February 2012
1 post
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by...”
– Paul Dirac
January 2012
2 posts
Stop SOPA/PIPA
As the CEO/Founder, I decide to make #bhyllabus and #manvahana to go dark along with other 7000 websites to protest SOPA/PIPA around the globe. Even I am not an American, but my constituion speaks the same, freedom of speech and to express without any fear of restriction. You shall not abble to access Bhyllabus and Manvahana for the next 12 hours due this protest. Thanks.
“I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”
– Rita Mae Brown
December 2011
7 posts
“Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.”
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.”
– Peter De Vries
“Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.”
– Chester Bowles
Live Across the Edge →
If you are just a small living thing in a strange big world, what you would you do if even the edge is still unknown. Would you like to try to cross the edge of unknown? Living there so you…
Akan Ke Mana Piramida Garut →
Dalam seminggu ini, saya memerhatikan sebuah berita lokal tentang sebuah Gunung (bukit) Sadahurip di Garut (Jawa Barat) yang kini sedang mengundang cukup banyak perhatian, lantaran diduga…
Kue Pertemuan →
Saya kira sudah menjadi standar bahwa di manapun ada acara pertemuan yang formal, maka santap camilan setidaknya mesti tersedia. Kuenya pun beraneka jenis, meski mungkin untuk daerah non…
November 2011
6 posts
Temporary Knowledges →
Somehow, I wonder, why we are pursuing knowledge, when we know its only for a temporary.
Akhir Perjalanan Garuda Muda →
Akhirnya babak final perebutan medali emas cabang sepak bola pada Sea Games 2011 berakhir dengan kemenangan Malaysia. Yah, tim nasional kita belum berhasil mendatangkan medali emas melalui drama adu…
Morning Calmness →
Whenever my time to get every morning sunshine a touch, there always a blossom of this water lily. It is my morning sanctuary blessed upon a morning calmness.
Harga Diri Atau Tebal Muka →
Beberapa hari belakangan ini, kamarku sering riuh dengan suara-suara sorak sorai dalam acara nonton bareng kesebelasan nasional usia 23 dalam ajang SEA GAMES kali ini. Siapa yang tidak suka melihat…
Air Terjun dan Pengetahuan Umum →
Kurasa aku harus kembali ketika ingatan ini membawaku ke bangku sekolah dasar. Kurasa pelajaran ketika itu sangat sederhana, sedikit ilmu pasti (matematika dan pengetahuan alam), ilmu sosial…
“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire....”
– George Bernard Shaw
October 2011
7 posts
“Perhaps you are far weaker than what I was expected. But I think, you are far...”
– Oz Vesalius
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life....”
– Steve Jobs
Hati Tak Lagi Bermata →
Malam tadi saya menyaksikan berita bahwa gadis yang ditabrak lari yang menimbulkan kehebohan itu akjirnya tak tertolong juga di rumah sakit. Kejadian tabrak lari itu sendiri tak dapat dibenarkan, dan…
Daya Sastra itu Adalah Jenuh →
Beberapa tenggelam dalam kesusastraan yang tak berbatas membuatku melihat banyak hal yang dilihat dalam lorong-lorong terang lainnya yang mungkin jauh lebih menalar. Jiwaku terseok dalam rima yang…
Nothing in Common →
Perhaps we’ve live surrounded with everything or people those have nothing in common with our self. Perhaps, we’ve live by seeing everything are so different. But, what is wrong with being…
Let It Goes →
I think I nearly always here those simple world inside my head. Perhaps since my life are too complex, sometimes I got a hard time to swallow those words. The more we attached to something, it would…
September 2011
2 posts
Never There
A: I am afraid lossing my good friend.
B: Well, you took it too much, I never afraid of it.
A: How could you?
B: I never lost a good friend.
A: But, what if it happens to you?
B: It is not possible.
A: Why not, everything possible.
