Mohammad Husein Amrullah

Bang Dream! is my favourite game right now. But for a while, I was having trouble explaining why I like it so much. Yes, the illustrations are gorgeous, the songs are fun, the mechanics are user-friendly... but all of those things can't explain why I don’t get bored of this game even after playing for more than 3 months. I always knew that it was about the story. But I couldn’t tell exactly what part of the story was it. Well, it seems that I have found the answer today: BanG Dream! is willing to face its own problems with the story. I'll give you a few examples with the bands (some spoilers , of course). When I first played this game, I looked at each band on a glance, and I thought that Pastel*Palettes is the most cheesy. I mean, an idol band? What kind of uninspired idea is that? And just look at their outfit! Are they even taking this seriously? But boy, was I wrong. When I read their Band Story , I quickly realized that Pastel*Palettes is actually one o...

Beberapa waktu lalu, saya melihat video ini dari channel YouTube GadgetIn : Sebenarnya, tujuan saya menjelajah YouTube saat itu bukanlah untuk mencari speaker, tetapi untuk melihat review mengenai Redmi Note 7 yang baru saja dirilis di Indonesia. Redmi Note 7 adalah smartphone yang sangat menarik. Tapi, saya sudah terlanjur membeli Redmi Note 5 Pro , dan kelihatannya perbedaan antara Note 7 dengan Note 5 Pro tidak terlalu signifikan (entah kenapa, Note 7 versi Pro tidak dibawa masuk ke Indonesia). *** Kembali lagi ke soal speaker. Semenjak ‘diracuni’ oleh teman saya untuk membeli SOUNDMAGIC ES18 , saya memang sudah jatuh cinta ke dunia audio. Karena hobi saya ini, saya sudah menghabiskan cukup banyak uang untuk membeli beberapa earphone dan headphone. Namun, saya belum pernah sekali pun membeli speaker. Seperti yang kita ketahui, speaker yang biasa ada di HP ataupun laptop biasanya… ya begitulah. Memang detailnya cukup bagus, tapi siapa pun yang suka bass pasti akan merasa...

How are you? Are you okay? Does it hurt somewhere? Are you hiding something? I hope there’s nothing wrong with you. Do you know how it all began? Do you know, why do I have to go through all this? Tell me, am I doing something wrong? I don’t even know how to live “normally” anymore. There’s only a faint memory of that time. When I don’t have to shoulder all these worries. Can you feel it? Can you feel the cold lurking behind these walls? Are you too scared to get closer? Are you trying to ignore it? Will you share some of your warmth, even if it hurts you? Can you see it? Can you see this carving on my skin? I made it just for you. I wish you could see how beautiful it is. Won't you accept me? If I show you a different color, would you still smile at me? If everyone turns their back on me, would you stay by my side? Even if the world rejects me, won't you let me sing a love song?

24 February 2021: I don't really agree anymore with many of the things I've said here. *** I’m not really sure when did I start thinking about this, but I’m sure that this thought is at least partly inspired by ( WARNING: SPOILER! )  this movie . What’s interesting is that I might not be the only one who has this thought. If I recalled correctly, one of my friends brought up this topic in one of our conversation. He said that it’d be fun if there is an extra copy of himself. Well, I had been thinking thoroughly about this matter, and I quickly said to him that it might not be that fun. First of all, having two persons with exactly the same mind is really complicated and could lead to unexpected outcomes. I can’t list all of the possibilities, but there are a few scenarios that came to my mind. Since we have exactly the same mind, when we meet each other, it’s possible that we both would be doing exactly the same action. I’d say “WTF!” and he’d say the same, I’d open my eyes w...

Halo, guys ! Akhirnya aku kembali menulis di blog ini lagi. Kali ini, aku menggunakan Bahasa Indonesia lagi (karena tulisan ini khusus ditujukan untuk orang-orang Indonesia). Selain itu, kali ini aku juga akan menceritakan sesuatu yang berfaedah, tidak seperti kebanyakan tulisan di blog ini wkwk . *** Beberapa hari yang lalu, aku memperoleh cerita yang sangat menarik saat sedang mengikuti kuliah Pengetahuan Lingkungan ( Environmental Science ). Materi kuliah hari itu adalah ‘Ekosistem’. Setelah basa-basi selama beberapa menit, sang dosen bertanya, “Apa itu ekosistem?”. Seketika seluruh kelas pun sunyi, tidak ada seorang pun menjawab. Dosen itu pun tertawa sambil geleng-geleng, kemudian menginterupsi kuliah untuk memberikan sebuah cerita: “Saya mau cerita. Saya dulu pernah ikut kursus Bahasa Jerman. Di kelas ada orang Indonesia, Jepang, dan Amerika. Menurut kalian siapa di kelas itu yang paling banyak ngomong/bertanya? Jawabannya orang Amerika. Walaupun mereka ga begitu paham, te...

