Ratu Lanang Sejagat: Does anyone want to be divorced??
Ratu Lanang Sejagat
August 15, 2011
October 20, 2009
Three Prays, Three Loves, and Five Towers
You must be curious about this note’s tittle, what is the relationship between three prays, three loves and five towers? Or maybe some of you has gotten an idea about the topic of this note? Let me tell you then, one answer: pesantren (indonesian-islamic boarding school, mostly traditional, but few of them are modern and sophisicated).
A few months ago I saw a big movie poster attached on a biggest premises in town, offering two high-class movie stars who had been famous since they first debut in “Ada apa dengan Cinta” (What’s wrong with Cinta). This movie interested me much because their appereance looked very religious and fake. The producer’s choice on those actors succeeded in persuading me to buy a ticket and watch the movie. It is “Tiga doa tiga cinta” or “Three prays, three loves”.
Let me leaped into two weeks ago, when I found a book in the top-ten book list in Gramedia. It has been reprinted twice in less than a year. They claim this book as a national best seller and would be filmed soon. So many personages contribute testimonials which generally flattering the author and his novel as a brilliant, encouraging and must-to-read book. The most stupendous fact about this book is the author’s academic achievements. He studied in Pondok Modern Gontor (an elite pesantren in east java), Padjajaran University, and got two scholarships for his master and doctor degrees from fullbright and chevening programs, respectively. It is “Negeri lima menara” or “The land of five towers”.
Hence, what is the point? Both artistical produces take Pesantren as an inspiration to develop their ideas and enlarge their scopes of creativities. Although each has its own approach which I would like to discuss.
The director and script writer of “Three prays, three loves”, Nurman Hakim, indeed, emphasizes various social realities inside a Pesantren. Intriguingly, on some spots, he bring about some negative perceptions, such as morning erection, and homosexuality. Yes, I do not blame him for bravely revealing those improper but real facts. However, I do believe that there are a lot more notorious way of introducing Pesantren to the public which have been unaware to the existence of Pesantren.
Those (what I mean by) noble stories about Pesantren are fabulously narrated by Ahmad Fuadi, the author of “The land of five towers”. He vigorously entwines his journey as a Pesantren’s student by adding a plenty information about the high-competitive-quality of an underestimated educational institution. He writes about an obligatory of bilingual-usage inside Pesantren, english dan arabian. He also lets the readers know about how the regulation is strongly applied. The balance between spritual improvements and physical exercises are also delivered smoothly. I even imaginatively compare the Pesantren Madani (pesantren’s name) with Hogwart School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
In summary, Fuadi provides me, as a reader, a whole new positive perception about Pesantren. On the contrary, Hakim makes it worse and keeps Pesantren as a lousy and looks-like- rehabilitative-place for nasty juveniles.
Ratu Lanang Sejagat
A few months ago I saw a big movie poster attached on a biggest premises in town, offering two high-class movie stars who had been famous since they first debut in “Ada apa dengan Cinta” (What’s wrong with Cinta). This movie interested me much because their appereance looked very religious and fake. The producer’s choice on those actors succeeded in persuading me to buy a ticket and watch the movie. It is “Tiga doa tiga cinta” or “Three prays, three loves”.
Let me leaped into two weeks ago, when I found a book in the top-ten book list in Gramedia. It has been reprinted twice in less than a year. They claim this book as a national best seller and would be filmed soon. So many personages contribute testimonials which generally flattering the author and his novel as a brilliant, encouraging and must-to-read book. The most stupendous fact about this book is the author’s academic achievements. He studied in Pondok Modern Gontor (an elite pesantren in east java), Padjajaran University, and got two scholarships for his master and doctor degrees from fullbright and chevening programs, respectively. It is “Negeri lima menara” or “The land of five towers”.
Hence, what is the point? Both artistical produces take Pesantren as an inspiration to develop their ideas and enlarge their scopes of creativities. Although each has its own approach which I would like to discuss.
The director and script writer of “Three prays, three loves”, Nurman Hakim, indeed, emphasizes various social realities inside a Pesantren. Intriguingly, on some spots, he bring about some negative perceptions, such as morning erection, and homosexuality. Yes, I do not blame him for bravely revealing those improper but real facts. However, I do believe that there are a lot more notorious way of introducing Pesantren to the public which have been unaware to the existence of Pesantren.
