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		<title>Twenty-something</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 11:01 pm, just precisely fifty-nine minutes away from October 10th and I&#8217;m here sitting in my room with  the light turn down low and accompanied by my old friend, Hairy Scary. He&#8217;s a dark stuffed gorilla I got from the flea market in Australia years back. He&#8217;s been with me since then and he&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#99ccff;"><span>It&#8217;s 11:01 pm, just precisely fifty-nine minutes away from October 10<sup>th</sup> and I&#8217;m here sitting in my room with  the light turn down low and accompanied by my old friend, Hairy Scary. He&#8217;s a dark stuffed gorilla I got from the flea market in Australia years back. He&#8217;s been with me since then and he&#8217;s a good listener too.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span>I have nothing to say here. Just simply hearing my thoughts from the day I try to avoid. With Tom Waits playing on my notebook, singing You&#8217;re Innocent When You&#8217;re Dream. I got that song from Paul Agusta, a good friend of mine; he&#8217;s a movie director and a man with broad view in art especially about films and music. We happen to have the same taste in music, we like that satyr-dark-gloomy kind of music.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#99cc00;"><span>My mind trying to swim back to the last 8 years back, where I was totally different from whom I am now. I mean lots of things life has taught me. My mind and body have been experiencing a lot. My heart has been break into parts I can&#8217;t even pick it up again. People come and people go. Just like a sponge I&#8217;m absorbing those valuable lessons and have become someone much more mature, sadly in a bitter way.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000;"><span>Have you ever think that all of the people in your life will </span></span><a href="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/happy2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-524" title="hpy" src="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/happy2-168x300.jpg" alt="" width="168" height="300"></a><span style="color:#008000;"><span>never, ever stay f</span></span><span style="color:#008000;"><span>ore</span></span><span style="color:#008000;"><span>ver? They will leave you as soon they had done play their part in your life and</span></span><span style="color:#008000;"><span> you learned something from them. The bad, the good even things you thought ridiculous to you, it&#8217;s actually supposed to hap</span></span><span style="color:#008000;"><span>pen on purpose. They leave you in so many different ways; some are not as good ending as you want it to be. But it&#8217;s true, because I experienced it for myself.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#cc99ff;"><span>Now that I&#8217;m turning twenty-five, facing the facts that I have failed to fulfill my dream since I was ten-years-old. The dream of becoming somebody and have a great life in New York City has vanished in time just like that. I learn my lesson as I see my failure, that not everything I wanted to be supposed to happen. My perfectionism is tested and sees how I can handle disappointment, especially when it comes from me.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#800080;"><span>The bar I set is was not too high, but life doesn&#8217;t want it to happen now. Yes, it&#8217;s about time. The now is equal to ego and desire of our own. When we understand and sometimes forgot that we never have control over time. The human in us playing too much part in managing the universe. We eventually will get what we wanted, but sometimes it happens in different moment for everybody.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff9900;"><span>So here I am, ready or not, I must take the result that I didn&#8217;t get what I want in my own time. I always believe something bigger and better waiting for me in other time. Taming my anger for being disappointed by my own ego is so hard but it&#8217;s just another lesson I must learn. Thus, I always wish that I could have a real family with my own mom and dad, wherever you guys are. That&#8217;s my only wish this year.</span></span></p>
<address><span style="color:#ffcc99;"><strong><span><em>SMS to The Lord:</em></span></strong></span></address>
<address><span style="color:#ffcc99;"><span><em>God, thank You for giving me so many friends in my life, </em></span></span></address>
<address><span style="color:#ffcc99;"><span><em>people that truly cares ‘bout me. </em></span></span></address>
<address><span style="color:#ffcc99;"><span><em>Thank You for the ups and down in my life, that I learn my lessons, </em></span></span></address>
<address><span style="color:#ffcc99;"><span><em>knowing I gain more strength in life.</em></span></span></address>
<address><span style="color:#ffcc99;"><span><em>Thank You for Your blessing that I still live to see Your wonders and feel Your blessings.</em></span></span></address>
<address><span style="color:#ffcc99;"><span><em>Thank You that for I know for sure, I will always be loved by You my sweet Lord. </em></span></span></address>
<address><span style="color:#ffcc99;"><span><em>And that&#8217;s all that matters.</em></span></span></address>
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		<title>If Came the Hour, If Came the Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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I open my old journals that I wrote since I was nine-years-old. It wrote every single journey of my life as a happy child that I once thought only a dream. Everything back then was beautiful and golden. My relationship with my mother was going well. But as time goes by and changes started [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="color: #c0c0c0">I open my old journals that I wrote since I was nine-years-old. It wrote every single j</span><a href="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/021.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-486 alignleft" src="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/021-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="239" height="178" /></a><span style="color: #c0c0c0">ourney of my life as a happy child that I once thought only a dream. Everything back then was beautiful and golden. My relationship with my mother was going well. But as time goes by and changes started to kicks in, <span style="color: #ff0000">those dreams are vanished like my ray of light dimmed by the strength of the mighty shadows.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #cc99ff">My past life is just the same yours, well maybe not much the same just ordinary to some people. Going to school, being told what I must do, having friends, starting to get curious about my sexual orientation and so on. But most of those days are religiously-logic <span style="color: #ff0000">and damn it, I was happy.</span> Even though not everything I wanted in my life is what I always get.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #c0c0c0">Seemed to me if I re-collected pieces of my memory back then, <span style="color: #ff0000">everything I want is a struggle in life.</span> I lived with my mom and my cousin sister until she left for evangelist school. My mother is a person who&#8217;s not really into her adopted son&#8217;s life and feelings, well let just say no such thing as &#8220;how you doing today son?&#8221; or &#8220;do you have a problem with your life son?