Street Lamp

Light my way, will you?

The Tree

One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade. - Chinese Proverb

A Piece of Memory

Yesterday, I suddenly missed Hamburg so much. Since I came back here in Indonesia, I almost never felt that way about Hamburg. What came to my mind when the longing struck was the moment when I sat by Alster after rain. The air was so fresh and wet.

This longing lead me tonight to open my diary two years ago and made me remember not only Alster. See what I found: a train ticket from Köln to Hamburg. It was dated October 13, 2009 and the ticket costed 54 euro plus 4 euro for seat reservation.

I spent about three days in Köln to visit my friends Frisca and Myra. It was one of the happiest moments for me--in the course of one year living in Germany--to be able to meet them and spend time together: sharing stories until 3 A.M. about what happened in one month we had been living there, throwing up in the middle of the night because of food--I guessed, walking along Rhein River, visiting Dom, taking photos under the rain, cooking instant noodles from Indonesia which we bought in Asian Shop and travelling by train leading to some cities in one day (Köln - Dusseldorf - Duisburg - Bonn - Köln), etc.

Here is the ticket:

There is a saying says: Good memories are our second chance at happiness. (Queen Elizabeth II)  

This ticket is a piece of memory which gives me a second chance to recall happiness in those days living in far away country and thus be happy.

First Launching Photos

Hello there :)

Since this is the first posting for this blog, let me talk a little about it. This blog is my third blog after Lilalily (in Bahasa Indonesia) and Purple Nook (in English). Different from the two blogs which mostly 'record' my poems, this new blog will mainly publish photos and the stories about them. I will try to take at least one photo per day and then hopefully I can post it in this blog every day. If I cannot manage to post it every day due to some reasons, I will post the photos at once along with another photos the next days, but still I will give a clue about when they were taken.

And forgive me if I post more than one photo per day... The rule ( I made it myself) is minimum one photo a day, and there is no maximum... :)

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New year is coming soon. So, this afternoon, me and my friends--Nia and Eka--were meeting in Mr. Komot, House of Choco and Cheese to talk about our new year's plan. It was raining this afternoon, but we felt comfortable sitting on a brown couch there for hours; talking, planning, debating, laughing, budgeting, enjoying the menus, etc. These light menus I enjoyed today, while talking about our plan, will be the photos of the day.

Cheese Balls

Green Hill Cheese Cake

Strawberry Jump
(Strawberry mixed with orange)

So, what's your plan for the upcoming new year's eve???