wOrKlIfE

yep.worklife is affecting my mind.cut my brain and it’ll look like some rorschach monster.it’s taking too much memory space,i’m running out of built-in RAM.i lost my writing mood,i lost my chatting mood,i even lost my calling-boyfriend-mood.

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hati nurani

Pak,
permisi Pak,
permisi tanya Pak,
kalau masih ada
kebaikan setitik saja di hati Bapak
mengapa hanya berdiri
menonton di samping
Pak,
maaf Pak,
minta waktu sedikit Pak,
boleh kan,
toh bukan uang yang saya minta
saya hanya minta waktu
ya, Pak
Pak,
nanya nih Pak,
kenapa sih Pak,
baju gembel itu cuma satu,
kotor pula,
tapi masih Bapak ludahi?
Mentang-mentang ya, Pak
mentang-mentang baju Bapak berminyak wangi
(tempelan dari PKS yang baru Bapak kunjungi)
Pak,
nanya lagi Pak,
Bapak [...]

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I Believe

I believe that people are inherently good
I believe that freedom is meant for everybody
I believe that no one should be killing anyone else
I believe that joy will come after suffering
I believe that one day the world will be at peace
I believe that people are born with the capacity to love
And I believe that if I [...]

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what to do

What should I do when people ask me “What should I do?”
Can’t tell you what to do because I don’t want to take the responsibility of your life. I can only let you pour all grudges and tears and despair out on me, and maybe make you see the situation clearly. But please don’t [...]

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1982

Just out of curiosity, I looked up Pulitzer Prize winners for the year 1982, my birth year. Surprisingly, the nominated list for fiction includes Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, which I got interested in recently. The winner was John Updike’s Rabbit Is Rich (I’ve seen the Rabbit series before but they just didn’t get me, somehow). [...]

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