Where is Palestine, Google? #PalestineIsHere

I searched for Palestine on Google Map, and voila there it is! NOT! Where is Palestine?? It doesn’t matter, Palestine is still there. But it hurts. What do you feel if Google decides to “erase” your country from its map? It hurts right?

Areas that claimed by Israel are actually Palestine’s. What do you feel if: there’s someone who begs for a place to live in your house. You welcomed this person to live in your house with your family. Then, this person has family, but still live in your house. Later on, this person and his families forced you and your families to live in the basement. It’s getting worse, they try and try and try to kick you from YOUR house. Whose house? YOU. But this person CLAIMED it as his house. Imagine that in a bigger scale, land or country. That’s exactly what Israelis has been doing to Paletinians for years.

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Your house was destroyed. You can’t get a proper job because Israel forbid you. You and the most people in your country are poor. You can’t freely going anywhere without being watch or “examined” (read: tortured) by Israel’s authorities. Israel and their allies often attack or bomb your land for whatever reason they feel “right”. You live like in a huge prison. They keep expanding and claiming your house, your land, your country. How do you feel then? That’s what Palestinian faced with every single day.

That isn’t war. That’s genocide. Just like Hitler killed A LOT of jews. Israelis killed A LOT of Muslims in Palestine. You won’t find these facts in media that owned by Israel or allies. They always reports Israelis have been attacked by Palestinians. Really? How many? Usually not more than your fingers. It’s because Israelis attacked first, Palestinians only try to defend theirself. But Israel using it as a reason to attack or bomb Palestine, which caused hundreds even thousands of Palestinians injured or die. MANY children are orphaned, MANY parents lost their childs. You called it war? NO! It’s GENOCIDE. What happens in Suriah is not that different.

Btw you won’t find these facts in mainstream medias. These media always turned the facts about Palestine upside down. The oppressor (Israel) looks like victim, while the REAL victim (Palestine) looks like the oppresor. That’s media these days.

Alhamdulillah there are a lot of organizations here in Indonesia that regularly sending helps to Palestine, such as MER-C, ACT, KNRP, Dompet Dhuafa, BSMI, etc. These organization sent foods, clothes, medicines, etc. They even built hospital and provides its doctors, nurses, etc. Hopefully through them, we Muslims in Indonesia can help our Muslims brothers and sisters in Palestine.

My prays always with them. Hopefully ALLAH always give them strength and always believe in ALLAH. May they all go to Jannah later in akhirah. May we all Muslims meet again in Jannah. Amiinn.

Pokemon GO!!!

Setelah lama menanti, akhirnya Pokemon GO resmi dirilis di Google Playstore dan Appstore di Indonesia. Pokemon GO adalah aplikasi game menangkap pokemon secara “real” dengan menggunakan teknologi AR (augmented reality). Trainer adalah istilah untuk para pelatih pokemon. Pokemon GO menawarkan sensasi menjadi trainer “sebenarnya”. Tidak seperti game-game pokemon sebelumnya, kita harus aktif berjalan bahkan sampai keluar rumah untuk mendapatkan pokemon. Pokemon akan muncul tiba-tiba saat kita berjalan. Uniknya lagi, saat hendak menangkap pokemon, backgroundnya otomatis sama dengan lingkungan tempat kita berada.

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Alhamdulillah handphone saya biarpun butut masih memenuhi standar minimal instal Pokemon GO. Jadi tanpa basa basi, langsung saya instal aplikasi tsb di hp saya. Tidak terlalu besar ukuran filenya, sekitar 60 MB. Saat pertama kali main, kita diminta mendaftar di pokemon club atau masuk dengan akun google. Saya memilih mendaftar di pokemon club. Mudah dan hanya sebentar. Dan akhirnya, saya bisa memainkan game Pokemon GO.

Dalam kurang dari 10 jam, alhamdulillah saya mendapatkan 8 pokemon. Saya hanya berjalan di sekeliling rumah. Mungkin memang rejeki saya, atau memang dari sistemnya sengaja mempermudah pemain baru mendapatkan pokemon. Either way I’m happy. Saya pakai cheat? Tidak. Kalau baca-baca tips bermain Pokemon GO, sebenarnya saya bisa mendapatkan pikachu dari awal dengan berjalan sekitar 25 meter dari lokasi 3 pokemon starter (squirtle, bulbasaur dan charmander), tapi saya memutuskan untuk menunggu saja sampai level saya cukup tinggi. Justru yang bikin greget mencari pikachu bukan?

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Saya sudah cukup lama mengenal dunia pokemon, sepertinya sekitar 15 tahun (iya, saya tua). Selain main game pokemon, dulu saya dan adik-adik saya sampai mengoleksi board game dan vcd filmnya. Fans berat deh, hehe. It doesn’t make me an expert though.

