Tulisan Oleh Liana Matasik Karini

Klik…klik aja semua…

(Liana Matasik Karini)

Anak gue yang pertama Si Babang udah mulai bisa main game di komputer sejak (kalo gak salah) 2 taun lalu waktu kita pulang kampung ke Jakarta dan Titanya (aunty Ita) siang malem kerjanya main game. Sekali-sekali pasti Titanya diganggu dan akhirnya kebagian juga Babang pegang mouse. Lama-lama, dia bisa ngendaliin mouse dan akhirnya bisa mainin simple games.

Bentar...ngomong-ngomong soal game, gue sekarang ngerti (rada make sense nih) kenapa kalo di film-film peran detektif HANDAL selalu aja ceritanya hubungan keluarganya gak harmonis. Taun lalu, gue dikasih game sama Tita tentang misteri yang harus dipecahin ama detektif. Jadi ceritanya gue detektifnya dan...gagal total! Bisa jadi karna rada bloon mainnya tapi yang lebih masuk akal adalah...gimana mau jadi detektif kalo bentar-bentar,

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Surat penyambutan kedatangan Tita

(Liana Matasik Karini)

Dear Tita,

Khan kalo ada yang mau dateng, kita pasti siap-siap dan biasanya ada sesuatu yang dibeli karna baru ada semangat buat ngebagusin rumah...hehe

Waktu dulu Babang lahir, kita beli tempat tidur ama kasur.

Waktu Dedek lahir, kita beli AC sama mobil.

Waktu Bibi lahir, kita beli perabotan sofa, lemari baju sama meja makan.

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Moment of the day (Shrek: The Last Chapter)

(Liana Matasik Karini)

I took my kids to cinema today, for the first time! Accompanied by my mom. I wasn't sure that it's going to be a smooth-sat-back-relaxing-time-without-any-hassle-or-incident-or-halfway-done-go-home-with-mommy-in-anger but I took the risk anyway as we never know unless we give it a try. So I did.

Shrek is my movie of all times together with Monster Inc. and Ice Age. Hey...I just realize they have something in common, the main characters is a scary but kind hearted giant creature. Well I guess I love giants then. Since Shrek: The Last Chapter is showing in cinema, I want to bring my kids to see it but at the same time with the fact that I would bring my kids along always hold me back. But the challenger inside me wins most of the time. I went to the cinema few days ago but didn't get the ticket. So yesterday, I bought the tickets online.

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Moment of the day (Mommy cantik…)

(Liana Matasik Karini)

Sekitar jam 9 pagi tadi, gue udah siapin anak-anak buat ke gereja yang mulai jam 10.30. Gue juga udah siap tinggal dandan dikit. Pas mau dandan,

"Mommy cantik...mommy cantik...where are you?" gue denger langkah anak gue yang cowok turun tangga manggil-manggil gue (yang judulnya mommy khan gue doang...jadi pasti manggil gue dong).

"Mommy di kamar bawah, Bang."

"Oh...ni dia mommy cantik."

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Facebook…ckckck…boleh juga…

Gue gabung di Facebook (FB) kalo gak salah 1.5 taun yang lalu. Itu juga dibuatin adik gue yang waktu itu pengen gue ikutan ngisi salah quiz yang ada di FB. Baru beberapa hari gabung, gak lama kemudian udah ketemuan ama beberapa temen kuliah gue dulu di Unpar, yang udah 12 taun gak ketemu. Seneng banget!! Untung ada lo Len yang jadi “EO” dadakan…hehehe.

