ketika pelangi tak lagi berwarna
ketika mentari tak lagi hangat
ketika senja tak lagi jingga

keindahan menjadi hampa
ke-agung-an menjadi tiada
kerinduan selaksa bara

lalu,
mengapa harus kupertahankan?

(memoar of Atiq)

kau katakan dirimu bak setitik debu

tak tahukah kau......

di mataku
di hatiku
di jiwaku

kau bak berlian
yang bersinar indah

bahkan dalam gelap sekalipun

(memoar of Atiq)

Kau datang setelah jeda 6 tahun
membawa kasih
terbalut mimpi

indah dirimu semakin bersahaja
membuat senyum di bibirku merekah indah

namun...
bagai hembusan nafas
selayak kedipan mata
kau menghilang lagi
dalam senyap di pinggir rawa

tahukah kau....
diriku masih menanti di muka gerbang
hingga kau kembali
entah kapan.....

(memoar of Atiq Pramono)
24 November 2008

enjoy my normal life
follow the routine

hhmmmpphh.....

such a boring time...

where's the challenge goes?
where's the exciting moment evaporated?
will the adrenalin shake the soul again?

Geee....
I need to have some fun!
(21 Oct 2008)

time 2 move on

dulu aku mencintainya
hingga saat ini

tapi realita dan logika tlah menamparku
membangunkanku pada kenyataan
bahwa tak selamanya cintaku kan disambut dengan indah

it's time for me to move on
leaving all the past behind
and start to embrace the future

(letting you go from my mind and heart, Yudha)
02.10.2008

salahkah bila aku merindunya?

biarpun ku tahu dia tak pernah merinduku

hati ini tak dapat ku ingkari

betapa aku mencintainya

cinta ini terlalu indah untuk ku hapus

bahkan kala ia sakiti sukma ini

tak pernah ku bersitkan secarik benci untuknya

dalam balutan kasih tak terbatas

ku nanti hadirnya

tak pernah letih ku menanti

meskipun ku tahu ia tak kan pernah kembali

bodohkah aku?

atau ini lah cinta sejati itu?

pedih

namun begitu indah

(selalu mencintamu, Yudha Bramantio)

and the legend begin...

Do you believe in a legend?

At 8:15 A.M. August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb ever to be dropped, exploded approximately 580 meters above the center of the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
In less time than it takes to blink your eyes, the city was reduced to rubble in the middle of a scorched plain. Countless unsuspecting and innocent lives were lost.
So enormous was this unprecedented tragedy that the destruction caused by natural disasters or conventional weapons paled beside it.

SADAKO Sasaki was only two years old when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. On that day, she was a mere two kilometers away from where the bomb exploded. Most of Sadako's neighbors died, but Sadako wasn't injured at all, or so it seemed. Up until the time Sadako was in the seventh grade (1955) she appeared to be a normal, happy young girl.

She ran and played with her friends at home and at school. She was a good student who excelled in Track. However, one day after an important relay race that she helped her team win, she felt extremely tired and dizzy. Fortunately, that day, the dizziness went away leaving Sadako to think that it was only the exertion from running the race that made her tired and dizzy. But that was not to be so. Soon after her first encounter with extreme fatigue and dizziness, she experienced more incidents of the same.

One day Sadako became so dizzy that she fell down and couldn’t get up. All of her school-mates informed the teacher who contacted her parents. Later Sadako’s parents took her to the Red Cross Hospital to see what was wrong with her.

Doctors performed many tests and discovered that Sadako had a kind of blood cancer called leukemia. Nobody could believe it. At that time, leukemia was called the “A-bomb disease”. Almost everyone who got this disease died, and Sadako was very scared. She wanted to go back to school, but she had to stay in the hospital.

One day, Sadako's best friend, Chizuko, came to visit her and brought with her some origami (folding paper). She told Sadako the legend of the crane.

It is Japanese legend that folding 1000 cranes (senzaburu) so pleases the gods that the folder is granted a wish. Sadako wished to get well. So, after hearing the legend, Sadako decided to fold 1,000 cranes.

Sadako's family worried about her a lot. They often came to visit her in hospital to talk to her and to help her fold cranes. After she folded 500 cranes she felt better and the doctors said she could go home for a short time, but by the end of the first week back home the dizziness and fatigue returned and she had to return to the hospital.

Sadako continued to fold cranes. Even though she was in great pain, she tried to be cheerful and hopeful. Not long afterwards, with her family standing by her bed, Sadako went to sleep peacefully, never to wake up again. She had folded a total of 644 paper cranes.

Sadako's story had a profound impact on her friends and classmates. They completed her thousand cranes and continued to raise money from school children all over Japan to build a statue to honor Sadako and all the children affected by the bomb.

Today, in Hiroshima's Peace Park, there is a statue of Sadako standing on top of a granite pedestal holding a golden crane in her outstretched arms. At its base a plaque reads:

This is our cry.

This is our prayer.

Peace in the world.

Every year, children from around the world fold cranes and send them to Hiroshima where they are placed around the statue. Because of Sadako, the paper crane has become an international symbol of peace.

(story taken from http://user1291600.sites.myregisteredsite.com/library/id49.html )