Saturday, May 18, 2013

Undercover Boss & Secret Millionaire: Acara Televisi Terbagus di Indonesia Saat Ini


Meskipun gue punya lumayan banyak waktu untuk nonton TV, jujur gue semakin kesini semakin jarang untuk sekedar duduk depan TV untuk nonton acara yang gue tunggu-tunggu. Selain acara sepakbola atau acara olahraga lain, gue adalah orang yang nyaris gak pernah nonton acara TV Indonesia dengan menggunakan emosi. Emosi dalam hal ini berarti menonton dengan penuh perasaan dan bukan emosi dalam konteks marah-marah. 

Gue pada dasarnya suka nonton Top Gear, atau film-film bioskop yang diputer di TV. Cuma, gue menonton itu semua hanya untuk sekedar bersantai. Gak ada emosi sama sekali dalam konteks yang bisa bikin gue merasa tersentuh. Excitement ada, tapi sebatas hal yang bersifat menghibur. Bukan yang serius. Tapi serius dalam konteks ini juga bukan serius kaya nonton berita, lebih ke arah tersentuh (ALAMAK) dari segi batin.

Ya, karena gua udah nulis di judul postingan kali ini, tentu aja kalian udah pada tau acara apa yang saat ini gue gandrungi: Undercover Boss & Secret Millionaire. Ini acara reality show yang dikemas sederhana kaya semi-dokumenter dengan backsound yang biasa-biasa aja. Di Indonesia, Undercover Boss & Secret Millionaire diputar di channel BBC Knowledge, atau dengan kata lain, nggak ada di channel lokal. Gak ada yang istimewa dari segi teknis pembuatan atau dari segi lain dalam perspektif sinematografi. Substansinya pun sederhana, meskipun sangat penuh makna. Undercover Boss & Secret Millionaire ini ceritanya kurang lebih sama: ada orang yang menyamar ke suatu tempat tertentu untuk melihat kehidupan nyata yang kurang lebih berada di bawah taraf kehidupan si penyamar, lalu pada akhirnya penyamar tersebut merasa tersentuh dan akhirnya ia melakukan hal-hal sebagai bentuk hadiah. Kadang berupa uang, kenaikan pangkat, barang-tertentu, hingga tiket berwisata. Bedanya adalah, kalo Undercover Boss itu penyamarnya adalah Bos-nya sendiri dan ia menyamar ke kantornya sendiri (kantor-kantor yang tidak mengenali muka si bos), sedangkan kalo Secret Millionaire lebih ke arah si penyamar hanya sekedar orang kaya yang sukses dan ia terjun merasakan kehidupan sosial tertentu yang berada di bawah taraf hidupnya. Kalo Secret Millionaire, hadiah berupa uang itu udah nyaris pasti.

Kalo kita liat reality show Indonesia, pasti ada lagu-lagu yang sedihnya mentok macam Josh Groban, ada backsound-backsound aneh yang bertujuan menggugah emosi, dan ada teknis-teknis yang bertujuan mendramatisir adegan-adegan tertentu. Akhirnya kesan yang ditangkep malah reality show Indonesia itu dibuat-buat, berlebihan, dan kadang ketara kalo itu kaya sekedar rekayasa. 

Lalu gimana dengan Undercover Boss & Secret Millionaire? Apakah mereka itu beneran realitas atau rekayasa? gue sih gak tau pasti ya. Tapi poin yang bikin gue emosional bukan itu. Lebih ke pesan moral yang digambarkan. Keduanya punya konsep yang setipe: penyamaran, merasakan, lalu berbagi. Fase merasakan bagaimana sulitnya hidup yang dirasakan oleh penyamar baik ketika beraktifitas di dalam maupun diluar tempat kerja inilah yang sangat menggugah perasaan sehingga gue sering agak sedih melihat betapa kerasnya hidup di dunia saat ini. Sedangkan fase berbagi, dimana si penyamar memberikan hadiah uang, barang tertentu, kenaikan pangkat dan sebagainya, adalah fase yang sangat mengharukan. Namun tidak, disini tidak ada dramatisir berlebih seperti reality show Indonesia. Backsound score-nya pun cenderung menyentuh dan menyemangati tapi tetap, tidak ada unsur dramatisir apalagi diputar lagu sedih.