&#8221;. She&#8217;s a great woman though, raising one bare child alone since she never married since the day she adopted me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #cc99ff">I have many friends in our neighborhood, spending the whole afternoon play together when school&#8217;s off. Discovering places we never been to, climbing and picking rose-apple fruits, fights and laugh together. Until one by one some of us have to leave, either studying abroad, living in another island, or just moving to another part of the city. It was good times and not a single moment is ruined as time getting older.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #c0c0c0">Then I started to think what my life going to be in the next fifteen years and there I made my plan for myself.<span style="color: #ff0000"> I want something I could be proud of as I get older and look back to see how far I have become.</span> When I&#8217;m turning twenty-five I must live in New York City and have a great career with a good life. Living in a simple-modern apartment, with one white Siberian husky, with a view to Manhattan and Governor island from my window [or at least what's my GPS said].</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #cc99ff">Down the street is my black Ford 4&#215;4 that me and my partner just clean up last weekend. The sun hit our cozy apartment just so perfect, while in our sound system I played Björk - Hyperballad of her last concert in Radio City Hall. In weekdays I&#8217;m working as owner of an art gallery downtown, dealing with curators and premium-class collectors from Europe and Japan. That&#8217;s my plan exactly.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #c0c0c0">Back to reality with no mercy at all its cut my wings to pieces. Down I go and as I open my eyes, here I am in precisely four more days <span style="color: #ff0000">I&#8217;m officially have wasted twenty-five years of my life and achieve nothing.</span> Stuck in Jakarta with a career that goes to nothing. Still living with four of my aunts and mom; in a tiny room with only less than ten dollars in my hand. I got debts to clear and endless bills to pay.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #cc99ff">A thought just ran in my head as I filled the gas tank in my motor bike. Maybe the Lord has some other plan for me. Well to t</span><a href="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/121.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-489" src="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/121-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a><span style="color: #cc99ff">hink of, all these times I always make plans for myself. <span style="color: #ff0000">Maybe, just maybe in my small perfectionism lays a great arrogance. And why something precious in me are being taken away from me to teach me a lesson that not everything I want must happen.</span> Patience is a virtue and what makes it hard to swallow is, it is true.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #c0c0c0">But I still cannot hide how disappoint I am to myself and maybe a bit to Him. Is it wrong for a man to have a dream of being happy and <span style="color: #ff0000">change his life after spending all his life in a gutter?</span> I was not and never raised in a rich family that I have to work my ass off just to get what I need, not what I want. And at least life could give this man a break that in his twenty-five years living that way, that man could enjoy living his dream since he was merely a kid in a small neighborhood.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #cc99ff">And then I looked into myself and say it&#8217;s not God&#8217;s fault and never was. <span style="color: #ff0000">Maybe I just haven&#8217;t doing the right thing and not work hard enough to fulfill my dreams. Who else can change his destiny except himself?</span> The only thing that kept me insane is my never-giving-up -attitude. Sometimes the sweet Lord sent His angels to keep reminding me not to give up and that has become strength in me to passes days of my life.</span></p>
<address><span style="color: #ffffff"><em>One day I will be healed</em></span></address>
<address><span style="color: #ffffff"><em>I will gather my wounds forge the end of tragic comedy</em></span></address>
<address><span style="color: #ffffff"><em>I have been running so sweaty my whole life urgent for a finish line</em></span></address>
<address><span style="color: #ffffff"><em>I have been missing the rapture this whole time, of being forever incomplete</em></span></address>
<address><span style="color: #ffffff"><em>One day I will be faith-filled</em></span></address>
<address><span style="color: #ffffff"><em>I&#8217;ll be trusting and spacious, authentic and grounded and home.</em></span></address>
<address><span style="color: #ffffff"><em> </em></span></address>
<address> <span style="color: #ffffff"><strong><em>Alanis Morissette - Incomplete</em></strong></span></address>
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		<title>Swalowing Shadows</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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Beyond the glance of my eyes, I could see a distant world where I am lost in the swirling sea. A dimension of love and illusion. Lonesomeness no one can explain nor can any advice take away the sadness away. I don&#8217;t want to be in a relationship anymore yet I&#8217;m killing myself to [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><a href="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/edit.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-483" src="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/edit.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="200" /></a><span style="color: #99cc00">Beyond the glance of my eyes, I could see a distant world where I am lost in the swirling sea. A d<span style="color: #3366ff">imension of love and illusion. Lonesomeness no one can explain nor can any advice take away the sadness away. I don&#8217;t want to be in a relationship anymore yet I&#8217;m killing myself to find</span> myself a savior of my passion where I rest my soul in the finish line. I don&#8217;t want to fell in love with a dead boy or turned myself into a starfish that&#8217;s being cut over and over again.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #cc99ff">My kindred spirit could wait in time of salvation where finally I found my peace. An eternalness of<span style="color: #ff9900"> ever being to be with someone until time finally stops. But all I found is just lust and no love, is this what the world</span> about nowadays? Flesh seeking for flesh, a delusion of wreckage in front before finally dust meets dust. Sorority of two hearts are so hard to find, maybe I just stop trying and be happy about my lonesomeness.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #99cc00">I talked with me today and he promised to stay with me until the end. No matter what the worl<span style="color: #3366ff">d c</span><span style="color: #3366ff">hanges into, he promised me he won&#8217;t change. People broken promises, but not him. People hurt other people, </span>but not him. He protects me from the world, like a cocoon it surrounded me comfortably. We belong as one, he is me and I am him. No one could understand us, only us and there&#8217;s just us.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #cc99ff">Clocks always ticking on me, like a smooth sea of pearls we clones each other until nothing le<span style="color: #ff9900">ft from the blue print. Nails on each back clutching to the beat every heart make and silenced it into the black dawn. Crying, flowing majestically upon gates of golden arrows soari</span>ng wildly in their heads like shadows speaking to me in my sleep. Blue fingers are taking my sight and placed it back in the tunnels of crystal and smile wisely as he turned his back to the world.</span></p>
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		<title>Ticking Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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It&#8217;s almost here. The day I dreaded is almost here.