Seperti game-game pokemon sebelumnya, tujuan pemain adalah menjadi Pokemon Master. Caranya yaitu dengan menangkap semua pokemon dan mengalahkan semua Gym. Kalau di game-game pokemon yang terdahulu (ada banyak, ga inget satu-satu), saya kayaknya lancar2 aja nangkepin 90% pokemon, ngalahin gym dan jadi champion di pokemon league (atau apa ya namanya, saya agak lupa). Kalo sekarang di Pokemon GO? We’re dealing with the real person, not NPC. Yaiyalah lebih susah. Belom lagi mesti jalan jauh buat nangkepin pokemonnya. Justru disitu tantangannya, hoho.

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Pada gambar di atas ada kubus berwarna biru seperti melayang, itu adalah Pokestop. Tempat kita bisa mendapatkan pokeball, potion dan item lainnya secara gratis. Biasanya pokestop berupa patung, arca, atau tempat ibadah. Nah, kalau menara tinggi yang berwarna merah, kuning atau biru adalah Poke Gym. Warna Poke Gym melambangkan tim mana yg menguasai Poke Gym tersebut. Merah berarti tim Valor, kuning berarti Instinct dan biru berarti Mystiq. Warna Poke Gym bisa cepat berubah. Misalnya nih, di dekat rumah saya ada Poke Gym yang sedang diperebutkan tim Instinct dan Mystiq, sehingga warna Poke Gym tsb ganti tiap beberapa jam.

Beberapa hal yg sebaiknya diperhatikan saat bermain Pokemon GO:

  1. ALWAYS watch where you’re going. Selalu waspada, jangan meleng pas lagi jalan. Mending kalo cuma nabrak orang (sama-sama jalan kaki) ato kecebur got. Lah kalo ketabrak mobil ato nyemplung di kali trus ga bisa berenang piye? Naudzubillah min dzalik.
  2. Game ini kayak dementor. Instead of your life, it sucks your phone’s life (read: battery). Aseli cepet banget abis batre kalo main Pokemon GO.
  3. Catch your dream instead of “catch them all”. Ini cuma game, ga nangkep semua pokemon pun kita ga bakalan mati. Jangan karena maen game, lupa kerjaan, lupa tugas, lupa tanggung jawab di dunia nyata. Be a responsible gamer.

Have fun playing Pokemon GO!

Penantian Mengurus SIM

Sudah rahasia umum kalau membuat SIM yang mudah dengan jasa bantuan. Saya juga termasuk yg menggunakan jasa tsb. Bukan berarti saya tidak bisa menyetir. Saya sudah ikut les menyetir selama kurang lebih 1 bulan dan sudah dinyatakan lulus.

Sebenarnya saya sudah bisa menyetir sebelumnya dan sudah memiliki SIM, namun SIM saya sudah kadaluarsa sejak 2 tahun yg lalu. Tenang dulu, saya memang sudah tidak menyetir sejak 3 tahun yg lalu. Jadi saya baru sadar sekarang kalau SIM saya sudah kadaluarsa. Karena skill menyetir saya sudah karatan, dan anak saya sudah mulai sekolah, akhirnya saya les menyetir lagi (dan lulus, alhamdulillah).

Balik lagi ke mengurus SIM. Saya sudah sampai di tempat janjian sekitar jam 7.15, dan saya ga sendiri. Ada sekitar 20 orang yg juga sudah janjian. Saya mengisi formulir, diberi pengarahan, kemudian kami ber-20 berjalan bersama masuk ke satpas daan mogot. Jalannya lumayan jauh, sambil ngobrol, ternyata sebagian besar yg mau mengurus SIM umurnya belum 20, bahkan ada yg 17, sementara saya hampir 30. Ada juga loh yg memanggil saya “Bu”, oh noo, saya masih “Mbak/Kakak” koq.

Anyway, sampai di pintu masuk yg di dalam, ternyata eh ternyata, masih ditutup. Sudah banyak orang yg menunggu di sekitar pintu masuk. Ada pak polisi penjaga pintu mengatakan bahwa pintu baru dibuka jam 8. Saat kami datang baru jam 7.30. Oh well, alhamdulillah saya sudah sarapan, bawa cemilan dan minum. Lumayan biar ga pingsan.

Sekitar jam 7.45, orang-orang sudah mulai baris di depan pintu. Saya ga liat jam lagi pas pintunya dibuka. Alhamdulillah lumayan tertib sih antrinya, jauh lah sama waktu antri AADC1 dulu (iya, saya uda tua). Langsung antri di loket 2 (SIM A), menyerahkan formulir yg sudah diisi, nanti dapat nomor pendaftaran. Kemudian naik ke lantai 2 untuk ujian teori.

Untuk ujian teori, jangan lupa bawa pulpen dan pensil. Pulpen untuk mengisi identitas, pensil untuk mengisi lembar jawaban. Kalau ga bawa pensil, di pintu gerbang satpas banyak yg jualan pensil. Saya ga bawa pensil, jadi beli dgn harga 3000 rupiah. Saya tau darimana perlu pensil? Karena penjualnya teriak “Pensilnya mbak untuk ujian tulis di dalem” Kalau ga bawa pulpen? Ter.la.lu.

