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Ways to keep yourself occupied during Ramadan
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Happy June, folks! In our special 13th edition, we’ll be focusing on the number 13. As we’ve arrived in the holiest month of the year, Ramadan, we decided to create an edition to distract you from your fasting woes rather than remind you of them. Yap, we still haven’t forgotten how tough it may be to go through your hot summer day without a bite to eat or a jug of water, so we have an article especially to help you get through that. We also touched on the history of the number 13, how lucky or, rather, unlucky it can be and showcased a series of poems that you can use if you want to celebrate that luck. We also celebrated National Donut’s Day and had a small sit down with the Head Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. And in commemoration of our special theme of the number 13, we talked about the new controversial Netflix TV Series 13 Reasons Why. So let’s put away the thoughts of waiting too long for Iftar, sit back, and enjoy our 13th edition!
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PATRICIA AMADEA
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Patricia Amadea Hartono Advisor
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Michael Ronaldo
Chocolate Iced A ring donut with a milk chocolate icing. (Rp. 8.5 K) The dough is soft but rather coarse on the inside. The chocolate on this donut is too milky that it loses the charm of the chocolate. The sweetness also does not complement the dough right enough. The icing is also rather thin.
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Mixed Berry A filled donut with a mixed-berry glaze, topped with berry cream and blueberry drops. (Rp. 8.5 K) The dough is soft but rather course on the inside. The cream is the biggest downside to this donut. The berry cream does not taste good enough and is rather nauseating to eat. The mixed berry glazing, on the other hand, tastes good, as it is not too sweet and is able to present you the taste of the berries used in the glaze.
A DONUT REVIEW BASIC VS FANCY
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Donut Chocorice
A large ring-shaped donut with a chocolate rice topping spread across the top. (Rp. 25 K) The dough feels exceptionally soft on bite. The chocolate rice topping is okay but it can’t be described as something out of this world. Overall, the sweetness and texture of the topping is rather generic. The crunchy chocolate rice is a big plus on this donut. The large size of the donut also means you can share it for two.
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Donut Lemon Crumble
A large ring-shaped donut with a sugar glaze and a lemon crumble topping. (30 K) The dough feels exceptionally soft on bite. The lemon crumble goes really well with the glazing as they complement each other’s flavors. The flavor of the dough has the right amount of sweetness and sour twang, complementing the lemony aftertaste. The texture is also soft and crunchy, leaving your pocket empty but your tummy feeling more than satisfied.
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Ways to keep yourself occupied during Ramadan It’s that time of the year again. It’s the one month of the year where Muslims refrain themselves from eating and drinking from dusk to dawn to strengthen their faith. Depriving yourself from nourishment can be daunting, especially if you live in a country where the heat won’t hesitate to dehydrate anyone who dares to walk outside during the day. We’ve come up with a few ways to keep yourself occupied enough during Ramadan that you’ll stop checking the clock every 2 minutes to see if it’s Iftar yet.
Immersive video games Recommended: The Sims series. Time truly flies when you’re lost in the world of gaming. When was the last time you played the Sims 3 for only an hour? The answer is never. Even if you can’t play a video game for five hours straight, you would at least kill more than a couple of hours putting your Sims in a pool and deleting the ladder. Work. It would seem like a nobrainer to overwork yourself during Ramadan. If you work overtime, it’d be guaranteed that you kill at least 2-3 extra
hours. And on top of that, your productivity won’t be sacrificed. You’ll feel so much better after getting a lot of work done, and you’ll be able to catch some well-deserved rest afterwards. 3-4 hour movies. Recommended: The Godfather. You can never go wrong with movies. An enticing plot, attractive actors, and unexpected twists and turns will not only distract you from the fact that it’s still only 3 pm, it’ll give you some time to contemplate whether or not The Godfather II is actually a prequel.
