Sudah sering saya bilang, anak mesti ikut aturan orang tua, jangan dibalik. Mereka akan tuman kalo dibiasakan selalu dikasih kompromi ketika mereka menangis, itu berarti air mata lebih efektif daripada bicara baik2. Jangan kalah sama tangisan anak. ๐
A reporter asked Lamine Yamal how he handles the pressure of carrying Spain at 18. His answer: my mother had me when she was 16, that's real pressure. My father picked things off the street to bring food home, that's pressure. All I have to do is play football.
That's the whole story of who he is, and most fans only know the surface of it.
Before he was born, his teenage parents fell behind on rent. Two neighbors named Lamine and Yamal covered them, and his father vowed his son would carry both names forever. His legal name is a permanent record of a debt his family couldn't repay in money. In Arabic, the names mean "the trustworthy" and "beauty."
His parents split when he was around 5. His mother raised him in Granollers on a fast food wage. And here's the detail almost nobody knows: that job is the reason he became a footballer. Through work she met the daughter of the youth coordinator at CF La Torreta, his first club. When she worried she couldn't cover the fees, he told her that if the boy wants to play, money will never be the reason he can't.
As a kid, Lamine told his parents: if you're counting on me getting a normal job, we're in trouble. But if I become a footballer, you'll never have to worry again.
He signed with Barcelona at 7. He was right by 15.
Every goal, he flashes 304 with his fingers. The end of 08304, the postal code of Rocafonda, the neighborhood where strangers paid his family's rent before he existed. It gets credited on every goal since.
Today, at 19, he plays for the World Cup. And if he scores tonight, somewhere in the biggest broadcast on Earth, two neighbors will hear their names, and a postal code will flash on 2 billion screens.
Gue rasa koruptor itu maruk dan serakahnya lebih dari Qarun deh. Emas segituuu banyaak buat apaaa?
Sebanyak-banyaknya rumah, yang ditempatin cuma satu. Dia pun tidur di kasur yang luasnya paling gede 200x200 cm.
Semahal-mahalnya makanan, ujungnya jadi kotoran. Ukuran lambung pun cuma segitu-gitu aja muatnya.
Semahal-mahalnya jam, waktu dia dan orang lain pun sama. Ga ada bedanya.
Terus nyimpan emas 74 KILOGRAM, mau ngapaiiin gue tanyaaa???
Mengenai ini, cukup sedih baca TL pagi ini isinya FinX tweeting tanpa context yang benar.
1. Ini merupakan sebuah review, yang keluar hari ini hanya penilaian performa setahun ke belakang (data per Mei). Sifatnya backward-looking, bukan keputusan final Indonesia didepak atau remain di EM hari ini.
2. Vonis Resmi Baru 24 Juni: Keputusan apakah Indonesia tetap EM atau turun kelas, baru rilis tanggal 24 Juni nanti. Review hari ini merupakan salah satu input prosesnya.
3. Downgrade "Information Flow" (+ ke -): MSCI kasih kartu merah karena masalah transparansi struktur kepemilikan dan indikasi coordinated trading yang ngerusak pembentukan harga. Menurut gue, hal ini sudah dibereskan dengan dibukanya data 1% per maret kemarin dan dibentuknya HSC.
RI1 said it. Straight up. Economy was mismanaged.
That's not a small thing to say from that podium.
The market asked for transparency. It got it, maybe more than it expected.
Three things came out of that speech worth sitting with:
One, the underinvoicing problem is being addressed. Routing exports through a single BUMN-controlled door is blunt instrument policy, but at least it signals the revenue leakage is being taken seriously.
Two, Indonesia setting its own commodity reference prices is bold. It can work if the pricing is credible and consistent. If not, it just becomes another reason for buyers to route around you. The market will watch the execution closely.
Three, and this is the one people will underestimate, he was transparent. After days of silence and noise, a leader standing up and saying "we got this wrong" is not nothing. That takes political will. Markets respect clarity even when the message is uncomfortable.
Pros and cons on the policy substance. But on communication, this is exactly what was needed.
God bless Indonesia. Now let's see the follow through.
Yang paling kasihan di situasi kayak gini itu yang gak punya ruang buat mikir finansial. Sisa gaji/penghasilan tiap bulan aja belum tentu ada, boro boro mikirin mau naro duit di instrumen keuangan dan investasi.