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November 30, 2014

OD 26: Backfired

Thursday, November. 13/11/2014 10:00

I thought I got it all figured out. I thought I could get away with anything by lying, but that isn't the case.

It all started long ago, way before exams week on September. As usual Adit, Naufal and Izmy talks about gadget and money, and I somehow got baited into joining their conversation. While they all talk away, I seriously felt so attacked and inferior due to not having anything in common with them, and if I do, it is outdated. My phone, for example.

So I made a big talk, saying I would buy a PS Vita and dad would help with the money if I score at least the third highest on mid semester exam, and I did scored the third highest, with Izmy sitting in the number one place. With that out of the way I got asked when I will buy it and I said before the beginning of the second semester.

The problem is, I never said any of this to my dad. I got myself stuck in this big pile of shit. This Vita problem got carried away until now. With tryout week just around the corner and end semester exam on the first of December, I got so stressed out.

Only recently, Naufal said he's going to buy a Vita on the 20th of November, next week, and Adit began to aggressively boast that he'll be buying it too, soon. He started to talk about anything and everything related to it. The handheld, the games, accessories, anything. I don't know what to do, or rather, say. I feel offended.

Since the day I said I would buy it, I started saving up money. I had this absurd feeling of having to prove what I said to them. But as time went on that feeling faded, along with my passion to write these entries, write fictions, and draw stuff. I feel so messed up inside for taking that bait.

I've never felt so conflicted.

I started running away. Trying not to think about it. I thought about what to do with the money I saved up. To spend it on something other than a Vita. I browsed online for tablets so I could draw better, but then its all about the money all over again. About consumptive lifestyle. "I want to have more." But for what?

A few weeks ago my brother started talking about wanting a motorcycle. Its kind of like my problem. Most of his friends got motorcycles, most of my friends got up to date gadgets. With new stuff comes a whole lot of adaptation. Adaptation isn't something I'm good at, either.

Sunday, November. 16/11/2014 21:00

Tomorrow is the first day of tryout exams. I'll be doing exams from the department of education (or as I like to call it, student enslavers) for 3 days. And before the first day began I've already embarrassed myself by asking what materials to study while its obviously all of them. From the 10th grade all the way to the 12th.

Let's just talk. About anything.

I can't take it. I admit that I can't take it. I admit that I've surrendered before the fight even began. With little time I have left I drowned myself in my imagination, in how things should've turned out, which is in my favor.

Accompanied by a music track put on repeat, I've been listening to this tune for maybe 3 days. This is tune speaks to me. Daydreaming Again (Words Drowned by Fireworks) by Pot Hocket. It, to a certain degree, separated me from the world around me, covering my sense of hearing and giving me a peaceful moment and more focus.

You know, I pictured myself as a bipolar person but I don't know if that's true or not. I don't even understand what it is other than having 2 personalities. I'm delusional. Do you know what I've been doing in most of my free time as of late? I've been daydreaming. I'm not really that smart, I just thought I do. As with my gaming skills, and all the other stuff that don't actually matter.

The first time I met Adit in 10th grade, I view him as a person much like me. Into gaming and stuff. I looked up to him, saw him as some kind of an idol figure. I wanted to be like him. But now I despise him. Its weird how 2 years of time can change you.

Maybe its just me not able to accept that he eventually bested me in every aspect and I cannot fight back. In chatting applications I ended up hiding him from my chat list and timelines and blocked him from my posts. And sometimes I went to his profile and stalk him just to hurt myself, not knowing why I had to do that. I just did.

I have run out of things to talk about with all of you boys and girls. I won't stop writing these entries as they are a part of me, and these are also my lifeline as, in times of confusion and when I'm down or depressed, I came back here to tell you my stories. I just wanted to let all of you boys and girls out there that it's been a pleasure. Talking to all of you gives me freedom, a room to breath.

Friday, November. 21/11/2014 22:56

Its one hour before midnight, and I just got home from the hospital for my mental checkup, or as I like to call it, "konsul." I was supposed to meet the doctor 2 weeks ago but dad forgot about our appointment there. I talked to her about maybe roughly 80% of what I've already written here. Like about how for 3 days I've been working on some exams, all of which I might fail. Especially math, physics, and chemistry. About money problems, such as the Vita. And some other things that I didn't write here because my parents might read them. Especially Dad.

