Tarhib Ramadhan Poster

Sore sudah menjelang ketika Nadia baru bilang kalau besok acara di sekolah adalah "Pawai Ramadhan" dan diharapkan para siswa membuat poster untuk dibawa saat arak-arakan pawai bergerak mengelilingi jalan-jalan di sekitaran sekolah. "Gimana ya ma? Bikin atau tidak? Ndak usah aja ya....khan poster satunya aja belum jadi." rengek Nadia.

Aku langsung berfikir sesaat. Langsung melihat peluang bahwa moment ini bisa digunakan untuk membuat dia merasakan moment ramadhan adalah moment spesial. Ramadhan is Special. Harus disambut dengan sesuatu yang spesial. Salah satunya bisa dengan membuat poster-poster yang menginggatkan kita akan kedatangan "The Holly Month" ini.

Langsung aku bilang. "Kita harus bikin !!!".....This is an order (putusku dalam hati). Tapi kupakai kalimat yang pasti dia tidak akan menolaknya "Kalau Bu Guru minta kita bikin, ya kita bikin. Khan tujuannya untuk syiar nduk. Jadi entar pawainya bisa tambah ramai dan menarik". Dan Nadia-pun tak bisa menolak lagi walau sambil melirik poster gede yang masih setegah jadi di mejanya....hehehe

"Trus bahannya dari apa, khan sudah sore, nggak ada sepeda motor lagi," katanya. Tapi lalu dia segera melanjutkan. "Oh gini aja ma, setengah dari kertas karton kemarin khan masih ada. Kita bagi 2 lagi aja. Nggak usah besar-besar posternya. Biar nggak capai mewarnai....hihihi". 

Oklah pikirku, dia sudah mau bikin di waktu yang mepet gini aja sudah bagus. Dan akhirnya searching lagi deh ke mbah google. Lihat-lihat contoh poster-poster ramadhan karena sudah mati ide nih emaknya.......awalnya pilihan jatuh ke kata-kata seperti "Marhaban Yaa Ramadhan".....atau "Bikin saja kata-kata Asyiknya Ramadhan" kata Nadia. Tapi trus dianyulir....."bosan juga ya kalau tulisan-tulisan gitu terus". Nah akhirnya pilihan jatuh pada poster "Ramadhan Highway Code"....menurut kami lucu dan lebih komplet menceritakan harapan apa yang harusnya kita lakukan selama Ramadhan.

Jadilah kertas karton yang sudah separuh terpotong kemarin, masih dipotong separuh lagi. Trus karena Nadia masih bingung gimana cara ngambarnya akhirnya aku menawarkan diri untuk membantu mengambarnya......saat lagi asyik-asyiknya ngambar....tiba-tiba Nadia berkomentar (entar sadar atau tidak), "Mama ini kok pintar ngambar ya, dan aku kok nggak". Wah sedikit tersandung juga eh tersanjung juga dipuji nih anak yang sudah terkenal paling pelit muji mamanya. Dan untuk mengatasi kekikukan emaknya plus sebenarnya emaknya juga ragu karena gambar emaknya juga nggak bagus-bagus banget (menurut emaknya sendiri) cuma berucap "khan mama belajar".....hehehe.

Begitu gambar selesai, Nadia pun bergantian yang mewarnai. Iya ini memang karya kolaborasi antara ibu dan anak...hehehe. Sah-sah saja khan. Toh ini juga bukan untuk dipertandingkan. 

Paginya baru deh kita cari tongkat untuk pegangan poster, untung masih ada sisa pasak-pasak bambu yang dulu memang sengaja kuminta dari panitia acara Dick Doang di Lebah Putih (khan daripada kebuang sia-sia....pasak-pasak itu kini bisa didaur ulang jadi tongkat-tongkat poster pawai).....hehehe.  

