Less young = old?

My company made me take Italian language courses as it officially uses Italian as its language.
Still learning, I've found lots of new interesting things in Italian language that sometimes just doesn't translate to other language.

Today I've found one of those.

The term is : meno giovane

meno would mean less
giovane would mean young

so...less young? younger?

nope.

it's some kind of a polite way to say "old".

Because to say old = vecchio has some kind of connotation that it's outdated, so to soften the blow  be polite, they sometimes use that term: meno giovane.

I somehow have a hard time wrapping my head around that meaning though.

My head has the concept visually mapped like this:

baby..........................young..............................old

so I visualize less young to be:

baby.......less young.....young..............................old


yet apparently with the translation in italian this concept becomes:

baby..........................young......less young........old


I still need time to think this through.

Morning bus agony

The bus line from the city towards my campus is almost always late.
It's only early when I'm late so that I'd miss it, and mostly late when I arrive early to the bus stop.

Some days, though, it arrives much much later than usual.
And then as it sloooowwwly emerged from the corner of the street you found why :

And then you start to appreciate few things :

1. That the bus driver here is very kind, patient, and very careful in driving that they'd reduce their speed to match that of the cyclists and never pass them.
2. That the cyclists here all know their rights to use the street and calmly execute their rights to slowly and leisurely ride their bicycle whenever and wherever.
3. That you live in a mountainous area with small sized streets and little to none bicycle lane. 
4. That you are not among the densely packed students in the bus, desperately trying to get to their morning classes, already late and (probably) cursing under their breath with every pedal cycle nonchalantly taken by the cyclists at their own pace.

Kids

I was standing idly nearby the bus stop waiting for my bus that evening. There wasn't many people around and I wanted to enjoy the cool evening breeze, so I just positioned myself outside the bus stop nearby the bus stop glass wall.

I started fiddling on my cellphone to kill the time, browsing through websites mostly.
Suddenly a little girl ran up from behind me and just forced her way through the little space between me and the glass wall, almost knocking off my bag from my hand in the process.

There were lots of spaces everywhere else but there, mind you, so I was rather surprised and a bit ticked off.

"Psh, kids", so I thought.

The little girl continued hopping around, cheerfully laughed as she rejoined two ladies that I saw coming from the same direction as her. Apparently she was trying to race her mother and her mother friends who was strolling casually, taking the path in front of the bus stop while she took the path behind the bus stop instead. They all then continued walking away from the bus stop.

I quickly resumed my browsing activity in my cellphone when I saw from the corner of my eyes the little girl suddenly turned mid-step, pointing at me and exclaimed, "Guarda che bello il rosso!" (look, how beautiful is the red colour!)

To which the mother too turned at me, "Si, bello!" (yeah, beautiful!).
I was wearing my red shirt and red headscarf that day.

And before I could even register what happened, the happy little girl has continued hopping and running as they all then continued on their path.

Aww, I didn't even have the chance to smile to them for their compliments to my colour.
Kids are wonderful in their own way, aren't they? :)

Indonesians goal in life

*a young celebrity in an interview on her career choice*
"Yeah, I had to choose between my school or my career in sinetron, so, in the end I choose sinetron"

*another young celebrity in an interview about her wish for her baby daughter when she'd grow up*
"My wish is for her to be a sinetron actress"

Oh dear, seriously?
I could possibly understand if it's about a career in movies.
Maybe if you're into art stuffs and so.
But sinetron?
is sinetron really a ludicrously lavish career choice?
or is it really the case that career in sinetron is the only farthest goal Indonesians can dream of?

and why is Indonesian tv so full of celebrities news, crime news, and youtube cut and paste video clips? /rants

One of the most romantic love story

I love short stories, they usually could convey deep meaning through very little words.

Probably it's because they left most of the things to our imagination?
Probably because the short form allows us to absorb it easily, store it in our brain permanently and ponder more about it?

In the same vein, I love one shots manga.

I forgot how I stumbled upon this one shot way back then.
But the impact I felt after reading it lingered for some time. And still up to now.

I call this the most romantic love story in a one shot.
It's super sweet and heartbreaking in a twisted, unimaginable way.
It made me think of the term "the greatest love of all",
and how lucky must be someone to be able to experience it.


Ladies and gentlemen, I present you the one shot manga Muse by Dowman Sayman.

love is

When he woke up at night
Trying to fit the plastic bottle under the sink faucet
then realizing the noise might wake me up
so he filled it up by using the bottle cap instead
little by little

I love you