{"id":62,"date":"2022-04-27T04:17:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T04:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2022-05-19T04:57:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T04:57:22","slug":"bab-ii-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/bab-ii-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bab II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__gradient-background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-12\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ibu.jpg\" style=\"object-position:48% 45%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"48% 45%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ibu.jpg 679w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ibu-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\">Flight<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And so, she ended up doing both.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video alignwide\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/no4_FINAL_042622-1.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>Interview no. 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think a lot about the notion of flight. About movement between two separate entities: continents; lovers; fighters; parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-013-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-013-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-013-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-013-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-013-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-013-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"146\" src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-015-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-015-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-015-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-015-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-015-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-015-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"147\" src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-016-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-016-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-016-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-016-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-016-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/March-2009-016-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think of Don Mee Choi&#8217;s DMZ Colony, a book combining poetry, prose, photography, and drawings to situate the violent colonial history of Korea within the deeply personal perspective of an immigrant. I wrote this in a book review assignment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>I knew I was going to like this one the instant I opened it up and saw the birds.<\/em><\/p><p><em>As someone who has only lived in that particular unheimlich of always longing for the other \u201chome,\u201d I know just what Choi is getting at when she talks about this sort of orphan-like state you assume as a translator, born in flight between two particularities. I wrote a horror movie last year about a dysfunctional Indonesian family \u2014\u2014 I put them on the Oregon coast, in a probably-illegal ramshackle tower of a house, leaning over the cliffside toward the other side of the Pacific, where my birds and Choi\u2019s are always returning. I think often about that house.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I think about the house whenever I hear my parents bicker. It screams, unlikely; it groans, aches \u2014\u2014 always almost-falling-over, condemned to movement \u2014\u2014 but it also stands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-id=\"87\" src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DSC00027.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DSC00027.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DSC00027-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-id=\"89\" src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DSC00001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DSC00001.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DSC00001-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-id=\"88\" src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DSC00028.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DSC00028.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DSC00028-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Taken in 1999 and 2000, before my birth, in the back of Hong Kong and Malaysian taxis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video alignwide\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/no5_FINAL_042722-1.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>Interview no. 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And then a little boy moved in with them.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" data-id=\"101\" src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/2.jpg 1173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"734\" data-id=\"102\" src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/8-1024x734.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/8-1024x734.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/8-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/8-768x550.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/8.jpg 1129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"671\" data-id=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/9-1024x671.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/9-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/9-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/9-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/9.jpg 1161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was born at the end of Kaamatan, a month-long festival where Sabahans celebrate the new harvest moon; nowawadays, most Sabahans get too drunk to think about harvests or moons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was born in Singapore, but I like to think my real birthplace was in the intersection of their flightpaths; I like to think it was in the wind. I see, on the day they met, a couple with wings on fire \u2014\u2014 two Icarus&#8217;s who hit each other instead of the water; and in the collision of woman-escaping-childhood and man-escaping-failed-marriage, there I was. A boy of in-betweens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wind or not, my arrival was something of an anchor for an airborne woman. Suddenly, it was more difficult to spend half her year in faraway places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video alignwide\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/no6_FINAL_050122-1.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>Interview no. 6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My earliest memories are of Sabah. Among them, this day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Brass-Monkey-Alex-033.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103\" width=\"838\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Brass-Monkey-Alex-033.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Brass-Monkey-Alex-033-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the day before my father disappeared for several months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mother told me he was going to look for money in America, and that I should give him another hug, and another, and that this time, I should wait, stand still; she needs to take a picture. She took a lot of pictures that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-id=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Brass-Monkey-Alex-034.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Brass-Monkey-Alex-034.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Brass-Monkey-Alex-034-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-id=\"128\" src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Brass-Monkey-Alex-035.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Brass-Monkey-Alex-035.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Brass-Monkey-Alex-035-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I find that family scrapbooks are peppered with accidental masterpieces. My mother has never been the best photographer (though sometimes I wonder if Nenek Pondo hadn&#8217;t stifled an artistic spark in her; I didn&#8217;t get mine from my dad, I don&#8217;t think, and my impulses have to come from somewhere, right?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there&#8217;s something about photos like that first one, a boy in pensive self-reflection \u2014\u2014 framed by hindsight and the hands of my mother, by the knowledge that we were impoverished and her business was about to go under, the fact that my mother was scared, and she thought I was too skinny for a boy my age \u2014\u2014 that give it a depth and intensity you don&#8217;t see in just any family photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignwide\" style=\"min-height:601px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"has-background-dim-10 wp-block-cover__gradient-background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-122\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/eating-with-mom-1.gif\" data-object-fit=\"cover\"\/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-normal-font-size\">It's a secret sort of sadness that makes them beautiful,\nlike the secret sorts of languages between a mother and son.<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After we moved from Sabah to Kuala Lumpur in 2007, I would have to learn how to share that language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video alignwide\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/no7_FINAL_050322-1.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>Interview no. 7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignwide\" style=\"min-height:552px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"has-background-dim-10 wp-block-cover__gradient-background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-129\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ibu.alexanderhoefer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/me-and-sidney.gif\" style=\"object-position:50% 40%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"50% 40%\"\/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-normal-font-size\">I remember hoping for a brother.\nSidney is alright, though.<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>And for the family born in midair, our travels didn&#8217;t end there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon it&#8217;d be time to go back to Singapore, and sooner still, to go back to a home I&#8217;d never really known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<nav class=\"is-responsive 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