Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness- Andre Gide

I’ve tried opening a new page, but what echoed are still the same sorrows. I’ve eschewed some bitterness and spit it out in wisdoms, but the moral is still about being alone as a consequence. not a choice

i told my best friend tonight, that i regard heart like a bud. it grows fast, suddenly being too comfort and boring then, chop down or abandoned. some other day, the bud will blossoms again and surrender to the cycle.

i know, just now. when i lost my heart, along with it i lost word.

until i found it again… the words.


  1. i don’t buy your theory about loving me more than myself; that you know better for my life thus you prefer to stay in a safe distance. bull shit!
  2. i still live the life as i can, not only as i please. so turn down your life theory book and judgmental look in your eyes. i’m crawling and i don’t want to know any of your opinion on me.
  3. i’m not here. so what the fuck are you still looking for by clicking this page? show is over. though it never means as a show as it doesn’t exist for you.

cause i’ve been in love before, and i’ve learn that love is more than just holding hand – Beatles

saya tak bisa berhenti memutar ulang framen terakhir itu. tak bisa melihat bagaimana segalanya menyelinap di sela-sela jemari yang menggenggam erat.

kepergian saya diiringi ucapan semacam:

bisa jalan, tapi terbatas

atau:

liburanlah. kami jaga rumah

jalan, liburan, rumah. terbatas, jaga.

saya percaya, dan saya berlibur. dan saya hampir jatuh cinta. dan saya mendapatkan berbagai kemungkinan bekerja. dan saya bia mengembangkan proyek film dan pemutaran kita disana. begitu banyak yang saya dapatkan. tak sabar ingin membagikannya.

menjelang pulang, saya sakit. juga mens untuk kedua kalinya dalam bulan itu. demam tanpa sebab. si bambu anak tuhan bercanda, demam pulang. saya takut mengakui padanya terlebih diri saya, walau akhirnya menyerah. mimpi-mimpi buruk itu yang tak kuat saya tanggung.

hari kepulangan saya, segala hal berjalan salah. salah paham dengan si oma, demam tak ketulungan, lemas tak karuan. saya berkemas sekuat tenaga, dan meninggalkan barang kulakan toko di flat sempit teman saya dengan sepucuk surat. intinya:

begitu ada duit, gw urus paketannya

you’re asking me how my love grows? i don’t know, i don’t know- Beatles

Jakarta banjir dan saya tak mau terperangkap konyol di bandara. saya menghubungi the virgoest, teringat janjinya:

gw mau, apapun yang terjadi, kalo ke bandung, lo bersarang

pikir saya ringkas saja. saya bisa langsung ke bandung dengan bis dari bandara, tidur nyenyak jika mungkin menghindari drama, melanjutkan perjalanan pulang. jawabannya tiba tepat ketika saya harus memindah-mindahkan barang dan botol minuman dari hand carry ke check in bagage. intinya tak bisa, dan sebaiknya saya kembali ke keluarga untuk menyelesaikan masalah. saya langsung teringat berbagai versi mimpi buruk belakangan ini.

taktis lagi, saya banting setir ke kolektif temanteman di bandung. cukup dramatis, karena hp indonesia saya berbunyi tepat di depan loket cap imigrasi. ditambah pengumuman :

you’ve overstayed for 1 day. the penalty is 3000 pesos, which equivalent with a month overstaying.

jawaban dari teman saya cukup mengejutkan. mereka sampai merapatkan keputusan apakah saya boleh menginap atau tidak. dan jawabannya, sudah bisa diduga.

saya berbalik lunglai dan beralasan medis hingga tak mampu terbang. mereka memberi syarat, saya menyanggupinya. berusaha menghibur diri,saya menelpon si bambu.

well haha… a day equivalent with a month? it’s up to you man. you’ve got all the roof in the world

… saya menunda pulang.

saya tahu sesuatu berlangsung di balik punggung saya. saya tahu semua pihak menanggung ingatan yang berat setelah memutuskan terlibat dalam keputusan hidup saya. ironis, karena inilah momen pertama saya tidak mendorong orang lain menjauh dari hidup saya.

jakarta : kantor kosong. sms tak berbalas. konon sahabat saya si bibi titi teliti malam itu menginap. mungkin dia punya  agenda pagi. tapi sms saya tetap saja tak berbalas. baiklah. saya sudah mengetuk pintu.

hampir ke bandung, tapi nada teman saya ketika menawarkan ngobrol di teras depan saja, membuat saya urun  transit.

di malam kedua tiba di rumah, saya mimpi. drama dengan the virgoest. dari omongan bernada tinggi, terungkap kalau kakak saya mengintimidasinya. dalam mimpi, saya menelpon kakak tertua itu, gemetar dan berkata:

kalo kau mau kunci saya di kamar gelap, bikin sudah! tapi jangan sentuh temantemanku, mereka KELUARGAKU!

hari ketiga. saya dijemput, teras penuh. fuck you very much Lily Allen tibatiba menggema di kepala saya. Hm, alarm apalagi ini

…

sampai hari ini, saya masih menatap catatan rapat program saya.

No. Nama. Mundur

you and me have a memory, longer than the road that stretches out ahead-

Beatles

Hari ini saya menengok suting. saya mengenang sahabat, si sutradara terpercaya itu. juga isolasi ketatnya dari segala hal yang berhubungan dengan saya. sekali lagi, saya sudah mengetuk.

buat apa saya ada disini? buat siapa?