My empty jar has not filled yet, a symphony of unfulfilled dreams that I dreamt for 10 long years. Since I was merely a soul I&#8217;m making a pledge to myself that I will live in NYC in my 25th birthday. And that day is [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="color: #99ccff">It&#8217;s almost here. The day I dreaded is almost here.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #c0c0c0">My empty jar has not filled yet, a symphony of unfulfilled dreams that I dreamt for 10 long years. <span style="color: #99ccff">Since I was merely a soul I&#8217;m making a pledge to myself that I will live in NYC in my 25<sup>th</sup> birthday. </span>And that day is just 10 days left and I&#8217;m standing here like a big loser in the door of disappointment.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #c0c0c0">New York City, a dream of a young boy somewhere in another part of the world without having any knowledge of the Big Apple himself. <span style="color: #99ccff">I never been there, doesn&#8217;t know anyone there but dare to take my dream as far as my mind could take me.</span> People have told me so many stories relating to that particular city, where the people never sleeps, where the traffic is making your head explode in anger, where money is the most thing that matter and needed there, where your blood and sweat combine together to just live in that city.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #c0c0c0"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #c0c0c0">All of my life I&#8217;m trying to make it simple, something I could hold on and running to. <span style="color: #99ccff">In my life there are only 3 places that most matter to me: NYC, Europe and Africa.</span> I want to work my ass off in NYC, when my ambition fighting for place between my ego. As time goes by, youth no longer in my dictionary I dare to cross the land towards Europe. Visit Greece, Milan, Paris, Venice and Berlin just to enjoy my work and continue maintaining my business relation everywhere.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #c0c0c0"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #c0c0c0">And the last resort of my tired old soul, Africa is my sanctuary. <span style="color: #99ccff">Where earth still untouched by the thickness of asphalt, where trees and mountains never changes into building and parking lot.</span> I could hear the animals&#8217; passes by the gate of my humble residence in the land of Africa. Goes fishing or croc hunting by the weekend is just a bit of paradise for me. In there I will surrender my heart beat and died peacefully whenever my time comes, coz I&#8217;m ready.</span></p>
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</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #c0c0c0">But before my mind wonder much further, I need to make a ground for my first place: NYC which I haven&#8217;t fulfilled yet. Such a disappointment for me, no one to blame but myself. I have work in every way to get myself to that city and nothing succeeded. <span style="color: #99ccff">Sometimes it just became a fairytale in a mist I could never have. Thus, I never lose hope and always believe in myself.</span> Time might change, plan could alter, but the process is always as important as the result.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #c0c0c0"><a href="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/bday.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-479" src="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/bday-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="202" height="202" /></a></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #999999"><em>they follow me to my bed</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #999999"><em>they follow me to my sleep</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #999999"><em>they follow me to my grave</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #999999"><em>and if you let me die in peace</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #999999"><em>i will never haunt you away</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #999999"><em>my shadow will</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #999999"><em> </em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #999999"><strong><em>Tika - Saddest Farewell</em></strong></span></p>
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		<title>3 Tipe Homoseksual &#38; Lesbian</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Homoseksual dapat didefinisikan sebagai suatu keinginan membina hubungan romantis atau hasrat seksual dengan sesama jenis, jika sesama pria dinamakan gay sedangkan sesama wanita sebut saja lesbian.


Sebenarnya pengertian homoseksual itu meliputi 3 dimensi yaitu orientasi seksualnya yang ke sesama jenis, perilaku seksual dan juga tentang identitas seksualitas diri. Jadi masalah homoseksual bukan semata perkara hubungan [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #99cc00">H<a href="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/hug3.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-412" src="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/hug3-197x300.jpg" alt="" width="197" height="300" /></a>omoseksual dapat didefinisikan sebagai suatu keinginan membina hubungan romantis atau hasrat seksual dengan sesama jenis, jika sesama pria dinamakan <em>gay</em><em> </em>sedangkan sesama wanita sebut saja</span> <span style="color: #99cc00"><em>lesbian</em><em>.</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #ff6600">Sebenarnya pengertian homoseksual itu meliputi 3 dimensi yaitu orientasi seksualnya yang ke sesama jenis, perilaku seksual dan juga tentang identitas seksualitas diri. Jadi masalah homoseksual bukan semata perkara hubungan seksual dengan sesama jenis semata.<br />
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<span style="color: #3366ff">Hal inilah yang seringkali membuat kita merasa najis dengan kaum homoseksual, karena berpikiran bahwa di dalam otak mereka hanya berisikan semata nafsu birahi dengan sesama jenis saja, padahal homoseksualitas itu mencangkup identitas diri sekaligus perilaku mereka juga. </span><br />
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Itu semua bukan dapatan semata dari faktor lingkungan, melainkan faktor genetik-lah yang membuat perkara ini menjadi sangat sulit.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #99cc00">Memang ada jenis homoseksual yang terjadi karena dipicu faktor lingkungan semata, misalnya suasana dalam penjara yang merupakan populasi homogen serta di biara seperti skandal sodomi dalam gereja di USA. Homoseksual semacam ini sesungguhnya jauh lebih muda ditangani karena hal tersebut tercangkup dalam segi perilaku semata, sementara segi identitas diri relatif masih normal (homoseksual situasional).</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #ff6600">Dalam ilmu psikiatri, homoseksual yang dianggap sebagai suatu bentuk gangguan jiwa hanyalah homoseksual egodistonik. Homoseksual jenis ini bercirikan pribadi tersebut yang merasa tidak nyaman dengan dirinya dan tidak dapat menerima kenyataan orientasi seksualnya yang abnormal tersebut.<br />
