Saturday, December 29, 2012
Sunday, December 23, 2012
JKT48
| First Generation | |
History
The formation of JKT48 was first announced on September 11, 2011 at an AKB48 event held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba.[2] The interview for new applicants took place in late September, with the final audition for the finalist being held on October 8-9, 2011.[1]The first generation members of the group was first revealed on November 3, 2011.[3] The 28 members include Rena Nozawa, a 13 years old Japanese who resides in Jakarta.[3] Producer Yasushi Akimoto said that JKT48 could become "a bridge between Indonesia and Japan".[3]
August 2012 JKT48 Operations Team announce about the audition for the 2nd Generation Kenkyusei. It is announced that there will be 3 stages for the audition. First is the application form and 2 rounds of sing and dance audition. On the 3rd stage Akimoto Yasushi announced through a VTR that the members from the auditionees that were selected are going to Japan for their final audition with the AKB48 Staff. The 31 girls who went to Japan for their luck passed the audition and now the 2nd generation consists of 31 members.
JKT48's official theater opened on September 8, 2012.
Members
Kenkyusei
- 1st Generation
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- 2nd Generation
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Resigned
- Allisa Astri (June 23, 1990)
- Fahira Al-Idrus (July 27, 1998)
- Intania Pratama Ilham (July 19, 1991)
- Siti Gayatri (March 11, 1993)
Graduated
- Neneng Rosediana (January 24, 1999)
- Cleopatra Djapri (December 20, 1993)
Discography
Songs translated to Indonesian:AKB48
- Heavy Rotation
- Kimi no Koto ga suki dakara (Karena kusuka dirimu)
- Shonichi (Hari Pertama)
- Shiroi shatsu (Baju putih)
- Aitakatta (Ingin bertemu)
- Baby! baby! baby!
- Ponytail to Shushu (Ponytail dan ikat rambut shushu)
- Gomen ne, Summer (Maafkan, Summer)
Appearances
Indonesia
TV Series
Theater
- JKT48 1st Theater Live "Pajama Drive", Nyi Ageng Serang, Pasar Festival, Kuningan Jakarta Selatan (17-20 May 2012)
- JKT48 June 2012 Theater "Pajama Drive", Studio 7 Pasaraya Grande Blok M Jakarta (14-17 June 2012)
- JKT48 July 2012 Theater "Pajama Drive", Studio 7 Pasaraya Grande Blok M Jakarta (13-15 July 2012)
- JKT48 September 8th Theater is Permanent Theater"Pajama Drive", Fx Life Style Center (Fx Mall 4th Floor) (everyday)
Commercials
Magazines
Japan
Concert
- AKB48 Kōhaku Taikō Uta Gassen (December 20, 2011, Tokyo Dome City Hall), 16 members
- AKB48 Request Hour Setlist Best 100 2012 (January 20, 2012, Tokyo Dome City Hall), 12 members, as encore[6]
- AKB48 Gyoumu Renraku. Tanomuzo, Katayama Buchou! (23-25 March 2012, Saitama Super Arena)
Television
- Morita Kazuyoshi Hour, Waratte Iitomo! (December, 21 2011, Fuji TV)
- Seyanen! Ōmisoka RokeSP (Kettei! Ima Kore Mite Hoshii Taisho!), December 31, 2011, MBS, Kansai time zone
- NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen (December 31, 2011)
Advertising
- Nameraka Honpo, Tokiwa Pharmaceuticals (April 12, 2012– )
Magazines
Friday, December 21, 2012
Thursday, December 20, 2012
7 steps to becoming a genius
Step 1: Accept that you need to become a genius. Look at the graph below. Where on the graph would you mark yourself if the far left represented the ignorance of a new born baby and the far right represented the genius of Leonardo Da Vince?
(Ignorance) 1—2—3—4— (Normal) —6—7—8—9—10 (Genius)
Okay, that was a trick. Without changing your position on the graph, replace the word “Ignorance” with “Insanity” and replace the word “Genius” with “Sane.”
The definition of the world “sane” is: “having or showing reason, sound judgment, or good sense.”
Think about a baby. Does a baby think or act with sound reason, judgment and sense? No. If an adult acted like a 1 year old he’d be locked away in a mental institute. I’m sorry, but babies are insane. We’re all born insane, and, our progress towards sanity doesn’t happen on its own. Sure, as we grow up our brains develop and automatically make us more capable of sanity, but we have to use that capability. In order to become truly sane you’re going to have to consciously put forth a significant amount of effort to using reason, sound judgment and common sense.
What you know and how you think define how you experience reality. Your mind is your life. If you don’t consciously take responsibility for improving your ability to reason then everything about your entire life will be duller, weaker and uglier. The clearer you understand that the more motivation you’ll have for striving to fulfill your mental potential. The less you understand that the more likely you are to spend your life sitting on your couch watching mindless television to distract you from the emptiness of your reality.
Step 2: Accept that you’re capable of becoming a genius. There’s a popular misconception that you’re either born a genius or you’re not. Nobody has any proof of this. We just believe it because we’ve heard it so many times and assumed that if so many people believe it then it must have some basis in reality. Plus, it excuses us for not being geniuses and lets us get back to watching television without feeling guilty about how stupid we are.