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Binge-watch a TV Show. Recommended: Brooklyn Nine-Nine And last but not least, bingewatching. TV shows often have more than 10 episodes in each season, which is more than enough to keep yourself occupied. TV shows are also highly addictive due to their many cliffhangers. Shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine that offer light-hearted comedy with some lessons in morality will surely make time fly by in a flash. Once you get to know the adorable couple that is Captain Holt and his husband Kevin, you won’t be able to take your eyes off the screen.
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By Arya and Patricia Amadea A shocking, unthinkable twist in the world of Netflix since Frank Underwood becoming the President of the United States in House of Cards; I think that pretty much sums up what the streaming giant’s newest series
13 Reasons Why is all about.
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Based on the 2007 novel by Jay Asher and produced by Joseph Incarpera, 13 Reasons Why follows Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) who created and recorded a box full of audio cassettes containing thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Shortly before she committed suicide, she mails a box full of tapes to the first person in a line of thirteen that she deemed to be responsible for ending her life. The series has gathered much popularity and praise in the past few months, but because it is made around the controversial idea of suicide, it has also inevitably gathered some not so favorable critics and opinions. A hoard of adults have been slightly offended by the devastating messages that this story has tried to deliver to the young audience, that this story is veered towards. The story, circling around high schoolers, is targeted towards the young people in that same demographic, an audience that in reality, is actually susceptible to feelings of depression and prone to thoughts of suicide on an almost regular basis. Whether or not the producers meant harm, the majority of critics have agreed that 13 Reasons Why is promoting teen suicide rather than building awareness of it. Some countries, including Canada, have even gone to such lengths as banning the series from being discussed at
schools. Not looking good, is it? However, we’ve got our own take on what the series actually wants to deliver. For us, it’s not just about displaying the twisted story of how Hannah Baker ends her life, or about encouraging to pull a Hannah Baker-esque move to end all your problems in a blink of an eye. Suicide goes much deeper than just a graphic scene on television. In fact, it’s such a sensitive topic that we won’t even claim that our opinions are correct, that what we think is truth. It’s all through perception, much of what suicidal people face as these thoughts go through their minds. We’ve heard a lot of our peers stating their opinions on how selfish Hannah Baker was, on how most of the situations she went through that caused her to commit suicide in the first place wasn’t viable enough. But isn’t that one of the reasons why she did it in the first place? When her own peers didn’t take her cry for help seriously, when all they could say was how attention-seeking she was, weren’t these some of the reasons that broke her over the edge? Everyone faces different situations through different pairs of eyes. Everyone harbors different sets of feelings than the person sitting across or besides them. Judging someone for feeling something that someone else is feeling isn’t our job,
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it’s rather knowing that everyone’s feelings are valid and letting humanity take over. Perhaps it’s not a matter of understanding or relating ourselves to Hannah Baker, but more on realizing that people like Hannah Baker do exist and could be any of the friends in our circle. Let’s not rush in giving negative opinions. Think it through, take a deeper look, and don’t go into a full panic mode, trying to make this show something it is not, because suicide is real, and it’s there. It is something dangerous that needs to be fixed, to be prevented from happening. Criticising this show, even banning it for heaven’s sake, is not gonna be any help. This show just wants to do exactly that, giving you another perspective, taking you right to the heart of this issue, and making you open your eyes to what others feel deep in their fragile hearts, in the hope that you can help people around you, that you can prevent this from ever happening. The tapes that she sent helped a lot of people open their eyes to the things that they did not realize before themselves. It might have been too late, but it helped a wider audience realize that we don’t want to make that same mistake. We don’t want to be one of the 13.
