Neighborhood

From the second floor of my house. My neighborhood in one sunny day. This is the place where I have been playing, crying, and learning.

Tick Tock Time

One of my hobbies is looking back to the past. Time is..making me nervous. I mean, I feel like I am in the competition with something that faster than me, something stronger, and has the power upon me. That's why I am so against time and ,as you know, it is a pointles principe. I don't even have calendar and clock on my room's wall. As the impact, I rarely on time. Haha, I am working on that one though.

Look now, my parents are in the beginning of their 60, my exchange year has passed almost half year ago, and my school's year is almost over.

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Yesterday I laid on my back and did this rutine to look back on the past. I abruptly remember there was this my best friend in elementary school named Nyanyak. We were so close like a tree and a land. She was energetic and bright and smart. We fought couple of times like normal friends but we did love each other. Her house was right in front of my house, we were neighbor and went to the same school.

But after we finished our education in elementary school, her parents asked her to go to a private course in Medan to learn Qur'an. Her parents wanted her to be Hafizah, the one who could memorize all the chapters on Qur'an. 

So she went there when she was 11 year old and did not continue her education. She didn't go to Middle School and Senior High. 

Years have gone and we haven't met each other since two years ago. I am missing her so much. Last time I saw, she had committed to not just covering her hair but also her face. On that small chance, we talked about future and stuffs. I told her that I wanted to travelling around and grabbing some scholarship to Europe, finding the husband that I love, then doing something for my community. She looked at me right on my eyes and said,"..may be I'll get married as soon as a man come to my father and ask me to marry him."

"What man?"

She calmly said, "any kind of man."

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I am eating a pack of marshmallow right now. It's chewwy and giving me toothache. But, what if I blow up tons of marshmallow and it'll stick on the Time's needle, like a gum that stick under my shoes, so Time doesnt have to run anymore? And Nyanyak doesn't have to marry someone that she doesnt even know?

Weekend Wonderer

What I hate about weekend is wake up late. Yess, I hate to wake up in the middle of the day like around 10 or 11 in the weekend. Because.... I ussually have so many plans to do and weekend is just as short as 24 hours! It's definitely freaking me out! I don't even know why I keep doing that though I know I hate it, cuddle under the blanket until the sun's high.

Now it's already 12 at noon. I am yawning thousand of times. My mood is scramble because I had plan to run in the morning then get out for breakfast but it is apparently ruin at the moment. 

Good day, folks! I am going to sleep again.

Ubud Satelite Event in Aceh

I got a little busy this week. As ussual, there were school's stuffs, home chores, and a small project with its BIG tail. No kidding, the tail of this week project was quite big. Yesterday was Ubud Satelite Event in Aceh. I was a volunteer there and helped some these-and-those thingies. O ja, it was a little violent but I had fun. 

The guest of Ubud Satelite Event in Aceh this year was the author named Antony Loewenstein from Australia. What so interesting was Antony is culturally a Jew. And to make it crazier, he is an atheist jew. OK, may be you'll be wondering, what's the big deal if he's a jew? Well, it's a big deal because he is against Israel's attitude towards Palestine and he is also anti zionist.

I was so excited when he came because on this Syaria Islam's Land named Aceh, there are some stereotypes around about jewish that are freakingly absurd. For example, many Moslems here believe that all of the Jewish people had been cursed by God so they won't have any home in the Earth. Or they haven't really met any jew before so they don't even have the picture of a jew in their head, they thought all jews are Israel and have occupied Palestine for years.

Thus, It was so interesting when those people -who had lived with stereotypes about jew all of their lifes- came and had discussion with him about judaism, jewish, and his dreams of peace in middle east.

I mean, I will be trully happy if there are couple of my friends here who are not hating a jew just because the religion. I want them to respect the people outside their comfy zone, regardless the race, beliefs, or geographic matters. You know, there should be a serious problem for a human to hate another human. I don't get it if you hate a human just because he/she is a jew.

Note : I think my English ability  is decreasing. Noo!