Suatu Malam Ketika Hujan di Bulan Juni

Yang lebih tabah dari hujan bulan Juni adalah gadis pencinta yang tak pernah tahu bahwa ada yang merindunya karena tak seperti perindu lainnya pria itu tak pernah mencarinya… Sebuah balasan untuk puisi Sapardi Djoko Damono, “Hujan Bulan Juni” dan Khrisna Pabichara, “Suatu Malam Ketika Aku Merindumu” Hujan Bulan Juni Sapardi Djoko Damono tak ada yang …

On the Reasons for Love

“Do I love you because you’re beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?” — Prince Charming in Cinderella, the Musical It seems like an innocent question, something everyone asks whenever you say that you love someone/them. “Why do you love him/her?” “Why do you love me?” “Why?” Like there should be a logical, systematical answer. …

Home is where your heart is

Greetings from the hot, humid, crowded city of Jakarta! Yes, that’s right, I have left Geneva, Switzerland, and returned. Here’s the shocking part: unlike what I had imagined before, I’m not devastatingly missing Geneva! Preparing to leave was a crazy ordeal. Not only did I have a gazillion things to sift trough and narrow down …

The Antigel Experience — First week recap

It started with me, as usual, spotting a poster while on the bus. Geneva is the sort of city where event posters are all over the place, and I mean that in a good way. Long story short, I discovered the Antigel Festival. It is an art/dance/music/sport/all-of-the-above festival that prides itself in “the unexpected” and …