Art Curatorial: Kim Yee Seul’s Dream Car

This work art tell about the fantastic car made in Germany “Volkswagen Beetle”. It was created by Kim Yee Seul when she was 16 years old. This is her dream to have a car and she adds the background to make her imagination feel more alive and excited to drive it. The car’s color is pink is to identify of girly and soft. This painting is to satisfy her-self because she paints what she likes such as in the interview she said “the car is cute.” This painting seems like the idea of her life-style and happiness and. Sometimes this painting has a deep meaning of hope.   

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In FRAME: Olivia Sonya Aresta

I am in the Creative Writing class at 1 pm on Monday, May 13, 2013. I heard that this class will have an interesting guest and we should interview this guest. The first time I think of special guest who can make me interested, I guess the guest will be a female till the class start. Mbak Abmi as the substitute lecture came to the class and begins the class with some discussion about an interview. While the discussion run, I look at a person who sits down the corner near windows of the class, then for a moment mbak Abmi introduces this person to us. Well, it looks pretty, with long black hair, sweet lipstick, and coquettish. But in the other side I think of different perception that actually “She is a man” and “yes she is”.

“Totally great” I murmur. All of the students look at her, watching her intimately and focusing on her attitude which is nice and easy going and she will be interviewed.

“Sonya” She said in the first time to introduce herself to us. Well, I am in the confusion side because actually I am not really thinking that our guest is a transsexual. “But its ok” I think, because I know that we are human, God’s created.

During the interview, she talk what she think it’s important to share and she answer the questions from us friendly, she looks enjoy her time and she is very kind, and just like she is very open minded and have a good idea for life. I still remember when one of us ask about his identity and easily she explained “Well, here I still use my KTP or identity as a male, because as I know in Indonesia is one and only which has “Waria” or transsexual in Papua or Irian Jaya, it is a good think because how this region want to admit and respect the differences and the right”. Sonya’s sentence of this part that I’ll always remember because now I know that how we are same, we have same right to fell free and to be accepted in the society without think the gender. I think that it is great point because of her attitude which wants to maintain herself as she is.

Olivia Sonya Aresta, her full name, I don’t know how the name meaning and coming from, but it is a nice name, match with the person who has this name. From the interview I get some point such as the differences is great thing and it became the richest knowledge. Sonya is a frame in her community PKBI (Perkumpulan Keluarga Berencana Indonesia), it means that she is smart, kind, active and care to another. May be her past time, there are so many stories she get but I underline one thing that she always said “playing safety”. She said that to playing safety is importance because the dangerous in this life always hunted. It is the story when she is just a kid in her age, she play as a boy and in the game she come home and cry because of her naughty boy who disturb her, then she choose to play with girls. Her habit of playing doll, cooking, seems as girls games make her in habitually attitude as a girl. Then she makes a decision to be a girl and as now she is.

“To be accepted and change people’s perception about transsexual in the society is not easy” She said, it need a hassle, but she always try to make her ambition to get right and fight her identity come true. She always tries to be herself, and it’s why she hates the one of program in the TV station which shows about the characters changing to be a real man. “It is cruel program I guess, because it means that they cannot accept us, and they don’t respect us, if somebody wants to change, why it should be forced? It is bad.” Yes, it is bad, because human have their own right to get their freedom and have their right in their life.

Actually there are so many questions for Sonya but I am really interesting in the question about her future as she is now. One of us has a question like this “Do you have any plan to married?” and she answer the question magically I love it. She said clearly “I don’t have any plan to get married because I have been fall in love with my life for now, I don’t think about how the future will be and I don’t care about the married, yeah, I enjoy myself to have many friends who love me so much, and they care about me, they give what I want, what-ever I like, and people around me always support me without don’t care about my condition. And what I think for my aim in this life is not to think about what I will get for someone else, but what I can give to them? So, why I should get married? I have everyone who loves and cares to me, it is enough for me, because to be accepted is happiness for me” I like her point of view about it, I learn from her answer because I think that if I always think that I will become the person who acting as they want and sometimes loosing myself, it means nothing, and it teach me to not to be an egoist person who thinks much what will I get from others but think about what can I give for people around me with love and how to care people without pointing the status, age, social class, racial, etc.

The lesson is, how to respect one another is important and use the time to aware with the life and the condition wherever I go and whatever the condition, I should be myself, give this life to help and to care others and it is happiness.

