Archive for June, 2009

Emotional Change

Thea June 22nd, 2009

I notice several changes on myself during my three-month pregnancy. I find it’s so funny and silly one time.

Every body knows that I am not a sentimental person. Not easy to cry unless for some extraordinary occasions, such as when I married or seeing my best friends wedding. Other than that exceptional thing, I am not easy to to drop tear. However, it’s different when I am pregnant. I cry easily. I cried once seeing a comedy-family movie played in a channel in our TV cable. My hubby couldn’t believe that I cried on his arm at that time. But he then knew the emotional change happening on me. In usual condition, it’s a once-in-a-blue-moon cry:D. When reading the love story of Ralph Tampubolon and Melissa Karim, again I cried:D

I am not a person I used to be, in the way my hobby watching movie at cinema. Before pregnant, I went to cinema at almost weekend, watching movie with my hubby who’s also a movie freak. The condition is very different now. I prefer a lot staying at home, laying on bed, doing browsing and chatting and also cooking. If bored, I swift to books or mags.

I love a lot staying at home and being only with my hubby rather than going to mall or other place where crowds gather. Enjoying my time with him is priceless, moreover I spend a lot my time at the office during the working days. Therefore, at weekend I cook special food for him. I ask him the menu he wants to eat and I will cook for him.

While pregnant, you can believe how much time I spend only for sleeping in the day. I can sleep almost 3-4 hours in the day, to sum up. Luckily, my hubby does understand my condition. The progesterone  hormone makes my body exhausted easily and drowsy, of course:D.

Then my care and love to my hubby is increasing day by day. I feel so much blessed to have a caring hubby like him. The problem with my pregnancy makes our bound is even tighter and opens my eyes how tremendous his love to me. Many times he said” Ayah loves Bunda. Never ever forget about that, Bun”. Remembering what he said and what he did to me, again makes me burst into tears. I love u too, Ayah:)

The Vicious Circle of Poverty

Thea June 12th, 2009

Idar is only a seventeen years old girl from Subang, West Java, who tries her luck in this capital city. Without proper educational background, she gets a job as an a helper in a young couple. Every day, she helps the host to clean the house, amange the kitchen and do the laundry. Working in a small new family doesn’t need to her to work hard and she receives a proper pay for that.

Once in her village at Subang, Idar was a jobless. She only helped her parents waiting house while they worked in the rice field. She’s the the second from two. Her brother also works as farmer, just like their father and mother. Sometimes, the brother is in project where employs him as a labor. Rarely he does it.

As for Idar, several times she receives order to sew. The payment is unpredictable. Averagely, she receives 50-500 rupiahs for every order that she finishes. Everyday, she can complete 10-20 orders per day, depending on the complexity of working.

Idar never completed her primary education. Only three months she attended the junior high school. She hesitantly quitted because her parents couldn’t afford the fee. In her class, there were other four students who had similar condition like her. And for people in her village, it’s very common that children not continue their education, even completing the primary level. The reason is classical, lack of money. The vicious circle of poverty is very obvious there. Many people are jobless and depend only to their rice field which doesn’t yearn any good result. They can’t improve their quality of life because they lack of skill and have no good education background. And it will continue over and over again.
Hei..our president-to-be!!! Pay attention to the real condition of your people. Don’t only talk about promise but never realizes it. Idar is not the only one. Many Indonesian are in the same condition with her. If you promise to weave the education fee, it should apply to all people regardless any condition. We wait you real work!!!