This title had me laughing the first time. I don’t intend for this writing to be like my other writings. This is not a love story, I already wrote a few. I’ve taken a lot of pictures of couples, from one side of the state to another, one backdrop to…

“If you guess where I’m from, I’m buying the Vermús” I met Martin after one Wednesday rain in a Taco diner between the stations of Verdaguer and Sagrada Familia. We just entered the first day of winter and there was a parade of giant, colorful creature dolls going around, little…

He was Julien, the neat-up Julien. He was too gentle, a cocktail of genes, a dash of Mediterranean oceanic air all over his face and hair. A salad of Marseille sweetness on the way he talked, mostly in French as he ordered me a coffee when I arrived at the…

Rose in my mind a picture of a family whose father once built a personal computer from electronic stuff he got on a secondhand store. Thirty years ago, with his tools and his language and a warm heart yet a though mind, he then built a pillar made of dollars…

Sebetulnya, gambar ini gak ada hubungannya dengan tulisan saya. Sekitar 100 kilometer dari Yogyakarta di pesisir selatan, bangkit dalam ingatan mengenai pemukiman di sepanjang jalur yang meniti Pantai Selatan Jawa — Belangrijke Wegen atau Jalan Raya Utama. Pada waktu itu berangsur Maghrib, beberapa pemilik kios sate ambal di sepanjang jalan menutup kiosnya, merapikan bangku dan tenda setelah menjajakan makanannya…

Ketika manusia modern secara sadar memposisikan dirinya sebagai bagian — mau tidak mau — dari masyarakat kota yang sibuk, melampaui abad-abad yang lalu rasa-rasanya tidak mungkin untuk mencitrakan kembali bayangan Rousseau mengenai state of nature, atau bahkan membayangkan paparan kecil Jared Diamond mengenai sejarah penduduk Maori yang di selatan Polinesia…

It was Christmas night. I rushed to my apartment to bring back some of my stuff to home, since I no longer used the studio bedroom for the rest of the semester. I took the 9 am train and it’s oddly full — even I’m used to it. I like…