The maid

After being confused for many months, I prayed to God to help me solve this problem, and God sent me someone who actually I still don't know...but she is a colleague at my office.
I got a lot of information from her which is really useful for me.
The problem is how to deal with house working in Jakarta without a maid.

But then me and my husband decided to live in Jakarta without a maid!
Yes....we don't wanna depend on any maid.
The solution is that Jerome will stay in a daycare in Jakarta. I will do house working as usual, just like what I have done here. I will cook, do laundry, clean up and so on and so forth.
Maybe it will be difficult in the beginning. But I believe I can make it. People is easy to be adapted to a new situation. And I believe that I am a kind of that person.
I feel so excited every time I think about it.
I just feel comfortable because we live here just the three of us. No other people. It's so convenient for us.
Therefore, I couldn't imagine if there is someone else in our place that we don't know exactly.
So I will try my best to live without a maid. I hope it will work. At least until Jerome is going on 5.

Upcoming graduation!

I can't believe that I will graduate next month!

Yes, time flies so fast.....Next month, on December 19, 2009, I will wear my cap and gown, get my certificate and gather with family and friends....oh God....I'm so excited!!!
After those tears and bloody things, after the hard work, after those sleepless nights....I made it!!!!
Thanks God for everything....I do thank you for all your graces and glory!

Now, I should start preparing all things before heading back to Indonesia....
There are so many things to do...
And then, prepare my self for the reverse culture shock! haha......

Friends

I have so many friends on my facebook. I get along well with most of them. Some are just so so. They are my childhood friends, my high school friends, my colleague friends, and so on and so forth. Some are my relatives or sibling.
I just realized that the more friends I have on facebook, the more complicated it is.
Well, it's because now I should take care more about my facebook, I should figure out any single thing. I mean, I couldn't write anything on my mind now. Since everybody can read it and think differently with me. It will be a problem.

I have an old buddy. I knew her since almost 20 years ago. It's not a short time, isn't it?
I didn't know why somebody really wanna separate us. Somebody told her about bad things and it came from me. How come? I just wonder what kind of advantage that the damn guy will get from that situation, by telling bed things to my friend? She became so upset and she suddenly decided to remove me from her mind.
I beg her to think about our good memories during our childhood to calm her down. It worked just for a while, but then she still reminded those bad news and cheap gossip. She wrote something about that on her facebook.
Ok then. It's time to quit now. I made up my mind to remove her from my friends list. It's enough. I still have my own dignity. Goodbye my friend....
I'm tired of you. Sayonara!

The itchiness

Well, after trying many soaps and lotions, the itchiness is still there :(
I even tried to apply baby oil to my body after taking shower. Still didn't work. Oh gosh....
I called my friend, and she suggested me to reveal the itchiness first. Then I took a skin medicine that I bought from Walgreen. Well, it helped though but still the itchiness stays on my body..oh God....

Itchy skin

During this fall, I felt my skin was sooooo itchy! Even I couldn't stop my self from scratching it. It's not good though. It will worsen my skin. Then I asked my friends on my facebook the solution. Then I got it. So easy.
Why I couldn't think about it before. I just had to change the soap.

Actually, I've been thinking about it but I was not sure and thought that I should finish the soap that currently I used. Then I changed my mind. So last night, we went to Walmart and I bought a moisturizer soap. It's so soft and tender. I also bought a bath therapy. It smells lavender. After arriving at home, I took a bath and I tried the bath therapy. Oh my....it's soooo nice! It didn't heal my pain directly but it made me feel so fresh! I like it!

After using the moisturizer soap, I also feel that my skin improves! Still feel the itchiness but not as much as before!
Hope it will be better....

Annoyed

These days, there are so many problems in my big family. Someone came into our life. At first, she was welcome. Later, everybody but me hates her. I don't understand why. And the more confusing is, when everybody seems hating her, they also force me to hate her. It's ridiculous. I don't know why I should hate her for no reason?
The most annoying thing is when one of my relative asked me to prevent her. I said I don't need to do that since I don't have any problem with her. Then she told my family about that with different version which totally unfair. It made my family angry and I also got angry. It's like burning a barrel of oil. I hate that.

