March 2012
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I'm finishing another book this month
It would be my 2nd book this month. I feel like I want to keep writing and perfecting it. But I have to wrap it up. There’s another book to complete.
I have a very little patient
Over people who I feel leaving me (sometimes it’s only how I feel and not neccessarily the real fact)
I will immediately run away faster than they leave, so it’d be me leaving them
I’m trying to hold myself right now, not doing it to you
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Mourning
My eyes have betrayed my heart
It refused to cry a single tear
Even after reciting Yaasin
Even after watching the silent beauty
Even after looking at the empty chair
Her favorite chair where she always use to read, playing cards, watch tv, or simply having a light conversation with me
My eyes have betrayed my heart
I don’t want to be too calm like this
I want to cry out loud
I want...
Energy been pretty gloomy this past week. Heavy and heavier. Either from external or internal. If traveling is the cure, I need to travel 365 days a year.
It's True
I have said to my auntie over and over again, I want to write a book about her and her journey with PKK, empowering women community all over Indonesia. But I always reluctant to start because I’m afraid that I’m not good enough for her story, I never wrote a biography book before.
Now, I can only regret things that I don’t do. I wish I started writing already.
I wish.
Why!
I am so mad. Disappointed with myself! Why I didn’t listen to my heart? Why?!
Innalillahi wa Innailaihi Rojiuun
My auntie Kardinah S. Roestam has just passed away. I am deeply regret not being able to visit her lately. I always got the pull to visit her house these days but keep cancelling my plan. I haven’t even listen to her stories, I plan to create a biography book for her. Ya Allah!!
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Get More Confidence
What does confidence look like? You:
Are comfortable in your own skin.
Hold no delusion about yourself; you can look at yourself objectively and laugh at yourself wholeheartedly.
Handle whatever hits you no matter how many pressures.
Feel neither self-conscious nor superior.
Fail to act embarrassed with what people think about you and shrug off attempts at insults.
Freely admit imperfection...
A test or a sign to move on? How to differ?
I get text messages from a girl, poetry, lovely words, saying “You’re my everything” and “You’re always in my heart” - I just don’t know what should I say to respond
Muslim Woman Murdered in California →
nai1aa:
A 32-year-old woman was critically injured and not expected to survive after an assault in her El Cajon home on Wednesday, police said Friday, and a threatening note telling the mother of five to go back to her home country was found near her, a family friend said.
The woman’s 17-year-old daughter found her unconscious in the dining room of the house on Skyview Street off Lemon Avenue...
zikrayat:
Ladies. Please be careful. Please be careful. I’m sitting here sobbing because I just read that a Muslim woman was beaten to death for being Muslim. This affects us all. We are all connected. We are all Shaima Alawadi, because we could all be Shaima Alawadi.
Inna lillahi Inna Illaihi Rajioon
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Photo Hunt
My intention is clear. I will bring my DSLR this time to capture the beauty of eastern land. It’s a matter of bringing more lenses or not now.
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Spam
If you have friends who care enough to make time and let you know that your twitter or email sending spams, be grateful.
Someone else might never have that kind of friends.
Talked about my novel outline with my editor today. It’s the one I’ve been delaying to touch for the past year. My editor asked me to not take the story too personally. Or else, the story will be dull because all I want is the girl character to be always right & never make mistakes.
I’m sad. Truly like in movies. My smart talented friend ended up being a mining company manual worker. What a waste of his ability.
Guess, c’est la vie????
“What matter now is I want to leave. I want to never deal with reality and drown...”
– SC
New York Minutes →
Shirley’s blog about her first experience in New York
First of all, I’m not an ordinary type of tourist who likes to bring large paper map and carry a backpack which loudly screams, “Help! I’m a tourist!”. In many cases, I often become the tourist that other tourists ask for direction (although I couldn’t be much of a help either). IMHO, the “backpack...
Just found out that Hy is in Saigon now *wave to Hy*
I thought he’s been insomnia posting pics at these hours :))
Definitely need to visit Saigon, Hue and maybe Hanoi. I’d been wanting to experience cruise in Ha Long Bay
Maybe after June. Stay there Hy, we’ll have some coffee and photohunt together in Hue
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Things not to worry about
On August 8th of 1933, author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the following letter of advice to his 11-year-old daughter, “Scottie,” who was away at camp. (Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters ; Image: Fitzgerald with both his daughter, “Scottie,” and wife, Zelda, via.)
La Paix, Rodgers’ Forge Towson, Maryland August 8, 1933 Dear Pie: I feel very strongly...
I’m leaving tomorrow, 3-hours flight to Kupang for long weekend. In my best possible consciousness of leaving my unfinished book draft. I can’t handle my own feeling, even my writing can’t help. I need to escape, if I could. Meeting my junior high school friends should help.
I know we need a lot of sense of humor to get thru life.
But I’m just running out of it.
I always envy people who take nice photos and wonder how they do that, but in the same time, I’m lazy to bring my own DSLR around.
I don’t know what I want.
