Ziarah ke Museum of Innocence

Kemal menemukan kebahagian mencintai seorang Füsun dengan segenap warna dan misteri.

Saat itu ibuku menangis

Buat kakakku Hermanto Junaidi yang sedang damai bersemayam di bawah pohon ketapang, tempat aku selalu menjengukmu, saat pulang, atau saat pergi sekalipun.

Indeks Perdamaian Kota Itu Perlu

By measuring the state of peace, we can further our understanding of the social, political and economic factors that help develop more peaceful environments

Tentang Ingatan dan Ideologi

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” — Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting).

A Journey: from Border to Border

Midyat is one of a must visited historical places in Mardin beside Old Mardin. Overall this city is cited as paths of the early civilizations named Mesopotamia or far before it—if we talked about Christianity and Jews history as well for its strategic location with rocky hill and plain near the Tigris River.

Friday, September 19, 2014

Tungku Ibu

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Ibu, 
suatu waktu
kita merayakan sebuah pagi
obrolan di tengah gemeretak
kayu-kayu sebelum menjadi api
Ada aroma yang aneh, seperti
tiba-tiba meretas aorta darahku
kayu-kayu itu nyalang terbakar
"Aroma apa, Ibu?"
Ibu hanya tersenyum
lalu bergegas menyiapkan sarapan
Aku terus menatap kayu-kayu
berkeringat
seperti sore kemarin
saat ibu memanggulnya dari tepi sungai


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setahun silam

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setahun silam
wajahmu dalam diam
bergobang muram

curam airmata
kautitipkan di saat
keberangkatanku

konya, 19 september 2014

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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Half of Columbia’s Istanbul Memories

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As I have just touched down in Istanbul, it’s such a coincidental moment when suddenly remembering one of my lectures from University of South Carolina; someone who is normally not hearing each other just like other American friends of mine after short-time-hang out and assemblies they used to have done for me and couples of my friends. It’s not easy to keep in touch when the business ends up, no interest anymore and also hard to find friendship with Americans. I am not judging all the American people as I have experienced with. But in general I can say only two persons among fifty ones something I could keep contact. One year later, after coming back from studying language and cultures in summertime 2010, I tried to say hello on Facebook with some of them and it’s hard to have some response. I know those kind of people with tough routine jobs are not easy to waste time with some distant acquaintances, not to say careless.

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Monday, September 08, 2014

Ela Gözlü

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Setiap kali menikmati sepotong sore di balkon apartmennya, Eson acapkali melihat sosok perempuan muda duduk melindihkan tubuhnya ke jendela. Long dress putih dengan motif bunga dan betisnya yang dibiarkan tersingkap terlihat jelas di balik kaca. 

Awalnya Eson sama sekali tak terlalu menghiraukan penghuni baru di apartemen sebelah itu. Ia mungkin sedang beradaptasi dengan tempat baru, atau memang senang menikmati hamparan taman hijau dengan bunga-bunga mekar di akhir musim semi begini. Atau mungkin ia senang menikmati burung-burung merpati yang biasa hinggap di setiap jendela apartemen….

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