Ciao Tonight Show!

I was such a big fan of Tonight show for more than 5 years. This show had been my friend every time I felt homesick when I was in Toulouse. It may sound like a freak, but I felt less alone and less stress to deal with my problems there. It became my go to entertainment every time I was feeling down or beaten up with my situation I've faced.


I was such a fan, I even recommended this show to my family and friends. I even managed to hook my sister to the show through direct verbatim which I've memorized like a weirdo hahaha
Even, when my sister was in Indonesia, I and my brother accompanied her to watch the show live from the studio. Never in my wildest imagination I will become a penonton bukan bayaran

My sister, me and my brother as penonton bukan bayaran

But nothing last forever, all we have is what's between Hello and Goodbye,

So I finally have to say goodbye to this beloved show. After 7 years airing, the show has been finally ended. One of the reason I think was the rating. Even though they have tried to add more spice to it, by switching the schedule, adding more people, having more various game and inviting very insightful guest, it didnt do much (IMHO) to the rating. Many of the viewers were watching the show through their Youtube channel instead of Television. Even for me who claimed as the show big fan. Yes, I can binge watching the show for hours, but through the Youtube, not Television. This behavior didnt do much to their ratings and how the execs measure the show success. 

Even when one of the host told us to watch the last episode in Television, I watched it through Youtube again. After watching the last episode, I did some reflection, why I prefered Youtube over TV? what drove me to it?

Then I realized, in Youtube, I have kinda the sneak peak about the episode through the title. In this digital world where users expect to have the autonomy to choose the content and have limited concentration span due to instant gratification mentality, it's kinda too hard to watch the show day-by-day and wait patiently for around 1 hour to be surprised whether the show was gonna be fun. Youtube allows me to have this flexibility for choosing which part I want to consume and when.

In addition, one the part I love from Youtube is the comments column. There's something magical about this column in Youtube which cant be fulfilled by watching in TV. I cannot really describe why I love it, but it added more joy while consuming the show and made me reply some parts just to get their (the commentator) points LOL

On serious note, I think these points shows how important one must adopt to changes. With shifting user behavior, companies are expected to be flexible and fast to pivot their business model to survive. Especially during corona pandemic like now, company which will survive is one that agile enough to pivot and smart enough to get the qualities expected from the users and use it to their benefits. I believe that you dont have to make any mistakes to lose, you just have to be slower on innovating than your competitors which will kick you from the race, like what happened with NOKIA.

But regardless what happened, I would like to bid farewell to my favorite show. Thanks for accompanying me and filling my lonely nights with laughs and information.  I closes this heartfelt post with Vincent's word on the last episode

Bukan pertemuan yang ku sesali, tapi perpisahan yang ku tangisi. 

Til we meet again Tonight Show,

Raisa

Toulouse, Airbus, France

I just realize that I have never wrote anything about my time living in Toulouse, France. Well,given that I rarely write anything in blog since 2018, so I think now im going to tell you my experience living there as part of creating the writing habit I have tried to build during quarantine period.

I continued my education here in France and it's beyond my wildest dream to finally able to study in Toulouse. I always have this dream to visit France and interact with French people in French. I have never thought that dream will ever come true, even when I took a french course for more than 2 years. Therefore, when it's finally came true, I still needed to pinch myself.

Speaking about Toulouse, this city is the 4th biggest city and also the best city in France for student. It's full of young people which give more spice of this city dynamic.


In addition, AIRBUS has one of their headquarters here in this city. Therefore, there are many aerospace companies are also located in Toulouse. As a girl who was growing up in third world country and studied business, aerospace industry was a very foreign domain for me. It had been very difficult to imagine the way this industry works. I was very fortunate to have the chance to get the inside scoop about this industry and this particular company when I joined a competition from AIRBUS. I even got the chance to visit one of their factory, YES THEIR VERY OWN AIRPLANE FACTORY.  Yes, me, this business student who had never visited ANY KIND of factory, but got the opportunity to see a very big and complicated airplane factory. Im forever grateful with this experience.

I think my experience joining this competition needs to be written in separate post LOL

So if I may continue talking about my time in Toulouse, I believe I have learned more about developing myself as a person. I really learned about how to deal with ambiguity and manage my budget wisely. I learned the hard way about when I was in shitty situation, I have to think with my brain not with emotion. I really applied my mom motto which is "swipe your tears and think". Those words became my mantra to navigate during one of the hardest time in Toulouse. In addition, I've become more mature so that I can let go stuff that used to bother me as I know those are outside my control.

I think im not really succeful to explain any points about my time there HAHAHAHA

Maybe when I have more patience and willingness to revisit this and edit it then Im gonna share you more points

Maybe.

Raisa