Those (what I mean by) noble stories about Pesantren are fabulously narrated by Ahmad Fuadi, the author of “The land of five towers”. He vigorously entwines his journey as a Pesantren’s student by adding a plenty information about the high-competitive-quality of an underestimated educational institution. He writes about an obligatory of bilingual-usage inside Pesantren, english dan arabian. He also lets the readers know about how the regulation is strongly applied. The balance between spritual improvements and physical exercises are also delivered smoothly. I even imaginatively compare the Pesantren Madani (pesantren’s name) with Hogwart School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
In summary, Fuadi provides me, as a reader, a whole new positive perception about Pesantren. On the contrary, Hakim makes it worse and keeps Pesantren as a lousy and looks-like- rehabilitative-place for nasty juveniles.
Ratu Lanang Sejagat
October 15, 2009
I got an amnesia !!!
Oxford Dictionary defines “Amnesia” as a loss of memory or forgetfullness, while Farlex Dictionary defines it as a partial or total loss of memory, usually resulting from shock, psychological disturbance, brain injury, or illness.
The rest of this note would not put thourough theories forward about amnesia, instead a model of story-telling about how bad I suffered from it.
(Don’t worry, this note was convincingly made when I had recovered from such a psychological disorder, therefrom, the reliability of this note is guaranted under the provision of public information acts. Ha6X.)
Once upon a time when I drove my motorcycle on a protocol street in jakarta, I was very upsad when an old motor cycle driven deliberately right in front of me. It was a 5-minutes-torture by riding next behind it, since it excreted black and thick smokes. I didn’t want to inhale poisonus air. I didn’t want to make my shirt unclean and smoky. I cursed the rider very much, I hurried up to pass him as soon as posible as i horned very loudly, and I did it.
Yes, he was indeed a middle-aged man,
Yes, he looked very exhausted and stressed,
But yes he polluted! I didn’t care!
I shouted when I passed him,
Snail…
I got an amnesia !!!
I forgot one circumstance had happened several years before. There were: (i) a 15-year-old-suzuki-motorcycle, (ii) a second-grade-junior-high-student, and (iii) his father, right in the middle of trans-sumatra road. He was my father taking me up to my school, right on an ascent section of that road, a man with his branded sport-motorcycle was holding his horn, since ours couldn’t run more than 50 km/hour, producing emissions look like cumulonimbus.
Yes, my father was eco-awared.
Yes, my father didn’t want his posessions endangering people’s lungs.
But yes, his motorcycle was a destiny.
A destiny, something inevitable, something unchangeable
By his incomes…
Ratu Lanang Sejagat
The rest of this note would not put thourough theories forward about amnesia, instead a model of story-telling about how bad I suffered from it.
(Don’t worry, this note was convincingly made when I had recovered from such a psychological disorder, therefrom, the reliability of this note is guaranted under the provision of public information acts. Ha6X.)
Once upon a time when I drove my motorcycle on a protocol street in jakarta, I was very upsad when an old motor cycle driven deliberately right in front of me. It was a 5-minutes-torture by riding next behind it, since it excreted black and thick smokes. I didn’t want to inhale poisonus air. I didn’t want to make my shirt unclean and smoky. I cursed the rider very much, I hurried up to pass him as soon as posible as i horned very loudly, and I did it.
Yes, he was indeed a middle-aged man,
Yes, he looked very exhausted and stressed,
But yes he polluted! I didn’t care!
I shouted when I passed him,
Snail…
I got an amnesia !!!
I forgot one circumstance had happened several years before. There were: (i) a 15-year-old-suzuki-motorcycle, (ii) a second-grade-junior-high-student, and (iii) his father, right in the middle of trans-sumatra road. He was my father taking me up to my school, right on an ascent section of that road, a man with his branded sport-motorcycle was holding his horn, since ours couldn’t run more than 50 km/hour, producing emissions look like cumulonimbus.
Yes, my father was eco-awared.
Yes, my father didn’t want his posessions endangering people’s lungs.
But yes, his motorcycle was a destiny.
A destiny, something inevitable, something unchangeable
By his incomes…
Ratu Lanang Sejagat
October 10, 2009
Does anyone want to be divorced??
First of all, I would like to extend my apology to whom may concern to this note, since i am only inspired by some person’s failures in their “voyages”, so I therefore need to convince everybody not to consider this note as a personal assault, it is purely made by merely aiming to provide all of you other point of views you might have never thought before.
This Saturday benefits me much with pleasures which used to be scarce when I am in the weekdays. One of them is the “qualified “ infotainments in which I got inspiration to develop this note.
It was probably a weekend which shift the methods of gossiping the celebrities from one-by-one cases to a sort of kaleidoscope of similar cases. And the topic for this weekend was divorce.