Those problems make me couldn't concentrate in class. I couldn't catch what my professor said in class. It's definitely annoying. Damn it. What the hell. Hope this problems solved soon. May God be with me.

Fall Pictures!

Today, as I mentioned last night, I really wanna have pictures with those colorful leaves, and there you go! I got it!!!
I'm sooooo happy!!!!!

Finally, my husband didn't mind to take my pictures....

We were looking at the marching band which was practicing in front of the Assembly Hall. Then we discovered that the trees are already yellowing....it's so wonderful! I couldn't hold my self from taking pictures and then I got it!!! YAY!!!!

I discovered that my camera is pretty old and the colors are not bright anymore, so I'm considering to buy a new one..
That's why I asked my husband to take my pictures because his camera is much much better than mine...

my prayer

Dear Lord,

I really wanna have pictures in a place around Orchard Down during this Fall because my friends took pictures there last year. I couldn't make it last year because it was too cold and I was lazy. But now I do regret it. That's why I really wanna go there and take as many pictures as possible before it's too late....

My friend said that the red leaves will just hang in there for several days...oh nooo....
I should do that before the leaves fall to the ground and nothing is left on the branches...

Please Lord, listen to my prayer....

I have begged my husband to take pictures there but he refused me because he also doesn't like the cold weather. But he said that this Sunday, the weather will be nice and warm. So he promised me to take pictures on this Sunday...
I hope the red leaves will be still on the branches and it will be a very nice day to take pictures....

Thank you Lord

Slumdog Millionaire

I just watched it this afternoon. Well yeah...where have I been? It's an old movie....hahaha....

It's because I just got a DVD player from Eka who was already heading back to Indonesia. She gave it to me for free. Yay!!!

OK. Slumdog millionaire is truly a very good movie. I watched it at my apartment while my son Jerome was at school and my husband went to Champaign Library. I borrowed the DVD from that library for free last week but I just had time to watch it this afternoon.
If you want to know what that movie tells about, just google it and you will find a lot of notes about it.

I am so impressed by that movie. To see how slums society in India is just like what is going on in Indonesia, my original country. It's so sad but true. So many poverty that the government couldn't come up with it. It's too complicated, man...

I'm impressed by Jamal, the actor, who is really calm and confident. He is also really smart. Even though most of his answers were based on his true story or just a coincidence, but I believe he is such a smart guy. He can remember many things, even the things from his childhood.

I'm also impressed by Latifa, his girl friend from his childhood who became a gangster's wife. The gangster is so arrogant and has a bad temper. Oh my....it's just like me! I'm also bad tempered some times. It just remind me to be nice to my husband and my son no matter how stressful my life is. I do thank my husband for being so nice to me. He is never upset or saying something bad to me. He never does something nasty or anything that women hate. I should thank God for giving me such a wonderful husband like him.....

Jerome's progress...

Yesterday, my husband told me that Jerome's teacher at preschool said that Jerome was not cooperative.
So, I decided to pick him up from school today. We usually pick him up at 5 pm but I think we should do it earlier because I need to talk to one of his teacher.
I met Ms. Lee and asked her what was going on yesterday.

Ms. Lee said that Jerome was not cooperative. After clean up time, they have story telling time but Jerome refused to clean up the toys and even he threw the toys to the floor, laid his body on the floor which is not allowed by the teachers since they are afraid that other students will imitate his attitude. Jerome was asked to sit in a chair. He was crying but just for a while. Then everything was back to normal. But Ms. Debby was upset and looked unhappy. She told my husband that next time, if Jerome does it again, we (either me or my husband) should accompany Jerome at school to calm him.

Oh my....it was not the first time. Last month, Jerome did it for the first time. He was so angry and moody. We didn't know why. The teacher said that if he is not ready to go to school, we shouldn't force him. If it makes him come late to school, it's ok. We should make sure that he is ready for school. Otherwise, he will just make a trouble at school.
At the time, Ms. Bryan called me and asked me to pick Jerome up.
But yesterday, they didn't call me. Today, I was afraid that they would call me and asked me to pick Jerome up. I looked at my cellphone many times and listened to it carefully.
Thanks God, it didn't happen.

I hope it won't happen again in the future. Come on, Jerome....school is so much fun! You will miss it a lot after heading back to Indonesia.....