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
“Can I play your toys?” One day a boy asked Ali Without any answer, Ali just took her toys away, not even show a glance of lending her toys to that boy. “Why you don’t want to share your toys Ali?” I asked her “Why I have to?” a surprise answer from a 2.5 year
“Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you… ” Ali just appeared behind me singing the famous traditional song while I was making a fire for a barbeque. “Happy birthday Dear Ali, happy birthday to you” spontaneously I opened my mouth and began to sing together with her. Don’t get this wrong, this is not her
Sometimes in life to remains strong all we need to do is to not complain or ask questions about why things happened but just simply to be grateful for saying thank you. I’ve been spending more than a half-year keep asking myself “what was that? Why it happened to me?” and many other thoughts that