Dari FB seperti yang udah seharusnya terjadi, gue “ketemu” lagi ama temen-temen lama dari SD sampe waktu kerja dulu, bahkan dapet banyak juga temen-temen baru. Buat gue yang gak punya temen di sini (di Johor), FB jadi tempat gue “hang out”. Perasaan jadi punya banyak temen walaupun cuma di dunia maya, tapi mungkin saat ini itu aja yang gue perluin karna lagi gak mungkin banget buat gue hang out di dunia nyata. Dengan 3 krucil yang masih glayutan di kaki, jalan-jalan ma temen dilupain aja dulu…
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Moment of the day (Mother’s day)

(Liana Matasik Karini)

This morning we were celebrating Mother's day at church. It's been a month I've never been gone to church due to my kids' chicken pox. So today I went to church along with my 3 kids and my dad. My hubby was just arrived home from work around 6 in the morning, so he preferred to stay at home and had a rest.

At the end of the service, Pastor asked all the mothers to join him at the altar. He also asked all the husbands to stand behind the wifes then Pastor prayed for us, the mothers. Too bad my hubby was not there. Was I jealous with all the women there accompanied by their hubbies? Oh yeah! For sure! But today...not quite because somehow my Lord put me stood next to a friend who just suddenly grabbed my hand and we were holding hands through out the praying. (more...)

Doa rapel gue tadi malam

(Liana Matasik Karini)

Kemarin anak gue yang pertama, Willem, ulang taun yang ke 5. Malam sebelumnya gue beliin dia kue tart. Kata bapaknya, belinya 2 dong satu besar, satu kecil aja buat kita di rumah. Jadi Willem tiup lilin dua kali, yang kedua bareng sama adik-adiknya di rumah. Abis tiup lilin sebelum kuenya dipotong, gue bilang yuk kita berdoa.

Hari itu gue berdoa agak panjang karna rapelan. Keterlaluan memang karna baru tadi malam kita berdoa bersama untuk acara ulang taun taun 2010 ini, padahal sebelumnya adiknya Willem, Chelsea, ulang taun yang ke 4 tanggal 26 Maret, terus suami gue ulang taun juga tanggal 12 April dan bokap gue tanggal 11 Pebruari. Mungkin karna gue sendiri udah pasti berdoa pas harinya, jadi pas mau ngajak berdoa bersama, lupaaaaa mulu. Emang gue doang satu-satunya yang tiap kali ngajak berdoa bersama. Doa gue tadi malam ditambah doain kakaknya bokap di kampung di Toraja sana yang sakit keras.

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Moment of the day (Mommy, this girl good…)

(Liana Matasik Karini)

09/04/10

This morning my son woke up very early before me. He's on the TV and played the DVD of Barney. When I woke up, I called him to get ready for school. The TV was showing this girl named Giana (in that character) played as astronaut on her rocket.

Willem, my 5-year-old son: "Mommy, this girl good."

Mommy: "What do you mean by good?"

Willem: "Her hair, her face..."

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Moment of the day

(Liana Matasik Karini)

06/03/10

My sister-in-law was visiting us with her 5-year-old daughter from Singapore. They took a bus and we picked them up at bus station which is only 5 minutes from our house (but takes forever if you on foot). In the car, my sis handed me 3 red packets (ang pao) for my kids. Damn...I never prepared one for my niece! Ehm...what should I do? What should I do?

"Do you have any spare red packet?" I asked my sis.

"For what?"

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God is good (4) – A (long) Note from 2009

(Liana Matasik Karini)

I think this is the time when my mouth and my mind must stop complaining. I will try to recall all the blessings and happiness that God has given me through 2009. As I ever wrote in my note "God is good", counting God's blessings then you would amaze that God love you, as what you are.

