Elsewhere

Welcome to Elsewhere.

If you know me, then you probably know why this blog exists. If you don’t know me, then I’m guessing you’ve arrived here by accident. Either way, welcome.

My name is Davindra, all my friends call me “Davi”, though around here I’ll simply go by D. I was born in 1997. I’m from South Jakarta, Indonesia. I’ve been an INFJ at least since 2015 and I really value emotional intelligence. I went to an all-boys high school and joined the student mountaineering club during my time there, which remain the most formative experiences of my life. I enjoy music, films, stories, and conversations, although I rarely feel like talking. My favorite color is burgundy. My favorite artists are Bombay Bicycle Club, Jacob Collier, and Daniel Caesar. I like sunny days, late-night drives, the smell of bakery shops, flavored vodka, and getting lost in thoughts for longer than I probably should.

I’m a relatively quiet person. Not shy, just someone who spends a lot of time in his own head. Maybe that’s why this blog exists.

I dream big but I often feel anxious. Somehow I can say I’m ambitious but sentimental at the same time.

I love to start a new project that briefly excites me (like this blog), although most of the time I don’t finish them.

I have a very specific taste in music that I always play the same song on repeat for months.

I cry at random things more often than I’d like to admit.

I have an unhealthy tendency to romanticize my fantasies that have never truly happened, or stories that only ever existed in my head.

I watch The Big Bang Theory on repeat hundreds of times.

Some of my favorite films are The Sound of Music, Her, Call Me By Your Name, The Descendants, The Spectacular Now, and Bambi (Sorry, Letterboxd, I can never pick 4).

I have an uninteresting sense of fashion.

I like to talk to myself, sing and dance awkwardly when no one is looking.

I love Manchester United even when they give me absolutely no reason to.

I often think about living in New York.

Anyway, as some of you may know, I’ve created Somniolab as my personal creative lab project for whatever I make: songs, videos, photographs, poems, and everything in between (if you haven’t, please check it out!). But somewhere along the way, it started becoming more personal than I intended. The line between what I create and what I feel becomes harder to separate. So Elsewhere is where I put those “more personal” things that don’t quite belong there.

Thoughts.

Feelings.

Reflections.

Stories.

Confessions.

Letters.

Life updates.

Stay for a while.

Come back whenever you’d like.

You might find something you relate to.

Or you might simply find a person trying to make sense of his life.

— D.