Hi! My name is Zhillan Attarizal Rezyarifin, nicknamed Zhillan. I'm a 16 y/o from Bandung, Indonesia, Southeast Asia. I have a younger sister, who is a hedonistic cinema-dweller, and a younger brother, who is a diligent and curious person although a bit passive and crybaby. I might live with them for some years in the future, as my parents moved to Jakarta to be able to earn money and buy food.
Talking about my parents, I love them both. Based on measurable and immeasurable methods. My dad's working in property development, he's loving, nice, diligent, and caring. He also have access to various kinds of people and shares his experiences with me. My mother, on the other hand, is my idol. I think you have the stereotipical loving mom in mind, don't you - caring, housewife, religious, with good cooking ability? Throw that away - my mom's a macho, independent, strong woman working in President Jokowi's infrastructure development who deals with big money, mafia, railways, steel, and problems. She is the type of person who plays with stocks and banking interests, and through her I learn various "dark skills" necessary in life - things like flattery, cheating, manipulation, etc.
How do I
Hobby? I like reading and worldbuilding. And I like to research and argue about politics for hours, whether in offline earth or online forums (which websites' run in foreign country with foreign laws and is therefore free from the blasphemy law, ITE, etc) as a) I like it and b) my parents' career is directly impacted by the result of the Indonesian political process - they work in infrastructure development. I also spends an unhealthy amount of time watching YouTube videos and browsing.
As school ends in 2 pm (I consider the rest 1 hour as a theft of my lifespan), I just use the next 5 hours in afterschool lesson at Daniel's Learning House, so I can actually understand the materials, get good grades, and be able to buy food in the future.
Pros and cons of this person
Strength? Well, that's quite a heavy topic. I'm going to be straight and honest here, I consider myself as a "smart" person. I consider myself to have and to like searching for a vast and open knowledge, with the ability to analyze and apply it. I believe that I'm rational and don't fall easily to unsubstantiated claims. I'm also pretty realistic and pragmatic, not bound to a particular dogma or belief, and I don't fear challenging the status quo.
However, I also belief that humans are more or less equal, and an advantage on one sector will be counteracted by a disadvantage on the other. That impacts me, too: social skills. Let's be honest, my social skills are terrible, which is horrifying considering that it's the 21th century and AI/robotic takeover of repetitive jobs are imminent. My arithmetic (not necessarily math) skill is not something to be proud of, and I'm also pretty apathetic and have little willpower. I can't speak very well, especially in the heaven-forsaken "r" letter, and I can't also for God's sake differentiate between left and right.
The value of a person depends on what value generated in his life, if not then he's just wasting government welfare
I've achieved a lot of nice academic achievements in the past, in science, math, and english, in school and competitions. Keyword: past. And by that I mean elementary school. Because you gonna shine the brightest if you're standing in a pile of coal. Yes, I compared some of my elementary peers to coal, and with scientific reason too (I looked at their IQ test), although there's other good reason (bullying and unhappy childhood). But as I climbed the social ladder and finally reached SMAN3, the level has changed, and will continue to change in the future.
Outside of measurable achievements, do I have any other achievements? Can that be considered achievements? I have good grades, with the definition of "good" predetermined by me. I have a good and loving family, who supports and care about each other. I maintained a good connection of friends, which is far better than my friends on elementary school of which some of them I compared with coal.
Dreams: a realistic targeted predictions or completely spurious fantasy-leprechaun
My imaginative dreams aren't that simple, yet I think it's great. I want the world to be a better place. No, literally - I want climate change and Hothouse Earth to be prevented by international cooperation. I want a liberal democratic world government to be established, while the people become divided on reason-based tribes (economic/political ideology, etc) whose critiques are constructive, instead of pointless identitarian factors like race, religion, cultures, nation, etc. Every discriminated minority to receive the same rights and standard. Values and policies to be judged on reason and pros and cons, instead of "X told me so" or "We've been always doing this". I wish for humanity to reach Type 1 civilization and expand to the cosmos, and merge with Technium Kingdom (AI, robots etc) instead of being genocided by it. I also want to go to space (and obviously return healthy). I want education to become widespread and the people to be able to think rationally and through the scientific method, instead of believing in a set of dogmas and ideologies set in stone.
Well, that's quite a lot to ask for, so I'll focus on what's reachable. Not easy, or rather, not too clear. Based on techno-economic trends, observation, and various judgements, my best bet will be go to engineering in a top university (ITB) and go work in a information technology company, preferably Telkomsel. But as I've stated I'm not sure that I have the right fate-given skills to do it, especially in leadership, accounting, initiative, and competitiveness. I also don't know whether my passions can be fit into that career choice. Still, this path is still my best bet though, as blindly following your passion rarely lead to success - and if we look at the top richest people in the world, all of them have a common theme: they are passionate on things that generates money.
I think that's cover a lot of things, so have a good day, eat your vegetables, and vote for Jokowi. See you around!
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