Fyi, ujian teori ini ada 30 pertanyaan pilihan ganda. Ada 10 set soal, tapi tenang aja, yg dikerjain cuma 1 set koq. Uda ada kodenya menurut jenis sim. Misal tadi saya dapet set soal A 9; saya ambil tes sim A dan kebetulan dapat set nomer 9. Dinyatakan lulus kalau benar 21 dari total 30 pertanyaan tsb. Saya mulai ujian pukul 08.15, selesai 08.45.

Selesai ujian tulis, peserta ujian dipersilahkan menunggu di loket 5 atau 7. Saya menunggu hasilnya di loket 7. Sampai disana, saya disuruh ke tengah lapangan praktek. Ada tenda yg berisi banyak kursi. Nah disitu saya menunggu cukup lama dan semakin siang semakin banyak orang yg juga menunggu di tenda tsb. Alhamdulillah saya dateng pagi, jadi masih kebagian duduk di dalem tenda, jadi ga kepanasan.

Sekitar jam 10, ada petugas satpas yg datang bawa toa. Dia memberikan pengumuman dan tips berkendara yg baik. Setelah selesai, ada petugas satpas lain yg datang dan mulai memanggil nama2 peserta. Kalau lulus ujian teori, nanti ketika dipanggil akan dapat lembar untuk ujian praktek. Saat nama saya dipanggil, alhamdulillah dapat lembar ujian praktek. Ada poin2nya: maju mundur 50m, maju mundur zig zag, naik turun tanjakan, parkir seri dan parkir paralel. Lembar ujian prakteknya saya isi identitas diri saja, evaluasinya yg mengisi petugasnya (ya iyalah). Kemudian lembar tsb dikembalikan ke petugasnya. Saya menunggu lagi dipanggil untuk ujian praktek.

Alhamdulillah ga terlalu lama menunggu, nama saya dipanggil utk ujian praktek. Selesai ujian praktek, saya mengembalikan lembar penilaian ke loket 11, dan disuruh menunggu di loket 12a. Loket 12a ini ruangan tertutup, ada AC dan ada yg jual minuman dingin. Lumayan banget krn cuaca lagi terik bgt.

Setelah menunggu, saya dipanggil utk foto di loket 16. Loket foto ada loket 13, 14, 15 dan 16. Loket 16 ini loket foto khusus perempuan loh. Alhamdulillah ya jadi nyaman mau benerin jilbab atau touch up make up yg uda kucel lusuh. Baru selesai benerin jilbab, mau touch up, eh uda keburu dipanggil. Masih kucel dah, yaudalah. Selesai foto, saya menunggu SIM di loket 30. Dan akhirnya saya mendapat SIM jam 11. Alhamdulillah.

Beberapa tips untuk yg mau mengurus SIM:

  1. Dateng pagi sebelum jam 8. Jangan kepagian juga, subuh uda dateng, ayam jg baru bangun. Jam 8 kurang uda antri di depan pintu masuk, jd pas dibuka jam 8, ga antri lama lgsg masuk, antri di loket jadi ga terlalu lama.
  2. Sarapan yg cukup, bawa minum dan cemilan. Saya aja total prosesnya 3 jam lebih, bisa pingsan kalo kurang makan minum.
  3. Jangan malu bertanya kalo gataw ato merasa tersesat. Di satpas daan mogot ada beberapa bapak-bapak pakai baju putih celana hitam dan memakai SELENDANG ala miss universe yg bertuliskan PEMANDU. Mereka biasanya berdiri di hot spot alias tempat yg gampang keliatan pas lagi bingung. Saya bolak balik nanya ke bapak-bapak tsb, dan semuanya ramah koq.
  4. Fokus dan perhatikan banget petugas satpas yg lagi menyampaikan pengumuman. Jangan berisik ato ngobrol sendiri, krn yg rugi diri sendiri dan orang lain. Misal lagi dijelasin cara mengisi lembar ujian teori (isi identitas loh bukan jawabannya), perhatikan, terutama kode soal, jangan sampai salah isi, bisa2 ga lulus ujian. Contoh lain, pas petugas lagi memanggil nama2 peserta ujian praktek, perhatikan, jangan krn kita berisik, nama kita kelewat ato orang di sebelah kita jadi ga mendengar namanya dipanggil, lama lagi nunggunya.
  5. Terakhir dan paling penting; banyak berdoa. Mudah2an prosesnya lancar dan ga harus mengulang 🙂

Menulis dengan Bahasa Indonesia, yuuuk

Assalamu’alaikum.

Awal saya membuat blog ini, saya bertekad menulis dengan bahasa Inggris untuk mengasah kemampuan bahasa Inggris saya yang semakin hari semakin tumpul. Namun, setelah ngobrol dengan teman saya yang blogger senior, Isti, akhirnya saya memutuskan untuk posting dengan bahasa Indonesia juga. Kenapa?

