Wednesday, July 13, 2016

What Would I Do If There Were No Such Thing as Social Media?


What would I do if there were no such thing as social media? Well, that question was bothered my head extremely for the last couple days. 

This story started a couple days ago. I've been on my smartphone a lot to check my social media. I used mostly on facebook, instagram, letterboxd (moviegoer's social media), and twitter respectively plus instant-messaging app like bbm and whatsapp. And it didn't count by my browser to read news. I've been there until there's no more to swipe or scroll and there's no more status and news to read. I opened again my social media on and on. Then I realized, damn, I've been on social media for hours! I spent my time too much on them.

In short: What if facebook and the gangs had never been invented. Well, I'm not saying social media and internet are bad. They have many advantages though. It just depend on us how to use it properly. But it just brought me to the curiosity. I answered that question to myself; maybe I would read books or watch movies a lot if there were no such thing as social media. I mean, we're not gonna die, right. Perhaps for some people do not see social media for at least a minute or an hour, it's like a little part of their body has gone.

After all contemplation above, I thought maybe someday I would try to deactivate all my social media for long and do other useful things. I don't know maybe a day, a week, or a month. But it's kinda hard to blacklist them so that I could do something else like volunteerism activity or reciting the holy book. Nonetheless, this is kinda challenging.

Someday.

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*Edited (24/07/2016)
Btw, a couple days ago, I just deactivated all my social media for only 5 days (yeah I know it's really short time). So, here are 3 things I learned by being inactive from social media.
1. I could minimize the cost since I didn't have to buy credit.
2. I couldn't see my friends' activities since I wasn't on social media to see what my friends were up to.
3. I realized that how positive my days could be, since I did more useful activities.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Beach

Ujung Pandaran Beach
Sampit, East Kotawaringin Regency


Note: the bold words are the things that impressed me the most.

It's our second trip from the last year's blue lake. Me and my 10 homies went to Ujung Pandaran Beach. It is located in Sampit, East Kotawaringin Regency, Central Borneo. This beach is directly bordered with Java Sea. It took about 7-hour trip by motorcycle from Palangka Raya.

We took a tour at 6 in the morning, Thanks God, the weather was friendly. The trip was quite exhausted cause the long way we through. But as we arrived at beach village, it's just so fresh when we saw the line of palm trees around roadside. We considered to not turn off to the tourism complex, so we just took apart the area only for us.

At arrival, we re-planned to not make camp, so we just planned to sleep shaded by the sky while we're hoping it would not be raining. Unhappily, there were so many garbages there. At night, we cooked rice and noodle with old-fashioned way as we also did in the tomorrow morning. If you cannot cook as like boy scout or forest survival did, don't worry there are so many food-stands there.

Night's adventure was just not merely finished in dinner and war with mosquitoes. We continued our night's adventure by walking on the sea. Yes, walking on the sea. The water ebbed at the night so we could easily find shrimps, fish, and other ocean stuffs. Then, when we got off to sleep, it's just so amazing accompanied by a sea of stars in the sky. Here's the tip if you wanna sleep at the beach: bring plenty mosquito-repellent-lotion. Thanks me later as you try the tip.

Dawn came up. We were welcomed by wonderful sunrise. It's very beautiful, if you wanna imagine, the color seemed like the combination of violet-orange-blue. The sunrise was more beautiful than the sunset. It caused the sunset was risen from the sea angle, so it combined with the reflection from the sea water. In the morning, it's swimming time. The sand was quite white and soft. Meanwhile, the sea water was quite blue and so salty. We found many big woods around carried by waves ashore as we used for playing fake-boat and laid down on them doing sunbath.

So, what they don't talk about when they talk about beach. It's up there.