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  • Siapa Tahu Kamu Mau Baca, Ep. 40

    Siapa Tahu Kamu Mau Baca, Ep. 40

    These days are strange. Time moves forward but we are not. We are grappling with intensified crisis and somehow it feels hopeless. Many of us try to cope with whatever we can. Some are privileged to still have stable income, many are not. And here we are mourning to death and angry to the government… Read more

  • Made Fun of Bandung Conference

    How to make fun of a giant conference that is understood by later historians as one of the keys to the Third-World solidarity? This question sounds like an internet trolling, and perhaps serious historians might think it’s not worth for attention. It might be true but this question came after reading a stack of literature… Read more

  • Hiro Arikawa, “The Travelling Cat Chronicles”

    This review is part of the Cat Series. “Well, shall we go?” And the book starts with Satoru and his cat Nana travelled to places. They both visited Satoru’s friends in different cities of Japan. Nana, the pompous cat with a better fortune than the cat in Soseki’s, observed things around his owner. Adopted by… Read more

  • Takashi Hiraide, “The Guest Cat”

    This review is part of the Cat Series. When the life goes with the common, somehow idle, everydayness, how do we respond to a quiet, uninvited guest? The question is mundane but when you think of it, a guest is like a “disruption” for your day-to-day activities. You would stop doing whatever things you’re doing;… Read more

  • Lunar New Year

    History comes late to me, and Chinese-Indonesian popped up in my head. I wanted to write about the economic storm in 1930: how did people respond to economic turbulence, especially the Chinese owning big and small-middle businesses. It was an intuition. I was too ignorant. Social history is not my fort but I adore testaments.… Read more

  • Shimura Takako, “Wandering Son” Vol. 3

    Friendship and siblings are hard indeed. Shu and Yoshino got into “silent” mode, because some boys read their shared diary, and now they were objects of bullying. Maho, Shu’s sister, forced Shu to have a date with her classmate, Seya because that boy apparently liked Shu (because they were cute). Their relationship was getting more… Read more