  1. Saya orang Indonesia *mendadak nasionalis
  2. Saya merasa harus mengasah juga kemampuan saya menulis dalam bahasa Indonesia.
  3. Saya salah satu kontributor di www.doctormums.com, yang isinya artikel kesehatan terpercaya dalam bahasa Indonesia. Untuk membuat 1 artikel disana dibutuhkan waktu yang ga sebentar, dan mumet bikinnya. Saya ingin menulis dalam bahasa Indonesia yang ga mumet, yaitu di blog saya ini. Oia, bukan berarti artikel di doctormums mumet dibaca ya. Artikel kesehatan disana dibuat semenarik dan sesederhana mungkin, sehingga mudah dibaca oleh siapapun. Jadi yang mumet penulisnya aja *nasib
  4. Saya senang menulis *alasan macam apa ini, klise banget ya, hehe.
  5. Supaya saya bisa lebih sering update blog.

Kurang lebih itulah alasan saya untuk menulis postingan blog dalam bahasa Indonesia. Bukan berarti saya tidak akan menulis lagi dalam bahasa Inggris, tapi mungkin saya akan lebih sering menulis postingan blog dalam bahasa Indonesia, hehe.

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Maybe I rarely say I love you, but I really am love you, so much.

Maybe I keep complaining a lot, but that is just my way to communicate with you.

Maybe I’m not a perfect wife for you, but you’re the perfect husband for me.

I am fire that burns easily, you are water that always keep me calm.

Whenever I’m angry, you often cracks me up with your silliness.

It is always comforting to know that I can always rely on you.

You may not give me flowers, and often forgets some important dates, but you shower me with your love.

Alhamdulillah, my soulmate is you. I pray that we can also be soulmate in Jannah.

Happy 4th Wedding Anniversary Ayah/Hikun/Pupun/Agung

Love always,

Bunda/Sayu/Lelu/Diana

Weaning with LOVE

I always wonder the meaning of “love” in a phrase “weaning with love”. It said that you weaned your child gradually and with affection.

First time I tried to wean my son when he was 2 years old. I follow everything about weaning with love. But it failed. I saw that the process of weaning made my son heartbroken. He cried so much. It also affected his character. He used to be all cheery and happy, but he became cranky and irritable. He changed so much. It went on for more than 2 weeks. Maybe he’s not ready. So I breastfeed him again. For 1 year later I keep trying to weaned my son, but it always failed. Either it made his character changed, or his speech development regressed.

When my son was 3 years old, I try to weaned him again. This time, I really emphasize that I do this not because I don’t love him. He seemed to understand better than he was 2 years old. Every single day me and my husband keep telling my son that we love him sooo much, followed by numerous kisses and hugs. In just 3 months, my son made it. He’s finally weaned.

It finally hit me that weaning is really all about LOVE. When we breastfeeding our child, we keep them really close to us, so they can feel our warmth and comfort. Our child must have felt really loved. When they are weaned, maybe they feel like our love was taken, that we don’t love them anymore. Constant reminder that we love them so much will make the weaning process more bearable for our children. Because of course we will always love them, and they need to know that they will always be loved.

Kill Me, Heal Me

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It is a title of Korean drama.

I am mesmerized by this drama. Amazing story, wonderful characters, perfect chemistry, beautiful scene and terrific song. Am I exaggerating? Maybe a bit. But I can guarantee that you won’t regret watching this drama. Btw this post is full of spoilers, so don’t read this if you haven’t watched the series.

The Plot

This drama is about Cha Do Hyun, a chaebol who struggles beause he has multiple personality disorder. He has not only two or three, but SEVEN personalities! Our heroine is Oh Ri Jin. She is a first year psychiatric resident, who happens to be former Cha Do Hyun’s psychiatrist’s student. She has a twin brother, his name is Oh Ri On. He is actually a best-seller novelist, but he keeps it a secret.

The Characters
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Cha Do Hyun. He is the real person. He is kind, soft, caring, responsible, basically a boy scout. At the beginning, he is portrayed as someone who is “weak” and inferior. Everytime he feels overwhelmed (by fear, anger, guilt, pain, etc) another personalities will come out. His conditions is caused by painful memories in his childhood. In his memories, he was abused by his father in the basement. But as Do Hyun opens up to Ri Jin, he begins to bravely face those unpleasant feelings and memories.

Slowly, Do Hyun begins to acts fierce but still very firm. He also starting to show his anger a little, instead of always holding it in. When he finally fell for Ri Jin, he doesn’t waver whenever Cha Yeon (his ex) try to win him back. He holds onto Ri Jin. Way to go Do Hyun!

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Oh Ri Jin. She is a very sympathic doctor. She always made friends with her patients. She is cheerful and very optimist. She also has great martial arts skill thanks to her twin brother.

A series of coincidense made her Cha Do Hyun’s secret psychiatrist. Why secret? Because Do Hyun is a VVIP in Seungjin group, he will inherit the group someday. Someone like Do Hyun can’t have a mental disease, because it will destroy his chance of being inheritor. Since Do Hyun find out that he has multiple personality disorder, he keep himself shut. He doesn’t have friends nor lover. But Ri Jin change that.

With her natural charms, Ri Jin quickly made friends with Do Hyun, and eventually falling in love. At first, it was one sided-love. But as they became closer, Do Hyun begin to feel the same way. Ri Jin is the first person who can be friends with all of Do Hyun’s personalities. No matter what happens to her (ie Perry’s bomb incident, accident in construction site to help Yo Sub, etc), she always stays beside Do Hyun.

