2 x 8760 jam

2 x sekian juta menit…2 x sekian puluh juta detik…

Sekian juta tawa terumbar… sekian juta senyum terpulas…sekian juta celotehan terucap…

…. dan hanya beberapa tetes airmata terjatuh…

Hingga pintu terbuka, cahaya masuk–pelangi turun di atap tembok rumah keraton… seperti di dalam kisah kisah legenda, di ujang pelangi ada guci berisi uang emas… kukira…

Dan semua ternyata palsu. Yang dikira uang emas ternyata hanya uang kepeng yang tidak patut untuk dibelikan makanan hati. Bohong. Palsu. Kebodohan tingkat tinggi untuk dipercayai.

Saat ini…merupakan sebuah kesombongan untuk mengungkap dan mengakui:

Bahwa hati sejujurnya banyak teriris.

Bahwa kantung airmata hampir penuh karena tak pernah dikeluarkan

Bahwa sesungguhnya karma pembalasan masih diharap.

Bahwa sesungguhnya tingkah laku akal pikiran perlu introspeksi…

BAHWA AKU MARAH.

Marah sekali.

Ah.. seandainya …

Bijak itu kupunya.

Licik itu tidak dosa

Iklas itu ada di dalam hati…

Tetap..

TAK TAHUKAH BETAPA BESAR DOGMA DAN PRINSIP DIRI TELAH KUINJAK UNTUKMU!

…( betapa semburat aura sudah lebih rendah dari karpet rumahan …)

Tak tahukah….

bahwa tertawa kadang palsu, canda kadang hambar, terkadang otak trus terpikir … bagaimana bisa lewati sekitar 1,5 juta detik dengan segala senyum kepalsuan dan pelarian., padahal hati dan otak sibuk merasa sakit, berkerut, seperti kulit kalau terendam air. Tapi yang ini terendam air kebohongan. Kebodohan. Sayang, kuakui, aku memang bodoh…..

INILAH HIDUP.

Sejujurnya.

Pahit, manis, asam. Semua ada dan semua harus merasa. Agar adil. Terkadang, mahluk yang satu mendapat asam lebih banyak dari yang lain. Atau mendapatkan asam dan asin bersamaan, seperti permen nano nano.

Tapi kenyataanya, semua mahluk hanya ingin permen manis…..

Padahal manis yang berlebihan juga tak baik, gigi bolong, kepala sakit, pada akhirnya hati ikut ngilu..

Mahluk yang satu harus bisa pasrah kalau sakit gigi, pasrah kalau harus menelan pil pahit serta rasa kecut yang tak tertahankan dan hanya bisa bikin kita diam. Diam, Like now!! How ironic!

Ramadan, seharusnya jadi momentum. MOMENTUM untuk memaafkan, iklas, pasrah, terutama saat rasa asam lebih banyak dari rasa manis. Saat di pojok keraton menemukan guci berisi uang kepengan dan bukannya uang emas. Saat merasa tertipu.

Namun sulit.

Ternyata sekedar bergumam sampai mulut berbusa tidak—belum –banyak membantu. Itu bukan doa. Itu pamrih!

Diperlukan cahaya lain. Cahaya hati. Diperlukan keajaiban ramadan yang hanya bisa didapat dengan keridhoan hati, kerelaan. Dan satu kata : LUPAKAN. Iklaskan itu, apapun, bagaimanapun….

(Hah! betapa mudahnya berkata sepeti itu…)

Tuhan, aku masih butuh ramadan……. Ampuni aku…Doakan agar aku masih tetap bisa bersujud, kembali ke ramadan hingga tahun depan. Dan semoga bulan bulan berikutnya …..tingkah laku tetap berbudi, mulutku tak berbusa hanya untuk rasa pamrih, melainkan benar benar iklas.

Dan akhirnya suatu hari, aku akan berani berharap, berani buka pintu dan jendela rumah…

Bahwa suatu saat akan ada pelangi… di ujungnya ada guci isi uang emas. Bukan uang kepeng.

Uangnya akan kupakai untuk beli makanan hati, yang kumasak dengan api rasa kehangatan, dan kuhidangkan untuk dilahap bersama…..

