Wednesday, February 24, 2010

please, press play

I love these words, taken from Pandji's album tittle :

"You'll never know when somebody come and press play in your paused life" (yeah, something like that...i don't know for sure)

today, somebody press play in my paused life. Not my boyfriend, best friend, or anyone special. He's a stranger, that I meet only on class. my lecturer.

Dear Mr, thank you very much. i'm so happy that i could cry.

and now, i could dance over my life again.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

travelling without moving (yes, i take it from Jamiroquai's)

Risto is Estonian, Martina is Italian, and Rhys is from Welsch (part of UK, correct me if I'm wrong). Vinny is my best friend on high school and Zaky is my baby, we are Indonesian.

We, the Indonesian desperately wants to go somewhere around Europe to feel winter. They, the Estonian, Italian, and Irish, wants to go around the world to learn everything new, and not minus 30 cold.

from rice, bahasa, hot water after meal, to smoking in public transportation, something that maybe seems very common for most of Indonesian, amazed them. I'm not a culture expert or profesional tour guide, but I enjoyed explaining our 'silly' traditions one by one. In addition, they told us their culture, and answer my silly questions like, "where is Estonia in exact?"

whatever reason we have in mind, it's always nice to meet new people, even when you are still at the same place that you've born in.

It felt like I'm already went abroad.


from left to right : Martina, Risto, Rhys, Vinny, Me, Zaky, hanging out on Roemah Kopi

thank's to concidered our country for you 'around the world' destination. Wait for us, the Indonesian in Europe! *and please make sure that we could have rice--or nasi goreng even better--for meal, when we reach your country... haha

ps : Vie, bring me more foreigners, and I'm totally going to go pro with this guiding thing. haha!

Friday, February 12, 2010

living in the box.

I write this thing, while everybody is having this important meeting behind me. In front of me there are a square empty dustbin, ouval wet washtafel, and a towel hanger that has no towel on it.

Yes, i'm not part of that important meeting group. I'm an outsider that happen to be here, put aside at the end of the room.

I'm having a great time. alone, at the corner.

***

Tinggal di kota ini--let's say it's Pandora, so i won't insulted anyone--membuat saya terbiasa harus menjadi bagian dari grup ini, atau geng anu. Di daerah tertentu adalah sekelompok geng motor anarki, yang sedang mabuk dan tidak membiarkan seorang pun lewat di sekitar mereka, tanpa perasaan takut dipukul. Di sisi kota yang lain ada sekolompok musisi indie, yang sedang membahas kemungkinan melebarkan sayap mereka ke sebuah cakupan yang lebih luas, tanpa keinginan untuk pergi dari kota. Di tengah kota , di depan sebuah institut seni terkemuka, sekelompok seniman muda sedang membuka sebuah diskusi kecil mengenai aturan kota yang tidak masuk akal, sehingga membatasi kreatifitas mereka ber-seni. Di sebuah toko buku indie di pinggir kota, sekelompok aktivis feminis sedang mengobrol soal bagaimana mereka bisa menyebarkan filosofi mereka, tanpa terdengar terlalu garis keras. Di sudut gelap yang lain, sekelompok musisi underground sedang marah-marah mengenai segala hal yang berbeda dengan mereka, geng motor yang anarki, musisi indie pop yang membosankan, seniman muda yang terikat selera kapitalis, dan para feminis yang mereka tidak mengerti.

Itu hanya sedikit dari kelompok-kelompok di kota ini.

Salahkan saya, yang tidak pernah ada di dalam salah satu dari kelompok tersebut, untuk mengetahui apa yang sebenarnya sedang mereka lakukan, tapi kota ini sangat terbiasa dengan stereotype.

Seorang teman baru, pelancong dari Estonia sempat bertanya pada saya, apakah orang-orang di kota ini memiliki pemikiran tertentu soal pendatang dengan warna kulit dan nuansa pupil mata berbeda. Saya menjawab, "Kota kami sangat terbuka dengan pendatang baru. Tidak ada sedikit pun rasisme besar semacam itu yang pernah terjadi disini. Kami hanya memusuhi orang-orang diluar interest kami."

Stereotype yang terjadi di kota ini hanyalah terbentuk berdasarkan ketertarikan terhadap satu hal. Dan rasisme di kota ini hanya terjadi, ketika seseorang yang merasa sangat individual tiba-tiba ingin mencoba blend in, dengan salah satu diantara kelompok dengan interest yang berbeda. Musik, seni, hobby, dan segala sesuatu yang bisa membuat orang bersatu, malah menjadi kotak-kotak sempit yang membuat orang terlalu nyaman, dan mulai menjadi tidak toleran terhadap individualitas.

Musuh kami adalah kota ini--sebut saja Pandora.

***


Living in this city is--literally--just like you're living in Pandora box. You'll never know, how odd it is to be just like YOU, untill you open the box. And there is no room for individuality.

I want to move somewhere, outside the box--as they say about think differently--and be accepted as individual me.

wish me luck.

***

For now,
every single corner is taken, so maybe i have to live side by side
with dustbin, washtafel, and towel hanger.

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pict taken from : www.digitalmonkeys.wordpress.com

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

have to start over, don't we ?


i miss the days when love is much way simpler.
easy to be described and has no drama.

i miss you.
and our days, when there is soo much smile.
when i trust you more than anybody else.

let's start over, baby...