Istilah cherophobic

Apakah anda pernah mendengar istilah ini?

cherophobic (baca: kerofobik) adalah suatu istilah yang berarti rasa takut untuk merasa senang/bahagia karena sesuatu yang buruk biasanya akan terjadi setiap kali seseorang merasa terlalu berbahagia.

Jadi seorang penderita cherophobic akan selalu takut dan cemas kalau berbahagia. Walaupun kita merasa hal ini aneh tetapi saya mengenal beberapa orang penderita cherophobic. Kalau dia terlalu bahagia, tertawa lepas karena banyak hal lucu dan konyol, di penghujung hari, dia akan ketakutan menunggu berita buruk yang akan menutup harinya karena terlalu berbahagia. Pastikan kita bukan seorang diantara penderita cherophobic. Bayangkan kebahagiaan dan kesenangan yang terampas dan terhempas hanya karena fobia yang tidak terjadi!

Tentang Kopi Si Cairan Gelap (about coffee, the dark liquid)

I love coffee, i have forgotten since when, all i can tell since i was a kid my family drink coffee in the morning. This dark liquid has never stopped loving me. I’m trapped, unable to quit always crave for more. One sip…two sips…sips around, entangled, unable to let loose, and fallen…fallen so sinfully deep.

So i drink coffee, i love this liquid in every shape and form. I love the smell of a cup of Belgian Godiva in the morning, it wakes me up. Cups of sugarless cafelate during the day, they caress me and really make my day. An awesome cappucino in the afternoon, a double shooter espresso in the twilight where all zone is getting dark and all the darkness mistified. When the night and its creatures start to appear in the east, i feel i’m apart of them.

I love this dark liquid to the point of i will break if it leaves me one day.  The  lingering feeling after sips of Luwak Coffee (wild or tangkar) when darkness falls; and when the night comes to an end, i will always go back to a cup of cheap Coffee with family brand, a special Minahasa coffee, they call it Kopi Kotamobagu, Sulawesi Utara. i even love the taste of corn in it.

In the weekends things would be abit different, i tend to go for stronger coffee, since i dont have to wake up early in the morning. I would love the taste of Irish Coffee or whatever coffee with a pint of alcohol in it, while listening to fave music. When I feel light-hearted and the sense of humor is thick then i would go for a cup of Caramel Machiato. No one can understand this dark liquid obsession, i have to cut off the intake in the last 2-3 years as family and friends would always remind me, but as my late grampa always said, people get sick and die for many reasons, dont let people tell you it is because of one thing only. He died at the ripe age of 87, a coffee drinker himself.

Do you know there is this Pasar Kopi, in Pasar Cikini, Jakarta Pusat where we can get awesome ground brute coffee for a reasonable price. I went there several times, just to get bags of Arabica and Robusta. We can even find high percentage of original Luwak there. I will go there again, soon i believe since i’m running out of stock.

So goes my painful romance with the dark liquid, it terrifies me once in awhile for it makes my heart beats faster and can go very wild during those days when i get too close to it and consume too much of it. But it has also warm me during those days when reality hit too hard and the esteem is low. During the rainy days, like these days, when the earth on this area is mostly wet and the the traffic is bad i tend to take more of this liquid. I would smell my freshly brewed robusta and feel like i just had an orgasm. It will make my day and make me grateful for the Almighty Who created the plant that produce coffee.

Kampung Kite, once again!

Kelihatannya kawan-kawan di Sevel lebih suka nongkrong di ‘Kampung Kite’ untuk hiburan waktu malam. Setiap ada kesempatan itulah yang mereka lakukan. Kali ini, sesudah Ewin mentraktir dinner di Warung Nyong, By Pass Rawasari, dan bermain catur, kami mendatangi lagi Kampung Kite. Hanya Rimata yang tersalurkan rindunya melalui nyanyian. Dia sempat membawakan beberapa lagu mendayu-dayu, baik solo maupun duet ‘feat’ singer setempat.

Usman juga sempat menghabiskan beberapa botol beer hitam. Jadi afdol deh, dan ketika jam menunjukkan Pukul 12 malam saat Kampung Kite tutup, seperti Cinderella…kamipun pulang… kembali ke Seven Eleven Salemba…lolol