Another Victoria's Secrets

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I owe this article to a friend in Bandung since my last visit there, last month. Due to my busy-ness, I just have time to write it now (sorry). So, during my visit to Bandung I met two of my old friends, whom both have small business; one in fabric business and the other has custom shoes workshop. Both, to my surprise, complained about the same thing: the upcoming AFTA 2015, which made me wonder, what about it?

What is AFTA?

Based on Wikipedia:

The ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA)^[1] is a trade bloc agreement by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations supporting local manufacturing in all ASEAN countries.
The AFTA agreement was signed on 28 January 1992 in Singapore. When the AFTA agreement was originally signed, ASEAN had six members, namely, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Vietnam joined in 1995, Laos and Myanmar in 1997 and Cambodia in 1999. AFTA now comprises the ten countries of ASEAN. All the four latecomers were required to sign the AFTA agreement in order to join ASEAN, but were given longer time frames in which to meet AFTA's tariff reduction obligations.
The primary goals of AFTA seek to:

• Increase ASEAN's competitive edge as a production base in the world market through the elimination, within ASEAN, of tariffs and non-tariff barriers; and
• Attract more foreign direct investment to ASEAN.

The primary mechanism for achieving such goals is the Common Effective Preferential Tariff scheme, which established a phased schedule in 1992 with the goal to increase the region’s competitive advantage as a production base geared for the world market.

After some discussions, both of my friends said that this AFTA thing is a seriously big threat for their business, especially at the beginning of the opening of the program, because the agreement will allow imported stuff spread widely in cheap(er) prices around Indonesia which was expensive due to the taxes it applied.

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Why is it a threat? 

Let's take it this way:

1. The imported brands that come to Indonesia is very pricey now that it has enough digits or percentages of taxes it applied with.
2. This, has made the small local business alive because those who cannot afford buying expensive things will go for custom-made or the copy or anything made by local industries.
3. But when AFTA is applied in Indonesia shortly next year, this will make the imported goods as cheap as, if not cheaper than, the local-made stuff.
4. Seeing the character of Indonesian nowadays, most of us always prefer things that come from outside of our own country than local-made, mostly because of the brands.

• Then what will happen to the local small industries? 
• How will they compete with imported brands with such competitive price? 
• Moreover, how will they manage to export their stuff with the competition among international producers?

This AFTA agreement, of course, is a great opportunity for Indonesian industries to go international and export their stuff, introducing their brand globally, at least in ASEAN + 3 East Asia countries (China, Japan, South Korea). But how about the small industries that do not have enough fund to compete with the middle and big industries? Are we really ready for the agreement?

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They call it win-win?

Yes, we can always see the bright side in every situation, especially for those who are big enough and ready for the change. But for the small industries, things can be even more rocky. The conditions to enlist a product/brand for AFTA will include a set of documents, registrations and payment of certain amount that is rather impossible for small industries to provide.

Then, how about the workers of these small industries?
Will they be on risk of losing their jobs?
And what do the government do to help the small industries with it?

This, I suppose, should be our homework to think about the solutions for them. If we want the equity of economy throughout our country and to thrive together, we must do something about it.. but WHAT? HOW? Can we raise our awareness and love to local products? Can we provide or donate for small industries to help them survive the agreement?

What do you think? 
*comments/replies for this post will be posted in my next blogposts. Just keep 'em coming and if you're on my range (Indonesia area), I might give you something as a reward.. Let's do something about it!

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So, I went to this exhibition in Perpustakaan Nasional last Monday. I met Pak Iwan there, and roaming around the aisles to see the old manuscripts of Panji. Panji is a character in a folklore told too many times that it has many developed versions that are spread to all Indonesia and even to Southeast Asia. In this exhibition, they showcase about 30 versions of the library collection.

