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Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Posted in bookroll on September 22, 2006 by nk

cover
When I hold it in my hands, the spice speaks to me. Its voice is like evening, like the beginning of the world.

I am turmeric who rose out of the ocean of milk when the devas and asuras churned for the treasures of the universe. I am turmeric who came after the nectar and before the poison and thus lie in between.

Yes, I whisper, swaying to its rhythm. Yes. You are turmeric, shield for heart’s sorrow, anointment for death, hope for rebirth.

Together we sing this song, as we have many times.
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Pe eR !

Posted in bookroll on April 12, 2006 by nk

I fear you near, I love you far;
Your flight allure me,
your seeking secure me:
—I suffer, but for you, what would I not gladly bear?

( Chapt III, The Second Dance Song from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, F. Nietzsche,)

Salah satu bait dari buku yang sedang gw baca selama long weekend kemaren dan besok (rencananya). Tapi buku ini bikin perut mules sodara2, ntah kenapa…
Mungkin karena sampai bikin telat makan kali ya… :p
Selain itu buku ini juga “memedihkan”, bagian ini misalnya…….

“This—is now my way,—where is yours?”
Thus did I answer those who asked me “the way.”
For the way—it do not exist!
Thus spake Zarathustra.

padahal kan…

Whatta poor Zarathustra….

“Life has to end, Love doesn’t “… does it?

Posted in bookroll on Juni 21, 2005 by nk

Tadi malem baca bukunya Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven,
gak begitu bagus sih, tapi ada beberapa bagian yang sangat menyentuh hati.

Buku ini ceritanya mengenai embah-embah umur 83 tahun yang namanya Eddie, tapi dia hebat bgt, umur segitu masih bisa kerja jadi tukang reparasi di sebuah taman hiburan yang namanya Ruby Pier. Pada hari Embah tadi ulang tahun ke 83, ada sebuah kejadian, salah satu mainan di taman hiburan td rusak, dan mo jatuh, padahal di dalemnya ada anak kecil yang terperangkap. Mbah Eddie berusaha nolongin si anak tadi dan …
wham!!
mbah Eddie kejatuhan dan kegencet mainan yang jatuh itu…. (hiks…beliau langsung meninggal dunia sodara2… ciaan deh)

Apa yang terjadi setelah seseorang a.k.a mbah Eddie meninggal?
(Gak tau deh, blom pernah soalnya….. :P )

Menurut buku itu “…You will meet five people that lead you to heaven, where you can understand your life’s purpose, accepting your fate and your self… ” (bener gak ya? kalo menurut org islam sih, ketemunya ma malaikat raqib & atid yang nyatet amal-amal kita, me mbayanginnya kayak ketemu pak carik kelurahan yang bawa2 bendelan map yang setebel bantal gituh… )

Si mbah Eddie ini ketemu sapa aja? dan kenapa dia ketemu orang tersebut? apa gunanya ketemu orang tersebut? (….dikasih bocoran ceritanya gak ya???…… :P )

Pokoknya adaahh ajah…. huehehehehehehehehe

Dari buku itu, ada bagian yang menyatakan “Life has to end, Love doesn’t “,
yap bener, tapi kadang “love has to end, but life must go on” isn it???? (huehehehehehe ternyata mo bilang inih yaaah :P )
dan “all endings are also beginnings”
dan “each person is in your life for a reason”

Dan akhirnya “kebencian adalah pedang bermata dua, saat kau gunakan untuk melukai seseorang, it will hurt yourself too……”

So…. met merit buat u yang disana, semoga kamu menemukan kebahagiaan dengan dia disisimu….

and buat lo kodok, find your happiness too…. moga2 cepet ketemu juga yaah :) & maafin gw, yang hobi ngamuk2 ma elo sementara elo berusaha tetep jadi temen gw yang baik :D Peace bro?? >:)

and for me?
i know who i am after,
Kuro, watch out babe !!!

waiting … (in vain)

Posted in bookroll on Januari 18, 2005 by nk

once, you make me miss you
then you’re gone without a word
what did i do wrong?
what do you intend to do?

(mode sulking on!)

you know, one should be responsible for what one has tamed…..(said the fox)

This is a part of my fave story, The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupery

Good morning,” said the fox.

