There is no ‘free’ in the word ‘freedom’, eh?

Who doesn’t love freedom? Free to do whatever we want to do or say without being blocked by someone. Natural of being human, usually we will start a riot if we don’t get something that we want and in this case, freedom. In our country, there is Article 10 that guarantees us, as a citizen has the right to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of association. This article also entitles citizens to such freedoms as are not restricted by the government, instead of absolutely guaranteeing those freedoms. But lately this especially after the general election, some people stated that we don’t have freedom of speech anymore. Anyone can be caught and jail if he/she said something beyond the limit in the social media or public. Since I have stopped paying attention about issues after GE, therefore I can’t say much about this.

Well, freedom is not good sometimes. In my case, given too much freedom in my research without supervision from my sv and even my co-sv literally has killed me. For some other students or people that didn’t understand my situation, they said I’m lucky and it’s really fun to be me since I can do my research whenever and wherever I want. Yes, it is fun to do research at home or in my own room and not limited to whatever my sv wants. I even love the fact that I don’t have to be in the post grad room at 9am till 5pm like normal post grad do, still too much freedom is not good though.; especially if you can’t motivate yourself to finish your work on time or lack of discipline. Price to pay, the chance you will extend your study is quite high. Therefore, maybe we should think on the bright side sometimes why we should not have too much freedom before start a riot.