The episode started somehow with a confession from a not-so-popular .... (well, it’s hard to define his profession, whether singer, actor, comedian or male mistress?) let say celebrity who publicly envoy his plan to divorce his wife because of these reasons:
a. Their marriage was not built on love
b. The initial motives behind his deciscion to get married was only popularity.
c. He is actually a damn coward j*rk.
Wow, I have to say that he is a good scriptwriter for his own “staged” marriage. Then let me be an author for the sake of the first edition of my book tittled “happily-ever-after-wedding(s).” hahaha
Frankly speaking, divorce is a common vocabulary for me. This year, so far, I heard ”breaking news” about my friend’s divorces, and it was not one, but three!!. From the tragedy of physical abuses, premarital prosecution and sexual disorientation. Hmm…those cases somewhat scare me to have my own ones.
#First Case, around February or March.
He’s in the early thirty’s, had been married for one or maybe two months, is living lonely after his wife left him desperately. His wife was hiring a lawyer to prosecute him, in case of manipulation of sexual orientation. He employed another top-rated lawyer, and won, because of the absence of a powerful law jurisdiction about his “unique” case. Happy Ending.
#Second Case, around July
He’s in the end of twenty’s, had been married for three years, is married for the second times. He allegedly did some unethical and embarassing behaviours, such as drinking and gambling. His wife indicated hypersexuality, but doesn’t reproduce at all. No criminialization, two families arrived into an agreement, divorce was done one month later. Win-Win Solution.
#Third Case, around September.
She’s in the middle of twenty’s, has been being married for five years, is suing her husband for verbal, physical and sexual harassments. She admitted that her union with her would-be-ex-husband was commited without love, but mercy. Her parents are welcoming her decision, no “harta-gono-gini”, no children, and every body is happy. Simple.
In summary, divorce is a happy ending, a win-win solution, and simple.
So, anyone’s interested???
Ratu Lanang Sejagat
This Saturday benefits me much with pleasures which used to be scarce when I am in the weekdays. One of them is the “qualified “ infotainments in which I got inspiration to develop this note.
It was probably a weekend which shift the methods of gossiping the celebrities from one-by-one cases to a sort of kaleidoscope of similar cases. And the topic for this weekend was divorce.
The episode started somehow with a confession from a not-so-popular .... (well, it’s hard to define his profession, whether singer, actor, comedian or male mistress?) let say celebrity who publicly envoy his plan to divorce his wife because of these reasons:
a. Their marriage was not built on love
b. The initial motives behind his deciscion to get married was only popularity.
c. He is actually a damn coward j*rk.
Wow, I have to say that he is a good scriptwriter for his own “staged” marriage. Then let me be an author for the sake of the first edition of my book tittled “happily-ever-after-wedding(s).” hahaha
Frankly speaking, divorce is a common vocabulary for me. This year, so far, I heard ”breaking news” about my friend’s divorces, and it was not one, but three!!. From the tragedy of physical abuses, premarital prosecution and sexual disorientation. Hmm…those cases somewhat scare me to have my own ones.
#First Case, around February or March.
He’s in the early thirty’s, had been married for one or maybe two months, is living lonely after his wife left him desperately. His wife was hiring a lawyer to prosecute him, in case of manipulation of sexual orientation. He employed another top-rated lawyer, and won, because of the absence of a powerful law jurisdiction about his “unique” case. Happy Ending.
#Second Case, around July
He’s in the end of twenty’s, had been married for three years, is married for the second times. He allegedly did some unethical and embarassing behaviours, such as drinking and gambling. His wife indicated hypersexuality, but doesn’t reproduce at all. No criminialization, two families arrived into an agreement, divorce was done one month later. Win-Win Solution.
#Third Case, around September.
She’s in the middle of twenty’s, has been being married for five years, is suing her husband for verbal, physical and sexual harassments. She admitted that her union with her would-be-ex-husband was commited without love, but mercy. Her parents are welcoming her decision, no “harta-gono-gini”, no children, and every body is happy. Simple.
In summary, divorce is a happy ending, a win-win solution, and simple.
So, anyone’s interested???
Ratu Lanang Sejagat
Who is Luna Maya?
I’ve just watched a televison program when I typed this note, and my hands were still trembled due to my euphoria when I did that. Well, it might not be a real euphoria, I was only laughing too heavy so made my self shivered. You’re must be curious about that broadcasted program? Here I describe you as accurate as I remember:
It is Dalton Tanonaka, a US-hawaian presenter who have been contracted exclusively by Metro TV for delivering an english-version news about Indonesia from other interesting perspectives, more than just “Indonesia This Morning”.