(sadar bahwa marah itu bukan–dan tidak boleh–menjadi bagian dari puasa, namun mendengki, mendendam juga bukan, pemikiran di atas hanya sebagai terapi pikiran untuk menghilangkan efek negatif –dendam, dengki–dari cerita masa lalu)

Published in: on October 30, 2005 at 11:08 pm Comments (0)

N.U.M.B.

"I
guess I’ve been heartbroken too many times and then I recovered. So
now, from the start, I would make no efforts because I know it’s not gonna
work out….."

"I’m so miserable in my love life and my relationships, that I always like I’m detached, but I’m dying inside. I’m dying because I’m so numb. I don’t feel pain or excitement, and not even bitter"

Taken from the movie "Before Sunset" — Celine, on how her life changed after meeting Jesse.
Nice Dialogue, nice film, Nice Actor too (Ethan Hawke gitu lho :)  )

Published in: on October 29, 2005 at 9:32 pm Comments (0)

Yennie–Bima–Tegar–Short List

Ok, ok, ok

Gue tau tadi udah nulis… tapi besok

kan

gue mungkin gak sempet karena sibuk and then I’ll go to

Bogor

for a few days—novotel bo!

Ok, so… I have an excuse

kan

? So I can write more hehehhehe. :p

Anyway..

Kemaren gue baca kisah tentang Yennie Wahid di KOMPAS.. itu lho anaknya Gus
Dur..Well, membaca profil dia bikin gue malu akan diri gue sendiri.. Kegiatan
lowongnya, bukan pekerjaan utama, adalah berpolitik—dengan

gaya

‘waras’ menurut gue. Dia juga gak
menggunakan daya tarik fisiknya—she wears a veil—walaupun menggunakan daya
tarik fisik gak salah sih menurut gue in some cases.

Trus, dia terlibat organisasi yang secara rutin mengurus
orang orang buta dan membacakan

surat

kabar untuk mereka… Man! Gue aja bacain berita buat bokap gue aja kadang dah males…
Tentang pria.. lain lagi… sekarang si dia masih single dan
dia bilang.. “saya ingin seorang pria seperti Bima, yang gagah perkasa, tapi
penyabar, penyayang dan selalu ada saat dibutuhkan keluarga. Well, I need one like that too! When and
Where will I find my Bima? Only He knows… :p

Trus gue abis baca blog seorang teman, yang bercerita tentang
list of nice things she thinks of when
she is fucked off.

One is “Listening to a very
very old song that was meaningful in the past — just to realize how much I’ve
changed”

Well, well… that is so true! I listened
to “Tegar” and gush.. how I have changed into a more mature person… "Bersama mu aku tegar…" ==> Please deh, tidak ada korelasi antara tegar bersama orang lain, tegar ditentukan oleh diri sendiri kan?

OK, I have tried to make my
own list, here it is……. thinking about
nice things that make life worth living.

  1. Half asleep in my bed and listening to the radio
  2. Linguini Aglio Olio  and Hot Chocolate Melt—Izzi Pizza
  3. Fast
         breaking with syrup manalagi.. YUMM! Indomie mie goreng with scrambled egg
  4. Sitting
         in a very hectic place –like Brew and Co in Citos, with a laptop and just start to write
         about all the silly things happen in an instant
  5. Posting
         in my blog!
  6. Listening
         to Beatles’ lyrics
  7. Have
         a nice conversation about stupid little things in life—little spesific
         details which I noted only after the conversation—with very nice people.
  8. Open
         my email and sms inbox and found new messages
  9.  A deep-warm-hug from one of my used-to-be-closest pal
  10. Smell
         of baby cologne (ha!) and sweet perfumes
  11. Reading
         komik conan or agatha christie’s and realize who the killer is, before you
         read it all.
  12. Dance
         to latin music, a very close and intimate dance, with a very –very
         handsome and/or sexy partner and tease each other at the same time!
  13. A
         small, warm, sudden kiss on my neck and shoulder
  14. Meeting
         new people, make new friends and learn new things from them!
  15. Have
         fun at Second Floor—and getting tipsy :p
  16. Waking
         up in the middle of a ramadan’s nite and feel the tranquility
  17. Eating
         “ nasi goreng pake telor ceplok setengah mateng” plus cabe rawit!