Perhaps it is a coincidence that I am doing the story of Panji for my magazine project that the exhibition is being held now, until Oct 30. They give away free books that I managed to bring home, mostly in Javanese and some with ancient Java scripts. The one I'm working on is completely different from the others, although generally they are talking about the same historical event.

free books from national library

I cannot share what I am writing here, but I can share that basically Panji is a story of a grandson of Kuripan Kingdom (now Jenggala Kingdom) who fell in love with a princess from another part of the divided kingdom (now Panjalu Kingdom). Their love story is more or less like Romeo and Juliet because both kingdoms are at war with each other. An interesting story, given that it came from Java land. I hope more people would read and know about it.

Meita, me, Maria, Christin, Albeta and little Freya

This should be posted few days ago, but let me share this now. I went to another elementary reunion last Sunday in Senayan City. Although not as many as the one we had in Bandung--and only girls came--but I enjoyed meeting my long-lost friends that afternoon. We had lunch at Pancious for almost 5 hours chatting and catching up, then they continued while I had to catch the last bus at 6 pm to BSD City.

The next day, after my whole day meeting at IKJ, I went to my other elementary school's friend reunion (the school I went to before I moved to Bandung). We gathered at Alexandre's office at Pondok Indah before went to PIM for dinner in Sushi Tei and watch Fury. It was only me, Jovita, Alex and Alif--the only singles left in our classmates.


Anyway, the movie was great. The characters are strong, the actors acted so good it made me kind of devastated to imagine myself as Norman, the new driver assistant in Fury tank, to fight the Nazi at World War II. I think Brad Pitt has his own interest on fighting Germans, to see that he starred before in Inglorious Bastard. Well, he chose right for this one because Wardaddy is a really cool sergeant!

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I'm going here tomorrow.. Anyone interested, too?

Arie, Alvin, Robby, Hendra, Arief, Beatrix, (Melissa & Dewi), Yune, me, Delta and Ernest

I just got back from my 3-nights-holiday in Bandung. I went there last Wednesday with mom and Aunt Agnes then we hung out at Paris Van Java--it was my first after two years--mom met her friends while I roamed about the aisles of the mall with my brother. Many things changed but still the same unique mall that Bandung has.

We stayed in a friend's house in Awiligar, the area I knew so well since 1995. The next morning I woke up too early to meet my ladies, Irma and Esther, at Irma's daughter's school. We chat while having noodle breakfast for two hours until the time Irma had to pick up her daughter. I went back to the guest house for some nap then..

..until it was dinner time and I went out to meet DJ Dixie, DJ Dana and Yudha at Cafe Bali. After dinner and some trip around the city (and some dessert at Nanny's Pavillon), we split up and I went on to Golden Monkey to meet another of my best friend, Patrick, and his friends (more about this later). Paulo Coelho once said: "There's nothing wrong in creating a blacklist with people who put you down. Just don't include people who challenge you" and Patrick is one of a very few persons who always challenge me. That is why I always enjoy talking to him.

The day after, I picked up my sister at Cititrans travel and my brother at his kost. We then had lunch at Pepper (at Jl. Sutami), a new burger parlor belongs to my schoolmate, Adit. After some catch up, we went on to join mom at D'Warung Tabuga, way up from Punclut. Then, we moved again to Miss Bee, a cute place we love both for the architecture-interior design and the food.

Later at night, we went to Nanny's Pavillon (again) for dinner. My mom with her friends; my brother, my sister and my cousin together; then I with my reunited schoolmates from elementary years. It was really fun for us, that some hadn't seen each other for 10-20 years now. There were 12 of us, which supposed to be around 70 of our peers. I went home with Alvin by motorbike that night. It was so chilly I forgot how cold it was in Bandung, at night!

Then today, me and my family had lunch at Traffic on the way back to Jakarta. I didn't know it belongs to Mario, a friend I knew from another friend. Sometimes, especially after you've traveled so far and long in life, all that can simply brighten up your day is some friendly faces and talk about the good old stuff and old times--things that are so familiar that you feel like coming home. Somehow it just relaxes you, despite all the heavy burdens and fast paces of adult life.

