This morning after class, my friends and I hung out in the canteen. When I saw Galih Janggan, the adherent of 'Skuy Living' life motto, I decided to make his morning a little more useful by giving him a few questions about blogs.
I started with an easy boring question, "Do you have a blog?"
He shook his head and replied, "Not yet."
It was something that I already predicted because the type of guy like him usually prefers to spend time in warung rather than sitting in front of a laptop and venting about his days.
"But can you imagine yourself writing a blog?"
He lit his cigarette before answering my question. "I guess. I mean, I have to make one though, because we have Blog Writing."
Fair Enough, I thought. This subject is also the reason I started blogging again. Even while writing this post, I remembered my 12-year-old self, writing on my blog about how much I fell in love with Justin Bieber and Edward Cullen. Super cringe.
"So, you will only create a blog if it was told by your Blog Writing lecturer?"
He justified my statement with a brief head nod. "Why do it today if you can do it tomorrow?"
I gave him a thumb.
"So, what kind of topic you want to write if you have a blog?"
He paused for a while; smoking and sipping his coffee.
"Ever thought of writing about your daily life? Today I woke up at 8 when my class was at 7, today I managed to finish 2 packs of cigarettes and my lungs felt like a chimney..." I gave him some ideas.
He laughed but shook his head again. "Ew, no." He stopped. "Maybe..."
I waited him to finish his sentence.
"I have this idea... to write about people that I know, but based on my point of view about them."
Hmmm, interesting. Galih does sometimes tell stories about his friends who, in my opinion, have a strange and unique story, one of which he once discussed his father's friend who was coveted by Petrus during the Soeharto era. He also briefly told a romantic story about the meeting of his parents. It seems like it would be interesting to read what kind of people he would write.
He later sent me a picture of him sleeping and told me I could use it for my blog. So, tada, I put up the beautiful, masterpiece art of Galih in high school basically procrastinating everything for sleeping.
Galih's perspective has always been interesting for me and that picture is the highlight. I enjoy your writing style as you treat the readers like your friend so it feels like I was there when you interviewed Galih. Good one! I barely found grammatical mistake or mispelled.
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