What I watched was an interview session by Dalton and a maestro of Indonesia’s Batik, Iwan Tirta. The topic discussed was somewhat “brave”, about the fact that Iwan is a gay. Unfortunately, that is not the issue I would like to bring about.
In the end of that session, Dalton asked Iwan to play a simple game playing with some words and subjective valuations. Dalton mentioned some famous people in Indonesia, and what Iwan should do was stating one or two statements, spontaneously, about those “celebrities”.
For your information, it was a serious game, Iwan answered all the questions confidently and honestly.
Soekarno was the first name spelt, and Iwan directly said that Soekarno read a lot, even when he was incarcerated. That habbits possibled soekarno to express his knowledge in several aspects of arts such as ceramics, pantings, statues, carvings, dancings, etc.
Later on, Dalton mentioned Dewi Soekarno Putri, Soekarno’s japanese wife (or concubine? I don’t know exactly). Iwan briefly answered by saying: “She hired two husband-and-wife japanese to document her entire activities while she was In Indonesia, that fact proves that Dewi couldn’t live without public attention”.
Next personage was Megawati Soekarno Putri, Iwan said that she is not brilliant, her husband is. Then Dalton came with Soeharto, Iwan replied simply by saying that Soeharto is a farmer !. Later,Dalton stated the-number-one person in Indonesia, Soesilo Bambang Yoedhoyono, Iwan, once again, expressed that SBY, although he reads a lot, he is not a brilliant person.
And the last name was Luna Maya, and you know what? Iwan answered, in an innocent and honest tone: I DON’T KNOW HER, WHO IS SHE?? And he repeated that answer twice!!!!
Oh My Gosh!!!
*while staring at Dalton’s confused mimics.
Ratu Lanang Sejagat
It is Dalton Tanonaka, a US-hawaian presenter who have been contracted exclusively by Metro TV for delivering an english-version news about Indonesia from other interesting perspectives, more than just “Indonesia This Morning”.
What I watched was an interview session by Dalton and a maestro of Indonesia’s Batik, Iwan Tirta. The topic discussed was somewhat “brave”, about the fact that Iwan is a gay. Unfortunately, that is not the issue I would like to bring about.
In the end of that session, Dalton asked Iwan to play a simple game playing with some words and subjective valuations. Dalton mentioned some famous people in Indonesia, and what Iwan should do was stating one or two statements, spontaneously, about those “celebrities”.
For your information, it was a serious game, Iwan answered all the questions confidently and honestly.
Soekarno was the first name spelt, and Iwan directly said that Soekarno read a lot, even when he was incarcerated. That habbits possibled soekarno to express his knowledge in several aspects of arts such as ceramics, pantings, statues, carvings, dancings, etc.
Later on, Dalton mentioned Dewi Soekarno Putri, Soekarno’s japanese wife (or concubine? I don’t know exactly). Iwan briefly answered by saying: “She hired two husband-and-wife japanese to document her entire activities while she was In Indonesia, that fact proves that Dewi couldn’t live without public attention”.
Next personage was Megawati Soekarno Putri, Iwan said that she is not brilliant, her husband is. Then Dalton came with Soeharto, Iwan replied simply by saying that Soeharto is a farmer !. Later,Dalton stated the-number-one person in Indonesia, Soesilo Bambang Yoedhoyono, Iwan, once again, expressed that SBY, although he reads a lot, he is not a brilliant person.
And the last name was Luna Maya, and you know what? Iwan answered, in an innocent and honest tone: I DON’T KNOW HER, WHO IS SHE?? And he repeated that answer twice!!!!
Oh My Gosh!!!
*while staring at Dalton’s confused mimics.
Ratu Lanang Sejagat
October 09, 2009
Paper Boat
1. I was not in a good-mood for doing such a reading activity, since I was pulled into a new unexpected result of publishing my own writing, when one of my best friend recommended me a novel by my not-so-favorite author, dee.
2. There were some stacks of new arrival books in a monopolistic bookshop nearby my home, then it only took seconds for me recognizing a green and cartoony-boat-illustrated book tittled “Perahu Kertas”. First, I glimpsed impassionately its ten first pages, and nothing was special. I was not even interested to take that book to the cashier and started blaming my friend for refererring me to this ordinary love teenlit.
3. I couldn’t explain more about the fact that I did’nt stop thinking that dee’s newest writing. For an unexplainable reason, I went back to another monopolistic bookshop and spontaneously bought a copy of it.
