2. Jen and Paul take their relationship SERIOUSLY?
"She's fantastic!"
3. Stunning ways to makeover your garden easier
4. The hottest diet tips to lose 10 KILOS in two months
(Check it out!)
5. Fit your body REALLY help you quit and give up nicotine?
6. MUST SEE! The coolest trendy cars of the year!
7. The greatest guitar tracks EVER!!!
Monday, September 30, 2013
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Happiness from the Great Distance
Last summer vacation I came back to Indonesia for holiday. I didn't expect that Mpok Nyai came to visit us. Mpok is a term that I use to call the older woman in Betawi's dialect (dialect which is used in Jakarta). Mpok Nyai was our maid when my mother was a teenager. Even though she is already retired, she visited us and told her story life with her grandchildren. My mother said that even she was a maid, my mother consider her as a part of our family.
One week before I back to Taiwan, she came to see me. I was very happy because she was a nice person with a great personality. Most people would be happy and laugh listening to her jokes. However, besides her friendly character, she had an unforgettable story. One day when she was giving birth to her baby, she couldn't pay for the hospital cost. Unfortunately, she had to leave her baby boy in the hospital and must find some money for the fee in a week. However she hadn't had the money and when she came back about one week later, the baby had been taken away. She was very upset and hope that the baby would be in the good hands.
About 17 years later, the boy came back! Amazingly, he was adopted by a Dutch family. So, what actually happened in the hospital was, there were a Dutch couple who came for adopting a child and took Mpok Nyai child as theirs. After he had grown up, his Dutch parents gave a permission to him to find his real mother, Mpok Nyai in Indonesia. When they finally met each other, both of them were crying happily. The name of her son is Siswoyo. After meeting each other, Siswoyo finally came back to Netherlands and had his own life there.
This photo was taken during my summer holiday in Indonesia. That time, Mpok Nyai was ironing our clothes while I saw her son's facebook. Siswoyo had a newborn baby girl! I knew it because he posted it. Then, I told Mpok Nyai and she was really excited to know her grandchildren. When I showed the photos, she was really happy and asked me to print the photo, so that she could bring it home and told her relatives that she had grandchildren. I took this photo because I wanted to show it to Siswoyo on facebook that Mpok Nyai was proud to be a grandmother. This photo is really meaningful for me because I could help both of them to know that even the distance was separating them, but Siswoyo could share the happiness and joyfulness to Mpok Nyai with the photo of his family. Moreover, Siswoyo must be very touched to see it because his mother knew that he is a father now. In the end, I am happy to be the mediator for Siswoyo and Mpok Nyai, to see the beautiful life that even mother and son were separated, Mpok Nyai still loves him and prays for his son. Mpok Nyai said to me that she hoped she could go to Netherlands someday to see Siswoyo.
One week before I back to Taiwan, she came to see me. I was very happy because she was a nice person with a great personality. Most people would be happy and laugh listening to her jokes. However, besides her friendly character, she had an unforgettable story. One day when she was giving birth to her baby, she couldn't pay for the hospital cost. Unfortunately, she had to leave her baby boy in the hospital and must find some money for the fee in a week. However she hadn't had the money and when she came back about one week later, the baby had been taken away. She was very upset and hope that the baby would be in the good hands.
About 17 years later, the boy came back! Amazingly, he was adopted by a Dutch family. So, what actually happened in the hospital was, there were a Dutch couple who came for adopting a child and took Mpok Nyai child as theirs. After he had grown up, his Dutch parents gave a permission to him to find his real mother, Mpok Nyai in Indonesia. When they finally met each other, both of them were crying happily. The name of her son is Siswoyo. After meeting each other, Siswoyo finally came back to Netherlands and had his own life there.
Monday, September 23, 2013
In-class Exercise
1. This photo was taken when the writer saw the quote on the corner of his halls of residence.
2. Lori took the photo.
3. This photo was taken round the corner from Lori's halls of residence.
4. This photo was taken because the writer found that the graffiti was very inspiring and it makes you to think.
5. This photo is meaningful for the writer because he felt that the graffiti was very inspiring and makes you to think.
6. The story behind this photo is telling us about the condition where the place Lori lived is near from the gay village and he felt the unthreatened atmosphere in there.
7. The characters are Lori and the gays people around him.
8. The setting is on the corner from Lori's halls of residence.
9. The series of events are moved 200 miles away from parents, realised the place he lived was a mere stone's throw from the 'gay village', and took a photo.
10. The tension is "After a short while, I came to realise that the place where I lived was a mere stone's throw from the 'gay village'.
11. The climax in the story is "The photograph was taken round the corner from my halls of residence, where someone had painted the quote onto the fence round a building site.
12. The resolution is the writer able to capture a picture that shows a statement from the gay people about their status, reflecting the real life about gays people who are not really accepted by some people.
2. Lori took the photo.
3. This photo was taken round the corner from Lori's halls of residence.
4. This photo was taken because the writer found that the graffiti was very inspiring and it makes you to think.
5. This photo is meaningful for the writer because he felt that the graffiti was very inspiring and makes you to think.
6. The story behind this photo is telling us about the condition where the place Lori lived is near from the gay village and he felt the unthreatened atmosphere in there.
7. The characters are Lori and the gays people around him.
8. The setting is on the corner from Lori's halls of residence.
9. The series of events are moved 200 miles away from parents, realised the place he lived was a mere stone's throw from the 'gay village', and took a photo.
10. The tension is "After a short while, I came to realise that the place where I lived was a mere stone's throw from the 'gay village'.
11. The climax in the story is "The photograph was taken round the corner from my halls of residence, where someone had painted the quote onto the fence round a building site.
12. The resolution is the writer able to capture a picture that shows a statement from the gay people about their status, reflecting the real life about gays people who are not really accepted by some people.
Monday, September 16, 2013
£ 1,200 in wheelie bin is gone
A robbery which happened at Private kindergarten in Ipswich, Suffolk at 11:00-12:00 P.M. was shocking the people at nursery school. The thief was breaking the walls with tools and took a safe containing £ 1,200 in the nursery’s wheelie bin. "We were so shocked we were targeted when we are just a nursery," said the victims. However, the police said that they were doing all they could to arrest the thief.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)