Breathless

This is not about when I think that 24 hours is no longer enough for me.

This is about myself hardly have time for me.

Juggling creativity, responsibility and to put it all into an activity with my company are leaving me often breathless.

When the only time that my sanctity is intact is when I am in the toilet cubicle.

Double edged sword I must say. Last time it’s company and activity that I seek, now it’s the tranquility and the ever rare serenity.

And yet after experiencing both, I still don’t know what I want yet alone what I need.

The Times They Are a Changin’

I have plenty to write but I did not seems to know how to start. But here it goes:

The Beginning of The Spiraling Madness

I’ve always said to myself and to others, that changes whatever the form it would be is always a great thing to do. Not only it allows you to embark and see new stuff, experience new things and learning about all possibilities.

But then again when changes come in rapidly I myself have to struggle and keeping my head above the water.

Would things be better without the rapid changes then? I always ask that question to myself.

Let’s start on the beginning the very beginning: the decision to join the workforce, experience the world and have yourself shaped by the mock cruelty of the world are all the words and descriptions that my mother would tell me when I asked that I still want to stay in the fortress. Now after a year almost passed, I think that the words and descriptions have been ringing true. Then again I didn’t expect it be like this.

Swift and powerful it may seems but the changes are chronically over and over sweeping me off my feet.

And when the time to breathe come, I hardly believe that things that surround me have been wildly changes without I even allowing or prohibiting it from.

It’s  the same feeling that arises when you’re getting kidnapped, blindfolded and taken to a place that you did not know existed and getting executed without knowing who or for what matter you’re deserve to get such treatment.

Such is life they say, you’ll never get what you want or what you deserve. But later on you’ll see that those you get are what you’ll need.

Now time already passed, but still the past haunts me every  now and then.

Logic and Emotion

Come to think of it, the matters that happen to me are probably because of the everlasting clash between logic and emotion. No matter what the head say it’s always the heart that leads.

Such matter caused by this is always wrenching, because no matter what I argument would I say, I always be in the losing side. then again I’m having my argument with emotional being after all.

Tiring as it may seems, it serves me as a reminder from time to time.

Profound New Tiredness

Liberation.yes.  I do feel liberated after all the events surrounding me unfolded.

Betrayed.yes. what can I say? do I imagine that these kind of things will happen to me? not if I am able to know what happens behind my back.

But then again I did feel tired.

I felt that I just want to sleep in the everlasting storms that had come and will come to me.

I wanted to be swept away by those storms, carried over to the calm. waking up in a state of newborn, without memories. Blank as the white paper.

But as I said, that’s what I want, not what I need, and it’s not me who decide what I need or which one I do not need.

Then I kept my head high and lead my way out. Till to the point that I almost have no time for myself.

Such again tiredness come to me, not as the storm. But as the struggle. Strangely enough I do feel that this will last even longer. I do feel that contentment and fulfillment is merely a concept, an imagination or fatamorgana to be exact.

It is as bleak as my future. Unimaginable beyond the point of age that I have now.

Such these are the words of me. In which I hope peace and grace would’ve come easily.

But if the struggle it is to be. Then what can I say?

“Protect me from what I want but give me what I need”

Cheers

Start of The End of This Decade

First and foremost, let us pray in silence for the former President Abdurrahman Wahid, which left us earlier yesterday. He may seems as a witty and emotional person, but he also the one that promote pluralism in Indonesia.

Finally after not writing for quite some time (not because of the writer’s block, it’s just that at that time I only wanted to amuse myself) I decided to write again and due to the dates, what more can be best than writing your new year’s resolution?

On my last ones I believe I have accomplished my resolutions but one, that is because the condition does not allow me to complete that, not because I did not want to.

So here I go with my 2010 resolutions:

  1. Start on Project 365 and consistently keep it running.
  2. Be more accountable.
  3. Less procrastinating and be more productive.
  4. Save more money.
  5. Travel more!
  6. Live the healthy way.
  7. Try to cycle everyday.
  8. Try to cook everyday.
  9. Be more greener.
  10. Live without debts and Blackberry.
  11. Buy my sister a Spiderman notebook.
  12. Learn diving.
  13. Climb at least 2 mountains.
  14. Go to Halong Bay!
  15. Learn, Write, Read and Listen More.
  16. Know what I want and what I need as well as what I am worth of.
  17. Do the coming of age ritual: travelling solo!

Much more than my last one, but I believe I still can fulfill this one. 2009 have teach me a lot, so I guess 2010 would consisted of more struggling. I only hope I can achieve a period of contentment in the coming year.

That’s it, I’m off and Happy New Year Everybody!

Godspeed

Now listening to: Mew-Sometimes Life Isn’t Easy

I may not have the ending I wanted

But then again I have the experiences none of those had

Ego

A part of me would be very happy of where am I now.

Another part would be very disappointed, because I couldn’t have the trivial parts.

After all the talk of the insignificant speck dust in the universe and how life is over-rated.

I am still a human after all.

Darkness

There’s an immeasurable darkness in my heart, and it kept growing due to the uncertainty nature of the reality.

Wailing

However, dark may it seems, uncontrollable may it be. I still refused to be controlled by it and may lights shine through eventually.

KL in A Flash

“After leaving Malaysia for a year after my graduations, I finally went back to witness my sister’s graduation ceremony. Congratulations to her and congratulate also for the rest of the young bloods. May the force be with you always. And this is a glimpse of KL that I’m able to capture during that short period of time.”

Out of The Box

Jalan Petaling

Scholar

Rituals

Store

Glitter 1

Red

Dataran Merdeka

Kuala Lumpur Library

Twins

Clouds

Edge

Stage

Tosca

Empty Seats

A Retrospect

Yesterday something that I realized from a long time ago, struck me back with a velocity I can’t imagine.

It was the thoughts that we yearn for support whenever we’re down and once we’re able to stand on our feet and move again we quickly forget that support. I felt like I am a dickhead, who takes things for granted, because I only yearn support when I’m down not once I wanted to share my independence with this support.

So here goes

I once promise myself in the past, “I’ll devote my life to he/she who’s able to lift me up, makes me move on,  laugh all the things and preferably to accompany me always”. Now I can say, I’ve been lucky to found such person.

Not only I thanked her for she wants to help me around that times, I also very grateful for she wants to spend her days with me.

In a very sensical world she’s probably the comforting sounds,  pleasing sights, sweet taste, soft touch and hypnoting smell. Yet above all it all did not make sense because she just suddenly completes me.

Cheers

For those who asked.

Never doubt me for my commitment on something, I may falter and fall but I will always return and fix all the mistakes I made.

Mirror-mirror on the wall

How dare you define me, for I did not know how to understand myself.