Jogja!
So I've been living in Jogja since last September. And I’ll be living here for (at least) the next 2 years. So far, I’m leading an okay life in Jogja. It’s not as hectic as Jakarta, not as yummy as Bandung, not as adventurous as Bali, and not as calming as Bukittinggi.
Anw, Jogja used to be a kind of place where I hide from the harsh truth in reality. It's a perfect place for me to escape from myself for a while, and then rejoin my innermost. It’s one of my favorite place to run away from the messy fucked-up life I used to live. As my life now is a little less messy and it’s certainly not as fucked-up as it used to be. I’ve visited this part of Java for several times before. And I thought that I know Jogja. Turns out, I don’t. There are more to Jogja than whatever you read on blogs and tourism articles. There are more to Jogja than whatever you saw on youtube or travel program on tv. There are more to Jogja than whatever you heard from your pals. In my firsts weeks living in Jogja, the love I had for this city slowly decreased a little bit by a series of unpleasant experiences. Don’t ask me about those unpleasant shit. I don’t wanna talk about it.
Long story short, as I spend more and more time living here, as I begin to understand the rhythm, my love towards jogja slowly grows and grows. The more I think I know about this city, the more I find out that I know nothing. Jogja is indeed interesting. The culture, the sky, the food, the people; the way they talk, the way they live, and the way this city unravels itself. Everything makes me falls in love again, bit by bit.
Wish the next couple of years will be much much much better and memorable than those years that has gone.
cheers!