) were like...... treating us like 'aliens'. It's just like whatever we did were all wrong, all weird *okay, somethimes we're freaking out, but we are NOT that weird!!* Even we went to the same school, those regular students acted like we came from 'another world'. It was frustrating .___.
@Akira : yea they treat us that way DD8 its not our fault if we did'nt go out of the classroom a lot and we seldom met or passed by any regular class. Thats how the school placed us, separated from another class.
Well, the truth is, she moved to the Asian Branch. Where did you found the part that Blanka was moved to the African - Middle East Branch, if I may ask?
By the way, do you have a copy/pdf of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray *pointing my previous posts*? And what's The Happy Prince about?
wow, you can see/hear them? I can feel them, though I interpret it through signs, so not actual chill or anything.
Damn, there's only a little time left to reply and I replied here in the first place?
Well, it's in my family's bloodline to have such 'ability'. Every people has different 'ability': My uncle has ability to predict the future through written media (pen + paper); my cousin can 'see' things; my mom is a 'healer'; my sis is a 'neuturalizer' (even she never admits it). Actually they also can do more things, but they're already specialized on that.
I myself still haven't specialized at anything, so I can do multiple things though it's not as great as they who has specialized in that. In my case, I can 'feel', 'hear', 'accomodate' (Gateway to Otherworld), and 'predict through speech' (Silvertongue).
My first experience of being a 'Gateway' was when I was still 12 years old. I dreamed that I met a dark-skinned man who wore all-white suit. His face was very serene, and he asked me, "Would you mind to help us?" I, who had never experienced anything like that, agreed without any single thouht... and I regretted it later on.
Soon after I agreed, I went into 'trance' condition; I was awake but I had no control over my own body. I sat on my bed, and I could clearly see my room's scenery. And suddenly, there were 'something' went through my body; in from my belly and out from my backbone. It's not just 'one thing' but 'many things'. They were like 'screaming' inside my head, and I felt like want to scream but my voice didn't come out. It happened for... around 1 whole minutes. After that, I collapsed.
Of course - it's kinda interesting for me who's just the average black people (like there's a black aura at all ). Wow, I always wonder how cool it would be to be in an indigo family I knew one indigo family and they're all cool, but perhaps your family is cooler coz yours got a neutralizer there.
And sorry for being rude, but I kinda laugh when I read your experience there. Somehow the thrill excites me, and... yeah, I also laugh when gory or "interesting" things happens and even when I'm supposed to cry (yea, I feel sad but I comes out as a laughter). Enough about me, and I feel sorry to hear - or perhaps, read - that. So, you don't attend "misa" or things like that?
Ha... Talking about ghost, I have an experience about them. And it happens 5 years ago when I was moved (a.k.a. Pindah rumah). The new home is a little weird. The bathroom tub always empty every morning. Although the tub had been filled fully with water at the night. At the first time, my father thinks that the tub was crack. But, there isn't any hole even crack in the tub. Then, at the midnight, I realized that there was someone in the bathroom. At the first time, I think it was my father, mother, or my sister. But, at the morning, none of them went to the bathroom at that night. But, the next midnight there wasn't anything weird.
Now, I realized it was ghost. Even, it still go to the bathroom at the midnight nowadays. Although it is the bathroom of the empty house beside my home.
*note: This was a real experience.
Akhh, this is the kind of ghost stories I dislike most... DUN WANNA HEAR ITTTT... Last time I gathered with my friends with these kind of abilities (at very late night in campus), I had to walk home with a very frantic heartbeat until I reached the house.