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This blog is a portfolio of various writings that I have created along the way. There are personal notes and reflections, some book reviews and school assignments/stories, as well as hearty —and sometimes sappy— semi-fiction pieces.
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Di Dalam Diri
Di dalam diri, anak kecil itu masih bernyawa. Ikut melanglang buana, mengelilingi dunia, dan memuaskan angannya. Sesekali ia memekik kesenangan atau pula tersedu sedan. Atau merasa asing dan seorang diri melihat semuanya sudah berganti. Anak kecil itu lahir dari ketidakpastian dan tumbuh dengan segala yang familiar. Satu-satunya hal yang ia hendaki hanyalah untuk pulang. Kembali ke dekapan ayah dan ibunya. Kembali ke rangkulan rumah mungilnya. Tapi apa daya, kesempatan untuk pulang telah sirna oleh waktu. Digantikan dengan kesempatan untuk pergi dan tidak kembali. Maka anak kecil itu semakin takut dan ragu. Ia terus merengek dan memohon. Dalam pintanya, ia bertanya,…
Continue to readPause, Blink, and It’s 2023: The Distorted Time Perception During and After The Covid-19 Pandemic
Time paused in 2020, and ever since, someone has been pressing the fast-forward button for a bit too long to the extent that the last three years felt more like a blur. Isn’t it weird how three years have never felt so long while you were experiencing it, but now it all seems like it’s flying away so fast once it ended? How we perceive and experience time, or time perception, is often mind-boggling. Even when the “duration” of time itself is the same for everyone (e.g. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, etc), it was proved in…
Continue to read“Dedicated to everyone who wonders if I’m writing about them. I am.”
I feel called out by this anonymous quote I found one day on Pinterest. It is the truth, after all, I am constantly writing about them. About the kids that I grew up with whose presence in my life now is nothing but a few Instagram notifications from time to time. About the girl that I low-key looked up to in middle school. About the old friends and the almost-friends and the ex-friends that I wished I talked more with. About the strangers that I only met a couple of times and whose life stories are still etched in my…
Continue to read“Aftermath: Population Zero” Film Analysis
The documentary “Aftermath: Population Zero” ponders what the earth would be like if humans suddenly disappeared. It promotes the theme of the interconnectedness of human life and nature. Multiple times, the documentary emphasizes the fact that humans are so dependent on nature. To the point where we control the force of nature to serve our needs until it reaches the issue of global warming. But unlike humans, nature is not dependent on human life as it can sustain itself and go through positive changes without us. Thus, the purpose of this film is to remind us how disruptive our lifestyle…
Continue to readConversation #1: A Girl in Her Shadow
“Why do I still feel like I’m living in your shadow?” She looked at me, “how? I’m not even there anymore.” Unsure of what to say, I just shrugged. I looked back at our pictures together. There were lots of them, I noticed, in the first few weeks of us meeting each other. There were lots of them before everything went awry. Before the two of us drifted apart from each other. There is nothing special about the pictures. It was just us, with some other people, smiling at the camera. But despite our slight resemblance to one another; soft…
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