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Time to stimulate my brain with words through poetry Wednesday. Today, let me share you one of my poems ( phew this is my "first" poem I wrote since I wrote the last poem six months ago, I know, I know; it's been so long.) I willl drop by to yours as soon as I get the time; as my ISP seems to have been having some problems, and that cause me to fail to browse some sites ( multiply is one of them).
Sunset Secret
Sunset, sunset What would you tell to the world? Sunset and the unspoken words within Are you being secretive? How could you possibly console restless mind?
Sunset, oh my dear sunset On the medium-speed train when my eyes were deceived, By an excellent figure, gleaming eyes of someone. Then I found rapture in his ordinary words Having been drawn into your comforting tone of voice
Sunset exudes boundless love You let me watch the days pass by, YOu let me relive sublime moments, Forgetting the crowd around Then you and I were mesmeric.
What a beauty you possess! Had my eyes been deceived once more? or was it my mind reliving moments? Perhaps, my heart was then planted by hopes
Sunset, my beautiful sphere! Never has your beauty deceived me Neither have the gleaming eyes, which were close to mine. For it was I who was on a joyful state of mind planted by hopes, All by myself
It was the 715th anniversary of my city, Surabaya yesterday. "Sparkling Surabaya" becomes the motto of the anniversary, which means the city was enlightened by colorful lights. It was totally crowded that night when I went out. Okay, I didn't went out to celebrate the anniversary, yet to meet up someone, one of multipliers in my contact. Having an account in Multiply gives you some advantages and of course disadvantages, yet I won't talk about the disadvantages ones.
1. You are used to writing, expressing your thoughts ( hopefully in an appropriate manner) and sharing things with the ones you trust. Or I should say you are free to write anything you want ( but be wise, I guess) have you ever heard a saying " Sometimes it is wise not to tell" ? so, it's all up to you whether or not you wanna speak out aloud to public.
2. Having new acquaintances, and if you click they might be your friends, even best friends.
3. Learning new things from people either those who share the same languages or who don't share the same languages as you ( if you get contacts from different countries)
Those are just some
Let's back to what happened last night; I met up with a contact ( another multiplier in my contact list) Mbak Lia from Jakarta. (I have already met some of my contacts though.) but we didn't take photos, I guess we were too busy to eat and talk?
To me, it's always great to get the chance to meet new people; you learn something about them and you learn something about yourself too. So I guess, it's not something wrong to express my heartfelt appreciation to those who put a smile on my face, is it?. Thanks Mbak Lia ( semoga semua baik2 aja disana ya mbak Lia)
Okay then I will leave you with today's theme song. I won't get bored to tell if you know the song, come on sing along!
"When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother what would I be? Will I be pretty? will I be rich, here's what she says to me; quee serra2 ( hmm while singing, I am wondering how to spell the words) whatever will be will be"
Addendum:
"Kopdar" is an abbreviation of "Kopi Darat" a term used to mean a meeting with people whom you only know offline then you decide to meet them face to face. This is the funny thing, literally kopi means Coffee while Darat means Land, Can you imagine Coffee and Land put together and become new phrase and meaning? Perhaps this is because of the habit people do while meeting; they drink coffee while talking. These abbreviated words are common here; people get used to combining two words together, one of the example is "kopdar" tell me if you are interested in any other examples. Perhaps this habit becomes more and more common as cellphones and texting are also becoming more and more usual. ( Is this some kind of breakthrough in linguistics? well, that needs research in depth, hehehe)
It's been sometimes since I wrote poems here. All of sudden, I found an inspiration, then I decided to save it on my poetry writing. I guess I want to try to write more, we'll see
Kalau jaman dulu tahun 80an, belum banyak yang namanya channel TV, hiburan lain yang didapat adalah dari radio. Sekarang orang denger radio buat dengerin lagu, kirim salam, selain denger berita, itu jelas, meskipun jaman dulu juga sudah begitu. Hanya saja, sepertinya ada yang hilang.....
Dulu waktu SD, setiap saya pulang sekolah sambil makan siang saya langsung puter radio dan cari yang namanya Sandiwara Radio. Atau sambil makan malam, saya puter radio cari yang namanya Sandiwara Radio.... seru seru sih masih ingat beberapa.
Tutur Tinular
Mantili, Lasmini, Aria Kamandanu, dll! ini favorit sekali. Sampai sekarang my vivid imagination about the story is still clear. Imaginasi berkembang! tahu dong yang namanya radio kita hanya bisa bayangin aja, dan it was a lot of fun!. Gimana mantili beraksi, gimana Lasmini berpakaian dan sebagainya. Meski sebenernya nggak ingat juga gimana terusannya atau akhirnya.
Mak Lampir
Favorit juga nih, nggak terlalu banyak yang bisa diingat dari sandiwara ini. Tapi seru banget, dulu waktu kecil habis pulang sekolah cuma pake kaos dalam dan celana pendek sambil makan siang dengerin ini sandiwara radio. Ketawanya mak Lampir! rambutnya! tongkatnya semua jelas dalam imajinasi saya. Pernah dulu waktu mati lampu, denger sandiwara ini pake radio yang pakai baterai! pas mak lampir ketawa, kita pada pegang bantal dan saling ngeruntel ( deket2).
