home.

In your absence, scents seem to linger, even when they’re perhaps not part of reality. It is my truth, the only one I know, the only truth I can understand, and the one I’m sharing with you. Surrendering to flashes of reminiscence when blissful butterflies flutter little nerve endings, closing my eyes I saw yours […]

you.

A ball of feelings fell down to earth. After bouncing around for a while, it came to my head and stayed. There it got immersed within my memory and created my mood of the day. Always the easiest thing, blaming this ball of feelings that fell down to earth. They call it poetry. With poetry […]

sleep.

Reality. Learning. Memory. Each morning, she would wake up with an understanding that today is another day. That there was yesterday, and there will be tomorrow. That today is a present sandwiched by the past and the future, and that today she will apply her knowledge of her world from yesterday to theoretically be able […]

red.

Just before our wake, we moved slowly towards the window, bodies locked. The sky was red, the ground white and pinetrees black, their tops covered in snow. It was way past midnight, but the whiteness of the ground reflected back in the skies and while the sun hid under the long horizon its rays escaped […]

architect.

It is only people who did not know that I am an architect inside out who would think that I am a spy. Career Inventory Test Results Extroversion ||||||||||||||| 43% Emotional Stability ||||||||||||||| 50% Orderliness ||||||||||||||| 46% Altruism ||||||||| 26% Inquisitiveness |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 86% You are an Architect, possible professions include – strategic planning, writer, staff […]

the name game.

The Name Game – or the years of living with no one to blame, is finally published at Inside Indonesia. Last night, after the University of Amsterdam and the Australian Defense Force Academy, Canberra, for the third time I gave a lecture-performance of this paper, at Asia Week, University of Melbourne. Time was very limited, […]

there, there.

Where are you now, he asked. I said here. Here where? he continued to ask. Here here, I said. I’m staying. There there? Yes, here here. Nowhere else, here here, as in here. That’s amazing, he said. Isn’t this the first time in your life that you’re here, here? Not really, I said, not the […]