London-Salisbury-Stonehenge
2009.03.30 15:42
Managed some time to go down to London last weekend, just before the Easter break (“break” being somewhat of a misnomer, as I’ll probably be spending it doing my assignments)… Our final destination was actually Stonehenge… Yeah, I know it’s a bit of a cliché “tourist destination”… but anyway… it turned out to be a [...]
Cornell Modern Indonesia Collection
2009.03.21 11:44
I got this link from a mailing list I’m subscribed to. Hopefully it will be useful for anyone interested… http://digital.library.cornell.edu/c/cmip/index.html As the name implies, it is Cornell University’s (digital) repository of classic works related to contemporary Indonesian history. This includes the “Cornell papers” on the October 1, 1965 coup… Cornell’s digital library itself is: http://digital.library.cornell.edu
Pretext for Mass Murder
2009.03.14 12:30
I just finished reading: Pretext for Mass Murder The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup d’Etat in Indonesia by John Roosa Assistant professor of history University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada Published: The University of Wisconsin Press 2006 Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Incoherence of the Facts 3. The Supardjo Document 4. Sjam [...]
Earthlings *sigh*
2009.03.10 10:34
This movie has actually been around for some time (it was released in 2003), but I just stumbled upon it last night while taking a break browsing the Web… And all I can say is that it gave me nightmares. I can still see the horrifying scenes in my head. I think I’m gonna be [...]
Chairil Anwar poems
2009.03.08 21:08
I’m putting up a page for my translations of Chairil Anwar’s poems: http://musangsx.org/katakata/chairil-anwar/ I’m hoping I can get as much poems as possible translated, together with the “Aku” poem that I translated a few years ago (maybe I should update that translation as well)… The page is still in the making, and will be updated [...]
Open Veins of Latin America etc.
2009.03.06 23:13
I’m currently reading the book… Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano …in between the time that I’m supposed to finish up an assignment :p Just half way through, I’m already liking this book a lot, by the way the author wrenches our feelings with the [...]
Up and running…
2009.03.02 03:43
Finally managed to get my site up and running… So here’s my “Hello, World!” version of the first post, to replace the dummy “Lorem ipsum” filler texts… Expect more interesting stuff to be posted here, people! :p (Btw, what is that “Lorem ipsum” mumbo-jumbo that sounds like some weird witch spell? Here‘s a site explaining [...]