Dan Nadia-pun siap untuk ikut tarhib. Cerita Nadia sepulang sekolah hari ini :

"Aku harus lari-lari ngejar pawainya ma. Soalnya aku disuruh tampil dulu Puitisasi Terjemahan Al Qur'an. Nggak ada micnya....untung kita bisa kencang suaranya. Dan perasaanku sih yang paling kencang suaranya jadinya aku sama Nada..... Trus selesai tampil kita (aku, Nada, Luluk, Zidny dan Asma)  harus ngejar-ngejar tarhibnya. Dan waktu ngejar tarhibnya eh...malah keblablasen.....tarhibnya belum nyampe tempat itu kita malah sudah nyampe jalan yang akan mereka lewati. Soalnya kita lewat jalan pintas.....hehehe.".  Selalu ada petualangan dan hal baru khan dalam hidup-mu nduk. Sesuatu yang sederhana namun mama selalu ingin mendengar-nya darimu.  

Time

Dulu aku pasti sangat bingung kalau ditanya seseorang "What's time is it?". Masalahnya aku selalu kebalik-balik untuk menyebutkan "Half Past"...."Quarter Past" ataupun "Quarter to". Nah kemarin selesai ngaji, aku meminta Nadia untuk membaca buku "Fun to Learn Time".....sekalian aku juga belajar gimana menyebutkan waktu-waktu tersebut.

Pelajaran tentang waktu ini mungkin dapat membantu mengingat kalau suatu hari ditanya sama adik nadia.....:-))

Dalam satu hari terdapat pembagian waktu :
[Each Part of the day has a different name]
@ Morning
@ Afternoon
@ Evening

Berapa lama waktu yang dibutuhkan?
[everything you do takes time. Some things take a short time, other things take longer]
@.....takes a long time to..........but only a short time to..................


Nama Hari dalam Seminggu
[Days of the weeks]
@ Monday
@ Tuesday
@ Wednesday
@ Thursday
@ Friday
@ Saturday
@ Sunday

Nama Bulan Dalam Setahun
[Months of the years]
@ January
@ February
@ March
@ April
@ May
@ June
@ July
@ August
@ September
@ October
@ November
@ December

Musim
[Seasons]
@ Spring (everything starts to grow.Plants grow new leaves)
@ Summer (flower blossom in warm sunshine)
@ Autumn (the weather gets colder and leaves change colour)
@ Winter (it is cold and days are short. Sometimes is snow)

Jam
On the hours
[a day is divided into blocks of time called hours]

@ The big minute hand takes one hour to travel right around the clockface.
@ The little hour hand takes one hour to move between two numbers on the clocks.
@ When the big hand is on the 12....we say it is something o'clock.


Setengah.....
Half hours
[When the hour hand is half way between two numbers, we say it is half past the hour]

@ When it is half past, the big hand is on the six.
@ When it is half past, the little hand is between two numbers.
@ When the big hand is on the six, it has moved halfway around the clockface. We say it is half past something.

......lebih seperempat
Quarter Past
[When the minute hand is on the three, we say it is quarter past the hour]

@ When it is quarter past, the big hand is on the three.
@ When it is quarter past, the little hand is just past a number.
@ When the big hand is on the three, it has moved a quarter of the way around the clockface. We say it is quarter past something.


.....kurang seperempat
Quarter To
[When the big hand is on the nine, we say that it is quarter to the hour].

@ When it is quarter to the hour, the big hand is on the nine.
@ When it is quarter to the hour, the little hand is nearly at a new number.
@ When the big hand is on the nine, it has moved three quarters of the way around the clockface. There is only quarter more to go. We say it is quarter to something.

Sumber : Buku "Fun To Learn Time by Arianne Holde"

Nursery Rhymes

Target hari ini adalah memulai mencatat buku-buku yang akan dikirim pulang, begitu diubek-ubek ternyata 3 boks akan dihuni oleh buku-buku Nadia aja. Wuih....kukeluarkan semuanya dan mulai mencatat satu-persatu judul buku2 itu.