Wednesday, November. 26/11/2014 19:42

Did you know? Yesterday I got trapped in a lift, twice. I was going down to get something to eat, and Detu joined me to the lift. There were only the two of us when the door closed and suddenly the lights flickered and the lift went dark for a very long 1 second. I panicked, I froze there, standing. Detu on the other hand decided to scream for help in that cramped space. His screams pierced my ears. The power went back on and the door opened, we got out of there and I went back to class to check the lights, its still on. I went back to the lift and Detu went in first. This time the power went out completely and we were stuck inside in the darkness. I was shocked and couldn't remember anything afterwards but we got out eventually.

An hour later, Audrey called me. I was going to class from the toilet. Her timing was so precise. As I was just about to open the door, my phone rang. So I took some steps backwards and answered it. It was the weirdest conversation ever, and I ended up chatting her in the group chat behind my teacher's back. She said she can make it to the gathering. What gathering? I thought.

She explained that both Angel and herself are free this Sunday and they wanted to meet up in a big mall nearby. I instantaneously became a nervous wreck in front of my friends. Naufal and Izmy said that I should be myself. But that's not the problem, the problem is only 3 out of 5, including me, are able to go and meet up since its hard to contact Jane and Axel never replied. This resulted in a threesome. Audrey, Angel, and myself. I couldn't talk in front of my friends without stuttering like a kouhai giving a gift to her senpai. Oh god. Anyway, let's get a move on.

This afternoon I chatted Audrey about the schedule of our gathering but it still hasn't been set in stone yet. When I was on my way home, the sky decided to give an early bath by raining quite heavily on me on my way home. What a day. When I got home I immediately changed clothes and went to watch some anime. I watched and watched, but suddenly one of the videos got its audio mixed up and resulted in unsynchronized and terrible voices. I turned my laptop off, tired of it all, and decided to try and sleep instead.

To my surprise, Audrey chatted me. She wanted to talk to me about jovita. How she copied not only Audrey's ideas but many other people in Instagram for her drawings. I was mad, somehow. I almost spilled water on my laptop because I was unconsciously gripping the water bottle so hard when she explained all these stuff. I eventually drew something on my phone to distract myself. I chatted Angel and Audrey that I'm angry and suddenly the chat went silent. Too much?

Sunday, November. 30/11/2014 22:20

Did you know? Yep, our gathering was once again canceled. I was so sad. I was so sad. I had the perfect plan. Well, this plan wasn't actually made by me but by my maid.

One second. We have to call her in a civilized manner which is by name, but I don't know her name and everyone calls her "Si Mbak." The closest equivalent would be either "The Maid" or "The Miss." Mistress means Nyoya, Miss means Nona, Nona can both be translated into a little girl or a young lady. Mbak however is like nona but to a lesser degree. Kind of how like "Duck" can both be translated into an animal name or the crouching movement. Now well call her Simba.

I told her I would attend the gathering this Sunday, today, but I have to find a reason and means of transportation to snuck out of the house. She formulated a plan and said I can go out with her and grandma on Sunday to celebrate grandma's birthday and call a taxi.

This morning, before the sun shined, roughly 03:00, dad would go in his car to a running event where he would run 5-10 kilometres (I forgot) and after that dad would rest amd mom would have to accompany him. It would be the perfect chance.

But on Friday Audrey said she can't. It was a disaster for me. I was crushed. It seemed like the perfect time, too. The end of November. And tomorrow I'll be facing end semester exam for 4 days. Like how the protagonist says "I love you" to his/her love interest before the final showdown. And on Friday I'll meet Doc Ferra again. I guess I'll tell her about 90% of what I've written here. Like last time.

Anyway, I'll be facing 4DayHell once again. Wish mercy on my soul. -Aex

November 2, 2014

OD 25: Journey

Monday, October. 20/10/2014 07:20

Its been a while since I've written anything. Anyway, just a notice and some talks: I'll be going on a school field trip event. 4 days 3 nights at a hotel at the end of this month, 29th, if I'm not mistaken. I'm a little bit concerned about it.

The first thing is, well, I'll be away from home for 4 days. 4 days out of my comfort zone. Second, I don't know anything about the hotel. Third, there will be 3 people in one hotel room and I don't know who my roommates are gonna be. Fourth, I'm not used to living independently. Fifth, sixth, and so on, and on and on...

As you can see, I don't like this for even one bit. The reasons why I participated are because my grades are plummeting so I had this sense of responsibility, and if I don't participate I'll be fined Rp 1.700.000 (around 140 US dollars) and that alone is close to how much my PSP costs. Basically, I'm forced to join but it made me feel like I'm the one who agreed to join in the first place. Its very evil.

