nazura gulfira

Earlier this morning when we finished having our breakfast, my mom suddenly asked a question that had come up so many times the past week and was now being brought up again. "Ah, you will leave again soon, Zu... it saddens me. Do you really have to go back to Rotterdam? Nowadays I just want to…

It was one fine evening when I decided to go back home a bit earlier than usual from collecting data for my research in one kampung in Bandung. My sister texted me to join her and my two aunties who came to town earlier in the morning. We met at the newly relocated Kopi Armor, still around the corn…

I always believe that at any point of our lives, there will always be good people, be it someone we have known for the longest of time or recently acquainted, whose act of kindness will impact us in the most unexpected ways. But these people will only come to us if and only if we allow them the cha…

There was this particular night when me and two others - my boyfriend, and a good friend of his - were talking together in one of my favourite coffee shops in Bandung. I can't recall exactly how our conversation started but it led to my friend asking me a question that I never expected to come …