Joy and Sorrow be4 Halloween

What a week I have experienced! As usual, there have been happy as well as sad moments. Anyway, life is not what we have expected always, isn't it? Well, there are at least three experiences making me smile and joyful before tomorrow's Halloween day, mm .... pretty horrible moment, eh? There are a few sorrows I have experienced lately.

First, Brilliant classes (B.C.) of SMAK PENABUR Gading Serpong have disappointed me ... a matter of less communication from the side of students, I guess. Hardly did anybody respond to my Sept. 29 email on the short stories competition from http://www.deplu.go.id, deadline tomorrow, Oct. 31st, 2008. Even several sms to 3 Year 11 B.C.ers hit the bottomless well.

Furthermore, only 3 B.C. Year 10 students have submitted their Oct. 28, 2008 summary assignment on Oct./Nov. Newsweek/ Reader's Digest/ National Geographic/ Scientific American by email until today afternoon. Well, well, on the second thought, maybe they have already got a lot of experiments in their science lab. as well as tutors and a bunch of assignments, which, sigh, must have been MUCH more important than this poor English teacher's assignments.

However, beyond the storm, there is a rainbow. First of all, I'm getting attached to SMPK 7 PENABUR Jkt students today. Oral quiz with very enthusiastic replies on vocabulary/reading questions on "Mexico City" and "Norwich" texts in the "Challenges" textbook. It's a pity, though, I'm just a substitute teacher here. I wish I were their full-time teacher!

In addition, this early morning, I could not find the morning prayer copies for SMPK 7 teachers, yet ... the Sunrise school hotspot was working in the library! We held the English morning prayer via http://www.odb.org with songs "Jesus loves me".

Next, my relative sent me sms, informing the money transfer back to my account for the loan. What a surprise!

In conclusion, life is full of joys and sorrows. Your wish is not necessarily another's wish. Just set an example to others, such as returning students' test paper, like what I did today in SMPK 7, and minding my own business in teaching English only in Brilliant classes. Yeah, I guess I need not bother other affairs, such as the competitions and the activities not related to my subject ... is that the best system?

Eni, Mama, brother and me: Inspiration of Guzheng (GKJ, Dec. 2006)

More than a year before the August 2008 "100-Guzheng concert" in Plaza Semanggi, Eni played the Inspiration of Guzheng in Gedung Kesenian Jakarta (GKJ), in collaboration with lots, lots of artists, playing traditional and modern musical instruments, including zitters from West and East Java. Read from Kompas national newspaper coverage (archive) at: http://64.203.71.11/kompas-cetak/0612/22/muda/3158254.htm

Poses (l-r): Kiki, Mama, Eni, and me. Thanks for Rizal, our friend, for sending us the picture this week .