13:40

Yeah so, I don't really remember what happened but I ended up calling Naufal "Oniichan" in a feminine, girly, little sister like manner throughout the day until I went home. It was funny as shit.

14:05

Yeah so, mom went home early to anticipate the traffic because its going to be jammed after the President's arrival or something. So much for finishing some anime series.

Friday, October. 24/10/2014 11:08

I'm good at English but I'm not genius at it so I don't know exactly what this means but I think I have an inferiority complex at drawing. Or anything, for that matter.

One day I met this kid at school and followed his instagram, which is filled with deadspace cosplay stuff and some drawings. He is a sophomore- wait.

I'm just gonna put this here: From what I've seen, education system in other places is like this:
Highschool: freshman, sophomore, junior, senior.
When Indo's highschool is like this: junior, sophomore, senior. ( This is all just how I see it, it might not be entirely true :/ )

This sophomore is better than me at drawing- hell, he's generally better than me at everything. He didn't do anything to me but I feel threatened.

This isn't really the first time this feeling emerges, but the other times I just dismissed this feeling as jealousy of other people's skills. But its getting more and more powerful lately, this jealousy. I feel insecure. This is ridiculous and absurd, so I thought I might write it here to get it off my chest.

Audrey, Jovita, Kiran. Their drawings are good. I like their drawings, but my chest hurts a little every time I saw it. Like, I'm a bad senior. All those people I mentioned are younger than me.

I hate this absurd feeling. The cause of my jealousy is baseless. Why am I threatened? They're not gonna mock me, right? So what's up with this feeling? Man, what a drag.

Except Jovita. Fuck you.

Monday, October. 27/10/2014 12:55

Yeah so, I asked the teacher stuff about the field trip. She said my study group is only with my class (which is only 5 out of 8 person most of the time anyway), and my roommates are from my class as well but she didn't mention any names so its still a mystery.

18:15

That moment when you came across an FB account of a deceased person, and you used to know that person. Elisabeth Dareho's birthday was on the 18th of October. I didn't remember exactly when she died but I know it was when I was still in junior highschool. So its around 3-4 years ago. I was lurking around my FB (which I use only to give likes to and save some pics) when I saw recent activities from my former school friends saying "happy birthday and god bless you" to this person.

I scrolled down and I saw some people posted normal happy birthdays and then someone posted something like this (I'll try to make it short and translate it [Indo: dia pake bahasa alay jadi agak susah :/ ])

"I was shocked when I heard this from [relative], sister
I was planning about visiting you
But god had other plans
Its so sad
I can't chat wall2wall anymore w/ u T_T

Its the best for u
Goodbye, sister
Rest in peace, baby
Jesus loves you, ur in our hearts

Note: mamie, papie, [relative] n [relative] + fams, be strong
Love u all, god bless u"

It hurts to know that back then, I was her classmate and when she died my reaction was just "oh, okay." She was a shy girl, if I recall correctly. People were deeply saddened, but some of my classmates who barely knew her (me included) didn't know how to react. We didn't know- we didn't realize that she has died and we won't be seeing her again in class tomorrow.

For the last few days I was planning about making a fanfic dedicated to her, a spinoff to Players, but I'm afraid I'll slack off on it like I slacked off on Players chapter 2. Like, right now, I'm slacking off. I was thinking about it when I was briefed about the field trip, so I thought it would be like: the main character is going on a field trip, he didn't want to join but the destination reminded him about his childhood friend who had died long ago. Something like that. I hope I can pull this off.

Wednesday, October. 29/10/2014 13:47

This is it. I'm in the bus right now. I'm sitting in the window seat, next to me is Adit, behind me is Naufal, and in front of me is Jogi. The bus driver is blasting dangdut music. I'm so bummed right now. It started to rain outside, this is strange considering it hasn't rained for the past month. Well, its something to add to the feels.

16:26

It started to rain heavily on the highway. Everyone is getting passive, Adit and Naufal is tired. My psp died, my phone's battery is about to die, too. I think I'll stop here for now. I'll start posting when the flow of power is restored.

19:18

We finally stopped at some kind of restaurant. God, this bus ride is a torture. I think I was about to puke but it didn't happen (thank god) and I'm so fucking sleepy but I can't sleep. Man, this is torture.

I managed to charge my phone to maybe 25% battery life. I thought 2 hours of charging is enough get it to 75% but then I remember my dad's power bank's port is kind of broken so sometimes it charges sometimes it doesn't.