B: If I lost my friend, perhaps he/she never be a good friend to began with, so why worry...?
A: Not at all?
B: Never there.
Formless Understanding
A: Why can't I get you?
B: Because I am the wind dear...
A: I wish to see you as you are.
B: I am formless, you can only see me through the color you put on me.
A: But then again, it shall disappear as soon as I see a short of your form, I can get the whole.
B: You intend to seek the form within the formless, unless you are ready to let go the what was created and stop chasing what will created, you shall not find what is created, you shall not find the formless form, you shall not catch the wind, you shall not get me.
A: But the box is the only the safest place I can stand in trying to understand you.
B: The safety you implied shall not let you began to move, to life, to joy, to touch all the formless existances.
A: Shall I leave?
B: It is for you to answer it, it is a formless understanding, it may not has a single formed answer that satisfy you, my dear....
July 2011
10 posts
If I meet my destiny →
I think - or perhaps I dreams, it would be a merely simple issue when I met my destiny, or maybe it no issue at all.
But still I am wondering, how shall thou come to me? And this question were left…
Salah Kaprah Hemat BBM →
Ada yang aneh dengan konsep hemat BBM kita, terutama premium. Sebagaimana yang kita ketahui, bahwa pemerintah sedang kebingungan dengan subsidi premium yang semakin mencekik anggaran negara –…
“No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.”
– Richard Feynman
“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”
– Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Kalbuku di Malammu →
Aku terduduk lunglai laksana belulang tertekuk angin. Malam dan awan menyirnakan angan dan rembulan. Aku menengadah sejuta tanya, menelungkup sejuta jeda, dan napasku turut terbawa angin menekuk…
“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the...”
– Saint Jerome
Negeri Tropis Pecinta Dingin →
Negeri kita kaya akan sinar matahari yang melimpah, bahkan untuk musim penghujannya. Karena itulah kita memiliki hutan tropis yang luas, pun saat ini tidak bisa begitu dibanggakan lagi karena telah…
Kebahagiaan Tidak Dapat Dikejar →
Apakah yang Anda maksudkan dengan kebahagiaan? Beberapa akan menyebutkan bahwa kebahagiaan hadir ketika memperoleh apa yang kita inginkan. Anda menginginkan mobil, dan Anda mendapatkannya, dan Anda…
Bergosip di Televisi →
Ketika bersih-bersih di kamar, saya iseng menyalakan televisi untuk melihat acara yang ditayangkan, mungkin sekadar mencari pengalihan pandangan dari kondisi kamar yang masih berserakan. Namun…
Memercik Cinta di Tanah Tua →
Seakan bergulung bersama cahaya senja, pucuk-pucuk dedaunan menarik diri dari kesahajaan alam. Waktu membisikku, kisah tua di atas tanah yang termakan usia. Riak debu menjejak angin yang membawa…
June 2011
12 posts
Mendekap Senja →
Pun ada selaksa perhentian kala, terseret di antara remah-remah kelabu nan lembayung. Ada desir suara di antara mega, di antara retakan remang-remang hati manusia. Adakah aku bilah-bilah bambu yang…
Negeri Tambal Sulam →
Saya kadang heran, dan bertanya-tanya dalam diri. Apakah negeri ini adalah negeri tambal sulam? Kadang selalu ada hal-hal yang aneh, masalah-masalah tak hentinya bermunculan padahal itu sesuatu yang…
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is...”
– Carlos Castaneda
“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Giving is a necessity sometimes… more urgent, indeed, than having.”
– Margaret Lee Runbeck
“If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is “thank you,”...”
– Meister Eckhart
“Friends are born, not made.”
– Henry Adams
“An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the...”
– Sydney J. Harris
May 2011
18 posts
The Forbidden Path →
Human has a freedom to walk in any direction he will, in any path he prefer to take. And there is no such dogma needed to force someone to take what is right instead what is wrong acording to…
“Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health...”
– Marilyn Ferguson