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Now a proud owner of Ayu Utami’s latest release Lalita (plus a bonus mousepad and author’s autograph inside).
I am definitely addicted to pre-ordering books. You know that amazing feeling when you have managed to finish the whole book, while the rest of the country are still waiting for it to be officially released in bookstores?
Besides, we are talking about the amazingness called Ayu Utami here.
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Saman finally crossed path with the guys from the Bilangan Fu series. Speaking of a recent historio-political event – that many of us still remember by heart - this one was more of a warm story about being an outsider and how love transcends.
Now I feel like re-reading the Saman book again. Sixteen years later, I believe that I would be able to see it differently; there will be things I would finally get to understand.
I have problem with the book cover though. Looks too much like vegetables for me.
Superman is Dead - Memories of Rose
Love the brass section. See, it was not blind nationalism speaking when I decided to vote for them to represent Indonesia for that music event in Hyde Park.
Meeting my all-time literary rock star Ayu Utami at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2013.
It was not the first time, but it is always a great pleasure. Especially since she congratulated me on my winning last night.
(Is it really hot in here or my happy tears just will not stop falling?)
My favourite local band finally made it to mainstream television by doing a live performance at tvOne’s Radio Show last night (1/5).
Born and bred in the the paradise island of Bali, the boys wowed the audience by kicking the show with a harder take of Godfather theme. The one and a half hour show was filled with their hit songs, with ‘Land of No Angels’ and 'Palace of My Own Disgrace’ as the starting points where my feelings started to get carried away in its catchy melancholy. Yes, catchy melancholy. An oxymoron which best describes a catchy punk-rock tune with lyrics that mirrored your own personal life, so deep you started to bow your head and sigh. But your sense of humour is strong enough that you do not see the need to cry.
Anyway.
They also covered a ballad by Social Distortion (forgot the title –I am sorry but it was 1 AM already!) and the classic 'Bridge Over Troubled Water’ –in their own signature style, of course. I wonder where I can get a copy of these cover versions… I think they should consider releasing an album especially for it, you know? I always consider a well-built cover version as an art form of its own.
What was planned to be a 13-track show is cut off to 11-track, because a live football match was going to start soon and disrupting it would be as serious as committing religious blasphemy, so yeah. But it was still impressive though. I am not sure which one impressed me more; the performance itself or tvOne’s brave move for adding a non-mainstream punk-rock band to perform on its show. I have never been a fan of the channel but this time I have to say that they had made my dream came true. Kudos for that.
(Thank you, @fakhruoutSIDer, for uploading the video to youtube)
Plus a surprise at the end of the video!
The best day in the life of a fan is definitely when she wrote a piece about a subject and the subject himself appreciated it with a small compliment. Plus a little promotion. And an input.
Matur suksma, bli Jerinx!
The blue thingy wrapped around my black top in my previous post is one of their product.
It is a scarf, though it did not really look like anything recognisable when I first saw it.
The website also has a tutorial on how to wear the thing. There are at least five ways to wear it.
Whenever I read Ayu Utami’s works I always feel a strong urge to learn about Javanese cultural history again. To speak with my history teacher in high school — who is a trained archaeologist - about how to differentiate arcas from Singasari and Majapahit kingdoms, borrow her textbook collections, and have her telling me about her past excavations.
I also miss my father. He views travelling as a part of my education; wherever we go, we would stop by local museums where he would explain to me everything. Because my father seems to know everything. I first learn about evolution from our visit to that natural history museum in Sydney, and he brought me books on the Colosseum from Rome. Then when I was eight we did a road trip around Java, and we visited every ancient Hindu and Buddhist temples along the way, and prayed at every ancient mosques we found.
I need to begin travelling again.