Sambil mengalokasikan satu persatu grup buku-buku...dari buku aktivitas, buku cerita, cover tebal dan ukuran kecil plus buku-buku unik serta novel. Mataku tertuju pada sekumpulan buku "Nursery Rhyme"...dan aku tiba-tiba ingat bahwa 2 hari yang lalu aku juga meminjam CD-CD dari library tentang hal ini. Nah sekalian aja diputar CD-nya dan mencocokkan dengan lyric yang ada di buku-buku. Nggak kerasa hampir menghabiskan setengah hariku.....But I love it, siapa tahu nanti bermanfaat buat orang lain juga...Sekalian menghiburkan The Baby yang hari ini lagi tenang banget dan nggak bikin emak-nya mual-mual. Terima Kasih ya sayang......:-D

(3). 1,2,3,4,5 Medley

One, two, three, four, five,
Once I caught a fish alive.
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
Then I let it go again.
Why did you let it go?
Cause it bit my finger so.
Which finger did it bite?
This little finger on the right.

(3) Rub A Dub Dub

Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub;
And who do you think they be?
The butcher, the baker, The candlestick-maker;
Turn 'em out, knaves all three!

Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub;
And how do you think they got there?
They all jumped out of a rotten potato,
'T was enough to make a man stare.

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(4) Rain rain go away

Rain rain go away,
Come again another day.
Little John wants to play;
Rain, rain go away,
Never show your face again!

"Rain on the grass,
And rain on the tree,
Rain on the house-top,
But not on me."



(4) It's Raining, It's Pouring

It's raining, it's pouring
The old man is snoring.
He went to bed and bumped his head,
And couldn't get up in the morning

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(5) Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row.

(5) Dr Foster

Doctor Foster went to Gloucester
In a shower of rain;
He stepped in a puddle,
Right up to his middle,
And never went there again



(5) Cock-A-Doodle-Doo

Cock A Doodle Doo!
My Dame has lots her shoe,
My Master's lost his fiddling stick,
And doesn't know what to do.

Cock A Doodle Doo!
What is my Dame to do?
Till Master finds his fiddling stick,
She'll dance without her shoes,

Cock A Doodle Doo!
My Dame has found her shoe,
And my Master's lost his fiddling stick,
Sing Doodle Doodle Doo.

Cock A Doodle Doo!
My Dame will dance with you,
While Master fiddles his fiddling stick,
For Dame and Doodle Doo.


(5) Sesaw Margery Daw

Sesaw, Margery Daw,
Johnny shall have a new master;
He shall have but a penny a day,

Because he can't work any faster

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(6) Teddy Bear

Teddy Bear Teddy Bear turn around
Teddy Bear Teddy Bear touch the ground
Teddy Bear Teddy Bear down show your thoes
Teddy Bear Teddy Bear touch tour nose

Teddy Bear Teddy Bear stand on your head
Teddy Bear Teddy Bear go to bed
Teddy Bear Teddy Bear wake up now
Teddy Bear Teddy Bear make your bow


(6) Ride A Cock Horse

Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,
To see a fine a lady upon a white horse;
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
She shall have music wherever she goes.

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(7) Ring A Ring of Roses

Ring a ring o' rosie,
A pocket full of posies
Atishoo, Atishoo,
We all fall down.

The King has sent his daughter
To fetch a pail of water
Atishoo, Atishoo,
We all fall down.

The bird upon the steeple
Sits high above the people,
Atishoo, Atishoo,
We all fall down.

(7) Pat A Cake

Pat a cake, pat a cake
Baker's man
Bake me a cake
As fast as you can
Pat it and prick it
And mark it with "B"
And put it in the oven
For Baby and me.

(7) Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat

Pussy Cat, pussy cat, where have you been?
I've been up to London to look at the queen.
Pussy Cat, pussy cat, what did you there?
I frightened a little mouse under a chair.

(7) Twinkle, Twinkle

Twinkle, twinkle litte star
how wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high
like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle little star
How wonder what you are!

