Rata-rata Kaya

27 Oktober 2018 adalah salah satu hari bersejarah dalam hidupku. Untuk pertama kalinya, aku berada di ruangan dengan orang-orang yang secara rata-rata memiliki kekayaan di atas 1 triliun rupiah. Ini merupakan angka tertinggi  yang pernah kuraih.

Ada 100 orang dalam ruangan itu, sebagian besar tidak kukenal. Aku di situ hanya duduk, bermain kartu, dan sesekali mengobrol untuk mengisi waktu.

Perhitungan yang aku lakukan adalah menjumlahkan harta kekayaan setiap orang dan membaginya dengan jumlah orang yang hadir. Hasilnya di atas 1 triliun rupiah, hampir menyamai Prabowo. Ada 100 orang dengan total kekayaan lebih dari 152 triliun rupiah.

Fakta bahwa Bambang Hartono ada di dalam ruangan cukup membantu menaikkan rata-rata sih.

World Book Challenge

Inspired by Geography Now, a must subscribe youtube channel, I challenge myself to read books from all countries in the world. I read more than 30 books a year, mostly comes from Indonesia, UK, and USA. I’ll try to sneak 5 books a year from other countries so that I can finish this challenge. There are 193 sovereign states registered as members of United Nations. If i’m lucky, i can finish this challenge by the next 3 decades.

Due to language limitation, i can only read translated version of some books. Ten out of 193, still a long way to go. I’m open to suggestions.

First edit in August 2020, 14 out of 193.

Here is the list of countries and a sample book that I’ve read until today.

  • Afghanistan: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Andorra
  • Angola
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahamas
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Benin
  • Bhutan
  • Plurinational State of Bolivia
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Botswana
  • Brazil
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Bulgaria
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cabo Verde
  • Cambodia: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter  of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
  • Cameroon
  • Canada: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Congo
  • Costa Rica
  • Côte d’Ivoire
  • Croatia
  • Cuba
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic: Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  • Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Denmark
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Estonia
  • Eswatini
  • Ethiopia
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France: Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Gabon
  • Republic of The Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia: Lelaki Harimau by Eka Kurniawan
  • Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Iraq
  • Ireland
  • Israel: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
  • Italy: Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
  • Jamaica
  • Japan: Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lao People’s Democratic Republic
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia: Anak Mat Lela Gila by Ishak Haji Muhammad
  • Maldives
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Marshall Islands
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Mexico
  • Federated States of Micronesia
  • Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar
  • Namibia
  • Nauru
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands: Max Havelaar by Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Norway
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Palau
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Qatar
  • Republic of Korea
  • Republic of Moldova
  • Romania
  • Russian Federation
  • Rwanda
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Samoa
  • San Marino
  • São Tomé and Príncipe
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Sudan
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sudan
  • Suriname
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Tajikistan
  • Thailand
  • The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
  • Timor-Leste
  • Togo
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • Tuvalu
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
  • United Republic of Tanzania
  • United States of America: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Uruguay: Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado and Vince Rause
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe