11/01/2013

A Simple Way To Start A Year

Ada banyak cara untuk menyambut tahun yang baru. Jalan-jalan? Kumpul-kumpul? Nonton film? Buku? Lagu? Cara saya jauh lebih sederhana. Saya ingin mengawali tahun ini dengan sebuah puisi. 


Jembatan Usia
karya: Dewi "Dee" Lestari

Bertambahnya usia bukan berarti kita paham segala. 
Pohon besar tumbuh mendekati langit dan menjauhi tanah.
Namun masih ingatkah ia dengan sepetak tanah mungil waktu masih kerdil dulu? 
Masih pahamkah ia akan semesta kecil ketika semut serdadu bagaikan kereta raksasa dan setetes embun seolah bola kaca dari surga, tatkala ia tak peduli akan pola awan di langit dan tak kenal tiang listrik? 
Waktu kecil dulu, kupu-kupu masih sering hinggap di pucuknya. 
Kini burung besar bahkan bersangkar di ketiaknya, kawanan kelelawar menggantungi buahnya. 
Namun jangan sekali-kali ia merendahkan kupu-kupu yang hanya menggeliat di tapaknya, karena mendengar bahasanya pun ia tak mampu lagi. 
Setiap jenjang memiliki dunia sendiri, yang selalu dilupakan ketika umur bertambah tinggi. 
Tak bisa kembali ke kacamata yang sama bukan berarti kita lebih mengerti dari yang semula. 
Rambut putih tak menjadikan kita manusia yang segala tahu. 
Dapatkah kita kembali mengerti apa yang ditertawakan bocah kecil atau yang digejolakkan anak belasan tahun seiring dengan kecepatan zaman yang melesat meninggalkan? 
Karena kita tumbuh ke atas tapi masih dalam petak yang sama. 
Akar kita tumbuh ke dalam dan tak bisa terlalu jauh ke samping. 
Selalu tercipta kutub-kutub pemahaman yang tak akan bertemu kalau tidak dijembatani. 
Jembatan yang rendah hati, bukan kesombongan diri
Karya Dee selalu membuat saya kagum. Tapi yang satu ini benar-benar pas. Terkadang, ada beberapa pikiran dan pendapat yang muncul secara acak di otak. Dan seringkali, karya-karya manusia lain seperti film, lagu, atau puisi bisa membantu kita menyusun pikiran-pikiran acak tersebut. Untuk pikiran-pikiran acak saya sekarang, sekali lagi yang satu ini benar-benar pas.

Sebagai orang yang cuma punya enam bulan sisa masa SMA, kemana-mana rasanya galau. Coba mikir ke depan, galau kuliah dan UN; coba mikir tentang angkatan dan SMANSA, galau udah mau pisah; ujung-ujungnya bakal galau mikirin masa lalu. Ini untuk pertama kalinya tiga tahun sekolah bisa meninggalkan banyak banget rasa dan kenangan. Tapi, pikiran mengenai ini cuma bener-bener random, yang sebenernya justru bukan tentang galau, tapi tentang intropeksi.

Kita tumbuh, dan seiring dengan itu, kita lebih mengenal dunia. Dari pengalaman mengenai itu, saya bisa menyimpulkan bahwa adalah sifat alami manusia untuk menjadi lebih sombong seiring dengan semakin banyaknya ia mengenal dunia. Di SMA, saya dan mungkin juga berjuta-juta orang lain berada pada puncak kesombongan. Pada sebagian orang, puncak ini mungkin hanyalah puncak kecil di perjalanannya menuju puncak tertinggi. Bagi sebagian lainnya, puncak ini hanyalah satu-satunya puncak yang pernah ia daki, hanya sebagai pengalaman agar tidak lagi mendaki puncak salah yang sama .Saya sedang berada di puncak itu, dan sangat ingin turun.

Layaknya pohon tinggi yang telah bisa melihat segalanya dari atas, saya pun merasa telah bisa melihat seluruh dunia. Dalam pandangan saya, apa yang dibincangkan dan ditertawakan oleh anak-anak bercelana biru dan merah itu tidaklah penting. Karena saya telah melihat lapisan yang lebih atas yang menurut saya lebih penting. Saya merasa telah begitu mengerti dunia, tapi layaknya sebuah pohon tinggi yang tidak lagi mengenal semut serdadu dan bola kaca dari langit, saya tidak lagi paham yang mereka tertawa dan bincangkan. Jadi, berpikir telah memahami segalanya seperti itu, tidaklah bijak bukan?

Jadi sesederhana itu sebuah pikiran yang mungkin gak lebih dari satu menit bisa berubah menjadi sebegitu rumit. Bukan tentang galau, teman, tapi intropeksi: tidak ada lagi sombong karena sudah senior, dan tidak ada lagi sombong karena sudah jadi anak SMA. Dan berkaitan dengan itu, yang saya rasakan adalah rindu. Rindu klasik anak kecil yang beranjak dewasa, rindu pulang dengan matahari benar-benar di atas kepala dengan celana biru, atau polos bermain dengan celana merah, atau rindu dunia yang cuma sesederhana puzzle, ayunan, dan jungkat-jungkit. Semakin jauh melihat balik, yang saya lihat adalah dunia yang semakin polos. Dan sejujurnya, sekarang dunia sedang butuh orang-orang yang jujur, kan? ya itu orang-orang polos.

Sederhana. Sesederhana itu sebuah puisi bisa membawa manusia tenggelam dalam pikirannya. Sesederhana itu sebuah puisi memicu manusia untuk mengintropeksi. Sesederhana itu puisi membuat manusia rindu. Ya, sesederhana semut serdadu yang bagaikan kereta raksasa dan setetes embun yang seolah bola kaca dari surga.

08/11/2012

Huge Introspection:

Beberapa waktu setelah Ujian Tengah Semester kemaren, gue sempet galau dan nulis-nulis ngasal yang ujung2nya berakhir di draft. Niatnya bener-bener mau di publish, tapi gua urungkan. Dan sekarang, setelah agak lama, gua akhirnya memutuskan untuk publish postingan ini. Inilah tulisan galau gua (yang tentunya udah mengalami sedikit edit sana sini).

Ada momen-momen dalam hidup, yang sering kali mencerahkan. Momen-momen ini datang seketika, dan sekejap, seperti angin sejuk yang berhembus di padang pasir yang gersang, sesaat tapi menyejukkan; atau seperti coklat hangat di tengah musim dingin, yang sejenak menghangatkan. Momen-momen ini, seperti yang dibilang oleh Andrea Hirata dalam Edensor, adalah relatif. Momen-momen yang sama bisa datang ke semua orang, tapi seberapa besar momen itu berpengaruh, relatif berbeda satu sama lain. Setiap orang bisa mendapatkan banyak momen, namun tak juga kunjung tercerahkan. Namun bagi yang beruntung, momen singkat bisa amat mencerahkan seperti mutiara. Jika di dalam Edensor, Andrea mengatakan bahwa mutiara dalam hidupnya ada bersama Weh, maka mutiara dalam hidup gue ada bersama air, yang mengalir tepat dari ujung rambut sampai ke kaki. Jadi, momen-momen yang mencerahkan bisa datang ke siapa aja, dengan cara apa aja, dan dimana aja, termasuk, di dalam kasus gue, ada di bawah pancuran.

To make it clear, simaklah sebuah kicauan dari @9GAG yang gue retweet beberapa waktu yang lalu:
Taking 30 minutes to shower, because you like to stand there, under the hot water, just thinking about life.
Jadi pada momen di bawah pancuran hari ini, yang nyatanya gak lebih dari 15 menit, gue melakukan introspeksi besar-besaran. Apa, mengapa, dan berbagai pertanyaan lainnya yang mungkin akan muncul di pikiran kalian lah, yang akan menjadi topik utama dalam postingan kali ini.

Kenapa sekarang, dan kenapa di bawah pancuran?
Gue mengalami minggu yang padat, dan penuh dengan stres. Stres ini datang secara tiba-tiba dan intens. Akhirnya, gue melarikan diri untuk mencari kesenangan, atau lebih frontalnya, hura-hura. Lima hari terakhir, gue mencari-cari kesempatan untuk berhura-hura ria setiap harinya, bersama orang-orang yang berbeda. Alhasil, gua menghamburkan begitu banyak uang untuk kehura-huraan ini, dan yang membuatnya terlihat tambah menyedihkan, bukan uang gue sendiri, melainkan didapatkan dari orangtua. Ini membawa perubahan besar yang amat mencolok pada diri gue, dan memicu banyak reaksi di teman-teman gue. Lo banyak berubah, ya Bim. Sekarang sering banget hedon. Gila, berapa banyak uang yang lo hambur-hamburin minggu ini. Reaksi-reaksi ini kemudian berubah menjadi pikiran, dan pikiran-pikiran ini terus berputar-putar menghantui gue sepanjang perjalanan pulang gue hari ini. Ketika gue sampai di rumah, kemudian memutuskan untuk mandi, maka semuanya pecah. Semua pikiran itu meledak dan keluar seiring dengan air yang mengalir. Itulah alasanya kenapa sekarang, dan kalau ditanya kenapa di bawah pancuran, ya karena waktu-waktu di bawah pancuran adalah waktu-waktu dimana kalian ga dituntut untuk berfikir tentang apapun kecuali tentang hidup kalian sendiri.

Trus, apa sih masalah sebenarnya?
Masalah utamanya, sebenernya bukan pada perilaku hedonisnya itu sendiri. Kalo boleh jujur, gue gak begitu menentang dan mengharuskan apa yang dibilang orang sebagai perilaku hedonisme (sebenernya bukan hedonsime sih, tapi lebih ke hura-hura) ini untuk dihilangkan total dari kehidupan sehari-hari. Masalah utamanya adalah gue takut, bahwa hedonisme minggu ini, yang membuat gue mengeluarkan begitu banyak uang, gak sebanding dengan produktivitas gue. Berhubung dua minggu ini gue sedang menjalani Ujian Tengah Semester, maka produktivitasnya dilihat dari nilai-nilai ujian gue. Produktivitasnya masih bener-bener abstrak, dan probabilitasnya masing sangat banyak. Dan probabilitas terendah yang mungkin akan gua dapatkan adalah produktivitas yang rendah (amit-amit). Ketika gue berfikir tentang uang, kemudian kepada produktivitas itu sendiri, yang terbayang pertama kali adalah wajah orang tua gue. Produktivitas rendah namun pengeluaran tinggi bisa menjadi sumber kekecewaan yang utama, dan membayangkan wajah orang tua gue penuh dengan kekecewaan adalah hal terburuk yang bisa gue dapatkan. Di momen inilah, akhirnya gue membiarkan air mata gue mengalir bersama dengan air dari pancuran.

Jadi, apa selanjutnya?
Langkah ke depannya, adalah berdo'a supaya produktivitas gue dalam UTS ini, bisa sebanding dengan pengeluaran seminggu kemarin (plis, saling mendoakan), dan juga sedikit kontrol diri dalam masalah keuangan.

Ada beberapa kesimpulan yang bisa ditarik dari intropeksi besar-besaran ini. Yang pertama, remaja memang bener-bener labil. Gue udah berusaha mencanangkan prinsip-prinsip agar kehidupan gue berjalan dengan baik, namun terbukti, gue hanya terbawa arus pikiran seminggu kemarin seperti orang tak berprinsip. Yang kedua, hura-hura itu seperti obat. Dalam jumlah sedikit ia mengobati, dalam jumlah (terlalu) besar ia membunuh.

13/10/2012

Found An Epicness Inside The Stream: FUN



Some nights I stay up cashing in my bad luck 
Some nights I call it a draw 
Some nights I wish that my lips could build a castle
Some nights I wish they'd just fall off 
 But I still wake up, I still see your ghost 
Oh, Lord, I'm still not sure what I stand for oh 
What do I stand for? What do I stand for? 
Most nights I don't know anymore... 
This is it, boys, this is war - what are we waiting for? 
Why don't we break the rules already? 
I was never one to believe the hype 
Save that for the black and white 
I try twice as hard and I'm half as liked,
But here they come again to jack my style 
That's alright; I found a martyr in my bed tonight 
She stops my bones from wondering just who I am, who I am, who I am Oh, who am I?
Well, some nights I wish that this all would end 
'Cause I could use some friends for a change.
And some nights I'm scared you'll forget me again 
Some nights I always win, I always win... 
 But I still wake up, I still see your ghost 
Oh, Lord, I'm still not sure what I stand for, oh 
What do I stand for? What do I stand for? 
Most nights I don't know... 
(oh, come on) So this is it. I sold my soul for this? 
Washed my hands of that for this? 
I miss my mom and dad for this? 
 (Come on) No. When I see stars, when I see, when I see stars, that's all they are 
When I hear songs, they sound like this one, so come on. 
Oh, come on. Oh, come on. Oh, come on! 
Well, that is it guys, that is all - five minutes in and I'm bored again 
Ten years of this, I'm not sure if anybody understands 
This one is not for the folks at home;
Sorry to leave, mom, I had to go 
Who the fuck wants to die alone all dried up in the desert sun? 
 My heart is breaking for my sister and the con that she called "love" 
When I look into my nephew's eyes... 
Man, you wouldn't believe the most amazing things that can come from... 
Some terrible lies... 
The other night you wouldn't believe the dream I just had about you and me 
I called you up but we'd both agree 
It's for the best you didn't listen It's for the best we keep our distance... 
It's for the best we didn't listen It's for the best we keep our distance... 

04/09/2012

Book Review #1: Dee's AKAR

Hari ini, dengan kecepatan baca kilat (hanya menghabiskan waktu satu hari), akhirnya gue menyelesaikan "Akar"nya Dee, yang dipinjam dari seorang teman dan sudah lama numpuk di daftar tunggu baca. Ada sebuah impresi yang sangat kuat tertinggal setelah gue menyelesaikannya tadi siang. Masih jelas terbayang-bayang sang karakter utama Bodhi, yang bukan hanya seorang anak jalanan tak berharga, tapi adalah seseorang yang telah mengalami pengalaman dan perjalanan hidup yang panjang nan sulit namun bermakna dan menggenapkan. Impresi yang dari tadi terus menggelantungi otak gue, pada akhirnya mendorong si otak ini agar menggerakkan sang pemilik, (which is obviously ME!) untuk membuat review singkat mengenai buku tersebut. Dan inilah review saya mengenai Akar, yang pada dasarnya terdiri dari tiga inti, yaitu kronologis dari awal gue meminjam buku tersebut sampai tamat membacanya, kemudian ke penilaian mengenai isi buku itu sendiri, dan berakhir pada buku versi yang mana yang recommended untuk dibaca.

Impresi kuat dari Akar tersebut sebenarnya dibawah ekspektasi gue, karena justru buku "Supernova" sebelumnya, "Ksatria, Putri, dan Bintang Jatuh", meninggalkan impresi yang jauh lebih kuat dan lebih dalam. Malah, ketika awal membaca Akar, gue sempet berhenti karena kecewa atas ekspektasi yang gak terpenuhi. Kemudian gue menganggurkan buku ini berbulan-bulan, sampai akhirnya beberapa hari yang lalu, teman sebangku yang sudah sekelas 4 tahun (dari MOPD dan ga pisah-pisah sampe sekarang kelas 3), Bujang, bilang dia sudah menamatkan Akar dan merekomendasikannya dengan amat sangat kepada gue. Nah dari situlah akhirnya gue mulai baca (lagi) dan menemukan sesuatu yang lain di Akar. Berbeda bentuk dari pada karya Supernova-nya yang pertama, namun meninggalkan kesan dan makna yang hampir sama besar. Jadi, kronologinya berawal dari sebuah ketidakpuasan, kemudian berakhir pada sebuah kesan penuh makna.

