Khitan

"Mbak Sylvie, ibu yang baik, sebelum ke Belanda nyupitke si kecil dulu.."
"..Wah, Aca slamat ya mu dikhitan sebelum mamanya ke holland :)"

Itu 2 petikan sms dari beberapa sms serupa yang masuk ke hp-ku belakangan hari ini. Am I a good mom? tentu aja aku berusaha untuk bisa menjadi ibu yang baik, meskipun ga mungkin jadi sempurna. Dan kalaupun aku memutuskan mengkhitankan Aca sekarang, itu karena kepraktisan aja. Mumpung Acanya mau, mumpung aku belum berangkat. Dan Alhamdulillah semuanya berjalan lancar dan mulus. Mulai dari kontak dr. Oky, SpB & akhirnya proses khitan pake laser-nya.

Aku memang berusaha beresin semua yang menjadi tanggungjawabku, mulai dari hal remeh sampai yang besar. Dan semoga semuanya berjalan lancar. Amin.

Woman

To be sincere I have a girlfriend who is in her 60's I just was shocked to know she was so old.
Guess Who?

It's my Mom

Why are you crying, a young boy asked his Mom?
"Because I'm a woman," she told him.
"I don't understand," he said.


His Mom just hugged him and said,
"And you never will, but that's O.K.".......


Later the little boy asked his father,
"Why does Mom seem to cry for no reason?".
"All women cry for no reason," was all his Dad could say.



The little boy grew up and became a man,
still wondering why women cry.


Finally he put in a call to God and when God got back to him, he asked
"God, why do women cry so easily?"


GOD answered.... ..


"When I made woman,
I decided she had to be special.
I made her shoulders
strong enough to carry
the weight of the world, yet,
made her arms gentle enough to give comfort..

I gave her the inner strength
to endure childbirth
and the rejection
that many times will come
even from her own children.

I gave her a hardness
that allows her
to keep going and take care
of her family and friends,
even when everyone else gives up, through sickness and fatigue without complaining….

I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all
circumstances. Even when her child has hurt her badly.....

She has the very special power to make a child's boo-boo feel better and
to quell a teenager's anxieties and fears....

I gave her strength to care for her husband, despite faults
and I fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart....

I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but
sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him

unfalteringly. ...

For all of this hard work,
I also gave her a tear to shed.
It is hers to use
whenever needed and !

it is her only weakness....

When you see her cry,
tell her how much you love her, and all she does for everyone, and even though
she may still cry, you will have made her heart feel good.


She is special!

Please send this to women you know, and those with mothers, sisters, and special women in their lives.

But, also send this to men so they will understand about what a wonderful thing a woman is.



Love Your Mother Always,
And Keep Her Smiling

That Means A Lot

A friend of mine kapan hari itu nulis lirik lagu-nya Beatles ini di notebook-ku. Aku asli ga tahu lagunya kaya apa & jadinya she hummed that song for me. & setelah ngublek-ngublek CD di rumah (seingatku, Alm Ai dulu suka banget sama Beatles & ngumpulin CD & kasetnya), akhirnya aku nemu juga & udah ta dengerin tadi pagi. Lagunya mayan bagus.. & liriknya beautiful!

I think this song is one of the most beautiful Beatles' songs ever


That Means A Lot

A friend says that your love
won't mean a lot
But you know that your love
is all you've got
At times things are so fine
and at times they're not
But when she says she loves you,
that means a lot

A friend says that a love
is never true
But you know that this
don't apply to you
A touch can mean so much
when it's all you've got
When she says she loves you
that means a lot

Love can be deep inside,
love can be suicide
Can't you see you can't hide
what you feel when it's real

A friend says that your love
won't mean a lot
But you know that your love
is all you've got
A touch can mean so much
when it's all you've got
When she says she loves you
that means a lot

Can't you see, yeah

We plan, God decide

Ini udah tanggal 11. Mestinya, kalau semua berjalan sesuai rencana, tanggal 6 kemarin aku & mbak Vitri collect visa di kedubes Belanda di Jakarta & tanggal 8 kami berangkat ke Belanda naik MAS yang bagasinya bisa sampai 30 kg. Ya, begitulah yang namanya : manusia hanya bisa berencana, Tuhan tetap yang menentukan segalanya.