So basically my holiday this time was full with old friends--all the friendly faces I needed and wanted to see. I did planned to meet Irma, Esther, Patrick and Alvin this time (and I did met them) but failed to meet Cheryl and Agatha. But there will always be another time for Bandung, right?

So I tried making some illustration for Gapura novel and here they are. The first image shows Drupadi went out of the portal to catch a butterfly and in the second image Bima & Rani are about to enter the portal, looking for Drupadi to return her pendant. More of these will be inserted to the novel--and I need your prayers for the process of getting them to published nationally.. :)

For now you can visit nulisbuku for order and purchase. Thankies fellas! :)

Have you ever wondered how our world was before the great volcano eruptions on 15th-16th century that changed the whole world's map? I found some that caught my interest the most: the ones that showed that the world was shaped differently than it is now; North America wasn't as big as it is now and Canada (the almost crescent shape at the left side) was connected to Brazil (South America); Australia was connected to South America and Java was a continent of its own.

Dieppe (Dauphin) Maps

According to wikipedia:

The Dieppe maps are a series of world maps produced in Dieppe, France, in the 1540s, 1550s and 1560s. They are large hand-produced maps, commissioned for wealthy and royal patrons, including Henry II of France and Henry VIII of England. The Dieppe school of cartographers included Pierre Desceliers, Johne Rotz, Guillaume Le Testu, Guillaume Brouscon and Nicolas Desliens.

Let's check on these following Dieppe maps:

Guillaume Brouscon's 1543 Dieppe Map

Above, we can see this as the oldest world map we have in archive. Australia looks like an expansion of South America (left below) and North America (look at the flag above South America) was narrow and bending. Canada was very big to the north-most and most of its part was unidentified yet. Most of East Europe (Asia) was also unidentified, as also the Terre Ostrale.

Guillaume Le Testu's 1556 Dieppe Map

In the map above we can see the shape of South America was slimmer than before and the unidentified lands were already taken shape. The Terre Ostrale has Grande Iave and Terre Australle at the south of it. This means, there was already a catastrophic disaster that caused these changes, but not too big. We can also see that most of the world was covered with lands instead with seas/oceans.

Nicolas Desliens's 1566 World Map

In the map above we can see that most of the lands had disappeared at the north-most but the shape of America & Canada was still sickle-like and Borneo, Sulawesi and Papua (of Indonesia) wasn't as big as it is now today. There should be another volcano eruptions that caused these land shifts.

Jave le Grande

The more I research on this, the more evidence I found that most of the cartographers focusing on Iava la Grande or Jave la Grande. It is believed that this ancient Java was the disappearing Atlantis, although most of people thought it was Australia. If we look at the maps, they show some differences of the maps from 1543 to 1566. There must be some missing evidence and details about what happened at this time, but the only explanation is some catastrophic disasters must happened.

According to wikipedia:

La grande isle de Java (“The great island of Java”) was, according to Marco Polo, the largest island in the world: his Java Minor was the actual island of Sumatra, which takes its name from the city of Samudera (now Lhokseumawe) situated on its northern coast.

Robert J. King has suggested that Alfonse’s description of La Grande Jave could also fit the Regio Patalis promontory on Oronce Fine’s world map, and indicates that the Dieppe Maps appear to have conflated Marco Polo’s Greater Java with Fine’s Regio Patalis and Brasielie Regio.^[18] On the Dieppe Maps, the great promontory of JAVE LA GRANDE (Greater Java) extends, like the Regio Patalis, northward from the Austral continent. The evolution of Fine’s REGIO PATALIS into JAVE LA GRANDE may have been influenced by the phrase used by Ludovico di Varthema, an Italian from Bologna who made a voyage in 1505 from Borneo to Java, who said that Java, “prope in inmensum patet (extends almost beyond measure)”.

The Dauphin Map 1530 and 1628

In the maps above we can clearly see the changes of what it was before Indonesia (it was called Nuswantara), from Samatra (Sumatra) to Java La Grande (Atlantis--it wasn't really Atlantis but Atlantis was a part of Java La Grande and it's not Australia at all--I will explain this another time) in 1530 and 1628. Again, there must be some catastrophic disasters (such as volcano eruption) that made the world map changed several times during that century.

