It’s the middle of May and I’m just giving my midterms. The academic schedule here has it’s own rhyme and reason, much of which I’m still trying to figure out after 3.5 years.
The first semester always seems to start in the beginning of September and goes for 16 weeks. This is really a [...]
Cloaked in Night’s maelstrom,
Prosodies invade your soul,
Urging on self-truths.
Yogyakarta was great. I saw the sights I missed the first time around, ate some good food, drank some beer (but not too much). I also went to a Christian wedding. I wish I would have taken some pictures or The Last Supper mural [...]
Her body, Brailled poems,
My hands read her in the dark,
Again & again.
Thursday is a holiday here, so I’m off to Yogyakarta for some sight seeing. I haven’t been there in three years and seeing the sights, possibly even Borobudur, will be a pleasant respite.
Mists of aroma,
drenching auras with umber,
silken aged ghazals.
I’m still recovering from last week’s conference and did manage to see some of Bandung in the process, particularly a very quaint coffee store on a side street. They keep the beans for eight years and roast them using an old rubber-wood fired contraption. I didn’t [...]
Haze of impatience
blanketing breaths & tolls roads,
slipping into dusk.