After reposting my writings called 'rusunami challenge', now after two years (yes, it has been two years living in Kalibata City), I feel like to write another rusunami challenge.
Well, there are still people asking to Hery whether he feels comfortable or not living in a small square. Hearing that, I just said, that person was supposed to ask me instead of him. Hery's home is in his office =D
I must say that living alone is like understanding a masterpiece. You need more time to adjust your point of view. And that is what I do everyday.
The Interior Design
Being used for two years, sometimes I hope I could change few things on my interior design, such as the kitchen wall. Because I chose small kubiks-- because the magz said it could avoid flies, but there are no flies on the 10th floor-- it made me difficult to put things on it without making a hole. You know, this handy manny things are not Hery's things. And do I want to do it? No =)
We are still not using chairs =) in this small unit less is more. Especially when you have kids. Every month I struggle to throw things (my things) away just to add a little bit space for kids' toys.
Oh, another one, I wish I chose using an exhaust between my bedroom n kids bedroom. Maybe the kids will want to sleep in their own room and I can have my own bed. Well, Malika want to move to the kids room only if there is another air conditioning in her room. Yeah, maybe that exhaust could be her AC. I don't know. Haven't done it, yet.
The Social
After Malika entered playgroup in Kalibata City, I finally make friends. Yeah, poor me. Before that, I don't really have friends in the neighbourhood. I don't really like spending too much time in the play area. I don't really like to hang out with some nannies. And that things made me have no new phonebook entries for over a year. Lame =).
After having new friends, I also have new customers for my www.koekieku.com. After a while being active in Kalibata City mailing list, I finally serve kalciters. Yeay. Gotta get more neighbours next year.
The Environment
Well, I wish we could use the pool facility but unfortunately it goes only for the Green Palace residents. Couldn't go there without bringing Hery, though. There is another swimming pool nearby Kalibata City, so I must not suppose too disappointed anyway.
After series of criminal things, I try to increase my self alert system. Guess, whenever we are, we should have this, especially when your husband come home late.
Now on, I never let the balcony door open even for a quick leave. I become very sensitive for a fighting noise in someone else's unit. I even saved the security number on my phone just incase I passed a unit and heard someone was in a fight.
Just for your info, reporting a fight eventhough a domestic fight, is our obligation as neighbours. people tends to do criminals during this fight. If you scare, call security. You might save lives.
So in this so called private living, we should urge ourselves to make friends among neighbours. This is serious.
Overseas Wannabe
Living in Kalibata City is like living somewhere else in Australia. Well, because we don't have snow. Sexy girls with bitchy attitudes, gays, illegal immigrants, drugs, drunken people, name it, we have it. Thank God, there are no nightclub here, well, not yet.
In this situation, I just said to myself, this is what really happen outside my home in Tebet. My kids need to be ready for any unimportant kind of temptation. I need them to built their own boundaries for this kind of thing. Or like Gobind Vashdev said, to live like a lotus. It lives on the water but the flower is still dry. And facing this, I keep trying to form the best way to show and to explain it to my kids.
For example, the religious theme that will spread all over Kalibata City such as christmas. Malika keeps asking why there are so many trees in the lobby, in the mal, in every entrance, on tv ... Because I don't have any imaginative answer, I just said to her, 'well because it's christmas.'
And then she asked, 'why we don't have one?'
'because we are moslems not christian.' I don't know whether she understood or not. At least she stopped asking.
well, I'm using the same line my mother used when we were still in holland. Though I Haven't being able to stay overseas,unlike my bro n sis, this things makes me feel on training for that =D.
So, am I happy? I'm happy. I'm happy I still could go to the bookstore as my library everytime I want. I'm happy could push my twins stroller to anywhere in Kalibata City just for sight seeing without dealing with some crazy bikers. I'm happy my kids could still see moon and the admiring the sky. And I'm happy everytime I heard Malika told people how she likes a small house like hers. Home sweet home.
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