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[REVIEW] Enaknya Pakai Kartu Debit Visa dari Jenius

Sejak berkecimpung di dunia perinternetan, aku udah kenal sama yang namanya belanja online. Jauh sebelum belanja online populer di Indonesia, aku udah kenal sama situs belanja online luar negeri macem eBay dan Amazon. Tapi ya kenal doang, belanjanya mah gak pernah. Kenapa? Karena alasan klasik yang kayaknya masih jadi masalah bagi kebanyakan orang Indonesia: gak punya kartu kredit. Mungkin ini karena sejak kecil udah didoktrin bahwa kartu kredit itu jahat dan bahaya, bunganya berlipat-lipat dan kalau gak sanggup bayar nanti pintu rumahnya digedor-gedor debt collector dengan badan kekar dan intimidatif LOL! Sekarang setelah dewasa dan dapet banyak ilmu tentang keuangan, aku jadi tau kalau ternyata kartu kredit ya gak sejahat itu sih… Kalau kita pinter ngaturnya mah kartu kredit itu banyak banget manfaatnya. Tapi postingan ini bukan mau bahas tentang manfaat kartu kredit. Kali ini aku mau bahas sedikit tentang kartu debit rasa kartu kredit. Mari kita kita kenalan dengan kartu debit Visa dari Jenius!

Basically, kartu debit Visa dari Jenius ini fungsinya sama kayak kartu debit bank lain. Jadi kita buka rekening dan dapet kartu debit, terus tabungannya kita isi kemudian kita bisa transaksi pakai kartu debit. Sistemnya sama-sama mendebit alias memotong saldo rekening kita. Tapi enaknya kartu debit Visa Jenius ini adalah kita bisa pakai untuk bayar transaksi online juga di situs-situs yang menerima Visa sebagai metode pembayarannya.

Untuk buka rekening Jenius, kita gak perlu repot-repot ngantri di bank. Kita tinggal install aja aplikasinya di smartphone kita (ada di Play Store dan App Store) terus ikuti petunjuk selanjutnya. Setelah berhasil daftar dan mengatur aplikasinya, kita tinggal verifikasi data dan dan aktivasi akun kita di booth Jenius yang ada di mall-mall atau bisa juga di kantor cabang BTPN. Nanti kita bakal dapet satu kartu debit Visa utama yang disebut m-Card, satu kartu debit Visa virtual yang disebut e-Card (bisa diakses lewat aplikasinya), dan kita juga bisa request sampai tiga kartu debit Visa tambahan yang disebut dengan x-Card. Si m-Card itu adalah kartu utama yang terhubung langsung dengan saldo aktif di rekening kita, sedangkan kartu-kartu lainnya sistemnya adalah kartu isi ulang yang harus di-topup dulu sebelum bisa dipakai untuk transaksi. Tapi semua kartu ini sama-sama kartu debit Visa, jadi semuanya bisa dipakai transaksi online. Asyik kan?

Selain fasilitas kartu debit Visa-nya, hal yang bikin aku suka banget sama Jenius adalah aplikasinya yang all-in. Selain bisa dipakai buat belanja, Jenius juga bisa dipakai untuk menabung dengan benefit yang menurutku jauh lebih menguntungkan dari tabungan di bank-bank lain:
Pertama, gak ada yang namanya saldo minimal mengendap. Kamu bisa menguras isi rekening Jenius kamu sampai 0 rupiah kalau mau.
Kedua, gak ada yang namanya biaya bulanan. Yang ada kamu malah dapet bunga tiap bulan. Hehe…
Ketiga, ada tiga jenis tabungan yang bisa kamu buka dari aplikasi Jenius. Ada Flexi Saver (tabungan reguler yang bisa ditarik kapan aja), Dream Saver (tabungan berjangka), dan Maxi Saver (aka deposito). Info lebih lengkap bisa cek di website-nya.
Keempat, gratis tarik tunai di ATM Bersama dan gratis juga transfer antarbank. Paling mantap aja lah pokoknya.
Kelima, selalu ada promo setiap harinya. Kamu bisa cek website-nya atau googling aja ‘Jenius Everyyay’.

Oh ya, selain bisa dipakai langsung untuk transaksi di situs belanja online, kartu debit Visa Jenius juga bisa disambungkan ke akun Paypal, Google Play, dan iTunes. Insyallah nanti aku bakal tulis tentang ini di postingan terpisah.

In conclusion, mau untuk belanja atau untuk menabung, Jenius ini udah paling juara deh!

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12 April 2018
Dara’s Thoughts on “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”

It’s been a year since our hearts were collectively broken by Rogue One and then by the news of Carrie Fisher’s passing away. Has your heart been healed? I thought mine had, but then I watched The Last Jedi and saw that dedication and my gut got punched. Ouch!

