The Silent Serenade

The city was once a village The village was green and small Everyone agreed that nature was friend And to forget means to let it die Nature is large Nature is larger than life All of these statements are misleading For nature cannot be measured And its existence is life itself Nature puts its suit and visit its people in many ways Most of its visit were recounted by writers who lived in a village One man wrote: "...

September 22, 2023 · 2 min · 356 words · Anugerah

2 Scripts, 3 Hours to Shoot, & 3 Days till Release

So, what does the title of this post indicates? It was all about the amount of screenplay that we have (2), the time that we were given to shoot at the location (3), and the amount of days before the deadline of the movie or video (3). Alas, we made it. It’s IMPOSSIBLE! How the Project Came to be PKKMB was very near, it is short for Pengenalan Kehidupan Kampus bagi Mahasiswa Baru....

August 14, 2023 · 8 min · 1498 words · Anugerah

In the Meantime

What did you usually do in your free time? In the modern world maybe you are stuck with your smartphone and their wide range of parasocial activities - feeding into your or their sense of narcissim. In a pretty hefty and constantly ever changing world, it can get a lot. When it gets a lot, people will try and find a way, knowingly or not, to built their own escape mechanism....

August 13, 2023 · 5 min · 974 words · Anugerah

An Open Letter to Cinema

To expand, one needs to appreciate all walks of existence. I guess we are not far from what we were before, at least I’m not. Growing up for us has got to be the most important and impactful phase in our life. See how many books, music, and film talks about these subjects? Tons of them! So, it must be impactful, and I beg to differ if someone says otherwise....

August 9, 2023 · 4 min · 754 words · Anugerah

Normalize Blogs as Social Media

This will be a short writing, it is more of a statement. People need to realize that, if you truly want to know someone, their personality and such, it’s very bad to do it if you’re using Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, not bad, faulty. The whole idea of finding someone that you want to be friend with or hired, is to know them. Sure Twitter and Facebook offers writing, a blog-like writing, they called them Microblogging, a platform in which its content revolves on short or byte-size contents....

July 17, 2023 · 1 min · 193 words · Anugerah

The Longing of Being Primitive

It cannot be denied that the modern world brings more psychological stress to an individual, much more than ever before. It may be because of the growth of our society, they are too fast. One could feel these changes rapidly in a developing country, and it couldn’t be avoided that the one that feels the impact of these changes consciously is us, the people. One day you wake up knowing there’s a calculator, the next day fruit is now can be used as a phone, very absurd....

July 17, 2023 · 4 min · 677 words · Anugerah

Blog as a Form of Digital Freedom

1. Introduction It’s the year 2023 and you seriously doesn’t have your own personal hompage or blog? Are you still depended on using Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin & the infamous threads to act as your “blog”? It’s time to change that behaviour of yours for the better. You see, these centralized platform have been in some sort of a bad publicity. Twitter is having a limit on how many tweet a user can read for a day, and in return for increasing the number, you need to pay for their monthly subscription of Twitter Blue....

July 13, 2023 · 3 min · 617 words · Anugerah

Why I'm changing to a new layout

This is not a new blog or website, and I’m still using the same domain as the previous one. The old layout in my opinion looked fine, it was minimalistic, but it was not that responsive (mainly because I played too much with the CSS). The reason as to why I change to this new layout is solely because I want it to be responsive, formal, and minimalistic. And that’s why I use PaperMod theme for Hugo....

July 13, 2023 · 1 min · 115 words

Internet Privacy is Important: A Brief Student's Guide on How to Overcome the Big Data Companies.

READ BEFORE INTERACTING WITH LINKS! I wouldn’t want you to risk getting tracked by companies, so please use these extensions on your browser before clicking to link that I provides here. No Script, Privacy Badger & uBlock Origin. This is the era of the Big Data Company. Companies that make millions of dollars every day. With all of that earnings, what do they want? They want full control of your data....

May 28, 2023 · 13 min · 2699 words · Anugerah

Breaking the Waves is beautifully broken...

When you were reading about who Lars is, then you have to agree in one way or another to the fact that this movie is a living embodiment of who Lars is. The fact that the story contains extramarital, religious, and taboo, means that those subjects intertwine with his interests and personal life. Lars is a product of extramarital himself, he lives as an atheist, and he always tries to bring out taboo subjects with a common concept....

March 1, 2023 · 2 min · 232 words · Anugerah