Life of Pi mungkin salah satu dari sedikit buku yang paling gw sayang di dunia ini. Udah beberapa tahun sejak gw baca buku itu untuk pertama kalinya, tapi sampai sekarang gw ga bosen, malah makin suka. Kalau hidup lagi terasa susah, gw sering baca ulang buku itu. Biar inget bahwa Allah selalu ada buat kita. Huhu. bagian yang paling gw suka adalah bab 74 dan 75.

Kopas aja ah dari ebook bahasa Inggrisnya, hehe. Padahal buat apa juga gw pajang di sini.

Chapter 74
I practiced religious rituals that I adapted to the circumstances—solitary Masses without priests or consecrated Communion hosts, darshans without murtis, and pujas with turtle meat for prasad, acts of devotion to Allah not knowing where Mecca was and getting my Arabic wrong. They brought me comfort, that is certain. But it was hard, oh, it was hard. Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.

At such moments I tried to elevate myself. I would touch the turban I had made with the remnants of my shirt and I would say aloud, "THIS IS GOD'S HAT!"

I would pat my pants and say aloud, "THIS IS GOD'S ATTIRE!"

I would point to Richard Parker and say aloud, "THIS IS GOD'S CAT!"

I would point to the lifeboat and say aloud, "THIS IS GOD'S ARK!"

I would spread my hands wide and say aloud, "THESE ARE GOD'S WIDE ACRES!"

I would point at the sky and say aloud, "THIS IS GOD'S EAR!"

And in this way I would remind myself of creation and of my place in it.

But God's hat was always unraveling. God's pants were falling apart. God's cat was a constant danger. God's ark was a jail. God's wide acres were slowly killing me. God's ear didn't seem to be listening.

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed. A school of fish appeared around the net or a knot cried out to be reknotted. Or I thought of my family, of how they were spared this terrible agony. The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.


Bab 75 isinya cuma sebaris kalimat, tapi sukses bikin nangis.

perasaan kacau.
malem ini harus berkutat dengan decision tree.

I bruise you
You bruise me
We both bruise so easily
Too easily to let it show
I love you, and thats all I know

And all my plans
Keep fallin through
All my plans they
Depend on you
Depend on you
To help them grow
I love you
and thats all I know

When the singer's gone
Let the song go on
It's a fine line between
The darkness and the dawn

They say in the darkest night
Theres a light beyond
and the ending always
Comes at last
Endings always
Come too fast
They come too fast
and they pass too slow
I love you
and thats all, its really all I know
Its all I know

Its all I know

Hidup selama 4 tahun terakhir memang menyenangkan.
Tahun pertama waktu belum boleh/bisa bawa mobil, berangkat ke kampus bisa numpang mobil Abang, pulangnya cukup jalan sedikit lalu naik angkot langsung sampe depan gang. Cukup dua ribu per hari. Kalau lagi beruntung, bahkan pulangnya bisa numpang mobil Abang juga.
Untuk tahun-tahun berikutnya, cukup beli stiker UI, langsung bisa bolak-balik rumah-kampus sesering mungkin setiap hari selama 6 bulan. Perjalanan cuma 15 menit lagi.

Perkecualian untuk masa KP. Ongkos Ekonomi AC: 12 ribu per hari. Kalo lagi ga tepat jamnya, terpaksa naik Transjakarta: 7 ribu bolak-balik, belum lagi nyambung angkot dua kali. Atau kalau nitip mobil di Ragunan, nambah 5500. Tapi yang paling malesin: tua di jalan.

Ah, jadi gimana kelanjutan hidup gw dari segi transportasi? Selepas KP, gw berikrar ga mau kerja jauh-jauh. Tapi sekarang sepertinya susah juga. Ada pilihan lain sih, yaitu numpang motornya Abang. Tapi debu-debu perjalanan malesin juga.

Hm, ngapain sih gw nulis ginian. Dapet kerja aja belom, wokwokwok.

Judul: Erec Rex: Mata Naga (The Dragon's Eye)
Penulis: Kaza Knightley
Penerbit: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama






Sudah saya duga ada yang salah sewaktu saya membeli buku ini. Jadi sebenarnya saya berencana membeli sebuah buku yang cover-nya adalah satu lagi hasil karya Windu Tampan. Namun, mungkin karena kurang konsentrasi dan terlalu sering baca review buku ini, yang saya bawa ke kasir adalah buku ini. Ga rugi juga sih.

Erec Rex adalah anak laki-laki berusia dua belas tahun yang hanya memiliki sebelah mata (sebelah lagi terbuat dari kaca). Buku ini berkisah tentang misi yang dilakukan Erec dalam rangka menyelamatkan ibunya. Menurut saya sih di bagian awal ceritanya agak aneh, kaya terlalu diburu-buru, tapi makin ke tengah bagus juga.

Dilihat dari segi sihir-sihiran, kayanya ga ada sesuatu yang baru. Standarlah, ga jauh beda sama buku fantasi lainnya. Beberapa bagian agak mengingatkan saya pada Harry Potter, tapi beda sih. Intinya, lumayan buat bacaan ringan.

Title: Clementine
Author: Sara Pennypacker
Publisher: Hyperion

Unlike a book in my previous post, this one is actually worth reading. Clementine is not an ordinary third grade girl. She is best friends with a perfect fourth grade named Margaret, and one day she’s sent to the principal for cutting Margaret’s hair. Her teachers always tell her to pay attention, when in fact she is always paying attention, only not to the same things as what they want her to.

I love Clementine and every other character of this book. It is a simple but wonderful story, also sweet and funny. This is my favorite part:

Margaret: … I’m nine years old and I should be able to protect my own head.
Clementine: I am nine years old now, too.
Margaret: No, you’re not. You’re eight. I came to your birthday last week.
Clementine: No, I was eight at my party. Nine comes after eight, and it is after my party, so now I am nine. And that means we’re the same age!

Highly recommended.

Title: Diary si Bocah Tengil (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)
Author: Jeff Kinney
Publisher: Atria






This book is about a middle-school boy named Greg who’s trying to survive in school. Worthless book, in my opinion. Greg is a lazy, selfish, dishonest kid. He lies to his parents, betrays his so-called best friend. And one thing that makes this book horrible is that in the end, the character learns NOTHING. If this is supposed to be a children book, I definitely won’t let my child read this stuff.

I wonder why people love this book. The cartoons are good, but still, the story is cruel. Really, what’s Jeff Kinney’s point in writing this book? Maybe it’s supposed to be funny. Well maybe it’s my poor sense of humor, but I really can’t see what’s so funny about this book.

If you wish to have this book with an awful low price, feel free to contact me. I have no place for this kind of stuff in my shelf.