Of a Teacher

August 21, 2011 12:59 pm
Waiting is not boring.

Waiting is not boring.

11:57 am
"I write to give my life a form, a narrative, a chronology; and, for good measure, I seal loose ends with cadenced prose and add glitter where I know things were quite lusterless. I write to reach out to the real world, though I know that I write to stay away from a world that is still too real and never as provisional or ambivalent as I’d like it to be. In the end it’s no longer, and perhaps never was, the world that I like, but writing about it. I write to find out who I am; I write to give myself the slip. I write because I am always at one remove from the world but have grown to like saying so."

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André Aciman (via cinderellainrubbershoes)

(via wordsorcerer)

11:45 am
Bali, Indonesia

Bali, Indonesia

(Source: brownanon)

March 15, 2011 12:13 am
This Indonesian: Where does our national pride go?

thisindonesian:

I am a native speaker of Bahasa Indonesia.

A language used by roughly 250 million people. A language that is a mixed of many other languages in the world, namely Arabic, Malay, Dutch, Portuguese and many more that shows just how diverse we Indonesians really are. A language that I take pride of…

Dari dada, dikeluarkan lewat media. Tulisakan dengan bahasa Indonesia….

March 14, 2011 10:52 pm

Hanya coba, kira-kira bisa gak ya?

  • Memang hanya perumpamaan. Kalau cocok, terserah. Dan, kalaupun gak cocok ya gak apa-apa.
  • Kalau ini dibaca orang yang tidak berbahasa Indonesia, apa mereka akan mengerti? Mungkin tidak. La kalau mereka sudah pernah bergaul dengan orang Indonesia dan salah satu pacarnya juga orang yang berbahasa Indonesia, masak ya mereka gak mudheng!?? Kebangetan namanya.
  • Kalau aku kebetulan ya tidak tahu banyak. Menyusun kalimatku yang sekarang aja agak bingung. Munyeng, jarene wong Jowo.
March 5, 2011 8:40 pm
overflowing: Weekly Gratitude Thank you for the sunshine coming through the front windows this morning, giving me a pleasant place to write a difficult paper. Thank you to Josh for being my part-time mechanic and therefore saving me a boat-load of money. On Monday he texted me with, “I was just thinking, and your oil really needs to be changed so Friday-Saturday at the latest, we need to get the stuff needed to hook your car up, so if you can, keep that in mind.” Last night we picked up oil, an oil filter, new tail light bulbs and wipers and he’s out there now working on my car. Thanks again to Josh for his stellar food delivery skills. (I’m seeing a pattern here). Thanks to my girlfriends for poking me about lunch plans. I have lunch plans tomorrow with a friend, dinner with two others next Saturday, and need to find a date for lunch plans for another. I’m not the best at reaching out, but I’m working on it. Thank you to tax returns! Some people complain about tax time, but I look forward to it. I received my state returns this week and I’m anxiously awaiting my federal.  Thank you to Living Social for your awesome movie ticket deal this week. Josh and I are having fun trying to decide which movie to see either this weekend or next.  Thank you to my parents for making a home-cooked meal whenever I visit (this past Sunday) and always sending me home with organic eggs and other goodies which now often include knitting needles and hand dyed yarns.  Thank you for the blessing of our Shyyann being pregnant. Sweet puppies will be arriving before we know it. Thanks to the promise of Spring. A few of my flowers are starting to poke up in their beds. I look forward to seeing how my newly planted garden faired in the winter and planting more this year. Not to mention, Spring clothes and shoes! Thanks to Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs. ‘Nuff said.

overflowing:

Weekly Gratitude

  • Thank you for the sunshine coming through the front windows this morning, giving me a pleasant place to write a difficult paper.
  • Thank you to Josh for being my part-time mechanic and therefore saving me a boat-load of money. On Monday he texted me with, “I was just thinking, and your oil really needs to be changed so Friday-Saturday at the latest, we need to get the stuff needed to hook your car up, so if you can, keep that in mind.” Last night we picked up oil, an oil filter, new tail light bulbs and wipers and he’s out there now working on my car.
  • Thanks again to Josh for his stellar food delivery skills. (I’m seeing a pattern here).
  • Thanks to my girlfriends for poking me about lunch plans. I have lunch plans tomorrow with a friend, dinner with two others next Saturday, and need to find a date for lunch plans for another. I’m not the best at reaching out, but I’m working on it.
  • Thank you to tax returns! Some people complain about tax time, but I look forward to it. I received my state returns this week and I’m anxiously awaiting my federal. 
  • Thank you to Living Social for your awesome movie ticket deal this week. Josh and I are having fun trying to decide which movie to see either this weekend or next. 
  • Thank you to my parents for making a home-cooked meal whenever I visit (this past Sunday) and always sending me home with organic eggs and other goodies which now often include knitting needles and hand dyed yarns. 
  • Thank you for the blessing of our Shyyann being pregnant. Sweet puppies will be arriving before we know it.
  • Thanks to the promise of Spring. A few of my flowers are starting to poke up in their beds. I look forward to seeing how my newly planted garden faired in the winter and planting more this year. Not to mention, Spring clothes and shoes!
  • Thanks to Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs. ‘Nuff said.
August 2, 2010 9:12 am
Teaching Tips | Er-u-di-tion
March 25, 2009 3:12 pm
"Whatever you do, remember that you are a time-based worker."

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