“Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis,
ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah...”
(Pramoedya Ananta Toer)
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Wherever bibliolatry has prevailed, bigotry and cruelty have accompanied it.
(T.H. Huxley)
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (Mahatma Gandhi)
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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. (William Shakespeare)
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If you have love, you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. (Sir James M. Barrie)
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You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without. (Unknown)
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. (Anais Nin)
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My Pray for Iran
It would not happen in true democratic countries
that an election be disputed to the extent of life casualties
It would not happen in countries that respect their people
that excessive forces are used to calm people’s action
It would not happen in countries that respect freedom and human rights
that media is limited and information is censored
They can happen only in countries whose leaders playing God
whose leaders place their people second to religious doctrine
It is ironic, isn’t it?
Thousands years ago, mankind found the famous “vox populii vox Dei”
people’s voice is God’s voice
But in this modern time
some people disregard people’s voice
trying to find God’s will merely in sacred books
while they can in fact find it easily in the respect of human lives
My pray for Iran
my deepest sympathy for Iranian
for the victims of inability-to-respect-human-lives
May democracy fosters there
a true democracy free of any country’s intervention
and free of on-God’s-behalf authoritarianism
What can one do in thy loneliness
Can thee shout? Who will hear?
Can thee cry? Who will weep the tears?
Can thee scream? For what reason?
Can screaming remove the silent
For real silent might never can be removed
Because it’s in the heart
Not in the eyes that missing sights
Not in the nose that missing fragrance
Not in the lip that missing a kiss
Not even in the skin that praying for a touch
For heart might feel the silent
but knows not of why and how it comes
It might come from the absence of love
It also might come from the love itself
From the deep desire of knowing what love is
From the longed passion to feel the real love
To give the real love, and to be given
What can one do in thy loneliness
In the long endless night
In the unpresence of everything but the deep intimidating feeling of being lonely
Is there still any hope
Shall thee wait for the hand that will comfort?
Words that say everything’s gonna be okay?
A person, that might have never been born?
What is a hope, so it makes us never really give up (Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo)
Hari ini saya lihat nilai di portal Binus. Sebenarnya sudah keluar kemarin sore, cuma kemarin malas online, jadi saya putuskan untuk lihat besok (hari ini) aja. Kebetulan, hari ini emang rencana ke kampus buat ngembaliin buku perpustakaan, jadi bisa sekalian ber-wifi ria dan download-download
Balik ke nilai. Singkat kata, saya mengetikkan http://binusmaya.binus.ac.id dan memasukkan username+password. Nah, tampilan muncul. Lumayan deg-degan. Kemudian klik Nilai -> Nilai Ujian. Saya lihat semua nilai yang ada…
Deg. Pandangan saya terhenti. Ada satu nilai yang tidak saya harapkan, 83. Duh, kenapa ada nilai akhir segini? Hiks, kecewa banget. 83 itu berarti B, dan itu satu-satunya nilai B di semester ini….
Nggak karuan rasanya, terus-terang semester ini saya menargetkan A mulus…tapi kok ada cacatnya gini. Nilai A di Binus 85, sementara yang saya dapet 83, makin bikin nyesek…
Selasa tanggal 28 November besok bakal jadi deadline untuk salah satu tugas teraneh yang pernah saya terima. Menunjukkan apakah cinta yang tulus itu ada di bumi ini. Pak Dosen meminta kelompok-kelompok mempresentasikan jawabannya, plus harus didukung dengan argumen masuk akal berangkat dari pengalaman atau pengamatan masing-masing.
Sebenarnya bukan tugasnya yang membuat saya mengernyitkan dahi. Tapi penggunaan frasa ‘cinta yang tulus’. Memang sih, bukan hanya Pak Dosen yang menggunakan frasa itu, tapi -barangkali- hampir semua masyarakat. Justru disitu permasalahannya, kok seperti tidak ada yang merasa aneh dengan frasa itu.
Ada yang membuat saya gelisah di awal semester IV, apa lagi kalau bukan tentang dosen. Dosen galak, banyak tugas tapi pelit nilai, di kelas mahasiswa wajib tenang, intinya semua syarat ’dosen membosankan’ terpenuhi. Rasanya, setiap hari mengajar Pak Dosen, malas benar jika harus ke kampus. Plus, sebagai penambah rasa malas, kuliah beliau baru selesai pukul 19.00. Paling malam diantara mata kuliah lain.
Kualifikasi dosen merembet ke mata kuliah. Jadilah saya ikut alergi terhadap mata kuliahnya. Aneh benar, karena baru beberapa waktu yang lalu saya mengikuti seminarnya Pak Khrisna Murti. Menurut Pak Khrisna, harus dipisahkan antara dosen dan mata kuliah, antara guru dan mata pelajaran yang diajar. Menurut saya juga begitu, tapi namanya sudah telanjur alergi, jadi tidak terpikir sampai sana.
Tibalah Ujian Tengah Semester. Seperti biasa, saya ndak tertarik untuk belajar mata kuliah yang saya alergi, pun mata kuliah Pak Dosen. “Wisben, mbuh ora weruh (Biaran amat, nggak mau lihat). Meskipun belajar, toh akhirnya subjektifitas beliau yang bekerja.“, begitu batin saya. Ketika lembar jawaban dikumpulkan, bagi saya selesailah persoalan.
My Pray for Iran
What can one do in thy loneliness
