Monday, October 02, 2006

look at mohammed.

Lihatlah Muhammad
Masjid dikencingi orang Badui
Dia tersenyum memaklumi
Padahal kalau dia menghendaki
Dicincangnya Badui seperti adonan bakso sapi

Lihatlah Muhammad
Dipersilahkannya Masjid Nabawi
Dijadikan tempat misa umat Kristiani
Dijamunya tamu itu sepenuh hati
Demi kedamaian hakiki

Lihatlah Muhammad
Bersahabat dengan Nasrani dan Yahudi
Seperti tangan kanan dan tangan kiri
Dalam sistem hukum yang manusiawi
Selama tanpa pengkhianatan yang merusak sendi

Lihatlah umatnya
Mengucapkan Selamat Natal saja dianggap hina
Menganggap sosialisme dan komunisme sama seperti neraka
Yang berbeda pandangan dianggap sakit jiwa
Diobrak2 dengan fatwa dan kekerasan massa
Penindasan atas nama Pancasila

Lihatlah umatnya
Masjid dijadikan kuburan
Hanya dibuka untuk sembahyang
Dibangun dari mengemis di pinggir jalan
Mendirikan rumah Tuhan walau sejatinya meruntuhkan

Lihatlah umatnya
Picik beragama
Karena semakin bodoh maka semakin percaya
Jumud pada norma dan dogma
Merasa saleh dengan jubah dan peci di kepala
Dan gelar haji di depan nama

Lihatlah Muhammad dan umatnya
Muhammad menangis
Umatnya tertawa
Muhammad meringis
Umatnya foya2
Muhammad reformis
Umatnya statis
Muhammad pragmatis
Umatnya fundamentalis

Di Pengadilan Akhirat
Muhammad akan menuntut umatnya
Yang sangat dicintainya

A really nice Indonesian-written poem, criticizing on how most people practice Islam in Indonesia nowadays. It is sad how people over-glorify their religion, forgetting the essence of humanity and God himself. It seems the religion itself is more important than the whole concept of God and humanity. Taken from here.

cherish to the third and fourth

Well, it turns out that i couldn't continue my story on Cyberjaya. Wasted too much time today. But anyway, yesterday I went to KLCC and bought the third (Dream Country) and fourth (Season of Mists)volume of Neil Gaiman's Sandman. The third volume is thinner and more like an interlude to the next volume (it is even mentioned on the introductory page). The main shit is on the fourth volume. It tells how Dream went down to hell (once more) to save his long-lost-mortal-love interest, Nada, that he himself damned to hell. And Gaiman put some surprises in the story that really makes this volume interesting to read. You'd better read by yourself tho +P.

Sunday, October 01, 2006

cyberjaya trip pt. 1

On monday, Kemi, Iib, Lutung, and me decided to visit some of our friends on Cyberjaya. It is a new city in Malaysia which most parts of the city are still being built. Said that it's going to be one of the most high tech city by the year of 2020.

We went there by trains, and it a quite expensive journey for travelling by train. The ticket fare is about RM11 I think.


Me buying tickets.


The train that we rode there was one of the fastest train in Malaysia, it is the train that interconnecting Kuala Lumpur to the international airport at Sepang. So yeah, that what made the fare so expensive. It is fast. Even there is another faster train, it is the train that directly going to the airport without stopping anywhere (our's still stop at several station, including Cyberjaya). People say that it is the fastest train in South-East Asia. However, the ticket for that train is unbelievably expensive, around RM35. Bah.

After we arrived there, we went by bus to get to Haris's apartment because he was so unwilling to pick us up at the train station.

Look at our faces. WE have the rights to sit there.

So we arrived then at Haris's cribs. I met Syafiq, a very friendly Malaysian friend of Haris, whom I met before on Tiesto. But he was very different from before. So it felt like I was re-introduced to him once more. After breaking our fast for that day, we mostly spent time doing NOTHING except playing cards for like 2-3 hours. But it was fun tho, I taught Lutung and Haris new card game. Seven spades, mmm.

Haris bought this blueberry flavored cigar. So I tried one, and darn, it is a really really shitty flavored cigar. Passed it to my brother, turned out he didn't like it as well. So it ended up on the ashtray, halfway smoked.


This is Iib.
This is Haris.
This is Lutung.

Who the hell is this?

That's it for now, tommorow I'll continue my story. I'm just too sleepy to continue writing for now haha. Cheers.

supastylin;

About a week ago, I, Kemi, Iib, Norma, and Eva went to see a Groove Armada rave party. We were in front crowds, we could see everything that happened on the stage clearly! It was so cool! Among the line up there were, DJ Blink (winner of Heineken Thirst '05), Cosmic Space Monkeys (Heineken Thirst '06), Futon (a Thai band with ex-Suede's drummer in it!), and H.A.Z.E. University (didn't watch that one tho), and lastly is Groove Armada themselves.

Personally, I think it was cooler than Tiesto when he went here back on February. But, well I think it is more to my preferences tho. Btw, I grab this pic from the Heineken Music website. Can you spot me there?