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Oh Ri On. He is a best seller mystery novelist. His (nama pena) is Omega. Just like her sister, he is cheerful and optimist, but a bit narcististic. He also likes to flirt. Whenever he goes out with girls, he said that his name is Oh Hwi. Lol. As a child, he often fought with Ri Jin, and along the way Ri Jin learned martial arts. It’s cute that they like to call each other “Brother” and “Sister”.

The 7 Personalities of Cha Do Hyun

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Perry Park. He is 40ish flamboyant ahjussi who likes to wear flowery shirt. He loves alcohol, dancing, and he would love to have a boat with his name on it someday. His hobby is making bombs. Yes, bombs, even though sometimes malfunctioned. His first encounter with Ri Jin is at a warehouse, carrying bombs to save Ri Jin from gangster. How did Ri Jin being kidnapped? It’s Se Gi’s fault. Even though Perry doesn’t know Ri Jin before, he is willing to save her. Perry appears from Do Hyun’s best memories about his father. His father promised to 6 yo Do Hyun that someday he will buy a ship for Do Hyun. They will named their ship “Perry Park”. 

The next encounter with Ri Jin, Perry is in the middle of making bombs (a pretty huge one). Ri Jin is horrified and asked him to dance instead. Even though Ri Jin’s dancing is awful according to Perry, they are both dancing for 3 hours. Perry is the first personalities to disappear. He decided that he needs to be a good example for other personalities, because he is the oldest. He got fishing rod from Ri Jin as farewell gift. At Do Hyun mind, Perry leaves and opens the door which lead him to a harbor. Then he see a beautiful yacht that named “Perry Park”. He gives a salute then leaves.

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Ahn Yo Sub. He is the suicidal one. He is a 17 yo boy, a student who is calm and genius but depressive with suicidal tendency. Yo Sub first appeared when Do Hyun is 17 yo student in missionary school. Do Hyun tried to kill himself but failed. Yo Sub/Joseph is his baptist name.

Yo Sub’s first encounter with Ri Jin is at a rooftop, where he draws all six personalities and a note that said “kill me” as his dying message. He almost killed himself by jumping from rooftop, but Ri Jin manage to change his mind. She told him repeatedly and wholeheartedly to hang in there, stay alive, because life not always bad, happy days waiting for him if he stays alive.

At the next encounter, he is a bit grumpy but eventually thanked her. He also calmly said that for the time being he will not suicide.

At their last encounter, Yo Sub saying his goodbye ahead, because lately Do Hyun didn’t feel that depressed anymore, so Yo Sub can disappear anytime. Ri Jin asked him, since he won’t suicide anymore, what would he like to do? He told her that he’d really like to writes a book of poems. He thanked Ri Jin again, for giving him hope and dreams, then he kiss her cheek. He is so sweet.

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Ahn Yo Na. SHE (yes, she) is a 17 yo girl who really likes good looking idols. She is Yo Sub’s twin sister. She appeared from Do Hyun’s strong will to live after failed suicide. Whenever Yo Na sees good looking idols, she will run at them. Her first encounter with Ri Jin was when Yo Na’s finally met her favourite idols, but Ri Jin intterupted. They are enemy since that incident.

One unlucky day, when Do Hyun suddenly changed to Yo Na while meeting with Ri On. Apparently Ri On is Yo Na’s type. Therefore, is the beginning of Ri On’s hell. Whenever Ri On is in sight, Yo Na calls “OPPAAAAAA!” then jumps at him. Lol.

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Yo Na’s farewell also made me cry. I didn’t expect to cry because Yo Na’s scene always funny. At that day, she is wearing Ri Jin’s gift (pink polkadot bandana). She thanked Ri Jin for treating her like enemy/friend/sister, basically for treating her as a person. And for fulfilling her last wish (-red taking selfies with her oppa and kiss him). Poor Ri On. The way that Yo Na saying her goodbyes while acts like she don’t care, but she actually cares for Ri Jin and hoping the best for her made me cry.

In Do Hyun’s mind, Yo Sub calls Yo Na. Yo Sub told her that they better leave soon. He said not to worry because Ri Jin Noona is beside Do Hyun, everything will be okay. Yo Na leaves first. Yo Sub recites a poem, then he also leaves.

At this moment, I don’t think I can handle another farewell. Wait, how many personalities still left? *devastated*

Nana is a 7 yo girl who likes to bring her HUGE teddy bear everywhere she goes. She appears after Do Hyun met Ri Jin. Mr.X is Nana’s father. He appears after Perry Park leaves. I’m gonna tell you more about these two at the twist part.