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<span style="color: #3366ff">Akibatnya pribadi semacam ini dihantui kecemasan dan konflik psikis baik internal maupun eksternal dirinya. Homoseksual distonik memberikan suatu <em>distress</em> (ketegangan psikis) dan <em>disability</em> (hendaya, gangguan produktivitas sosial) sehingga digolongkan sebagai suatu bentuk gangguan jiwa.</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #ff0000">Pribadi homoseksual tipe ini seringkali dekat depresi berat, akibatnya seringkali mereka mengucilkan diri dari pergaulan, pendiam, mudah marah dan dendam, aktivitas kuliah terbengkalai dan sebagainya. Homoseksual jenis inilah yang dicap sakit mentalnya dan memang harus diterapi. Di negara dengan budaya dan agama yang kuat seperti di negara kita, celakanya homoseksual jenis inilah yang mendominasi.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #99cc00">Kaum homoseksual di tanah air sulit untuk menerim<a href="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/girls2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-413" src="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/girls2-199x300.jpg" alt="" width="199" height="300" /></a>a kenyataan dirinya sebagai kaum abnormal seperti demikian, maka mereka sering menyembunyikan orientasi yang dicap salah dalam masyarakat tersebut. Represi semacam demikian akan berakibat gejolak negatif dalam dirinya sehingga tampil ke permukaan sebagai stress,depresi dan gangguan dalam relasi sosial. Mereka sering gagal dalam menemukan identitas dirinya ditengah ancaman cambuk agama dan budaya yang sedemikian kuat.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #ff6600">Kaum homoseksual lain justru dapat menerima apa yang ada di dirinya sebagai suatu bentuk hal yang hakiki. Pribadi semacam ini berani coming out atau menyatakan identitas dirinya yang sesungguhnya sehingga konflik internal dalam dirinya lepas. Kaum homoseksual ini dinamakan egosintonik, tidak dikatakan sebagai kelompok gangguan jiwa karena mereka tidak mengalami distress amupun disability dalam kehidupan mereka. Bahkan mereka yang sukses dengan coming out seperti demikian seringkali lebih produktif dan sukses dalam profesi mereka seperti misalnya perancang baju, penata rias dan rambut,dll.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #3366ff">Menjadi seorang dengan orientasi seksual ke sesama jenis sesungguhnya bukan semata pilihan pribadi homoseksual, melainkan itu merupakan kesalahan genetik. Kecenderungan itu sesungguhnya sudah ada sejak lahir namun baru naik ke permukaan setelah seorang individu masuk ke dalam fase sosial dalam tahap perkembangannya.</span></p>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">Bahkan seorang Sigmund Freud berani mengatakan bahwa pada setiap diri kita sebenarnya ada bakat untuk homoseksual, dan proses interaksi sosial dalam perkembangan selanjutnyalah yang menyebabkan bakat itu dapat muncul atau tertahankan.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #99cc00">Permasalahan jiwa pada pribadi homoseksual sebenarnya jauh lebih banyak terkait faktor eksternal dirinya atau berupa tekanan dari masyarakat. Mereka yang tidak berani coming out ke masyarakat akan dihantui konflik identitas diri seumur hidupnya sedangakn mereka yang memberanikan coming out tetap menghadapi resiko dicibir atau malah dikucilkan masyarakat.Jadi sebenarnya homoseksual itu lebih berupa ‘penyakit masyarakat&#8217; ketimbang penyakit jiwa karena memang yang menimbulkan penyakit itu adalah perlakuan dari masyarakat sendiri.</span></span></p>
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<p>Kaum homoseksual di Indonesia jumlahnya tidak sedikit, mereka ada di sekitar kita namun seringkali kita memang tidak tahu karena umumnya mereka termasuk yang memilih untuk non coming out karena takut akan ancaman sosial-agama dari masyarakat.</span></p>
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<span style="color: #3366ff">Sebagai catatan dari suatu survey dari Yayasan Priangan beberapa tahun yang lalu menyebutkan bahwa ada 21% pelajar SMP dan 35% SMU yang pernah terlibat dalam perilaku homoseksual. Data lain menyebutkan kaum homoseksual di tanah air memiliki sekitar 221 tempat pertemuan di 53 kota kota di Indonesia. Hal di atas menggambarkan bahwa jumlah kaum homoseksual tidaklah sedikit.</span></span></p>
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Bagaimanapun kita sebagai pribadi yang terpelajar hendaknya mau mengerti latar belakang kaum homoseksual, tidak semata merasa jijik atau malah menolak mereka. Tentunya Anda tidak bisa mengucilkan teman Anda yang berambut ikal karena memang gen nya membawa sifat ikal seperti itu bukan?</span></p>
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<span style="color: #99cc00">Begitu pu<a href="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/rainbow3.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-414" src="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/rainbow3-203x300.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="300" /></a>la homoseksual, bukan kemauan mereka untuk menjadi homoseksual, namun bedanya gen orientasi seksual semacam itu mencangkup pula segi perilaku sosial bukan semata penampilan fisik seperti halnya rambut ikal. Dukungan sosial justru sangat dibutuhkan oleh kaum homoseksual, dengan demikian mereka dapat menemukan dan mengaktualisasikan identitas dirinya serta terbebas dari <em>distress</em>, dengan demikian mereka dapat tetap produktif dalam masyarakat.</span></span></p>
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Homoseksual harus dibedakan dengan gangguan transeksual (banci). Transeksual masih termasuk dalam gangguan jiwa jenis preferensi seksual. Bedanya yang mudah diantara keduanya adalah bahwa kaum homoseksual tidak pernah ingin mengganti jenis kelaminnya (misal dengan operasi plastik), tidak pernah berhasrat mengenakan pakaian lawan jenis (melainkan kebanyakan gay berpenampilan macho dan necis).</span></p>
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<span style="color: #3366ff">Selain itu kaum transeksual terutama memiliki dorongan untuk menolak jenis kelaminnya, dan mengingini jenis kelamin lawan jenisnya. Jadi pengertian transeksual lebih ke arah penolakan akan identitas dirinya sebagai seorang pria atau wanita, bukan menekankan kepada orientasi seksual (keinginan dengan siapa berhubungan seksual / membina relasi romantis).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ccffff"><em>Oleh: Achmad Ridwan Sudirdjo C.Ht</em></span></span></p>
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		<title>Beternak Babi di Negeri Sendiri</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Saya seorang warga sebuah negara yang permai, dimana gedung megah tumbuh subur bahkan dari bibit busuk dalam kubangan lumpur. Saya hanya warga sebuah negara yang cinta damai katanya, dimana pukulan merupakan cara berciuman dan makian kotor cara menunjukkan pelukan dalam balutan putih diatas tanah negara saya.