Number 13 is believed by many people to deliver unlucky charms in life. This belief has been circulating around us since a very long time ago, and the story behind this number 13 has proliferated into many versions. I once read a bedtime story about a witch who wanted to buy a dozen of apples from a nice seller, but she demanded that there were 13 of them instead of 12 as the common calculation. The seller insisted on giving her 12 apples, so the witch took it with rage and gave the world a curse that number 13 would bring bad luck. Well, that was a tale, of course. However, the story aside, does number 13 really bring a bout of bad luck, though? Let me present you with some more insights about number 13. If you think it closely, our modern calendar has 12 months in a year, which also makes it 12 zodiacs, and a single day is comprised of two 12-hour half days. Thanks to the ancient Sumerians who developed a numeral system based on the use of 12, mathematicians and scientists believe that number 12 was considered a perfect number
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What comes to mind when you hear about number 13? If you think it belongs to those-numberspeople-should-avoid, then you’re not alone. in the ancient world. And we still use their system for measuring time today. Next to number 12, we have number 13 that is regarded unusual, unbalanced and incomplete. This assumption is supported by two other popular theories for the number’s unlucky connotation that revolves around ancient times. In the Bible, Judas Iscariot, the 13th guest to arrive at the Last Supper, was the person who betrayed Jesus. Ancient Norse lore tells that evil and turmoil were first introduced to the world when the treacherous and mischievous god Loki appeared at a dinner party in Valhalla as the 13th guest, upsetting the balance of the 12 gods already in attendance. Opposite of those stories about number 13, we have Lucky 13 that makes quite a cool term. In a different manner, the Chinese believe that when the number 13 is pronounced, the number 1 “shi” sounds like the word “definite” (shi) in Mandarin and Cantonese; while the number 3 “san” sounds like “life”, “living”,or “birth”. As a result, the number 13, pronounced as “shisan”, can mean “definitely
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vibrant” or “assured growth”. That’s why Chinese don’t have problems with number 13. In Italy, 13 is also considered a lucky number. The expression fare tredici (“to do 13”) means “hit the jackpot”. Meanwhile, in France, it’s more interesting because as soon as there is a Friday the 13th on the calendar, the National Lottery organises a special drawing because some chooses that day to put their bets in. So, Friday the 13th is not so terrifying after all Everyone’s belief about number 13 will always vary, time to time and across places and cultures. For me personally, I don’t place an exact belief on this special number because I believe that everything happens for a reason, and part of it comes as a result of our actions and decisions, with a little spice of unintentional and random “clicks” (maybe they’re what people call “luck” after all!). At the end, it’s just a number. What would you say, do you think number 13 is bad or good? Is number 13 your lucky or unlucky number?
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The Conditional Ada Limón, 1976
By Yael Engineta
The dreaded Friday the 13th, is the perfect time for the luck, luckless and superstitious. Whether your Friday turns out to be freaky or fun, toss some salt over your shoulder and give yourself a lucky boost with poems about luck by Emily Dickinson, and Ada Limón.
Luck is not chance (1350) Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886 Luck is not chance— It’s Toil— Fortune’s expensive smile Is earned— The Father of the Mine Is that old-fashioned Coin We spurned— Through this poem Emily stated that Luck is not merely just about a result, when you are simply having an opportunity, having a change but it requires hardwork. The Fortune is expensive and need to be earned. It’s like there is no such thing as luck, there is only toil. You make your own luck, and then get your own results.
Say tomorrow doesn’t come. Say the moon becomes an icy pit. Say the sweet-gum tree is petrified. Say the sun’s a foul black tire fire. Say the owl’s eyes are pinpricks. Say the raccoon’s a hot tar stain. Say the shirt’s plastic ditchlitter. Say the kitchen’s a cow’s corpse. Say we never get to see it: bright future, stuck like a bum star, never coming close, never dazzling. Say we never meet her. Never him. Say we spend our last moments staring at each other, hands knotted together, clutching the dog, watching the sky burn. Say, It doesn’t matter. Say, That would be enough. Say you’d still want this: us alive, right here, feeling lucky. The poet relentlessly questions life and its possibility in the poem to establish a mood then ends it with a positive advice to appreciate whatever life brings; energy, luck, beauty or anxiety, and be grateful with it.