Last but not least, Shin Se Gi. He is the violent one. He is also arrogant, rude, playboy, and everything that is bad. He is the most stylish though with all that leather jacket and guyliner (ha!) Everytime he appears, a tattoo also appearing in Do Hyun’s neck. Se Gi usually comes out whenever Do Hyun in great pains. After Se Gi turns, Do Hyun usually ends up badly (ie in the middle of being tortured by gangster) with injuries. None of the injuries is deadly, just minor injuries in here and there because Se Gi is very good at fighting. The one with most damages is whoever he is fighting with. Se Gi is the first personality to appear and the last to disappear. Se Gi appeared at the fire in Do Hyun’s house when he was 7 years old.

From all the “fake” personalities, I like Se Gi the most. He is badass but he has a soft heart (whenever Ri Jin besides him) and a bit childish. It’s so funny when he give toys as presents for Ri Jin. He is so clueless when Ri Jin doesn’t seem to like his gifts.

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I am captivated by Se Gi since he said to Ri Jin “remember this time, 7th January 2015 at 10 pm on the dot, the time I fell for you” with intense look at their first meeting as adults. The best pick-up line ever, or so I thought. But I was wrong, it truly is his sincere feeling for Ri Jin. Ri Jin is his first love, and he still loves her until now. He also glad that Ri Jin is alive. He thought Ri Jin died in the fire when they’re 7 years old. It turns out that Se Gi was the one who started the fire to save Ri Jin. As Ri Jin said, Se Gi is the most wounded one. He holds all of Do Hyun’s painful memories.

When Se Gi is saying his goodbye, I cried so much. Ri Jin prepared gifts for all other personalities, but she can’t think of gift for Se Gi. He said that Ri Jin can’t give him the gift that he wants, because he only wants her. In the end, she kissed him, which Se Gi said that kiss is a good choice of gift, nothing beats that. Meanwhile in Do Hyun’s mind, Se Gi and Do Hyun are having a conversation. In the end, Do Hyun said to Se Gi “you are me”, which Se Gi replied “I am you”. Then Se Gi disappears. When Do Hyun “comes back”, Ri Jin is still crying, then smiling, and so is he. He wiped her tears and kissed her (again). This moment is so sad but beautiful at the same time.

 

Best Moment

When Do Hyun ask Ri Jin why she decides to help him instead of studying in one of the best hospitals in America. Is it because she can meet Se Gi through him or else? She told him that it’s because Yo Sub wrote “kill me” which Ri Jin interpret as a cry for help. And also because of Do Hyun. She thinks that Do Hyun is not weak, because he can manage to stay being good and responsible despite all problems that the personalities caused. She will try to make those personalities “dissolve” inside him, so that he will become greater than ever person. A cooler Cha Do Hyun she said. Do Hyun feels very touched by Ri Jin’s answer, he kissed her.

This is one of turning points moments that I love. This is the moment when Do Hyun really fell for Ri Jin. Do Hyun feels overwhelmed (by love) because there’s someone who can truly accept him. I gotta say I ship Ji Sung and Hwang Jung Eum in this drama. Their chemistry and acting just superb. It feels so real and good. 

The Twist

The first twist revealed in the middle of the series (around ep 12-13). Do Hyun remembers that he was abused in his childhood. It turns out that it wasn’t him that being abused, it was Ri Jin. After her mother died, Ri Jin being locked in the basement and often being hit by Do Hyun’s father. Why did Do Hyun’s father hit Ri Jin? It’s because Ri Jin is so similar with her mother. Ri Jin’s mother is his ex-wife, but Ri Jin is a child from another man. Do Hyun made a promise that he will come to the basement and play with Ri Jin every day at 10 pm. He often tried to protect Ri Jin from being hit by his father, but what can a 7 yo old child do against an adult.

One year later, at the day of the fire, Do Hyun’s father hit Ri Jin because Do Hyun caught in the basement playing with Ri Jin. Feeling a great pain because he can’t protect her, Do Hyun collapsed and Se Gi appeared for the first time. Se Gi lit the fire, and it quickly spread. Do Hyun’s father saved him, but Ri Jin was still inside the basement. Do Hyun begged his father to save Ri Jin. So Do Hyun’s father came back to the basement. But by the time he arrived, Ri Jin already gone. He collapsed and coma for 20 years.

The second twist revealed near the end of the series (around ep 17-18). It turns out that Cha Do Hyun was actually Oh Ri Jin’s name. Meanwhile, Cha Do Hyun’s real name was Cha Joon Young. Confused? So was I. I’ll try to make it simple. From this moment, Ri Jin is the girl, Do Hyun is the boy.

So, at the beginning, after Min Seo Yeon (the girl’s mother) and Joon Pyo (the boy’s father) divorced, the chairman of Seungjin looked for the Seo Yeon. He asked her to come back to Seungjin to save the company, because she is the most capable person to do that. It turned out that the divorce isn’t completed, so she is still a part of Seungjin. He also offered to include the girl in the family register to secure the girl’s future. But Seo Yeon hesitated because the girl is not Joon Pyo’s child. The chairman told her that Joon Pyo already left the Seungjin family. She finally agreed.

