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A review by inadmire
Orang-Orang Bloomington by Budi Darma
3.0
Put the words "observant" and "meticulous" together, you become someone sharp. Now add the word "hyper" and "extremely" in front of each word respectively, the sharpness are going to slash you like a knife. The "I" should have learned a lot to be just "observant and meticulous enough" from the stories he went through.
Basically, the message I get from most of the stories has been uttered by Ny. MacMillan in the beginning: "Janganlah mengurusi kepentingan orang lain dan janganlah mempunyai keinginan tahu tentang orang lain."
It has been told, ladies and gentlemen, mind your own business and you could live happily.
But, if we see from a different point of view, we see the character's contradictory behaviours: you are ill-mannered but you are loved, you are lonely but you distance yourself from people, you want a revenge but you serve, you want to see things objectively but you succumb to misjudgment. I guess it is all us. Budi Darma does narrate our life perfectly.
It is a great piece, after all, but somehow it is just not my cup of tea.
Basically, the message I get from most of the stories has been uttered by Ny. MacMillan in the beginning: "Janganlah mengurusi kepentingan orang lain dan janganlah mempunyai keinginan tahu tentang orang lain."
It has been told, ladies and gentlemen, mind your own business and you could live happily.
But, if we see from a different point of view, we see the character's contradictory behaviours: you are ill-mannered but you are loved, you are lonely but you distance yourself from people, you want a revenge but you serve, you want to see things objectively but you succumb to misjudgment. I guess it is all us. Budi Darma does narrate our life perfectly.
It is a great piece, after all, but somehow it is just not my cup of tea.