Once there was a way to get back homeward- Beatles

maaf, saya belum berhenti meratap

close your eyes, and i’ll kiss you. tomorrow i’ll miss you- Beatles


every one looks like still busy dealing with their own trauma, thus they decide to save a precious life, their own. trauma for keeping me alive, around them. because then, though it’s too late, they realize, they couldn’t bear me. alive and around.

i made noise. i smoked too much and cause everyone around me a constant danger. i went around asking question about petty things in one’s life as much as i’ve asked myself. maybe that was the case. i’m just too much.

too much letter for the canadian love bird. too much reading. too much alcohol. too much ambition. too much traveling. too much financial problem.  too fast. too much nasty words out of my mouth. too much minyak tawon. too much singing the words.

you’ll see, i learn.

my only hope is none forget, that i also love too much. too much love, too much people. only one me.

thank you for joining my life. i’m not there.


I watched Leila Khaled the Hijacker and found the same strong feeling while I’m reading the children book version of Ninoy Aquino’s going back home. All in search of a home. But they’re national hero, no matter what the other historian version would say.  And the “home” will cherish their return in any way.

I’m longing so much for a home, as I always do my work under a wood carve art work in a bookshop, up there in Baguio city, titled “home seek”.

Understand doesn’t imply agreement, that’s what the wise man said. With too many closed doors and goodbye speech I experienced lately; makes me really taking a deep breath and asking myself, why am I still here? Why would I called this place a my home? A place for pulang?

What condition does a space bear thus we could call it home? I’ve given up some old school ideas; not only on a mere conscience that i couldn’t afford them also because the entire idea of home is in time, are a changing.

I used to say, that I find peace at loving faces, not warm places. This idea looks like going to be worn out very soon. The friendly faces disappear, if not, they turn out to be a page of social networking. A little hallo every now and then, to keep the bonding tight.

I wish I could bring home inside me, along with me. Not only to make myself feel comfort, but also to bring it closer to the people I’m with currently. To make them stay a little longer, to prolong the “I got enough of you” kind of look that I’ve been too familiar with.


now, what?

30Sep10

saya tahu ada yang besar menanti saya di rumah. itu sebanya saya bilang,

takut pulang

ternyata ini lebih buruk daripada menjadi punk menjelang 30 tahun. punk punya banyak teman.masih bisakah kita kehilangan?

saya sampai lupa membagikan oleh-oleh.


As i smoke in the train restaurant, i stare at my picture on the glass window. bald, thin, Dr.M boots. As if I’m staring at me ten years ago. never enough money, singing here and there for free beers and good time, sometimes they also gave out meals too.

last night, me and two camerades, laughing on the idea of being punk again in this age. punk as the similarity of living without saving, vehicle nor glamor wine nights. i remembered my good old kutu, black picanto that i gave out a month ago. back to bike, back to black circle in the eyes.

this morning as i woke up, with empty pocket, empty stomach and an innocent stare of my seven years old dog, i sigh.

few hours later, here i am.

smoking, boots on, ready with the DIY coffee n tea shop. i have 10 mugs and lots of sugar, coffee and tea stock at my kitchen.

no boobs nor bossom, why bother? i’m almost 30 and making living from selling coffee and tea at my  yard.

how’s that sound? i smell life.


B is you.

29Sep10

B is for Baguio, Bibulous, Blues

As I enjoyed my days of being wild in Baguio; simultaneously, quoting Janis, I feel nearly as faded as my jeans. Nothing is really new to me; in fact, nothing about old and new thing excites me anymore.

One morning I told him, almost whispering:

I steal life here to endure my ordinary life there.

He looked at me, replied:

Is that how it is? Then steal more from me.

B is for bewitch and beloved

Everyone knew that I wasn’t ready at all when I said that it’s time to leave. Leaving is not even the word. It’s only like hoping from one hole to the next one. Differences are, there, he has a creative way turning the boring day into unforgettable one.

Am I being hyperbolic? Could be, but he won’t admit that. Alas, according to him it’s our collaboration that makes it even better. This I won’t deny. We often burst in laugh at the end of the day while reviewing all the nasty shits that has been successfully wiped away in our duet action.

B is also for betwixt and between

How could we be a team easily? How could I deal with his daily problem? Simple. It’s my life without me. Witnessing double lives is similar to get heartbroken twice for a poem read in two tongues; twin tower piles up by similar traumas. Who’s to blame?

B is now for bewail

All along the journey back to my place, I find myself trap in a void between two lives. To merge and embrace both in one soul and mind, I tried to make litany of things I experienced and stories that I failed to tell; all of this and that. But words disperse. What would the unfold story do us good?

B is for bid, boat, befooled

I think of your bid: visiting me as an act of avoiding Christmas fever. Also how people seem to be fool enough to cheer on your building boat and sailing trip idea

Most of all, I think of you

Bamboo.

Beetle nut.

Black Betty.



Someday I’ll be locked up for love insanity. “She loved too much.”

anais nin.


saya lupa wajahnya. yang saya ingat hanya gestur dan kaca mata hitamnya. saya lupa suaranya. saya lupa semuanya. tapi pertemuan itu saya ingat terus.

saya mencari nomor teleponnya, dan menggodanya. dia balas menggoda. great sense of humor, pertanda baik.

saya terus mengingatnya sejak itu. apalagi ayahnya tinggal di rumah saya selama hampir seminggu. tatay yang tak pernah absen bercerita tentang anaknya yang itu, sampai sampai saya mengira dia anak tunggal.

lalu dia berdiri di jendela toko buku, menghalangi sinar matahari sampai kepada saya yang sedang asyik membaca. saya menengadah, dan saat itulah saya tahu, saya bertemu dia lagi.

semoga kisah kita panjang, bambu…




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