Kadang-kadang mosting sampah itu perlu…
Ya kayak ini 
Aku nemuin micro video di You tube judulnya Love Bites (yang disponsori oleh Sunsilk juga nampaknya). Ceritanya tentang sepasang muda-mudi Amerika yang menjalani hubungan mulai dari kenalan, one night stand, pacaran, sharing apartment, sampai tinggal bersama. Despite that it’s contradict with Eastern culture, aku mau menggaris bawahi kekocakan serial ini terletak pada karakter masing-masing pasangan tersebut. Si cewek, Katie, benar-benar tipikal seorang cewek yang selalu menggunakan perasaan, bisa gonta-ganti mood dalam waktu singkat, doyan dandan, cerewet, dsb. Cowoknya, Max, benar-benar logis, dan bisa bertekuk lutut sama apapun perintah Katie yang ga masuk akal karena he’s a man in love.
Ada satu episode yang ceritanya Katie sibuk dan sangat bingung mau milih baju apa untuk datang ke pesta (dan tentu saja Max bilang “Udah pake apapun bagus kok”). Dia pengen terlihat “Fabulous”.
“And also smart, successful, and incredibly happy with my current life.”
Ternyata itu semua untuk nunjukin ke mantannya yang kebetulan bakalan datang juga ke pesta itu bahwa she’s the winner.
So, omong-omong soal mantan…
Buat cewek, ketemu mantan bisa jadi hari paling buruk sedunia. Apalagi kalau pada titik itu bertemu, cewek keliatan kucel banget dan tidak bahagia, si cewek pasti berpikiran “Oh no, I’m the loser!” (tapi aku have no idea kalo komentar cowoknya bagaimana).
Aku juga pernah ketemu sama mantan lagi jalan sama pacar barunya sementara aku sendirian (waktu itu Yozzi lagi ke Jakarta). Walaupun hidupku sangat bahagia sekarang, satu momen ketemu sesaat itu bener-bener bikin aku emosi. Soalnya aku keliatan kalah di depan dia (cuma gara-gara dia punya gandengan sementara aku sendiri, at the moment)!! Kalau someday aku dikasih kesempatan lagi buat ketemu sama dia, aku mau nunjukin bahwa hidupku sangaaaaaaat bahagia tanpa dia sekarang, terlihat lebih oke dari pasangannya (dan membuat dia menyesal telah putus denganku), dan punya pasangan yang jauuuh lebih oke dibandingin dia (ya ga Yoz? haha).
Tapi pernah juga suatu hari aku sama Yozzi lagi jalan di sebuah mall di Bandung, dari kejauhan terlihat si mantan sedang jalan bersama seluruh keluarganya. Aku langsung ngajak Yozzi nyumput (sementara Yozzi sendiri pengen show off), dengan alasan aku udah kenal banget sama keluarga si mantan. Irasional? Entahlah.. haha…
Anyway, memang gitu kali ya cara berpikir cewek?
Aku juga suka mendengar cerita teman-teman cewekku yang punya “ex problem”. Terlepas dari kenapa putusnya, tapi rata-rata masih suka diam-diam memperhatikan sang mantan (apalagi jaman sekarang ada facebook, ada twitter, ada ym, ada uah macem-macem). Dan ketika sang mantan tiba-tiba sudah mempunyai gandengan lagi sementara kita belum, gondoknya pasti setengah mati. Kenapa begitu? Aku ga tau ini rasional atau ga, tapi menurut logika cewek ya begini:
- kita udah saling sayang selama sekian lama, kok kamu bisa-bisanya sih secepat ini sayang-sayangan sama orang lain?
- setidaknya tunjukin kek kalo kamu sedih karena kita berpisah
Kabar baik atau entah kabar buruknya, fase dimana cewek masih merasa hal seperti itu bervariasi terhadap waktu. Means, ada yang cepat mengovercome dan ada yang lama. Aku sendiri butuh sekitar lebih dari 8 bulan buat ngilangin rasa iseng pengen tau keadaan mantan. Sampai emosi kayak begitu belum ilang, ketika aku dan mantan ada kesempatan buat ngobrol berdua, yang kuobrolin pasti tentang, “Hey, kenapa sih kita putus?” dan ujung-ujungnya berantem (yeah, cowok selalu berpikiran “Kita udah ga ada apa-apa lagi, bo! Buat apa sih bahas-bahas lagi?”). Dan yang paling kubenci adalah, it makes me even worse, I was the loser because I still can’t get over him, while he has finally overcome me.
