Something About Climate Change

I don’t know much about this issue, but I don’t need too much information just to convince myself that climate change is real. I know it is, since I was nine. It was something about global warming, green house effect,...

Little Women Has Reminded Me of Those Who Matter

As soon as I opened this book, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, the magic happens. It tells me beautiful phrases I've never read before, it introduces me characters whom I laughed and shed tears with, it conveys...

Things He Told Me About Death

This morning, I jogged in a field not far from my kos. Most of the joggers are in their late 30s. Some are 40s. Very few of them are above 50s.  One of the elderlies caught my attention. He walked, seemed so careful...

30 Things I Learnt From Finishing My 100 Pages Idea Book in (Almost) A Year: WIP Update #3

It took me the entire 10 months to think about at least 20 different ideas that have no depth at all. It took me only 26 days to dig into one focused idea.  I don't do tables.  I do graphs.  I draw rough...

Letting Her Go

I've been in a battle.  Turns out, it's never been really a battle.  It was just her, demanding my attention.  Once I granted her request,  she did leave for good.  It was that simple. But...

Another Home 2

She spent another five years living in Another Home. She wasn't too excited for coming back, nor too sad for leaving Hometown. She left her school in Hometown, when she was in her senior year of elementary school. Leaving...

One Fine Day

Today, everything was perfectly fine. Just like any other days. I stayed in my room all day, wrote stuff, watched movies, had meals, had a coffee, replied mom's text, drank a lot of water, paid for the room rent, talked...

Another Home

A long time ago, there was a little girl who lived in the most memorable place on earth. People named that place Jogja. She named it Another Home. She lived there with her mother and little sister. Sometimes, her father...

Pantsing: WIP Update #2

Dear, you It's been two weeks since my first WIP update, so I'm not gonna tell you my day-to-day update, it will just be my overall update. So, I read about a novella competition that was held by an online writing platform...

Girls and Their Make-Ups

"You look good." That's what you, and other billions of people say whenever I wear make up: liquid powder, lipstick, blush on (most of the times), mascara and eyeliner (sometimes).    I wasn't really sure...

Convey Messages in A Story: WIP Update #1

Dear, you Here is my first weekly WIP update and I'm gonna start on August, 21st. Monday and Thursday are supposed to be hectic days at work, because those are days where children have classes and make me have to work...

Intro to WIP Updates

Dear, you After thinking for too long, I finally decided to create this label. I've been tracking my WIP progress for myself, but it didn't seem to work. Instead of making a progress, I got stuck. I kept on changing,...

The Self-Centered Universe

Recently, as my ideas-detector started to get back on its activated mode (it was on hiatus for a while, due to the self-hate I suffered from), I've gained back my observational-thought, which helped me to survive as a thinking-breathing-living...

The Day I Lost My Right Arm

One fine Monday morning, I woke up and couldn't find my right arm. It was not on the pillow, under the blanket, nor behind my back. It wasn't everywhere. I glanced at my feet, wondering if they were intact. Thank God, they...

Book Store

It's Sunday. Many people spend their time by going out and spending their money on something, including books. It wasn't in my today to-do list to go anywhere, but you insisted me and I easily agreed. We went to book store. Staring...

I Can't Do This

I remember writing just because I love the typing sound on the keyboard.  I remember being proud of my work and giving no care to those best-selling books. I remember waking up without worrying on how I'm gonna...

First Day

My first day at work was overwhelming. I barely feel my feet on the ground, I wasn't even sure of what I was doing on the desk, until you showed up and reminded me to stay focus. It was just one day after you asked me,...

A Debt

It's been five months since the day I graduate. I sat next to my best friend in the balcony, staring at a mountain that was covered with night lights, small buildings, houses' roof, and trees' canopies. "How does it feel?"...

Strangers Interaction

There are some characteristics of strangers-interaction: consist of communication between two or more people run in short period of time; happen in public places, e.g: train, shops, street, etc. based on mutual-short-term...

If I Knew It Earlier

Whole my life, I've been questioning, why do Muslims have to pray for so many times a day? Even when I was 13, I told my Catholic friend that I envy her for not having to pray that much. And she said nothing as a response,...

Her

This anxiety has continuously come since the day I graduated. The whole thing about graduation was never been a matter to me. But it was, for my mom. My sister told me that mom was bursting into tears while staring at me...

Time Wasted

Since the very beginning of March, I've tried to put a job for every hour per day. I managed to do well until today, the first wasted day of the entire month of March. Literally, all I did was none: had my mind flown...

Recharging

My friend has stayed in my place since past three days. Today, before I wasn't properly awaken, she went home. Since then, it was me, myself and I left. But I need a ritual that assist my state of mind to be fully transferred...

Punishment

Today is a writing days. I spent hours just to write fours paragraph of essay. I don't want to look like a fool, that was my goal, so I put so much effort without considering the time limit. Wasting time is a thing...

Marriage

We haven't been talking about boys for ages and here it comes again. There's a couple with six years apart, the man will turn 30 by next month, the woman is all grown up. They've known each other for three months and...

Beam of Light

Thank God for sending me a friend for sleep over since last few days, instead of letting me slowly losing my sanity in lonesome. Another meeting that I had today with GPY Semarang was also successfully enhance my sense-of-being-a-human....

Annoyed

I woke up knowing that I wasn't alone. My friend had a slept over. More or less, she made me more human than usual. God bless, I've got someone to had my dinner with and someone to laugh with. She brought back my sense-of-being-a-human...

February Wrap-Up

The beginning of a new month has come in a blink of an eye. In February, (beside turning 22) I started and finished my IETLS course, which I supposed to take more seriously with doing more self-study instead of relying...

I Hated an Innocence

I used to hate my sister so freaking much.  I had no idea why was it not enough for my parents to just have a daughter, instead of two. I used to wish to live all by my own, having all Barbies in the entire world...

Wejangan dari Si Satu untuk Si Dua

22. Lihatlah dua angka dua yang bersebelahan itu. Akhirnya tiba giliran mereka bersama, menggantikan Si Dua dan Si Satu yang tadinya juga bersama. Sebelum Si Satu lengser, ia memberikan wejangan berikut pada Si Dua: kendalikan...

Kepiluan Masa Kecil

Pada usiaku yang keempat, aku diajari melipat bangau oleh kawan Ibuku. Kuikuti setiap tahap yang diperagakannya. Awalnya aku bisa mengikuti dengan mudah, tapi lama kelamaan, Si Om itu mulai laju lipat-melipatnya. Aku...

Mawar Putih dalam Keberadaan

Selama lima tahun keberadaan kulkas di dapur seorang manusia, ia telah menjadi saksi bisu perjuangan bunga mawar putih dalam pot yang bertahta di atas si kulkas. Seharian ini, bunga mawar memekik-mekik pada manusia...

Lima Babi Kecil

Suatu hari, ada lima babi kecil bersaudara yang sedang jalan-jalan ke tempat yang sangat dingin. Mereka bermalam di sebuah kandang kecil yang harus muat diisi berlima selama lima hari. Ada yang mengeluh dingin, ada yang...

Lima Sekawan

Suatu hari, ada lima sekawan yang berbagi pembicaraan tentang pekerjaan dan kuliah lanjutan. Pembicaraan berlangsung sengit dan membingungkan. Selama pembicaraan, salah satu dari mereka yang bernama A, sedang berjuang dalam...