It was dark and cloudy when I went back to my parents’ house on New Year Eve. I wasn’t in the best conditions because of the weather. Yet, a phone call pushed me to change my clothes and headed to my parents’ house. “You should come, your dad is getting worse,” my mom’s voice scrambled
Have you ever imagined when some strangers become familiar with you? Or have you ever imagined when someone you just met suddenly become familiar with you? Last month I went to Korea. It was not about I was going somewhere with my family. Also, it was not about a vacation between my family and me. It
When you wanted something so bad, but you just couldn’t have it, not because we’re not able to pursue it but it just because you couldn’t. Those are something beyond our minds. I was talking with someone whom I just meet not so long ago. We talked about everything from simple things to the most
Recently I keep remembering this little girl whom I spent 10 months with. She was just 2 years old who only could talk in her own language; baby language. I was living in a country which wasn’t my culture. I lived in some kind of European environment. Sometimes I didn’t understand what they were talking
I was standing in the bus when this thought came to my mind “Life does change, gosh!” An old man was standing in front of me carrying his big bag and sometimes taking a big breath like life is hard for him. And this thought came across my mind as I stood there looking at
When I was a kid, I had a dream of being a pilot. I don’t know why, I just loved airplanes and everything about them from the design to the idea of Travelling. I even had a lot of posters of many kinds of airplanes in my room, and I studied a lot of things,
Where do you go when you find yourself in a dark place? When life gets too much and the walls feel like they’re crowding in on you, what do you reach for to find relief? We all ache. Life is like that! It leaves us with holes in our souls. And we all reach. We
It’s been a while since the last time I posted writing here. Been out awhile and kind busy with the old environment but new adaptation. But here I took a time to just wanted to greet you all a happy new year. God bless you abundantly, hope for a great year ahead.
Two weeks ago, I went for an interview with one of language centers in my city. This is the first time since I returned to Indonesia. After a long time I held my language tutor group, I wanted a new experience inside a language center company. Honestly, I questioned myself why I did it, but
“Ali, please don’t pull out the plant, actually don’t even touch it, just sing to it, but don’t touch, ok!“ I warned this little girl after she pulled out one stalk of sunflower and made a little mess in our balcony garden. “Ok!” she answered, but then she asked “Why?” “There is no ”Why” for that, it
One year ago today, I wrote this one. Unfortunately, never had a chance to sit down and post it out (I don’t know why). November of last year was the time a lesson of life was taught. Without any push or being asked I decided to post it now as one of my musings. You
