Showing posts with label Searchings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Searchings. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

#3 Searchings: When I Come Back to Balikpapan One Day

When i come back to Balikpapan one day, i don't want to stay at home too long. I want to wake up earlier and jog/workout in different yards every week. When i finished saving for a treadmill, i will buy it. I want to shoping at traditional market two times a week, hypermart once a week and never let my refrigerator empty anymore. I will fill it with can drinks, snacks, and chocolates. I will buy some fruits, 'cause i like fruits so much.

I want to cycling from my house into the city beach every weekend and capture some spots with my little camera, maybe find a guy who i used to see in the back 2 years ago. A guy who always wore a black snapback and cycling around merdeka yard every Sunday morning and ended with a beach view, listening some tracks on his phone. 


When i come back to Balikpapan, i want to manage a little modiste store with my mom. I want to open a cafe with chocolate cakes and drinks as its main menu. I want to have little music store, selling music accessories online. I want to sing at cafes once a week, bring my microphone and guitar. I want to busking from cafe to cafe, i will go to Samarinda and other cities in Borneo. I want to join photography and musician community when i come back here. Doing what i wanted since a long time ago. I want to join gardening community and plant some vegetables, fruits and flowers at my house yard.

"I'm a daydreamer, night thinker, i'm a human. I write all i wanted here, i want many big great things happen in my life. Imagine is free. Do it, make it happen. Follow your dreams."

Thursday, May 4, 2017

06. #2 Searchings : May

It's 0:08 a.m
Now i'm sitting on the kitchen's chair, writing, no, typing. Typing on my phone. This is so rare. No notebook's keyboard sounds, just ticking clock. No earphone, no music, but i can't stop my right leg shaking just like when you follow the beat of song you listen to. Hot chocolate milk, green pajamas, and sleepy eyes.

5 hours before
Welcome, May. This evening was cold for me. Not only today but a couple days ago. Like yesterday, when i went to cargo terminal to picked up my new guitar. Cold wind break through my bones and my right leg chilled and had cramp. It’s about ten kilometers between airport and my house. But i’m pretty sure it was fast. More speed, extra cold wind. *thumbs up*

When you live in Borneo, you would be experienced with warm and hot weather a lot. And you will miss rainy days. But when it comes rainy days, where some point will be flooded area, people will also complain. I’m not one of them, honestly, i’m happy when it rains. I’m telling about rain and cold weather is not means i hate it, i talk to myself about it because i love it. Rain can bring back a thousand of memories for me. I remember when i rode my bike went home after taking care my father at hospital. I was crying and i kept talking in my head. About this and that. I tried to stay focus. There’s many words in my head. And i think it was my first year create a song lyric. But i don’t know why i can’t make it done. It shouldn’t done though but i really wanted to make one for my father. There’s a lot of songs, i ended crying every time i sang them. Look, how far rain and cold wind brought me, with the memory. I’m afraid to lose anyone in my life, we only have one life in earth, so.. be grateful of everything has done. Grateful is main gate of happiness.

By the way, I really wanted to get a chance to go out at midnight, in this city or another one. Maybe i would call a friend to accompany me. I love riding at night. When there’s lights everywhere, sky full of stars, nice air temperature. I hope this city and the people will be better in handling air pollution. Besides it, Balikpapan is clean and peaceful city, we called it.

Searchings in May
12 hours ago // 11:55 p.m
I'm reading a book. New book that i bought 1 year ago, online. There's one thing happened when i have book on my hand/bag. It means broken heart. I don't know why, novel is the right option when i was too low. Like searching and finding an answer from other's life. Even if it's a fiction story, it always succeed fix my heart. Ballad songs, books, and a cup of coffee. Perfect. And also, it's raining outside.

Track : Yesung - 그대뿐인지 (All But You)

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

#1 Searchings : April

 a p r i l .

