Cat's Prayer

      Cat’s Prayer

      I hope I’m not asking too much, Lord;
      All I want is a home of my own,
      And to know when my next meal is coming
      Instead of the scraps I get thrown.

      I’ve been out in the cold for so long now,
      Just coping as best as I can;
      But it’s not been so long I’ve forgotten
      The touch of a soft caring hand.

      I look in house windows at Christmas,
      As cats doze by the fire, quite replete;
      How I’d welcome a box in the kitchen,
      And tasty food for me to eat.

      For me there was tinsel and giftwrap,
      But the fun didn’t last very long.
      They put me outside with the rubbish;
      I still don’t know what I did wrong.

      I really don’t want to be greedy;
      At the moment I’m all skin and bone,
      So would it be too much to hope for
      That someone will give me a home?

      Author Unknown

This is so sad. The cat in the photo was a stray cat around my neighborhood. I never had the chance to take good care of him because one day I never saw him again... though I hope he's okay, but I never knew what happen to him : (

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Saya buat account di tumblr dan mengupload banyak photo disana^^ saat ini saya sedang sibuk memfoto semua yang kelihatannya menarik, semoga saja saya tidak cepat bosan^^;

My Drawings

 I love drawing even before I could understand what art is.  I remember when I was little I asked my father to draw a character from comic book but he never did, he said I can do it myself if I try, and I did. I still remember how I was very happy and proud of my drawing that time^^

I still like to draw, although lately I have not been dedicated enough in drawing ^ ^ but I will try to draw more and post it on this blog. Don't forget to check out my deviantART to see more of my drawings and design^^

Top 100 Books

I found the list of  World Book Day Poll on the internet. Here is the list:

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
11. Little Women by Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
13. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
15. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch by George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
34. Emma by Jane Austen
35. Persuasion by Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by CS Lewi
37. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
39. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
41. Animal Farm by George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving
45. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
50. Atonement by Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
52. Dune by Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
62. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
72. Dracula by Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses by James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal by Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession by AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web by EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection by Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
94. Watership Down by Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
100. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo


* all tittle that I strikethrough are the books that I have read. There's still a loooooong way to go....to read even half of list, considering I don't have enough time and cash^^;

But I'm really curious to read some of the books, they seem very interesting, such as:

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- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Charlotte's Web
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Kite Runner
- Moby Dick
- Lord of the Flies
- Catcher in the Rye
- and more...

There are another different lists if you are interested to know, here are => 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Books that everyone should read at least once from goodreads, and more list from InformationIsBeautiful.net

Cats in Japan

I love cats :nekozuki:^ ^ they are very cute, I never tired of looking at their spoiled behaviour. I think the cutest cat in the world is Maru (besides my cat Zoro of course ^^)

Maru is cute with his round face and the way he acts, he is born in May 24, 2007 is a male Scottish Fold (straight variety) from Japan. He is celebrity on the internet who has become popular on YouTube nowadays, and he is crazy in love with the box, this is one of his video:


Beside Maru in Japan there are also Neko-nabe family, they were abandoned cats bros & sis when they were little. The girl who picked them up was troubled to think about names of 4 cats at a time. She needs help, so put their movie on internet & explained their cute characters. And she continued uploading their growth after a name was decided by viewers. And so their name are Masyumaro daibutu, Monpe, Nicobou, Ichigou, Manzu, and Nyagoro^^ and they love sleeping in the pan.

And now they all grown up and get more bigger^^ and I found this cute video too...a mass neko-nabe^^:

Posted on JapanProbe.com by probeeden

The Woods

Tidak terasa puasa telah memasuki hari ketiga belas. Menahan dahaga, lapar, dan emosi di hari yang pengap dan panas benar-benar sebuah ujian, semoga saja rapot yang saya dapat di akhir bulan Ramadhan nanti mendapat hasil yang memuaskan. Panasnya hari ini membuat tenggorokan kering luar biasa, untuk melupakan dahaga rasanya ingin berbaring dan tertidur pulas sampai adzan dzuhur, tapi tampaknya tempat tidurpun kurang bersahabat, sprei dan bantal yang biasanya lembut dan dingin, sekarang terasa panas seperti tertular hawa disekitarnya.