 

Ok, guess I still have a lot a lot of thing to write but
hey.. my memories is limited, so I’ll add some more later on.

OKIDO, now, I’d like to have some sleep –oh shoot, gotta
pack first, oh well, pack and then sleep,or the other way around  hehehehe.

Published in: on October 23, 2005 at 12:17 am Comments (0)

I wanna eat tofu because I wanna eat tofu…

So,
we are already in the middle of the ramadan..
Gush, we have only 2 weeks left!
All and all, I have a very very merry and wonderful ramadan this year…
I had a suprise at the beginning, but now, it turned that I can handle it–not
completely– but I can handle it in a more mature way..
Ok, so…
I had a very nice time this weekend.. started with a ‘taraweh’ on friday nite
with my ‘old’ neighbour hehehehe…
Yesterday I spent some time with my family and relatives and then I went out
with a friend — we met also a couple of my other friends– which turned out to
be pretty nice time together…. I was taught to choose a movie based on the
probability of a coin toss (ha!) and that eating vegetarian lasagna even though
you are NOT a veggie is an OK thing to do– "I wanna eat tofu just because…
I wanna eat tofu."

I was taught that trying new things is not a harmless thing
to do.. …..I’ve been doing that all these time, but after last nite I
learned  to do it in a more fun way.
Anyways….
I watched the movie "missing" last nite… have some comments about
it.. like…
the actress and the actors…..
BAD ACT!
But quite scary plots….. and some original horror scenes.. cool!

One thing though I can not understand.. who the hell did the
casting of those actors and actresses! It’s like they picked them out just
because they are models a.k.a physically perfect.

Well, .. welcome to

Indonesia

man… Where the
so-called globalization has radically changed our paradigm about ‘beauty’.
Looking from the ‘sinetron’, TV and commercials in the magazines, beauty now means:
you are slim –very slim— like the actress in that movie, you have white/transparent
skin, you have arch-shaped eyebrows, and long straight, blunt cut and coloured
hair.

The concept is absurd!

I watched a commercial of Citra, about citra bengkoang…. Man!
Citra used to be a ‘mangir’ lotion—to preserve our ‘kuning langsat indonesian
skin” and not a whitening lotion. Now they changed the product just to cope
with the ‘new paradigm’.

About arch-shaped eyebrow.. ….ALL the actresses in the
sinetron and on that movie I just saw, have it. Even once, a guy friend asked
me “Why didn’t you plug your eyebrows into the so-called arch shapes” I asked
him back “What for?” and he answered.. “
YA BIAR

GAYA

AJA…” Well screw you and those stupid models…Why can’t we be proud of our dark,
thick, typical indonesian eyebrows?

Well, Ok, gotta stop critisizing now…Better talk about the
good side of this weekend!

Yesterday I also spent time with my quite-sick brother ,
poor Tommy, he has a cold and fever. But we spent some time alone together…

I have tried my new work uniform—one looks cool, the other SUCKS!
Ngyaiks.. can not believe that we have to wear that each Monday and Thursday for
the rest of year.. and the following year.. and so on, and so on.. GVD! But the
good thing is, the other uniform is cool! I even have a matching earings and
necklace, so OK.. that is cool…

Back to last nite.. I guess I was mesmerised that I still can
find a very nice person which happens to have similar ideas with what I have in
mind a.k.a Enjoy life to the fullest (Because I guess after some cases in the
past, I became a very pesimistic person). We are gonna be good friends, I’m sure —- can’t
wait to see you again after the lebaran and play pool together – but we need to
make sure that we will hit the balls into the pocket holes—and not out of the
table. :D

Huh…. I will need to pack now.. gonna go to

bogor

for few days for office matters…. And then
.. we will go to my Autie’s house a a fast-breaking together. Yummie! I love
ramadan!

Published in: on October 22, 2005 at 11:21 pm Comments (0)

take a chance on the unexpected…

OK, ternyata tulisan menikah yang saya tulis sudah dibaca dan diresapi oleh banyak orang –terbukti banyak yg komen melalui sms, email walaupun komen di blog nya sendiri cuman satu…

well, lucu memang…

Ok, tadi pagi saya terlambat ; LAGi

aduh, rasanya maluuuuu sekali.

cuman gimana dong, sejak puasa, bangun pagi rasanya susah bener!

