Beauty. 

This Other Kind of Conversation.

We stare outside the window, as the lamp in this room started to get lost in its blandness. 

And it’s like we’ve found this other kind of conversation, this conversation of gestures and breaths and glimmers and staring and wondering and guessing and thinking and realizing, that this silence of no words  is all that your expectation will meet.

This time the silence during conversation speaks louder than the conversation itself. As it whispers to you something much deeper than words could ever do.

A comfortable silence that we hesitantly shared, has somewhat become the litmus test (next to crying in front of someone) for finding and keeping what was there before.

COWABUNGA!!!

w00t! Peter Parker & Gwen Stacy!

A Bit Imaginary II

A Bit Imaginary

AFF Finals: The Aftermath

Seminggu sudah. Jadi timnas Indonesia kalah secara epik pada laga kedua final AFF. Ternyata rekor sekali kalah nggak cukup bagi punggawa merah-putih buat bawa piala. Banyak yang kecewa, tapi tetap bangga. Karena setelah beberapa saat terakhir, berita di TV isinya cuma masalah politik, bencana, skandal dan gosip melulu, akhirnya kita punya sesuatu yang layak dibicarakan dan dibanggakan. 5-1? 6-0? Itu berita fantastik buat semua orang. Di bidang yang sebelumnya nggak terlalu kita harapkan, akhirnya malah jadi penghibur kita ditengah semua masalah yang ada.  

Tapi beberapa hal terjadi selama euforia bergema. Mencium ini kesempatan sarat publisitas, para petinggi negara mulai berlomba buat masuk ruang ganti. Ngasih wejangan nggak penting lah, ngumbar-ngumbar hadiah dan bonus lah, dan semua tetek bengek yang cuma ngabisin tiap detik yang amat penting buat timnas. Alfred Riedl sebenernya pantas marah karena wewenangnya sebagai pelatih, boleh dibilang, diinjak-injak selama kompetisi. Tapi dengan hasil yang kita tahu, betapa hebat sebenernya usaha sang pelatih untuk memperjuangkan timnas kita. Dan lawan sebenernya bukan timnas negara lain, tapi negara kita sendiri dan semua protokolnya. 

lebih detilnya ada di http://danielgiovanni.com/sekelumit-cerita-dari-hedi-seputar-riedl-timn

Belum lagi agenda-agenda tambahan pejabat yang diharapkan masuk media. Bakrie mengundang timnas untuk sarapan pagi, yang sebenernya bisa dipergunakan timnas untuk latihan. Bahkan, lebih jauh, Bakrie menawarkan pesawatnya buat mengangkut timnas ke Bukit Jalil, dengan tambahan rombongan pers. Sampai akhirnya media massa terlalu mengekspos timnas, dan, bisa dibilang, menganggu konsentrasi. Karantina latihan gagal, pers terus merangsek.

Lalu ada agenda istighasah. Sebenernya ritual agama itu bagus buat mencegah masyarakat dari rasa sombong, tapi kenapa momennya harus ini? Ini kan cuma permainan, dan kalah menang itu bukan harga mati. Karena jika timnas kalah, yang ditakutkan adalah ada orang bertanya “Kok doanya gak manjur?” Nah loh. Tapi gimanapun, orang bebas beropini.

Pada akhirnya, gimana pun hasilnya, timnas kita dan jutaan suporter sudah memberikan yang terbaik. Mungkin memang belum saatnya, atau mungkin seperti yang teman gue, @matiinu, bilang:

Garuda sudah terbang terlalu tinggi, perlu dihujamkan ke tanah biar ingat bumi.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, PEOPLE!

Twenty-something

Okay, I’m gonna do this real quick since the internet is pricey here.

Hmm, where to start? Well, for a quick recap, I don’t feel like I’ve done the best in this very year. It was bland, dull, flat, or any mediocre words can describe. But if may say, the best things that happened this year were unexpected.

This is the first year I deliberately giving wishes on Christmas. I don’t know whether I violated the religion law and stuff, I don’t give a damn. They’ve been really nice to me, even some of them are good friends of mine. As long as we keep the appropriate manner upon doing this, I think there’s nothing wrong with wishing your friends good things in this good moment.

This year has given me so much opportunity to meet many people from different background. For me, this events take the word ‘tolerance’ into a whole new level that I feel judging people without knowing them is really a big sin.

In a nutshell, I just want to wish everyone fantastic years ahead, because everyone has helped me become the new me. Thanks, everyone!

And please, don’t mind the grammar.

newsweek:

alittlespace:

obliviousunction:

When nine-year-old Beatrice Delap wanted to organise a mutiny against her teachers, she knew who to call on.

And it took just one letter to enlist the aid of the world’s most famous pirate: Captain Jack Sparrow.

With only 10 minutes warning, Johnny Depp arrived at Meridian primary school, Greenwich, in full high-seas regalia with four other cast members.

Beatrice sent her appeal when she found out he was filming the latest instalment of Pirates Of The Caribbean at the Old Royal Naval College nearby. The letter said: “Captain Jack Sparrow, at Meridian primary school we are a bunch of budding young pirates. Normally we’re a right handful but we’re having trouble mutinying against the teachers.

“We’d love it if you could come and help. From Beatrice Delap, aged nine, a budding pirate.”

Depp strode into the school hall, brandished the letter and called her to the front. She said: “It was the most exciting school day ever. I had the idea to write the letter last week after me and a friend went to see the film set. Pat from the school office delivered it.

“Yesterday the school called us in for a special assembly at the end of the day. They told us there had been a couple of incidents in the playground.

“Then Johnny Depp walked in dressed as Captain Jack. There were gasps and screams. He pulled the letter out of his pocket and said he was going to frame it. Then he called me down and gave me a hug.”

Depp, 47, spent 15 minutes performing for pupils and dancing with fellow cast members. “He said the pirates were going to take over the school and only eat candy and our teeth would turn black and fall out,” added Beatrice. “But he said we shouldn’t mutiny against the teachers because there were police outside and we might get into trouble.”

London Evening Standard: Captain Jack Sparrow to the rescue as Johnny Depp helps London schoolgirl

STOP! This is too adorable.

Brb, writing Johnny Depp a letter about a potential mutiny at Nwk…

We’re officially jealous of nine-year-old Beatrice Delap.