Frieska's Poem

Setelah lama gak update blog, Frieska akhirnya update blog juga. Sudah ditunggu-tunggu banget. Blognya itu insightful dan juga tenang. Kayak tempat retreat gitu deh. Hehehe. Kadang kalau buka blog dia dan belum ada update, gw akhirnya bakal cuma terdiam doang pas musiknya terputar sambil merenung sebentar tentang apa aja.

Jadi si Frieska ini baru upload puisi lagi. Cukup dalam si maknanya dan bikin gw jadi mikir sebentar, merenung sebentar dan rasanya jadi pingin tulis ulang (beneran ditulis ulang gitu) puisi dia dengan editan di sini dan di sana. Jadi inilah hasil edit-edit itu:

(Untitled)

Maybe we took it too slow

And kept it too low

But now you know

We couldn’t meet our vow

Still I remember, though

When the spring was blown

And everything you sowed

Let’s prune all that ever grow

I want to let them go

And trade all the sorrow

Because I believe so

We are made to glow

Alone or in a row

All credit goes to Frieska

What do you think?

Tantalize

tan·ta·lize [tan-tl-ahyz]

–verb (used with object), -lized, -liz·ing.

to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach;

tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.

When there is something that you want but are not able to reach it.

You know how it feels...

Terlalu

Maliq & D'Essentials has a new song!

A very nice song and a very good flow to the chorus. It's so groovy! I got shocked by the lyric anyway...

Precaution: I didn't mean if this song is so much like me. It just that I feel so hilarious on some parts of the lyric. Enjoy!

Click to listen it on YouTube...

Tak bisa terus menerus engkau menjaga

Perasaan hati yang terlena

Semakin lama semakin menyiksa

Oh aku tak ingin terus terbelenggu

Dengan fikiran tak menentu

Sungguh aku tak bisa

Membuat ku terlalu

Jauh mengkhayalkan tentang kita

Ku disini sepertinya masih berharap

Meski tak mungkin ku menunjukkannya

Kenyataannya membuat ku sedikit gila

Terlalu lama kau buat aku menunggu

Setiap ku tanya kau pun tak tahu

Semua ini akan menuju

Kau membuatku terlalu

Mengkhayalkan terlalu jauh

Ku disini sepertinya masih berharap

Meski tak mungkin ku menunjukkannya

Kenyataannya membuat ku sedikit gila

Karena kau terlalu terlalu

Membuatku terlalu jauh

Okay. Let me forget if I ever posted this. Hahaha..

The Strange

Hi diary! (Are you? Feeling quite sick of reading diary-style of Emily The Strange Novel). It has been few days (a week?) that I have not posted anything. So many things happened or to be exact, nothing much happened..

Some major stuffs are like I found Emily The Strange Novel at Times, Marina SQ and impulsively (and because it's cheap-promotional price I guess) bought it for $14 if I am not mistaken. I craved for something enigmatic and peculiar and the book serve me well. I am quite happy with it.

Been traveling around too (to meet friends) and I don't know why I dramatized so much everything I saw on my bus journey. I feel quite bored and unproductive.

Aside from that, there are few things that I need to forget. For instance, forget myself of being hopeless, being superior, being gloomy, and so on...

I need to sort things out! For few days, it has been so screwed up. I need to take up my organizer and some personal notes with a quite nice quality time with myself.

I am heading to McDonalds soon. I want to have sometime with myself without laziness of my bedroom.

Enjoy your dinner!

T.O.M.

I found this video on YouTube.

It's a weird and amusing video (do not surprise by the ending).

I love the way he talks. So cute!

(Giggle)

I can't help myself to type the script down (spoiler ahead, watch the video first):

My name is Tom. T. O. M.

Every day I have to same routine.

First, I get up, put on my pants, socks, shirt and tie, and trousers. Shoes.

I then clean my teeth.

Eat one and an half slices of toast with a jam from ?? and strawberry.

I don't like the lumps in jam but my mom keeps buying the lumpy one.

I pick up my school bag and out the door, up the left side of the path.

Car drives on the left hand side of the road in Britain, Japan and probably some other places.

At this corner is Mrs. Hamburg's bush.

It has big leaves and they don’t have a dog so the shoes will not get wet.

This is where i leave my socks. He checks his post everyday at 7 AM so they will be safe.

These socks are 100% cotton. I am allergic to some manmade fibers.

I hide my trousers here. The shop attendant looks dead but she doesn’t smell bad.

I sometimes look at myself in this window. I don’t think I am the only one.

I looked like I have a skirt on. I am a boy. I close the shop when i leave.

I take my shirt off by loosening my tie a little and opening the top two buttons.

It all comes up in one ??. It looks a bit like if it's an invisible man wearing it but that's silly.

That's the park. I don't play there anymore. It’s for little kids.

This is where I hide my shirt. It is free from sense of fungi and ?? under here.

I am now really to going to school.

But they are not completed. Can you help?

Nujabes

Do you know, a musician, Nujabes?

I think most people do not know him, even though he got a lot of fans indeed (I am one of them). For me, he is a genius in jazz electronica (with some mixture of hip-hop) genre.

It happened that I found his songs in YouTube few months ago. I did not check who he is. I just love the way he composes his music: so deep and good harmonization.

Yes, I did not check who he is until I read a comment on one of his song titled Love Sick. It said:

"WORD........... Drive safely cause you never know ..... you might just kill a genius."

I wonder what happened. My senses wonder if he actually dead already...

I just Google it for a quick reference. This is what I found at Wikipedia:

Jun Seba (February 7, 1974 – February 26, 2010)

OMG! He is actually already dead! I actually became so sad. Imagine how young he is only 36 yeas old! The comment is true: "Drive safely cause you never know, you might just kill a genius." I love his songs so much but there will be no more new song from this genius...

If you are interested on him, you can read more...

I think this world need more creative people. We will never have enough.

I really crave...

Sometimes I forget to fear

SOMETIMES I FORGET TO REMEMBER TO FEAR HOPE

Jennifer Dalton

2008

Mixed media

70" x 65" x 14" (178 x 165 x 36cm)

It is a sculpture made of 5 hinged panels of old-fashioned school

letterboards attached at the sides and hinged in accordion style, each on a metal sign stand. Each letterboard has a word or two placed on it that comprise a phrase when you read them all together. Depending on where you stand in relation to the accordion-folded panels, you can either see:

1. All 5 panels, which say SOMETIMES I / FORGET TO / REMEMBER TO / FEAR / HOPE
2. If you stand so the work is foreshortened, you see just the 1st, 3rd and 5th panels which read SOMETIMES I / REMEMBER TO / HOPE
3. If you stand so the work is foreshortened the other way, you see just the 2nd and 4th panels, which read FORGET TO / FEAR

An insightful artwork! Instead of "forget to hope" and "remember to fear", the artist put them the other way in a creative placement.

From now on, let's only say:

SOMETIMES I REMEMBER TO HOPE, FORGET TO FEAR.

Amen.