Hal-hal yang belum selesai dalam diri saya (Part 2)

Kau bisa menyebut saya pengecut yang bersembunyi dibalik kata realistis. Bahkan kau bisa menyebut saya sebagai oportunis yang terlalu melankolis. Sepertinya saya memang pantas menyandang gelar terlalu realistis yang mendekati oportunis. Saking realistisnya bahkan saya menggadaikan mimpi-mimpi saya, yang salah satunya adalah menjadi penulis. 

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Memuisikan Tradisi

Berbeda dengan bedah buku sebelumnya yang lebih membahas puisi-puisi yang bertema hujan, bedah buku ada hujan turun pelan-pelan kali ini lebih banyak membahas puisi-puisi saya yang tidak bertema hujan. Buku saya kali ini dibedah berbarengan dengan 5 buku lainnya dalam parade buku-buku sastra yang diselenggarakan oleh Pelangi Sastra Malang pada tanggal 14-15 Januari 2015.

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Lain Waktu

Lain Waktu.

Ritual sore di Coffee Corner, adalah aku dan satu gelas teh hangat, tidak lagi satu gelas kopi. Dulu aku bersikeras mengatakan bahwa minuman paling hangat adalah kopi. Namun, kau katakan bahwa kopi hanya cocok untuk pembicaraan berat, diantara pikiran-pikiran kalut dan asap rokok orang-orang hebat. Kau katakan juga, pertemuan kita berbeda. Cukup hanya bertanya kabar, hal paling basi dalam pembicaraan antar manusia. Jadi, ketika bertemu kau katakan sebaiknya kita memesan teh hangat. Teh akan membuat suasana hangat untuk dapat berbicara tentang sesuatu yang ringan, begitu argumenmu saat itu.

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tentang kereta api yang berisi kisah kita

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Adakah yang lebih romantis selain kereta api dan stasiun tua di kota kita, sayang ?

Lihatlah mereka

Pintu dan dinding stasiun yang kuno

Peluit petugas stasiun berbunyi nyaring

Nada khas keberangkatan kereta dari speaker stasiun

Orang-orang yang menunggu kereta di samping garis batas

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Hal-hal yang belum selesai dalam diri saya (part 1)

Apakah anda pernah memutar satu lagu yang sama setiap hari selama beberapa bulan ?
Saya pernah.

Awal tahun 2010 adalah ketika saya mempunyai banyak momen penting dalam hidup saya. Ada dua kabar baik dan satu kabar buruk. Kabar baiknya, saya diterima sebagai pegawai dan mahasiswa di dua perguruan tinggi negeri berbeda di Kota malang. Kabar buruknya, saya patah hati. Lebih spesifik lagi, saya patah hati tingkat tinggi.

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Writing Task 9: Write a travel brochure for tourists who want to visit Indonesia.

March, 13^th 2014 

Writing Task 9: Write a travel brochure for tourists who want to visit Indonesia. Suggest places to visit, activities to do, transportation to take and hotels to stay while they are in the country.

DIENG PLATEAU: ABODE OF THE GODS

WONOSOBO, CENTRAL JAVA, INDONESIA

ABOUT DIENG

Dieng Plateau location almost 2,093 m above sea level. The Name Dieng comes from Di Hyang which means Di (mountains) and Hyang (Gods) . Dieng Plateau has a beautiful view. Dieng Plateau have visited begin 19^th century and until now Dieng become one of favorite international tourism in Indonesia. The climate in Dieng is cool, it’s for about 13′c – 17′c at the noon and 10′c at the night. In June till august, it can be 0′ C.  Much of the primary local agriculture is based on potatoes. Other agriculture are cabbage, carrots and carica.

PLACE TO VISIT

1.       Sunrise Sikunir and Telaga cebongan

There are many high mountains around of dieng plateau such as Sikunir, Prau, and Pakuwaja. Gunung Sikunir (Sikunir mountain) is one of them. It's easy to go there and climbing up the mountain behind a lake after Sembungan village, which is supposed to be the highest village on Java (2,300 m). For enjoying sunrises, you should wake up at 4 am in Dieng village and walking up in the dark.  After enjoying sunrises, you can go to Telaga Cebongan and enjoying your breakfast in front of it.

2.       Telaga Warna dan Telaga Pengilon

There are two famous lake in Dieng : telaga warna dan telaga pengilon. Telaga Warna is volcano lake with sulphur. When exposed to sunlight will reflect light as colorful mineral ingredients.

3.       Kawah Sikidang

Sikidang crater is a big, bubbling pond producing so much steam, and sometimes makes the surrounding misty.

4.       Temples

There are four hindu temples in Dieng Plateau aged more than 1.000 years, such as arjuna temple, srikandi temple, puntadewa temple, and sembadra temple.

TRANSPORTATION

You can reach Dieng Plateu by bus or car. the last town can reach by bus is wonosobo, and you must move to minibus. The nearest airport is Adisucipto Airport in Yogyakarta, and you can continue to Dieng by bus with destination Wonosobo for about 3 hours on the road. The nearest train station is Purwokerto and you can continue to Dieng by bus with destination Wonosobo for about 2 hours on the road. You can go around Dieng area with your car. If you go to Dieng with public transportation, you can rent motorcycle.

ACCOMODATION

There are many hostel, guest house and homestay. You can stay in Bu Jono homestay, Melati  homestay,
Bougenvile Homestay, Pancawarna Homestay, or dahlia Homestay.

Writing Task 8: The best transport solutions for Bali

March, 12^th 2014  

Writing Task 8: The best transport solutions for Bali

What do you think about Bali? Yeah, it’s one of the beautiful islands in Indonesia. Now, I’m living in Bali for a month to study English in IALF Denpasar. Before I come to Denpasar, I think that Denpasar have good public transportation such as Trans Yogyakarta. But I’m wrong. Public transportation in Bali isn’t good enough. Many tourists who go around Bali prefer to rent a car or motorcycle than use public transportation. Of course, it make Denpasar road become so crowded.

In one week I live here, I saw traffic jam in the road. I tried to use bemo to go to department store and I saw that only a few people used bemo. Maybe many people feel that bemo isn’t comfortable. So, I think bemo isn’t the best transport solutions for Bali. We can try to learn from Yogyakarta. Trans Jogja became one of favorite transportation to go around Yogyakarta. Only 3.000 rupiah, you can go to around Yogyakarta.

There are Trans Sarbagita , bus by Indonesia Transportation Affairs. Trans Sarbagita launched at August, 18^th 2011. The name of Sarbagita is from four towns in Bali, there are Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar dan Tabanan. From now, trans Sarbagita have two routes. The First, From Batu Bulan to Nusa Dua. The second, from Kota Denpasar to GWK. Trans Sarbagita fare are 2.500 rupiah for student and 3.500 rupiah for others people. In Five years later, the government hopes Trans Sarbagita can have many routes that can reach many places in Bali.

Trans Sarbagita can give the best solution for traffic jam in Bali. As a international tourism destination, Bali must have good public transportation to support domestic tourist and also international tourist. Furthermore, Trans Sarbagita can be the best alternative public transportation for the local resident so that they can leave their cars in home. It can reduce many cars that fulfill in the Bali road. And maybe traffic jam never happens again in Bali.