Srintil
Nggak ingat apa ini nama orang (tapi sepertinya sih iya) lokasi atau apa. Yang jelas ini sandiwara radio Horror! serem saya masih ingat tuh ceritanya. Apalagi ada background musik seremnya, didengerin malem2 jadi tambah berasa! Saya masih TK waktu itu... ada penggalan kata yang masih saya ingat , kira-kira begini ....
"Rumahnya gelap, ada sumur depan rumah... kemudian Srintil mengendap.. pelan-pelam dan tiba-tiba Srintil merasa ada yang mengikutinya dari belakang tiba-tiba..."
Nah sekarang beda! anak sekolah pulang kerumah main games, les, liat TV sampe sore. Sandiwara radio sekarng sudah punah, meski nggak totaly gone. Beberapa hari yang lalu, saya denger sandiwara radio tentang family affair, tapi once again tidak menarik seperti dulu. Yang jelas Sandiwara radio nggak memancarkan pesonanya lagi. Pesonanya sudah terkalahkan dengan sandiwara televisi yang lebih visual, nggak usah berimajinasi tentang bagaimana cerita / scene ceritanya.
Lu2Ar
For my contacts who speak English
Radio series were quite popular around 80s. At that time, TV channels here were only few; not so interesting ones. When I was in elementary, I often turned on the radio just to follow some radio series ( Tutur Tinular, Mak Lampir and Srintil) I think I still had some more, but I just don'r remember what they were.
Now everything is of course different; coming home from school, children take lessons, watch TV, or play video games sometimes until late in the afternoon. Slowly but surely, radio series become rare. No one wants to listen to them even if there is any on the radio. Radio series become less interesting than TV series. This is something obvious; watching TV series you don't even need to imagine how the scene is, yet radio series your imagination works. Anyhow, I don't know about these radio series abroad.
I rarely rate novels 5 stars, yet this one deserves to get 5. A novel by Anita Shreve “Strange Fits of Passion” is so absorbing a story that you simply can’t put the novel down until you finish reading it at one time. A story of a turbulent tragic story of domestic abuse. A woman who is sentenced to a life prison for a first degree murder she did for self-defense against her brutal husband. Unlike other novels that use a lot of “I” and seem to have only one character speaking and playing role the whole story, this novel is different and to tell you the truth the kind of writing she uses in this novel Strange Fits of Passion is new to me. Anita Shreve does not write her novel “Strange Fits of Passion” based on chapters of accidents, yet she writes the story as if you were reading memoirs or testimonials from people who are directly or indirectly related to the main character, so sometimes there are some flashbacks. It is not only ONE character who speaks, yet MORE than ONE. There is even the Reading Group Guide Inside; in this Guide, there are some questions about each character who testifies on Mary Amesbury alias Maureen English. The story might be just usual story, yet the way Anita Shreve tells it to the world make it unusual story and become an interesting story to read. To me, this is a really impressive style of writing that brings to an excellent story, a powerful portrait of truth and deception.
Have you ever watched shadow puppet? ( wayang kulit) rod puppets ? ( wayang Golek) or wayang wong (wayang performed by human being)? What do you think? boring? interesting?old-fashioned? or how?.
Wayang kulit performances are usually accompanied by gamelan, a set of Javanese instruments. The puppets used in wayang kulit themselves are played by a person called "dalang". This "dalang" plays important role in the show. When "dalang" begins to perform the show, he has already arranged the puppets based on the stories drawn from the Ramayana and Mahabharata, so that the "dalang" does not need to bother himself choosing which puppet(s) come next on the cotton screen cast in oil lamp * note : nowadays, they do not use oil lamps for the lights, yet they use more modern colored lights and other innovations.* The way "dalang" tells stories in Wayang kulit is actually not that serious nowadays, I happened to watch the show on TV even only a little bit, yet the show was funny sometimes. If the story tells about fighting between two characters, the "dalang" does some acrobatic things to the puppet(s) telling the audiences that the puppets were fighting.
Sometimes ago, I watched a show on TV, and it was about an Australian man who decided to become "dalang" and changed the name become "Ki Gaura Mancacaritadipura.". He has lived in Indonesia for 30 years, and has held an Indonesian citizenship for more than 30 years. Ki Gaura has performed Wayang Kulit shows many times. Having colaborated with Ki Manteb Sudharsono, a senior "dalang" of wayang kulit in Indonesia, Ki Gaura now becomes one of the most "dalang"s of wayang kulit in Indonesia. "note; "Ki" is the term used for "dalang" wayang kulit who has been perfoming wayang kulit for some times and has ever performed a 24-hour-non-stop show of Wayang Kulit. ( pertunjukan wayang semalam suntuk)". As it has been mentioned above, Javanese Gamelan accompanies the show of wayang kulit, and in the show there are also numbers of women singers called "sinden" who dress up in Javanese attire. Again, we should be proud and perhaps learn to be like Elizabeth Karen Sekararum, a woman born in the USA and now has been one of the most famous sinden. She speaks perfect Javanese and her Javanese accent is totally clear. Colaborating with Ki Gaura, Elizabeth Karen Sekararum has done many performances. " It is the sitting of "sila" that I like the most when becoming Sinden." she says.