Gue bukan orang yang selalu nonton Undercover Boss & Secret Millionaire di tiap serinya, tapi sekalinya gua ada waktu buat nonton Undercover Boss & Secret Millionaire, meskipun gue juga gak terlalu lagi niat untuk nonton film, fase-fase yang udah gue jelaskan di paragraf atas selalu bisa bikin gue, well, agak gimana gitu sih, menangis. Literally.

Terlepas dari apakah ini kisah nyata atau rekayasa, gue tetap sangat terinspirasi sama film ini. Gue juga berharap, para bos dan orang kaya di seluruh dunia juga pada nonton film ini dan menarik pesanny. Gak harus main di filmnya, tapi coba praktekan ke dunia nyata. Dan terlepas dari itu semua, harapan gue terbesar cuma 1: semoga ketika suatu hari udah sukses secara karir maupun finansial, gue berharap gue akan terus bisa mengingat nilai-nilai yang ada di Undercover Boss & Secret Millionaire. Amiin...

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Interesting Blogger


Hari ini, disamping kesibukan sebagaimana biasanya, gue menemukan sesuatu yang sangat menarik. Semenarik itu sampai gue sendiri masih menyimpan rasa penasaran.

Hal menarik ini, bukanlah hal yang terkait dengan pekerjaan (point that out). Menarik karena gue merasa ingin tahu lebih. Keingintahuan ini tentunya bermula dari hal konyol yang gak bisa gue jelaskan secara detail.

Lalu apa hal yang menarik itu?

Singkatnya, gue menemukan sebuah blog. Blog tersebut, bukan sama sekali blog yang bagus dari segi substansi, diksi, ataupun tampilan. Akan tetapi, ketika gue melihat blog tersebut 2-3 kali dan membaca 1 postingannya aja, gue penasaran dengan sang author. Author ini, kayanya bukan orang terkenal atau mungkin terkenal tapi gue yang gak tau dia. Tapi bukan itu. Rasa penasaran ini bersumber dari betapa lugu (sarkastis, buruk) tulisannya yang justru mensyaratkan banyak hal yang pengen sekali gue tau. You can call me kepo, yep. Doesn't matter. Tapi dari keluguan ini tersimpan banyak hal yang sebetulnya menarik, gak penting, tapi gue sendiri merasa penasaran dengan karakter penulis ini.

Who the hell the author is? Wanna clue? Sure. I give you one. The latest post was written in 2010 and there are only 3 posts in the blog. You really wanna know who the author is? You really wanna know?

In case you wanna know, you've joined my bandwagon. In fact, I don't even know who she is. And that's, another clue. SHE is a girl, or a woman. I don't really care. But I'd like to know. Like an FBI looking for bloody personal information for nothing. And that's what I'm doing at the moment.

I assume that the author wouldn't be as successful as JK Rowling because she's far from being good writer. In case you wondering how good her blog is.

Friday, May 10, 2013

Imaginary Malaga Squad Next Season (With The Help From Chelsea Youngsters)


While everyone is busy with Ferguson retirement and Hazard-esque Mourinho returns to Chelsea. I'm suddenly excited to see the prospects of Chelsea youngsters. I consider Jose Mourinho*) as a manager who doesn't seem to use youngsters on regular basis unlike Guardiola, Ferguson, or Wenger. However, with promising talents already in our pocket, we can say that these youngsters are ready to step in for higher level. Let's say they're good enough for Chelsea but not for current first team so getting more minutes on loan is a better option. It's a good thing that Chelsea already have Vitesse as feeder club. And it's getting better with Malaga joined Vitesse as well ( I know we can't consider them as feeder as the contract probably say bla bla, whatever).