WARNING! This post contains major spoilers from No Game No Life Zero (anime), Doki Doki Literature Club (game), and Nagi no Asukara (anime). I highly recommend you to watch/play all these stuff before reading this post, but you're free to ignore this warning (e.g. if you're not interested in anime at all). YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED . You may now continue or leave as you wish. *** I've been wanting to write a post about this for a while, but I never figured out a proper way to write it. But magically, two days ago I realized that the problem all this time is that I was afraid of telling the world about this very subject: love. So, today, I decided to eat up all my doubts and go ahead to tell you about how I truly feel. The truth is that, for quite a while, I had this mindset of "I don't really need a girlfriend, I'm fine being alone". There's no girl that I'm particularly interested about, and I believed that dating is just a waste of money....

Before I lost my laptop , I’ve lost my shoes, about 6 months ago. It was a still shiny new when I lost it. Of course, I was angered and confused. But ultimately, I was able to console myself. “This is bad. But this is not the worst thing that could happen. You know, I could’ve lost my phone or even my laptop.” *** Now, let me tell you a story of a young girl. She is a shy girl. She doesn’t have many friends, but she has a very cheerful and loving older sister. Thanks to her sister, she can find some nice friends in the school. This girl really likes to sing. She often sings alone in her room or in the bathroom, and her sister would tell her how wonderful her voice is. But she has a problem. Because of her shyness, she would get really nervous in front of a lot of people. Unfortunately, the music class in her school requires her to sing in front of the entire class. As expected, her voice becomes very shaky and stiff whenever she was told to sing. Luckily, because of the help o...

Good evening, my nonexistent readers! I hope you’re all doing well. I’m also doing very well, as I’m still able to write this blog post today, about two weeks after I actually lost my laptop. What? Yeah, it’s kinda ironic for a Computer Science student to lose his own computer. But, it wasn’t completely unexpected …. The Background Alright, so you should’ve already known that I like to tell things chronologically, often spanning a respectably long period. And that’s exactly what I’m going to do. Back in August, I entered the sophomore year of college. I was relieved, because I don’t have to deal with those high school subjects that I don’t really like, so now I can focus on the fun stuff: computers and softwares. But I also had some worries. One of them is that I might have to carry my (now lost) laptop around quite often. Image from HP Support My old laptop is a 14-inch HP 1000 with 2nd gen Intel Core i3 and 2GB of RAM. Back then in high school, it is one of the best l...

Bukan dari kuantitas, atau bahkan dari kualitas, tapi secara personal. Sampai saat ini, saya sudah menonton lebih dari 100 anime, sebuah jumlah yang bisa dibilang cukup banyak. Banyak juga dari 100an anime tersebut yang berasal dari Top Anime Myanimelist , jadi dapat disimpulkan bahwa saya sudah menonton cukup banyak anime yang berkualitas. Namun,  menurut saya kedua hal itu tidaklah menjadi masalah. Yang ingin saya bahas di sini adalah bagaimana saya terlalu banyak mengidentifikasi diri saya dengan anime-anime yang saya tonton. Seperti yang telah dikatakan ghostlightning dalam salah satu postnya : "Daftar (anime) favorit seseorang disusun sedemikian rupa untuk menceritakan suatu kisah tentang orang yang membuatnya. Daftar tersebut dibuat untuk menghasilkan sebuah 'brand' bagi orang tersebut." Sekarang, mari kita lihat apa saja yang ada dalam daftar anime favorit saya: Coba kita perhatikan dari bawah. Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei (Tatami Galaxy). Sebenarnya a...

Rasanya sudah lama saya tidak membuat artikel dalam kategori thought akhir-akhir ini. Bukan karena saya jarang berpikir, tapi karena sebenarnya cukup susah untuk menemukan sebuah pemikiran yang cukup menarik sekaligus pantas untuk dipublikasikan. Ini juga pertama kali saya membuat artikel berbahasa Indonesia lagi setelah sekitar satu tahun yang lalu. Saya tidak tahu banyak mengenai kondisi kos-kosan di luar negeri, jadi saya rasa akan lebih baik kalau artikel ini ditulis dan dibaca dalam bahasa Indonesia.

If you, by any chance, followed my blog from the beginning, you should have at least a faint idea why I like anime. For the cute girls! That's why, when looking for a new show to watch, the cuteness of the cover art can be a decisive factor if I should watch it or not. But before we see the cover art, I'd like you to know how I found out about this anime. For some reason that I've forgotten, this blog is in my reading list. I don't remember how I found out about this blog, but it has some high quality photos of anime figures with beautiful backgrounds. And then I stumbled upon this... Out of morbid curiousity, I googled for "Erio" and then I discovered Erio Touwa and, therefore, Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko . So here I am, at Denpa Onna's MAL page . After being fascinated by the cover art, the next thing I do is watching the trailer. The thing that really draws me in is the music. I love this kind of background music, it's like having a...

So, at first, I wanted to make a very long essay about this. But the more I write it, the more I think it's not gonna work. And then I finally lost it and just scrapped it entirely. Luckily, I still have some motivation left so I'll just write about the real reason I wrote that article in the first place. I've done some research on Kemono Friends , and I see somethin interesting. According to MAL , yaoyorozu (the studio that made Kemono Friends) has made another anime called Tesagure! Bukatsumono . This is a little bit tricky because ANN doesn't list Tesagure! in yaoyorozu's company profile . But there are indeed some common names between the two anime's staff list. So, this is the opening of Tesagure!: What do you think? I think it's one of the best anime OP I've ever seen. And this is just a parody anime. Imagine if the people who made this now make a serious anime. That's Kemono Friends. So what're you waiting for? WATCH IT RIG...