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(8) Humpty Dumpty

Humpy Dumpty sat on the wall
Humpy Dumpy had a great fall,
All the King's horse
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again

(8) Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey;
There came a big spider,
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.

(8) Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water,
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after

(8) Little Bo Peep

Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep
And can't tell where to find them
Leave them alone,
And they'll come home
Wagging their tails behind them

(8) Baa Baa Black Sheep

Baa, baa, black sheep
Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir,
Three bags full;
One for the master,
And one for the dame
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane

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Picture : Sing or Say Best Loved Nursery Rhymes Book

Comparison

Why a jew can grow his beard in order to practice his faith.
But when Muslim does the same he is an extremist and terrorist.

Why a nun can be covered from head to toe in order to devote herself to God.
But when Muslimah does the same they call she is oppressed.

When a western woman stays at home to look after her house and kids, she respected because of sacrificing herself
But when a Muslim woman does so her will, they say "She need to be liberated!"

Any girl can go to university wearing what she wills and have her right and freedom.
But when Muslimah wears a hijab they prevent her from entering her university.

When a child dedicated himself to a subject he has potential.
But when he dedicated himself to Islam he is hopeless!

When a Christian or a Jew kills someone religion is not mentioned.
But when Muslim is charged with a crime, it is Islam that goes to trial.

When someone sacrifices himself to keep others alive, he is noble and all respect him.
But when a Palestinian does that to save his son from being killed, his brother's arm being broken, his mother being rapped, his home being destroyed, and his mosque being violated. He gets the title of a terorist just because he is a Muslim

When there is a trouble we accept any solution.
But if the solution lies in Islam, we refuse to take a look at it

When someone drives a perfect car in a bad way no one blames the car.
But when any Muslim makes a mistake or treats people in a bad manner, people say "Islam is the reason.

Without looking to the tradition of Islam, people believe what the newspaper say.
But questioning what The Qur'an says.

@ diambil dari Milis MIIAS-Rasmi Henenberg

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention

I was the one who liked to have a plan. In my mind I always had a lot of things that I want to do. But most of them remained only as plans and others became reality only after I gave my self some effort to do that.

One case was about building a kitchen for my new house. When I bought a new house four years ago, the house didn't have a kitchen at that time. I had a plan to build a nice kitchen after we could save some money. Time went by, and we never even tried to build it step by step. We always thought that we would have a perfect time to build it. It had been four years and it was all left only as a plan. Even when we had to go to Australia for study, the kitchen had not been built.

Another story was about my habit for delaying study. Because sometimes I thought that I could do it later. The problem was I even delayed doing my homework or assignment until close to the due date. If I had done it earlier, I knew that I could do much better. But I didn't do it. That's why sometimes I couldn't finish my homework or assignment on time, or even if I could do it on time, the result didn't satisfy me at all, because I did that in hurry.

But I have another good story which actually always inspired me to change my habit. The story was about one of my friends who became a principal in primary school. As a new principal I believed she must be shocked when she knew about her new school's condition for the first time. No professional staff, no trained teacher and very poor infrastructure. She had a big plan to change all the conditions into better ones. But instead of waiting for enough funds to achieve her plan, she chose to work step by step, little by little. She trained all the staff and the teacher, she encouraged them to be more professional and have wide knowledge. She used recyclable things to teach the students. She was very creative. And she was successful. Now her school has became one of the favorite schools. She became not only a teacher but a counselor to for a lot of school. From a little step by step she could make her dream come true

Nobody Understand Me !

That was a sentence which applied to me when I was still teenage. At that time, I thought that almost everybody didn't want to understand me. I remembered when I want to see a movie with my friend in the cinema. I love movies, but I know that it was impossible for me to see a movie on my own, because I never had enough money. My parents wouldn't spend their money only for such a thing, because they weren't rich and they seven children to take care of. At that time my friend insisted on paying the ticket for me (actually he want to ask my brother). I agreed but I had to take the consequences after that. I was being punished.
Another time, I joined a martial art club, but again my mother didn't agree with my choice. At that time I just thinking about trying to protect myself because I had a lot of activities. Sometime I had to do the activity at night, like attending some club's meeting. My mother always said that I was a woman, and as a woman I had to look graceful. I definitely didn't agree with her.
Another time, I protested to my parents about being treated differently that two of my sisters. I thought that my parents didn't love me as much as they loved my other sisters, and I thought that they didn't want to understand me. I only wanted to make them proud of me but in my own way.

A True Friend is the one who can make you cry

When my teacher said to write about one phrase that described a True Friend, suddenly I remembered one of my friend or at least for my he is my friend. Why I said that because he actually always said that he never can't be my friend. I absolutely no doubt about the meaning of the phrase "A True friend is the one who can make you cry".
My friend that I mentioned before was the one who always supported me in my career but didn't want to be recognized. He always want to look like a cruel person in front of me; almost wasn't easy to make him smile; very serious at least with me; giving me a lot of task and always trying to keep a distance. The first time, I really didn't understand why he did it to me. What did I do which made him did that to me?
After a while, I became understand that he actually wanted to make me as his staff whom stronger, more independent, and he could trust and depend on. He did all of the cruel things just only because he had difficulties to deal with my character. It needed time to understand and believe the fact. But after a while, I tried to see the flashback of my career.
Even though he made me cry couple times, a should believe that he only tried to make me a better person everyday. Now I realized that he had become one of the most influential person in my life.
I was the young person who tried to face the professional environment and become a mature person who felt confident with all her capability. Thanks friend......

Memories at School

I remembered the time when I was a junior high student. I had so much fun in school. I had four best friend at that time. Two boys and two girls. All my best friends were clever student. Three of them were always amongst the five best student in our school. I was lucky to have them, because they were very patient to teach me especially in Maths, Physical Science and English. But on the other side, I was better in sport that them. So if our class had to compete in "Class Meeting" I could make them proud too.
Something that I remembered was I always walked together with one of my best friends to go home. When my father bought me a new bike because I got a best award at one time, then I gave my best friend a lift to go home.
Sometimes we did homework together at one of our homes. After that we played a game or rode a bike. Sometime we read a new book that belong to my one of my best friend. She was book collector. We really liked "The five famous-Enid Blyton". My best friends had all of the series.
Now we have grown up and have our own lives with our own families. Three of my friends have become engineers. I am an accountant. But sadly one of my best friends lost her short memories. She still can remember us, but she can't easily understand about what's going on around her. I still fell very sorry for my friend.

My Greates Talent

If somebody asked me "What's your talent?". The answer will be "I have no idea". Why I have to answer like that is because I really don't know what's actually my hidden diamond which hasn't been sharpened inside me.
If the talent was genetically being given by our parents, Why I could be like my father who is really good in art, sport, and communication. My father is an artist, a sportsman, and a great communicator. When he was young, he was a badminton champion, he played a lot of kinds a sport. He drew and painted pictures, he made sculptures. He even played a lot of different kinds of musical instrument easily. And even the rest of my family too.
I have six brothers and sisters. All of them have great talent in art. My eldest brother is very good in naturalism painting. My second brother is very good in making cartoons and photography and he even has his own studio for business. My third brother is very good in abstract painting and he joined with a lot of exhibitions in my home town. My youngest brother is photography lover and movie maker. My eldest sister is fashion designer and he just found her talent 5 years ago. I think she is lucky. My other sister is an architect and one of her project was McDonald's builing in my home town. What's about me? Until now I still cant's draw the proportion right of a chicken.
How about sport? Both of my sisters were very good in sport when they were young. They were always choose as player in their school sport club and even in my local community. I like sport too. And my biggest achievment was Ju-Jitsu National Champion. I still felt that I just lucky at that time. Or is it my greatest talent?
In other things that I am doing, I ma just an ordinary person. I just do everything in common way. But as an ordinary person, I am quiet happy and accept my self be the way I am. Maybe I never know what exactly is my great talent, but I can only really be sure that I am a hard worker, very loyal to everything that a believe, eager to learn new things in my way to search for my greatest talent. So even if maybe I never find my greatest talent, I will always try to enjoy being myself, just an ordinary person.

