“J, stop putting your hand in your mouth!” “No, that’s not the bin for paper. You have to use the one above. Yes that one.” “Do you have an eye in the back of your head, Mama? How come you can see what we’re doing when you’re not looking atRead More
Two weeks of not-walking husband has left me with the responsibility of a single parent. This shouldn’t be something new, because for a year we practically lived apart between Paris and Utrecht – my husband in Paris and me and kids here at home. But I guess one sick manRead More
I’ve known the story of King Saul all of my life. The first king of Israel, a man who stood out among his fellows by his physical distinction: a handsome young man as could be found anywhere in Israel, and he was a head taller than anyone else (1 SamuelRead More
Life is full of things – complicated things. Some things are easy to define – helping others is right, stealing is wrong. But many things fall somewhere in between. And dealing with these things is never easy. We do wrongs not always because we’d like do so. Some people gambleRead More
It’s been days since so many things around me are completely out of my control, and I’m absolutely N O T H A P P Y. All the frustrations were so ready to snap out of my system, and the more I let everyone in the house know how frustratedRead More
As I laid in my bed tonight I suddenly remembered the mother of my friend. A university friend of mine, he was from the same year but different major with me. We were together in the swimming club of our university, and we were very close for several years ofRead More
It’s been three days since my dear husband stayed in bed. First it looked like he catches a cold. Fearing that he would share his virus to the children we arranged him to sleep alone in my daughter’s room. Two mornings later he woke up unable to move his rightRead More
One of the annoying things I deal with my children is the moment they don’t ask me when they deal with problems. “J, why do you stand still there? Have you finished your school work?” “No, mama. I don’t know how to do this part,” he pointed out some mathRead More
Lagi-lagi menjawab tantangan KLIP, yang temanya “Persiapan Menyambut Ramadhan”. Kenapa kok senang banget ikut tantangan KLIP? Hehehe, saya menggunakan tantangan mingguan ini sebagai suatu tantangan buat diri saya sendiri untuk menulis berdasarkan tema yang tidak diciptakan sendiri. Lumayan kan, setiap minggu ada satu tema baru, tidak usah capek-capek mikir sudah
She was a woman of praises, a beautiful young woman, graduated from high prestige university, small built and completed with meekness and gentleness. She was known by many, praised by many. Many juniors looked at her with full respect. Many good words were spoken about her. She was like aRead More
I know don’t about other people but I feel like my brain never stops working. It keeps talking to me. Does it mean I hear voices? Am I sychrizopenic? Am I delusional? I don’t think so. My life is pretty dull most of the time and yes I’m struggling everyRead More
Between two neighbours, there’s only a wall of 20 centimeters dividing the life of two families apart. The latest technology might even provide us with an even thinner wall, which still provides strength and isolation needed to divide two houses. With such a fine line between two lives, I realize
It’s been almost four months since the 2nd wave Corona lockdown applied in the Netherlands. I heard in the news the 3rd wave is coming and our neighbouring countries start to impose a new set of lockdown again. These lockdown and un-lockdown things have been going on and off so
Sometimes we find ourselves in a point of going nowhere. We know approximately what to do, but our eyes are fixated on the things that hinder us from doing that. “I haven’t fully understood what going on is.” “I still don’t know the details. I don’t even understand the big
There was a hot issue discussed yesterday on one of the Facebook groups I followed. A Netherlands man with Indonesian background went on air in a television show complaining about his ex-girlfriend (he found via a dating site) who never lifted a finger to help him doing the house chores
It’s been months since I had my latest piano lesson. The lockdown has stopped my lessons completely and I didn’t do any online lessons since it’s hard to do it via video. And frankly speaking, I didn’t practice as much. The children being home and home-schooling for two months had
In the 10 years since I left professional worlds and committed myself to my role as a SAHM (stay at home mom), I’ve only read less than 10 books. Or maybe even less. Staying mostly at home and dealing with two hard-tempered toddlers made me lose all interest and delights
Every once in a while, I would get involved in a heated argument with my husband. It’s actually not often, but perhaps because it rarely happens, it always went beyond what I hope as a standard of healthy argument should be. I think when both parties were filled with anger,
When I was planning to meet my husband again after 13 years of never meeting with each other, I discussed this with my brother and sister in law who lived with me in Singapore. Being anxious of meeting a “stranger” again, I asked them what I should talk with him
We went to the beach last Saturday, enjoying the early spring air. It’s amazing that only a week before, people were busy ice-skating in every corner of The Netherlands, and 7 days later the beach was literally full of people. Around 20 Celcius grades differ in only a week time!