It’s a privilege, you know.
Education.None of these people can afford to send their children to school. They’d rather have their kids with them, working in the fields or out at sea with them. Then they have to pay for uniforms, shoes, books. Why?
Because they want their children to read and write.
They might not realize it but they believe in the future of this country.
Karl
from Tash Aw’s Map of the Invisible World
to those awarded
BEST CONCERT PERFORMANCE
Suede
Sondre Lerche
Blood Red Shoes
WORST CONCERT PERFORMANCE
The Radio Dept.
BEST NEW HANG-OUT SPOT
Motzen Steak and Ale
BEST HIDE-OUT
Warung Etnik Ciumbuleuit
BEST DOWNLOADS
BEST SONGS
ARMS’ “Heat and Hot Water“
Chapel Club’s “The Shore“
Death Cab For Cutie’s “Monday Morning“
BEST RIDE
Bali – Gili, by local ferry
BEST ARTIST
Agnes Cecile
BEST BOOK
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
BEST MOVIES
BEST BARGAIN ITEM
Free Death Cab For Cutie’s Codes and Keys
courtesy and generosity of my best friend
The way I see it,
This is the age where everybody’s weighing their idealism, trying to figure out how much money it’s worth.
There’s no right and wrong anymore.
Only numbers.
You can actually pay someone to give up what they believe in.
I am an idealist.
I believe that we still have hope, that things can change for the better. I believe that we can rise, that someday our citizens will live prosperously, that our government will protect us selflessly out of sheer love for the people. I believe that someday our treasure will be ours again, like the old days when our majestic kingdoms stretched across Asia.
I know I’m still young; I don’t know anything about the real world, or how much effort it takes to make a living. I haven’t had my share of fights.
But as long as it is possible,
I am an idealist. And I can only hope that my idealism cannot be bought off.
chapel club is a new drug
One more pilot fish come to swim with the shark
Dreams of bloodiest extremes picks me from their mouth.
