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"A SANCTUARY CALLED SYDNEY"
Perhaps you think I’m exaggerating. I might agree with you. Still, I believe that timing is everything. When it’s meant to be, then it’s meant to be. There are a lot of people to thank for this t...
"THANK YOU FOR THE FANTASIES"
I meant it when I said you weren’t the first and only. When it comes to offering sweet-nothings and empty promises, there have been many. Well, what can I say? Fantasies are always the easiest. J...
"SILENCED AND GASLIGHTED"
How does it feel to be silenced every day? From the start, your voice is not only unheard. It often gets dismissed. Not every family is happy…or is it just yours? You’ve always felt like the unwa...
"HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE"*
*Written as part of a job’s application requirements. No idea why I chose to post this here anyway. Perhaps I feel that my writing skill has deteriorated lately. How do I live my life? When peopl...
"ANOTHER SLEEPLESS NIGHT"
What does one normally do on a sleepless night? Do they pray for exhaustion to take over their consciousness? Do they try to distract themselves, doing things in hopes that sleep will come around...
“REPORTING A LECHEROUS CREEP AT TRANS-JAKARTA BUS SHELTER”
Okay, I’ve gotten over my trauma, so I can write about this. Last month, on March 24, 2018, I attended a poetry event at Warung Buncit, South Jakarta. The event finished at sometime around ten th...
“TO THE GUYS WITH ONLY SWEET-NOTHINGS AND EMPTY PROMISES”
When I was a teenager, guys like you may have fooled me big time. Your saccharine-sweet words and romantic gestures had made me feel special. It seemed to me that I really mattered to you, despit...
"THUNDER"
When I was a kid, I feared the sound of thunder. Although somewhat similar, fireworks have always been different. They may be shocking too, but I always associate them with something festive and ...
When you first read the title above, what do you have in mind? Would you also think of something like this? “What’s with the cynicism?” It all depends on whom we talk to – and also on which occas...
"BYE, BYE, LOVE (WHEN IT'S OVER)"
“I never want to hurt that person, but my heart can no longer lie.” “She had to choose between me and the other person her parents approve. I know she still loves me, but she loves her parents to...
"A PREJUDICE AGAINST ALL POETS"
“Don’t be fooled by poets!” I remember what they used to tell me. “They’re such sooth-sayers that will lure you with their sweet-nothings.” I was still a teenager back then. Just like many girls ...
"TIME FLIES, SOME PEOPLE CHANGE"
I bet this topic has been covered by many writers already. Maybe I have written about this too in the past. How does it feel to meet people you haven’t seen in ages? Have you noticed any changes?...
“WE’RE ALL HUMANS; WE BOTH NEED LOGICS AND EMOTIONS”
I grew up being laughed at for being (considered overly) sensitive. They said emotions were signs of one’s weakness. You have to always be more rational. Otherwise, they’d never take you seriousl...
“CRITICISM VERSUS INSULT: How Every Wise Person Should Deal with Both”
I had wanted to write “Every Grown-up” instead of “Every Wise Person” on the subtitle. However, I knew better. There are grown-ups still overly sensitive and egotistical, no matter how ‘real’ th...
“THE SO-CALLED ‘PROPHECY’ REGARDING WHO GETS MARRIED FIRST”
“I’m getting married next year!” On December 2017, one of my best friends texted me. He said he was getting married in January 2018. Yes, I was genuinely surprised. Although in the end I couldn’t...
“7 RIDICULOUS THINGS INDONESIAN SINGLE-SHAMERS MAY HAVE TOLD YOU”
Okay, I am not whining about this. In fact, I have decided to just compile all the ridiculous things I have heard so far as a single woman up to my 36th birthday on November last year. Let’s see ...
“5 PLAIN REASONS SOME PEOPLE AREN’T EVEN WORTH ARGUING WITH”
Surely, this is nothing new. We live in a world where people come from different backgrounds, whether cultural, racial…you name it. With them, come people with different opinions and points of vi...
"DEAR NIK: Thank You"
Dear Nik, I sometimes have no idea how to react when I dream about anyone I know who has passed away. I’ve got plenty of visits from the dead in my sleep. Pumpkin, Dad, Robbie, my younger cousin ...
"ABOUT FALLING (AND STAYING) IN LOVE"
What’s ‘falling in love’? Quite a tricky question, eh? When we were teens, we’d probably have only thought of it as something ‘skin-deep’. (Come on, just admit it. Believe me, because I’ve been t...
"MY ROOM OF THOUGHTS"
Through almost the entire December 2017, I didn’t get enough chance to write. I was busy adjusting to my new fulltime job and freelance gigs, which have been too many to handle. Thankfully, my mi...
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Through almost the entire December 2017, I didn’t get enough chance to write. I was busy adjusting to my new fulltime job and freelance gigs, which have been too many to handle.
Thankfully, my mind is still active. I have to make sure that I’ll never stop writing, no matter what. Then again, that month was also quite hard. I lost both my cousin and my best friend. (They’re two different people, by the way.) My younger cousin passed away on December 3, 2017, while my best friend was gone on the 22nd. Both had passed away due to illnesses.
What I didn’t do to make my best friend proud was to keep on writing. He’d asked for my second novel (and more) when he was still alive. I realised that somehow, I’d let him down.
Of course, this also means that I’ve let myself down. This year, I’ve got to produce something real instead of what everybody can read online for free.
That’s it. No more delays. Time to get a move on.
R.