Ngantuk melulu.

Cuman bulan puasa ini banyak hal-hal yang baru… apalagi minggu lalu… saya baru sadar (aduh telat amat!) bahwa banyak teman2 yang sayang pada saya… Saya juga baru appreciate banget bahwa saya punya sahabat lawan jenis — dan beneran sahabat yang selalu up to date dan bisa diandalkan secara emosional -secara fisik susah, maklum sibuk!

Nah, udah gitu, saya juga ketemu banyak temen temen baru yang benar benar –atau temen lama yang kembali ‘nongol’ . Bener juga kata temen baru saya " life’s little surprises happen when we take a chance on the unexpected !"

artinya… cobalah segala sesuatu yang baru… rasakan ‘kejutan kejutan ‘ kecil yang akan terjadi.

tenatng temen lama yang kembali nongol:

Veerleke… yang minggu lalu –duh cepet banget ya seminggu! meenmain saya.. I miss you dear! hope you have fun in Aussie! Selama Veerle disini, banyak suka dan hampir gak ada dukanya…. Dan saya jadi kembali ingin tinggal sendiri lagi…. cuman sebelum itu, saya mesti punya banyak uang, rela berangkot ria, rela nyuci baju sendiri —gak ada dryer pengering super and mesin cuci 3,5 euro-an , rela masak sendiri — gak ada makanan semi instant yang beli di supermarket match atau aldi dan siap siap gak berinternet — karena gaka da Kotnet yang 100 Mbps , ada juga telkomnet instant yang 50 Kbps, mahal lagi….

Siap gak ya?

Gak usah ngimpi deh… gue nunggu THR aja buat bayar utang…. :P

Published in: on October 19, 2005 at 9:30 pm Comments (0)

Menikah…

Menikah…

Beberapa waktu yang lalu –bulan kaleee…

Untuk prtama kalinya saya brpikiran untuk menikah. Well, dari kecil sih semua orang pasti berpikir untuk menikah. But that time, saya bener bener merasa siap (setidaknya saat itu). Padahal, punya pacar jelas enggak, duit, jelas belum cukup. Tapi itulah naluri seorang perempuan……

Punya keluarga.

Lucu, beberapa minggu yang lalu, saya datang ke sebuah ‘pertemuan’ dimana saya harus mengisi formulir, disana ada tulisan : Personal goals.. dan saya lupa apa yang saya tulis. Beberapa hari yang lalu, data formulir tadi dikirimkan ke saya: guess what apa yang saya tulis di kolom tsb : To be happy and raise a familiy.

MY GOD!

saya cuman ketawa aja waktu baca data itu lagi. Saya rasa alam bawah sadar saya yang nulis waktu itu… (atau,  karena lainnya? heheheehe, *wink-wink*)

Naturi….. siap menikah?

hehehehe, semakin ke sini… semakin saya sadar, bahwa sebetulnya menikah bukanlah sebuah hal yang mudah, bukan sebuah hal yang dapaat cepat diputuskan dengan suatu pikiran dan nafsu impulsive….

Menikah bukanlah jadi raja dan ratu sehari dengan busana puluhan juta, Bukanlah pesta 500 juta di hotel mewah, bukanlah mobil undangan yang memacetkan jalan –hanya karena yang menikah adalah anak pejabat or so called ‘pejabat”

MAsalah menikah bukanlah menikah dengan Anak Siapa, YAng hartanya berapa, yang rumahnya dimana….

Kelanggengan pernikahan tidak akan diukur dengan kegemaran musik yang sama, gaya busana yang satu merek, pendidikan yang sebanding, bahkan tingkat religiusitas yang sama! (yang seagama aja byk yg cerei kan?)

