Nice to know Esia

Gw udah setahun pakai Esia, awal belinya karena tertarik dengan bonus yang satu paket dengan handphone Samsung Galaxy Y ver. CDMA. Selama 4 bulan masa bonus, gw seneng banget karena unlimited internetnya dan koneksinya yang cukup bagus di daerah rumah gw- jarang putus. Kegiatan online social media gw selalu update. Juga karena fitur dari hp Galaxy Y yang bisa jadi hotspot, jadi yakin gw gak salah pilih sama paket internet Esia. Setelah masa bonus selesai, gw lanjut dengan paket Esia Max-d nya yang Paket Super Giga (Pulsa Rp.100 rb/30 hr; kuota 7 Gb) yang di iklannya kecepatan semua paketnya up to 3,1 Mbps.

Cukup lama sih gw pake Paket Super Giga ini sampai akhirnya gw merasa diporotin. Temen-temen gw yang jualan pulsa juga pernah ngasih tau kalau Esia itu nawarin paket termahal dengan kecepatan yang dibawah rata-rata provider jaringan CDMA yang lain. Begitu gw suka download game-game untuk NintendoDS baru deh kerasa nih kacrutnya koneksi internet Esia ini. Bisa dibilang selama ini gw kemakan sama bahasa iklan-iklannya. Kuotanya Esia ternyata cepat banget habisnya, dan gw enggak tau cara memeriksa sisa kuota, udah browsing kemana-mana juga enggak nemu gimana caranya. Udah gitu kalau ditinggal download gw selalu jadi "unknown network error".

Mata gw semakin terbuka lebar setelah membaca postingan dan komentar disini: http://electrohide.blogspot.com/2012/06/esia-max-d-tetep-paling-mahal.html

Kesimpulannya dari pandangan gw: percuma kalau koneksi lancar, stabil, dan jarang gangguan tapi enggak bisa menuhin kebutuhan gw saat ini- download games. Untuk pengguna Internet yang sekedar Social media dengan sinyal bagus dimanapun Esia ini jodoh deh (pengalaman gw sama saudara-saudara ngebandingin koneksi Esia sama Smartfren nomer Jakarta di kota Cimahi dan Bandung). Nanti kalau pulsa Esia dan paket internetnya udah habis, gw coba ganti dengan Smartfren dulu :)

Ten thousand hours

Does it really take 10 thousand hours of practice to become a good reader or writer?

The definition of "mastery" is 10,000 hours. You can certainly become good at something before that. Although by that logic and definition, most 18 year olds in the US today are masters at video games.

I'd say that there are different readers and writers, painters and politicians, roofers and cement masons, and that anybody who actually believes some catchall rule about an artistic endeavor is full of shit.

I don't know about being a "good reader," but I'd say it takes that much to develop a sophisticated sense of literature. Doesn't matter how many books 10,000 hours is, as long as the reading is close and not just skimming. Reader no (quality/diversity not quantity), but writer yes if /lit/'s output is anything to go by. I have probably spent 10,000 hours reading. Since i was a kid my mom had me reading anything i can get my hands on and forced me to join the library and to borrow 2 books every time i exchanged the old ones.

People are different. They have different brains that are good for different things. The amount of practice required to reach full potential differs from person to person. Sentence structure written across the Internet, Blogs, Forums, and comments is no accurate reflection of one understanding of literature or other academic fields he/she may have studied. I imagine very few people proofread their posts let alone write them in a formal manner. Personally I couldn't care less for one need to inform us about his/her erudition. I never understood why so many people have to provide useless information on Internet.

One thing that is absolutely true is that if you want to be good at something you need to practice. There might be people that write amazing stories the first time they write but that is only because they got lucky and happened to write in a style that happened to appeal to others. So either practice or pray to god you where born with amazing taste.

You write a book. It gets published. It gets decent reviews. People come up to you and tell you they like your book. You can buy some food with money earned from your book. You are a good author.

For those who casually bragging about an intuitive understanding of plot, not prose. One could have checked out dozens and dozens of trashy pulp novels. Plot is not nearly as difficult to comprehend as prose is. 

Haters gonna hate

I have this very arrogant and healthy attitude towards internet people, while I cringe at the thought of being anything but adorable in real life. And I'm not really good at being adorable either, which makes me kind of a loner. I don't know what to tell you, other than that there are others like you out there, IRL, and that if you find them, speaking your mind will probably be easier. Unless you openly tell people what you masturbated to yesterday, I think it takes some effort to make them think you're a disgusting, little freak.

Spelling and Grammar in the Internet

I'm all for correct spelling and grammar. I can't abide by people who don't double check their writing. Its just something that is common courtesy for your reader. I don't correct grammar as an ad hominem. I just do it because it pains me to read poorly written text. It does irk me to read something with such badspelling and grammar that it's nearly unreadable. I don't go out of my way to correct other people's spelling and grammar,the only thing I correct is when people get a little too crazy with their dyslexia. I do it too, but shit can really get jumbled, especially when swapping perspectives during a story.

Grammar and spelling are your appearance on the Internet. It's a pretty dick move to correct you on it if you aren't doing anything special, but as the message you are trying to convey becomes more important the manner in which you convey it becomes more important as well. You wouldn't really care if your buddy is wearing sweatpants and a t-shirt if you're just on your couch playing video games, but that outfit wouldn't fly if he was trying to convince a crowd to vote a certain way. Simple mistakes can be ignored but as soon as you try to start an argument you might want to proof read. Like anything on the Internet: if it exists it can be made to catch people attention/ response. Simply another example of that rule...

Even if I was an English major, I'd still chill out while I'm on Internet. Even some moderator types like retard, and we might just end up offending him while he's in stalker mode. On Grammar Nazis, I feel bad because you know... everyone kinda hates them. They are always the asshole in the family.