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The blog hasn’t been updated for sometime… as its blogger has been ‘on leave’ (from typing;p). But this is the first day of 2012, so she comes back temporarily. Here is one blog post for the readers….
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May you find the food yummier, the air cleaner, the environment less abused, the cost much cheaper, the neighborhood safer, the bed cozier, and your home homier than ever. 

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Yes, it’s that time of the year again. The SEVEN: Draw Your Days 2011 is here. After being absent last year, I came back this year. I agree with my good friend Tita who organized this event. “It’s a good distraction from clicking and tapping on your gadgets all day!” I’m glad I participated (scroll down to directly see my drawing without reading my rambling on participatory culture).
Check out the “SEVEN” blog and you’ll find out that many enthusiastic artists and non-artists participated. It’s an evidence that participatory culture in …

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Update by definition is ‘the act or an instance of bringing something up to date’ or ‘information that updates something’. No, I am not interested in updating you all with anything new in my life. As always, you’d never get any personal stories/gossip from my blog, OK? *smile*.

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First I apologize for being delayed in passing this greeting. I’ve been on the move and not always have a secured Internet connection. Meanwhile, the hurricane Irene impacted my trips (beautifully forcing me to stay longer with great friends in Indiana, thanks Irene!) and yet, now I am safe and sound in the East Coast.
Though it’s slightly late, let me greet you a Happy Eid, Selamat Lebaran, by sharing you this poem I wrote seven year ago.
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At the end of Ramadhan,
the month of peace and tranquility
I want to hold …

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It is amazing how words can be very powerful. Words don’t help people. People help people. Words don’t kill people, people kill people. But history shows how words incite actions. Words can comfort. Words can inspire. Words can hurt. Words are more active than people think they are.

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As reiterated in my previous post on the same topic, Place and Memory: The Choir, The Club for Life,  our memory of a place is very much related with experiences that inhabit that associated place. Sometimes the place is gone yet the memory still lingers. The disappearance of places–even when the spaces are still there–happens when spatial experiences attached to the place are removed. Either by the removal of the building, architecture, open space, or just simply different representation of space.