Indonesia Media In English

1. The President Post
    (www.thepresidentpost.com)
    Menara Batavia 25th Floor Jl. K.H. Mas Mansyur
    Kav. 126 Jakarta 10220, Indonesia
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 2. The Jakarta Post

    The Jakarta Post - PT Bina Media Tenggara
    Jl. Palmerah Barat No. 142 - 143, Jakarta 10270, Indonesia

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The Beginning of "Female-Like" to "Female"

“Kalau sama teman laki-laki saya sering dijahili. Tapi, teman-teman perempuan selalu baik kepada saya.”

-Sonya-

            This quote is taken from Ms. Sonya statement in the last creative meeting class (13/5). Ms. Sonya is a shemale. She was the interviewee for our interviewing practice. I don’ really remember how exactly she stated that quote but she said she was more pleasant to hang out with her female friends instead of males when she was a child.

            While being interviewed by one of my friend in front of the class, me and the others were listening from the ‘audience seat’. Seating in a female-like position, Ms. Sonya explained her childhood to class.

            Her male friends oftenly bullied her. Then, she started to ‘move’ into the place where people were nice; the girls side. Then, she started to play like other little girls commonly do. This little habbit soon affected her behavior afterwards.

            In Junior high scholl, sometime she was learning to use make up by herself. But of course it was done without her parents permission. She continued to do another female-like activity until she really obsessed to become a woman. She even regret herself to be born as a male. She thought that there are more previlages for being a woman.

            What i learned from her confession is that our childhood will build our self in the future. What do we learn and how the process we face will determine our characters. In Ms. Sonya case she spent her childhood more with girls instead of boys. From this daily activity, the girls behavior soon affect her past mental as boy. Now, she ended up becoming a shemale.

            Now, some of my friends are even more so. They spend more time hanging out with girls, talk like one, and act like one. Finally, they also ended up like one. Live with a female soul caged in a male body. But, most of them decide to live as a male. It is different from Ms. Sonya who decided to live as a female.

            

"Bag It" Review

        I have to admit, as much as I like documentaries, I can only watch one every couple months because I don’t have TV to watch Nat-Geo Channel. I just don’t think I can handle the shock to my system more often than that. I recently watched this documentary  in my class last week and it was another shocker, though I would recommend it especially for those of us who have to worry about the state of the ocean in the near future.

        Bag It! is a story that follows Jeb Berrier, an average American guy who is admittedly not a “tree lover,” who makes a pledge to stop using plastic bags. This simple action gets Jeb thinking about all kinds of plastic as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world. When Jeb’s journey takes a personal twist, we see how our craziness for plastic world has finally caught up to us and what we can do about it.

       The movie  with the basic premise that disposable plastic items (such as the typical grocery bag) are wasteful and harmful to the environment. Why spend so much energy to produce something that is going to be instantly thrown away? The movie goes on to address the impact of plastic garbage in the oceans and the toxicity of plastic in our bodies. It is amazing how many chemicals are getting into our systems from the plastic products that we use everyday.

        Watching this movie definitely gave me some additional confidence about our choice to move onto a sailboat in the near future. I’ve known for a while that our physical environment is toxic to us and I hope that removing ourselves from the “plastic” lifestyle will help to decrease the impact on our health and. I understand that there will always be risks to our health anywhere we go, but why impose them on ourselves?

        This documentary which is directed by Suzan Beraza also drove home the responsibility that we have as consumers, and especially as future cruisers, to protect our oceans. If we intend to enjoy beautiful beaches and bountiful reefs, we should take care to preserve them. I don’t know what kind of life my son will choose to pursue, but if someday he has a boat of his own, I sure hope there is a beautiful anchorage for him to watch a sunset from. It’s our job to make sure that’s possible.