The Substitution

"When you loose something, you'll eventally get something."

That is one of my favorite sayings from my movies collection, "Kamen Rider Movie : The First". I've watched this movie around 4 times since I have it in 2006. The more I saw it, the more I like it. The story was quite linear, kamen rider typical, a young scientist was kidnapped by "Shocker" and turned into a "Kaijin" (inhumanoid) with some method, maybe surgeries. But eventually is brainwashed brain is return to normal after seeing snowflakes. And after a few scene, he got his motorcycle from Tachibana and he was encouraged by him to use his new power to defeat "Shocker" (insight) with the saying from this article's epilogue.

That saying is quite true, in real life when you get something, for example, a spouse, then you will loose your freedom to tease another girl/boy. Or if you loose your time to grooming your cat, you can play with him/her. So everything have a counterbalance, right - responsibility, dark - light, good - evil, etc. Back to the movie, the movie is a good combination of action and romance, and i never saw the original series, so I can't compare them.

So, have you loose something ?

The Vendetta

When I saw the movie last night, The Kingdom, I was wondering, "How could this thing happened ?" The story is revolved around The USA and Saudi Arabian. Someday there is a bombing in Saudi, a big blast and there is some FBI agents caught in it. Before the FBI agent was caught in it, he call his friend in DC and his friend calmed his friend's wives with a whisper "Don't worry we will kill them all." And somehow, he and his team can enter Saudi, and eventually they got their revenge. In his last moment, the terrorist leader, whisper something to his grandson in Arabian, "don't be afraid my son, we will kill them all." This kind ending is very american, Well, at least there will be another sequel of this movie.

I was wondering the beginning of this vendetta, The WTC tragedy ? Or maybe far before that. There is a prophecy that there is no peace in the middle east until the end of time. Will that prophecy come true ? A lot of this question bugging me, and make me write this article. The movie itself is a military stereotype, a skillful team was charged in the enemy's base and eventually back to USA alive. The music is average and the action is too fast and blood spill here and there. So overall score is 6, but the content is very unpleasant. 

Well, what do you think ?

Guarantee

Some of us relieved that our country guarantee our health. But when we see closer, there is no guarantee at all. In my country the poor get a health guarantee from our government. I said guarantee not insurance, because, the poor didn't pay anything, and they get healthcare service for free even if they must stay in hospital, all of their bill was paid by the government. But what happen next is beyond our imagination. The health care service is inhuman, unpleasant room, unpleasant nurse, unpleasant doctor and even the worst of it, they have to pay more if they add some uncovered medication.

Some of us maybe ask this question : "How could this thing happened ?" Well, a lot of answer occurred because we have no clue where this problem started. But one for sure is wide spread corruption in this country. The government couldn't handle it because a lot of important people that sit in this country involved in it. Plus all kind corruption occurred from germ scale until very large scale happened. Then, some of us ask this question : "What is the proof ?" The answer is easy, while some of the poor get a half-heart guarantee, some from the middle class society, or maybe some of the rich got it too. This things happened because there is no one guarantee the middle class, but for the rich one, I don't know what's in their mind.

Someone Else's Land

What is the measurement for a success ? Money ? Power ? Luxury ? Most people will choose money, because at least everyone can get sick, but if you have no money than you can't treat your illness. Like we all know that Indonesia is a very fertile country, most of it's citizen is a farmer. Ironically almost all Indonesian farmers are poor. This kind situation happened because they didn't have their own land, they did someone else's land. So farmer can't enjoy their own crops and only become a cheap labor. But that is not the only problem, they also deal some other problems, the government itself. The government issue some regulation that make their living become very harsh, from wrong policies about fertilizer and the seedling, until imported crops from fruit until rice, all of of them are imported from outside, and make their live upside down even worse now.

It's almost the same with the medical doctor life in Indonesia. They did someone else clinic or hospital because it give them more money, and they will have no more time to do a private practice. When they have reached certain point in their life, it will be too late for them to do it. The other problem is just the same with the farmer, -Yes- The regulation itself. Most of the regulation are troublesome and even castrate their rights. The government didn't see the bigger picture and only focused in a medical doctor only. The worse enemy than the government is the media. The media sometimes pick more dramatically story, some story they can sell, but they didn't portrait the reality itself, most of their report about health care in the rural areas are lies. They praise the midwifes and nurse that practice in the rural area in middle of nowhere, but not the medical doctor that do the same as they did. And the worst of all is they blow up a health care problems as big as they can. That's unfair you know ! 

With all of this problem will we survive ?

Only time will tell us ...

Please don't Break My Heart Again

In my searching of a good ISP I've found a lot of disappointment. They usually add "unlimited" word to their product, but in fact we only get unlimited waiting time. Some of them is kind enough to have their customer a broken heart because after certain amount of usage, the speed was dropped not just a quarter or one third but almost three quarter. It's much different from their commercial. So, I guess "unlimited" become a luxury in my country not only for that reason, but also a good amount of money to be paid for a good ISP service. 

I've tried to use some ISP, I'm sorry I can't tell you their names and all of them actually have a upside and downside, but most of them broke my heart and my wallet too. So, in a final word i'ld like to say Please delete the ''unlimited" part of your service, because it broke my heart. :)

The Darkest Hour

When we see movies, sometimes we are faced by a scene that there is no solution for a problem, a dead end. The movies usually talk about drastic change, and the result are good, instant. Somehow I wondering if that kind miracle an be happen in the real life, sometimes it's too good to be true. We can say all that kind of pessimistic comment we have, but sometimes miracles did happen.

For some reason I remembered my co - assistant time, some of them engrave good memories but some of them were the bad ones. For us, a medical doctor, our darkest hours happened when our patient refused our treatment and they were getting worst even sometime they blame us for their condition, the medical fees. But the darkest hour happened when we faced the sad faces and grieves of their loved ones and told them that we already have done everything.

In a different side, some of us, medical doctor forget these moments and take the safest way, make money more to paid our debt, our college loan, feed our wife and son. Maybe, I was a hypocrite, because now,I've chosen the same way as they were. But there is no turning back because I have my own goals. I dreamed that medical doctors were gained respectful place in society once more, because it's been too long that our job were tarnished and stained. I dreamed that someday all medical doctors became prosperous from their practices only. Maybe all of that just a dream, but I'm sure someday, just someday all of that dreams comes true.

Risk and Gain

Some people said that play safe in life and you're getting nowhere, but in my opinion it's half true, because sometime, we have already have everything we need to get somewhere in life but we didn't realize it, and we wasted the time and money and any other resources we have to get somewhere in life. The true part of it is sometime we were afraid to sacrifice something, we always tried to keep everything, because we want everything without a single sweat to drop.

In the other side, play unsafe can gain more and once you're slipped you're history, but if you somehow manage to succeeded you'll eventually make a history. What we need to do is knowing our own asset and develop it, the more we know ourselves, the more advantage we have. And of course a bit of luck so we didn't miss a chance that pass through in front our peeled eyes.

So, Play safe or unsafe ?