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Getting my Hands on Film Camera

In attempts to slow_myself_down_away_from_digital_life, I am getting my hands on film camera. Yes, the kind of camera where you need to put the film roll in and then start snapping. If you are lucky, the pictures will turn up good but if not then we let the fate decide. This is not my first rodeo on using film camera, but it definitely the first ever to buy the film and develop it using my own money. It is not cheap, which I know.  What can I say, it's an expensive hobby.  I used my first film roll to take photos of my favorite people. So it has more human than random pictures. It was on family event. After the last shot, I wanted to develop it before I flew to Bali but they had no lab. Luckily we have the lab in Bali. I developed and scanned the film in Ojisanfilmlab Bali. They're just a google away. They sell the roll as well. I had to tell the TSA to do the hand checking rather putting it through the scanner. They understood.  Cimol hides himself in his favorite spot ...

[Book] Dunia Cecilia

'apakah kalian membicarakan hal semacam itu di surga?'
'tapi kami berusaha tidak membicarakannya dekat-dekat Tuhan. ia sangat sensitif terhadap kritik'

Yap, sepenggal dialog antara Cecilia dan malaikat Ariel. Saya mengenal Jostein Gaarder sejak kuliah. Ehhhh 'mengenal' dalam artian kenal bukunya ya, kalo bisa kenal pribadi mah bisa seneng jingkrak-jingkrak hehehe. Jadi karena teman saya mendapat tugas kuliah membaca satu novel filsafat berjudul Dunia Sophie, saya jadi sedikit mengetahui si bapak Gaarder ini. Enak ya tugasnya anak sastra baca novel, tugas anak matematika ya baca sih, tapi pembuktian kalkulus -_-



Dunia Cecilia ini buku pertama Jostein Gaarder yang saya baca, karena buku Dunia Shopie sangatlah berat berdasar review teman saya. Saya sih nggak perlu baca buku itu karena teman saya sudah benar-benar mahir bercerita. Jadilah saya sudah paham bener cerita Dunia Sophie tanpa membacanya.

Novel ini atas rekomendasi teman saya, dia bilang kalau novel ini ringan. Filsafat sih tapi ringan sekali. Harganya juga murah hahaha. Secara garis besar, novel ini bercerita tentang obrolan anak kecil bernama Cecilia yang sedang sakit dengan malaikat dari surga bernama Ariel. Dialog mereka sebenarnya sederhana. Malaikat Ariel hanya menjawab semua pertanyaan polos Cecilia. Tapi pertanyaan Cecilia yang membuat saya berpikir. Ya semua itu pernah saya pertanyakan pada diri sendiri.


'...disana kami selalu menyadari bahwa alam semesta adalah teka teki akbar. dan jika sesuatu adalah teka teki, kamu tentu boleh sedikit menebak-nebak'

Ceritanya malaikat Ariel tertarik banyak hal dengan bagaimana rasanya menjadi makhluk yang terbuat dari daging dan darah, sedangkan Cecilia penasaran dengan kehidupan malaikat di surga. Best part dari novel ini ketika Ariel mengatakan bahwa bulan adalah tempatnya menari balet, bahkan saat Neil Amstrong menginjakkan kakinya di bulan, ada jutaan malaikat sedang menyaksikannya disana. Dia bisa jadi manusia pertama di bulan, tapi ada jutaan malaikat disana yang bahkan bulan menjadi tempatnya menari balet. Asteroid menjadi tempat merenung dan berpikir bahkan tempat mengasingkan diri sebentar kira-kira 50-100 tahun. Sedangkan seluncuran yang paling mengasyikkan adalah ketika menunggangi komet. Komet Haley yang datangnya 76tahun sekali saja, bagi mereka itu sangat singkat sekali.

Keadaan Cecilia yang sakit dan kritis serta kemampuannya berkomunikasi dengan malaikat yang seolah sengaja dkirim Tuhan untuk menemaninya sebelum kepergiannya, membuatnya berimajinasi dan berpikir lebih dalam tentang segala sesuatu. Cecilia pun bisa merasakan papan ski dan toboggan-nya di malam hari bersalju. Dengan sedikit petualangan mereka berdua, mereka juga membicarakan hal-hal yang terjadi didalam bumi dan surga. Ahh indah sekali.

'kamu kembali ya?'
'maukah kau pergi dan terbang bersamaku?'
'tapi aku tak bisa terbang'
'sudah waktunya kita akhiri omong kosong ini. kemarilah'
Novel ini layak baca, sekedar untuk membantu merenungkan esensi kita berada didunia ini dan juga dunia ini beserta isinya. 
sedang mempertimbangkan untuk membeli koleksi Dunia yang lainnya, Dunia Anna sih yang sedang dipertimbangkan :)

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