Lucunya, hal yang sama terjadi pada seorang teman (well, mungkin ternyata semua cewek sama?). Kebetulan kami memang sama-sama diputusin dan nampaknya karena memang ada faktor orang ke-3. Suatu hari tiba-tiba temanku ini punya kesempatan buat ngobrol di ym sama mantannya, dan yang terjadi adalah temanku ini membahas “Hey, kenapa sih kita putus?” dan ujungnya berantem juga.
Kalau dulu ada tips soal melupakan mantan salah satunya adalah “SHUT ALL MEANS OF COMMUNICATION WITH HIM” — itu aku ga percaya, sekarang jadi setuju. Yes I think we have to do that, supaya ga keingat-ingat lagi. Gak gatel pengen cari tahu dan diberitahu (salah satu alasan kenapa aku sangat positif untuk ke Jepang adalah supaya bisa jauh dari mantan, eh ternyata jadinya jauh dari mantan jauh dari pacar juga.. hahaha).
Tapi, walaupun semua kontakku sama mantan udah ga ada, perasaanku sebagai cewek ga bisa bohong, kalau someday aku udah sukses aku mau nunjukin ke mantan kalau, “Look, now I’m happier and better without you” cuma untuk mengklaim bahwa, in the end, the winner is still me.
Funny how a woman’s logic works, huh?
Sumpaaaah aku kaget setengah mati..
OMG, Philip Kotler, yang namanya cuma bisa kubaca di buku marketing, yang jadi foundernya marketing…
helps me out at Restaurant City application???
1. Aku main restaurant city cuma untuk buka account doang beberapa bulan yang lalu atas rekomendasi Rike, teman KP-ku di Indosat
2. Ya, aku merequest Philip Kotler to be friend dan diaccept kira-kira setahun yang lalu
3. Tapi ga punya hubungan apa-apa dan bahkan ga pernah ada kontak-kontakan di wall
4. Emang sih kalau help2an gitu kan bisa random…
5. Tapi tetep aja kereeeeen 
Philip Kotler bo!!!!
6. Dan swear, aku ga memodifikasi halaman facebookku seperti apa yang pernah dilakukan Bahar pada Google untuk mencari orang paling baik sedunia… Aku ga bisa photo editing kecuali crop & resize.. haha
7. …. What??! Philip Kotler plays Restaurant City?
*well he’s just an ordinary person after all, haha… he even watch Avatar with Hermawan Kartajaya with Kotler’s grandchildren –> based on Hermawan Kartajaya said in a lecture at Indonesian Embassy in Japan few weeks ago*
Aku merasa ini pertanda bahwa someday aku memang harus berkarir di bidang marketing atau minimal nyerempet lah… hahaha..
You are James Bond and you are spying on a street. You are wearing a smart glasses that could provide you information about whatever you look from the glasses, let’s say, enemy’s position or a bomb inside a pot. Also, you want to know “What is that building?” and your glasses will superimpose an icon, a graphic, or a list of information about the building – which appears to be an underwear company.
Well, you don’t have to wait to be James Bond to experience such an Augmented Reality. Nowadays, there are so many company which works in Augmented Reality to bring such experiences to a game, map, books, or even just for fun. I’ve seen a big LCD Screen in Harajuku and Kawasaki, when you were captured by the camera, the LCD will display your picture of wearing a hat, a baby cloth, a collar, even monkey face!
But what is Augmented Reality? For simple, it captures your image, processing it, and superimposes anything from text, pictures, sounds, and even videos to your image. So, basically, you’ll need a camera to capture the image, a projector/screen to show you the image, a device that can measure your location and transmit/receive information, and of course a software to process your information. This is best shown in iPhone Apps such as Layar or Washington Metro. As you browse your world with your camera (I didn’t say that it has to be still image, did I?), the GPS and compass will determine your position and direction, the apps will receive information about what do you see on your camera and then superimposes the information to your camera screen. And the information is not just about “What is this”, it could be “How would it like when it finished” for an unfinished building, the restaurant’s rating, an image from past in a historical place, and even a person’s information on Facebook or Twitter!