*) Amen To That

Malaga, I can say, is on the same level with Chelsea. Not entirely the same in all aspects but looking at the competition level and current position in the league, Malaga for sure is Champions League level. Which is ours too. They also backed by rich owner like us, but with some problems against UEFA they have to deal with, they had to be extra aware in spending money. With upcoming FFP is on the list of their obstacle in buying quality players, getting players from loan definitely the only likely option available for them.

Malaga currently have 5 players coming from loan (Lucas Piazon, Oguchi Onyewu, Roque Santa-Cruz, Diego Lugano, and Vitorino Antunes). Those players future in Malaga, off course, are in doubt. They could be back to their parent clubs and could stay as well. In this piece I Imagine that all of them are leaving so there'll be 5 spots to fill in. So let's start to imagine which positions they have to improve and whose Chelsea players could fill the spot: 

1. Defense

Patrick Van Aanholt

Since Nacho Monreal joined Arsenal, the left back spot belonged to Vitorio Antunes, which is a loan from a club named "PacoS de Ferreira", a Portuguese club (in case you don't know, like me). Antunes didn't offer the same quality as Monreal did so the left side of Malaga is a bit lost of something that Monreal provided. Altough Eliseu and Duda can play as left back, they weren't able to play at their best since it's not their favoured position. I'm not too sure whether PvA is going to be as good as Monreal for Malaga in short time but I believe he'd be improvement to those aforementioned names.

Tomas Kalas/Kenneth Omeruo

This is harsh but in my opinion Jesus Gamez is average player for Champions League level. I wouldn't say Kalas and Omeruo are the best choice to improve the right side but considering their performance for Eredivisie this season and their versatility in defense (both can play as CB and RB), with only Demichelis and Welligton as recognized CB, Malaga surely needs one of them. 

2. Midfield

Kevin De Bruyne

Yes, KDB has quality to play with Chelsea first team next season. However, if I were Jose Mourinho, I'd rather send him on loan again and Malaga is the best place for him. Simply because Pellegrini likes a creative players who can play from deeper position. This opinion not only based on the fact that Piazon started from Pivot position twice this season, but also based on what I saw when Cazorla still working with him both at Villareal and Malaga, which he was deployed as pivot, and also, as deep lying playmaker too. I would like to see this happening to KDB. Considering it's hard to replace Mata-Hazard and we have too many players to play for attacking midfield position. 

Lucas Piazon/Marko Marin 

I can't say much about this guy but he should play for Malaga again next season, especially if Isco leaves. You can browse his video and read usual weekly loan report by Steve, and you'll understand why.

About Marko Marin, it would be good for him to go out as he hasn't played much football this year. Especially on permanent basis. But if the club still trust his ability, sending him on loan is an option. However, with the likes of Isco, Joaquin, Eliseu, and Portillo, it'd be difficult place for him to get first team too. 

3. Forward

Romelu Lukaku

Honestly, I want Lukaku to play for Chelsea next season. I personally think he could compete (and even won) for a striker spot against Ba and Torres. Plus, we can retain his home grown status here. However, with rumour linking us with top class names are going to arrive at Stamford Bridge next season, and he's only 19 year old, it's quite a wise decision to send him on loan again. This time, to a top side of La Liga.*

*Personally would like to see him bullying Barceloner with his physical awesomeness  

We all know that beside those names, Chelsea still have lots of talents on loan or at Cobham. However, Malaga is a top side in a top league. I assume that players like Wallace, Ake, Thorgan Hazard, Kakuta, et. al. are still not ready yet for that level and I'm afraid they wouldn't get minutes at La Rosaleda. And some locals, like McEachran, Chalobah, Kane, et. al. will be much better to play for English side due to retain their home grown status. Yet it's up to the situation whether who should be going and who shouldn't.

And here's my "dream team" for Malaga: