2020

This is an English translation of a story my friend wrote, originally titled "Kala Macet Siang Itu" and written for a Writing Challenge in July. It's just a silly meandering story, but I like its tone and how it feels extremely Indonesian, extremely Bandung, extremely [name of college redacted]. It'...

This month Twitter has been slowly introducing a new feature called "Fleets". It's basically a copycat of Instagram's "Story": a short post that can be a video, images, or a way to share regular tweets with some filters and text overlays on top, and it'll be deleted in 24 hours. This feature makes s...

I've been playing Hades, Supergiant Games' newest game, a lot. And by a lot, I mean, a lot, at least by my standard. I've been playing every single day (except for that one day) since the full release back in September 17. I've done 50 or so runs. According to my Switch I have over 50 hours logged...

Can't believe it's been five (5) months since the last playlist post and we're still not through with this pandemic. Jakarta, just the city itself, currently sits at about a thousand new cases a day and that's only the reported ones; God knows how many lives just went and gone unnoticed.

My fa...

This is an Indonesian translation of Seeds and Cinders, a short story by Jei D. Marcade as featured in the SF/F magazine Uncanny.

I've no particular love for this story, but it has some interesting turns of phrase that are a challenge to translate, and also the story is refreshingly literal. M...