Maybe Tomorrow

September 22, 2015 by Prisanti Leave a comment

I might have a chance to remember you again tonight. It’s raining outside, and there’s a possibility of a heavy storm at weather forecast earlier this morning.

I might have a chance to remember you again tonight. Because I’m staring at these windows, with a cup of hot coffee. I’m sure it was hot earlier. I just forget how many minutes I’ve spent staring at darkness and get a glimpse of you. Twice? Five? Nine?

I might have a chance to remember you again tonight. Because I started to tune to this radio, a late night program called Heartbreak Radio and they play all of our memory songs. I’m not really sure whether my memory starts to play a game on me. I think whichever songs they play, it will make me remember you more.

Fragment after fragment of you. Spinning and moving in different direction. Calming and heartbreaking. Warming and chilling. As the rain gets heavier, I sit down hours after hours. Until the last drop of coffee and it doesn’t change anything about your memory.

I might have a chance to remember you again tonight. Or should I said, I do? Well, let’s just say I do remember you again tonight. This exact hour is the darkest it can be, of my thoughts of you. And I wonder if tomorrow I will have the same thoughts again. And how many nights that thoughts will visit me.

I’m running out of coffee. I’m running out of time. It doesn’t hurt as much anymore. Well, maybe tomorrow the rain will wash your fragments and it won’t matter what song they’ll play, my memory will last of this heavy rain.

The Column

September 2, 2015 by Prisanti Leave a comment

At some point of your life, people will start giving you advice.

Some people of your age will give you hundred of articles that told you what to do when you are 20, 30, or maybe 40.

Some will ask you to settle down.

Some will say that you need to be as free as the wind.

Some will ask you to not change the way you are.

Some will say that the only constant change is change.

Some will ask you to take things seriously.

Some will say, just enjoy today.

You have a choice to read that or listen to them, but choose wisely what you are going to believe.

Afterall, you should not lose you.

You can always be hundred instead of one.

There Is Nothing Wrong With The Dress

July 26, 2015 by Prisanti 5 Comments

I was standing in line, waiting for my usual bus on an ordinary evening. Like many other people on the street, I scrolled through endless articles on the internet in order to ‘catch up’ with the rest of the world after long hours at office. The Verge, Brit+Co, The New Yorker, and The Rolling Stones have been my usual go-to website (other than playing Clash of Clans of course). Couple of links later, I found an article breaking down several awesome videos of girl empowerment. I held my tears for the entire journey as I cannot stop myself watching all the videos and hope that many other young girl got to see these also. I lost the article but the most memorable one was the video called Always’ Like A Girl. Always is a P&G’s feminine product brand, the video itself is encouraging the word ‘like a girl’ as self-empowerment not as an insult. I tweeted the video right after and has mentioned the videos many times in many conversations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs

Weeks later, I found out about Amy Wibowo, an angel, a superhero. Amy launched her Kickstarter campaign called Bubblesort on March 2015. Having drawing cartoon to explain math and science for herself since early age, Amy wanted to make a series zine about computer science intended for high school students. Her playful bubbly drawing shows a lot of her personality. On one of the cover of her zine about Cryptography, she draws two cats whisper to each other with caption Secret Messages alongside a bubble and a heart (ouch, we seriously need couple of heart emojis here). Having the same name with Ami Mizuno (my favorite sailor!), she is a computer scientist armed with bubble gun. She even uses Sailor Mercury avatar on her Twitter FTW. Amy graduated from MIT, did a learning research for ASIMO, and had been working at Airbnb as a software engineer. As I said before, Amy is a superhero.