Sigh...it's a long way to go back when it started, the 2009. My memory is terrible nowadays. Anyway, this is what I could recall. I started my new year in Jakarta. We were preparing my youngest sister's wedding for the end of January. It was horrible! I kept fighting and fighting with my sister and it was the biggest fight with my sis ever! Maybe I was too busy body, willing to help her so much so I annoyed the sensitive and intense tiger (who scared for the incoming change of status). At that time I hired 2 maids to look after my kids and my nephew during the madness. One of them just came back from working as maid in Saudi Arabia and found out that her husband has remarried with a teenage girl and even has had a baby. The other one has been married 3 times and just too tired to divorce. These two maids, with their own problems even said, "Saya sangka cuma orang susah yang punya persoalan tiap hari, ternyata mau orang susah pa enggak tetep banyak juga persoalannya ya kak." *yeee...dikirain kita seneng-seneng aja tiap hari kali ya?*

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God is good (3)

(Liana Matasik Karini)

Three days ago, my daughter started to have high fever. I have prepared one "bullet" to down her fever under my pillow...and it's the only one left. But then I can't find it! In the middle of the night when my baby kept vomitting and the fever was very high, I started to panic. In one hour I made my bedroom upside down.

Then I went to toilet. After done with my business, suddenly in front of the door, I prayed. Please Lord give my baby a recovery and find me the bullet. When I opened my eyes, I saw the bullet just a half metre a way from my toe.

I'm sorry my Lord, never come to You from the first place eventhough You only a prayer away. Thank you Lord, for still loving me even with the sky high mistakes I made.

Jakarta, 15/12/09 -Liana-

God is good (2)

Story of my dog

Be with my family

(Liana Matasik Karini)

Alone and lonely again. Well yeah…not literally as I am surrounded by 3 hysterical kids, Willem 4 years old (calls himself Babang), Chelsea 3 years old (calls herself Dedek) and Keysha 1 years old (we call her Bibi), who like to run here and there (except Bibi of course but she’s going to very soon) and their giant daddy.

03/07/09
For the one and half month my family was here visiting me in Jool (as my nephew pronounce it). It was my sister in law, Ovin, with his son Terrell (calls himself Teye). The combined of 4 kids makes a time bomb of the mommies. They fight every single day over nothing.

When they watched TV, “It’s Babang’s Ben10!”. Then Teye would say, “Bukan, itu Ben10 Teye!” They said it for 2-3 times with increasing voice then sometimes even worse ended one of them landed their hand to the other. When Babang sang the Little Einstein’s opening song in Chinese version (actually it’s more to his own version), Teye would say, “Babang, bukan gitu nyanyinya!” When Babang kept singing, Teye would scream. If we were in the car, they also fighting over the song played in the radio belong to Babang or Teye, Dedek would be in Babang side. The most nonsense one was when they fighting over who’s the one had worm in their ass. Oh boy…

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Jangan berantem dong…

(Liana Matasik Karini)

Masalah antara Indonesia-Malaysia yang lagi “hangat” belakangan ini menggelitik hati gue. Ini cuma luahan hati gue doang lho tanpa ada unsur politik ataupun berpihak ke pihak manapun.

Gue cuma seorang Indonesia yang bangga dan cinta tanah airnya, yang kebetulan jatuh cinta pada seorang Malaysia dan belakangan menyumbangkan 3 anak cakep dari rahim gue untuk menambah populasi orang Malaysia. Sebagai seorang Ibu ato Mommy-nya Babang, Dedek dan Bibi, gue ajarin anak2 gue apa yang gue tau. Dari anak2 gue dalam kandungan, mereka dengar mommy-nya ngomong bahasa Indonesia dan nyanyiin lagu2 kayak Bintang Kecil, Balonku, Lihat Kebunku, Naik2 ke Puncak Gunung, Cicak2 di Dinding, Pada Hari Minggu, Pelangi2, Bila Kusudah Besar Nanti, dll. Dari mereka bayi, mereka pakai sabun, sampo, hair lotion Switzal, minyak telon Konicare yang setau gue cuma ada di Indonesia semata karena mommy suka wanginya. Satu2nya lagu yang anak gue lancar nyanyiinnya adalah Cicak2 di Dinding (bisa sampai berduet nyanyiinnya si Babang ma Dedek, malah bisa trio ama keponakan gue yang di Jakarta). Makanan favorit mereka kue cucur. Kalau makan maunya pakai kecap (kecap kental manisnya Indonesia).

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