Gigi....Oh...Gigi....

(Demi memenuhi permintaan pasar)

Bukan..ini bukan tulisan tentang keseksian Armand Maulana ketika bernyanyi, atau keacuhan gaya Dewa Bujana ketika memetik keenam jajaran dawai itu. Ataaauuuu..Slenge’nya gaya Thomas ketika dia membetot bass (Oh bass…Hush Harumia, kembali ke topik awal!!)

Ini juga tidak akan membahas tentang ’11 Januari’, ‘Andai’ atau pun ‘Cinta Terakhir’ yang senantiasa menjadi theme song kisah romansa saya. Noooo....this is purely about a tooth. Ya....bagian anatomi tubuh manusia yang terkadang membuat pusing.

Adalah resiko bagi setiap anak manusia dalam masa hidupnya akan melewati fase tumbunhnya gigi bungsu. Yap! Gigi paling belakang posisinya, paling telat pula tumbuhnya.

**sigh....Frankly, this is my second time I had this experience. Sudah dipastikan pada awal usia 20an saya, keempat gigi bungsu ini akan ’menyiksa’ hidup saya. Karena saya mempunyai rahang yang terlampau kecil, sehingga ga ada lagi tempat untuk keempat gigi late comers ini.

See...I don’t have enough space for another tooth!! Frankly, I do think I have enough teeth already to he help me chew in every other meals. I don’t need another four!!

And as I told you earlier that this is my second time. Some people are lucky enough to have this experience in one time, so that they could have the surgery all in the same time. Or, they lucky enough (maybe because they have been a good kid through out the years) they have enough space in their jaws to have the four teeth grow, perfectly!

But noooo…not me :( ..I have to experience it one at a time. The first surgery was a disaster. Bleeding through out the day, swollen for a week, couldn’t eat, couldn’t talk, and couldn’t sleep. A whole week in my so called hell (no dear, this is a different hell with the one we’ve been taking about). Oh…Need I tell you more about the surgery it self??

Now tell me this, God…What the use of having another tooth if I have to amputate it once they grow??? Why You create this phase anyway??? I’m not trying to challenge God here, but I do feel bewildered by this phase.

Now, is there any of of you, my friends, who can tell me the urgency, importancy of this phase??

I just can’t take it anymore…Yet I have another two to grow :( [very…verrrryyy…in deep pain]

D'RONGGENGS

Seorang RONGGENG pada masanya
Bergemulai dengan balutan sutra tipis
Terjamah raganya
Oleh tangan-tangan setan pencari pemuas nafsu

Apa yang dirasakannya?
Risihkah ia?
Atau jijikah ia?

Takjub aku melihat sikapnya
Yang perlahan tapi pasti
Semakin berani

Nampaknya inilah tuntutan zaman
Yang harus ia jalani...

PENYAIR

PENYAIR kau hidup di zaman mu
Di antara hedonisme penggoyah iman
Kau tetap mainkan kata demi kata
Bait demi bait
Sebagai penebus kehausan mu akan cinta

Ingatlah wahai PENYAIR
bahwa cinta seutuhnya telah kau rengkuh
Cinta sang Khalik lewat para pemuja mu

Satu cinta akan kau miliki kelak
Cinta pasti yang akan mengantar mu
Kepada kebahagiaan sempurna
Sampai akhir zaman
Sampai pada pertemuan kita selanjutnya
Pertemuan di puncak keabadian

Jakarta - Bandung, 16 Mei 2008
[ 26 tahun hidup sang PENYAIR]

KeTIKa SaNg JuLuNg-JuLuNG BeRAkSi

We arrived quite late in the afternoon that day. I was thinking it’s just going to be an ordinary afternoon swimming with the guys. But, it was a pleasant surprise to found that the pool was empty in that late afternoon. The guys were still changing (what, harsh reality?). Finally, I could have it all by my self.

Gently, I entered my feet, one by one…Enjoying the coldness of the mixed chlorine started covering half of my body. There, I was ready for laps of afternoon swimming.

I dived into the water. Swimming vigorously, without caring of all the nonsense, breathing technique, styles. It was just me and the water. Inside I could feel me, my self. There, just me and God. I could hear God cheering for me. We talked.

For a moment there I was so happy, happy to my self. There, I came to realize how I miss….Me.

The Highlights of Today

"Don't go too far with that guy, dear..." said a dear friend to me on yesterday afternoon "I have a bad feeling about this." I usualy ignore this kind of statment, because...Hey, it's my life..I'm the one who run it! But, yesterday was different...hmm, although as much as I adore him...but he seems out of reach...This time I go along with the statments. Inside...I only pray..."Dear God..If he doesn't have any good intention towards me...please give the distance between us to avoid another heartache..." Once again The Al-Mighty shows mercy upon this ignorance human being, God has given the enlightment (^_^)

Heartache...?? not really, more to a disapointment. How could an angel face like that do such thing?? To the person he love (which in this case, not me)??? Where's the heart???

Sure...now the wise man who said "Don't judge a book by it cover" took place.

Anyway, that was just one of the highlight of today. The second one....overcome a heartache??? Naaaaahh...I've become numb already. The seocond one was...FINALLY..afterall this years we got the POD approval. Yipeeeeeyy!! Now, we can produce gas on one of our well. Alhamdulillah...It feels like I could almost breath freelly.

Hahaha...yea...almost. Because before me are 'homeworks' to be follow up for the up coming business project. But, there lays the challenge my friends. The challenge which will keep me feel alive. The hecticness, the over whelmed stress level, and of course the sweet retreats.

Hmmmm....can't hardly wait for all of that (^_^)

A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOUR

I don't ask much of you..

I may seem agile
I may seem sturdy
in solitary ridding the wild Stallion of life
Princess Joan in the new age

But I may also lose the leash and fall
To the tempting valley of Roses and Euphorbia
Beautiful with their blooms...
Yet, harmful with their throns underneath...

I need you to ride with me...
Side by side
To pick the right bloom and grow it in our own oasis