“Bag It” Movie Review

Title: Bag It

Director: Suzan Berazahelle hill

Producers: Judith Kohin, Mic

Writer: Michelle Curry Wright

Stars: Jeb Berrier, Jared Blumenfeld, Martin Bourque

Run Time: 74 minutes

“Bag It” is a kind of documentary film which talk about plastics and how it influence human life also the effect of plastic bags. This movie revolves around Jeb Berrier. When human life is too much plastic, so what happen?

In this movie, plastic is a big problem because it gives bad effect toward human life. People use plastic bags too much and most of them don’t care about the risk of that. Plastic bags are very dangerous for the ecosystem because it is difficult to become disentangled. That’s why Berrier the movie gives the lesson from his speech to effectively using plastic bag and changes it with shopping bag which is more health and safe for nature. As the movie presents, Berrier said that plastic is from incredible material that can be dangerous to the future because of the chemical impact which can disturb human healthiness. Unfortunately people use plastic bags nearly a trillion and being the band around the world and it increase the rubbish, but people should change their idea about how better not to use plastic too much. “Think more”

The movie is interesting to show the world that the effect of plastic is dangerous and better to changes the habitually use plastic bags. Better to use the natural tools to have the healthy life-style.  

This movie teaches about how to change the life-style in the simple way, and it is suggest to all ages.

SAJAK MATAHARI BY W.S. RENDRA-- CASSIOPEIA

SAJAK MATAHARI BY W.S. RENDRA-- CASSIOPEIA

SAJAK MATAHARI
Oleh :
W.S. Rendra
Matahari bangkit dari sanubariku.
Menyentuh permukaan samodra raya.
Matahari keluar dari mulutku,
menjadi pelangi di cakrawala.
Wajahmu keluar dari jidatku,
wahai kamu, wanita miskin !
kakimu terbenam di dalam lumpur.
Kamu harapkan beras seperempat gantang,
dan di tengah sawah tuan tanah menanammu !
Satu juta lelaki gundul
keluar dari hutan belantara,
tubuh mereka terbalut lumpur
dan kepala mereka berkilatan
memantulkan cahaya matahari.
Mata mereka menyala
tubuh mereka menjadi bara
dan mereka membakar dunia.
Matahari adalah cakra jingga
yang dilepas tangan Sang Krishna.
Ia menjadi rahmat dan kutukanmu,
ya, umat manusia !

Extreme Culinary of Oseng Ungkrung Uler Jati

photo by Hery Fosil

“What so extreme it is” The words that come from mouth after taste oseng ungkrung uler jati (cocoon of caterpillar which have reproduction in the teak-trees). It is the kind of food that you can find in Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta in early rainy season. “Wow, its abnormal food, but it’s delicious”. This food is actually usual in Gunungkidul, because it is favorite food after grasshopper which is very popular in Gunungkidul.  Both of them are very extreme and uncommon food, but it is the fact, that people actually more brutal than animal.

“You know, it is a cocoon and I eat it”. This menu serve in a small warung LESBIAN (Lesehan BiasANe) in Gunungkidul, it is taken place at Siyono Wetan (north), near the city center.  If I have a time when I come to my hometown, I will go to this warung  and order different menu such as Oseng mercon, oseng mushroom, rica- rica enthog, etc. but the special one is oseng ungkrung uler jati  because it just can find in this place just in the early rainy season.  

“If you like spicy very much, I suggest you to order it, you can order how spicy do you want”. I always order the spicy oseng ungkrung because of the combination of the taste which make me will taste it again and again. “The taste is like shrimp, crispy but for each cocoon and soft”. It can burn your mouth, and then you will flutter your hand because it is very hot and your face will wet because of your sweat. “It is deliciously oily and salty, somewhat sweet, and it is so hot”.

 About this place, it is my favorite place because the owner of this warung is very friendly and she will prepare the ingredient and cook it by herself.  The place is clean although it is at the roadside, people visit this warung usually will quickly enjoy the ambience because in that place, they can make a friend and very friendly. “We like to make a joke, talk to each other about many things”, and we often laugh together. “I feel very special when I visit this place, because I meet people and we can eat together, we make a friend and we know each other, share about the taste from the menu that has been order and also the ambiance that make enjoy the time in my hometown”. Actually this warung has many menus and for each has special taste. When the usum ungkrung (cocoon season in early rainy season) come, this place will full of customers to order oseng ungkrung made by the owner of this warung. But be careful if you have an allergy, because it can make you itching. 

 “I hope that season will come again quickly”.