Since things turning this way, the picture above should have been of someone/something I despise. But hate is no good, right? So, allow me to present you one amazing man~~ :P

Go, go, Power Rangers!

M*ny*t, ternyata Cuco tampan juga..

But as for me, it is good to be near God.
I have made the Sovereign LORD my refuge;
I will tell of all your deeds.
Psalm 73:28

–

But our conversation when you picked me up after school, I remember that. I remember it so well.

Do you know what I buy today?

You asked me that question.

I learn that when people get excited, sometimes they slip out their mind and other can read it so clearly. It was exactly the case with you that day. I screamed my answer with the same if not higher level of excitement. I was so happy because I had never thought that you would buy that. I didn’t even think to make a request.

Later on that day, I played card with Pauline, Michelle, and Ben.

I miss you. I wish you knew.

–

The writing’s on the wall
There’s nothing to say anymore

Thanks for being you
Thanks for being all the things I had to say goodbye to

– Bring Me Down, Lenka

But this I believe.

H e    t o o k    t h e   f a l l
and thought of me
above all.

n_n

Bandung, 5 March 2010

–

I am curious to death

what it feels like if you were still here.

–

Along the way that afternoon,
we met another friend,
so off we all went,
we all march to grab a spade.
Yup, a spade!

A spade,
or shovel.
Doesn’t matter,
cause I surely know what I remember.

:P

.. being singular. Why?

At first, I was not happy that ‘everyone’ is happy being singular. Why does not it say: everyone are happy?

I asked him the question. I thought I had strong reason, great argument to defeat grammar that had existed for centuries.

There is a sense of lots in ‘everyone’. I always thought that when we said ‘everyone’, we were talking about people.

“No, it doesn’t work that way”, he said. “Everyone refers to each individual, it’s not like we add each individual to a collection so that it becomes a plural noun.”

I actually got it when he explained it that way. I should have said thank you, but I didn’t.

I needed object to hit. I just needed to cry so bad that I picked up a fight, a ridiculous fight… over English grammar. I threw all arguments that I could think of and persisted that everyone should be a plural.

He was very patient. He kept explaining and giving his own arguments. He didn’t let me to hold on the wrong answer. He tried his best to guide me. That was the way he responded to my English question. That was the way he raised me.

I did cry. :p

Now, I am very happy that ‘everyone’ is happy being singular. I’ve got myself a memory of him. It is priceless.

Should he be right here, right now, what would I do?

.. ask him what tenses to use if I want to tell, in narrator mode, a fact that still happens to the day when the story is told? Like the italic lines above.. I can pick up another fight over that.

Or better.. I can simply say,

Happy birthday, Pa!

November 28

I cast all my cares upon You,
I lay all of my burdens down at Your feet.
And any time I don’t know just what to do,
I will cast all my cares upon You. [Cares Chorus]

wow, is short writing my new style? hh…