Menikah… ternyata butuh 2 orang –bukan 2 keluarga– yang sama sama dewasa, sama sama berani tingkat tinggi, sama sama toleran dan berjiwa besar… NAfsu, seks, bunga 100 warna, peluk cium, cuman sekedar ‘bumbu’

Menikah, merupakan proses mengenal, menghormati dan menghargai pasangan kita– yang tidak akan bisa kita lakukan kalau kita tidak mengenal diri sendiri, dan tidak menghargai diri sendiri…

Pertanyaan pertama yang harus anda ajukan kalau anda merasa siap menikah adalah:

DO YOU THINK YOU KNOW YOURSELF THAT WELL?

humm….

saya sendiri? heheheh

tampaknya belum mau saya jawab sekarang…. not for public consumption gituh!

One last quote yang bagus sekali tentang pernikahan before I go:

Menikah adalah…… bersedia untuk berlabuh, walapun kerlap kerlip lampu kapal pesiar dan cahaya di darat menanggil manggil…

(woy, kapan gue ketemu pelabuhan gue! :p)

Turike, pln pusat — saat semua dah pulang, 16 53WIB

Published in: on at 2:52 am Comments (3)

L’allegria, Amica Mia, Va via con te

L’allegria, Amica Mia, Va via con te …..

" and joy my friend… goes away with you…"

Published in: on October 17, 2005 at 9:44 pm Comments (1)

A FOOL!

I listened to the radio last nite.. this song came up, and the lyrics really stole my attention.. (so ‘been there, done that’..)

KISSING A FOOL

You are far,
When I could have been your star,
You listened to people,
Who scared you to death,
and from my heart,
Strange that you were strong enough,
To even make a start,
But you’ll never find
Peace of mind,
Til you listen to your heart,

People,
You can never change the way they feel,
Better let them do just what they will,
For they will,
If you let them,
Steal your heart from you,
People,
Will always make a lover feel a fool,
But you knew I loved you,
We could have shown them all,
We should have seen love through,

Fooled me with the tears in your eyes,
Covered me with kisses and lies,

So goodbye,
But please don’t take my heart,

You are far,
I’m never gonna be your star,
I’ll pick up the pieces
And mend my heart,
Maybe I’ll be strong enough,
I don’t know where to start,
But I’ll never find
Peace of mind,
While I listen to my heart,

People,
You can never change the way they feel,
Better let them do just what they will,
For they will,
If you let them,
Steal your heart,

And people,
Will always make a lover feel a fook,
But you knew I loved you,
We could have shown them all,

But remember this,
Every other kiss,
That you ever give
Long as we both live
When you need the hand of another girl,
One you really can surrender with,
I will wait for you,
Like I always do,
There’s something there,
That can’t compete with any other,

You are far,
When I could have been your star,
You listened to people,
Who scared you to death, and from my heart,
Strange that I was wrong enough,
To think you’d love me too.
I guess you were kissing a fool,
You must have been kissing a fool…….

Published in: on October 16, 2005 at 9:50 pm Comments (0)

VEERLEKE IS HIER!

Humm, after 2 years .. we finally see each other again…
Veerle is a friend of mine from Belgium, and we used to be close friends while we were studying in Leuven…well, now Veerle is hier! She just arrived this morning at 10.15 and she has one full week in Jakarta!
So, for next week, don’ t try to find me in Kalibata Indah, instead, I will stay in my other house in Jalan Suren–Senopati Kebayoran with her heheh, so it is gonna be girl’s nite out :D
I plan to make a fast breaking party– or a dinner party… and you guys are invited, so just wait for my sms….
Be there, or Be square!

Published in: on October 9, 2005 at 1:03 am Comments (0)

BAHWA HATI BISA SALAH….

Keujuran itu seperti es krim…
KAlau tidak cepat dilahap, akan menguap ditelan udara panas…

Kalau bisep itu otot fisik
Kejujuran itu otot hati..
DAN OTOT HARUS TERUS DILATIH

Hari hari ini, saya berlatih dengan kejujuran… serta menerima kejujuran itu : FACING THE TRUTH
betatapun menyakitkan….

JUJUR, saya takut.. takut kalau terbangun, dan menyadari bahwa matahari-ku di jendela a.k.a sunshine in my window benar benar tidak ada….
JUJUR saya takut.. takut untuk menggunakan hati lagi…
Takut kalau saya bangun besok pagi.. saya akan benar benar sadar…
BAHWA HATI BISA SALAH…

Published in: on October 6, 2005 at 4:40 am Comments (0)