(Actually I have another theory about this, but let's save it for later post.. or to be written in my novels!)

Volcanoes

Ring of Fire - via geospatialdesktop

The list of volcanoes eruption during that time was: Pinatubo, Luzon, Philippines (1450); Nemrut, Turkey (1441, 1597, 1692); El Teide, Tenerife, Europe (1492); Chaparrastique/San Miguel, El Savador, Central America (1510-1515); Galeras, Colombia, South America (1535, 1580, 1616); Kelud, Java, Indonesia (1586, that took out more than 10,000 lives); Cotopaxi, Ecuador, South America (16th century); Villaricca, Chile, South America (16th century); Merapi, Java, Indonesia (16th century); Gamalama, Ternate, Indonesia (16th century) and many others.

The map of 1628 was already shaping most of the islands of Indonesia as it is now, but the part that they call as Land of the South would be changing again during a closing of several of Nuswantara kingdoms. Since 2010, there are hundreds of natural disasters happened such as tsunami, hurricane, tornadoes, earthquakes, landslides, floods and volcanoes erupting--most of the volcanoes are located in Indonesia.

The recently active Indonesian volcanoes are Merapi (Central Java), Kelud (East Java), Sinabung (North Sumatra), Slamet (Central Java), Semeru (East Java) Marapi (West Sumatra), Lokon (North Sulawesi), Anak Krakatau (West Java), Barujari (Anak Samalas-NTB), Gamalama (Ternate), Karangetang/Api Siau (North Sulawesi), Soputan (North Sulawesi), Dukono (North Maluku/Halmahera), Rokatenda (Palue, NTT).

What do you think? Would there be another change in world map soon?

1. "Mustangs" By Robert Glen, Las Colinas, Texas, USA




2. "Expansion" by Paige Bradley, New York, USA




3. "The Monument Of An Anonymous Passerby", Wroclaw, Poland

 

4. "Salmon Sculpture", Portland, Oregon, USA

 
5. "People Of The River" by Chong Fah Cheong, Singapore


 6. "The Shoes On The Danube Bank" by Can Togay & Gyula Pauer, Budapest, Hungary

 

7. "The Knotted Gun", Turtle Bay, New York, USA



8. "Break Through From Your Mold" by Zenos Frudakis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA




9. "Black Ghost", Klaipeda, Lithuania





10. "Les Voyageurs" by Bruno Catalano, Marseilles, France

 
11. "Nelson Mandela", South Africa




12. "De Vaartkapoen" by Tom Frantzen, Brussels, Belgium

 
13. "Cattle Drive", Dallas, Texas, USA




14. "Maman" spider, Tate Modern, London, UK

 
15. "Hippo Sculptures", Taipei, Taiwan



16. "Sinking Building Outside State Library", Melbourne, Australia

 
17. "Iguana Park", Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 
18. "Man At Work", Bratislava, Slovakia

 
19. "A Scene From The World War With Real-Size Statues", Eceabat, Turkey



20. "Man Hanging Out" by David Černý, Prague, Czech Republic



21. "The Kelpies", Grangemouth, UK



22. "Rundle Mall Pigs", Adelaide, Australia



23. "Monument of The Unknown Official", Reykjavik, Iceland



24. "Bench" outside Bukcheon Museum, Seoul, South Korea


Image was taken from everywhere. I do not claim any of the pictures above.

