1. (words) 23.48 7 November 2009 View comments

    “

    Are you being fair to the people around you?

    Pandu, via Iyo.

  2. (words) 17.16 31 October 2009 View comments

    “

    whine less, breathe more.
    talk less, say more.
    hate less, love more.
    and all good things will be yours ;D

    @musfiandini :)

  3. (letters) 20.27 29 October 2009 View comments

    my life is becoming a jumbled up piece of string again.

    but i am trying to unjumble it, slowly but sure.

  4. (words) 22.00 20 October 2009 View comments

    “

    Yang udah biar udah.

    Musfiandini Zahra :)

  5. (mumbles) 21.28 16 October 2009 View comments

    • Piglet: How do you spell love?
    • Pooh: You don't spell it. You feel it.

  6. (letters) 21.25 16 October 2009 View comments

    …Maybe you need to tell someone, a certain person, or anyone, who can listen to you. It’s okay if he/she doesn’t understand what the hell you’re talking about. Because sometimes, people don’t know what we want, they don’t know the world inside our little head. Even the closest person to us has the slightest chance to ignore our rants.

    It is you, who truly knows yourself among 6 billions human inhabitants out there. Only you.

    (via rnrnrina)

  7. (letters) 20.39 15 October 2009 View comments

    overtaken

    in the life of an average senior at sman 3 bandung, after school you study. you go to a bimbel, intensif, konsultan pendidikan, or whatnot. you join tryouts and you gather as much tryout questions as possible. you buy a lot of books, all containing thousands of questions for the subjects you’re going to face at SIMAK, PMBP, USM, SMUP, UMB, SNMPTN or whatever variant of exams you choose.

    but i, my friend, am not an average joe. first of all, i am not Joe. secondly, i don’t go to bimbels. i have never joined a tryout. i failed in a regular year-twelve chemistry test. i think i’m getting nearly zero in a physics test. i have left school for a month and will do so again for another two months for WSDC.

    and i still wish to enter FTI ITB.

    i still wish to enter an arena full of approximately one-sixth of my class year who are aiming for the same major. an arena full of not only them, but hordes of people from around Bandung, around Java, even around Indonesia, who all wish to have one of the few hundred available slots at FTI.

    i must either be really smart, brave, or just plain crazy.

    i think it’s the last.

    whichever one i am, USM2 is coming in… seven months.

    i’d like to call that a short amount of time.

  8. (letters) 14.37 11 October 2009 View comments

    yesterday’s lesson: soap bubble kits aren’t sold on rainy days.

    my days have been full of love, smiles, and laughter. how have yours been?

  9. (pixels) 13.13 11 October 2009 View comments

  10. (letters) 21.48 29 September 2009 View comments

    federal 2.0

    for asdc, the government gave each member of the team a lot of money. well, paskibraka kids would get more for their monthly paycheck, but what we received was quite a lot.

    so what would we use it for?

    adit bought a blackberry. i think irfan’s gonna buy an ipod touch. i don’t know about everyone else,

    but what about me?

    i decided to spend it on my bike. originally i planned on buying a new bike, but at the end i decided to upgrade my existing bike.

    my original bike was a classic, a marine green federal cycle2000 with all the original components, except the saddle. it had a 3x6-speed Shimano SiS gear transmission system with original Araya spokes, and that’s all i remember.

    but it’s almost twenty years old, older than i am!

    it needed a refresh. it needed newness.

    so after a rather unfortunate crash with a motorcycle, i brought federal (its name, courtesy of malika, citrya and vira) to tenda biru and ordered an overhaul.

    i haven’t taken it back (i left my money at home), but once i fetch it tomorrow, it’ll be reborn.

    the frame is quite sturdy and i’m already quite used to how it feels like, so i’m keeping it intact. the handlebar and friends, the saddle too, those parts aren’t gonna be replaced.

    the Araya spokes are also still intact, since they’re quite good too (or at least according to the mechanic, lol). but i’m changing the tyres, which are already cracked for some reason. i’m also changing the spokewires (or whatever ‘jari-jari’ would mean in english) into some black ones, replacing the old rusty ones.

    the big change, however, will be its transmission. i’m upgrading it into an 8-speed one, also Shimano, but i forgot what the RD is called, hehe.

    sure, it might not be the best out there, but this is my first ever bike upgrade, and i’m using my own money for it.

    i so want to see federal 2.0!

