Kim's Painting

Painted was she was 16, this pink Volkswagen Beetle is dream painted with acrylic. Like another girl, she has a dream if one day she could have this pink-car. Through her painting, she's trying to show her cute and cheerful personalty. The choice of pink shows that she has girlie personality. However, it is she. Kim Yee Seul 

-if-

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

--- Rudyart Kipling---

Happy-(ness) ?

A Little Story About (S)he

" I am what I am"

A short quote that I heard last Monday in creative writing class. It was mbak Sonya. Yeah! Last Monday we had special guest, and the guest was Mbak Sonya. Olivia Sonya Aresta is her full name, but usually people call her Sonya. She is one of activist in PKBI Yogyakarta. Mmm.. it is a  little bit difficult to tell where she comes from. Born in Klaten, lived for several years in Klaten then moved to Cilacap then back to Jogja, but in  her identity card she lives is Bandung.

Last Monday, she shared her experience with us. For me she is special, yes she is. She was born as the first son in her family. She spent her childhood in Klaten. She told us that her childhood was very happy. Then why ? "Because children is innocent, they can do everything they want," said Mbak Sonya. When she was a child, she preferred to play with a girl. A girl ? Yes, it is. She prefer to play "masak-masakan", barbie with the girls. Then a question comes to my mind, Why ?. She answered it shortly " because the boys are naughty". She told us that boy are naughty, rude and like to bully her so then she prefer to play with the girls. And this comfort zone continued until she entered the school. She dressed up as a normal boy, but again she preferred to socialize with the girls. Even her chairmate was a girl and she had a best-friend also a girl. At this time, she has decided to be a woman. Her decision of course made some people didn't agree, especially her mom. Her mom is the one who disagree with her decision, but for Mbak Sonya it doesn't make any matter. She proud of her self. She believes that she can do anything better even than a real woman. " I'm proud of my self. I can cook tastier than other woman and I can work properly than a man who cannot work and get money as well as me," said Mbak Sonya.

Eventhough , she is different from the other woman, but her spirit is really inspire us. No matter what she believes that she can do better than the others.

" I love people surround me, I love people who loved me and I'm proud to be my self." said Mbak Sonya in the end our conversation.

Bag Your Plastics!

Is your life too plastics ?

A very simple question but little bit has deep meaning. Let see, almost every day we life with plastics, from a simple thing: our coffee cup made from plastic, our mineral water cup made from plastic, our fan made from plastic, what else ? A lot.

Bag it is documentary film directed by Suzan Beraza and hosted by her husband Job Berier. This movie expose the effect of plastic product that we used in our daily life. Plastic give a bad effect to land, animal also human. Therefore, this movie persuade us to minimize the use of plastic in order to care the environment. We can minimize the use of plastic start from little step; Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. :)

Chairil Anwar: Aku Berkaca

Aku Berkaca

Ini muka penuh luka 

Siapa punya ?

Kudengar seru menderu

dalam hatiku

Apa hanya angin lalu ?

Lagu lain pula

Menggelepar tengah malam buta

Ah.......!!

Segala menebal, segala mengental

Segala tak kukenal..............!!

Selamat tinggal....................!!

Dari: Deru Campur Debu’

You have to try THIS!

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When you heard Cabuk Rambak, what do you think? Yeah, it sounds weird right? Cambuk in English means whip and rambak maybe you don’t have any idea about it. Actually, cabuk rambak is traditional food from Solo. It is not as popular as other traditional food from Solo like Serabi,Tengkleng or Intip. Cabuk rambak often sell in traditional market but in my home, Cabuk rambak sold by woman peddler. I’m not sure if people in my town (Solo) ever heard about this food, because nowadays Cabuk rambak is not easy to find. I am feeling lucky because I can eat this delicious food in every Sunday morning.

Sliced ketupat covered with brown sauce and piece of rambak and served with banana leaf is cabuk rambak. The brown sauce made form sesame, chili, garlic and salt, it taste spicy and little bit hot then rambak is chip that made from rice it also have a spicy taste. One slice of ketupat with little brown sauce and a bit of rambak is perfect taste of it.

So, if you come to Solo try to eat this food, I guarantee you will not regret after eat this food. It is so deliciouso!