Libur Dan Kesalahan

Aku tahu kalau berbuat salah adalah sifat yang manusiawi.

Yang sulit kuterima adalah bila kesalahan yang dilakukan tidak dikoreksi oleh yang berwenang sehingga berubah menjadi kebiasaan buruk yang menumpuk lalu berujung pada ledakan masalah.

Seperti yang terjadi sekarang dalam perusahaan ini.

Tidak jelasnya sistem reward and punishment membuat segalanya bisa berantakan.

Kuharap saat itu terjadi, aku sudah tak lagi ada di sini. Aku bosan diberi pekerjaan yang berat yang tidak aku suka dan hanya dibayar rendah apalagi segala masalah yang ditimbulkan semua pegawai akan menjadi tanggung jawabku yang (mungkin) kurang foresight and supervision sehingga semuanya itu terjadi.

Hebat kan? Aku muak.

Day 315+1: Some Notes About The Lost Symbol

Let me quote a part first:

Only through the death experience could man fully understand his life experience. Only through the realization that his days on earth were finite could he grasp the importance of living those days with honor, integrity, and service to his fellow man.

Now wouldn't that be a surprise? I always have this thought that by depriving or losing or taken away from you, you'd value what you got and already have and probably will still be having.

And by the last part (honor, integrity, and service), that'd be what I really want to see from a lot of people. Man, wouldn't that'd be nice?

Some Notes About The Lost Symbol, Part 1

WARNING, SPOILER ALERT!

Now let me put some quotes first (I read the Doubleday's hardcover edition):

Chapter 1 page 7
"    The fifty-eight-year-old philantropist, historian, and scientist had taken Langdon under his wing nearly thirty years ago, in many ways filling the void left by Langdon's father's death."

Chapter 3 page 13
"His physique was not quite what it had been in his college days as a water-polo all-American, but he was still lean and toned, respectable for a man in his forties."

Chapter 3 page 14
"    Peter Solomon had been a friend, mentor, and, although only twelve years Langdon's senior, a father figure to him ever since their firts meeting at Princeton University. As a sophomore, Langdon had been required to attend an evening guest lecture by the well-known young historian and philantropist."

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Now you see, if Peter Solomon was twelve years older than Robert Langdon, that made Langdon forty-six-years-old.

They first met around thirty years ago, let's say for the sake of making it simpler, it was twenty-eight-years ago. That means that Solomon was thirty-years-old and Langdon a mere sixteen -- and Langdon was already in sophomore years!

Well, does Mr. Brown tried to make a point that Langdon is a genius (or at the very least, advanced academically?)

Stand By Me

"Stand By Me, Nobody Knows The Way It's Gonna Be..."

Is that an adequate thing to say to the one you wish would be there for you when you need that person the most?

How much trust can you give to a person to be there for you, support you, a safe harbour when you are trying to escape a storm?

Can I depend on the person the way that person depend on me?