"Never left without saying goodbye" Have you ever installed a cracked game, uninstalled it, then installed it again, but this time you purchase it properly? Because I just dit it.

While you're still in high school, watch as much as you can. Really.

Sebelumnya, saya mau membahas beberapa hal terlebih dahulu (silakan di- skip kalau kamu tidak berminat, hehe). Sudah lama saya gak menulis di blog ini lagi. Tulisan saya akhir-akhir ini isinya tentang anime semua haha. Karena sekarang saya sudah mau masuk kuliah (dan jurusannya teknik lagi), sepertinya perlu untuk mengganti topik walaupun cuma sejenak. Oh ya, semua tulisan wibu saya sebelumnya juga ditulis dalam bahasa Inggris. Kali ini saya mau nulis pake Bahasa Indonesia, khususnya karena topik tulisan kali ini masih sangat jarang dibahas dalam Bahasa Indonesia (biar banyak traffic gitu loh). Terakhir, saya melakukan beberapa eksperimen dalam postingan ini. Yang pertama adalah saya menggunakan "saya" dan bukannya "aku", dan yang kedua adalah saya menggunakan format FAQ ( Frequently Asked Questions ) atau lebih tepatnya Q&A ( Questions and Answers ) karena yang tanya saya sendiri dan yang jawab saya sendiri huhu. Oke, selamat membaca! *** Apa Itu UNU?...

Right now, I'm in a very bad procrastination. I feel like I haven't accomplished anything in the past week. But, apparently, only in situation like this I can set my mind free and think about irrelevant things in my life, such as Hatsune Miku (hell, why I keep writing about weird stuff). If I recall correctly, many many years ago someone told me that there was a singing hologram named Miku which just held a concert, and the concert was attended by real people (man, what a crazy world). At that point, I don't know (nor I care) anything about Vocaloid. I wonder if anyone else also doesn't. Then I found this interesting survey. In January 2013, a 3 day survey was run by Tokyo Polytechnic University . During the survey (based on ages 12–38) 95% of those entering reported knowing who Hatsune Miku was. In comparison, participants barely knew who Megpoid , IA or Aoki Lapis were. A careful look at google searches also seem to support this hypothesis: Note: Of cou...

Bad. Very bad. I don't really know why, but I feel very gloomy today. Maybe it's because of the anime, or because of the sleep deprivation after marathon-watching it last night, or maybe it's because the fact that I can't talk to anyone about this anime. It's holiday, so I can't go to school and talk it with my friend (not "friends"). I didn't think it would be so hard to have a hobby that nobody else close to you have. *** And now, for the actual review. If you like anime, you all must know this one, right? Just like what the title says, it's a story about magical girls. However, many people said that this anime is "dark". This is a story about the dark side of magical girls. This is a thriller where all the main characters are cute girls with magical powers... something like that.

A few weeks ago (I've been procrastinating, I know) I asked my friend, "Why you don't watch anime anymore?". And then he said, "I think it's just a waste of time". Fuck. That was really a pain in the ass. I know he is right. But, honestly, almost everyone wastes time in one way or another. Watching TV, listening to music, playing with Facebook, Instagram, etc. Watching anime isn't that bad, am I right? *** Let's get back to the main topic. Recently, I've written a few anime stuff in this blog. And one day, I was thinking to myself, "Hey, how did this happen? How did I get into this shit?". I was confused. That was quite a tough question to answer. I don't even know how to start, but ... if I don't force myself I will be procrastinating again. So, I think I've found a way to write down that answer in a blog post (thanks to my IDM and μtorrent history, I can get the list in order). Here we go! Childhood Animes ...

Yesterday, something really BIG and rare happened to me: a question was stuck in my head! Everytime this thing happens to me, I know something big will happen. It is the same kind of question that made me wrote the most well-thought pieces in my blogs: " DO IT NOW! ", " The Science of Sleep ", and " 'Aku' dan 'Gue' ". Alright, before we get to that question, I would like to tell you something: I like watching anime (just google it if you don't know what i'm talking about). You might think that anime is ugly, you might think that such hobby is just a waste of time, you might think that I am a nerd ... I don't care. Well, I will make an entire post to discuss it later. But for now, let's go back to the main topic. *** So, recently, when I was watching some anime, I noticed a very suspicious pattern. I think I am always attracted to the tsundere s. For you who didn't know, a tsundere is an anime character who acts u...

"Yang bener! Lo punya buku Soe Hok Gie? Wah, kenapa gak bilang dari dulu? Pinjem dong!" Itulah kata-kata yang diucapkan temanku saat tahu bahwa aku punya buku tulisan Soe Hok Gie. Bahkan di sebuah blog, aku pernah membaca kalau buku ini benar-benar berharga . Aku jadi bertanya-tanya, sebegitu hebatnyakah buku ini?