Sawah berganti parkiran, kerbau berganti mesin berjalan, ketika malam [...]]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><a href="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/oink1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-174" src="http://bett3r.blog.friendster.com/files/oink1-300x198.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="192" /></a><span style="color: #cc99ff">Saya seorang warga sebuah negara yang permai, dimana gedung megah tumbuh subur bahkan dari bibit busuk dalam kubangan lumpur. Saya hanya warga sebuah negara yang cinta damai katanya, dimana pukulan merupakan cara berciuman dan makian kotor cara menunjukkan pelukan dalam balutan putih diatas tanah negara saya.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #339966">Sawah berganti parkiran, kerbau berganti mesin berjalan, ketika malam para kunang pun mati dalam lampu metropolitan berkilauan sejati. Namun satu hal yang tidak terganti dalam modernisasi di masa kini, kami masih punya sebuah perternakan sendiri yang dalamnya terdapat banyak babi.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #ffcc00">Para babi itu ada yang gemuk, ada yang kurus, ada yang muda ada yang tua. Mereka pintar, mereka para intelejensia dengan bukti banyaknya gelar. Tapi mereka rakus bukan main, berebut makanan satu dengan yang lain. Kelompok gemuk, kelompok kurus, kelompok muda begitu pula dengan yang tua, semua sama rakusnya.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #cc99ff">Jam makan mereka biasanya bertepatan dengan jam kami pergi bekerja, melebur tenaga dalam kantor delapan jam lamanya. Para babi itu terus dan terus makan, tiada habisnya hingga kami pun kewalahan. Kembali makan pada jam kepulangan kami ke rumah, diperempatan lampu merah, di belokan di berbagai arah, makan tanpa rasa bersalah.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #339966">Negara saya ini tentu saja memberi mereka makan sesuai jatah, tapi babi-babi itu tidak pernah puas inilah awal sebuah masalah. Dengan baju negara yang kami berikan, dengan kendaraan yang kami sumbangkan, semua babi itu hanya memikirkan caranya mendapat lebih makanan.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: #ffcc00">Saya dan warga negara lain sering ditipu oleh para babi itu, dengan kepicikan dan kekuasaan mereka menindas kami tanpa ragu. Meminta makan dengan berbagai alasan, mencari salah dari setiap warga yang lewat berjalan. “Damai saja”, kata seorang babi gemuk, <span> </span>“titip sidang saja”, kata babi lain yang lebih muda.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #cc99ff"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot&#038;quot">Saya warga sebuah negara yang beternak babi, semakin banyak jumlah mereka kini. Kadang bersembunyi di perempatan lampu merah, kadang bersembunyi dibalik tikungan jalanan megah, bersiap makan dari kami yang ragu bersalah. Apa daya para babi itu semakin gemuk saja yang dipelihara oleh ilusi sang gembala.</span></span></p>
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		<title>Ocean Of Human [The Black Sea]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #009900">Time has passes me way over fro</span><a href="http://bett3r.blogs.friendster.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/humans.jpg"><img height="224" border="0" width="263" alt="Humans" src="http://bett3r.blogs.friendster.com/bra1nwshed/images/humans.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;float: right" /></a><span style="color: #009900">m my own little step I took,</span><span style="color: #009900"> each carefully thought but sometimes overlooked. <strong>Time is just not enough</strong> to make who I am now someone greater in my own future, never have I spoke about som</span><span style="color: #009900">eone else before I can see my star grew brighter.</span>
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<p><span style="color: #cc6600">In the darkest hour of my fragility, tranquillized before my own doubts, I see what I will become from now and lead <strong>my heart in the clouds</strong>. People scare me, boys deceived me, and girls tricked me, none of that really pleased this petite soul that keep searching for the one.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #990033">You say to someone how much you love them, but in time you break that promise and leave them. In the mean time and blank spaces, the broken ones to feel to their places as the one who break that promises? <strong>Like a white circle in a dark paper</strong> full of dirt, a thin line drew upon nothingness clear as it may sound: it does hurt.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0066cc">I don’t belong to the world and never were; I’m just a lonely soldier with one pure heart to protect. So when I’m ready to love again, I still <strong>have something left to give</strong>. The world is just a battle field, not with blood or sword but with glitters and words. Money is their armor and sex as their arrows.</span><br /><span style="color: #009900"><br />Gold wings on my right, silver bullets on my other left. Faces I ever knew, lessons I ever learned, love I ever received, those are <strong>my only defense mechanism</strong>. As the Lord is my guide, and faith as my ammunition, I always believe I can fight myself and free the logos bold in definition.</span><span style="color: #cc6600"><a href="http://bett3r.blogs.friendster.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/eyes.jpg"><img height="171" border="0" width="250" alt="Eyes" src="http://bett3r.blogs.friendster.com/bra1nwshed/images/eyes.jpg" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;float: left" /></a></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #cc6600"> Walk with me and see the oceans of hands down under, open your eyes and ear and sound of cry you can only hear. Skin by skin they lived and <strong>soothed by one forlorn grin</strong>, in the corridor of unclean lays the spirit within. One day I will soar and close my eyes with nothing to fear, hold my hands now until forever my sweet dear.</span></p>
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		<title>100 Tahun Kematian Nasional</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bagian I: Kelurahan Diatas
Telapak Tangan
Pagi itu merupakan pagi seperti
pagi pada sebelumnya, membosankan namun penuh semangat, terik panas namun sejuk
dengan angin menerpa saya diatas motor ini. Rencana demi rencana mulai bergulir
didalam kepala, apa yang terlupa, semoga tidak ada.
