Ode to My Mother

I am still being a little bit under the weather, so I still don't have enough energy to write a new post for today :( .Therefore my post for today is another note from my Facebook (again).

Ode to My Mother

By: Ihsan Nur Iman Faris

In the dawn,
when most of earth population are still in their dreams,
when rooster hasn't crow,
when sunshine hasn't begin to share its light,
when plants still breathe in oxygen,
you wake up,
smiling at your family who are still sleeping
preparing breakfast, so that they can do their activities in their best shapes.

Working,
from dawn to dusk
from office desk to kitchen table.
being tired, being exhausted, being sick.

you never complain
you never be desperate
you never be angry.

All that you do is for the sake of me, for the sake of your family.

I hope, one day my sons and my daughters will have
a mother as perfect as you.

aamiin.

Think, Count, Realize

By Ihsan Nur Iman Faris
Think you are in your funeral.

Count, how many people will come.
Count, how many people will cry.
Count, how many people will laugh.

That way
you can guess
how important you are,
in the middle of society.

That way
you can estimate,
how many good deeds that you have done.

That way
you can count,
how many times you hurt people's hearts.

That way
you will realize that
when you are dead,
you can change nothing.

Think, count, realize,
from now on.

taken from favim.com

Uniform

By: Ihsan Nur Iman Faris

They cheat, they steal, they murder.

They are cheaters, they are thieves, they are murderers.

They want to eat, they want to sleep, they want justices,

they are desperados because they don’t wear any uniform.

They cheat, they steal, they murder.

They are cheaters, they are thieves, they are murderers.

They can eat, they can sleep, they are justices,

they are not desperados because they do wear uniforms.

They are disgraces of my country

because they wear uniforms.

I cannot sleep I cannot dream tonight, I need my television

Whoa ! My television is out of order and because of that I get sleeping disorder. Well, maybe that sounds exaggerating but actually that’s true. I cannot sleep well not because I am depressed thinking of my precious out of order TV, but because I cannot hear any sound from it before sleeping. Yea, that’s weird I know. Commonly people tend to sleep easier while they are in tranquil conditions but I am uncommon.  I tend to sleep easier when I hear sounds of human nearby. I feel secure and safe when I hear noises created by human, that’s why I always turn my TV on before sleeping. Last night I didn’t hear any 'lullaby ' from my TV. My focus was distracted by the sounds outside of my dorm and I kept thinking of the source of those sounds so that I couldn’t sleep well on that night. I don’t even place any clock at my dorm because I hate the tic toc sound of clock bugging me when I try to sleep. Do you know what kind of sleeping disorder I get? I don’t search it on google because if I search it on google I’ll lose any reason to write this post (lol) .

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jonnadeesblog.blogspot.com 

Technology; Friend or Foe?

I am almost 20 years old by the end of June, and somehow remembering my age rings the bell of my past when I was a child back then. When I was a child, there were many traditional games played by children such as galah asin, petak umpet, ucing-ucingan, oray-orayan, perepet jengkol ,congklak, gasing, langlayangan (playing kite) etc . My favorite games were galah asin and petak umpet (hide and seek).

“There were many traditional games played by children”

Yes, I said they were many traditional games played by children because we can see that nowadays, in the globalization era, when technology is the king, children rarely play traditional games. The nature of children is playing, and of course on that age they will tend to use much time for playing. So, if I say that traditional games were played by children, what games do children play nowadays? Children nowadays tend to prefer monitor, keyboard, and mouse to be their playing partners rather than their peers, that is the negative effect of the development of technology.

 

There are some values lost by the time modern games bolstered by the development of technology replaces the traditional games.

The value of socialization is the first thing which is lost. Here is the thing, when you want to play traditional games what thing you have to do first? Of course you have to gather with your peers, and how about when you want to play internet games? Just turns on the computer or go to warnet I guess. Traditional games trigger children to socialize with the others, they build togetherness among children and of course the effect for the growth of the children will be beneficial, because they will get used to doing activities in group. On the other hand, internet games make children be exclusive and individual because they will only need computer as their friends.

 The second thing is that the degradation of healthy level of the children. Whoa ! it sounds scientific but actually I cannot proof how far the degradation of healthy level of the children happened when they leave the