1000 days hiatus

Seribu hari sudah blog ini mengalami hiatus. Cukup lama atau sebentar itu relatif. Yang jelas memang kadang ada rasa rindu mengetik, menuangkan kata dan kalimat. Biasanya di malam gelap.

Lantas kenapa?

Sempat pikir-pikir juga sih. Apakah sesederhana malas atau alasan klasik "tidak ada waktu". Yang jelas buat saya weblog adalah: log. Entah itu di kertas (tidak pernah berhasil), di berkas .txt, sekadar echo "this is log" >> log atau ya weblog. Dan buat saya dunia web selalu identik dengan mesin *nix. Bagai preman, sulit rasanya hidup tanpa terminal.

Mungkin ini ketergantungan alat. Tapi saya merasa lebih efisien hidup di atas *nix. Mungkin ini candu. Tapi bayangkan, tiga tahun tanpa mesin dengan uptime sekian minggu-an, ternyata saya masih punya muscle memory hingga ingat bagaimana membagi layar dan melompat-lompat di vim. Banyak yang lupa, memang... tetapi kala rileks, secara intuitif jari saya bergerak mengombinasikan perintah yang tepat. And I'm not even a coder.

Jadi, pupus sudah hiatus ini.

Streets are uneven

But not long after the incumbent mayor play tennis in our neighborhood, the road is fixed.

Isn't it amazing how quickly the infrastructure if fixed when election coming. That's right, folks. The road near to our house is severely damaged. For months.

And one day, while we were going out for grocery, we saw a tennis tournament nearby. The mayor cup. Huh, I said. Now he got the chance to see how bad the infrastructure was. The wife said, he'd wanted to be reelected by fixing the road. How true...

New status

I was busy :D

Baru sadar papan status di pesan instan masih 'busy' melulu. Untung diingetin teman (yang juga 'lupa' udah holiday season. Ow, come' on. It's holiday! Celebrate the life!

Buncah

Kalau buncis itu kacang, maka buncah adalah perasaan gua saat ini. Buncah, karena ada yang sesak dalam diri. Energi yang sesak, mendesak, meledak-ledak. Masa ajeb-ajeb yang baru usai masih belum menyalurkan seluruh energi. Masih belum "turun", masih jaim, masih ingat daratan. Tapi cukuplah untuk mengembalikan memori masa muda hehe..

 Sebetulnya sih, gua percaya muda itu urusan state of mind. Berapa banyak elu lihat orang muda yang menyia-nyiakan kebeliaannya, sementara yang renta malah tegar bersemangat. Tapi semangat di perempatan hidup sepertinya belum cukup. Perlu pikiran jangka panjang, dan mungkin juga peruntungan. Perlu juga menentukan mau menapaki jalan sambil merangkak, berlari, atau berputar-putar.

Yang terakhir itu, meskipun bukan pilihan, kayaknya sedang gua jalani. Agak menyebalkan, serasa disorientasi. Apa gua pakai peta yang salah? Sepertinya sih gua sedang berjalan terus ke Utara. Mungkin pengaruh romatisme yang bikin gue terus ngalor. Tapi apa perlu ngidul hanya karena alasan pragmatis. Hmm, tambah runyam ini tulisan. Cogito ergo doleo. Gua tambah quote yang enggak nyambung sekalian deh, hehe

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains" --Sir Winston Churchill    

 Biar tambah kacau, mari kita menyanyi.. Hear me in the harmony-nya Harry Connick, Jr. The city don't even matter, I could be anywhere, I don't care, There's a whole lotta hard workin people That could take my place, And it's easy to leave, When nobody knows your face, Just close your eyes, You can hear me in the harmonyI came up in New Orleans, Fixin what I could find, To peace my mind, I gave what I had to the winners, Just to get along, But it's really hard to sing, When nobody hears your song, Just close your eyes, You can hear me in the harmonyI thought I learned from getting burned, I bought a suit of armor and a silver cane, I found a little man who'd be proud of me, But he had to get up early, And I had to get back to my painI guess I'll keep on livin, One day they'll ask for me, I'll be free, And if there's a heaven, I'll be ready for my life to begin, But I wonder if I call, If they're gonna let me in, Open your eyes, You can hear me in the harmony

Midnight at Kuta..

Well, past midnight actually. It's really good to be at the beach tonight. There was quite a crowd (it's Saturday night!) but you could feel the serenity comes from the ocean. With the * in hand, the night pass by quickly and it's suddenly raining. But it's quite enough to fresh up my spirit that's wore down throughout the Conference. And I'm sorry that I wasn't really into the conference. I was busy running here and there for whatever errands ahead.

This is really an exhaustive week, but more should come. There's not much progress yet on the negotiation. But lets save it 'til Monday. So, tomorow --I mean, this morning, we'll go to Ubud and elsewhere. I really hope that we could have some more fun.

Makan siang

Laba-laba yang cantik ya? Terlihat kejam peristiwa pemangsaan ini. Tapi ingat saja kita pun sering makan mahluk lain, entah berkaki, tidak berkaki, atau malah berfotosintesis. Yang jelas, tangan ini gatal-gatal setelah mengambil gambar. Mungkin bulu-bulu yang terbang hinggap ke tangan. Waktu itu cuaca memang cukup berangin jadinya si laba-laba berayun ke sana ke mari. Cukup sulit buat mengambil fotonya. Silakan klik foto untuk melihat versi citra yang lebih besar.

Semoga tidak mengurangi selera makan :)

Bunga

Taman Nasional Meru Betiri..

Berhubung lagi sering berkelana masuk ke luar gedung. Jadi kangen masuk ke luar hutan...