Joon Pyo lives happily with the boy somewhere in Korea, but his wife doesn’t feel that way. She constantly pushing Joon Pyo to come back to his family, so the boy’s future is secured. When Joon Pyo finally comes back, he hate the fact that his father aka the chairman decided to take in Seo Yeon even though they already divorced, or so he thought. Joon Pyo asked the chairman to take out the girl’s name from family register and put the boy’s name instead. But the chairman refused. So the girl’s future is secured, but the boy isn’t. That’s why Joon Pyo hates the girl even more. After Seo Yeon died, Joon Pyo often hit the girl.

The boy thought that the girl died at the fire. Because of great shock after the fire, the boy lost his memories about the girl. He only responded when he is called Cha Do Hyun (the girl’s name). This situation is used by Joon Pyo’s second wife to secure the boy’s future. Cha Do Hyun was already in the family register, but Cha Joon Young (the boy’s real name) wasn’t. The chairman’s wife aka grandmother couldn’t do anything besides tag along with the plan. All of the previous house staff were fired. And so, the girl’s existence “gone”.

Meanwhile, the girl is still alive. She was saved by one of the catering staff at Seungjin residence. The girl adopted and raised as Ri Jin.

Nana, one of Do Hyun’s personalities is actually represents Ri Jin when she was a 7 yo child. So, she is not a new personality that appears after Do Hyun meets Ri Jin as adults. Nana was there all along, “sleeping” inside Do Hyun. And btw, Nana is that HUGE bear’s name. Nana’s real name is Cha Do Hyun.

Mr.X. He is the last personality to appear and apparently the most powerful (according to Dr.Seok Ho Pil). Thankfully he is not a personality that guard other personalities so they can’t leave. Mr.X kind of help and guide the other personalities to leave. He also gives advice to Do Hyun.

After Twist

After the first twist, Do Hyun breaks up with Ri Jin. He feels horrible. He can’t forgive himself that couldn’t anything for Ri Jin in the past.

After they broke up, there goes the second twist. Talk about worst timing ever. *sigh* Both Do Hyun and Ri Jin learned the fact that “Cha Do Hyun” was actually Ri Jin’s name. It crushed Do Hyun and ripped his heart apart (again). Ri Jin’s condition is not that well either. She feels terrified, sad and can’t do anything. The one that lift her up is Ri On. As we know that Ri Jin is adopted, Ri On actually fall in love with her. But in the end he decided not to tell her about his feelings and be the greatest brother for her. Ri Jin recovers pretty quickly, maybe because she has a lot of good memories in her childhood (except at Seungjin) and great support system, her family.

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In contrary, Do Hyun’s condition worsened. Ri Jin helps him by saying that Do Hyun was her hero. Do Hyun was often beside her, so she didn’t feel lonely or scared. Yes, Joon Pyo was awful, but Do Hyun always tried to defend her. That’s why Do Hyun is Ri Jin’s hero. Thus, she gives him the name (Cha Do Hyun) as a gift. She said that Do Hyun must continue using that name with proud because he deserved it. That really lifts the thick cloud in Do Hyun’s heart. Another wonderful moments that showed us that they both so perfect for each other.

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Happy Ever After

After multiple tear-jerker farewell to all of Do Hyun’s personalities, Do Hyun finally free and completed. He works part-time at Ri Jin’s family’s restaurant and “advisor” at Seungjin group. So he lives a very quiet life compared to his life as vice-president. Ri Jin is back to the hospital and continues her education. At the last scene, Do Hyun gives her a couple ring. They look incredibly happy together.

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At last..

Ji Sung’s acting is supeerbbb. I always feel different people playing different personalities. Yes, makeup and wardrobe do help, but Ji Sung’s acting that made all the personalities so real. I always cried so much everytime all personalities said their goodbyes. It feels like they die. But they didn’t, they live inside Do Hyun as one. Hwang Jung Eum is sooo prettyy and her acting skill match Ji Sung. I always loves whenever they got together on screen. They are wonderful as a couple. Their gaze, smile and body language are just perfect. I wish they are a real couple, but both already married to another person. Oh well..

imageConsidering topics that this drama brings, which is child abuse and mental disorder, it’s not easy to deliver an entertaining show. But the entire crew did succeed. This drama is good in every way possible. I would love to watch it again. Not now though, because Ramadhan is coming. Gotta prepare myself for holy month.

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Human interaction is not dead

I thought with the current technology, people will not talk with strangers anymore because they are “too busy” doing something with their smartphone. But, I was wrong.

Just yesterday, I had a flight from Yogyakarta to Jakarta. In case you don’t know, both are big cities in Java Island, Indonesia. Indonesia consists of a lot of islands. There are about 17,000 islands (yes, that many). There are five main islands, including Java. Back to the story, I arrived at Adisucipto International Airport (-red airport in Yogyakarta) an hour an half before boarding time. Yes, it’s too early. My parents taught me to arrive at the airport at least one hour before boarding time so that we won’t miss the flight. It’s always better to wait at the airport than caught off in the traffic. We also have plenty time to enjoy the airport facility. My 3 year old son was very excited to see planes took off and fly.

