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Jakarta is the first city that I knew in this world in 1971 at the month of May. The place that I played around, meet my friends, hanging around, works and the place that my heart still in there. And this is the blog about me, my friends & the sites. Cheers.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Husband, Wife and Family
In family’s life, sometimes even the smallest sparks can make a fire and in some experience can burn down the whole family. I have seen this happened in peoples surround me, my closed friends and even my own family.Yup, we are the growing old human and getting close to the earth (my friend told this part with ‘uzur’, its Arabic word). We never can get lost from mistake or making some errors. But then as a human, we always try to be a better and learn from others experiences and ourselves.
From several experiences that I’ve got, this one is the most nightmare that always has been rejected by all wife. Is living in one roof with her mother-in-law. These happened around the world, most in east part of this globe. There are some classic legend story about it or even the horror’s story about this two kind of human.
Some says their incompatibility happened because of the conflict of feeling and power. At the one side, she claim that her boy is her precious boy that must obey, be subject unto her, loyal to her, because she claim that heaven on her foot. But at the other side, wife claim that her husband is her soul mate that must be together forever traveling the life of marriage, in happy or sad, in rich or poor, in health or sick, until dead do us apart.
Pray : “O dear Jesus Christ, please help the family to stay together”
Other says their incompatibility happened (between wife and her mother-in-law) caused by financial. One side claim that her son is the asset that has been made with high risk and big capital. And this asset loan to his wife’s son, so when the became due, the investor can withdrawal the interest of her deposit. Sometimes can withdrawal anytime.
In the other hand, wife that works as financial director a.k.a CFO (Chief Financial Officer) with rank General with Unlimited Power and some people say ‘the person who behind the successful man’. When all the flows (fresh or not, legal or not, good or stink) must come thru her and ONLY with her approval. And when you must raise the service request for your seven fold financial proposal with ‘Letter Of Good Behavior’ from the Police Station, letter of less income from the local officer, even the letter from Civil Defense. So you can imagine with that kind of power, wife must be a smart one to handle all the decision and act for smoothness of cash-in or cash-out flow.
In the other story, their incompatibility happened because they’ve got different views. Either the views of religion, social, politics, defense and security, even the views of ‘soap opera’ (this can be an understanding situation since both of them is a housewife, just a different experiences).
The last one might be cause of something mysterious and mystics. These one mostly is the material of storyline on your favorites channels.
And these can be accumulated strong and fast if both party under same roof, its like putting ‘sodium nitrate’ into the water. Or like cat and dog, they cannot be together, they can only quarrel or can make a blood spilled (remember about horror movies).
Why this situation didn’t happened if husband stay one roof with his parent in law (wife’s parent) ? One thing that make the husband ‘survived’ is because almost men using the logic thinking compare with his reasonable feeling (heart). It will safe the money if we didn’t rent a house, just stay at parent’s house. Parent’s house is more cleaner and easier. ‘If’ and ‘Then’ situation (like a computer phrase), that always a pattern of husband’s logic thinking : “So my dear wife, as long as we stay together, my love will never die”
So how to handle this problematic of incompatibility between mother-in-law and wife ? There’s a way and easy to comply, make both of them realized about the situation that happened on their sides. The mother-in-law must see and realized the situation on his son’s family. Vice versa.
This cannot be separated from the most important thing, communication. Communication between husband, wife, mother-in-law and if necessary, father in law can be counted in this part. This will makes all clear and all parties understood of situation that already happened.
No doubt the magnanimity, think with the head cold and the will to make it better in the future, makes life become more lives.
Pray : “O dear Jesus Christ, guide us to imitate the Holy Family”
At the end, wife can live with her mother-in-law happily ever after. And wife will get two heavens, because she treat her mother and her mother-in-law well.
The End.
Medio January 2011, Singapore - Yishun
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Cemburu ...
barang najis & laknat itu bernama cemburu
bernyawa tapi tidak membuat orang semakin bernyawa
melainkan merusak & mematikan rasa,
menumpulkan pemikiran,
bahkan mematikan apa yg orang katakan cinta.
aku benci
jika cemburu itu membentang tipis di antara kita
yg membuat cinta kitapun pupus,
berbentur cadas yg bernama cemburu ...
Singapore - April 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
The Departures - Okuribito
Bagi seorang pemain celo di sebuah orkestra di Tokyo, kehilangan sebuah pekerjaan yg begitu mendadak mengharuskan Daigo Kobayashi utk balik ke kampung halamannya di Yamagata, tinggal di rumah almarhum ibunya bersama istrinya - Mika dan kembali mencari pekerjaan.
Ketika ada lowongan di bagian travel berjudul 'Departures', Daigo bergegas utk mendapatkan pekerjaan itu, walaupun akhirnya dia mendapati ternyata pekerjaan yg sebenarnya adalah 'Nokanshi', seorang profesional jasa utk mempersiapkan orang yg meninggal utk di makamkan atau dikremasi dalam rangka menuju ke kehidupan selanjutnya.
Nokanshi merupakan suatu pekerjaan yg mempunyai unsur seni & tradisional dalam kehidupan masyarakat Jepang, merupakan 'penghubung' antara orang yg meninggal & keluarga yg di tinggalkan. Dan Daigo berusaha utk memahami pekerjaan ini & menekuni-nya.
Dalam menekuni Nokanshi ini, terdapat pertentangan dalam diri Daigo. Antara lain hal2 teknis yg di pelajari dari Tuan Sasaki (pemilik perusahaan - Nokan) yg sudah berumur & ingin menurunkan ilmunya demi terjaganya tradisi dalam masyarakat Jepang. Dan juga hal2 non teknis, seperti pandangan sinis orang2 terdekatnya mengenai arti dari pekerjaan Nokanshi yg kadang di anggap kurang 'normal'.
