Gadis Jeruk; Love To Know You, Dad

Setelah membaca buku pertama milik Jostein Gaarder yang berjudul Mistery Soliter (I wrote about it here), aku jadi tertarik untuk membaca karya-karyanya yang lain. Beberapa karyanya udah diterjemahkan ke beberapa bahasa dan bahkan menjadi best seller di beberapa negara. Salah tiganya yang aku pernah tahu sudah diterbitkan di Indonesia adalah Dunia Sophie, Gadis Jeruk, dan Perpustakaan Ajaib Bibbi Bokken. And I don’t really know whether I have...

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Ada Dua Laut di Palestina; Share The Blessing We Get

"Memberi itu sama artinya dengan memberikan kehidupan bukan saja kepada orang lain, melainkan juga kepada dirimu sendiri." ~ Sean Covey Yup, gak akan ada abisnya kalo kita ngomongin tentang hal-hal terkait memberi. Sekecil apapun pemberian itu, pasti ada manfaat yang diperoleh baik oleh penerima dan terlebih lagi bagi yang memberi. Setelah dulu sempet mengutip cerita Tongkat Punya Siapa (bisa diintip di sini), beberapa waktu yang lalu...

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Count on Me, What Friends Are For

"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." ~ Muhammad Ali Tetiba kangen sama para bestie gara-gara nonton video ini. Hmm, love all of ur friends and never take them for granted coz there'll never be the other like them. Suka juga sama videonya, it's cute, selamat menikmati yaa :D "Count On Me" [Verse 1:] Oh uh-huh If you ever...

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The 20th, Thinking Twice Before To Act

This post addresses to dsp, my younger bru who never fails to amaze me. Just as u said before bru, being 20th is about thinking twice before to act, so Happy 20th! Be a better man! The crows, they're not alone, they fly together, means that u'll never be able to live alone, love those people around u, who are there for u, and never take them for granted. But still, there's the biggest one, the one who leads all the way. U too, man, be a leader,...

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Katanya, A Glimpse of Childhood

"Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel   Beberapa waktu yang lalu gak sengaja liat acara lomba menyanyi anak-anak di tv, ada salah satu peserta yang nyanyiin lagunya Trio Kwek Kwek yang berjudul Katanya. Mm, gak begitu inget sih ini lagu rilisnya tahun berapa, cuman inget kalau dulu suka banget nyanyiin lagu ini bareng sodara-sodara sambil joget-joget,...

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Liberta, A Rhythm of A Joyful Dream

“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” ~ Leonard Bernstein Yup, music is such a universal language, no matter what language the lyric is, good music is good music. And this one song proves that we don't even need to know the language to just enjoy the music. But, if we want to appreciate more, of course we need to understand the meaning. But it's OK either way we choose to enjoy the music, back again,...

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Misteri Soliter; The Mistery of Joker, The Philosopher of Life

"Aku pasti terlihat seperti sebuah tanda tanya yang hidup"  Yap, kutipan itulah yang sepertinya sesuai dengan ekspresiku saat pertama kali melihat dan membaca sinopsis buku ini. Sebenarnya aku sedikit enggan sih buat baca ini buku, because most of this book reviews are talking about the philosophy thingy in this book, which, I don't really have any interest in it. Tapi setelah mencicipi beberapa halaman pertama, aku jadi tertarik banget...

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