Month: March 2012

  • If everything really happens for another reason.

    Lessons learned. It’s the dilemma of growing up. Some lessons turned to be boundaries and experiences are sometimes traumatic. The more lessons, the more I’m doubtful to try and fall. The more I read hauntingly-beautiful books, the cheesier other love fictions get. The more silence I discover in songs, the noisier television gets. The farther I fly,…

  • I ____ ___

    I ____ ___ at most on every take-off; when I barely feel my feet on the ground and my _____ in the sky I ____ ___ like an old favorite track from high school that came back ___ _______ with the smell of cheap teenage eau de cologne I ____ ___ like longing for extra…

  • Singapore

    I always think that my life is somehow similar to Singapore. Busy, with rapid changes and constantly moving, yet interesting. Where ‘busy earning’ and ‘busy spending’ are back to back. Where every little empty space is filled with unbearable thoughts of being somewhere else. But then I came back there last week and saw it…

  • An Important Question, Among Beautiful Lines

    That night, together with a band from Seattle on stage and hundreds of strangers on the grass, I sang and half-screamed myself an important question; That love is watching someone die So who’s gonna watch you die?

  • Magazined: GADIS ;)

    A couple of weeks after this, GADIS called me and asked me a short long-distanced interview about my job. I was really excited because it was more like a nostalgia. It was my favorite magazine back in high school, plus I was once a freelancer there. So I got featured in a booklet talking about…

  • My Top 11: Death Cab for Cutie’s Tracks

    Although I’m not on the list of Death Cab for Cutie‘s major groupies, I get a bit too excited for their upcoming performance at Fort Gate, SG. Everything is booked and ready, and I #MarchWish things would go as planned (since the holiday euphoria wouldn’t be started by then, and Hardi, who’s going with me…