Seperti kemarin, malam ini hujan turun lagi, membasahi hampir seluruh tengah kota tempat tinggalku. Perbedaannya, malam ini aku menyempatkan diri untuk melihat-lihat sekitar dengan mengendarai sepeda motor. Baru pukul 7, jadi belum terlalu dingin. Aku hanya mengenakan kaos lengan 3/4 dan jeans biru. Kilatan cahaya dari langit membuatku bergegas memutar motor, karena dipastikan akan turun hujan. Lalu aku mulai berkendara dengan kecepatan yang tidak terlalu kencang. Kota ini tetap sama, seperti 6 tahun lalu saat aku benar-benar memutuskan untuk tinggal disini, untuk pertama kalinya. Jalanan yang tidak begitu macet, tapi tidak juga sepi. Pohon-pohon di sisi kanan kiri jalan yang membuat kota ini tetap sejuk bahkan saat siang hari. Polusi udara yang minim, orang-orangnya yang mempersilahkan siapapun untuk bersikap ramah atau pun cuek. Fleksibel. Kota ini memberikan kebebasan untukku. Mempersilahkan aku untuk tetap menjalankan rencana hidupku. Impianku yang sangat tinggi, aku yakin orang akan lebih banyak menertawai dibanding mempercayai apa yang sudah aku tulis. 

Hujan masih turun di bulan April. Bahkan curah hujan masih sangat tinggi. Menyebabkan beberapa titik di kota selalu tergenang air. Beruntung aku tidak pernah berada dalam situasi terjebak banjir. Pun aku takut jika berkendara di jalan yang licin. Seperti malam ini ketika kembali ke rumah saat hujan telah reda. Sebagian pengendara memperlambat laju kendaraan mereka, satu dan dua orang justru ada yang dengan ambisiusnya menabrak lubang berisi air, menyebabkan cipratan air kotor terkena celana jeansku. Untung tidak terlalu banyak. 

Ada banyak ruko, rumah, gedung yang aku sukai. Kebanyakan adalah tempat tinggal etnis China. Aku selalu terpana melihat rumah-rumah kuno namun masih tetap mereka jaga. Kuno tapi tidak tua. Seperti ada nilai seni yang sangat tinggi. Aku bahkan ingin sekali memotret, sengaja berjalan seharian keliling kota hanya untuk memotret. Tapi tidak pun kesempatan itu datang padaku, ataupun aku buat dengan sendirinya. Aku menyukai saat berjalan sendiri, melihat dan merasakan begitu banyak yang bisa ku dapat di sini. Banyak kejadian dan banyak orang yang ku temui setiap harinya.

Tempat yang paling ku sukai yang tidak banyak orang juga sukai adalah pasar. Pasar tradisional. Berjubel, sempit-sempitan, panas, penjual mendatangi pembeli, tawar-menawar, becek, jalanan macet. Ada nilai seni yang tinggi didalamnya. Inilah kehidupan sebenarnya. Aku pernah berpikir untuk mencari pekerjaan di daerah sekitar pasar. Karena di sana banyak sekali hal yang membuat pikiran dan hatiku terjaga. Seperti sesuatu yang akan membuatmu tetap bersikap rendah hati. Setidaknya  untuk diriku sendiri. Aku cemas. Cemas akan masa-masa yang ku jalani sekarang. Aku takut tidak akan kembali ke masa ini. Memang ya, tidak akan pernah ada waktu yang terhenti. Tidak akan pernah ada mesin waktu yang akan membawa manusia ke masa lalu. Aku cemas aku akan merindukan masa-masa dimana aku dengan bebasnya berlenggang ke pasar, ke tempat-tempat favoritku. "I'm only good at being young", Mayer said. Tapi ini hanyalah kata-kata. Diriku adalah sebaliknya. Aku masih ingin melihat lebih banyak tempat di kota ini dan di kota lainnya.

0:50 AM. Sekarang hujan sudah reda. I gotta sleep. April, let's make memories.