Yah, gimanapun juga, Dee tetap selalu memikat di setiap karya-karyanya. Pada karyanya yang satu ini, Dee membawa pembaca menyelami bahasanya yang kadang rumit namun dapat berubah menjadi sangat santai. Terkadang kita dibuat berpikir, dengan metaforanya yang melibatkan hal-hal asing tak terduga yang janggal dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Namun, sering pula pembacanya dibuat santai, dibawanya dengan halus mengarungi cerita demi cerita, sampai akhirnya terkejut sendiri ketika menemukan kembali bagian-bagian metaforanya Dee yang janggal tapi unik dan mengesankan. Tapi membacanya memang butuh energi dan niat yang ekstra, soalnya 200 halaman keseluruhan buku hanya dibagi ke dalam tiga keping dan sekitar 150-an halaman diantaranya dipadatkan menjadi satu bab. Jadi, memang seperti membaca novel tanpa bab, yang bagi sebagian orang bisa jadi sangat membosankan. Tapi gue suka, dan merekomendasikannya kepada teman-teman yang bener-bener suka baca, apalagi yang suka sastra.

Nah, sekarang di tahun 2012 ini, setelah Dee mengeluarkan debut Supernova terbarunya, Partikel, semua seri Supernova termasuk di dalamnya Akar dicetak ulang dan diterbitkan dengan cover yang sepenuhnya berbeda, dan berwarna seragam: hitam. Isi di dalamnya tidak banyak berubah, hanya Dee memperjelas setiap keterangan tempat beserta tahun, dan ada beberapa detil lain yang sedikit berubah, mungkin lebih untuk kenyamanan pembaca. Gue, bedasarkan pendapat sendiri, lebih merekomendasikan untuk membaca versi yang lama, karena perubahan detil seperti penggunaan tanda kutip, ataupun penambahan detil tahun dan tempat membawa banyak perubahan suasana pembaca. Pada versi yang lama, pembaca dibawa hanyut dalam misteri yang sering kali menggantung. Memang sensasi ini lah yang gue cari dari karya-karyanya Dee, yang sedikit banyak hilang dengan penambahan detil-detil tertentu pada versi yang lebih baru.


foto cover Akar (kanan: versi cetakan baru; kiri: versi cetakan lama)

“Sungai menjadi jalan pulangnya ke rumah tak berwadak, tapi ia selalu tahu di mana harus mengetuk pintu” ― DeeSupernova: Akar

30/08/2012

The Best Education



"You must know that there's nothing higher, or stronger, or sounder, or more useful afterwards in life, than some good memory, especially a memory from childhood, from the parental home. You hear a lot said about your education, yet some such beautiful, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education."

Dostoevsky's
The Brother Karamazov

My family had planned to not do "mudik" this year, like we always had the last three years after my grandmother, the last grand-generation in my family, passed away. My mother said that it was not necessary to go there since we don't have anyone to visit anymore and also since my two brothers have happily married, and they will do this "mudik" thing to my house to visit my parents on the Ied moment. So she felt that it was better we stayed here, while my mom and dad enjoyed their moments of being grandparents.

But, yeah we did "mudik" anyway, all in a sudden.

On the second morning of Ied, my father suddenly told me that we are going to go. He has booked a train ticket for the departure, then also a plane ticket back to Jakarta all in a sudden. It was such a very good luck on us that we still got tickets this late. So, all in a sudden, I packed my clothes, my stuffs, and all in a sudden, we did "mudik" anyway.

So, by train it was an 12 hours going. We arrived in Madiun (East Java), at 2 o'clock in the morning. Although my grandparent's house is in the middle of the city, the air was very cold that I was shivering all the way from the station to the house. However, besides all of this coldness and shivering things, the city's look at night really impressed me. It was so calm, so quite, and with the traffic light that at that time only showed the color of yellow, the nightlife at this city has been perfectly amazing. I still love those blue and white striped sidewalk (does not like the one in Jakarta, with only black and white stripe), and the big road with an advertisement billboard crossing over the road. I love the town, for probably some reasons that was not make sense at all.

But it is make sense to me now.

It started to make sense to me one night, in a park.

The next night, I was going around the city with my cousins buying some fried rice for the dinner and also kue putu for snacks, then walking around the big park in the very middle of the city that they usually call alun-alun. It was awesomely crowded, with a lot of booms from firecrackers and fireworks everywhere. There were also a lot of kids, and also family playing around. Then I heard this conversation a boy and his father.
Pa, kita pulang besok?
Iya, nak.
Aku gak mau pulang, pa.
Then I realized I used to be that boy, begging and even crying to my parents to stay there longer.

