Master Who Knows All

IPA (ILMU PENGETAHUAN ALAM)

Mat: Kenapa tadi di sebelah sini terang, tapi trus sekarang di sebelah sana yang terang?
Mama: Karena bumi berputar, jadi sinar mataharinya juga ikut pindah.
Mat: ...... (ga ngerti)
Mama: Tau ga matahari terbit di mana?
Mat: ...... (ga tau)
Mama: Matahari terbit di timur.
Mat: Ooooo ......
Mama: Nah, kalo tenggelamnya di mana?
Mat: ...... (mikir) ...... Mmm .. tenggelemnya di air ..
Papa: (nyeletuk) Masa matahari tenggelam di air??
Mat: Iyaaaa .. Matahari tenggelem di air, jadi apinya mati. Dah gitu, muncul lagi jadi bulan deeeeh ..


IPU (ILMU PENGETAHUAN UMUM)

Mat: (lagi cerita rencana wisata sekolahnya) Metiu ga jadi ke Monas. Jadinya pergi ke ...... (mikir) ......
Mama: Ke Taman Mini.
Mat: Iyaaaa .. Ke Temen Mini.
Mama: Taman Mini. Bukan Temen Mini.
Mat: Temen Mini.
Mama: Apa itu Temen Mini?
Mat: Temen Mini .. itu .. Desi Duck

So. When you think kids don't make any sense ..

They actually DO.

Drawing Love



If I tell you I love you, can I keep you forever?
~ Casper

I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
~ City of Angels

There are only four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made of? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
~ Don Juan DeMarco

Sometimes in life there really are bonds formed that can never be broken. Sometimes you really can find that one person who will stand by you no matter what. Maybe you'll find it in a spouse and celebrate it with your dream wedding, but there's also the chance that the one person you can count on for a lifetime, the one person who knows you sometimes better than you know yourself is the same person who's been standing beside you all along.
~ Bride Wars

I know it's a cornball thing but love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? I say fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love -- well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived... Stay open. Who knows? Lightning could strike.
~ Meet Joe Black

I love that you get cold when it is 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle in your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
~ When Harry Met Sally

Every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step toward finding you
~ Message in a Bottle

That thing, that moment when you kiss someone and everything around you becomes hazy. And the only thing in focus is you and this person. And you realize that that person is the only person that you are supposed to kiss for the rest of your life. And for one moment, you get this amazing gift, and you wanna laugh and you wanna cry. Because you feel soo lucky that you found it, but so scared that it will go away all at the same time.

~ Never Been Kissed

You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting.
~ Hook

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more; that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds .... That's what you've given me and that's what I hope to give to you forever.
~ The Notebook

If you're not willing to sound stupid, you're not worthy of falling in love.
~ A Lot Like Love

I guarantee that we'll have tough times and I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life cause I know in my heart you're the only one for me.
~ Runaway Bride

It's a wonderful thing, as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face, when you've gotten old, and still sees what you think you look like.
~ The Bachelor

He was like an angel, you know? I never knew life could be like that. He was the one thing I followed through in my life, the one thing I didn't give up on. I was good at loving him.
~ Untamed Heart

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme. I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it that you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call. But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.
~ 10 Things I Hate About You

Take love, multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever .. and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you.
~ Meet Joe Black

You are what I never knew I always wanted
~ Fools Rush In

I always thought that there was this one perfect person for everybody in the world, you know, and when you found that person the rest of the world kind of magically faded away, and, you know, the two of you would just be inside this kind of protective bubble, but there is no bubble, I mean if there is you have to make it, I just think life is more than a series of moments, you know, we can make choices, and we can choose to protect the people we love, and that's what makes us who we are and those are the real memories.
~ Forces of Nature

I’d rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.
~ Pocahontas

Have you never met a woman who inspires you to love? Until your every sense is filled with her? You inhale her. You taste her. You see your unborn children in her eyes and know that your heart has at last found a home. Your life begins with her, and without her it must surely end.
~ Don Juan DeMarco

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart.
~ The English Patient

If I could ask God one thing, it would be to stop the moon. Stop the moon and make this night and your beauty last forever.
~ A Knight's Tale

It's only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found. I am only here tonight because of you. You are all I am. You are all my reasons.
~ A Beautiful Mind

I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
~ The Accidental Tourist

I love him and I don't care what you think. I love him for the man he wants to be and I love him for the man he almost is.
~ Jerry Maguire

I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me, and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul and to me, this has always been enough.
~ The Notebook

Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you add them all up, they meant that we were supposed to be together, and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home, only to no home I'd ever known. I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like .. magic.
~ Sleepless in Seattle


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Why do People Want to Fall in Love?




True love has spiritual dimensions, while romantic love is a lie. A myth. A soulless manipulation.

And speaking of manipulation, it's like going to the movies and seeing the lovers kiss. The music swells, and we buy it, right? So when my date kisses me and l don't hear strings, l dump him.