Some spoilers below, so beware!

It wasn’t until I started writing this post did I realize that I didn’t really enjoy The Last Jedi. Like a lot of Star Wars fans, I went to see this movie with some expectations; I thought I would get some answers to the two biggest questions I had had since seeing The Force Awakens: who the hell is Snoke and who are Rey’s parents? So, did I get the answers from TLJ? Nope. I still have no idea who Snoke really is (was?) and Rey’s parents are nobodies, or so according to Kylo Ren.

The other things that bothered me are the jokes. You see, the reason why I like MCU better than DCEU is the fact that MCU has actually funny moments cleverly inserted into even the darkest scenes in its movies. So I kinda found it nice that TLJ has jokes in it, BUT there were just too many. Maybe I’m remembering the character wrong, but there were moments when I saw Luke did something that wasn’t too Luke-y but more like Mark Hamill-y (get it?). Also, there were moments when I thought that Poe acted so darn rude to people who were supposed to be in higher ranks than him. Then there was also Finn and Rose’s journey to the casino which I think was such a useless distraction and didn’t contribute to the whole plot at all.

They didn’t kill off Leia though, so I’m looking forward to how they will deal with the loss of Carrie Fisher.

Also, Porgs aren’t cute. They’re annoying.

There. I said all of it.

Now, what do you think about The Last Jedi?

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20 December 2017
What’s in My Everyday Bag (September 2017)*

Kalau kamu kenal aku di dunia nyata, kamu pasti tau kalau aku adalah orang terkepo sedunia (:p). Jadi, salah satu jenis postingan favoritku tiap liat blog orang lain adalah home tour, room tour, atau postingan kayak gini: what’s in my bag, alias isi tas. Kepo banget kan? Hihihihi…

Aku udah beberapa kali bikin postingan isi tas sebelumnya (di antaranya adalah postingan ini dan ini), tapi seiring berjalannya waktu dan banyaknya perubahan di kehidupanku, isi tasku juga tentunya berevolusi. Kalau pas kuliah dulu aku masih suka bawa-bawa laptop ke mana-mana dan harus pakai tas yang agak besar, sekarang aku lebih milih pakai tas yang kecil. Kalau dulu aku suka dengan ransel, sekarang aku lebih suka pakai sling bag. I don’t know, I guess I’m just getting older and start liking simpler things :’)

Anyhow… inilah barang-barang yang biasanya ada di dalam tasku yang mungil:

1. Planner – Karena sekarang siswa privatku lumayan banyak dan ada yang suka ubah-ubah jadwal, cuma nyusun jadwal dalam kepala jadi makin bikin pusing. Makanya sekarang aku punya planner khusus yang aku bawa ke mana-mana.
2. Novel – Kadang ada jeda waktu yang cukup banyak di sela-sela jadwal ngajar, jadi aku selalu bawa novel supaya bisa baca sambil nunggu waktu ngajar selanjutnya.
3. Dompet
4. Peralatan touch up – Makin ke sini aku makin males dandan, tapi yang tetap wajib dipakai adalah sunblock, bedak, eyeliner, dan lipstik (sebenernya aku gak suka pakai lipstik tapi berhubung mukaku akhir-akhir ini nampak pucat, jadi terpaksa dirajin-rajinin hahaha).
5. Kamera – Sekarang aku lebih suka bawa kamera saku ke mana-mana karena lebih ringkas dan ringan dibanding DSLR. Dan lebih praktis juga untuk quick shoot karena kamera saku kan sistemnya point and shoot jadi gak ribet. Kualitasnya memang jauh di bawah DSLR tapi kalau cuma untuk Instagram doang mah lumayan lah.
6. Charger dan power bank – Manusia jaman now memang gak bisa hidup tanpa listrik. Hihihihi…
7. Handphone dan wireless earphone – Dua lagi barang yang gak bisa dipisahkan dari kehidupan manusia jaman now xp

Segitu aja sih sebenernya. Kalau didaftar begini mah jadi keliatan banyak ya, padahal kalau udah masuk tas mah kayaknya dikit kok. Hehe

Terus, tasnya beli di mana? Nih ya sebagai manusia jaman now (aku gak suka istilah ‘jaman now‘ tapi somehow jadi kebawa-bawa mulu di tiap percakapan, ugh!! *tutup muka*) kamu bisa langsung aja cari tas wanita di Tokopedia. Gak ribet, tinggal cari aja yang kamu suka, beli, dan tunggu tasnya diantar mamang kurir ekspedisi langsung ke tempat kamu. Kalau udah, jangan lupa posting tas kamu sama isinya apa aja di blog atau Instagram terus colek aku ya, aku kepo banget soalnya :p

PS. Udah cek model baju batik kombinasi brokat di Tokopedia juga belum?

