STRAWBERRY FIELDS

John Lennon/Paul McCartney

Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields

Nothing is real, and nothing to get hungabout

Strawberry Fields forever

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see

It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out, it doesn't matter much to me

Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields

Nothing is real, and nothing to get hungabout

Strawberry Fields forever

No one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low

That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right, that is I think it's not too bad

Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields

Nothing is real, and nothing to get hungabout

Strawberry Fields forever

Always, no sometimes, think it's me, but you know I know when it's a dream

I think I know I mean a "Yes" but it's all wrong, that is I think I disagree
Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields

Nothing is real, and nothing to get hungabout

Strawberry Fields forever

Strawberry Fields forever

Strawberry Fields forever

Road to Strawberry Fields

Beberapa hari yang lalu saya ngobrol panjang dengan San. Berawal dari sekadar diskusi tentang pemilihan PDA/Smartphone, seperti biasa, obrolan kami pun berakhir pada 'curhat colongan' masalah hati. San merasa sangat lelah karena hatinya terlalu penuh dengan masalah hubungannya dengan seorang wanita. Sementara saya juga sangat lelah karena mencari-cari pria (yang sesuai ‘standar’ saya tentunya…..) untuk mengisi hati saya yang kosong. Andai kami anak kecil, tentu kami bisa temper tantrum, menangis meraung-raung agar keinginan kami terpenuhi. Akhirnya kami berkesimpulan hidup sebagai orang dewasa itu melelahkan karena harus berhadapan dengan realitas yang tidak selalu sesuai dengan harapan kami. And lately reality sucks!!!

Saya kemudian berniat mengajak San untuk sejenak ‘kabur’ dari realitas. Sebelum saya sempat mengutarakan hal itu, tiba-tiba San bilang,”Gue lagi pengen pergi ke negeri dongeng nih”
“Yuk. Gue juga lagi pengen kabur nih”
“Pergi ke strawberry fields enak kali yah. Soalnya kan strawberry fields forever……… Di sana “Nothing is real, and nothing to get hungabout.” Dengan sintingnya San menyitir syair lagu beatles yang terkenal itu. Tapi berhubung saya juga malam itu sedang setengah sinting, dengan santainya saya menjawab,
“Ikut!!” Kemudian melanjutkan, “By the way, loe dah dapet alamat dan denahnya?”
“Itulah. Kayaknya musti ngajak Lennon[1]. Adeknya, Lenin[2], diem aja soalnya……” hehehe...........
Dua hari yang lalu San kirim pesan yang intinya: reality semakin suck. harus segera pergi ke strawberry fields. Saya setuju dengan pesannya. Problemnya adalah, bagaimana cara sampai ke sana. Ada yang tau alamatnya? Atau ada yang bisa bantu nunjukkin?



[1] John Lennon, mantan vokalis The Beatles
[2] Nama anjing Siberian Husky punya Lex. Anjing ganteng yang saking polosnya (untuk tidak mengatakan bodoh) sering kali tidak membantu banyak ketika keterampilan ‘keanjingannya’ dibutuhkan.

Since When I’ve become A Morning Person?

Since high school I’ve acquired a late night working habit. It’s become my routines that after I got home from school in the afternoon, I go directly to bed. Then wake up around 9.00 o’clock at night to eat my dinner. At 10.00 the rest of the family will be prepared to slumber, that’s when I start doing my homework and my other school chores. Usually I finished all those chores around 2.00 or 3.00 in the morning then go to sleep to wake up again at 5.00, take a bath and go to school at 6.00 since school started at 7.00. Those days, I attended most of my morning classes in daze. After the first break then I get my compose mentis state of mind, enough for the rest of the day till the time come home.

In my college years I was getting ‘worse’. I’ll go grumpy and bitchy for the rest of the morning to regain my usual self around lunch to launch my peak hour around 2.00 or 3.00 at noon until 7.00. Then I would go to sleep to wake up around 2.00 – 3.00 in the morning till the time I have to go to campus. I usually sleep in the car or bus that takes me to campus. The habit goes till recently.

Today I realize that recently I try to sleep early at night in order to wake up earlier. The last two days, amazingly, I woke up easily at 4.00 in the morning on a light mood and clear head. I left home before 6.00 to worship the morning sun and embrace happily the early traffic to arrive at the office in high spirit!! The realization hit me dumbstruck. Coz a part of the reason why I develop that quirky habit is because I think it’s cool to work alone at that time, when other people deep in their dream. In the hazy imagination of adolescent that habit makes me different…… cieh…… But the habit has change know and I’ve never realized it before. Like it’s developing behind my back and leave me wondering since when did I become such a morning person. I’ve become ordinary now!!! Help!!!!


11.12.2006
07.30
Early in the morning at my office!!!