SHINING SHANTI

Just My Lucky Day

Minggu sore yang cerah, 28 Agustus 2005, abis plesiran tempo doeloe museum saya en temen2 merasa perlu udara segar tempo kini, jadi kita putusin pergi ke Pasaraya, Blok M untuk maksi en ngupi2. Sampailah kita masuk ke Soeryo Cafe yang cozy en menunya cukup enak, tapi…of course, setelah lebih dulu cari maksi-masuk-tea-time di KFC demi hemat. Sambil srot srot caramel frappucino, kita ngobrol, renungan, ketawa/i plus…foto2!

Lagi asik kecentilan photo session, masuklah suatu sosok hitam manis yang bikin saya hampir beku. GLENN FREDLY!! Oh, mi God…mi God. Tenang. Tenang. Exhale…inhale…Saya cuma bisa terpana and bengong mandangin dia yang baru aja duduk di meja ujung untuk makan. Temen2 saya juga cuma diem aja, ntah malu atau nggak peduli.

Wait a minute…think, Shanti, think! Kayak lagu Madu dan Racun, ada kamera di tangan kananku, Glenn di tangan ki…well…pojok ruangan yang sama dengan saya. What else do you need??? Foto, you stupid! Tanpa ba bi bu, saya langsung bangkit en…

"Selamat sore, Glenn….Boleh foto bareng gak?"

Dia dengan lesung pipitnya yang manis, "Oh, boleh…boleh!"

Sambil lingkarin tangannya di pinggang saya. Duh, jadi deket en dia…wangi pula! *Waduh semoga aja Glenn nggak baca ini, since he’s in my friendster’s friend list!*

 Mungkin karena gregory saya yang kebangetan, alhasil di foto saya senyum ‘pantekan’ atau senyum kaku seperti dipantek paku. Huaa….

Akhir perjumpaan *eeheem* pingin sih bilang, "Can I have your phone number, Glenn?" atau "Will you have a date with me?", tapi setelah pikir2 saya harus ngantri dengan berjuta2 wanita se-Indonesia dan cewek disebelahnya itu *wah sapa tuh??*…saya cuma bisa bilang, "Looking forward to your next album, ya…"       

Padahal lagu2 di album sebelumnya pun belum apal semua *doh*. Selebihnya saya sudah nggak inget lagi, karena tiba2 nggak bisa nginjek bumi. Houston, we have a problem!

The Art of Plesiran

sekelumit gambar dari Plesiran Tempoe Doeloe Sahabat Museum, Minggu, 28 Agustus 2005, Museum Bank Mandiri

my lovely chandellier…

soedoet museum. 

shadow chaser.

stained glass on the lobby.

very very old version of Computer today

brandkast

10.10, when the time invented

Reminds me of San Fransisco…I left my heart in…Jakarta

      

kecapean muter-muter….

photography : Shanti. Art Design : Shanti. Location: Museum Bank Mandiri, Kota. (c) 2005

WORDS OF WISDOM…

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand"

     Thomas Carlyle

basically the point is : udah deh kerjain dulu baru mikir macem2…Good point!

"Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you gonna get…"

                                                             Forrest Gump 

ain’t he cool…?? A guy with no ambition, yet he always succeeded.

"Mau pergi kemana kek, ke ujung dunia kek…segalanya ngomong/bilang!!"

        Mama & Bapak

I didn’t realize they got good point back then, now I say it’s true…

Mother How Are You Today?

Mother how are you today?

This is a note from your daughter

with me everything is ok

oh, mother how are you today?

EVERY TIME I listen to the song, I often burst into tears. I wonder how my mother is today. Maybe she is singing the same song for me from above with a different title. My mom liked to sing, except she only sang this traditional Malay song that made all my siblings and me giggled, yet sometimes bored us. Funny is that now we miss that song a lot. My eldest sister even sings the same song to her children who fortunately like it that they sing it pretty often as well.

Mom was a strict mother that she instructed us all to sit and eat together at dinner at seven sharp! For she thought that was the only time we could face each other and discuss or tell our days. Good Point. She would refuse to give me allowance to buy some food, but willingly gave me one to buy books. She adored books (my Dad also) that she gave every thing for her children to do the same. I guess I know where my passion for books really comes from.

One thing she despised was lying. If she found out that we gave her a lie, she would give us a 2-hour preach on how bad lying is (and any other preaching stuffs, of course). 2 hours? Well, 2 hours was lucky enough, as it often took 3 hours!

Yesterday, when I was at work, I remembered it was her birthday. I stupidly forgot to visit and bring flowers to her at her grave, her ‘homeland’ now….Out of guilt, I brought of a birthday cake home, in hope that at least some of my family would be at home to ‘celebrate’ Mom’s birthday. My nephew and niece were so excited that they kept telling and repeating to everyone that the cake was for eyang mama…the grandmother they never met.

I miss you Mama…so much.

So, how are you today?