Yesterday my brother brought home a green ribbon from his campus.
He explained that it was given to him as to show solidarity in International Day for Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
Intrigued by it, I decided to search more information about that.
So below are some of the information that I attain:

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1. International Health Awareness Days - 2006
You will find list of health awareness days (that will include World AIDS Day, International Child Day, etc)

2. The list of Ribbons Campaign
It stated there that "...The ribbons usually are worn to show that a person belongs to a group or believes in a cause..."

3. Jangan Heran Bila Lampu Kendaraan Nyala Senin Siang
"...Tapi, bila Senin (26/6/2006), para pengemudi menyalakan lampu kendaraannya, maka itu disengaja. Jangan heran!
Nyala lampu ini terkait dengan aksi memperingati hari Anti Narkota International. Rencananya pada hari Senin akan berkumpul ribuan aktivis antinarkoba di Bundaran HI, Jakarta untuk meramaikan acara ini. Nah salah satu aksinya, para aktivis akan meminta para pengemudi kendaraan untuk menyalakan lampu dari pukul 10.00 hingga 14.00 WIB."

Berhubung ini yang ada di negara kita sendiri, ga ada salah nya kalo kita ikut berpartisipasi kan?:) Sekalian, besok berarti bakal cukup macet di daerah HI..Jadi ati2 di jalan yach semua:)

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And now, come the big question.
"What are you fighting for?"
Well, yeah I know..All of us are fighting for our happiness, our future, our career..Basically everyone is fighting for himself/herself, aren't we?
Let's just put aside ourselves, and look around us..
What is it that concern us?
For me, a lot of things *but then again, hey..haha you know how I tend to think about too many things;p*

I believe that education is everyone's right..
Gue percaya akan adanya kesamaan derajat dan martabat di antara semua orang terlepas dari apapun pekerjaan, jabatan, atau apa pun yang berkaitan dengan material.
Gue juga percaya kalo segala sesuatu itu ada penyebab nya. Ga ada yang namanya kebetulan hehehe

Is it an epidemic in the society for spoiling their children?
I'm not pointing to everyone, it's just I've come to a point di mana gue ngerasa gerah atas apa yang gue liat.

When I arrived at my bos's place, there's this car stopping in front of the house.
As I approached the gate, I spontaneously expecting that there were going to be a child stepping out of the car.
Instead, there's a maid stepping out from the other door (which was further from the gate)..
She opened the gate, then headed back to the car..Opened the car door,
and voila...there's her bos's daughter waiting to step down.
I mean..WHAT!?

Ok..Gue cukup paham dengan apa yang sering gue denger dari orang-tua2:
"Orang tua udah ngerasain pahit2nya hidup, mangkanya ga pengen anak nya ngerasain yang sama"

I do respect that..And I even thought the same, in term of:
Jangan sampe kejadian2 yang menorehkan noda hitam di negeri ini terjadi kembali..Itu adalah teror yang ga seharus nya dialami siapa pun juga.

Tapi beda kasus kalo soal material.
I humbly think that a child should learn that money doesn't grow in a tree.
Cuman kiasan hahaha maksudnya: untuk hidup itu butuh uang. Uang itu adalah reward atas apa yang kita lakukan, apa yang kita kerjakan yang berguna buat orang lain.
Menjadi anak dari orang tua kita doesn't entitle us for obtaining all the money that they have, does it?

I'm not trying to put a blame on anyone.
Every one sure do have their own consideration, and as for mine..I've just described it briefly..

Anyway, yang bikin gue bingung itu kurang lebih gini..
Ada anak2 yang di-spoiled, tapi mereka tetap merupakan anak2 yang decent dalam perbuatan maupun tingkah laku..
Ada juga anak2 yang di-spoiled, tapi tindak tanduk nya itu bikin kita2 tercengang.
Kalau gitu yang mana yang memegang peranan dari perkembangan seorang anak?
Kayak nya sifat seseorang itu kombinasi dari lingkungan dan kepribadian anak itu kali yach.
Ibarat nya lagi mau buat kue..
Segimana pun bagus nya suatu cetakan, tapi kalo adonan nya emank ga bagus..Ya hasil nya tetap aja sedikit tidak bagus.

Yesterday I was tutoring a 6-year-old boy, who is about to enter his primary 1 this year.
Unlike before, he sat still as I entered the room.
*"tumben banget"..gitu pikiran gue*
I sat down, opened the book..and asked him whether he still remembered how to add and substract 2 numbers.
He nodded and all of the sudden, he burst me with a lot of question.
*by a lot, i mean A LOT!!!!*

It went something like :
"Miss, how do you know that 'one' is 1?"
-blum sempet gue mikir, dia dah nanya lagi-
"And then..and then..why we have color? And how do you know what to call them?"

Kaget? Bukan cuman kaget..tapi bingung gmana harus ngejelasin itu semua ke anak umur 6 taon..
I tried to tell him that it went a long time ago..
As far as history can tell, the numbering system came from people who lived centuries ago..And for all of us now, we know that 'one' is 1 by learning.


"Yeah..but but miss..people back then were not clever, how come they know how to count?"
Me: 'How do you know that they were not clever?'
"They don't have cars...No airplane..No TV"
Me: 'Well, everything has a basic..And what we have now is the result of development..Did you know that the inventor of lamp live in a time where there was no telephone, tv, cars...'
"What??? Hhmm..i've never thought about that..but but miss..i want to know how do people back then know how to count??"
Me: 'Hhmm..that's hard to answer...How about if I search it on the Internet, then I'll tell you what I find on our next meeting?'
"Noooo...I want to know now..Oohh ooh miss..how do the computer works?"
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Overall, I spent only 10 or 15 minutes tutoring him math..
The rest of it, he's ambushing me with a whole other questions.
I was stunned..He's only 6, and yet have already had so many thoughts..
Isn't it amazing? I mean..Dulu gue pernah penasaran juga sama macem2 hal, tapi pada akhirnya gue 'nyerah' dan belajar buat nerima semua basic2 yang ada di dunia ini.
Dan kemaren gue sempet mikir "Gmana jadi nya kalo dia tau bahwa bahkan sejarah pun itu hasil interpretasi manusia, dan ada kemungkinan salah interpretasi"