As I was watching the ground from the 20th floor, a funny taste slipping between my teeth. I rubbed the front teeth with my tongue, trying to brush it off. “I should do something useful today.” Took a little glimpse towards my laptop but immediately shrugged it away. I unlocked my phone, opened Evernote and started writing this. I smelled… Read more →
Category: Essay
I Might Give Up On Skirt, Thanks to You Pervies
So yeah, it sucks to be a woman (note that I’m saying this in a very sarcastic tone). I guess I’m damned with this ‘hysteria’ that lies under my skin. It’s very hard to be one because society however ‘controls’ the way you talk, behave, dress, act, etc. If you don’t match the minimum requirements (I’m not saying ‘religious’, let’s… Read more →
Do Female Characters on Video Games Are ‘Harming’ Our Body Image?
As a child, I grew as a stay-at-home kid. Me and my older brother didn’t have any friends around the neigbourhood beside our school friends. So other than piano dan painting course, we spent most of the free time by reading books, comics, and playing video game. I hardly remember what was the first console we had in our home… Read more →
Surviving the Finite World
In Sex Evolution We all know the world is finite. The non-renewable resources such as food, energy and fresh water have bear witness that our world naturally constructs a finite sphere. The world was constructed by the accumulation of biological process, involving environment changes and selection, as we may call it evolution. At practical level, individual tend to subsist their… Read more →
Deduction Game!
It’s Deducting Time! This is probably my favorite game among others. Honestly, I don’t have a name for it. Not that I didn’t think about some possibilities, I just haven’t found the right one to depict the whole notion of it. Some of you may call it ‘observation game’. In general, it could be seen like that. But I wouldn’t… Read more →
Fish
If you ask me how I see the life, I might have no answer for that. But if you ask me how I see human being, I might have various answers. Someone once asked me, what do I want to be? Do I want to be a big fish in the pond, or a small fish in the ocean? His… Read more →
FAQ: Dialog Asa, Media Platform yang Timbul Tenggelam
Dialog Asa is a media-sharing platform that curates articles which contain variety of perspectives, ideas, and inspirations. We are an Independent platform publishing which is pro-liberated thoughts. We invite contributors from different professions; backgrounds. Our concern is to reach out all subject of interests: humanity, music, technology, etc. All is compiled in ‘Category’. We’re focusing on the content of the article… Read more →
Terjebak Klasifik(l)asi(k): Si Bodoh dan Si Pintar
Kesalahan berpikir yang sering kita lakukan dalam pembentukkan self-esteem. Seperti yang kita semua sepakati, manusia lahir ke dunia dengan segala kecanggihan bawaannya. Seluruh organ, otot, syaraf, pembuluh darah, bekerja secara sistemis sesuai dengan peran dan fungsinya masing-masing. Namun diantara semua bagian tersebut, otak kitalah yang memegang peranan untuk mengatur jalannya seluruh sistem dapat berjalan sebagaimana mestinya. Selain itu, otak memiliki… Read more →
Maka Tulislah
Harapanmu tak mutlak berteman sepi Pemikiranmu bukan pasti tak berarti Semangatmu belum tentu tak menulari Usahlah kau jadikan mereka milikmu pribadi. Jika harapan tak mampu kau pikul sendiri, bagilah ia kepada sesama Jika pemikiran terlalu riuh tak kunjung luruh, lantangkan gemanya kepada angkasa Jika semangat terlalu berkobar, bagilah pendarnya ke seluruh dunia Tularkan yang mengusikmu, kepada mereka yang bertuan hati.… Read more →
Alasan Mengapa ‘Free-Spirited’ Self-Proclaim Identik Dengan Slutty
Seiring dengan perkembangan jaman, socmed makin jadi bagian dari keseharian. Apapun yang terjadi di kehidupan sehari-hari bakal di-update di dunia maya, dan sebaliknya apapun yang terjadi di dunia maya seringkali jadi topik obrolan di kehidupan sehari-hari, even cuma buat icebreaking. Fame, di dalam socmed semacam twitter, bagi sebagian orang tuh ternyata penting banget. Jelas, dengan kekuatan persuasi dan self-branding, asal… Read more →