A proposal, a new crush, and things in between. I'm a roller coaster.

Read it here.

To all who celebrate, I'm wishing you a very happy Eid al Fitri. May all your worship and service of God be worthy in His eyes ( Read more... )

Today's rain is the first rain in this humid, South East-Asian weather. To celebrate the blessing, here is one my favorite rain-themed poems, written by Sapardi Djoko Damono, a living legend and one of the best Indonesian poets if not the best himself.

I Stopped the Rain

(Sapardi Djoko Damono, transl. by John H McGlynn)

I stopped the rain. Now the sun
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Back in my uni year, there's a Culture class that left me with a big impression. My professor, Mrs. Melani Budianta, began the class with this opening:

"What is history? What makes history, history? What constitutes history?"

I think this could be an illustration to an answer.

Today is my last day at the office. I'm saying goodbye to start anew in ( Read more... )

Dear Love,

Love, you are powerful, mysterious and intense as you are glompable, dorky and silly. You have depth still left unexplored yet and all, and you pretty much shape this world. You are an emotion so powerful, a puzzle so profound, a treasure so often searched for, a journey so often traveled. I admit those all, Love, really I do. But you ( Read more... )

Note: Don't be a grammar Nazi just this once. I don't feel like it.

Me:
Anything recommended for me to read? I'm boooooooored.

Friend A:
Some people write. Check their writings out.

Me:
Such as?

Friend B:
Some people write.
Some people write better than others.
Some people are a pen mightier than others.

Oh Lord.

The Unholy Trinity of Indonesia, Indifference and I

There is something going on when your representative body make a fuss over a song, a song that get you cornered, naked, revealed to split-second of numb shame. There is something going on when your few old men are on the top, your ministers preach and daydream, your politicians eat shit. There ( Read more... )

"You're such a lucky bastard," my sis said.

Dungeon got me nominated in Khatulistiwa Literary Award 2007.

To say that I wasn't surprised would be the understatement of the year. I didn't win back then in the Ranesi competition, but hell, I was the only among ten Ranesi winners who got nominated for KLA 07. I was no winner, though. Acep Zamzam Noor, ( Read more... )

Finally decided to put my thought on the last week of 2007 for all to see. Comments would be appreciated and treasured.

Into the Ears of Dangdut

How would you understand Indonesia when you don’t understand her soul, glaring and resilient and fierce, in the soul of dangdut?

It is in the hips-shaking, shoulders-rolling, limb-twisting dance of migrant ( Read more... )

 Take a peek, would you?

Oookay. I thought of a kinda review to sum up what I’ve done in 2007. I’ve tried to insert five or so for each category, but I ended up frowning like mad. So yeah. Here I go.

Note: they’re not written in an order or rank. Also, I wrote based on memory, so there might be mistakes in names and such.

Books:
How Soccer Explains ( Read more... )