Sep 28, 2007

Tarian Hujan

Kupu-kupu bersayap perak
Langit merah di bulan Januari
Desir angin bercampur bau laut yang menjarahi gendang telinga.mengingini bagian dalam hela napas...

Indah... ,katamu

Tapi aku menyangkal
Bagaimana kuasa aku menikmati seluruh lansekap ini
Kalau separuh hatiku terpatri disana?

Katamu lagi,
Hujan harus berderai sebelun cakrawala melukiskan pelangi

Tetapi,
Dengan siapa akan kubagi derai hujan itu?
Kalau kau menolak untuk bergabung dalam tarianku?

by TSB 

Image is from this community

Jun 23, 2007

Reading List

Again? Hahaha… Sorry but I cannot help it. I don’t mind if people think I am a bit lame because I read a lot and I can talk about books for hours and hours and keep on going. And I can post about them too, as many times as I want! I just learned recently that The BBC believes most people will have read only six of the 100 books listed here. Believe it or not, I printed a “Pulitzer Award Winner” list and do ongoing checks list, because I want to read at least 10 out of them. Well not that easy… But I will keep on trying. This is another list, like stated- from BBC. Let us see how far you and I have come… (Only if you are as lame as I am).
credit unknown. anyone?
Copy this into your NOTES. Blue color those books you’ve read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but did not finish or read an excerpt.  I add : pink color for the ones I am dying to read but haven’t found the book yet.And yes, you can use the pink ones as a gift ideas-what to give to Tressabel :)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Like 10 times!. I love Scout and Atticus)
6 The Bible  
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 
8 1984 - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (I want to be friends with Holden please)
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 
 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (the 1st book from Orwell that I read and I like it so much)
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery  
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan 
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 
52 Dune – Frank Herbert 
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon ( genius work!)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (call me… Ishmael)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ( a crossed check from Pulitzer winner)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White ( I of course cried!)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (I honestly like his other work better; Tuesdays with Morrie)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (and Matilda!) 
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (read the book- seen the movie)

Mar 26, 2007

Adalah Tentang

He loves me this much
Adalah tentang pengkhianatan terbesar sepanjang masa, 
yang berakhir pada pengampunan terindah
Tentang cawan yang terlalu pahit, tentang mahkota duri dan cambuk bermata tajam.

Tentang kecupan seorang murid kepada guru besarnya yang bisu terdiam
Tentang cinta tanpa syarat…. Cinta tanpa batas

Paskah adalah tentang terkoyaknya tirai bait suci
Pada sebuah sisi langit yang menggelap
Tentang ratapan pada setonggak kayu kasar yang menjulang diatas bukit kematian
Tentang batu yang terguling, tentang kubur kosong
Tentang kasih
Tentang pengharapan

Paskah adalah tentang aku dan kamu
Tentang penebusan yang seakan tak layak kita terima

Tentang sebaris kalimat dari bibir kering yang gemetar
“Semua sudah selesai...”
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