The Mandrake [Published Private Life]

Ngeri deh nonton TV hari ginih. Laki-laki pake baju perempuan hampir tiap hari. Mereka tu malah gak mau repot-repot ngalusin suaranya supaya kayak cewek beneran. Mengerikan. Malah ada yang gak mau repot-repot cukur bulu jenggotnya. Tolooong! Apa orang-orang ini udah gila, atau aku yang malahan udah gila karena gak bisa nerima gejala normal ini?

Eh tunggu dulu? Normal? Normal itu apa sih? Kenapa sesuatu itu disebut normal? Kalau kita main-main ke hutan, kita bisa lihat penduduk suku asli gak pake baju. Yang wanita malah gak pake beha atau apa gitu. Tapi itu sih normal buat mereka. Tapi, kalau kita liat cewek putih cantik berambut panjang main-main ke mal gak pake beha kita bisa sebut dia itu gila. Karena itu gak normal buat kita. Jadi, kita harus setuju dulu nih kalau normal itu relatif. Tapi, normal itu menjadi pasti kalau dia disetujui dengan nalar umum mayoritas. Jadi, contohnya di negeri ini, adalah gak normal kalau ada wanita yang belum nikah tapi punya bayi. Tapi, di negeri lain, bayi-bayi malah lahir tanpa ayah. Itu sih normal buat mereka.

Nah, kembali ke topik di atas. Pada mulanya, laki-laki pake baju perempuan itu dimaksudkan buat ngelucu aja. Untuk tingkat tertentu sih, boleh-boleh aja kali ya. Tapi jangan salah, dalam pandanganku yang kayak gitu sih gak lucu. Wanita itu sama anggunnya dengan pria. Laki-laki yang make baju perempuan buat ngelucu pastilah, dalam pandanganku loh, ngeledek perempuan itu sendiri. Emang, ada juga yang namanya bance. Tapi mereka gak bermaksud mengolok-olok kan. Mereka berusaha keliatan kayak perempuan. Mereka juga usaha ngubahin suaranya (kagak ada yang bagus sih, kayaknya). Tapi orang-orang di TV ini udah berlebihan banget. Mereka udah melampaui batas hingga keliatan mengerikan. Asli menakutkan. Apa sih yang membuat mereka begitu? Produser? Orang-orang yang membiayai acaranya? Kalau iya, jelas deh semuanya. Tapi, yang pasti makin ke sini, makin malu aja aku untuk mengakui kalau aku adalah penduduk negeri ini.

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How long does it take to find an airplane that is assumed to be crashed? I truly don’t know. I’m not an expert at it. But, I’d assume that it shouldn’t take more than 9 days. And this is the news we have been consuming since the start of this year: the search of a plane wreck.

The airplane has lost contact and disappeared from radar in the middle of the ocean in our country. Our country is archipelagos. This makes it difficult for the SAR team to locate the wreck. People have also come up with a theory that the location is like that in Bermuda Triangle. This is not the first time that airplane is missing in the perimeter. There have also been report of people receiving text message from a mobile phone whose owner is a passanger of the lost airplane.

Where can the plane be? How can a large airplane disappeared in such a way? If it crashed in the sea, chances are we won’t be able to find it. Not until it’s been 9 days since it crashed. The ocean is too vast. If it crashed on an island, there shouldn’t be any problem finding it. Where is it? Can there still be any survivor?

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Why are there traffic congestions? Because there are too many motorbikes. Don’t laugh. This comes from our brilliant beloved governor. He thinks that motorbikes are so many that traffic congestions occur everywhere. He plans to close motorbikes access to the 2 main roads in the town.

What a brilliant maneuver. I would like to see him do that. There are approximately 4million motorbikes in Jakarta with approximately 8million populations. Assuming that 1 motorbike is for 1 person, we can safely conclude that approximately 50% of people use motorbike for transportation. And, they pay taxes.

Bikers have done their obligations. They pay taxes. They pay parking fee. What do they get? Parking lot hundreds meter from the destination. Risking of theft both the motorbike and the helmet. And now this.

Yes, I would like to see him do that. People have paid too much for gas. With this kind of limitation he’d just getting on everyone’s nerve. If you see my banner here, you can tell that I am a biker as well. It’s not like I cannot afford a car. The reason I ride a motorbike is I’m just to fed up with how people drive cars here. It’s no different than people riding motorbike. People who drive cars act like they are the one who obey the rules. Well, they can kiss my a**. This town will be free from traffic congestion if everybody rides motorbike. Imagine if there’s no car. Can there be traffic congestion?

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