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With a tremendous help from Danny’s technical notes, I’m also building a wall-mounted shelf to accommodate the extra boxes of books. My decision to compromise the materials from workshop leftovers seems to greatly affect its sturdiness though — the Carrefour’s alternatives looks much stronger by comparison now, Olympic boycott be damned.

So much for say no to plastic eh? Will be in Jakarta from 6 to 15.

Some mp3s I’ve upped for a long time but never get to post :). Cookies for anyone who can guess where the first song comes from.

milk & kisses,
k.

Sunday 29 April 2007, 1:00-3:00 pm, Dee Why Beach, Sydney.
Langen Suka Sydney Gamelan Association
Thomas Stewart, Director
Tabitha Williams, Dancer

A Performance of Javanese Gamelan Music and Dance as part of the Soundwaves - Ripple Festival, Warringah Council featuring the solo dance ‘Gambir Anom’ in Central-Java style, and a selection of traditional instrumental gamelan pieces in the pelog scale, from ‘gendhing alus’ (refined) to ‘gendhing soran’ (loud style) to ‘gendhing gecul’ (humorous).

I played the saron barung for the whole repertoire, except for Manyarsewu (in which I majorly screwed up by haphazardly hitting the gong and the kempul).

Langen Suka is grateful to the Australian Museum, the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia and the University of Sydney for the use and loan of the gamelan instruments.

Surabaya, 1-19 September

( Kya Kya, House of Sampoerna, Pantai Kenjeran, Taman Budaya Jatim )

Bandung, 19-23 September

( Tobucil, ITB… tak sempet ke banyak tempat sayangnya… )

Dan ternyata susu stroberi itu emang enak sekali! Di Jl. Dago nomer berapa gitu… Sam’s Strawberry? Lupa aye namanya. Kalo di sini guwah campur jus apel & stroberi dengan susu. Wuenak. Menurut guwah sih.

Jakarta, 20-25 September

Begitu nyampe dari stasiun Gambir dijemput Betsy. Yeeee sape juga yang jemput kaw, yang dijemput kan mestinya Astrid doank…. (lintahtaktahumalu.com). Ah tapi tetap makasih buanyak ya Bets! Dari Gambir langsung ke Festival Bahasa (atau Budaya?) UI buat liatin sten Sevenartland. Tak nyana-nyana ada bursa buku juga (beli Catatan Subversif, tapi mahal-mahal euy bukunya di tu bursa. 20-50.000 an begitu). Eh tapi UI gueeedeeee ya?

( Glodok, Utan Kayu, Cemara 6, Taman Lawang… )

Buku-buku yang saya borong

Wahahahaha…. dasar boros! Duit kuar kae dari pantat aja aaah enaknya beser crot crot… ( Ya nanti review lebih panjang kalo dah ga jet lag (apanye?) )

Foto-fotonya manee? Wah ternyata banyak ketinggalannya tu kamera. Buat Astrid, Betsy, Cecil, Gita, Tawil yang udah nemenin di Jakarta (terpaksa ataupun tidak), makasih buanyak nyak nyak ye…