best friends

clara oktarina

I would like to introduce you a young, passionate and a very talented artist. Born in October 1989, her name is Clara Oktarina. I met her sometime in 2008 in a religious class at Shekinah. First impression that I have for her was an uncommunicative but a nice and polite person. She listen a lot, humble, act carefully but with a lot of care. Moreover, I've noticed she is a sensitive person and also has a big sens of art. We've been together in the same class for one year - if i'm not mistaken... (fyi: I have a short term memory T___T).
Meet her would be a great opportunity to make a relationship with - what I called "a soon to be a great artis".
View her artworks, and you will agree with what I'm saying!

Copied from her favorite quotes:

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with. (anonymous)

there is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. (r buckminster fuller)

wherever you go, go with all your heart. (confusius)

it is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the doing that matters. (mother theresa)

you can't rush perfection!!! (spongebob) <--- so damn agree!!

I have been a knowledgeably (read: sok-tahu) person to put a value for her from quotes above; because I believe someone will not put quotes as their favorite if it never touch his/her heart. I think these quotes have been her lights to live her life because I see these quotes have been applied already to her daily behavior.
Well, to day is her birthday, so I would like to say: Happy Birthday Aya! :) keep on those good work & be more creative.

ps: She has just started her personal blog... so check it out, and maybe you'll get inspired!

nyanyian pantai - cover book

This is my  first cover book project for one of my talented friends, Eref Leo. When he asked me to made this special project, I was very excited. Actually it was more a combinations between very excited and very confused since He gave me a total freedom to make it. So then, for a source of inspiration, I made a concept from one of his poems, which at the end was written in the cover. Can you see it clearly from the image? It was written in Bahasa Indonesia and he didn't make the English version. But if I have an honour to translate it, maybe that will goes like this (forgive me for my poor English, Mas):

Loving you,

as if the ocean's movement

never stop, not know worry

in my surge lays your soul

at the bottom of my soul far beyond my spirit's niche

one name has graven

i want to be with you

always

consume our love with no interlude!

Well, as you can see below, the author has just shown up and kindly give enlightment to the translation, so here is the proper one:

 

Ocean Without A Pause 

loving thou 

just like the move of ocean blue 

tired does not know can never stop 

adhere your soul in my ardour 

far in the recesses deep in my soul 

there only one name asleep and fold 

i just want to be with you

a think that always thou

drank our love like a pair of dove

along the ocean without a pause

This poem was dedicated to his beloved wife, who has been together with him for 16 years. Wow! such a man! I believe whoever get this kind of treatment couldn't help to feel flattered. So if you like this poem, you can take a peek at nyanyian-pantai. And once you fall in love with the glimpse,buy it!

viva la poésie!

thinking of

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.
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dan masih saja kudapati
dindingdinding beku yang berdarah
ketika sekatsekat memori tentang mu tersingkap
padahal sudah setahun berlalu

setiap kali, masih saja terasa
serpihanserpihan luka yang pecah.
dan setiap kali juga ketika ia menguap
yang tertinggal adalah pedih

mengengenalmu namun ternyata tak mengenal
melupakanmu namun ternyata selalu mengingat
pergi darimu namun ternyata jarak hanya sedepa
membencimu namun ternyata terlalu mencinta

aku terlalu jauh, katamu aku pergi
tetapi aku terlalu lekat, sampai kau tak melihat


*after all this time... I still love you evenmore...

Gray Elle

Maybe it's sound silly, but i always forget my own website address. It’s same like i always forget my TV channel number - that is why i never type numbers; i only push up/down the channel button. Sometimes that makes my hubby crazy.. "How can you push that down button?! You know that's the last channel and there are no other channels after. You have been with this TV for more than two months and still don't know?" and i would go like: "he he he...." and that's not it.. this happen also with other numbers or names (i hardly remember a new name), maybe i've lost that part on my brain. once i met one magazine marketing, he presented his product at my office and i need to ask his name for more than five times during our 45 minutes conversation. T____T

So this morning when I want to visit my own blog, I should search it at google. Usually I type “blogspot” or “blogger” and still confuse with those, but to day I type “grayelephant”. Instead enter my blog’s name, I attached by the suggestions words “gray elephant song”. And look what I found:

Kids Prayer

"A great grey elephant, a little yellow bee, a tiny purple violet, a tall green tree, a red and white sailboat, on a blue sea: all these things You gave to me, when You made my eyes to see. All these things You gave to me, thank you God -- Amen."

they had brighten up my day!! *luv it

kado buat aurell

bungkus kado & bikin katu ucapan selalu menyenangkan. kado ini buat Aurell, anak nya boss yang ulang tahun ke 8 kemarin