  11. (pixels) 07.43 29 September 2009 View comments

    she makes me :)

    she makes me :)

  12. (seconds) 21.13 27 September 2009 View comments

  13. (letters) 09.45 27 September 2009 View comments

    a cup of peach tea and a hint of galauity

    first things first, what the futon is galauity? ah well, maybe no one will ever know.

    kidding.

    it’s been quite a while since i wrote nothing just for the sake of writing. writing something that is not for the pure sense of fiction or literature, but for the notion of getting things out of the system. my sistem.

    so here i go.

    how has my life been? i must answer, vibrant. smiles decorate my everyday, happiness does fill my heart, yes it does.

    but living doesn’t only mean being happy right? sure, it is correct that happiness is the goal of every human soul, in its different senses and meanings.

    but i believe happiness is not just about smiling. it’s about doing things while smiling.

    of course, that is just a thought.

    so rather than just smiling all day like a psycho (or somebody high), i decided to finally get things done.

    and here comes gichie the busy boy.

    first of all, debating. ever since the start of the new academic year, my WSDC status has obliged me to put debating on my priority list. september (and ramadhan) saw me and the rest of team indonesia join asdc in manila.

    manila wasn’t so different from jakarta, trust me. sure, they have the biggest mall in asia (aptly named the mall of asia) but even that didn’t beat the whole experience of just walking through the grandeur of jakarta’s dismissive socialites.

    nor did it beat the experience of getting lost in the maze of gangs in bandung’s version of the urban jungle. but that is just something else altogether.

    the team did not come home with a trophy. rifky did get a medal for being seventh best speaker, but irfan and i did not. garlan did not break as a breaking adj either, but oh well.

    we did, however, come home with thousands of pesos worth of souvenirs. oh wait, that wasn’t the point. we came home with honour, but wait, that sounds so commercial.

    we came home with a bunch of new friends from the corners of asia. from as far as qatar (hey that rhymes!), the island of hong kong, to the nearest neighbours of south-east asia.

    we learnt how to count in arabic and cantonese (not filipino, however). we were given nicknames. we rode taxis, and realized that blue bird was much better than any filipino taxi (sorry folks!). we saw jeepneys but never had the chance to ride them.

    well, we learnt many things and experienced many more.

    and the team learnt how to be a team. sleeping together with all the fun and friction really helps to build friendship and strong teamwork.

    but then again, i also had to leave someone for fourteen days, and that meant fourteen days without seeing a face that never ceases to make me smile.

    then work. it does seem a bit crazy that i’m actually joining a magazine venture with a couple of my friends, being in senior year and all, but i made the choice, and it won’t hurt my CV. i was appointed the post of chief creative officer at Edun!, and thus i had to design things. the first thing was the website.

    and this is how it ended up: http://edunmagz.com/

    but before it ended up like that, i spent two twelve-hour periods programming and designing the whole website. i originally started with an existing framework for making the theme, but i decided to just scrap that and make my own. and that meant a lot of work. and that meant focusing on my iMac’s screen and not my phone’s.

    and that meant not texting much. that was another sacrifice.

    and then, seven wonders. i’m in senior year and i said yes to an offer to play in a short movie. shooting hasn’t started, but i think it’ll keep me [too] occupied when it does start.

    the fourth would be studying. i really should start, but i still can’t. arrrr.

    but then again, life is not always about being economically (or rationally) productive. sometimes you do just need to socialize.

    that’s why you have friends.

    that’s why i have them. three young philosophers with three different views on love, life, and happiness. three avid creators… who still haven’t started working on their book. but mind not, it’ll start brewing by itself one day, right?

    that is also why i’m thankful to have friends around me, who i can’t name one by one. and who even if i can, i still won’t because this post is supposed to be nameless. but i’m just very grateful to be able to know and make friends with such wonderful people.

    and friendship is not something to break, which is why i felt really relieved an old friend started talking to me again. we had great fun, but we had to part, for my friend has now moved out of town.

    but aside from all that, there is one thing that weaves everything together: love.

    be it the love of a divine deity.

    be it the love of family.

    be it the love of friends.

    love is everywhere, love is within you. many people have defined love and they might as well all be right.

    and there is one person i especially love.

    for what reasons, i don’t know. they say love is a reason on its own. and she would be one big reason why smiles decorate my everyday and happiness fills my heart.

    to that person, i thank you very much.

    and i just realized that ‘tea’ and ‘galauity’ rhyme.

  14. (words) 08.25 27 September 2009 View comments

    “

    You ask if love wins over anything. The answer is yes, if you don’t try to possess the subject of your love.

    Paolo Coelho (via rarasekar)

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