Dua pekan lalu, Indonesia baru saja merayakan peringatan kemerdekaan yang ke-delapan puluh tahun lamanya. 17 Agustus 2025 memang menjadi tanggal yang istimewa karena tepat 80 tahun yang lalu di tanggal yang sama, setelah ratusan tahun berusaha, para tokoh bangsa berkumpul untuk mendeklarasikan kata merdeka. Untuk pertama kalinya jua, bendera pusaka berkibar perkasa, membumbung tinggi di langit nusantara.
Ditengah siang bolong di hari yang cerah, sewaktu makan siang bersama tim, manager gue tiba-tiba mengucapkan satu kalimat yang cukup membuat gue tersedak: “Today is a special day because I decided to expedite Ayyub’s probation end date today”. Dan, ya, setelah one-on-one meeting bersama reporting manager (dan menyelesaikan e-course tentunya), gue secara resmi menyelesaikan masa probation.
The last few days are long-weekend in Thailand. Last Thursday was may-day, while every country in the world celebrates labor work by marking the day to be a holiday. This Monday is also a holiday in Thailand, it’s a ‘Coronation Day’. I guess this is the day when the King/Queen is formally crowned as a legitimate King of Thailand monarch. That’s why, a few days back, my manager was asking me about my plan on the long holiday. Almost all of my work-colleague are taking on-leave on the Friday. Some of them are planning to relax in Pattaya, one of them are going to Vietnam, and I heard that there’s also people that going to Japan. I, myself, decided to take a rest at my apartment, just scrolling my handphone, doing nothing. Suddenly, there is a notification from Google Photos. “Relive the moment”
A few months back, I was invited to one of my friend’s weddings. I was really excited to go because, not only was he one of my closest friends from college, but the wedding was also in Bandung. For me, it was the perfect chance to relive some of my college memories. On top of that, my college friends and I were planning a staycation at a villa in Lembang, so I had pretty high expectations for the whole trip.
In the last several months, me and my friends was crazed into playing a very popular role playing game, Dungeon and Dragons (DnD). Basically, in this game, we are asked to create a character and played those character to the stories that are been created by the Dungeon Master (DM). What makes this game interesting, is that we could make a character and played those character whatever we likes, whatever we want to. I, myself usually played a character called “Bolgradis”, which is a dumb and reckless fighter who often makes dumb action. As a player, bolgradis has a very good principles: “Act first, figure out later”. Bolgradis is always the first to attack another character, eventhough we still don’t know yet which side he belongs to. Bolgradis is the one that went straight eat a mushroom in the dark forest, which later we figure out that those mushroom was poisonous. Bolgradis even banned into several store in the game, because he ever stole a sword while the owner are present in front of him. HAHAHAHA