4. Three unconsecutive days were a long time I spent in reading this scattered-plotted novel. Yet I concluded this novel as the lightest composition amid other serial and sophisticated novels of dee. I did’nt meet any complication in every chapter as simple as I could predict how the story will be ended.
5. Keenan dan Kugy, two main characters on the novel, encounter many love’s intrigues due to their fearfulness of expressing their love.
6. Interestingly, I found many sentences about either love’s magical way working in everybody’s heart or odd love’s mystery making everyone hurted. One of my favorite statement is: “Love does not choose, love is chosen”.
I’m afraid that I couldn’t interpret it appropriately.
Is anyone able to translate it for me?
Ratu Lanang Sejagat
2. There were some stacks of new arrival books in a monopolistic bookshop nearby my home, then it only took seconds for me recognizing a green and cartoony-boat-illustrated book tittled “Perahu Kertas”. First, I glimpsed impassionately its ten first pages, and nothing was special. I was not even interested to take that book to the cashier and started blaming my friend for refererring me to this ordinary love teenlit.
3. I couldn’t explain more about the fact that I did’nt stop thinking that dee’s newest writing. For an unexplainable reason, I went back to another monopolistic bookshop and spontaneously bought a copy of it.
4. Three unconsecutive days were a long time I spent in reading this scattered-plotted novel. Yet I concluded this novel as the lightest composition amid other serial and sophisticated novels of dee. I did’nt meet any complication in every chapter as simple as I could predict how the story will be ended.
5. Keenan dan Kugy, two main characters on the novel, encounter many love’s intrigues due to their fearfulness of expressing their love.
6. Interestingly, I found many sentences about either love’s magical way working in everybody’s heart or odd love’s mystery making everyone hurted. One of my favorite statement is: “Love does not choose, love is chosen”.
I’m afraid that I couldn’t interpret it appropriately.
Is anyone able to translate it for me?
Ratu Lanang Sejagat
October 06, 2009
Condoms versus Love
Last night I went to a grocery near my housing vicinity. At that moment, I had a bad stomachache so it needed instant medicine for helping my digestion problem. I started up my motorcycle, through the drizzles, I rode it to the grocery. Without any stack-seing, I directly looked for medicine aisle, and I found it in a shelve adjacent to a display for various brands of condoms. Those colorful boxes inspired me to write this, an irrefutable proof about how condoms linked with the nature of love.
First, condoms mean safety.
That’s the way love works on everyone’s heart. Love will secure our unstable feeling. Without love, human’s affection will be chanelled into a bias objective. By the power of love, our fondest expression will be safed in a perfect individu.
Second, once you break their (condoms) packages, you will never be able to use it anymore.
As love, once you break its peaceful harmony, it will be very hard for you to mend the situation back to normal, or even worse, you will lose somebody you love.
Third, condoms are elastic.
Love isn’t defined as a limited scoop in where you will spend your entire life. When you are capsized by your own love, just leave it! Because love free you to your own definition about loyalties and respects.
Fourth, condoms have various tastes.
You will feel assorted feelings when you fall in love, you will cry when you taste it’s bitter, you will cheer when you find it’s sweet, or you will be confused when you realize that it’s tasteless.
Fifth, condoms are lubricated
It is positive that every love relationship has friction. The tense will be greater when you can’t overcome it with your flexibility, so make it slicked with the reciprocal understanding between lovers.
To conclude, which taste do you like the most??? hehehe
Ratu Lanang Sejagat
First, condoms mean safety.
That’s the way love works on everyone’s heart. Love will secure our unstable feeling. Without love, human’s affection will be chanelled into a bias objective. By the power of love, our fondest expression will be safed in a perfect individu.
Second, once you break their (condoms) packages, you will never be able to use it anymore.
As love, once you break its peaceful harmony, it will be very hard for you to mend the situation back to normal, or even worse, you will lose somebody you love.
Third, condoms are elastic.
Love isn’t defined as a limited scoop in where you will spend your entire life. When you are capsized by your own love, just leave it! Because love free you to your own definition about loyalties and respects.
Fourth, condoms have various tastes.
You will feel assorted feelings when you fall in love, you will cry when you taste it’s bitter, you will cheer when you find it’s sweet, or you will be confused when you realize that it’s tasteless.
Fifth, condoms are lubricated
It is positive that every love relationship has friction. The tense will be greater when you can’t overcome it with your flexibility, so make it slicked with the reciprocal understanding between lovers.
To conclude, which taste do you like the most??? hehehe
Ratu Lanang Sejagat
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