When I was a kid, Ramadhan had been something that I really waited for. There were two main reasons of it. First, because in that month, I got a chance to play more at night after tarawih prayer. Second, because in the end of the month, we will do this "mudik" thing, and had a lot of fun from it. There in the city, I saw the big love of my big family. Every morning, we greeted each other, we had breakfast together, we talked together for hours, we were sleeping in a very limited place because the house, which was not big, was overloaded with the coming of all my big family. That moment was priceless, and I will make sure that I will have that kind of family later on.

So, Dostoevsky and other wise man is right. The reason why a lot have said that childhood memory is the best education is simple: because the childhood memory, whether it is depressing, sad, or beautiful and sacred, it will stay in one's mind and heart for the rest of the life. One of the memory of the childhood for me is on those blue and white striped sidewalks. Now, whenever I go there, walk on those sidewalks, I felt like I'm home, like I used to be here, as the little boy. So in years, people can experience a lot of unpredictable thing, that is probably gonna change them, little or much. Those memories on the childhood is going to stay there, to be a reminder who, where, and with whom they were, and those memory, can also heal them whenever the "real world" hurt.

So, a memory from childhood, is perhaps the best education.

16/06/2012

Special

I used to believe it when people say that senior high school is the most delighting moment the whole life.  On the brink of senior high school, I started to not believe it anymore. Being a student in this school (my school, actually) will make your teenage moment unimpressively pass by. You will be forced to adapt to the “real life” with a lot of assignments, deadlines (which surely make you REALLY want to dieL), with a small number of time that you will get stressed caused by it. However, I feel lucky being the part of this school, because besides all those stressing stuffs I have to face, I get this people; teachers and friends; who make me feel that all the deadlines, assignments and stresses worth the lovely and beautiful moments with those extraordinary people, and that stressing together with those people is going to be the best memory staying alive in my head, and heart for the rest of my life.



AKSI 35 Heritage, the Last Jargon of AKSI 35 Heritage, Tour de Bali Bro, Flawless SMANSA 34 (from the top)
[Courtesy: Run Production, Abrar Khairi]

Now I do believe in such a good memory. Years later, if I was depressed or stressed or even lonely, I will certainly look back to this time to remember how my life have been so incredibly extraordinary and to know that the universe will work in its way we do not understand to bond our heart even if we are thousand miles away apart. Although we are really going to grow older, meet a whole new people, feel the new atmosphere, or maybe walk on the different land, we will be still united as one in those corridor we used to walk on; or in the field on which we had made a lot of events; in the trees, leaves; or even in the big lake and under the big electricity tower on the back of our school.
“But of all these friends and lovers,
there is no one compare with you.”
-Beatles “In My Life”

11/05/2012

Bali (Photo Roll)

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything."
 #1 @Tanjung Benoa


#2 @KutaBeach and surrounding




#3 @PanglipuranVillage 



#4 @TanahLot 




Road Trip to Bali


Only a day after finishing the biggest events of our school, the 34th generation of smansa started the trip to Bali. 

What made me very excited about this trip was that we were going to go to Bali from Depok by bus. It was very challenging for us to sit more than 36 hours on those very comfortable, but narrow chair. Well to be honest, I always prefer going the distance on the road to going through by plane. Hundreds or even thousands meters above the ground, you can only see clouds, clouds, clouds again, or maybe at some lucky times, a view of the ground from above. However, here on the bus, you can see the changing of culture including the type of building, people, or atmosphere. So the trip to Bali was very exciting. I saw the metropolitan of Jakarta with its stressing traffic jam, then I went through the almost pristine area with all the fresh green everywhere, then I entered Javanese city view which is very relaxing with its specialties: the blue white striped sidewalk (I love it the most) plus its crowded traditional market in the morning, then I saw the sea so close to me while the bus was on the road next to the beach. That kind of trip was what I meant. I want to see another people, another culture, another landscape. I want to see different things. I want to see the world. 

