There's Always Hope (1)

Ira is a mother of three children. She loves her children very much. The eldest is Deasy, a fourteen years old girl, temperamental, easily to get angry, often shout to her younger brother, and sometimes too rude to them. The second is a boy of eight years old, Frank, very skinny, fragile, easily to get illness, but talk rudely too (because he learns it from his elder sister).


Those two sibling often fight, almost everyday. Deasy always said that she hate him, because he is weak; not a strong boy. She also admit that she is jealous on him, because after having a younger brother, she thinks that her parents doesn't love her like before.
"I hate you, I don't want a brother like you."
"Me too, a sister like you is ugly, full of acnes, and too fierce. I don't like you."
"Say it again! then I will kill you."
"Ok, you are really ugly and weird."
After arguing stupidly then they will fight each other. Sometime, if I tired of saying or even half shouting, then I will pinch my son. It's because he always teases his sister, while he knows that she doesn't want to be it.

Now, when my youngest son, Eric, is two years old, his brother Frank starts to get jealous on him. Eric starts to learn how to fight now. He copies everything Frank does, included dangerous thing.

As a mother, Ira tries to be patient and always gather her three children to pray. Ira herself pray to God every night. And she realized that there is always hope for her and her children.

I Can Keep My Assistant

Here in Indonesia, many housewife often being disturbed because their housekeeper are not comfortable with them. So, it's quite long if a housekeeper could stand for a year in a family.

But me, I am very happy, because my housekeeper could stay with me for more than one year, it's almost two years now, with these following condition:

-She was eighteen years old at the first time she came to my house
-She even cried and got homesick at the first week
-I have three children and one of them is two years old now (what a busy, isn't it?)
-We are about eight people in family
-She does all the laundry
-She cooks for all people in my family
-She cleans the house
-She helps me babysitting my little son
-She does the dish-washing and ironing
-She does it all everyday

But why is she still here with me? Do you want to know why?

-It's because I am using humor while trying to correct her working; e.g, "Oh my gosh, why do you throw the doormat just because my son defecated on it? what if he did it on my cloth? are you going to throw it too? come on..." Then she laugh when I reminded her like that
-I let her to sleep with my little baby about two hours(10am-12am), even more for most of the time
-I consider her as a family member not a stranger; so my daughter and sons respect her
-All of us in family love her

Would you dare to try? I am sure you can with a big heart

Simplicity

Today, I just read an essay the title could be this: The Relation Between Math and Art. It's written by Sujiwo Tedjo. But I won't write bout the Math side, but about what has splashed in Sujiwo's mind.

He said that beautiful was achieved because of simplicity.

For a Poet, the sentences could be seen so plain but when someone contemplate them, it could be so beautiful

For a Musician, the sound could be heard so plain but when someone try to play it, it could be difficult

For a Dancer, the movement could be so plain, no acrobatic, but it could move the heart

For a Painter, it could be just lines, or abstractive paint, but someone could be so astonished by it

Great Day for a Mom

A teenager of 14 years old, whose mother language is not English, was shaken her school yesterday.
It's because her speech in front of the native speaker was really astonished him.
Actually it's just a welcoming speech composed about twenty sentences.
Probably, it's because the utterance, the pronunciation and the mimic.

The native speaker was amazed because in that tiny, out-dated school, there was a student who spoke English well.

But the native speaker didn't know that the student actually taught by her mom even her English teacher didn't want to help her to compose a speech.

And the native speaker also didn't realize that by the student's testimony, about her successful in English speech for that day to her granny, had decrease her granny's suffering from asthma, after three days of illness.

The student's mom was really grateful to God for her blessing on that day