the web of life #giliair #iphonesia (Taken with instagram)
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“Pulang” Bersama LIFE TRAVELER-nya @windyariestanty
terima kasih untuk review-nya. selamat pulang.
“Kalian tahu apa yang dimiliki para perantau? Kami punya rindu. Rindu akan rumah, rindu untuk pulang.”
“Kalian tahu apa yang dimiliki para perantau? Kami punya LEGA saat akhirnya bertatap muka.”
quotes by: ME
Berkemas: Saya tak akan bisa menyerap apa pun bila tak membiarkan diri saya kosong.
Love is a ‘place’ that we keep visiting again and again. It annoys us to no end. And for something like this, we may call it ‘home’.
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. – Henry Boye
Kalau kita sungguh-sungguh menginginkan sesuatu, seperti kata Paulo Coelho, semesta akan berkonspirasi mewujudkannya.
–LIFE TRAVELER–
Jadi mungkin nggak perlu banyak alasan lagi kan kenapa saya suka buku (sang penulis mengistilahkan sebagai travelogue) karya WINDY ARIESTANTY ini.. Karena saya merantau, dan travelogue ini bikin saya jadi lebih punya banyak pandangan tentang pulang.
Windy jalan-jalan ke banyak negara di buku ini. Asia Tenggara, Eropa, Amerika Serikat.. . Mulai dari ‘kabur dari rutinitas sehari-hari’ a.k.a liburan, sampai perjalanan kerja yang ajaibnya masih bisa disisipi ‘liburan’. Asyik! *iri*
Yang seru dari buku ini, Windy tuh bisa merasakan hal yang sangat sederhana ternyata maknanya kadang luar biasa. Contohnya dalam Satu Malam di O’hare, Windy bisa ‘memahami konsep baru tentang rumah’ dari seorang nenek pelayan cafe 24 jam di bandara. Simple as, nunggu pesawat, istirahat di cafe, ngobrol sama nenek-nenek, dapat konsep baru tentang ‘rumah’. Nah, kalau bukan Windy, mungkin obrolan itu jenis obrolan basa-basi yang nggak bisa ditangkap nilainya. Windy menangkapkan nilai itu, jadi kita tinggal baca. Wow, kan?
‘menjaga kelahiran si penjaga bumi’, my feature about gentlebirth and robin lim that has been published in parenting magazine for indonesia, april 2012.
apa kausadar, kenangan itu licik?
the man who talks to the ocean #journeytonowhere (Taken with instagram)
my favorite symbol. 🙂
sebuah surat hangat dari paris

Dear Windy,
Selamat malam dari Paris.
Apa kabar? Sedang menulis tentang apa sekarang, Windy?
2 Hari yang lalu Mar mendapat tamu yang sudah kenal Mar dari buku Windy. Wah, pengalaman istimewa bersama tamu yang baru saya salami tetapi sudah tahu semua rahasia hati Mar karena buku Windy.
Tamu ini , wanita muda, bilang dia senang saat tahu Mar yang di buku Windy akan jadi pemandunya.
Mar sangat bersyukur pada Windy dan dapat kesempatan bertemu dengan Windy , tetapi yang paling menyenangkan Mar adalah bahwa tamu ini bilang buku Windy laris manis dan jadi bestseller! WAUW BERITA GEMBIRA!!!!
Betapa senang Mar mendengar itu! Semoga selalu sukses ya Windy. Ingat, selalu menulis dengan hati ya!
Januari kemarin kami kembali ke Ranah Minang untuk melukis. Kali ini kami membawa bahan lukisan. Mar bahagia sekali bisa melukis keindahan Indonesia yang saya cintai. Terlampir salah satu foto saat melukis dan foto saat bahagia di rumah gadang.
Perasaan dan cinta Mar untuk Indonesia masih sama dan masih sedang mati rindu di Paris sesudah pulang dari Sumatra. Makin lama dan makin sering ke Indonesia, makin dalam cinta saya ini sampai kembali ke Paris terasa seperti pergi merantau.
Ampun rindunya ke keluarga saya, termasuk Windy.
Bagaimana dengan Windy? Doa Mar baik-baik saja kabarnya.
