Category: Life
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Perkenalkan, Seumpama

Setelah ribuan revisi dan ketidakpuasan, Seumpama dan Terbang diperkenalkan di 1/15 Coffee Christmas Market bersama Køkken, 11-13 Desember kemarin. Ini cerita perkenalannya. Seumpama kini hadir di Instagram dan Facebook, dan sedang dipersiapkan websitenya. Tepat setahun yang lalu, salah satu sahabat saya menghubungi saya. Saya baru sebulan kembali dari London dan sedang mencoba mengelola ekspektasi saya buat…
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The Adultw(h)ood
I was driving across Jakarta and my parents were not making any sound. I looked to my side, and my father’s head was bobbing of dozed-ness. Yep, he’s almost there. I looked up to the rear view mirror and sure indeed, my mother was conveniently napping. I checked the time, it’s 3 PM. I said to…
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That London Year
Graduated. The official graduation ceremony had been held and they’d sent me the certificate. Yay for that. Now, while I didn’t make my way back to London for the occasion I had been wanting to put together the videos I randomly took during my stay. And so though it’s nowhere close to retell how my story of London…
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‘The Look of Silence’ and Acknowledging the ‘Ugly’
“Senyap” (The Look of Silence) is Joshua Oppenheimer’s second documentary movie after Jagal (The Act of Killing). Both movie took Indonesia’s harrowing social-political turbulence in the years following 1965. The abolishment of communism through the annihilation of people who were connected or thought to have any connections with the communist party took place, It was said to have taken…
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This Year?
Don’t you get tired with new years? I did. I mean, I didn’t mind people’s enthusiasm, it’s just that I feel quite indifferent about it. But I have to admit that I slept at eleven-isn last December 31st and I quite enjoyed it. I hope this doesn’t make me sound lousy and old – because according…
