i’m in love…
2009.04.29 12:57
shoe shine boy at Kota train station… a beggar in Chinatown… —————————— she constantly intrigues me..continuously amazes me… it was her, still is and will always be..jakarta… …d city where i was born and had not until a decade ago got reacquainted.. i barely had memories of her during my childhood, perhaps only of d [...]
warung kembang sajen…the dark mystical side of Jakartan urbanites…
2009.04.28 13:30
an angkot ride is always a pleasure for me..especially when i get to sit in front, beside the driver –except when i have to share the seat with another while the driver smells ;p –… (try it sometimes, no matter how long the journey is, one can always kill time by either chatting with the [...]
Nasi (kuning), tahu-tempe… & sambel terasi!
2009.04.08 01:04
If there’s anything that can explain what makes a people, it may well be their food. (Most) Indonesians will say the day’s not complete if one hasn’t eaten rice yet (belum makan namanya kalo belum makan nasi). More so for the Javanese, if one hasn’t eaten rice… and tempe… and spicy hot sambel terasi…! The [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
