Thank you.








Suatu kebahagiaan untuk saya, berhasil selesai membaca suatu novel fiksi yang bagi saya begitu menggugah: “5cm”. Buku itu sudah berbulan-bulan teronggok di deretan buku-buku lain yang harus saya baca, pun begitu belum sempat terbaca. Setelah sekian lama berkutat dengan kesibukan kuliah dan sosialisasi khas anak kuliahan, akhirnya dalam minggu ini saya melunasi hutang baca saya, termasuk untuk novel 5cm. Berjuta pujian untukmu, Donny Dhirgantoro. I mean it (well, and I envy you for those beautiful words and sentences!)..
Juga suatu kebahagiaan bagi saya, mengetahui bahwa ada begitu banyak penulis berbakat di negara ini, bahwa melalui tulisan-tulisan mereka saya selalu berhasil diingatkan dan disadarkan akan indahnya negeri ini. Ada kelegaan setiap kali memaknai tulisan-tulisan mereka, kelegaan bahwa masih ada banyak sekali masyarakat Indonesia, entah dari lapisan mana, yang sangat mencintai negerinya. Terima kasih. Terima kasih karena membuat hati saya terus dan terus menari sembari bola mata saya berkejaran dengan huruf dan tanda baca yang kalian sulap menjadi rangkaian prosa dan frasa yang luar biasa.
Adalah kebanggaan bagi saya karena sempat mengetuai acara bedah buku dengan Donny Dhirgantoro sebagai salah satu penulis yang diundang. Dan meskipun baru menunaikan buku tersebut sekarang, rasanya masih sama seperti ketika mendengarkan ia bercerita tentang 5cm-nya, kagum. For sure, jika novel Anda diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa inggris, saya yakin bukan tidak mungkin penjualannya akan melebihi kekuatan “The Secr**”.
Tolong, teruslah berkarya anak-anak negeri. Dari tulisan-tulisan dan karya-karya yang lain itulah beberapa anak manusia, seperti saya, kembali bersemangat dalam menapaki masa depan yang kian menantang dan kadang menakutkan karena kabur terhalang keraguan.
Every woman deserves better. Every girl deserves for any beautiful flowers in this world, and by the way you’re still more beautiful than any of them. So, don’t ever think that the rough man is enough or that the possessive one is OK. Never once you think that you won’t find the better guy, please don’t be afraid to loose someone by that thought. You’re too precious to waste your time for a silly fight or for a liter of tears, please don’t.
Listen to the whisper of your heart, sometimes it knows more than your clever brain. It’s not that I tell you to give up every man you’re being with, just don’t be plunged into grief or sorrow because of man and you think that that is love or sacrifice for love or kind of that thing.
When you don’t find any more smiles, maybe you just don’t love him, you just don’t realize yet.

I was in my mother’s stomach, his hands were so tender and loving. The next three years I was on my kindergarten, and he always brought me there. Then only for couple years, I sat on my elementary chair, sometimes he would let me skip the class and called my headmaster to say that I ain’t on my good condition to go to school. My height was 152cm while he began to annoy me, asked me about all of the boys in my junior high school – plus their background! I moved to Bandung to get on my senior high school, so I had my first ATM from him. Things are getting better while I went to college, he gave me another ATM and an extra money.
But, the most beautiful thing that he always give me is a sincere love. And the most beautiful thing that God gave me was my father.
Happy birthday, paps. Love you so much, *cupss :)
Tomorrow is my big day!
I should talk about one of subsection of Indonesia Accounting Standard which called Pernyataan Standar Akuntansi Keuangan number 24 in front of 9 clever people, included my lecturer. The standard talk about employee benefit, and so damn confusing! I don’t know what will I wear for the big day, but this is what I plan for tomorrow.
So, wish wish wish me tons of luck!
xoxo