Indo-lyric: Teruskanlah (Agnes Monica)

English translation:

Go on

Have you ever spoken
yet not listened to
not deemed
at all

Have you ever been unguilty
yet are blamed
not given
any chance

Reff:
Whom am I living with
you don't know whom
you're my lover but
you're a stranger to me

only occupied with yourself
just living with your world
go on.. go on..
be like that

You don't know me
I'm a statue to you
love is not
your need

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Original lyric in Indonesian:

Pernahkah kau bicara
Tapi tak didengar
Tak dianggap
Sama sekali

Pernahkan kau tak salah
Tapi disalahkan
Tak diberi
Kesempatan

Reff :
Kuhidup dengan siapa
Ku tak tau kau siapa
Kau kekasihku tapi
Orang lain bagiku

Kau dengan dirimu saja
Kau dengan duniamu saja
Teruskan lah.. Teruskan lah
Kau begitu

Kau tak butuh diriku
Aku patung bagimu
Cinta bukan
Kebutuhanmu

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Now let’s not be a hypocrite like those conservative clerics by saying that pornography would cause this and that and other what-nots, but it is indeed a disturbing thing to watch such movies together with other people of the same sex.

Face it…weird, ain’t it?

Pornography is supposedly for private consumption: it’s not supposed to be watched with anyone else (unless you’re about to practice the movie itself with your partner). And in the West, they don’t watch it with people of their own gender unless they’re having a gay orgy.

Gee, what a wonder.

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by Nadine Kamarwan

You enter a maze and you're instantly lost
A puzzle that can never be solved
Where fantasy and reality mix
Call it "something not broken, that still can be fixed"

With screws, coils and all the gears
A being that grows bigger with years
Something filled to the brim, yet still so vast
With plans for the future and dreams of the past

The worries of the present, wild and untamed
Carefree happiness with rage inflamed
Total chaos with a sense of order
Freakishly insane from border to border

From softened stories to cold, hard truths
Like the filled-up shelves of an empty booth
Like the most common thing you could ever see
To the weirdest things that something could be

Sarcasm, irony, wit and charm
Dangerous but they do no harm
The most peculiar thing you could ever find
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Hey, that’s unfair.

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Stance on premarital sex repositioned

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But what the hell.

I used to put a big No-no for premarital sex, but as Rob had once told me that I’d change, I think I have to reposition myself on this stance.

No, I no longer think of premarital sex as a taboo. But I only think that it’s only appropriate when done between two consenting adults when they are mentally and financially ready.

C’est tout.

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