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29 September 2017
Thoughts on “Spider-Man: Homecoming”

When it was announced that Spider-Man would join the MCU, I was one of those people who got super excited. There had been too many memes circulating the internet about how poor Peter Parker didn’t get to join the Avengers. When the news broke that Sony and Marvel were teaming up to create a new Spidey movie series as well as make Spidey join the Avengers, I was so happy and over the moon. But then the honeymoon phase was over and came the worries that this new Spider-Man man would not be as good as the first one (the one played by Tobey Maguire) or be as a mess as the second one (the one with Andrew Garfield). So I waited. Then, surprise! It was good!

Unlike the first two series, Spider-Man: Homecoming doesn’t tell us in details how Peter got his powers. The film opens with Peter Parker on his way to Berlin to join Iron-Man’s side on that Civil War climax scene and its aftermath, when Tony Starks tells him that he will keep in touch and assigns Happy as their middleman. But then days go by and Tony hasn’t contacted Peter yet. His life goes on; school, hanging out with friends, and catching bad guys around his neighbourhood. He keeps trying to contact Tony but without success. One night he sees two men in the middle of a weapon trade. The weapon is high tech and obviously dangerous. He goes on to investigate them, even goes so far as following them onto a ferry ship, where everything goes wrong and he has to be saved by Iron-Man. Iron-Man tells him to stop investigating the weapon and causing harm to innocent people. He also takes the Spider-Man’s suit. This leaves Peter devastated. He returns to his normal life and takes Liz (his crush) to the homecoming dance. But on the night of the dance he discovers the secret behind the man who invents the advanced weapons. It’s a plot twist you wouldn’t see coming and it’s SO GOOD! (I won’t tell you, obviously.)

Homecoming is another small-scale movie in the MCU, after Ant-Man. The story is very ‘teenage-y’ and no city destroyed, only small parts of it blown. It’s refreshing to have one light movie in between all these kaboom-kaboom-cities-destroyed-innocent-people-are-killed movies. Is it better than the previous two series? Oh yes, absolutely! Like I said before, this movie is very teenager and the casts are suitable for playing high school students. The casts are also very diversed without putting any stereotype. I like that. We need that right now.

So if you haven’t seen Homecoming yet, there’s still a chance for you as it’s still showing in your local cinemas. Go watch it!

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22 July 2017
Wonder Woman Movie Review

You might have been already sick of me saying how I don’t like DC and how I’m more of a Marvel kind of girl. ~~Remember how I fell asleep while in the movie theater watching Dawn of Justice?~~ No, wait, I didn’t write a review for Dawn of Justice, did I? Well, I guess no one is surprised that I enjoyed Wonder Woman, though. Yes, that’s right. Wonder Woman is the first movie in the DCEU that didn’t make me yawn. Not even once. Well done, ladies!

Set during the World War I, Wonder Woman is the best back story of a superhero so far (yep, even compared to those of Marvel’s). Diana has been training her whole life to fight, but she lives in a peaceful, tropical island of Themyscira, so that made me wonder why and how she ends up fighting in the WWI. Turns out, Themyscira is located not too far from the war zone and is actually invisible in the middle of the sea unless you come sailing (or flying) right into the territory. Steve Trevor, an American spy working for the Brits, flies in a small plane and crashes into the sea near the coast of Themyscira. Luckily, Diana spots him as she is running from her mother while crying near a cliff on the beach (cheesy yet classy LOL). She saves him from drowning, but the fleet that is pursuing him soon arrives at the beach and a fight breaks between the German soldiers and the Amazons. The Amazons kill all of the soldiers and Steve is brought to the palace and interrogated using the Lasso of Truth (kind of like Veritaserum but more practical). He tells them about the war. Diana believes that the war is caused by Ares (the god of war). She steals the Godkiller sword and leaves Themyscira with Steve. Believing that Ares disguises himself as a German general, Ludendorff, Diana goes to the front line, accompanied by her squad (#squadgoals, everyone!)

#squadgoals

Okay. At this point, you must have heard a lot of good things about Wonder Woman, so I don’t even know how to put it. I just… really, really love this movie! I had high hopes before watching it because everyone on Twitter said it was gonna be awesome, and also everything about Wonder Woman screams “GIRL POWER!” and “FEMINISM!” and you know what? It is good. It is awesome. I won’t compare it again to the previous movies in DCEU because it won’t do them justice; heck, I won’t even compare it to any other movies because Wonder Woman is in a whole different league. Everything else will find it hard to compete because Wonder Woman has set the bar sky high (I’m looking at you, Marvel!)

So, if you haven’t watched it… why? It’s the greatest thing that’s ever happened to the mankind. You don’t want to miss it. Go watch it! Go, go, go!

All images are from IMDb.

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15 June 2017