Awalan rencana adalah ke
kelurahan setempat, salah satu tempat yang lumayan saya benci. Bau birokrasi,
uang suapan yang berenang kesana kemari, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><u><font color="#ff0000">Bagian I: Kelurahan Diatas<br />
Telapak Tangan</font></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#336699">Pagi itu merupakan pagi seperti<br />
pagi pada sebelumnya, membosankan namun penuh semangat, terik panas namun sejuk<br />
dengan angin menerpa saya diatas motor ini. Rencana demi rencana mulai bergulir<br />
didalam kepala, apa yang terlupa, semoga tidak ada.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#cccccc">Awalan rencana adalah ke<br />
kelurahan setempat, salah satu tempat yang lumayan saya benci. Bau birokrasi,<br />
uang suapan yang berenang kesana kemari, cih, muka mereka yang seperti tai.<br />
Apa?? Berani memaki? Bikin saja blog sendiri!!</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#336699">Dasar alasan saya mendatangi<br />
salah satu tempat yang menurut saya busuk dan tak pantas menjadi wakil dari<br />
nurani rakyat [red: warga] adalah karena saya lagi apes butuh surat keterangan<br />
warga untuk keperluan bank. Nah disitu saya ditantang, kesabaran dan diperas<br />
juga uang.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#cccccc">Setelah sekian lama menunggu,<br />
saya mendatangi seorang dibalik meja kayu yang dari wajahnya siap dirayu namun<br />
pastinya saya tak mau. “Maaf pak, saya mau minta surat keterangan dari Lurah.” Setelah<br />
saya jelaskan dengan tegas, mulailah dia membuat gerah. “Wah, ga bisa ini!<br />
Harus ada surat pengantar RT!”</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#336699">Sekembalinya saya esok harinya,<br />
setelah bantuan pak RT 06 yang baik hatinya dalam membuatkan surat pengantar<br />
dan menolak uang imbalan. Mau tak mau saya harus kembali ke kelurahan, menemui<br />
si pak kumis yang buncit dengan segan. Dia hari ini tetap masuk kantor Negara sebagai<br />
pegawai Negeri tanpa seragam ataupun formal berpeci.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#cccccc">“Maaf pak, saya yang kemarin<br />
ingin minta surat keterangan dari Lurah. Ini surat pengantarnya dari RT.” Dia<br />
pun mengambil surat saya dengan segan dan sinisnya tatapan. “Wah, ga bisa ini!<br />
Harus ada cap RW!” Dilemparnya surat saya seolah surat itu bukan hasil tenaga<br />
dan perjuangan seorang warga. “Tapi pak, kemarin kenapa tidak sekalian bilang?<br />
Saya kan harus bolak-balik pulang?”</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#336699">Tidak ada jawaban ataupun<br />
senyuman, hanya tatapan dalam kemalasan. Kemalasan seorang pegawai yang hidup<br />
segan mati pun tak mempan. Rasa kesal mulai memuncak, tapi saya pergi sambil<br />
berdecak: “Gembel.” Malam itu RW 008 buka kantor mulai jam delapan, setelah 20<br />
menit sebuah cap RW dalam genggaman.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#cccccc">Pagi sekali saya kembali ke<br />
Kelurahan sambil memegang secarik kertas yang berharga bagi saya, namun tidak<br />
bagi semua. Si buncit itu muncul kembali, ini hari Jumat dan kali ini ia hanya<br />
memakai kaos dengan sandal pada kedua kaki. “Pak, ini surat lengkap dengan cap<br />
RT &amp; RW.” Kemudian diambilnya kertas saya dan dibuat surat keterangan dan<br />
ia pun berkata, “Sana, cari pak Lurah untuk tandatangan, lekas bergegas!”</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#336699">Saya bingung, kenapa saya yang<br />
harus mencari pak Lurah? Bukankah itu tugas mereka dan memangnya saya tau mana<br />
yang Lurah? Tapi demi birokrasi yang tak pernah mati, saya pergi mencari Lurah<br />
yang mana saya tak tau pasti. Sebuah pintu kaca dengan papan nama: ‘Sekretaris<br />
Lurah 8 pagi-3 sore’ ditempel dan saya coba masuk dan bertambah jengkel. Masih<br />
terkunci, apa isinya sudah mati? Saya tak tau pasti.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#cccccc">Saya menunggu seorang diri diluar,<br />
duduk dibangku yang sudah jelek dan nampak beberapa orang sibuk keluar-masuk memegang<br />
lembaran kertas bertuliskan Caleg. Jam di tangan menunjukkan pukul sembilan<br />
lewat dan keluarlah dari pintu yang terkunci tadi seorang perempuan dan saya<br />
datang mendekat.<br />
</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#336699">“Maaf bu saya mau minta<br />
tandatangan pak Lurah.” Tanpa diduga dia menepis surat yang saya sodorkan<br />
sambil berkata, “Coba minta sama yang lain, saya ndak tahu.” dan diapun berlalu.<br />
Di bajunya terpampang tanda pengenal: Surwati, Sekretaris Lurah. Apa dia hanya<br />
tidur didalam sana atau hanya malas bekerjasama? Benar-benar bertambah<br />
kekecewaan saya pada tempat yang seharusnya membantu para warganya.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#cccccc">Beruntung tidak diduga, berkat<br />
tidak kemana. Seorang wanita caleg memberitahu bahwa pak Lurah ada ada dibawah,<br />
langsung saya menuruni tangga dengan bahagiah [red: suka maksa dah!]. Akhirnya<br />
pak Lurah pun saya temui dan nampaknya dia sedang bergosip sambil merokok di<br />
ruangan dengan seorang berbaju hijau yang nampak seperti hansip.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#336699">Tandatangan saya pun dapatkan<br />
untuk surat yang tak seberapa nilainya, bagi saya. Setelah itu saya pun kembali<br />
ke lantai atas dan menemui sang petugas kelurahan yang ingin saya potong-potong</font><font color="#cccccc"><a href="http://bett3r.blogs.friendster.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/grimm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;float: right" src="http://bett3r.blogs.friendster.com/bra1nwshed/images/grimm.jpg" alt="Grimm" width="281" border="0" height="328"></a></font><font color="#336699"><br />
dan sebar di lautan. “P</font><font color="#336699">ak sudah di tandatangani, sekarang kema</font><font color="#336699">na lagi?” Ia pu</font><font color="#336699">n<br />
