Paradiso Perduto

Some of you might have already known that I and some of my friends created a joint blog project for our loneliness-themed fiction. Sounds bleak, huh? Well, I can't promise you anything, but despite its gloomy premise, the authors are pretty excited about it. Sometimes, I think we're too hyper for a bunch of young adults who write about loneliness, haha. Within You Without You by Chickaferdy, taken from  here "Within You, Without You" is the title of my story (you can read the first chapter here ) in Illufiction. It's a combination of several projects I haven't finished or even put into realization. A manuscript of novel I wrote in junior high school that was stopped abruptly in the middle of chapter two. Sporadic scenes from another novel-to-be (also from junior high era) that I abandoned because I "can never got the plot right". And recently, a plan for a project called "The Beatles Babbles" in which -true to its name- I will babble...

Wanita Tangguh, Wulan Purnama Sari Wulan is KBR's  Wanita Tangguh . Yep, ketangguhan merupakan sesuatu yang sangat diperlukan apabila kamu tinggal di Cimahi dan sebagian besar tempat yang membutuhkankehadiranmu berada di beda kotamadya  tempat yang jauh. Selama riwayat kerja bareng dalam kepanitiaan sama Wulan pilihan divisinya pasti logistik. Divisi yang cenderung saya hindari karena menghindari encok pas ngangkatin barang  saya nggak berminat. Tapi Wulan kelihatan enjoy banget di sana. Emang dasar tangguhnya sudah mendarah daging! Wulan Purnama Sari on her graduation day THAT IS MY NAME ON HER BALLOON. SQUEEEE! For a wanita tangguh,   Wulan is so surprisingly soft-hearted. Sangat memperhatikan gimana perasaan orang lain, kadang-kadang terlalu nggak enakan. Typical A bloodtype person that we know and love.    Mungkin tangguh dan sabar adalah kombinasi yang aneh, tapi kombinasi sifat itu ada pada Wulan . Kalau ada orang yang mer...

This is March 19, and this is Ditta's birthday! Ditta adalah salah seorang sahabat saya sejak SMP. Iya, sejak zaman hobi anak-anak di kelas adalah ejek-ejekan nama orang tua. Dari zaman rambut di- rebonding  ngehip banget...dan dia yang cenderung tomboy bikin kaget karena pada suatu pagi muncul dengan rambut selurus papan. Dari zaman dia jadi drummer Theu Voogoeh (terus sakit DBD pas penampilan perdana, terpaksa digantikan Nadia yang harusnya jadi gitaris) dan saya jadi manajer/tukang foto/tukang jaga tas. Kemudian ke zaman menyatroni Pitimoss sehabis pulang sekolah dan menggila selama SMA...sampai sekarang, zaman dia belajar kedokteran di Jerman dan saya masih ngarep mau sekolah di Jerman, hahaha. Kalau saya ditanya soal tiga bakat Ditta yang paling mencolok, jawaban saya adalah ini: 1. Sarkasme 2. Segala macam hal berkaitan dengan akademik 3. Seni lukis, ilustrasi, dan semacamnya. Khusus bakat nomor 3, ada sedikit cerita nih. Saya ingat suatu saat di pelajaran Seni Rup...

Aida (@aidayuni), Rangga (@rankrank), Riri (@ririe_risa) and I just launched a joint blog project! It is called Illufiction a.k.a Illusional Fiction. I (who recently listen too much to The Beatles than what is healthy) suggest an alternative name for our blog, "The Lonely Hearts Club Blog" (from "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band"), but ultimately "Illufiction" (Aida's idea) win the voting. Well, a part of my idea was used as the blog theme, hahaha. And about the name "Illufiction"...I have to admit this name grew on me. Hopefully you will like it too : the name and, of course, the blog. True to its name, we'll be taking turn posting a chapter of stories every week. Each one of us will write different stories but we have one uniting theme : loneliness. Don't worry, we'll try not to be too mushy :) Our stories are more like existential loneliness than "galau" loneliness. We also have discussed about our characters an...