~ Damien Rice

Wherever you are, you know that I adore you
No matter how far, well I can go before you
If ever you need someone, what not that you need help in
But if ever you want someone, you know that I am willing
 
 I don't want to change you
I don't want to change you
I don't want to change you
I don't want to change your mind
I just came across an angel, out among the danger somewhere
In the stranger's eye
 
Wherever you go, I can always follow
I can feed this real slow, if it's a lot to swallow
If you just wanna be alone, I can wait without waiting
If you want me to let this go, I am more than willing

'Cause I don't want to change you
I don't want to change you
I don't want to change you
I don't want to change your mind
I just came across some angel, out among the danger somewhere
In the stranger's eye
 
I don't want to change you
I don't want to change you
I don't want to change you
I don't want to change your mind
I just came across some angel, out among the danger somewhere
In the stranger's eye
 
I-I've never been with anyone in the way I've been with you
But if love is not for fun, then it's doomed
'Cause water races, water races down
The waterfalls, water races, water races down
The waterfalls!
 
I don't want to change you
I don't want to change you
I don't want to change you
I don't want to change your mind
I just came across some angel where there is no danger
 
Where love has eyes, it is not blind

So two of my friends from different circles (that surprised me they knew each other but then again Bandung is a small city) decided to form a band with two others named Zealspeaks. They play rock based on British music and now they need our vote to enter Kickfest 2014. Click here to vote.. and thank you in advance for your support!

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It is believed in Chinese Medicine that acne that flares up on different parts of your face represents health problems on different parts of your body. It’s like this part of your face corresponds to this organ. To know what conditions you’re suffering from, just look at where your acne is.

Upper Forehead

Affects: Digestive System and Bladder
What to do:

• Drinking water helps to flush out the toxins in your body, so boost your water intake and have a look at the foods you are eating.
• Minimize intake of fizzy drinks and high caffeinated drinks. Also look at switching to herbal teas, especially green tea!
• Consume less chocolate, cakes, lemonade and Coke, drink more mineral water without gas. Eat food that helps eliminate toxins from the body: boiled cabbage, and baked apples.
• Go to bed early (10pm) and wake up early (6am). Even if you can’t fall asleep. it’s good to relax so your liver can rest and be ready for work the next day
• 20-30 minutes of light exercise every day, especially outdoors
• Practice relaxation techniques to worry less
• Better hygiene (washing hair, hats)
• Green Tea, lemon water and berries can also help as these are antioxidant rich foods

 

 Lower Forehead

Affects: Heart
Your heart is a massive organ that pumps blood all over your body. If it’s stressed out due to poor diet, inactivity and various mental and physical stresses, then not only are you likely to get pimples on your lower forehead, your entire body will be doomed if you don’t fix the problems. Having a healthy heart means to do regular exercises to strengthen the heart, as well as eat a healthy diet, and keeping stresses low.
What to do:

• Try to exercise regularly
• Drink at least 8 glasses of water
• Eat healthy, preferably low cholesterol, high fiber diet
• Quit smoking

 

Ears

Affects: Kidneys
When kidneys are not taken care of, you’ll find these large, painful pimples on your ears that refuses to leave no matter what.
What to do:

• Increase water intake
• Avoiding eating too much salty food, caffeine
• cleanse your kidneys with diuretics like parsley and water

 

Eyes, orbital area and between the Eyebrows

Affects: Liver
Oiliness, redness, flakiness and pimples between the eyebrows can indicate that your liver may have been overworking and need a cleansing.
What to do:

• Eat fruits and vegetables with high content of vitamin C (kiwi, sweet pepper, oranges) will help in providing you with a good mood.
• Try to avoid eating late at night; especially right before bedtime as your body will not break down the food as effectively, leading to a toxin build up.
• Cut back on fatty, sugary, greasy and rich foods, alcohol and diary, particularly if you’re lactose intolerant.
• Some of the best foods to cleanse your liver include garlic, grapefruit, green tea, carrots, beets, leafy green vegetables, lemons and lime.