“Good morning,” the little prince responded politely, although when he turned around he saw nothing.

“I am right here,” the voice said, “under the apple tree.”

“Who are you?” asked the little prince, and added, “You are very pretty to look at.”

“I am a fox,” the fox said.

“Come and play with me,” proposed the little prince. “I am so unhappy.”

“I cannot play with you,” the fox said. “I am not tamed.”

“Ah! Please excuse me,” said the little prince.

But, after some thought, he added:

“What does that mean–’tame’?”

“You do not live here,” said the fox. “What is it that you are looking for?”

“I am looking for men,” said the little prince. “What does that mean–’tame’?”

“Men,” said the fox. “They have guns, and they hunt. It is very disturbing. They also raise chickens. These are their only interests. Are you looking for chickens?”

“No,” said the little prince. “I am looking for friends. What does that mean–’tame’?”
“It is an act too often neglected,” said the fox. It means to establish ties.”

“‘To establish ties’?”

“Just that,” said the fox. “To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys.
And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me.

To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes.
But if you tame me, then we shall need each other.

To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world . . .”
“I am beginning to understand,” said the little prince. “There is a flower . . . I think that she has tamed me . . .”

“It is possible,” said the fox. “On the Earth one sees all sorts of things.”

“Oh, but this is not on the Earth!” said the little prince.

The fox seemed perplexed, and very curious.

“On another planet?”

“Yes.”

“Are there hunters on that planet?”

“No.”

“Ah, that is interesting! Are there chickens?”

“No.”

“Nothing is perfect,” sighed the fox.

But he came back to his idea.

“My life is very monotonous,” the fox said. “I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Your steps will call me, like music, out of my burrow.

And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad.

But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me!

The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat . . .”

The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time.

“Please–tame me!” he said.

“I want to, very much,” the little prince replied. “But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.”

“One only understands the things that one tames,” said the fox. “Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me . . .”

“What must I do, to tame you?” asked the little prince.

“You must be very patient,” replied the fox. “First you will sit down at a little distance from me–like that–in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day . . .”

The next day the little prince came back.

“It would have been better to come back at the same hour,” said the fox. “If, for example, you come at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy.
I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o’clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am!

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . .”

“What is a rite?” asked the little prince.

“Those also are actions too often neglected,” said the fox.
“They are what make one day different from other days, one hour from other hours.
There is a rite, for example, among my hunters. Every Thursday they dance with the village girls. So Thursday is a wonderful day for me! I can take a walk as far as the vineyards.
But if the hunters danced at just any time, every day would be like every other day, and I should never have any vacation at all.”

So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near–

“Ah,” said the fox, “I shall cry.”

“It is your own fault,” said the little prince. “I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . .”

“Yes, that is so,” said the fox.

“But now you are going to cry!” said the little prince.

“Yes, that is so,” said the fox.

“Then taming has done you no good at all!”

“It has done me good,” said the fox, “because of the color of the wheat fields.”

And then he added:

“Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world. Then come back to say goodbye to me, and I will make you a present of a secret.”

The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.

“You are not at all like my rose,” he said. “As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world.”

And the roses were very much embarassed.

“You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on.
“One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you–the rose that belongs to me.

But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or ever sometimes when she said nothing.
Because she is my rose.

And he went back to meet the fox.

“Goodbye,” he said.

“Goodbye,” said the fox.

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“What is essential is invisible to the eye,” the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

“It is the time I have wasted for my rose–” said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember.

“Men have forgotten this truth,” said the fox. “But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose . . .”

“I am responsible for my rose,” the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.

Momo (a book by Michael Ende)

Posted in bookroll on Juli 29, 2004 by nk

Beppo the roadsweeper says: “Sometimes, when you’ve a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you’ll never get it swept… And then you hurry. You work faster and faster, and everytime you look up there seems to be just as much to sweep as before, and you try even harder…, and you panic, and in the end you’re out of breath and have to stop-and still the street stretches away in from of you”

a book i recently noticed, on a dusty bookshelf of a library, about an orphan girl, Momo, who’re a hundred or a hundred and two years old (said Momo, cos she doesn’t know how to count). A little girl so rich, that has the whole time in the world, to play with you, to hear(