mengeluarkan cap dan memberikan tanda sah bagi surat sang biang masalah.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#cccccc">“Sudah selesai nih dek, jangan<br />
lupa kasih saya jasa lelahnya!” katanya sambil berbisik atau mendesah, entah.<br />
Saya bingung dan ingat ada papan bertuliskan ‘Petugas pemerintah yang menerima/meminta<br />
imbalan sama saja dengan korupsi!’ Namun agar tidak bertambah lama dan melihat<br />
telapak tangannya yang masih terbuka kearah saya. Uang lembaran sepuluh ribuan<br />
saya keluarkan tanpa kata-kata dan pergi meninggalkan tempat yang bukan untuk<br />
rakyat jelata.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><u><font color="#ff0000">Bagian II: Salah Jalur, Sang<br />
Petugas Yang Melacur</font></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#009933">Selesai berurusan dengan pejabat<br />
pemerintahan yang tidak tahu malu, saya melanjutkan hari yang hampir siang<br />
dengan motor saya terus melaju. Kearah Matraman, lewat Pramuka bermaksud menuju<br />
kawasan padat dan ramai di daerah Sudirman. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#cccccc">Melihat lajur kiri yang penuh dan<br />
tidak beraturan, ah lebih baik mengambil yang kanan untuk masuk terowongan. Tiba-tiba<br />
terlihat barisan pria berbaju cokelat dengan helm putih, ternyata petugas para<br />
polisi sedang lapar dan siap menanti. “Prit!” seorang petugas yang berperut<br />
buncit memberhentikan laju motorku dan terpaksa saya pinggirkan karena keadaan<br />
sudah terjepit.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#009933">“Siang pak. Untuk motor harusnya<br />
di lajur kiri, kanan hanya untuk roda empat. Mohon tunjukkan SIM &amp; STNK.”<br />
Tanpa basa basi langsung kukeluarkan SIM C berikut dengan STNK dengan sejuta<br />
pikiran yang penuh duga. Sang polisi kembali melanjutkan, “Bapak urus saja di<br />
Pengadilan atau mau damai disini?” Setengah terkejut dengan tawaran si<br />
pengecut, tapi daripada lama lagi terima sajalah tawaran agar lanjut.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#cccccc">“Damai saja pak, saya hanya<br />
kurir.” Entah ia bodoh, entah buta dibalik jaket baju berdasi rapi tertata. “Ya<br />
sudah, kalau damai disini minimal Rp. 50,000.” Dalam pikirku, pasti aku<br />
menggerutu dasar pemeras rakyat yang tak tahu malu! Kukeluarkan dompet dan<br />
kuambil duapuluhribu, kusodorkan dengan tangan kananku.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#009933">“Hanya ada segini pak”, sambil<br />
kutatap si polisi dengan rasa penuh benci. Dia pun menjawab, “Lain kali tidak<br />
boleh dilanggar lagi yah!”, saya pun mengangguk tanda setuju walau di hati<br />
masih ragu. Ketika saya melihat di pinggiran ternyata banyak motor lain yang<br />
diberhentikan pertanda saya tidak sendirian.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#cccccc">Saya jadi teringat sebuah lagu<br />
anak-anak yang pernah dicipta pada jaman dahulu kala:</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;text-align: justify"><font color="#cc6600"><i>Pagi-pagi ku kena tilang</i></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;text-align: justify"><font color="#cc6600"><i>Pak polisi berwajah garang</i></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;text-align: justify"><font color="#cc6600"><i>Duapuluh bayar sekarang</i></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;text-align: justify"><i><font color="#cc6600">Saya apes, polisi senang!</font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;text-align: justify">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#009933">Sedikit modifikasi di lagu bukan<br />
masalah, sekedar menyampaikan informasi dan keluh kesah. Tapi sedikit faktor<br />
ketidak-beruntungan dan lebih banyak lagi faktor pemerasan. Dalam tempo sekitar<br />
tiga jam sudah keluar tigapuluhribu dengan cara yang kejam. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><font color="#cccccc">Sedih melihat negeriku ini, yang<br />
kata orang makmur damai sejati. Dalam kenyataannya masih banyak kecurangan yang<br />
dilakukan, hukum dibelokkan, hanya uang yang menjadi incaran. Ironisnya para<br />
pejabat yang katanya bersumpah membela negara yang melakukan hitamnya perkara. Sudah<br />
100 tahun Indonesiaku bangkit, namun lebih tepatnya mati secara nurani yang ada<br />
hanya kenyataan pahit.</font></p>
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		<title>Price of Christ</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #0000ff">Another day, another dime. While everyone else’s dime is just regular dime, mine is made of the thickest </span><span style="color: #cc0000">blood and has been buried deep under the mother’s soil that it has turn solid rock. When a human finally found it, it </span><span style="color: #0000ff">shows the shiniest dime from the way time sculptured it with hard lessons and smoldering look the dime itself shown.</span><br /><span style="color: #00cc00"><br /></span><span style="color: #ff3300"><br />Money is what represents the world to us, with such a pretty marketing package, bonus it’s offer</span><span style="color: #660033">ed, beautiful things you can have and cuddle at night. Something to accompany the lonely heart of yours. Money in differ</span><span style="color: #ff3300">ent shapes and sizes, even now you don’t have to carry it anywhere, wow. Beautiful, beautiful money. Be cautious.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #669900"><br />We are merely a speckle in this big universe in a bond of unseen emotion and the feelings of curiosity of who, what, when and how we are actually here. Some find it as an inner peace</span><span style="color: #0000cc"> and feeling of satisfaction that they already know the answer. But the big question now is present-future, the afterlife. What happen next to our biological form are already answered by sci</span><span style="color: #669900">ence: deceased, dust to dust. But what about the life within us? The logos inside that actually made us human and equally valuable to life itself.