 

Upper Cheeks

Affects: Lungs and Respiratory System
Stresses to the lungs is likely to cause flare ups in the upper cheeks and even break your capillaries. These stresses include smoking, asthma, allergies, and lung infections.
What to do:

• Avoid smoking and passive smoking
• Exercise
• Avoid polluted area

 

 Lower Cheeks

Affects: Gum or Teeth Problems
Gum or teeth problems may contribute to acne in the lower cheeks area.
What to do:

• Hygiene:
  • Change your pillowcase at least once a week, and wipe down your phone with an antibacterial wipe every few days.
  • Always keep on top of your dental health, brushing, mouthwash and flossing twice a day and regular check ups at the dentist at least twice a year! Don’t just wait until you have a dental problem to make an appointment.
• Food:
  • Foods great for healthier lungs include, kale, sprouts and pumpkin.
  • Include fresh vegetables, oatmeal and brown rice in your diet.
  • Eat more cooling foods such as gourds, winter melons, and green beans
  • Don’t overeat
  • Avoid fast food and junk food, artificial sugar and sodas
  • Avoid mango, taro root, wine, and seafood or other foods you may be sensitive to
  • Eat less sugar

 

Sides of the Chin

Affects: Hormones and Genitals
This may affect a lot of girls. When sides of the chin often flare up, it’s a sign of hormonal imbalance, often caused by menstruation. Sometimes, even emotional or physical stress can cause hormonal imbalances. There are also herbs that can help balance hormones such as licorice, schisandra, holy basil, maca, burdock, red raspberry leaves, rhodiola and milk thisle. Green tea is also a brilliant anti-androgen.
What to do:

• Reduce the habit of eating before bed
• Eat more fresh fruit and vegetables
• Get more rest and sleep
• Get 20 minutes of exercise each day and massage your body for relaxation
• Sleep early and wake up early
• Try herbs that can help balance hormones such as licorice, schisandra, holy basil, maca, burdock, red raspberry leaves, rhodiola and milk thisle. Green tea is also a brilliant anti-androgen.

 

Centre of the Chin

Affects: Small intestines and stomach
This is also caused by poor diets and food allergies. Be sure to eliminate those bad foods.
What to do:

• Eat more fresh fruit and vegetables
• Get more rest
• Increase water intake and fiber in your diet

 

Chest and Neck

Chest areas are usually caused by stress, so be sure to figure out what’s stressing you out and try to eliminate that stress. It’s also important to be comfortable in your outfits. When areas around the neck flare up, it’s often caused by your body fighting off infections.
What to do:

• Try to eliminate stressors
• Use comfortable clothing
• Increase water intake and maintain ascorbic acid intake to fight off infections.

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Found this great new movie on the internet, watched it and loved it! I have just known that Keira Knightley could sing (of course she could, who couldn't? well I mean professionally..) The movie plot is light and entertaining and the musics are great.. I love Knightley's outfits and the way the movie ends. A kind of indie movie indeed.

I haven't really share anything about this project I've been involved in with you but here it is, the upcoming movie about Indonesia's heritage, tosan aji or heirloom in form of keris (kris). Right now this project is still in the pre-production phase but as soon as we get enough funding (that means we need investors to make it happen), we are all-ready to deliver the best of Indonesia's treasure packed in an adventure sci-fi movie to be released on 2016 and it's gonna be big. Are you with me?


PS. Notice my name as one of producers at the credit part there?

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Have you ever been to Galeri Indonesia Kaya? It is located in the area of Blitz Megaplex in Grand Indonesia West Mall floor 8. It had been years since my last visit to the mall, and in my recent visit on Aug 17, we saw this game booth with "Mencari Sinta" game in it that we should find the image of Wayang Sinta (of Ramayana epic) an the mask. When we succeeded, we were given a code to redeem a gift.

the game booth

Ten2Five Zamrud Khatulistiwa CD

So we went up and redeemed our gift. We got a Ten2Five CD "Zamrud Khatulistiwa" and entered the installation zone. We were greeted by three couples on screen, welcoming us in different tribe languages in the tunnel of rattan waves, then a virtual wayang show, virtual applicable traditional clothes, virtual interactive tour about and around Indonesia and some other virtual games.