Salam hangat dari Paris,
Mar
penyalamatahari: ulik #editorstory bersama sundea
saya mencandu deadline.
buat saya deadline adalah teman terbaik saya, yang membuat saya melakukan pencapaian-pencapaian. saya sempat mengobrol tentang hal ini dengan sundea dari salamatahari.
kalau kalian sedang berjalan-jalan dan kebetulan lewat atau singgah di rumah saya ini, silakan menguping obrolan kami tentang kerja seorang editor di http://www.salamatahari.com/2012/04/editorstory-windy-ariestanty.html

ah! dan jangan ragu untuk masuk ke rumah ini. pintunya tidak saya kunci. jendela pun saya biarkan terbuka. saya tahu, mungkin seorang pejalan akan singgah di sini untuk rehat sejenak sambil berbincang.
salam hangat dari si rumah 13.
dear god #iphonesia #prayforsumatra (Taken with instagram)
DATE A GIRL WHO WRITES
DATE A GIRL WHO WRITESAfter reading the “Date A Girl Who Reads” article, I knew someone out there would have written a response with “Date A Girl Who Writes”. Thus, here it is. I wish I knew who to credit for this, but I couldn’t find a name.
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Date a girl who writes because she will be able to recall in detail the dialog between you two, and while it gets you in trouble, it’s endearing and sweet at the same time that she remembers. This also forces you to choose your words carefully and you will become an expert in diction.
Date a girl who writes because she understands the complexities of characters, and knows you are more than your successes, failures, winnings, or losses. She loves all the layers of you, all the deep parts and even the shallow. When you are acting like the villain, she will see the goodness in you. When you are the hero, she’ll still secretly admire your flaws. All the depths of you become her big adventure.
Date a girl who writes because she will give you the most beautiful settings you’ve ever seen. She writes about the paradises she imagines, the paradises she has been to, and shares them with you.
Date a girl who writes because sometimes a little silence is welcome.
Date a girl who writes because the post-it on your refrigerator reminding you to buy milk will be original and full of adorable metaphors. And because she is so creative, she’ll put the post-it in your shoe rather than on your fridge.
In the fairy tale that is your life together, she will always make you prince charming, and happily ever after is a guarantee.
Date a girl who writes because when the poetry dies, she will make sure her prose keeps you alive.
Date a girl who writes because she understands the value of word choice, and will mean everything she says to you.
Date a girl who writes because she will ask you interesting things like “What does your name mean?” so that she may use it in a book someday. Not to mention you get to have a better understanding of yourself when you Google your own name.
She’s always looking for the page-turner, which becomes quite exciting for you.
The storyline will never have to end. She will write all the sequels that keep your love breathing. And just so that you remember all the things you love about her, she’ll make sure to include prequels too.
You’ll never have to worry about dementia, amnesia, or Alzheimer’s in your later life. She has already written out your story so that you may remember each other forever.
Buying gifts for her is oh-so-simple because she knows the incredible worth of a pen and paper.
She’ll write you emails because the laptop is her friend, but prefers to show you how she cares by painstakingly writing you pages upon pages of letters when you two are separated.
Date a girl who writes because she can take criticism and turn it into wit, disappointment into accomplishment, and sadness into laughter with the wave of her pen.
Sex is like a dirty, raunchy romantic novel you don’t dare read in public.
She will spend her life coming up with a thousand different ways to tell you how incredible you are as she is not fond of repetition. But the words she will wear out is “I love you,” because even she knows there is no better substitute for them in the history of writing.
Date a girl who writes because you will be her muse, her inspiration. Without you, she will have writer’s block. Or write the greatest tragedy since Cleopatra and Mark Antony. Either way, you are the man she will always write.
Everyday she fascinates you with a new genre. Today she is Romance, tomorrow Philosophy.
Date a girl who writes because when the cold winter of life traps you in old age, there will be somebody there to describe for you the summers in Paris, heat in Arabian nights, and tropical forests in South America so that you feel the warmth of adventure as if you were there. And so, in the twilight of your life, you will feel the touch of youth.
And finally, you must date a girl who writes because it is she who will allow you to live forever. With just her pen, she will make sure that you never grow old nor die nor fade, remembered for generations to come. A character in one of her stories, you will be given the gift of immortality.



