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Entah kenapa hari itu, common sense lagi ambil cuti: aku langsung naik saja taksi pertama yang berhenti, tanpa mengecek warnanya biru berlogo burung atau bukan.
Kalimat pertama yang si pak supir ucapkan, setelah tujuan ditentukan:
“Non, saya tanya ya, situ cines kan?”
“E? Maap pak, apa?”
“Cines? Cines, cines, itu loh, orang cina?”
“Ooo..hh, iya pak, kenapa?” Pertanyaannya sudah cukup [...]

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The last time I went to visit my boyfriend, somehow I managed to get engaged.
I said “I managed” (instead of “we managed”) because of a theory I recently thought out. I hypothesized that:

The culture we belong to influences our dating style (for the sake of simplicity, I made a Great Cultural Divide between West and [...]

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Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
Love is the ability to make the invisible visible and the desire always to fell the invisible in one’s midst.
From “My Name Is Red”, Orhan Pamuk

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butterflies

I saw a school of butterflies, flitting up and down around a tree crowded by red blossoms. Sunlight filtered through the leaves, blinding me sometimes, shielding the delicate yellow wings from my sight. They flipped, flirted, three-some-ing and enjoying the gentle breeze that almost seemed to blow them away from their flight.
I don’t know what [...]

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be careful what you wish for

Yesterday I prayed the Jabez prayer:
Oh that You would bless me indeed
and enlarge my territory
and that Your hand would be with me
and that You would keep me away from evil
that I may not cause pain!
And then it came about in the most unexpected way.
Today I learned the second part of the sentence [...]

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