Unfortunately, my flight was 1,5 hour delayed due to bad weather. So, I had to wait for 3 hours! That’s too long. Well, apparently my son didn’t think so, he just keep running around happily. I took turn taking care my son (read: running around airport) with my husband. When it’s my husband turn, I was bored. I turned off my phone because I was having a headache, looking at my phone just making it worse. So, I looked around. There is  a woman sat in front of me, she’s about 40 years old and looked friendly. I tried to chat with her. We talked about few things for about 15-20 minutes. It’s a quite long conversation considering we’re strangers. A few seats beside me, there’s an old woman talking to a woman in front of her. I could hear them, and it seemed like they’re strangers. Then I looked around again. As I predicted, most of them were looking at their phone or laptop/notebook. But, there were still a few people talking to another person.

Thanks to my headache, I was having fun talking to a nice stranger. I also found out “prove” that human interaction is not dead because of technology. Sometimes we just need to look around.

Chicklit: to read or not to read

I like reading, especially novels. I have some favourite authors, most of them are British. When I was little, I like reading Enid Blyton’s books. As I grow up, I also like reading detective novels, from Sir Arhur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. Of course I also read JK Rowling’s books, who didn’t anyway. At that time, every child must have read Harry Potter. Nowadays I like reading chicklit. Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Jane Costello and Paige Toon are my favourite chicklit authors so far. But the thing is, as I grow up, I also learn about my religion, Islam. It bothers me when there are few things in chicklit novels that doesn’t click with Islam. I give you a few example.

In chicklit, unmaried people usually have sex. In Islam, only married people can have sex. Pre-marital sex is zina, thus it is forbidden. As written in Holy Quran chapter 17 surah Al-Isra verse 32 “Do not even go near zina (fornication or adultery) for it is a very indecent thing and a very evil way.”

In chicklit, people often drinking alcohols, usually until drunk. In Islam, alcohol is forbidden. As written in Holy Quran chapter 5 surah Al-Maidah verse 90-91 “O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants (all kinds of alcoholic drinks), gambling, [sacrificing on] stone alters [to other than Allah], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful. Satan only wants to cause between you animosity and hatred through intoxicants and gambling and to avert you from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer. So will you not desist?”

In chicklit, I often find people divorced, whether the parents, the hero or heroine. In Islam, it is okay to divorce, but Allah really hates divorce. “The most hated of permissible things to Allah is divorce. ” (Sahih) [Ibn Majah Vol. 3, Book 10, Hadith 2018]

Well, those things are bothering me when I’m reading chicklit. Do I still read chicklit nowadays? Yes, but I often skip many parts. I can easily skip sex part, but I hate skipping drinking part. Most crucial information usually is in the drinking part, even the hero and heroine first meet usually at the bar (not always though), get drunk and so on. Why oh why, people need to get drunk in chicklit? Can’t they find love or solve problem without drinking? Even if they are not Muslim, drinking alcohol is not good for their health. It can damage your liver and brain. *inhale* *exhale*

Btw, you can read about alcohol’s damaging effects on liver and brain here http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm

Finding my passion

There is one thing that I just found out recently, it’s the fact that I like writing. Well, it’s less convincing based on numbers of posts here. I rarely writes here because I have another writings to do, it’s my job. I currently work as a writer in www.doctormums.com. I’m a newbie, I joined less than a month ago, and still working on my third article. Yes I’m a total newbie (if there’s even a ranking for the newbiest newbie), but I love it. It really makes my brain works hard in a pleasant way. It kinda reminds me of my previous job as a doctor. I used to make my brain works hard every single day, even on weekends. Not just my brain, but also my body, it’s very tiring actually, haha. Since I got pregnant and almost had miscarriage, I decided to quit my job. I don’t mind the brain works, but being stay awake for at least 36 hours straight without collapse, I don’t think I can do it again. Well techincally I’m still a doctor, my licence is still valid, it’s just that I’m not ready to go back to work..yet.

So being a stay home mother is wonderful, I get to be with my son most of the time, it’s a blessing really. But sometimes I feel a bit empty. So I decided to do another thing. I love books, so I try to be an online book-seller. I like it. I often take some of my stocks for my son, yeah I’m not that good seller. I just really love books. Oh btw I sell children books. Despite all of that, I’ve been selling books for 1 year, and counting. Not too shabby. Alhamdulillah.

But I still feel something is missing. Then I saw many mothers in instagram posting about their child’s activities, they’re learning while playing. It looked really awesome and I want to try it too. So I started to make some simple toys and activities for my son. Then I share them on my instagram, also with explanation how to make it. Then a few mothers tagged me to their photos, it turns out that they recreate my simple toys for their children. It makes the mother and the child happy, and it makes me feel great.

But then again, I still feel a little bit of something is still missing. So, when one of my bestfriend, Rie, offered me a job as a writer in a medical website, I took it without thinking. Why? Well..why not? I just felt that I need to try it. It turned out to be one of the best thing that ever happened to me. It seems like I really can’t live without “a taste of medicine” regularly. It turned out that medicine has always been my passion, I like writing, I like sharing, my job covers them well. I feel complete again, and I’m very grateful for that. Alhamdulillah.