Ini, lho, Indonesia-ku (This is my Indonesia) (part: Hari Pancasila)
Hasil alam yang bisa ditemukan di Berastagi: markisa, terong belanda, mangga yang lebih besar dari telapak tangan, dan yang tersembunyi diujung toko; tomat cherry
Maluku Hip Hop Community – and, yeah, they are Indonesians!
Ada juga orang yang ketika hiking di Gunung Sibayak masih mengkhawatirkan lingkungan. Mengumpulkan botol-botol yang dibuang sembarangan, untuk kemudian dibawa turun dan diolah dengan seharusnya
Dan para artis negara yang berjiwa patriotis
Pulau Peucang di Taman Nasional Ujung Kulon. Simply gorgeous, and there’s really nothing more to say
Saya bangga dengan Indonesia…
CNY
It’s the new year,
“Don’t sweep off your luck..” they said..
I’ve misplaced all the luck I’ll ever have in my life anyway..
“What will the future bring?” people asked..
I ponder at their curiousity and slow-wittedness
although secretly I ask the same question.. – Elita (10.02.14)
Meaning of Christmas
I think I found the meaning of Christmas in this Javanese culture…
Picture a company in where the CEO/owner/founder was resistant to change (or actually willing to change, but was really hesitant and careful towards changes), who also has been pushed to change the system of the company among other things; and the people within the company were willing and very much eager to change. Yet, with all these things, no parties within the company were formed. The people were faithfully loyal to the CEO/owner/founder of the company.
Imagine another situation, another culture and another place. The company would have been ruined in no time. The people would either step out from the company, or create another company or even create a mutiny.
But not here, not this time. Everyone agreed and still support the CEO/owner/founder; they created a vision of the company together; maybe they were hoping for a change soon or later.
Do you think this is a good predicament? 
Ocean Star
A bug missing his flower
As an insolent idle man
Broken lives, bitter kisses
A fresh ocean star freed the sacred
Stop me
I breathe and missed you
I drink and embraced you
Covered with dirt, the old me blush
Free me from worrying
I will gaze deeply to the fleck of lights
A Random Thought At Midnight…
While I was supposed to do my assignment.
Have you ever had something that you cannot tell to anyone, even your best friends? Something that may not necessarily be your dark hidden secret, but if it is shared, you might either hurt someone or even yourself, or ruin a reputation – or something along the line…
And I wonder what should have been done when things like that happen.
Comparing
With different tasks/duties/missions come different leaders to whom you should report and be accountable to. I can’t really say that one is worse than the other, but surely one is better than the other. I know it’s an oxymoron, but I have no idea how else to put it.
The first option that I chose didn’t quite come up like how I expected it to be, and the option that I chose mainly because of ‘peer-invitation-pressure’ turned out to the greatest. Not that I didn’t like the former at all, but probably I like the latter more. This ‘feeling’ came up from how I saw the leaders.
Comparing is such an evil deed. Surely there is an advantage of comparing, it’s just I’m not sure what the advantage is; to make one as good as the other? I don’t think so, especially when it is not ‘mutual’.
Referring back to the first paragraph, I can’t really compare two totally different things, now, can I? I mean, let’s assume that one is the CEO, the leaders’ leader, the one with initiatives and runs many things (actually, he runs almost everything). The other is a leader and has another leader above him. He runs what his leader told him to run, although he leads too. I understand now, and can’t compare them. Now, I love both of them (their leadership skills and the jobs assigned to me).
Spirit dreams deep inside your heart
There’s something that I can’t tell to anyone, even my closest friends. Things that one day will probably break me down, the more I try to suppress…
In this life, there has to be someone who can give you either joy or pain, whose company is expected, though may hurt when you’re with…
“I know you’re not mine, but just give me a little bit more time to be with you”
“Within you’ll remain and always will”
I just want to have that feeling… Where will the future take us?
もう二度と今は戻らない
追い越す過去
あざ笑うような未来みつめたまま
I can’t go back to this moment again
The past is gone
I stare at the future, that seems to be sneering at me – 自由への招待 - L’arc~en~Ciel
“Tears are words the heart can’t express”
Goodbye is not rare; we even say it all the time
But this one is not common:
I’m about to be segregated from a very gentle guy
I should not say that I’m losing a friend
But I can’t guarantee that we will meet again
Some times I thought that writing could express my feelings
But there are times that words are not enough
And what shall I do when words cannot reveal my feelings?
And at times like this, why all I can do is crying?
– of saying farewell to Kit Kat November 27, 2008
You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again” Tom Petty.
Fighting Over Love Songs
Have you ever felt rejected and disappointed by someone, whether s/he meant it or not? You thought you’ve reached the rock bottom of your life and you just won’t listen to what others said. You only considered that person’s opinion and action alone, especially on that moment per se. You felt rejected and unworthy and ready to hate and despise that person.
But then you braced up and looked back on what s/he has done to you, and you were lifted up again. Pretty ironic that the fact is, the same person that brought you down is the very person that lifted you up. That’s what happened to me, listening to this person’s songs taught me to be strong and I was encouraged. Ironic, ironic, ironic.
The wonderful thing about this experience is when I remember my God. At times, I felt alone and ignored and I felt unworthy too. I felt that I was let down, my prayers weren’t answered. But guess what, it is God who holds us through out our lives, He is the one that keeps us save, the one that carries us in His hands and He has done even much more. All those trials and tribulations that we think are unbearable, are actually the ways for God to show us how much He loves us, and He wants us to always come back to Him.
