Today, I am being shaken again. I almost believe that this world’s injustice, corrupt, selfish, and cruel. I convinced myself that the city where I live was a horrible jungle: we had to look after ourselves and trusted nobody, save ourselves from the fall and the unnecessary pain. However, I just witnessed the opposite of […]
Month: May 2009
Project Mini-Life Bulbs: 05-30-09: “open the box”
image, courtesy of art.com In Greek mythology, the Pandora’s box marked the end of The Golden Age of mankind. Pandora, out of curiosity, opened the box filled with evils by the gods. Since then hatred and jealousy and greed, and all the other cruel things have been laid in human’s heart. However, despite the “disaster” […]
Such Great Heights by The Postal Service
I am thinking it’s a sign that the frecklesIn our eyes are mirror images and whenWe kiss they’re perfectly alignedAnd I have to speculate that God himselfDid make us into corresponding shapes likePuzzle pieces from the clayAnd true, it may seem like a stretch, butIts thoughts like this that catch my troubledHead when you’re away […]
Survival Guide 001
Starting today, I will try to put down what I consider a guide to survive in this jungle (Jakarta). Three digits, because I suspect that there will be 999, at least. Survival Guide 001 There is no such thing as ‘laki-laki baik-baik’ (LLBB). If you put this LLBB on your dating criteria, please do reconsider. […]
Project Mini-Life Bulbs: 05-29-09: eclipse
walking in the desert, she found a moving-tuskwhen she sat, she saw a yellow rabbit offering a tanning lotion.then she heard a voice behind her ears: “be a wanderer even if your body is unable to move.” she said to herself, “things are meant to happen in the eclipse.”
Project Mini-Life Bulbs: 05-28-09: today
today I’m learning that… a considerable crazy person is truly the visionary one.hence, being crazy is liberating. destiny maybe preordained, but I want to believe that destiny still provides me with choices, although it may not be A-Z. hence, being crazy is liberating. an opportunity has to be created rather than waited for. men do […]
misaligned
“The story didn’t match the line,” she said to herself. “Something must have been wrong in the way,” she struggled to explain to herself. She always sits in front of her computer the whole day, watching news online. She compiles all the news and she loves analyzing the pattern. She has noted 5 patterns in […]
tentang kehilangan
pembicaraan tentang kehilangan di penghujung malam yang sungguh tidak sepi, dari sepasang kakak-beradik yang suka membobol malam. “tangisi bukan yang sudah hilang tapi yang akan hilang” (my brother, 5/27/09) “bukan kehilangan orang yang harus kamu tangisi, tapi kehilangan diri yang harus kamu tangisi” (me, 5/27/09) courtesy of http://www.forwardedfunnies.com
silencio
The day was passingThey walkedThey smiledThey talkedThey offered me their bubbles I nodded I cherishedBut I still am a silencio sonata Loving to play with a distorted tuneOff-beat and wildNo restrain courtesy of scottygore.files.wordpress.com Project Mini-Life Bulbs: 05-27-09: silencio
"Barangkali hidup adalah doa yang panjang, dan sunyi adalah minuman keras"
Sejak SMA, saya tertarik dengan dunia sastra, termasuk puisi. Buat teman saya, puisi itu cuma buat orang pesimis, tapi buat saya, puisi itu indah dan menawarkan pengalaman yang membuat saya optimis. Ada kegilaan yang menawan di sana. Sebuah kebebasan ekspresi. Tanpa harus memaksa diri menjelaskan maksudnya secara gamblang, tanpa harus memaksa orang lain menginterpretasikannya dalam […]
