Take this Facebook out of me

Yes, I admit it. I wrote most of my notes on Facebook now. Of course it's in Bahasa Indonesia. But I don't really know if anybody really read my stuff here. Feel like talking to myself...and maybe the universe of virtual world hahaha...

Just quick update: so many things are happening right now. I'm writing a book about my film festival experience for the last 10 years. Am working also to support V Film Festival right now (it's a women international film festival, 21-26 April in Jakarta). Maybe start working for the European Film Festival 2009 soon.

I'm trying my best not to attach myself too much on Facebook, but in my line of work, information flow is really important and everybody's using FB now. Try to limit it by reading all the messages and everything else through the notifications they sent to my email. This way, I could just ignore the one that is not really important since FB also take a lots lots of time to open now.

Anyway, no promisses this time. Try my best to leave something behind in this blog more often.

lulu, at home, 07.20 wib, 22 April 2009: Happy Earth Day!

My blog and my life

Yes, it's been a while. Now I am in the middle of writing a book about my experience in the last decade. So you can see how I don't have time for this blog. But I will try to keep posting my poem here. So I will just dedicate this blog for my poetry.

My life has been full of unexpected experiences. After organized the second European Film Festival "Europe On Screen" last October, I went to Jogja to host 12 people from US + 14 from Sulawesi and Kalimantan islands last December. Then got this invitation to become a jury member for a new short film festival in Sri Lanka so I went there. I celebrated the New Year's Eve 2008-2009 in the very quiet and almost empty Colombo's airport on my way back to Jakarta. What an experience!

It could only matched to my experience celebrating New Year's Eve 2001-2002 in Freiburg, Germany. It was the momment the Germans had to change their currency from Mark to Euro. How people there need more time to pay or give small change cause they were still try to recognize the new Euro money. What a sight!

Anyway, now I'm trying to re-organize my life during the first month of 2009. Hope I can keep doing it until it's really organized. Maybe then I can have more time for this blog...

lulu, at home, 21.44, February 1, 2009

Menghitung Hari

setiap hari adalah baru bagimu
setiap hari adalah aku melepas diriku
setiap hari adalah perjalanan haru

setiap hari kutemukan kasihmu tanpa pamrih
setiap hari aku berharap hari tak pernah berakhir
setiap hari aku berdoa untuk tidak pernah meninggalkanmu lagi

lulu, for my brother, AMKH Singapore, 22.00, 17 Nov 2008

to be grateful is something you should share...

I know, it's been a while... But I never knew anyone visiting this blog except for 1 or 2 people.

The time I spent in front of online computer is almost the same like before, so three email addresses, one friendster and one facebook are keeping me busy. Not to mention my offline time: film festival, watching movie in the cinema, meeting new people almost every week,... you know, living your life.

Of course when my brother got sick and moved in to the hospital almost 2 months ago, I became even more busy. Trying to hold on to what I am, my work and my world, while entering a new world, my brother's. I never knew before so many people really care for him as if they're his close family. Not to mention the 'infotainment' scene (sort of the gossip shows on TV) that me and my family have gone through as part of my brother's world.

I am grateful with his condition now. His recovery is really fast considering his sickness situation, thank God for that. At the same time I realize that it has been tough on my side and I would never survive this without the support of my husband Beng. So yes, I am grateful with my life. And to share this with all of you, wherever & whoever you are, is really an honour for me.

Thank you all for reading this...

lulu, at home, 22.23 wib, Nov 7, 2008

6 Days

6 days in 36 years
slowly vanish as the flight take off
will always remember
how you touch me
in a blink of an eye

lulu, for one and only brother
(in the flight Singapore-Jakarta, 3 Oct 2008)

So Many things had happened for the last 5 months

I know... it's been a long time since my blog up dated. But will start again. This time with a lot more pictures. But now I'm in a hurry to a morning meeting, hope to catch up with you soon.

lulu, 8.23 wib, 8 May 2008,

What is the 'New Year' mean?

Today is a new year's day. Heavy rain causing flood and global warming causing flood tide have been happening all over Indonesia, welcoming the year 2008. So 'New Year' for me means being thankful to God that I am well, together with my husband in our small home.

Well maybe I saw some fireworks at 12 midnight from my roof and watched the news showed all these crazy people celebrated the New Year's Eve anyway under heavy rain with endless traffic jam in the centre of Jakarta. I can understand how hard life of Jakarta and all this natural disasters drove people to forget for once and just having fun by celebrating the New Year's Eve.

What I just don't understand is how I can be living my life and move on while lots of people in my country living under simple refugee tents, waiting for the flood to disssappear with the heavy rain keeps coming and coming. It is hard just to comment and critisize the government, blaming them with all these problems. Just as hard as knowing you can not do anything about it simply because you have your own life to take care of and you are not in the strategic position to turn things around.

And that what is the 'New Year' mean to me...

lulu, at home, Jakarta, 17.40, January 1, 2008