How I Met My Friends: Ireland Edition – First Class

Have you ever asked yourself how the first time you met your friends? Do you remember what conversation you had the first time you met them? I don’t have many friends in my life but those I have are really good friends. They are who have helped me through in each steps that I have [...]

Final of Final

This is supposedly be my final yearbook in life. I have asked some closest people who may not know everything about me but they have been around me for years and decades, they have seen enough of me throughout times to be able say few words about who I really am.   “As his elder [...]

Friends Are Like Shoes

“Friends are like shoes. You need them wherever you go.”   Today I wear again my old shoes I bought 9 years ago. They have finally come back from retirement after I repaired them last week. These shoes are legendary. They accompanied me anywhere around the world for 7 years before they were finally worn [...]

Resolution 2012

I am not going to write New Year’s Resolution this year. Every year I write New Year’s Resolution always ends up in an epic fail ending. Once it failed, I would tend to write the same thing again year after year. So, this year I’m just gonna write things I would aim to achieve by [...]

2011: The Dark Age

This year began with huge hopes in myself, just a typical morale boost that I always have every New Year’s Eve with a bunch list of resolution which have never been achieved and some even were forgotten along the year. Having said that, it was a hard year to begin. I was alone in my [...]

Who Am I To Say

Love of my life, my soulmate You’re my best friend Part of me like breathing Now half of me is left   Don’t know anything at all Who am I to say you love me I don’t know anything at all And who am I to say you need me   Colour me blue I’m [...]

Anger

“What’s wrong with you!? Why did you have to do it in the first place!?” a friend shouted it to me.   It hurt me for a second. Lucky enough, I could catch myself was about to get angry but then I realised that my friend might have misunderstood what I tried to explain and, [...]

The Best Friend

Few weeks ago I felt so down because everything did not occur in the right way, nothing was on my side, and I fell into depressive days. Until one night I could not sleep at all, I was sitting on my chair with an empty feeling. I turned my head and searched my book shelf [...]

Ketulusan

Diam dalam kesunyian Termaram malam kelam Masih dinanti satu nyanyian Walau mata perih terpejam Tetap setia hati ini dipersembahkan Tetap terbuka lebar semua gerbang alam Bila nanti sang putri khayangan ingin kembali Pangeran kan menunggang kereta kuda berhias emas Menunggu di penghujung gerbang alam Tanpa perang perjuangan Tanpa aral rintang pengorbanan Karena aku ada… Karena [...]

Persahabatan Segenggam Debu

Pernah kita mengikat satu janji Sumpah yang tak terucapkan kita satu sampai mati Kau dan aku mengibarkan satu persahabatan Yang takkan pernah goyah walau badai ombak bertautan   Aku ada untuk kau dan kau ada untuk aku Aku ada untuk kau walau kau tak pernah ada Aku ada untuk kau meski kau pergi tinggalkan aku [...]

Aku Ingin Bersama Selamanya

Ketika tunas ini tumbuh Serupa tubuh yang mengakar Setiap nafas yang terhembus adalah kata Angan, debur, dan emosi bersatu dalam jubah berpautan. Tangan kita terikat, Lidah kita menyatu, Maka setiap apa terucap adalah sabda Pandita Ratu. Ah… di luar itu pasir… di luar itu debu Hanya angin meniup saja lalu terbang hilang tak ada Tapi [...]

Lonesome

Kangen Kau takkan mengerti segala lukaku. Menghadapi kemerdekaan tanpa cinta. Karena cinta telah sembunyikan pisaunya. Membayangkan wajahmu adalah siksa. Kesepian adalah ketakutan dan kelumpuhan. Engkau telah menjadi racun bagi darahku. Apabila aku dalam tekanan dan sepi. Itulah berarti aku tungku tanpa api. – Rendra –   LONESOME You would never understand all my wounds Facing [...]

FIX ME

Once again, I fall deep into a depression. It started about 2 weeks ago and I didn’t really understand why it came out of the blue. There was too many things happened at once which really upset myself. I wanted to study but I couldn’t focus on things I need to do. This is the [...]

Doa Untukmu Kawan

Kau susuri jalanan yang sepi Kala temanmu dalam mimpi Tak kau hiraukan apa kan terjadi Demi hidup yang kau jalani   Kau bertekad di dalam citamu Berjuang tuk masa depanmu Walau badai pun akan menerjangmu Pantang mundur dalam prinsipmu   Setulus hati wahai kawanku Kupanjatkan doa untukmu Semoga Tuhan selalu melindungimu Dalam menempuh cita-citamu   [...]

Ain’t A Good Friend Yet

I’m writing this for an apology to my friend whose birthday is today. I completely out of the calendar for the last 1 month or so. I really live my life day to day. I have not managed my time well yet to plan for more than 24 hours of my life. Because of that, [...]

Ketika Aku Kembali Ke Rumahku

Empat tahun lalu aku kembali ke sekolahku, SLTP Santa Maria Juanda. Sekolah ini adalah sekolah yang memberiku begitu banyak kenangan dari yang terbaik sampai yang terburuk semasa aku masih duduk di bangku sekolah dulu. Aku hanya memiliki 2 tahun kesempatan menuntut ilmu di sana, tapi 2 tahun itu menjadi sangat bermakna bagiku. Di sekolah ini [...]

I have a question

I have a question… One that I could never answer.. What A good thing I have ever done.. In these twenty and five years.. As a boy? As a man? As a friend? And as a son? Who have ever smiled because of me? Whom I have given just a tiny happiness? Perhaps none.. Probably [...]

Sail The Kite, Live The Dream!

I felt empty. I didn’t know what I want. I didn’t know who I want to be. It is scary to see what I have turned into. This rollercoaster miserable mind has seriously shaken my life for the last 1 month or so. It hit th climax on the day when I supposedly finished my [...]

A Quarter of Century

Dublin, May 1st 2011. IT’S SUNDAY! IT’S MAY DAY! IT’S MY BIRTHDAY! A Quarter of Century! Should I feel bad or glad? It’s my 25th birthday. It’s the first silver mark in my life. It is the most grateful birthday I have ever had. For the first time ever in my life I did not [...]

Happy Birthday, my friend!

April 29th 2011. Today is a very special day for British people, for my friend and for me. Congratulations to Prince William and Kate Middleton for their wedding. However, I’m not gonna talk about their wedding. I don’t even have a clue about that. There is something else more important for me today than their [...]