</span><br /><span style="color: #660033"> <br /></span><span style="color: #660033">I know what happen to me, safe and</span><span style="color: #660033"><a href="http://bett3r.blogs.friendster.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/blood_of_christ.jpg"><img height="224" border="0" width="307" src="http://bett3r.blogs.friendster.com/bra1nwshed/images/blood_of_christ.jpg" alt="Blood_of_christ" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;float: left" /></a></span><span style="color: #660033"> sound beside my Creator, the big JC: Jesus Christ. He has bought me back from the dead that I’m supposed to end with. He has paid for all my sins </span><span style="color: #ff3300">not with money or gold or any cheque in the world, but He paid mine with His blood. He died for me by being crucified to death even though He did nothing wrong, but He did that with nothing i</span><span style="color: #660033">n return but for the sake of my life. The sweet Lord assures my name to be listed to sit and lived with Him forever with nothing but joy and happiness after this world ends.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #669966">Kinda too much for ya? Well, I’m telling you that even now when I’m still here and being tortured with all the problems in my life, Jesus Christ always there to ease my pain and always, I m</span><span style="color: #669900">ean always give me strength to get through it. I’m not feeling afraid when He’s there, like you found your peace and not afraid to face anything. He’s like all the doctors put together when you’re sic</span><span style="color: #669966">k, even better! And what makes it awesome is that He never rejects you when you’re down and even when nobody wants you anymore. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #cc0000"><br />Jesus Christ always open His arms big and wide, and smiles that He wants us to know that everything is gonna be alright from now on. All you have to do is simple; just admit ALL</span><span style="color: #660033"> your mistakes for real, promise to change to a better individual, surrender to His guidance coz He’s good at it, don’t let yourself to steer your life but let Him be your wheel and follow His lead. Just </span><span style="color: #cc0000">learn to listen, and you know He actually answered all your prayers. That’s it, simple right. The price to be saved by Christ is nothing, but the value is everything.</span></p>
<p><em><br /><span style="color: #999999"><br />Based on true story: <strong>mine</strong>.</span></em></p>
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		<title>BIG as I am</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am.

Bewildering by the strange facts I’m facing a big bad wolf
of life yet I don’t feel worry.
My heart is as calm as white snow that covers the South Pole
and the polar bears come out to play. 
Singing with my mouth close, here comes the sound of
clapping from the empty audience.

Sorry.
Myself is dimming like [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color: #9966cc">Here I am.</span></strong><a href="http://bett3r.blogs.friendster.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/huge.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;float: right" src="http://bett3r.blogs.friendster.com/bra1nwshed/images/huge.jpg" border="0" alt="Huge" width="230" height="249" /></a><br />
<img src="/DOCUME~1/MICROS~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #ff9900">Bewildering by the strange facts I’m facing a big bad wolf<br />
of life yet I don’t feel worry.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #ff9900">My heart is as calm as white snow that covers the South Pole<br />
and the polar bears come out to play. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #ff9900">Singing with my mouth close, here comes the sound of<br />
clapping from the empty audience.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color: #66cc33">Sorry.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #ff3300">Myself is dimming like a moth to a fire, slowly found his<br />
happiness and dying at the same time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #ff3300">Seeing, singing, screaming, it’s all the same to me now.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #ff3300">Now my body as my temple is closing in to defeat the light<br />
from coming out and filled by emptiness.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color: #999999">Grinning in believing.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0066cc">To be sent out to ocean of pearls and blueberries, sweet<br />
sweet blueberries.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0066cc">My left foot now saying to me he wants to be the right foot<br />
and my right foot wants to be the thumb.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0066cc">Strange again. Alone again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #009966">Tiny people tie me down with their dogma in this huge<br />
tunnel. It feels good, I must say.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #009966">To have a crowd in my gigantic universe that I never own but<br />
I controlled.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #009966">Red birds, yellow birds, big birds, low birds are flying<br />
through the cracks in my heads.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #009966">To see new freedom and start from zero that was just a<br />
speckle.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff99cc"><span style="font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri">Now I’m big as I am. Dot.</span></span></strong></p>
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