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
There is a verse in the bible that says, “There is a time for everything.” Indeed, it’s right. We never know what is going to happen in our future, even we have planned it far in advance. We use our knowledge to make a great life through a better plan. Yet we forget one thing “there
Today I read a couple of stories that had the same things mentioned in, experiences and so on, yes the stories told about how they faced their bad or even worst experiences. Then I remembered one time in my life when I had quite an interesting situation with someone who I called my partner in
“I hate my life,” said the 11-years old girl when we were swinging in the playground. “Why?” I really was surprised by what I just heard because I know very well how fancy her life is. She is living in a huge house and has her very own comfortable room. She is able to eat all kinds
If God could choose whom He could use and who not to us, I bet He would never choose me. That’s what I always put in the front of my mind. There is nothing special in me, I am just a kind ordinary person who often makes mistakes throughout my life, but hey who doesn’t?
I was cleaning my notes in my old folder yesterday. I began reading them one by one and deleted some of them that I considered not really important or just felt no need to keep them any longer. My eyes stopped on one note that I definitely had forgotten I wrote it or even doubted
