Asisten Rumah Tangga

Beberapa hari yang lalu ada seorang teman yang ‘curhat’ tentang ART-nya yang sudah beberapa hari ini tidak masuk kerja. Jadi pengen cerita sedikit tentang pengalamanku bersama ART.

Pada awalnya, mempekerjakan asisten rumah tangga adalah hal yang sangat kuhindari. Sejak kecil aku lebih banyak mengerjakan segala sesuatunya sendiri walaupun di rumah ada pembantu. Alasannya sederhana, aku selalu punya cara sendiri untuk mengatur/melakukan sesuatu dan mungkin tidak semua orang bisa kupercayai untuk mengatur/melakukannya dengan cara yang sama. Sampai kuliah pun tetap begitu. Dulu di kos2anku ada petugas yang biasanya membersihkan rumah dan mencuci pakaian anak2 kos. Sempat beberapa waktu aku menggunakan jasanya untuk mencuci pakaianku, tapi ternyata kurang memuaskan. Sejak itu balik lagi deh nyuci sendiri.

Sangam House: Soul of Bhārat Gaṇarājya

Spicy curry? Martabak? Ow come on… India has more than that. OK, firstly, it’s about the name. Sangam (संगम) means confluence of rivers. The owners, two frenchmen who had stayed in India for years, built ‘Sangam House’ about 3 months ago at the western-side of Jl. Kaliurang km. 5,6 (Pandega Siwi 14), Yogyakarta. It holds the concept of art-boutique and restaurant. Indian soul was brought glamourously by the decorations, cute little park (with a big picture of Mahatma Gandhi), waiters costumes, and of course, the food itself.

Discussing Divine Comedy with Dante: Famous painting with famous faces

“Discussing Divine Comedy with Dante” is the title of painting made by three Taiwanese painter Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi, & Zhang An around 2006. Pictures below are copy of their artwork (the right one has been numbered). There are 106 famous faces from around the world in this painting (most of them are Chinese). By the way, “Divine Comedy” is one of widely considered Dante’s central epic poem of Italian literature, one of the greatest works of world literature.

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So who are they…?

Bon Odori (盆踊り)

Bon Odori (盆踊り) is Japanese traditional dance that involves people to line up in a circle and do some movements like clapping, jumping, etc. together. Originally, Bon Odori is a part of celebration for gratefulness toward Gods and ancestors. These picture was taken when I was attending Tourism Festival at Fakultas Ilmu Budaya UGM (30/05/2009).

Museum Affandi: The Maestro’s House

It’s located on the west side of Gajah Wong river, Yogyakarta. This museum formerly was Affandi’s house, where he lived with his wife, Maryati. Affandi’s first gallery was launched in 1974. It’s been continuously developed and now it has 4 galleries with hundreds art products. Affandi was the architect, and we could see his astonishing sense of art in this museum.

Far-East Ambience

last week I visited art show @ bentara budaya (next to TELKOM building, YK). It was collaborative show held for the commemoration of 50 years Indonesia-Japan bilateral affair. It was so new for me,, coz I’d never see anything like that kind of show. Ratih took me there on the afternoon (she’s student of Japan’s letter faculty).

when I arrived there the show had ran for couple hours, but it wasn’t too late cuz there were still a lot of show remaining. So many people were there,, maybe it was because of the small venue, so it seemed so crowd. The Indonesian & Japanese shows was played by turns, but anyone could join the show and play together with the dancers/performers.

First show I saw was ‘bon odori’ (盆踊り), Japanese dance performed by Indonesian student of Japan’s letter faculty, UGM. I think it’s closely alike with Indonesian ‘poco-poco’, which some of its movements are repeated and easy to follow. The dancers formed a circle than did some claps, jumpings, and other movements together. The female dancers wore ‘yukata’, Japanese traditional dress, and the males wore another kind of Japanese traditional dress (I don’t know the name).