Chriswan Sungkono

furnishing my human soul

swimming, music, reading, poetry, comparing mythologies, fireworks, art, wikipedying

sophie's world, to kill a mockingbird, lord of the rings, life of pi, crime and punishment, agatha christie's crime stories, stupid white men, guns germs and steel, martin gardner's, never let me go, elie wiesel's night

dances with wolves, lotr trilogy, the usual suspects, memento, platoon, interview with the vampire, fight club, magnolia, the killing fields, talk to her, sense and sensibility, house of sand and fog, life is beautiful, pulp fiction, a clockwork orange, the shawshank redemption, monty python, cidade de deus, million dollar baby, finding neverland, march of the penguins, the sea inside, the prestige

rock and its progressive branches

angels in america, the x-files, lost, monk, house, csi

There's a lot of things to say about me but right now I'm only going to give you some clues. I love talking with people, but I also enjoy being alone. The person I always want to look up to is the Dalai Lama. I am freelance writer by choice and physics student by fate. Yet I'm running on both feet pretty fancily. I love everything that's enclosed in mystery: be it movies, books, or even music. If you want to know further about me, then find out for yourself!


Someone whose faith is not grounded in reason is like a stream of water that can be led anywhere.
--- Dalai Lama


The sleep of reason brings forth monsters.


Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it used to be able, by its total command of a worldview, to prevent the emergence of rivals, it can now only impede and retard--or try to turn back--the measurable advances that we have made.
--- Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great


When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself. And when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil powers, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
--- Benjamin Franklin

simply anybody with an eagerness to learn more and more about Life, anybody willing to savor her/his precious time with some good treats and good experiences with friends and even alone.