Untunglah masih ada bacaan yang bisa saya baca untuk mengisi waktu di bulan puasa ini, beberapa merupakan pinjaman dari teman. Sebelum bulan puasa saya juga sudah membeli beberapa buku untuk stok bacaan di bulan puasa, yang membuat pengeluaran bertambah dan dompet menjadi kosong. Tapi untungnya antrian di kasir Gramedia tidak sepanjang antrian di kasir hypermart menjelang bulan puasa, atau antrian panjang loket pembelian tiket Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows part 2 di Cinema21^^.

Memasuki pertengahan bulan puasa saya sudah menghabiskan empat buku. Buku terakhir yang dibaca judulnya The Woods ditulis oleh Harlan Coben, cukup menarik karena saya suka bacaan yang berbau misteri. Bercerita tentang peristiwa pembunuhan yang terjadi dua puluh tahun silam, sebuah cold case file yang diselidiki kembali oleh adik korban, dan kemudian hal-hal yang tidak terduga akhirnya terungkap^^.

karena saya ingin mencatat buku-buku yang sudah lama dibaca dan hampir terlupakan, saya memutuskan membuat account di goodreads. Untung saya masih ingat apa saja buku-buku yang sudah dibaca walaupun ada beberapa yang sudah terlupakan. Ada buku-buku yang ingin saya review tapi saya sendiri sudah lupa alur ceritanya^^; jadi tampaknya harus membaca ulang beberapa buku menarik yang sudah lama tak dibaca. 

Fuyuko Matsui

When I was browsing in search of inspiration I found another artist that I like^^ oddly enough for me to found that some of my new discovery are dark and grotesque art, plus almost all of them are Japanese artists.

I think Japanese painting/nihonga looks beautiful and mysterious. Fuyuko Matsui including one Japanese artist who uses nihonga techniques. "I want to create a sympathy, a strong feeling, between the viewer and myself," Matsui said in an interview "In a way I’m doing something that the viewer can’t do himself. It's like people who occasionally think about jumping under a train. In my art I’m actually jumping under the train. That shock – I’m doing it for you." Just like when I see her paintings I feel like drowning in a surreal world. When asked about where her inspiration comes from she said "There are various things that inspire my paintings: first a strong concept, second I have a mental picture and a concept, and third I just randomly paint until something starts to appear, and, then, there are all of these different ways combined." if it's me I prefer the third way, because the process usually works like that to me^^; but it proved to me that a powerful concept is very necessary in producing a good art.

interview snippet from Culturekiosque

Aku^^

Untuk posting pertama saja aku sudah kebingungan untuk menulis apa^^ aku di depan monitor sambil mendengarkan lagu yang ada di playlist mencoba berkonsentrasi untuk menulis sesuatu tapi semakin dipikirkan semakin buntu, mencoba mengetik kata demi kata tapi berulang-ulang kembali lagi untuk menekan backspace.
Ini bukan writer's block karena aku bukan penulis^^ dan ini terjadi bukan hanya dalam menulis tapi juga dalam menggambar.

Kalau kata Albert Einstein "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination" tapi Imajinasiku sudah menguap, mengering tak setetespun mangalir, bagaimana cara merefillnya^^?..disini tak ada depot inspirasi untuk mencari imajinasi. Sejauh mata memandang, tapi tak bisa jauh dipandang pemandangannya yang itu dan itu lagi, karena lingkupku hanya disitu-situ saja^^;
ingin bebas keluar tapi kakiku gemetar seperti anak burung yang baru belajar terbang, padahal umurku sudah bukan balita lagi^^; berharap diriku tidak sekompleks ini, padahal aku sendiri tahu tidak ada yang rumit dalam pikiranku hanya rasa takut yg mengalahkan segalanya, takut untuk dinilai, takut disakiti, takut terluka,  takut dimanfaatkan, takut dikhianati,... dan segala macam ketakutan lapis demi lapis menyelimutiku seperti kepompong, berharap suatu saat mempunyai keberanian untuk menjadi kupu-kupu.