January 2012 Page 1 of 2
Going for Rotterdam to see IFFR is a little bit like scavenger hunt. The clue is the funky tiger face across the city. Last Saturday was my first…
Jarak jauh boleh jadi justru membuat kita makin sayang, bangga, dan juga makin mengenali negeri sendiri. Setidaknya, itu yang kami rasakan pada International Day ISS, 19 November 2011….
I also went to last Saturday’s Winternachten. Coincidentally met Nany and Thandi there.. 🙂 The ticket price was pretty steep — 13.75 euro and it was student price,…
I went to the Writers Unlimited and it was amazing to see the wordsmiths at play. The first event I attended was the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award on Thursday,…
(Versi yang sudah disunting dimuat di Tempo.co.) Empat derajat Celcius. Suhu Berlin belum di bawah titik beku saat saya berkunjung November lalu. Tapi untuk orang yang puluhan tahun…
Banyak buku menarik bertebaran di perpustakaan kampus, tapi di sini nggak ada kios fotokopi yang dengan jago nan murah-meriah bisa menyalin buku secara utuh tanpa peduli dengan hak…
…akhirnya, saatnya kembali ke dunia nyata. Tiga pekan bersama ayah dan ibu rasanya agak surreal: sudah jauh-jauh pergi ke Belanda, ternyata ya masih disamperin juga, hahaha. Begini ini…
Baru setengah tahun lewat tanpa saya berpeluh mengejar dan meracik berita di lapangan. Malam ini saya iseng membaca milis kawan-kawan jurnalis di salah satu bekas pos liputan. Seorang…
Pulang dari Pisa, disambut kartu pos dari Saigon sana. Makasih ya, Zam dan Nila! Melihat kartu pos itu banyak hal berkelebat di benak saya: tentang romantisnya berkirim kartu…
After four nights in Firenze, we went to Pisa today. The practical reason is because our flight tomorrow will be at 6.30 am from Pisa, so it’s more…
Arrived in Firenze tonight, and had to face a misadventure for a while: we could not contact the apartment owner’s employee! The apartment owner lives in Milan so…
So the essay frenzy has ended, rather disappointing and unsuccessfully, at 10 am this morning. I practically tortured myself with that piles of reading and almost no time…