Head west for about 15,000 KM. You'll be surprised to find out how female in the third world nation are able to easily adapt in your so-called men world.
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That night, we had a Refactory Nights Out. It is some kind of occasion where we hang out, far away from our laptop to fully enjoy human interaction. So, we decide that the most appropriate approach to celebrate this occasion is by playing some kind of an appreciation game. It is a simple game. Before the dinner began, each of us had to wrote the names of the students that we admired most, then they'll get a honorable mention. Through this game, some names excell: Abdul Latif, Rizal Sidik, Sasongko Adi, Cauda Ganesh. The reason that they gather some appreciation is mostly because of the persistence that they shown during bootcamp. Unfortunately, i suck at being gamemaster. That night i completely messed up the ballot so i kind of missing one name worth mentioned: Hana Alaydrus. We apparently become her four-man-slash-secret-admirers-army for almost the same reason: we honestly believe that she is a formidable woman.
It's less than two weeks until the graduation day to Batch #3 students. Borrowing Darwin's survival of the fittest, those who are weak will surrender, but those who are strong will actually rise up even stronger. Yet, Hana is a special case. I can still remember how she got teary eyed on the first time she had to deal with extreme working hours, 66+ hours per week. No special treatment whatsoever. But from this unappealing prospect, Hana arise as a living proof that woman, albeit receiving the same pressure are still able to stand tall, as resilient as men. Men are accustomed to seeing women as a weaker counterpart. I recall that Carl Jung once explained that the animus side of men will always make us worry about everything. Then he said something like how women are much tougher than men (yelp, too bad that i forgot the rest of the statement). Then i Googled something interesting about Carl Jung. He said, "There are countless women who succeed in public life without losing their femininity. On the contrary, they succeeded precisely because of it". I'll back this statement up. Hana is not the first woman in to thrive in our bootcamp environment. There was Devina Christabela, our Batch #1 graduate who is now pursuing a post-bootcamp career in Malang, 850 kilometer from her hometown, Bandung. So far the trend seems positive. And imma pragmatic-empiric-apache-helicopter type of person. So yeah, i stand firmly with my opinion. Person is person. F*ck sexism.
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