If you’re smart enough to graduate high school then you’re smart enough to become a genius. Think about this. How many song lyrics, movie characters, book titles, sports statistics, telephone numbers and street names will you memorize in your life? How many books/magazines/news articles/websites/blogs have you/will you read? When you add it all up the number is astronomical even if you score low on a traditional I.Q. test.
You’ll never reach the limits of your mind. Therefore, the limits of your mental potential are defined more by what you believe they are than what they actually are. You have the potential to become a genius if you would only allow yourself permission to become what you’re capable of becoming and dedicate yourself to pushing yourself as far as you can go.
Step 3: Accept that you’re ignorant. At first glance it seems I’m contradicting myself by saying that you’re capable of becoming a genius but you’re also ignorant. However, as you’ll soon see, this paradox makes perfect sense.
Everyone is born insane, and in order to become a genius you have to grow into it, and the more room you give yourself to grow the more you can grow. In step 1 we talked about people who give up on the game before they start, but there are many, many people who get a tiny bit of knowledge and believe they’ve reached the peak of human potential. Then they spend the rest of their lives patting themselves on the back and sticking their noses up at everyone else. Ironically, since these elitists don’t believe they need to push themselves any further they don’t. So they spend the rest of their lives stagnating on the pillar they’ve set themselves on.
A word of warning. When I talk about elitists I’m not just talking about the dean of philosophy at your local community college who thinks the meaning of life is to memorize quotes and belittle freshmen. I’ve met plenty of poor, dirty, high school dropout rednecks who fall under the same category. They figure out that Jesus loves Republicans, Liberals are naive, the French are cowards, minorities are thieves, and real men learn how to fix their own trucks. With that they spend the rest of their life drinking coffee at the local Dairy Queen swapping condescending remarks to their church buddies about every colorfully dressed punk kid that comes in to buy a dip cone. Think of the movie, “Gran Torino.” Clint Eastwood’s character was an ignorant elitist even though he wasn’t a Harvard educated yuppie elitist.
Here’s a motto you can live by: Only an idiot thinks he knows everything.
Step 4: Accept that everyone else is ignorant. Humanity doesn’t have life figured out. Our entire history has been a slow process of clueless adults raising clueless children. The younger generation always takes it for granted their parents’ generation has it all figured out. So children devote their lives to mimicking their elders only to waste their lives re-enacting primitive, obsolete customs invented by pompous monkeys.
Each generation a few rebels break out of the autopilot setting their culture tries to force on them, and as a result they learn something new about the world. Then they’re likely ridiculed and possibly killed for going against the status quo, but if their new knowledge stands the test of time then in a few generations everyone will take that new knowledge for granted and mock their own ancestors for being so dim-witted while they themselves are still living their own lives on autopilot and mocking and killing the forward thinkers of their own generation.
This is the environment you were raised in as well. You’ll meet people on every street corner who will tell you they have life completely figured out. If they know anything that you don’t then they have something worth learning, but the moment you fall hook line and sinker for somebody else’s answers is the moment you stop growing and start living a subpar life.
Take everything you learn with a grain of salt. Even if someone teaches you something that’s true it’s probably still incomplete. Questioning people and their belief systems can only help you arrive at a clearer perception of the truth. Blind faith can only result in blindness.
Step 5: Develop a systematic plan to understand life. Imagine it’s Sunday afternoon, and you don’t have to go to work, but you’ve got a ton of errands and chores you need to get done. If you just wander around the house and do a chore here and there when you just happen to find yourself in a room that needs something done it’s going to take forever to get all your chores done. Imagine driving around town aimlessly and hoping you run across the store or business you need to get something done at. You’ll never accomplish all your goals.
Becoming a genius (aka growing up, aka becoming sane) is the same way. You’re not going to be able to wander through life aimlessly, casually doing the things you feel inspired or hungry to do and hope to make the most out of your mind or subsequently your life. You need a written, step by step plan (preferably framed and hanging on your mantle). Chances are you don’t have one of these, and chances are you’re not going to make the most out of your mind and subsequently your life.
Creating a systematic plan to understand life sounds like a monumental task that can only be accomplished by the greatest philosopher or prophet, but that isn’t the case. All you have to do is figure out what’s most important in life (in descending order). You can make all the excuses you want for why you can’t do that, but at the end of the day all those excuses are going to accomplish is to keep you from making the most out of your mind and subsequently your life. Who told you that you couldn’t or shouldn’t take control of your life? That’s bullshit. At any rate, what did you think life was all about? This is it. This is what life is about. This is what you’re supposed to do. Figuring out and learning what’s important is the biggest part of growing up.
And it’s really not that hard either. Think back to how much you know about movies, music, and possibly sports. You’re probably a movie trivia genius. And how did you learn so much about movies? By watching a little bit every week (probably every day) for most of your life. You can become a genius at life the same way. Just learn a little about what’s actually important in life every day.
Step 6: Learn, practice and use logic. How are you going to understand life if you can’t take someone else’s word for it? By using logic. Logic is simply the art of asking questions. The amount and quality of the answers you receive about anything is directly proportional to the amount and quality of questions you ask. So go to the library and check out some books on logic and critical thinking if you haven’t already.
Step 7: Question your answers. Let’s suppose you questioned your personal beliefs and the foundations of your culture and found them lacking. So you went back and rewrote the rules and applauded yourself for fixing them. Then you lived the rest of your life by those new rules and taught them to other people. The only problem is you’re Anton Lavey, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Timothy Leary or Charles Manson.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
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