'Poconggg juga pocong' - an overrated book

Selama beberapa minggu, buku ini termasuk best seller di Gramedia di kota saya. Saya pun penasaran, sebagus apa buku yang selalu dibicarakan orang di Twitter.
"Poconggg Juga Pocong" atau disingkat PJP ditulis oleh sang pemilik akun Twitter @poconggg. Saya tidak mem-follow akun tersebut jadi saya tidak tahu gimana gaya penulisan beliau.
Saya meminjam buku ini dari seorang teman. Selain Raditya Dika dan beberapa penulis lain yang sudah saya kenal cara penulisannya, saya jarang membeli buku yang ditulis penulis Indonesia. Bukannya tidak menghargai hasil karya anak bangsa, hanya saja kadang kala saya merasa bahwa beberapa penulis tidak punya topik utama yang diceritakan dalam buku mereka. Tapi, bagi saya tidak sedikit penulis Indonesia punya tulisan yang berkualitas. Selain Raditya Dika yang saya sebut di atas, ada juga Dewi "Dee" Lestari, Ferdiriva Hamzah, Laura Bazuki, dll.
Saat membaca foreword dari penulis buku PJP, saya sudah merasakan beberapa kejanggalan. Misalnya, pada kalimat "they are like an angel". Entah apa, editornya lupa ato bagian kata pengantar tidak pernah di-edit, yang saya tahu, kalimat itu grammar-nya salah. Saya memang paham, typo adalah hal yang biasa terjadi, tapi tidak wajar terjadi untuk tulisan yang akan diterbitkan. Gimana kalo kebetulan ada bule yang membaca kalimat tersebut. kalimat tersebut saya yakin akan masuk ke suatu situs web yang khusus memuat kesalahan berbahasa Ingrris di negara-negara yang tidak menggunakan bahasa tersebut.
Beberapa bagian dari buku ini memang lucu. Tapi, tidak seperti buku-buku lain yang sejenis, buku ini tidak membuat saya betah untuk membacanya. kadang kala saya juga merasa bahwa sang penulis adalah orang yang kasar. dibuktikan dengan balasan e-mail ke salah satu follower. Salah satu kalimat bertuliskan "Persetan dengan kamu". What-the hell? Is that the way how you treat people? Well, I think you have bad attitude.
Beberapa komentar di cover belakang buku ini membuat saya bertanya-tanya dalam hati, apa si penulis komentar benar-benar membaca buku ini? Well, actually that's their problem, dan bukan urusan saya bagaimana penilaian mereka terhadap buku ini.
Bagi saya buku ini hanyalah buku biasa, bukan buku yang fenomenal, tapi bukan juga buku yang kurang bermutu. Dari skala 0-10, buku ini saya beri nilai 6,5.

Happily Ever After

Dedicated to my best friend, Sely.
Friday, November 11, 2011. The day which has been chosen by a lot for wedding day.
That also the day my best friend, Sely, chosen. That day was a total traffic fiasco, so we couldn't attended her matrimony. We arrived a little bit late at the reception.
Well, it was held out of town, so it was long trip. When we finally arrived, all of us are exhausted. Sely invited a lot of people to her wedding, approximately 1500 people was attending her wedding. When we got there, there's no more seat for us, and the ushers at her wedding weren't proactive enough -remembering they're the ushers, I supposed it was their job to found us some seats-, so we spent about half an hour standing.
Exhausted, hungry, pain in my legs for wearing high heels really taken over me. But when I finally see Sely's happy face, it felt like it all are paid off. She looks extremely happy. And I'm also happy for her. She finally got married with the guy she really loves. And I know how much she struggle for this wedding -the invitation issue, and lots of things.
Little prayer for Sely and Alvan, her husband, may you lives happily ever after. Congratulation for finally find your happy new beginning where you get to spend the journey ahead of both of you with the love of your life.

The Cabinet

We cry together, laugh together, fight together, struggle together, share our joy together. At the end of the day, no matter what will happen in the next chapter of my life, these girls will always have their own spot in my mind.

Meeting Bee (part 1)

Bee yang akan saya ceritakan bukanlah lebah penghasil madu. Ini adalah panggilan kesayangan saya untuk seseorang. Inisialnya B, daripada dipanggil be (ntar orang-orang nganggap saya lagi manggil Babe), saya lebih senang memanggilnya Bee. bagi kalian yang sampai di titik ini merasa penasaran, siapa sebenarnya Bee ini, maaf saya nggak bisa bilang nama aslinya di sini, dan fyi, dia bukan pacar, pasangan, atau kekasih saya. Bee hanyalah orang biasa, bukan orang paling jenius, bukan pula orang yang kegantengannya bikin silau.
I met Bee for the first time on January 5, 2009. We met for a brief moment, no "love at the first sight" or whatever it is. The only impression I got from Bee is a Smart Genius Impression. And he really is a genius. Well, the moment just passed like that. Nothing really happened. And I didn't even see him for about 5 months.
On June 2, 2009 I had the chance to meet him again. This time I got to spent a lot of time with him. Before I met him that day, I got a feeling that I'm about to met him. When it actually happened, it felt like deja vu. Time spent with him is so worthy to me. I started  to adore this smart and caring person.
Bee, not just smart and loving, he also is a caring person. That kind of cares that swept me off my feet. Made me fell head over heels. Sounds absurb right, but it is true.
From our frequent meetings, I started to notice him. Every single details of him, some details that I'm really sure a lot of people don't notice, maybe including himself.
Bee's accent sounds funny (in a cute way) when he speaks something with "s" in it. He always scratch behind his ear with his left hand while he's thinking. i also like his handwriting, not those neat-computer-font kind of writing, just regular handwriting, but I can recognize those whenever, wherever I see those.
Involuntarily, my life seemed to revolved around him. I just can't denied it if people told me  that I was obsessed with him. because I was. If any days gone by without me see him, it just felt so dull. The "Bee Phase"- that's how I like to recall those months with him- is also the phase of my life where I learned a lot of things, and I learned it from him.
For one week, during those months, Bee was missing. And he returned with some shocking news. It wasn't like I didn't see it coming, but still I was shocked. Since then I had to kept distance from him. But Bee is still the same person I know. He still tried to began the conversations between us, even though sometimes it sounds ridiculous. He still has the same glance of his eyes. And still the same comforting smile.
Bee is just a human, and so am I. I made a mistake. I thought that Bee is the one, when he wasn't, isn't, and won't be.

There still ots of wonderful things happened with Bee, I don't know when will I have the courage to share it all.