RWD: Cascading Thru the Window Sill..

This afternoon

This foolishly over-flown thought

This ambiguous idea

This idea of you and I

Across the sea.

#GreatWriters: C. Rajagopalachari

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, popularly known as "Rajaji" or "C. R.", was a great patriot, astute politician, incisive thinker, and one of the greatest statesman. A close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, he was an ardent freedom fighter. In his capacity successively as Chief Minister of Madras, Governor of West Bengal, Home Minister and the first Indian Governor General of India he rendered yeoman service to the country and left an indelible impress on our contemporary life.

Rajaji's books on Marcus Aurelius, the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads are popular. But in Mahabharata he displays his inimitable flair for telling stories and applying their moral to the needs of modern times. The stories were originally written in Tamil and rendered into English, mainly by Rajaji himself. To have preserved the beauty and spirit of the great  original in refined and simple English is an achievement of the highest order.

Rajaji passed away in 1972 at the age of 94.

*as it is written at the back cover of Rajaji's English rendered Mahabharata published by The Bhavan, 1985.

A Hiatus: A Missing Piece

Hello, there! How have you been up to? It's been a-long-while since my last post. Work has just gone cray-cray these days. I'd really like to post, but what? The idea seems to go lacking of stimulating characteristics. Only mere pointless mental cognition. I suck-ccessfully posted ONE post up until before this!!! Crap, this is so PATHETIC. some of my thoughts just ended up being immature drafts. 

Regardless the jittery deeds I did which resulted in a fluctuation of my questioned maturity, I was like, you know, normal people, tried to get rid of them all in a single blow. On Monday, I got the chance to drop by to a bookshop nearby. A friend of mine told me that he bought couple of great books there with such an affordable price. It was quite surprising for me that this bookshop is also an antique shop. There are some gigantic bookshelves around the room and piles of categorized books all over the place. (I'd better take picture later on!) There I got the chance to enhance my book collections, I bought an Indian epic, Mahabharata, translated to English by C. Rajagopalachari and published by Bhavan's Book University. I also bought an Asiapac Comic Series entitled "The Book of Zen" edited and illustrated by Tsai Chih Chung and translated to English by Koh Kok Kiang. Lastly, I found an interesting book of Zen written by Jon Winokur. It's entitled "Zen to Go" a worthy thoughts in handy chunks. 

Well, hope you guys have a great valuable timmy timey.

xx

a subtle mind: finer nuances :)

a brief summary up until this exact second I jotted down my thoughts:

being thankful is all that matters.













first post in 2015.
inhale negativity, exhale positivity.
don't worry, be happy. :')

nocturnal flower.

when 

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 ass off, 

bbb ... u... ttt...

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appreciates you.

Nighty Night.

Starry, starry night.

Oh, dear nighty night.

Hazy, dazy night.

Oh, love nighty night.

Blurry, blurry night.

Oh, darling nighty night.

Glossy, gauzy night.

Oh, sweetheart nighty night.

Pick up my phony phone.

Oh, baby nighty night.

Reply my texty text.

Oh, honey nighty night.

Read my chatty chat.

Oh, sparky nighty night.

First Trial: Foreword to "The Humble Faces"

The photo book will be printed soon and you guys definitely should go grab one! 

Greetings, Universe~

One of my friend, Victor Puguh Harsanto (please kindly drop by, victorpuguh.blogspot.com) asked me to write foreword to his forthcoming simple yet dazzling self-published photo book. I was like, "Seriously, I haven't written something serious these days." He has asked me since last month, but I haven't got the time to write anything. You know, as a pro procrastina-tard, I was postponing the deadlines not until last weekend. My fingers were kinda trembled, and I just didn't know what to type. crap. I urged myself to think harder and went beyond the "viewfinder". VOILA! There might be some diddly-doodly crumbs here and there, need revision and re-vision. Have a nice time-traveling!

Two analog cams Victor uses to take the humble faces.. :)

Foreword to “The Humble Faces”

What would’ve been a better time machine than a photo book? I would personally say that Victor Puguh Harsanto has successfully brought the ultimate experience of time traveling through his dazzling self-published photo book.

These analog photograph collections focus on Victor’s life journey in encountering with others. Based on the idea of having a photo book as a perpetual remembrance of the momentous events in life, Victor tried to share his experience of looking beyond the viewfinder.

Getting into the analog photography entails a bit of complete and wholehearted fidelity, yet the experience is worth it. Victor is fond of the surprises the analogue photography grants. Besides, he is also enthusiastic about the unique appeal that he can only obtain from capturing with film – the deeper and more heartfelt pictures. As he can establish the warmercolors, the dramatic saturation and the film grain adds more soul and character to his images. Analog photographs bring to the readers’ mind nostalgic and dreamy memories as he fetches his experience of becoming a teacher in Merauke, Papua in 2005, through the volcano climbing in Gunung Gede, West Java, in June 2014.

Victor believes that analog photography is a device of infinite values of life: honesty. It is revealed in a gleam that analog photography refurbished our upsurge of emotions, exalted and enhanced our perspective by conveying a ‘one of a kind’sight of mental imagery and captures. Its enigmatic depictions of originality and genuineness provoke the quality of being honest.

Subsequently, portraits portray the sweet and unexplainable charm of God’s grace. Regardless of medium, portrait photographs inherit the capacity of being a divine guidance, aspiration, encouragement, authenticity, and to a greater extent, being Victor’s subjects of his learning process. As a result, it’s fortifying ever-growing records of his life; a glimpse assemblage of reminiscent memories and virtues.

This photo book offers a sense of the experiences of seeing God’s portrayal through the portraits of common people (Victor’s family, friends, kids, students, farmers, labors, neighbors, fishermen), forming a bridge between their daily existence and our reality bond with others. Victor’s photographs challenge us to see the reality emerges through these humble faces. Senses; have we used our precious gift from God to sense our surroundings?

Noberta Nissa Edina R.

A well-established amateur suburban geek.