We (34th generation and I) started to hit the road at seven in the morning. It took a day for us to get into the east java. Since we took the south route, for almost a day, we continuously saw shady trees on our right side and steep field on our left side on the road in the Middle Java. Getting used to see the green and feel the mild air everywhere, it was a little shocked when we woke up the next day when we entered the East Java. There, the green was rare and the air was very hot. The day before, it was so freezing being inside the bus that we close down all the air conditioner. But that day, we opened up all the air conditioner, but still feel stiflingly hot. 

Before the touchdown to Bali, we had to take a ferry to cross over the Bali Strait. This was also the most exciting part for me because that was the first time I took a ferry. So in those forty five minutes oscillated, I did not show any expressions but the excitement. I went to the back edge of the ferry and watched the point of Java Island getting further (on that part, I felt homesick). I went to the right and left edge, feeling wind, seeing the wave in the dark, looking at the stars and having a conversation with friends. With the sound of other friends singing sweet songs from the distance, that moment became perfect. Those perfect moment became much more perfect when we finally did the touchdown. This was the best part of going to Bali by bus that the 36 hours, the stiff feeling and all the tiredness, was really worth it when I finally arrived at the destination.

At the time we did the touchdown at Bali, it felt like I wanted to shout very loudly "BALI, HERE WE COME!"

13/04/2012

Being Lonely + Coffee = Heaven


Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins (American Rock Singer, Author, Actor, and Poet)

18/02/2012

R.A.I.N: Room for An Inspirational Narrative

I woke up today and found that it was raining heavily outside. It was so cold that i was being very lazy sneaking up and down on my own bed. As a growing up teen, it has been becoming my habit seeing the world in twitter to start the day. Then there they were, on my timeline, cursing and hoping for the rain to stop. Yeah, a lot have said, and I could do nothing but agree, that rain can be a wall that ban people from doing their activities. Rain forces people to stay home or keeps people at any places from coming home. It forces people to watch, to see its beauty, and also the beauty of life. At the time people can not go anywhere nor do anything, they are forced to think, to brood over their life that actually has a lot of beautiful and inspiring story. Now, at half past seven in the morning, here i am, looking at the rain and feeling its sound, thinking about destiny and future, and life.

A piece of story that "forces" me to think about destiny comes from a plot in a movie. Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind. It is a story of a couple that undergo a procedure to erase the memory blah blah and blah. A very long and complex story actually-- you should watch that movie anyway (recommended)-- but refer to one big point, that soul mates, is destiny. No matter how hard people try to avoid, erase, run, or deny their mates, it will always come to them. Destiny will work in the way we do not understand to keep people on the way they should be, with the person they should be with, and on the places the should be.

Social network is the next thing that bring me another story inspires about future. There is this friend of mine, tweeted few days ago about future: No matter how uncertain future might seems, what belongs to you, comes to you. At the present days, every time i study at school, I am worrying about my future. Most of my friend have chosen the faculty they want, the job they want to take, or simply the future they want. I am the only one among them who still does not even know what to choose yet. As the system of universities in Indonesia is based on score, I am also worrying about my score. From the first grade of senior high school, my score has been decreasing fast like it jump from the highest cliff to its bottom. However, after reading that tweet, I feel like a stupid person, worrying about something I do not even know yet. Yeah it real, what belongs to you will come to you. As long as you work as hardest as you can, the future will be magical, in its own way.

So, life is not that complex. It is simply just today, yesterday, and tomorrow. Most of people are afraid of tomorrow. People get stressed, depressed, and tired in their days worrying about their tomorrow. They forget that the most important time in life is today. Future has its own surprise for people, a big big surprise. It is the best to color the day with the excitement to know what surprise the future might be giving us tomorrow.

At the end of story, I can still hear the sound of the rain tapping the roof, and the window. While it was raining, I was stuck and not able to go anywhere but here, at home, thinking about life, its beauty. Rain gives you room to think, about life, the greatest narrative ever. Be in that room and think. I have done that and this is my story. What's yours?

01/01/2012


“I’ll tell you what I really loved: the version of Somebody to Love that was in Happy Feet. That was a fantastic version. It was great.”
- Roger Taylor (the drummer from Queen)
Somebody commented on youtube. And it is REALly great version