Di kegalauan hati Daigo, Tuan Sasaki turut berperan dalam penentuan karir Daigo sebagai Nokanshi. Beliau yg begitu lugu memberi arahan kepada Daigo bahwasanya Nokanshi itu perlu di lestarikan dari generasi ke generasi. Pekerjaan demi pekerjaan membuat Daigo lebih menghormati tentang arti kehidupan dgn segala macam variasinya dan empati yg dalam terhadap orang yg mencoba mencari kedamaian dalam akhir hidupnya. Dan tentunya juga istri terkasihnya - Mika, yg juga menjadi pelengkap penentuan karir Daigo sebagai 'the real Nokanshi' dalam suatu penyelesaian yg begitu mengagumkan.
Di film ini, kita bisa melihat bagaimana seseorang bersikap & berpihak kepada suatu 'kehidupan' yg bertransisi ke 'kehidupan' lain dan menjadikannya suatu yg berarti utk 'kehidupan' yg lainnya.
Film ini begitu mengagumkan karena dapat membuat perasaan penonton ikut larut dalamnya. Suatu film yg patut di tonton dalam kehidupan ini.Dan film ini memang patut mendapatkan penghargaan bergengsi Oscar dalam kategori 'Film Berbahasa Asing Terbaik' tahun 2009.
Daftar Pemain :
Masahiro Motoki sebagai Daigo Kobayashi
Tsutomu Yamazaki sebagai Ikuei Sasaki
Ryoko Hirosue sebagai Mika Kobayashi
Kazuko Yoshiyuki sebagai Tsuyako Yamashita
Kimiko Yo sebagai Yuriko Kamimura
Takashi Sasano sebagai Shokichi Hirata
Website :
http://www.departures-themovie.com/
Salam,
Adisuria WN - March 2009
Sunday, July 03, 2005
A Poem From General
When I tried to remember to all journey that I ever made, I remember the poem that I always really enjoy to read that ... a poem from a humble father and great general ... looks like a conversation with God about what he want on his son.
The poem on the enterance building on PT. Timah at PangkalPinang, Bangka Island. The poem has been written on the leather with the sketch of General MacArthur. And until now, this poem always a great poem for me .... gee, I wish i can say this also to my son.
Build Me a Son
General Douglas A. MacArthur
Build me a son, O Lord,
who will be strong enough to know when he is weak,
and brave enough to face him self when he is afraid;
one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat,
and humble and gentle in victory.
Build me a son whose wishbone will not be
where his backbone should be;
a son who will know Thee- and that
to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.
Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort,
but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge.
Here, let him learn to stand up in the storm;
here, let him team compassion for those who fall.
Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goals will be high;
a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men;
one who will learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep;
one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.
And after all these things are his,
add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor,
so that he may always be serious,
yet never take himself too seriously.
Give him humility, so that he may always remember
the simplicity of true greatness,
the open mind of true wisdom,
the meekness of true strength.
Then I, his father, will dare to whisper,
"I have not lived in vain."
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Daily Routines
Since I moved to the new working place around Tuas area, my fans missed me so much ...cause there's no update on my blog. The first question comes on their head is why ???
Why ??? This is a good question, and here are the answers of that question :
1. cause i'm to excited with this job.
My first rule is always try to love job first, not on the place or the environment. Place and environment is the one who fullfilled the dream about perfect job, it's important also but not a mandatory. Cause when you already falling in love with your job, you can see with a different angle on your working place & environment
2. food always glorious food
If you heard about BoonLay MRT, you will try to avoid to that area ... since this is the last MRT station on the east-west MRT line. It's very far away from my home, tooks 1 hour plus to get there by MRT. But for me, this is a great MRT station in the morning ... you can see huge peoples wake-up in the morning and gathering every morning in this MRT station ... talk and eat ... he he he he he he ... yes, eat.
The word 'eat' will ring a bell in your head, isn't it ? It's all about food will be compensate with this 'eat' word. And near this MRT station will give you all morning food ... check this out : mee goreng (fried noodle), beehoon goreng (fried rice noodle), chicken wing, soya bean milk, grass jelly, fish cake, bread, yui tiao (chinese fried dough), green bean soup, juices, nasi lemak (coconut milk rice), nasi goreng (fried rice), cookies, snacks, etc.
So it's really enjoyable on this MRT at morning, with some food & drinks ... can enjoy them while listening some musics or listening the sound of MRT coming/going or talking with someone that you just know at that time or reading a news paper. Looks like this is another way to enjoy this small world 8-).
3. meet 'the band of brothers' in BoonLay MRT
The BoonLay MRT also give me some friends, there are the workers also like me who hanging around on BoonLay MRT in the morning before going to our dailies activities. And it's surprising me when they called me 'brother' ... looks like this is a polite way they wanna show to me, since i'm always stand in they area while enjoy my breakfast ... Most of them is Malay's people and it;s nice to know them ... since my childhood also with them also.
We talking anything ... from the hot topics on the murder case, handphone lost, the president, the bag, the shoes until diabetic ... it's sad to know that i'm not the only one who suffer for this diases ... one of them even using insulin injection everyday, looks like he's diabetic type I since already use the insulin everyday ... but from them, I've got a courage to maintain the sugar level on my body ... one way to do that is asking no sugar for my soya bean milk ... he he he he he he he he ... so clever 8-).
So here I am at 7 o'clock in the morning until 7:30 ... gathering with my brothers ... and from then, i called this group is 'the band of brothers' .... cool huh ??? .... 8-).
Cheers,
Adisuria Wangsadinata - medio May 2005

