YOU ARE A WOMAN WARRIOR

WOMAN WARRIOR

Nowadays, a woman warrior does not fight physically but she has weapons. Her weapons are her strength, her spirit, her love, her tenderness, her patience, and her faith to God.

You are a woman warrior if you are a single mother and fight to raise up your children.

You are a woman warrior if you are a widow and fight for your living.

You are a woman warrior if you fight against the disease.

You are a woman warrior if in uncertain condition , you still put your hope to God.

Last week, I got an email from a friend of mine. He says that his friend had a breast cancer. He lead me to a blog which is written by his friend. When I read that blog, I many times brushed my tears away. There’s a sentence which caught my eyes, it is written “it’s ruin my career and life”, I think I can understand her feeling but one thing that I can see from her blog that the cancer does not ruin her spirit/passion to recover. She is an optimistic woman and I know she can through it all. She is one of woman warrior!

My grandmother fought to raise up her five children after her husband passed away and she made it well. She was a good cook and when I asked her to cook, she did it for me. She taught me about faith to God when my parents didn’t do. Every night, I slept with her. I ever asked her ”why do you always sing praise song every evening?” She answer,” I always miss being in church.” She is with our Father now. I will always remember her love, her passion and her hope to God. She is a woman warrior!

A woman warrior is the woman who fight for something by her strength, passion, love, tenderness, patience) and put her hope to God.

Nova

THE SPIRIT OF RED WHITE FLAG

Notes for Readers

August 17^th is the date that will always be memorized by all Indonesians. You can feel the spirit of Red White Flag on this date in Indonesia. INDEPENDENCE DAY!

Besides ceremony that you can see in most of the place here, you can also see many contests and competitions are held here. Some of the competitions are held before August 17^th. This contests and competitions are aimed to grow and show the spirit of Red White Flag. Red means brave and white means holy.

Some contests and competitions which are held in every year are : tug of war, sack race, mounting nut, marble race, cracker eating contest, balloon breaking contest, singing contest, kebaya and batik contest, traditional dance competition, cooking competitions, etc. You can choose some competitions that you are interested in and join it.

Mounting Nut

I was born in the country which has diverse culture and religion. Indonesia has more than thirty tribes and five religions where every culture/tribes has its own language. We live side by side peacefully. I still remember what my primary teacher advised us; she said “THE PERSON WHO OBEY HIS GOD IS THE PERSON WHO RESPECT OTHER RELIGIONS.” Although, there are some arguments and terrorism but so far, we still can hold each other.

I live in Sumatera island, that is in North Sumatera. We still have Kalimantan island, Java island, Sulawesi island, Irian Jaya island and Bali is one of our small island. One thing that I miss to see in my country is the good progress.

Map of Indonesia

If you ask me, “Nova, what have you done for your nation/country?” I only can do a little for my country, I write information about my country so that if there are people who don’t know Indonesia, at least they know it from my writing above. INSPIRING INDONESIA!!

Nova.

Smile

Notes for Readers

Smile.... the world need you

Smile.... the world love you

Smile.... the world hope you

Smile.... the world long to you

Smile in every chance cause it is free

Unlimited smile gives unlimited blessing


Nova

Sense of a Cook

Notes for Readers

I let my kitchen get messy
I let my palms get rough
I let my finger hurt

Just to see the smile
The smile when you taste my food
Makes me a good cook

Hoping the smell of my food
Relaxing your mind
Hoping the performance of my food
Refreshing your eyes
Hoping the taste of my food
Making you forget your problems for a while
Hoping you want more and more my food
This is the sense of a cook

Note :: Food can make people happy, food can make people angry, food can make people alive, food can make people die..

Nova

Culture

Note for Readers...

Do you think culture is interesting???
In your oppinion, can culture make people become rich or poor???

I am an Indonesian and I am proud of being an Indonesian. Every culture has its own language,song,culture and cultural ceremony.Culture is the identity as a cultural country.It is a legacy from the forefather which we have to keep it from generation to generation. It remind us that our forefathers were the creative persons in their time.

As a good citizen in a cultural country, we have to hold our culture or in other words "Don't lose your culture!!"Languages, songs, costumes are things that we should keep well for our next generation. They are precious. But how is cultural ceremony. Cultural ceremony is held from time to time to celebrate or remind something, such as wedding ceremony, celebrate a new baby born, or death ceremony.Very often this ceremony spend much money. Even if they don't have enough money to hold one of these cultural ceremony, they will borrow it from others who have money.They are ashamed if they can not hold a cultural ceremony.

For example : In a certain culture in Indonesia. If there is a man who is going to get married, he must buy the woman for millions ruphias.Then his family must fund the wedding party including the cultural ceremony. They may spend about 40 millions ruphias. If they don't have the money,they will borrow it first. If they don't do as the rules in the culture, others will think that they break the rules in the culture. Other example : some people rebuild the gravestone of their grandparents or great grandparents into luxurious gravestone.It needs much money. No wonder if the house of the dead people is better than the house of alive people.They do the ceremony to build the gravestone.

I know it is bad if we lose our culture and i don't want to lose my culture but i don't agree with some cultural ceremony which spend much money. Are you proud if you are in debt just because obey the culture???Are you proud if your house looks terrible but your parents grave looks luxourious???

(This is the original composition of Nova,3 May 2009. If you want to comment you can write to my mail at naravichy@yahoo.com)