“Kami merasa sulit menulis dalam bahasa Indonesia. Bukannya mau gaya, tapi hanya orang-orang cerdas yang bisa menghasilkan lirik dalam bahasa Indonesia dan jadinya bagus, tidak norak, atau klise.” (Goodbye Electric, area, Juli 2007, p. 12.) what a bunch of cunts. so it assumes two things: one, that one doesn’t have to be “orang cerdas” supayaContinue reading “IDIOTIC THINGS PEOPLE SAY #1”
Category Archives: Ruminations
what people say about me
“kalau kamu cuma mau belajar ___ buat apa jauh-jauh mama kirim ke ____, mama kirim aja kamu ke ___!” “you’re so two-faced.” “he’s good, but he’s a prick.” “males ah kasih tulisan gue ke dia, pasti entar cuman dicela-cela.” “kamu kelihatannya masih suka mengingkari dirimu sendiri, sih.” “dia kan memang sok tahu.” “dari bordieu sampaiContinue reading “what people say about me”
G30S/P&K
this from tempo, 9-15 oktober 2006, p. 20: “Kejaksaan Agung akan meneliti buku-buku itu [buku pelajaran sejarah untuk SMP dan SMA yang tidak mencantumkan kata Partai Komunis Indonesia dalam frase Gerakan 30 September] dalam sebuah forum clearing house. Forum itu beranggotakan wakil-wakil dari Kejaksaan, Kepolisian, Badan Intelijen Negara, Badan Intelijen Strategis, Departemen Agama, dan DepartemanContinue reading “G30S/P&K”
THE ART OF FICTION NO. 69 LO!
The Paris Review man came carrying an Olympus Digital Voice Recorder, the WS-320M. That’s the one that’s also a USB dongle, you press the Release button on its back and the battery will detach like a used launch rocket from a spaceship and reveal the rectangular USB plug with the two square holes on itContinue reading “THE ART OF FICTION NO. 69 LO!”
It’s Cool Under the Highway
Under the T-shaped Sosrobahu pillars Grey now brown like the skin Of people taking shelter under it. A worker in his YMCA helmet his Girlfriend sits cross-legged Under a giant Samsung DigitAll Temptation poster. AllDigit Temptation! Two workers sleep cross Arms under heads for pillows Their white helmets Like two bleached tortoise shells Covering theirContinue reading “It’s Cool Under the Highway”
Raumanen Launch
Start: Jun 21, ’06 4:00p End: Jun 21, ’06 6:00p Location: QB Sunda Your SMP Bahasa Indonesia teacher might’ve told you about it. Your SMA teacher might’ve wept over it. Your university lecturer might’ve asked you to go to PDS HB Jassin to find the only copy of it left and write a paper aboutContinue reading “Raumanen Launch”
samsons & delilahs
“You could get at least three versions of Samsons on the one bus trip: one accompanied by a guitar badly tuned one on a ukulele custom-made for the short fingers of a girl-beggar and one the best came from grains of rice poured into a plastic water bottle shaken.” samson & delilah
from kwitang to kebon kacang. on foot. it took three hours if you wanna know.
a government that doesn’t take care of its elderly and weak is EVIL. school of government
two lovers entwined, pass me bye bye bye
the world stops in the heart of the city a queen big ideas throbbing in her teased quiff an ex-first lady in a wheelchair her words fly above the head of the crowd a celebrity activist her hair wet from patchouli and sweat of 11 a.m. her left leg limping from a kick right inContinue reading “two lovers entwined, pass me bye bye bye”
north of batavia, south of heaven
i saw a lot of death. start at the coffee stall that sold breakfast of dark brown broth in a pan chicken necks yellow tumeric-y skeletons of fish all over rice. only the rice was alive steaming like the garbage dump next to us. the men ate quickly “drink! give me drink!” a man inContinue reading “north of batavia, south of heaven”
Divagyrations 