Who would have thought that I experienced fire in the building. This is my first time living in an appartement. Of course I never chose appartement when living in Indonesia because it’s a real high risk when the earthquake happen. But here we are placed in an appartement. What got me relieved the first time that we are in the lowest floor so if something happen we will be quickly evacuated. That’s what I thought. Until it really happened. We slept around midnight and abruptly woken up by the noise outside. I thought it was the drunk people just got back from night club or the restaurant next door was doing some deep cleaning. So loud that I had to wake up. My husband peeked outside and immediately said “fire brigade outside, you wait here!” I was just “am I dreaming or what?” I put on clothes, checked outside and saw a few of fire trucks. I checked the other side of the appartement and saw a few of police cars and ambulances. “Oh no, something serious...
Akhir-akhir ini sedang menyelesaikan bacaan Tetralogi Buru yang mana itu (menurut gw) merupakan buku wajib untuk dibaca orang Indonesia. Semacem buku sejarah tapi bentuknya nggak keliatan kalo lagi bahas sejarah. Bahkan kata Soesilo Toer aja bilang "Pram itu, bikin buku sejarah non fiksi tapi dibikin kayak fiksi. Nah yang fiksi dia bikin kayak non fiksi. Tau Minke kan? Dia itu nyata, tokoh asli, tapi Pram aja bikinnya kayak fiksi". Statement ini semakin menguatkanku mengidolakan Nyai Ontosoroh sepenuhnya. Diawal-awal emang krasa banget kebimbangan seperti "Ini buku kisahnya beneran nggak sih? Nyata nggak sih tokohnya?" Perlahan tapi pasti jadi mikir "Ah nggak lah kalo ini fiksi, semua cerita-cerita tentang negeri ini pernah gw baca dan datanya cocok kok". Penggunaan bahasanya pun cukup sekali, tidak terlalu tua tidak terlalu muda. Standar tapi tetap kerasa klasiknya. Terjemahan Bahasa Inggrisnya pun juga asik nggak kaku seperti buku-buku lawas. Ya m...