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

still feel wonderful today

Tuan Pong adalah bapak dari seorang anak laki-laki berusia lima tahun,Toha. Toha adalah kehidupannya karena mereke hanya hidup berdua saja. Penghasilan Tuan Pong dari pekerjaannya sebagai sopir sebagian besar ditabung khusus untuk Toha. Sisanya hanya dipakai untuk makan dan sekali lagi asuransi untuk Toha.

Namun, saat Toha berumur tujuh tahun, dia terjatuh dari pohon mangga (hobi utama Toha: memanjat pohon mangganya tetangga).
Tuan Pong yang begitu mencintai Toha, merasakan kesakitan yang amat sangat dihatinya. Karena hatinya memang hanya untuk Toha. Sekarang, "dewa" pujaannya cacat seumur hidup. Jalannya tidak bisa normal, karena kaki kanannya patah menjadi tiga bagian. Walaupun bisa sembuh tapi tidak seperti sedia kala

Kini Toha berusia delapan belas tahun. Dan pada usianya sekarang, ada Wajib Militer di negaranya. Suluruh pria berusia tujuh belas tahun ke atas diharuskan untuk mengikuti Wamil. Toha pun berbaris untuk berparatisipasi (walaupun setengah memaksa dan dipaksa). Pada saat gilirannya untuk diuji, ternyata Toha gagal, karena fisiknya telah cacat.

Tuan Pong yang sedang menantikan Toha dibawah pohon mangga dipinggir lapangan pun meloncat kegirangan karena anaknya tidak lulus wamil. Dalam hatinya Tuan Pong bersukur atas kecelakaan anaknya yang jatuh dari pohon mangga. Karena dengan kecelakaan itu, Tuan Pong tidak harus berpisah dengan anaknya.

second day of my time management

It's the second day for me of having time management according to Mr. Covey.
Have made weekly arrangement.
For today, there are some things that I should do, but it's still hard to complete.

There are several obstacles on my schedule today:

1. try to find missing things
2. spend quite significant time for chatting unimportant things
3. fixing my fault in the past
4. too long to complete one task

I think they are the four of many of today's obstacle
I have to do my best tomorrow

My Heart's Beating

Sue with her kids Andrea and Andrew went to the market today. Not for buying some food or consumer goods for themselves but for buying some pieces of cloths for reselling.

The temperamental Andrea was grumbling while Andrew sounded so happy to be there while Sue asked them to come with her.

“I am very tired, after kulintang practicing, I want to go home and sleep.”

“Wow, it’s wonderful. It’s been a long time for not being there. Let’s go mom.”

That’s the different expressions of the two children. Sue with her patience just replied as soft as possible to her daughter, “I won’t be long Andrea. Meanwhile, you can learn the process of making money.”

She wasn’t trigged to get angry to her, still had controllable emotion.

Sue enjoys this shopping activity very much. Because she can fulfill her desire for shopping but getting earned in other time while her friends buy the things from her.

But that day was the first time for Sue. So her heart’s beating while she tried to offer her things to Betty her friend. Betty had already signed her that she needed some clothes for to be worn or sold. But when Sue showed her things to Betty, she could feel the eyes. The eyes were different then before. They showed doubt or even fear of having responsibility for selling the clothes.

“Well, just take it easy Betty, if you don’t like to do this you don’t have to do, I won’t force you ok.”

“Hey, I didn’t say that.”

“Well, great then. Good luck, hope that you will be success.”

“Thanks then, pray for me.”

That day, Sue’s heart beating can be two meanings. It can be Sue’s afraid, or happy for starting her new little business.

Get the spirit Sue