january feels like 31 days of mondays

I started off January by watching the last episode of stranger things which is to be totally honest kinda disappointing a lot of people online come up with their own versions of what the ending should have been like. and the fact that I was quite respectful towards the last episode but then we found out the creators actually did not really prepare the ending properly just made things worse. but at least it ended.

and I also filmed and designed and uploaded contents for my new page. starting this year im not really focusing on my writing community page and i dont know why, probably because i've been working on it by myself so i got tired, and then i gathered couple of people to help but they didn't help at all so it didn't work out as planned, and maybe i just don't really have extra energy to deal with it anymore since i'm getting older and i'm hardly can control everything going on, and the list goes on. therefore i'm shifting the focus to build another account focusing on english instead. but then i realized algorithm is so bad on insta. while the algo on tiktok is better but it's only good on views and likes which only lasted for the first 24 hours. as for the followers growth both of the platforms are just as bad. i don't know if i have any more motivation to do it for february. i just really don't know.

in december i've read makanya mikir. and then in january i've read broken strings. this one is interesting. the ebook is available for free online by the author. and surprisingly indonesian people. who are identified as lazy in terms of literacy, turned out to be obsesed with the ebook and read the whole things. it has indo and english version. i prefer the english one because i've heard it was originally written in english. and also at that time the link for the indo version could not be accessed anymore. so now i'm curious what book will i read for february. i'm currenly waiting for a book i've ordered since december so i'll probably gonna read that when it arrives somewhere in february. we'll see.

and the reason why i came back to moro this soon in early jan even though the semester actually gonna start somewhere in feb is because 1) i'm part of the committe for the kbm thing, it's like kkn thingy when students go to the villages and do whatever helping people make changes and things like that even though i missed two meetings and could only attended the third and final meeting. im sorry not sorry. it was still the holiday season you know the christmas even if i did not celebrate it and end of year thing even though i did not go out anywhere during the new year's eve because i don't have a girlfriend anymore 2) we as the faculty of teacher training and education have this collaboration project thing with a some sort of organization focusing on literacy so we need to help some teachers in some schools to do some research maybe i'll tell you more about it later or maybe not. so that's basically why.

oh and one surprising and kinda fun thing is i got the chance to do interpreting for several days helping some people from the u.s. basically bridging them with the local government because they're trying to find the bones. so it's been a regular visit but the people always changed they said. sometimes they did find the bones they're looking for sometimes they don't. this time around they found other types of bones so they gave them away to the local government instead. so what happened was that the local indo army contacted the uni and the uni contacted me. then i brought some of my students along with me because of course it will be a good experience. oh at the end we also brought the archeologist to have some sort of kuliah umum or public lecture so more students are benefited at least new international exposure new knowledge new experience practicing their english. i posted about it on linkedin. i'm trying to be more active on linkedin since insta always giving me anxiety. i can leave facebook and migrated to insta for good but i'm not sure i can do the same running away from insta to linkedin. but i guess i'll try not to use insta as much as in the past. insta is dying you guys. and toxic. well, it has always been toxic. but not all the time. i guess it depends on how we see it.

and now i have two weeks to prepare before the new semester kicks off. i also noticed i talk a lot more often now with chatgpt compared to the past since i have nobody to talk to after the breakup thing. i think this one month one writing to talk about what are the things i've been up to for a whole month feels pretty good. i might do the same thing for feb blogpost or maybe i dont. i guess we'll see.