In the show I watched, there was also the most famous person ( I am not sure how he is called in East Java). He is originally from West Java, where Wayang Golek - Rod puppets is a popular puppetry show. Asep Sunandar Sunarya has performed many rod puppets show. Rod puppets and Shadow puppets are easy to differentiate. I ever watched his performance and his performances are always funny. What happens if both rod puppets and shadow puppets perform together?? It becomes such a hillarious show ( to those who understand either Sundanese or Javanese or both of the tribal languages.) Of course, the colaboration does not exist in a real life which means that there has never been a real show of puppet that combines between two different kinds of puppets. This only is possible to happen in a talk show!.
Note for my Indonesian friends;
mereka saja mau lho bela-belain jadi dalang dan sinden.Melestarikan budaya kita, terkadang banyak dari kita yang lupa dan tidak tahu budaya sendiri. Nggak harus jadi sinden dan dalang sih, saya juga nggak bisa kalo jadi sinden, tapi yang penting setidaknya kita tahu tentang,misalnya wayang, kalau misal Anda dari Jawa (Barat, Timur, Tengah) Kalau dari daerah lain gimana? nggak ada wayang kan? jangan2 ada cuma kita yang di Jawa aja nggak tahu? hayo? ya monggo diperkenalkan budayanya ya, yok silahkan introduce your tribes!! supaya yang lain kita semua bisa saling belajar. Ayo Rek!!!
Saudara sebangsa setanah air, apa kabar?, saya hanya ingin berbagi tulisan karya Kahlil Gibran diambil dari buku Nyanyian Bunga. Setahun silam saya membagi "Nyanyian Bunga" (click)
KEARIFAN
Kebaikan manusia terletak pada pengetahuan dan amal shalehnya, bukan pada warna kulit, agama, ras, kasta dan keturunannya.Karena itu ingatlah duhai sahabat karibku; putra padang pasir yang berilmu adalah lebih mulia ketimbang pewaris tahta kerajaan tetapi bodoh.
Pengetahuan adalah kebenaran sejati dari kebangsawananmu tak peduli apa pun warna kulitmu. Pengetahuan adalah satu-satunya tiran kekayaan yang tak seorangpun bisa merampasnya.Kekayaan sebuah bangsa tidak terletak pada kekayaan dolar dan rupiah ataupun banyaknya emas dan perak, tapi ia ada dalam pengetahuan, kearifan dan kejujuran.
Kekayaan jiwa memancarkan pesona wajah dan melahirkan simpati dan rasa kagum orang lain. Setiap sesuatu dalam jiwa termanifestasi lewat pandangan mata , raut wajah dan seluruh gerak tubuh dan sikap. Penampilan kita, ucapan-ucapan kita dan tindakan-tindakan kita tak pernah lebih agung dari diri kita sendiri. Karena jiwa adalah rumah kita, mata kita adalah jendelanya dan ucapan-ucapan kita adalah pesuruhnya.
Pengetahuan dan pemahaman adalah sahabat keimanan kehidupan. Karena pengetahuan adalah mahkotamu dan pemahaman adalah hamba sahayamu dan saat keduanya berada disisimu, itulah harta kamu yang tak ternilai harganya.
Sedikit pengetahuan namun teraplikasikan dalam hidup adalah kekayaan yang jauh lebih berharga daripada pengetahuan yang tak terkejewantahkan dalam kehidupan.. Bila pengetahuan yang engkau miliki tak pernah mengajarkan arti sebuah nilai sesuatu dan tak membebaskan dirimu dari belenggu materi, niscaya engkau tak akan pernah mampu menggapai singgasana Kebenaran.
Dirangkum dari buku "Song of Flower" Kahlil Gibran
And a man said , Speak to us of Self-Knowledge. And he answered, saying :
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst of the sound of your heart's knowledge.
You would know in words that which you have always known in thought. You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams. And it is well you should. The hidden-well spring of your soul must needs rise and murmuring to the sea; and the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes. But let there be no scales to weight your unknown treasure;And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
Say not " I have found the truth", but rather " I have found a truth." Say not " I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, " Ihave met the soul walking upon my path."
For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul wlaks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
Taken from "The Prophet" English version by Kahlil Gibran.
I am not sure whether this is a good one. I posted here as I just bumped into it and I thought I would come back to check it out later. So, I do not need to write the link down on a piece of paper. Should you have any information about better sites related to this one, tell me. Thank you Lu2Ar
Lulu Bercerita 
, yet I won't talk about the disadvantages ones.
, is it?. Thanks Mbak Lia 
( semoga semua baik2 aja disana ya mbak Lia)
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Elizabeth Karen Sekararum, a woman born in the USA and now has been one of the most famous sinden. She speaks perfect Javanese and her Javanese accent is totally clear. Colaborating with Ki Gaura, Elizabeth Karen Sekararum has done many performances. " It is the sitting of "sila" that I like the most when becoming Sinden." she says. 
Ki Manteb and Asep 