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By Michelle Aditya The meeting with him was very bright and fun. The man that studied his undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctorate education in Psychology at University of Indonesia was surprisingly very friendly and endearing. He became famous among the students for his “scarf addiction” as the trend mark and we joked how it makes him look cooler. “I have a lot. I started to wear it once or twice and all of the sudden my co-workers and students started to give me more scarfs. It was a simple gift that I will definitely use.” The man who is usually called “Pak Yoh” by his colleagues
had been working for ten years at BINUS University alongside with the first founder to build the Faculty of Psychology in 2007. One of the essential leaders of BINUS University, Theresia Widia Soerjaningsih, had wished to develop the university’s image to expand more than just IT specialist institution by developing in other fields of knowledge. The Faculties of English, Chinese and Japanese Literature had been founded before. Later, based on the decision from Prof. Dr. Ir. Harjanto Prabowo, M.M. (the rector at that time), these faculties were
combined in the Faculty of Humanities alongside with Business Law, International Relation and PGSD. “We’re a mixed of everything, but we’re still doing fine until now, right?” he lightly joked about his profession. However, leading these departments to achieve each milestone is not easy. Having the same root, the majors still have their own distinctive characteristics. It is impossible to set the same standard for all of them. He claimed that the biggest challenge while doing his job is to find the similarities
Rumor has it that there’s a very special person working at the Kijang office of BINUS University. His trendy and distinctive interest of wearing a scarf as his formal attire makes him stand out in a crowd. Thus, I present to you the Dean of Humanities, Dr. Johannes A.A. Rumeser, Psi. Together we discussed his perspectives on the Faculty of Humanities.
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among these majors, among the diversity. “In every meeting with other BINUSIAN leaders, I always explain that we can’t compare our faculty with those from Engineering or Computer Science. The way we think and the way we solve problems is definitely different. And being different is never a bad thing,” he claimed. When I ask him what the most unique characteristic of our faculty is, he proudly stated how we always consider and prioritize the “human aspects”. We don’t deal with numbers and statistics. We never have a one hundred percent right or wrong answer. This is the social approach that we use, which allows other possibilities to happen anytime. He was also very proud about the achievements that have been gained by the students. I found out that he has been diligently monitoring the activities going around in campus. He often goes out from his personal office to take a look at students practicing traditional dance. He monitors preparation of speech contest. He keeps a close relationship with the student to find out about their problems and feedbacks. He also gives appreciation to the new selected student, Theresia Kartika, from International Relation that is running for the Pemilihan Mahasiswa Berprestasi Tingkat Nasional 2017 as the sole representative of BINUS University. We also began to discuss
the revolutionary program that is only conducted by our faculty yearly, called INNOVIRUS. He mentioned that the inspiration was adapted from an educational system in Finland. “I learned from them that innovation will come when it is worked through the process of discipline. Although we’re still trying to come up with the perfect system, at least with this program, our students are able to interact with other students from different majors and departments.” His goal for this year is to encourage students to make their own proposal of PKM (Program Kreativitas Mahasiswa). Hopefully with the improvement of the FEP program for the Faculty of Humanities, we could send at least half of these group projects to compete to a national level. He did not forget to send some warm messages to the students of the English Department. “You need to be able to master both literature and linguistics in order to have something to offer. If we focus too much on the linguistics study, the level of knowledge will not even surpass the D3 level. However, focusing on the literature study only will not match with the vision of the university itself.” He encourages the students to gain other skills such as organization, office and management to complement our main value of the language skills. He hopes that the students will
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join many activities aside from academic. “From my experience, it is not the smartest that will succeed. You will later see that those who have an exceptional relation skills and network will have a better career in the future. Therefore, get involved with opportunities that the department has offered to you and enrich yourself by learning from various sources and environments.” And that was the end of the pleasant interview with our beloved Dean. We hope for the success of your career and the Faculty of Humanities.