Not just that, you can utilize Augmented Reality in games. Total Immersion Company, for example, sells a baseball card that could be take to reality, as you see the card from your web cam, the baseball player will be alive and let you play with him. Even your story books will play the story on 3D images as you open page by page. Your T-shirt will playing video for life and my favorite Harry Potter experience has been come true, as I wear a special google to read a newspaper and suddenly the picture on the newspaper moved!
It has so many applications and people kept saying that it has bright future. But this technology is still limited, for example, the GPS accuracy is only 9 m, and those iPhone apps I explained to you before cannot process the information of a site that is blocked by another site, so it’ll be probably a total blunder if you have to search the entire city just to found McDonalds that’s actually 100 m in front of you blocked by a flower shop. And you have to consider you personal information from your Facebook or Twitter, of course, you don’t want you secret-lover-on-Facebook found you for real, do you?
What about Indonesia? Can we adapt and fully utilize this technology? I don’t know how much Augmented Reality is now playing in Indonesia, but I could tell you one thing; You can start from now, creating an unique – differentiated application of Indonesia, since only Indonesian know Indonesia the best, especially the values. Will people browsed for Google map know that there are a lot of birds bomb along Ganesha street? Or Tukang Gorengan which you believe that he didn’t use any harmful substances? Or unofficial parking spot? Well, we still rule those unique-value-informations and I think it’s not too late for us to start it now J
Technologies move fast, dude!
Maybe a lot of you had seen the videos. Impossible?
*I’m working on Innovation’s class final presentation and my theme is about video game console. A friend of mine told me about this video*
I think we are closer to that thing rather than to settle in moon, haha… You just have to know that now we have the power of NETWORK and INTERNET. Yes! Network ma’am!
Because Microsoft heard that PS2 is going to be a networked experience, Microsoft then decided to enter the video game console industry in order to defend from squeezed out in the living room. So, Microsoft establish fully networked experience-Xbox (Live service) which allows you to connect with ALL Xbox USERS in the world regardless of the game you are playing (PSN only connects you to the users who are playing the same game with you), users in US also could download movies from Netflix and immediately see it on your HD TV. See? The technology is already here ^_^ I wonder if it let you connect with your Facebook friends too? So you can play with your friends on Facebook Connect? And post your status of gaming to facebook or twitter or even your blogs right away, it will be a full experience of gaming!
Next, you should met AUGMENTED REALITY. What is it? Keep it for simple, it captures image and process it and then superimposed the image with another contents, could be text, another image, sounds, even videos. And it’s all here, although not fully established yet. Layar application for iPhone has implemented this things and allows you to browse your world through your iPhone camera, and let the iPhone tells you what it’s all about. You can found the silly things LCD TV’s in Harajuku, Tokyo, and Kawasaki station (I’ve seen them so that’s the only place I know) which captured your image and then put little angels, nasty t-shirts, and donuts to your image. Even LEGO store has their augmented reality set too, which allows you to know more about the product by just letting the system “see” what are you holding.
So I guess, the main concept of Microsoft’s Xbox project Natal is all about Augmented Reality (Google it! You’ll find many fascinating videos).
But it’ll be a bit longer path ahead, since we have to make more reliable and robust Voice, Face, Motion sensing recognition, and maybe pressure recognition to allow you stomp your legs like Godzilla as seen on the video.
The friend of mine who introduced me to that video says that “There should be something below the carpet”. Yes, but you need more than pressure-sensing carpet to detect your motion. Like the Augmented Reality system, basically you’ll need a camera to capture your image, a screen to show, a processor and of course a server to provide you data. If the screen has been substituted by TV, then the camera, the processor and all the sensing technology, and the server will be on the video game console.
Ah, and don’t you know, Pranav Mistry, developed something called SixthSense technology and planned to open source the software.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tv/TED-India-Pranav-Mistry/videoshow_ted/5231080.cms
Well I think what that person is developing is another concept of Augmented Reality too, in more advanced way (transferring data from physical world to digital world vice versa, in portable way!). If the code is open sourced, then I think “the future of gaming” like the video above will be happen in no matter of time… I guess 
Love cat very much but must suffer for not having any cat right now. Currently studying at Tokyo Institute of Technology as an exchange student at Senoo Lab (about knowledge creation and organizational theory). Actually I'm a B4 student at Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia. Next year I come back to ITB, I must face the super-special-ultimate-weekly-assignment PLO, which I feared most right now.
