forget, ya forget late afternoons on the verandah yr gedong besaran in salemba au bon pain from yr favourite boulangerie alsatienne passer baroe see how the leather the backseat of your sado is peeling like a thousand sails forget everything the proper spelling the long letters you’ve been writing the clipped, proper, eton v. harrowContinue reading “bayangan memudar”
Tag Archives: jakarta
aku dan zakarta
aku tidak bisa menulis dalam bahasa indonesia karena. sore ini aku dan zakarta menonton sebuah film tentang papua dan lanskap geometris pikiranku yang berbanding terbalik dengan sinergi kepalsuan dan kebimbangan zakarta. aku dan zakarta berjalan dalam naungan payung esprit menuju kehangatan yang dipaksakan di lobby eks-eks-wan. aku dan zakarta senang menemukan blog yang puitis tanpaContinue reading “aku dan zakarta”
(don’t go) ch-ch-ch-changing
things change every day, leaves get yellower, jalans get bolonger, my tattoo is fading, but are the changes clockwise or anti-? everything depends upon a rainbow wheelbarrow and if we associate progress with a right or a left turn of the minute hand. i long for and fear the shanghai-ization of jakarta.
Transcript of a conversation between me and A, Express taxi driver serial no. MAXXXX
Dramatis personae ME: black t-shirt with a composite picture of a skull made of the letters P, A and M, 4 white leather bangles, flat-fronted grey pants (part of suit), big square Cutler & Gross sunglasses, dirty black Converse sneakers, olive green army issue shoulder bag, slick Cary Grant hair. A: wooden worry beadsContinue reading “Transcript of a conversation between me and A, Express taxi driver serial no. MAXXXX”
the rainbow mall
around the ultra-modern water-walled new shopping mall people still put up fence in the old way: thin slices of old bamboo bits of wire and the reliable softness of the red earth of jakarta.
united
i came back for seconds but you weren’t there i don’t think we’ve ever met? i was too busy dusting myself off after every fall reading your blog it’s like i had once loved you in this city you make appointments to miss each other
0150216inred
Odo reading today on Tante Sophie. Two years of clunking thru Jakarta’s potholed streets (one big one today on Gunawarman otw 2 work). Thx Tante you’ve been kind 2 me. Sorry I haven’t reciprocated. Bitch.
sakit hati
minggu dini hari. stadium. neken di rumah. – setengah enam pagi (masih minggu). bubur kamseng. plain bubur, ayam rebus, telur pitan, broccoli garlic, chinese tea. back to hotel. basian. setengah sepuluh. lapo ni tondongta, lapangan tembak senayan (mengejar goreng pertama sebelum dibikin inang-inang hkbp). sangsang, panggang, goreng, kuah sop, sayur, susu horbo putih, teh botolContinue reading “sakit hati”
sesal
danke cyins. wasit geblek. sofa lipat depan tv. decolsin. augmentin. mata sendu pesut ozil. substitusi marinasi. jogi metrosexy löw. sesal. cinta yang bisa dirasakan dari jauh. terima kasih. iskyd: hepi buzzday mike. from all of us: @yoshife @edophilia @nininditya @pancrutkancut. celtics kalah. jerman kalah dari serbia. klose kartu merah. podolski miss the penalty. tukeran filmContinue reading “sesal”
close shaves
goin into sudirman from tokyo joe, metro mini rushing for potential passengers on kerb [fuckin close]. toot toot air horn a go go before goin for the narrowest of space between a sky blue avanza coming out of a sudirman office’s gate and a kijang goin the same way as tante sophie (at the speedContinue reading “close shaves”
Divagyrations 