Nadiah Alwi

Yesterday, I wrote about reading. Now, it’s about writing.

I’ve been writing since long time ago. First, pages of diaries and blogs. Then, pages of short stories. Next, pages of novels.

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I have just checked out my goodreads.com page and found out that I have read (ONLY) 27 books last year. Not bad, but I wish I did read more.

I’m a book lover. But, since I have to be wiser in spending money, I managed to keep my hands away in bookstores. I only bought those I knew I would read. Well, I did buy 2 or 3 [ok, 7 or 8] books that I haven’t read up until now. But, I promise, I will.

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Normally, I see a person as one whole entity. But, there is something–I can’t tell you here–that will soon make me see a person differently.

I will create certain bounderies regarding how I see him/her. Why so?

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When I was 25, I imagined how I would be in the next five years. I did it a lot.

In my eyes, at that time, 30 was a very big number. I thought I should have achieved something big when I finally reached that age.

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Honestly, this question came to me after I decided to have a blog using my own name as the URL. I really wanted to do that but actually my mind wondered, “Why would you want to do that?”

I told my mind to just shut up and listened to my heart which was at the time saying, “Just get one!”

And I got one. Well, two, indeed. One in Bahasa (Indonesian), the other in English (the one you are currently reading). Read the rest of this entry »