I just hope I can sleep. Just that. Sleep. I don't wanna be awake in this bus for the next 10 hours. I should have stayed at home, really.

Thursday, October. 30/10/2014 00:30

I managed to get some sleep! Only one and half an hour though.

04:35

We (the students) just did morning prayer in Masjid Agung Jami Wonosobo and now we're going to Dieng. God, the IPS kids are making such a racket, I almost can't hear my own thoughts. But the sunrise is pretty damn beautiful and I got some good photos of it with my phone. So I got that going for me, which is nice.

07:07

We're in Arjuna Temple. Its warm here, now. A few minutes ago my breath gives out steam. Its that cold, I've never experienced that before. Its so cool, seeing my breath turn to steam.

08:42

I'm in Sikidang Crater or something. God damn it, this place reeks of sulphur. This place smells like dog shit or something.

11:07

I'm now in some kind of restaurant. I accidentally broke a chair by just leaning on it and everyone was staring at me. I was from Telaga Warna but there's no color change in the lake so its not that interesting. (The lake changes color)

I tried to sleep on my way here from Telaga Warna because I only had like, maybe 4 hours of sleep. I'm so bummed right now. Not enough sleep, skipped breakfast and lunch, didn't take a bath this morning. I'm like a hobo.

12:32

After I did dzuhur prayer my shoes broke (sorry, uncle Tom.) and now I'm using slippers(?) (indo: sepatu sendal). The teachers said we'll be going to Parang Tritis beach to clean up trash. Oh dear god.

13:02

We're back in the big bus (we switched vehicles but I forgot to mention). Jogi is in his former place, Adit is now sitting next to Naufal, and I'm sitting next to Kiran. We're heading for Parang Tritis.

18:08

After 3 hours on the road we finally got to Parang Tritis beach. I almost puked a couple of times but it didn't happen. Our duty here was changed to just "observe the sunset" and that means free time. For the last 3 hours Kiran and I has been cracking sexual jokes to pass the time, and we cracked sexual jokes too at the beach. The bad thing is I missed the sunset. The good thing is- well, I don't know. Now I'll be on the road for another 2 hours. Our destination, the hotel.

20:41

We reached the hotel and my roommates are Adit and Naufal. Naufal is already asleep, maybe. Adit is still watching the TV, or more like trying to figure out how to play movies and music from his phone on the TV. And I'm writing this.

21:50

I think Adit and Naufal are asleep and I'm copying Naufal's homework while repaying him with a flower drawing for our field trip assignments (weird school duties). Its almost pitch black if not for my phone screen and my power outlets' small red light. I'm gonna sleep now, maybe. See if I can.

Friday, October. 31/10/2014 08:28

Today we're going to Pindul Cave, I'm not going inside though, I don't wanna get wet because I don't bring that many clothes. Last night I was able to get some decent sleep but I haven't paid my sleep debt yet because I AM VERY SLEEPY god damn it.

When I tried to sleep on the bus, I began to feel neck and back pains due to the bus seat (yeah, let's blame it on that). Kiran is next to me and he's asleep, I think. He almost fell asleep on my shoulder a few times. It was a weird feeling, but it would be kind of sweet if he was a girl, though. Haha.

11:36

Pindul Cave Exploration turned out to be "drifting on a floaty" rather than "walking in complete darkness" and I regret my decision of not joining it. Damn it, if I brought my swimming gear I would've joined in a heartbeat! If only I know...

18:02

This long gap between entries are because I was constantly on the move, and because of that I must recall stuff from memories which is not always true. Anyway, I'll just write whats on my mind right now.

There's this whiny boy who kept on clinging to me. I want to kill this guy. What's your deal? Cutting into my conversations, trying to fix my English when his is shit, blocking my friends, all kinds of shit. Get the fuck away. Fuck you, Yoga.

Saturday, November. 1/11/2014 07:30

Today we're going home. I had a good but shortish sleep because Naufal fell ill in the morning. I had neck pains, back pains, stiff shoulder, and my right knee hurts. Now, I just wanna go home.

Sunday, November. 2/11/2014 12:50

Heya, boys and girl. I am home now. I got home yesterday at almost midnight and slept like a baby for 11 hours and I've just taken a bath. My body is still so stiff and I still have school tomorrow so I'll just take it easy for now. All the pictures I took can be seen in my Instagram (they're all taken with my phone). Anyway, I'll rest now. See you all in the next entry.

-Aex