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The whole concept is very interesting, to introduce Indonesian richness from the many tribes by the material and pattern selections of the interior. This, I think, is a really nice idea for those who never knew Indonesia before, more suitable to build in the Indonesian embassies abroad, not in this country. I mean, for the people who never know about the nation, this place is a really cool place.

virtual wayang show

But for those who are already in Indonesia, why don't they just go to the actual provinces/villages, talk with the actual tribe people with the actual languages, try the actual game, music instruments and and learn their actual habit of living? I think this gallery would be complete if they provide with tour & travel arrangement for people to visit all of the provinces in Indonesia, to encourage people to travel the whole country and increase the tourism and its foreign exchange.

manuscript in Javanese

This gallery also support cultural and art performances and activities, also introduce Indonesian art and craft products that are sold in Alun Alun at floor 3. The schedules of shows can be checked at the website. But if you cannot or would not come here, better idea is to plan a holiday to one of Indonesia's great tribes, don't you think?

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Have you watch this movie Lucy? You may relate this to recent movie Limitless starring Bradley Cooper about a man consuming a nootropic drug of NZT-48 that made him brilliant. Lucy, like Eddie did, consumed a certain amount of blue synthetic powder of CPH4 that made her extend her brain activity from just an average of 10%. 

I know it sounds too absurd, too fictional, delusional, and so on. You may judge anything about this movie/idea. But let's think about it in a deeper level: what if this was the true nature of human being? Since we use only 4-10% of our brain capacity, there should be another chance of 90-96% truth that we do not know about yet, that are much way bigger than our imagination could handle. Once again, what if this was the truth?

In my opinion, if I may analyze this, the idea of this theory could work. I have seen 'average' people who use only 1-5% of their brains and those who use their 10% (let's say, our investors such as Einstein, Da Vinci, you name them). But in this world, there are also people who could maximize it more than 10% that we are dissociated from.

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Imagine the ancient world. Not the neanderthal people or monkey ancestor like in this film, but the more religious/ ancient with deities, gods and demigods. Remember the stories of Zeus, Hercules and Odin; remember stories of witchcraft and wizardry, all the black magic and sixth sense stuff.. I think they're all related: an 'abnormal' man or man with a superpower is just a person who use more than 10% of his brain.

Therefore, relating the movie Lucy with Bible, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" (Gen 1:27)--people are indeed the image of God, with capabilities like Him, but we are limited with only 10% of cerebral capacity. Perhaps gods and the deities are the ones that could use it up to 100% based on their levels.

Take it like Sang Hyang Wening and the ones before him (God Almighty) could use the 100% of it--that's why they don't take forms, then Sang Hyang Batara (Ismaya, Antiga, Manikmaya) perhaps in the capacity of 90%, their children (Batara and Batari) in the 80%, their grandchildren (Dewa and Dewi) in the 70%, their great-grandchildren (Bidadara and Bidadari) in the 60%, their great-great-grandchildren (Widadara and Widadari or Dang Hyang) in the 50%, then the demigods in the 40% and human, based to their level of learning, can do it up to 30%--which made them called 'sakti' (mighty, powerful, can do magic etc). Perhaps.

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I personally like some quotes from this movie, a 10-years project that finally came true. Like the professor's saying "We humans are more concerned with having than with being", Lucy's "We've codified our existence to bring it down to human size, to make it comprehensible, we've created a scale so we can forget its unfathomable scale" and another Lucy's "We never really die."

I think there is a part of us that resembles God that we call as "subconscious", "conscience" or "heart" that tells us what to do, how to react, etc. It is the part that we usually don't understand, but live inside us. It is shut down until we reach a certain level of "enlightenment" to connect with our deeper self. That is why, we never really die. It is either to choose immortality or reproduce. I personally choose the first one.

Therefore, we must rethink what we know about supernatural, magical or mystical things. There are bigger chance they exist in this world along with us, only we never really aware of them. Therefore all the miraculous stuff not really an occult thing anymore. They are simply there, exist beyond our brain capacity could process and digest, and since we miss the big 90% of knowledge, I think we must start to open our mind to the greater truth.

What do you think?

"Life was given to us a billion years ago. Now you know what you can do with it."