What Appears to be the end may be a new beginning

I just have read a story about someone who discovered that life is both more and less than we hoped for. The title of the book was "Learning to Fall". This book was filled with words of wisdom and they were inspired.
The author, Philip Simmon, has been diagnosed with a fatal condition known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. He would be probably dead within a few years. Of course, he felt shock at first, but then he decided to face up to the fact. Knowing that his days were numbered, he started to asked with new urgency, the sort of questions from : "What is my life' true purpose?" to "Should I reorganize my closets?". Then, he realized that he had learned something by asking them. He had learned that a fuller consciousness of his own mortality has been the best guide to being more fully alive. He also learned that he dealt most fruitfully with loss by accepting the fact that he will lose everything one day.
So he started to accepting himself by accepting the whole package, the whole sour and sweet that he is. He stopped seeing the world as a "problem" to be solved, when instead he opened his hearts to the mysery of his common suffering, then he found himself in a world transformed by love. Even though he couldn't walk anymore, he still tried to enjoy his life by doing a lot of thing for other people with love.

Be a full bucket
Drawn up the dark way of a well
Then lifted out
Into the light

[The Sufi Poet-Jalal Al Din Rumi]

Technology

Technology is like two side of a coin. One represents a good point and the other side represents a bad point. How could it happen? The answer is because technology was built by humans. As we know, technology was built by humans for a better life, but in the process every body has their own view of using technology.
For example, television. The good point of it that people can share any information through it, but the bad point are that some people can't manage their time that they become addicted to it, some people copies bad things that they watch on TV, or some countries lose their identity because the world has become a global village.
Another example is when somebody invented uranium which is being used to produce nuclear power. The good side of using nuclear power is it can be used to produce energy for human life, but the bad side is people using it to make a bomb and destroying human life. It need great wisdom to use technology.
Another thing about technology is that because it is built by humans, they only think about their own life and forget about the impact of it on the environment. But in the future, they will consider the environment as a big point too.

There's more to life than meets the eye

This word makes me remember what my husband told me two days ago. The conversation started because my husband kept trying to persuade me to resign from my recent job. If it happens, my resignation would be the third resignation I have made in my life. It's hard to accept his advice for the first time. He said that in life it is not only earning money, but making yourself became more worthy by using not only your money but your knowledge and your capability to help the other people. That should have been my first plan when I decided to join my husband in Australia. With my condition now, I have to spent ten hours a day at work, I almost didn't have the opportunity to study, whereas that should be my first priority because I have promise my self, when I am to Indonesia I want to get involved in developing education matters. And now I only have one year to go. There are so many things that I must catch up. Yeah...life would be worthy if we can do something for other people.

Inner Beauty

All the time, I only believe in inner beauty and not the outer. Why? Because since I was young, I have been a little bit different from two of my sisters. They are pretty and I am not. I am just an ordinary person. That's why I always try to make my self confident by believing that becoming a good person is more important than to have a beautiful face. It seems like it is hopeless, but because of that I can always stand it if somebody is teasing me by making a joke of my appearance.
I grew up, and even now the inner beauty has become very famous. As a woman, of course I want to look pretty too, but I am not making it the most important thing in my life. So as long as somebody clean, have good attitude, have huge heart, they can look pretty. That what we call The Inner Beauty.

Digging

Digging sometime is make my life become more fun. I just want to know about anything. But I must be careful with my curiosity. Some of them maybe good to be dug, but I must know when I must stop. When something is related with somebody feeling, I try to stay away, make a distance. Let's them solve their problem by themselves, even though they ask me to listen their problem. Just be a good listener. It's not easy actually, because I am extrovert person. I like to discuss anything, try to guess what actually happen, try to find the root of a problem. Sometime I must accept the consequences of being too curious.