Yang bikin kacau bukan MVV yang lambat karena pengurusan MVV lewat Uni bisa di by-pass sampai cuma makan waktu 2-4 minggu, tapi karena ternyata Belanda menganut peraturan tersendiri, beda dengan mayoritas negara lain. PhD & Postdoc student di Belanda dianggap bukan hanya sebagai student tapi sebagai bagian dari staff lab, therefore they also need a work permit. Nah, proses pengurusan ijin kerja ini yang ribet & makan waktu mayan lama. According to M's explanation, mula-mula lab mengajukan permohonan tenaga kerja baru ke Dept, Dept ke Fak, Fak ke Uni, Uni ke .. entahlah, serikat pekerja kali.. and so on. It usually takes about 8-14 weeks to complete the work permit process. Gosh, itu berarti paling cepat sampai pertengahan Juli. Lama banget

Hence, we shall be grateful on any given situation. Sometimes, when bad things happen to good people, there are always blessing in disguise behind the whole commotion.

So, meskipun kami berangkatnya bakalan molor and we missed lots of summer festivies around Randstad, kami tetep harus bersyukur karena kami masih bakalan bisa 'megang' gaji ke 13 yang InsyaAllah diterimakan Juli, trus kalau molor sampai Agustus pertengahan atau akhir, aku masih bisa nungguin Aca ujian kenaikan tingkat taekwondo (ke sabuk biru) 2 minggu lagi, ujian akhir semester & UUB (Juni-Juli) & ultah Mami & Aca tanggal 3 & 11 Agustus ntar. Aku juga ga bakalan kepisah lama dari mas Bule karena Oktober awal mas Bule juga udah kelar disini & kudu balik ngerjain risetnya di LUMC


See..??!

Mas Bule

Barusan abis chatting sama mbak Vitri, ngebahas razia laptop di bandara Soekarno-Hatta. Kami sepakat bahwa itu termasuk kurang kerjaan. Kalau niatnya untuk menegakkan HAKI, seharusnya HAKI di Indonesia ini dibenahi dulu, lagu2 daerah, kesenian2 daerah, tempe, kambing.. semua yang direbut malaysia. Jangan hanya karena Bill Gates berkuasa trus kita jadi manut. Indonesia ini dijajah amerika ga sadar2, jepang, china.. wis pokoknya negara maju, yang tidak menjajah kita cuma etiopia

Dan tiba-tiba aku jadi inget tetangga2nya mbak Vitri yang mayoritas bersuamikan bule .. Mereka termasuk orang yang ga sadar sudah dijajah bule, terutama di malam hari .. Aku ngakak beneran pas inget itu & mbak Vitri comment : "ati2 lho ntar kualat". Wah tipe kualat yang satu itu kayanya kualat yang ga bakal ditolak kehadirannya deh..

Mbak Vitri nanya juga tentang postingan mas Bule yang belakangan ga pernah nongol Iya nih, maklum akunya belakangan ini juga jarang punya waktu & mood nulis blog, lagian mayoritas eventnya tidak layak ditampilkan alias too private Kalau dipaksa ditampilin, ntar kalau dibaca temen-temen dosen di bagianku, waaah.. bisa-bisa mereka makin pesimis aku bakal balik ke Indo abis S3 nanti. Sekarang aja, mereka semua 90% men-judge aku ga bakal balik ke Indo kelar S3. Doanya kok gitu sih? & mbak Vitri bilang, aku balik ke Indo cuman buat ambil Aca buat dibawa kesana Iya kali hehehe...

Tapi sejujurnya, that's beyond my imagination (balik ke Indo apa ga, tetep sama M apa ga.. maunya tetep tapi side-effectnya kan ribet juga & sayangnya ga bisa milih tetep sama M tapi ga pake side effect ), makanya kalau ditanya soal itu, aku saat ini ga bisa jawab. Lagian, masih lama kan.. masih banyak hal yang mungkin terjadi, including miracles

By the way on the way busway.. terakhir sama M selasa kemarin, pas aku kudu ambil kutipan akte lahir di catatan sipil Sby, & pas M punya waktu 2 hari break & bisa nyusul aku ke Sby, baliknya barengan. Selama di catatan sipil, dianya sibuk nanya2 di bagian pencatatan nikah WNA. Halahh.. itu nikahnya sama siapa ya??

Tour 2

27 May 2008 :

East and West.. Home is the best!

Ungkapan satu itu pas banget menggambarkan betapa bahagianya bisa di rumah lagi setelah beberapa hari tour dengan jadwal padat. Capek! Aku langsung tidur sampai siang & seharian ga masuk kantor.

Foto2nya selama tour belum sempat di upload di flickr, but i promise, it will be uploaded soon!