The question is, why do we buy it? Because, myth or manipulation, we all want to fall in love. That experience makes us feel completely alive, where every sense is heightened and every emotion is magnified. Our everyday reality is shattered and we are flung into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour or an afternoon, but that doesn't diminish its value, because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives.

I read, ''When we fall in love, we hear Puccini in our heads.'' l love that. His music expresses our need for passion and romantic love. We listen to La Bóheme or Turandot, or read Wuthering Heights or watch Casablanca, and a little of that love lives in us too.

So the final question is, why do people want to fall in love when it can have such a short run and be so painful? Propagation of the species? We need to connect with somebody. Are we culturally pre-conditioned? Good, but too intellectual for me.

I think it's because, as some of you may already know .. While it does last, it feels fucking great.

~ Quote from The Mirror has Two Faces


Forgive Me for I Have Sinned

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."
~ Emo Philips

Parker, Sheaffer & Disney

Mama baru menyadari bahwa pena Parker-nya yang ramping, ringan dan berwarna perak tidak ada di dalam tas hari ini pada pukul 19.30 WIB. Padahal sejak pagi sampai siang pena tersebut dengan lucunya masih menemani Mama di kantor. Entah setelah itu mungkin terselip, terbuang di tong sampah atau dicuri oleh penunggu kantor yang tidak terlihat oleh mata. Mama panik karena pena itu merupakan hadiah dari Papa. Sudah disimpan dan dipakai baik-baik selama beberapa tahun terakhir ini, akhirnya sekarang harus hilang. Dan yang lebih menyedihkan, pena tersebut terbungkus oleh sarung etnik dari Sheaffer, yang dulu pena-nya juga dicuri oleh seorang peminjam yang tidak bertanggung jawab. Sarung tersebut pun mungkin sudah tidak bisa ditemukan lagi di tahun 2011.

Mama mengirim status ke Facebook, "setelah sekian tahun bersama, akhirnya harus kurelakan dikau pergi .. hiks .. pen parker tercintaku, dimanakah dikau berada sekarang??" Tentu saja, tidak ada balasan yang menuliskan keprihatinan. Sudah biasa. Memang begitulah sifat Facebook. Dia sudah mati rasa.

Lalu Mama mengirim pesan ke Papa lewat BlackBerry Messenger, "Hik. Pulpen parker ku yang dari kamu ilang. Sama sarungnya sekalian." Lengkap dengan ikon tangis berpanjang-panjang dan berurai air mata.

PING! Papa membalas dengan "Kok bisa???"

Tidak lama kemudian .. PING! PING! PING! BlackBerry Mama kembali berbunyi. Ternyata Mat yang menelepon, "Mamaaa .. kenapa pen Mama bisa ilaaaaang?"

Dengan pasrah, Mama menjelaskan latar belakang tragedi tersebut dengan bahasa yang bisa dimengerti oleh anak berumur 4 tahun.

Sebelum sampai di rumah, Mama mampir ke toko buku untuk membeli berbagai perlengkapan. Papa dan Mat menyusul ke sana.

Di toko buku, Mat memanggil-manggil Mama, "Mamaaa .. pilih yang mana, Ma?" Sambil menunjukkan dua macam pena Disney berkarakter Mickey Mouse. Mama mengira Mat meminta dibelikan pena tersebut. Karena Mickey Mouse-nya benar-benar lucu, dan juga karena Mama sayang Mat, akhirnya Mama memilih pena yang ini:



Selagi membayar di kasir, Mat kembali bertanya, "Ma, apa yang Hello Kitty aja?" Mama menolak karena Hello Kitty itu buat anak perempuan. Lalu Mama menyerahkan Mickey Mouse tersebut kepada Mat. Tetapi Mat malah menyerahkannya kembali kepada Mama, "Ini buat Mama. Kan pen Mama ilang. Buat dibawa ke kantor besok yaaaaa .." Ah. Pantas saja tadi Mat menawarkan Hello Kitty.

Tanggal 14 Februari masih beberapa hari ke depan. Tetapi hari ini, Mama sudah mendapat hadiah Kasih Sayang dari Mat.

Mat, dengan ini Mama berjanji. Kalau besok ternyata pena Parker Mama, berikut sarung Sheaffer-nya muncul secara ajaib di kantor, Mama akan rawat pena Parker Mama sampai Mat sudah cukup umur untuk dapat memakai pena tersebut dengan baik dan benar.

Kalau tidak ketemu, Mama akan belikan pena Parker yang baru untuk Mat suatu saat nanti.

Dan tentu saja, pena Disney hadiah dari Mat akan Mama bawa ke kantor dan dipakai sampai Mickey Mouse-nya bosan menulis.

Moral:
Menyampaikan keluh kesah langsung kepada keluarga, memang lebih ampuh dibandingkan lewat media sosial. Terbukti dengan adanya tanggapan yang jauh lebih cepat dan luar biasa menghibur.



Sejarah Barongsai


Sejarah barongsai, seperti diceritakan oleh Mat2:

"Barongsai dari Cina, lari-lari pindah ke mall. Terus makan angpao, dancing, terus pulang deh."

Gong Xi Fa Chai, everyone!