Selasa, 25 Maret 2014

ngalur ngidul

Banyak hal yang tak bisa kuperbuat selama bertemu. Mungkin karena kami bukanlah satu bagian lagi. Aku merasakan kesedihan yang mendalam dimana batinku tercabik bagaikan cakar elang tajam yang bengkok mencengkram dahan pohon dan menggoreskan tapak kukunya. 

Kata maafpun tak dapat melelehkan batu yang digusur air kali itu. Ada halnya penyesalan selalu datang terlambat ketika semua yang kau ucapkan berubah menjadi amarah dan dengki yang menghapuskan harapan akan hari depan yang damai. Bagai pucuk bunga yang belum mekar dan terpetik sengaja oleh seorang anak lugu yang karena keegoisan dan ketidaktahuannya mengambil separuh jiwa dari bagian yang sedang bertumbuh itu. Dengan tulisan ini aku berharap agar bisa meluapkan semua gejolak peratapan, namun waktu memang cepat berlalu.

Apa yang harus kuperbuat? Rasanya seperti orang bisu mendengar percakapan menarik yang menggugah hasratnya untuk berucap, namun apa daya aku hanya terkesima dengan kebodohan masa laluku yang mana dia telah terasa tersakiti amat dalam hingga sulit untuk melihat keberadaanku. 

Guru hari ini mengutip kata perbedaan dengan warna yang membuat halnya seorang priayi menghindar melihat jendela hati secara blak-blakan. Itukah yang kau inginkan sekarang?

Perenunganku yang menjadi dasar perilaku membatasi kebebasanmu layak layang-layang yang terlepas, bebas tanpa arah. Aku hanya terdiam disini melihat segala susatu yang kita lakukan. Apakah masih ada goresan bekas pada ingatanmu? Ataukah kenangan itu hanyalah pengkritisanku semata? Anak pendiam yang dengan sentilan senyum dan ramah itu berubah menjadi pengekang atas kebebasan orang lain.

Selasa, 24 September 2013

Happiness from the Great Distance

Last summer vacation I came back to Indonesia. I didn't expect that Mpok Nyai came to visit us. Mpok is a term that I use to call the older woman in Betawi's dialect (dialect which is used in Jakarta). Mpok Nyai was our maid when my mother was a teenager. Even though she already retired, she visited us and told her story life with her grandchildren. My mother said even she was a maid, but she consider her as a part of our family.
One week before I back to Taiwan, she came to see me. I was very happy because she was a nice person with great personality.  Most people would happy and laugh to listen to her joke. However, besides her friendly character, she had a sad old memory. One day when she was giving birth for a baby, she couldn't pay for the hospital cost. Unfortunately, she had to left her baby boy in the hospital and must to find some money for the fee just in a week. However she hadn't had a money and when she came back about one weeks later, the baby had been taken. She was very upset and hope that the baby would be in the good hands.
About 17 years later, the boy came back! Amazingly, he was adopted by Dutch. So, what actually happened in hospital was, there were a Dutch couple who came for adopting a child and took Mpok Nyai child as theirs. After he had grown up, his Dutch parents gave a permission to him to found his real mother, Mpok Nyai in Indonesia. When they met each other, both of them were crying happily. The name of her son is Siswoyo. After met each other, Siswoyo finally came back to Netherland and had his own life there.

This photo was taken during my summer holiday in Indonesia. On that time, Mpok Nyai was ironing our clothes while I saw her son's facebook. Siswoyo had a newborn baby girl! Then, I told Mpok Nyai and she was really exciting to know her grandchildren. When I showed it, she was really happy and asked me to print the photos, so that she could bring it to home and told her relatives that she had a grandchildren. I took this photo because I wanted to show it to Siswoyo on facebook that Mpok Nyai was proud to be a grandmother. This photo is really meaningful for me because I could help both of them to know that even the distance was separating them, but Siswoyo could share the happiness and joyfulness to Mpok Nyai with the photo of his family. Moreover, Siswoyo must be very touched to see it because his mother knew that he is a father now. In the end, I am happy to be the mediator for Siswoyo and Mpok Nyai, to see the beautiful life that even mother and son were separated, but Mpok Nyai still love him and pray for his son.  Mpok Nyai said to me that she hoped she could go to Netherland someday to meet Siswoyo.

Sabtu, 03 Agustus 2013

Dunia

Orang terpintar adalah mereka yang membangun fondasi rumah dan berkelut dibawah tanah,
bukan mereka yang bekerja diatap indah tanpa terjangan panas matahari.
Dan mereka yang mengerti alam adalah mereka yang beristirahat dilepas bantaran kali, dibawah pohon rindang, serta bernyanyi dijalan raya,
bukan mereka yang menjadi filsuf akan keindahan kata dalam makna.

Jumat, 12 Juli 2013

Just be yourself

I know a lot of human beings now are imitating someone who they think are georgeous, but even if you do that, you still have the original you, which means you don't need to cover it with something fake.
People who really cares are those who accept you without seeking your weakness. That's it, family. And no matter who you are, you probably have an enemy and it is normal. Having a problem is not making you small, it is real, it means you live in this world. Everybody who still living until now certainly have a problem. So don't be faint, just have a faith in Him. :)




I am beautiful - Christina Aguilera (a good song for you to listen)

Jumat, 07 Juni 2013

I hope you can understand my preference

I appreciate your common preferences, but if I just not into it, do you have any rights to claim me that I am obviously out of date? I know I am totally crazy about old-fashioned and indie things, and I love it very much! I just don't want to make my taste worst, so I won't take your preferences in my list. Probably it is because your preferences are extremely ordinary and general, rather than independent, so literally speaking, it not suits me well, so you cannot claim me as a freaky one if you realize that you are more than a apocryphal person, maybe because you don't know what your preferences are actually. Sorry to say this, but it's kind of annoying me to generalized my ideas and my preferences with others.

Sabtu, 02 Maret 2013

Music

I just cannot explain this word.. :')

Senin, 14 Januari 2013

Seni

Dalam rupa dan makna
Semua pandangan bercela
Dan pernyataan sirna

Hilang dari keterpakuan
Bebas melayang lepas
Dagu pada pangkuan
Oleh alam lukis selaras