Rich Kids of Instagram

What’s up, Maders! How’re you doing? Today’s sunny, but I’m inside and reading a book in different places of my house. Haha.

By the way, have you heard about rich kids of Instagram? It’s a kind of hash-tag and people put it while they’re posting something on Instagram, indicating they’re rich, showing off! Things they post are fabulous and extremely expensive, for sure. Those kids have much wealth and uncountable money.

I know one statement coming from them, more or less like this: “being rich is sometimes boring except people watch it”. It means, you know, they want to tell the world about what they have or what they just buy, something that not all people can afford it.

In my opinion, it’s okay to show off if you’re really have it, not just a lie or fake imagination. On the other hand, you had better not show off too much. Yes, you’re born rich, but what about others? Poor people struggle for life and they don’t even think about having a car, for example, they think about food, what they’ll eat for tomorrow.

Recently rich kids have a special application, social media, that allows them to post everything they want on it. They need to pay hundred dollars every month if they want to have an account. For them, it’s not a big deal, it’s real cheap.

Money collected by the rich kids app would be given to poor children in order to pay their education. Wow, charity! Although it’s only one third of it, that’s the thing about rich kids that makes me delighted. See, even though they spend much money for buying luxurious stuff and showing off, they still remember about helping unlucky poorly children.

Well, have you done charity today? Giving your little money to those who need it is a good start. My parents and I love to do charity. In fact, my name “Malia” means charity. Haha. The more wealth we have, the more charity we give. If you make it into a secret (nobody knows when you do charity), it would be better. Don’t be scared if you’ll lose your money because of charity. Just believe that God would give you something (bigger) as a return.

The Boy in Blue

Hey, Maders! What’s up? Hopefully you have a good day as I do. Yeah! I’m completely excited because I have a new teddy to accompany me in bed. It’s a yellow teddy holding a pink pillow in heart shape saying “I love you” with two butterflies, a red rose, and a yellow bright flower. I named it Anjun because it’s a gift from Andrew and Juna (children from Tuntang). Anjun has two loves on his left foot. Haha. So cute!

Andrew is an eleven year old boy loving blue color, so he always wears blue t-shirt almost everyday. His simple outfit is only a blue t-shirt with shorts. He’s a lovely kid and I love hearing his laugh. Funny!

I used to visit Andrew’s house often and play there. We did things like sitting on sofa together, watching a movie, listening to music, and many more. He loves games and I loves books. Quite different!

I was truly sad because I was away from home for more than a month, but he was always there for me and making me homey. We’ve ever eaten chicken noodle (he paid for two of us) and shared snacks. I needed to go to salon at that time and he showed me the way and even waited me as long as I got my hair cut.

We often went to Indomaret or Alfamart to buy something. The most thrilling moment was when we passed a graveyard after going back from Indomaret. I fell down and hurt my knee but I was fine. On the next visit to Indomaret, it’s him who fell down because he’s holding his phone as a torch and not focusing on the street. Again, we walked through the darkness!

Unfortunately, I don’t see him recently because we have said goodbye to each other. It’s sad to know this reality. I love him so much and he’s like my little brother, something that I’ve never had in life. He and I hope that we could meet again someday. Ameen!

Andrew, the boy in blue, thanks for the teddy. Anjun is you in different figure. I hug him everyday and always will. Thanks for everything! We could still keep in touch by phoning and chatting.

I love you and I miss you!

Gifts from The Kids in Tuntang

Hello, Maders! It’s me Malia. I’m not special but I was being special because of what I got from the kids in Tuntang. Yups, I have to say that they gave me many gifts but they didn’t do the same thing to my friends.

We’re nine people in the voluntary group and Tuntang was the name of the village we lived in. The chief of the group (and my other friends) said I’m childish and I admit that. On the other hand, that’s my special ability to get along with the children there.

In the last night before going back home in the next morning, my friends and I invited all children to come to our basecamp. We said goodbye to all of them and they felt sad of it. So was I. I love them all.

The children read goodbye letter and gave some gifts to us. The children collaborated to write in a big paper saying thanks for us. Next, the children wrote something in a piece of paper and they had to give it to only one member of my voluntary group. Honestly, I have the greatest amount of the letters and gifts.

The gifts were four bracelets, a necklace, a teddy bear, and love letters saying they loved me and they felt sad because I couldn’t play with them anymore. I laughed at a letter saying that they admired my mix-blood face. Haha. Thanks to my ancestor!

Those gifts I got were from different children. It depended on them to give what and to whom, for instance Manda gave me gifts several times. There were four girls in my voluntary group and they only got one bracelet for each. Yes, I know, that’s why I’m feeling grateful.

A few couple days, I gave a colorful bottle for each child and they gave me more than my expectation. Honestly, I thought they would only give me a letter but no, they did more than that. They saved their money and organized a meeting to prepare all things. Two thumbs up for you, Kids!

Lastly, I would say my thanks to Tuntangers, the villagers, and the children. Thanks for the warmness you gave to me. Thanks for cheering me up when I got sad because of my conflicts with friends. I would miss you and love you more than my group members. Definitely!

Anger Got by Children

Hello, Maders! How are you? I’m perfectly fine here. I tell you what, the voluntary program has officially ended and I must focus on my final project. At least, I’m home so I’m delighted. Haha

Today, I’m going to share about anger got by children. What I mean is parents sometimes get mad to their children because of little mistake. Although the little mistake could be an innovation or creation made by children, the parents don’t seem understand it.

A phenomenon I got in a village was when a child cried, the mother would hit the child with hand and said bad words like “you naughty kid!” See, it’s not good for the child’s psychology. The child would believe if she is naughty and keep it in her mind.

My parents always say positive words to me such as “beautiful”, “smart”, and so on. Then I keep those nice thoughts in my mind and I believe that myself is beautiful and smart. (I don’t care if people see me bad haha)

The point is when someone gets support and positive things, he or she would have courage to do something better. When you’re sad, you hope that somebody will cheer you up instead of letting you down. Am I right?

Children are precious treasure for this country and they need to have pleasant memory in order to be excellent people. They will lead this country in the future. I’m not kidding but a simple thing like giving compliment to them could make them better.

Here I give you an example. A kid is drawing a weird object and showing it to you. After that, you say that the drawing is good and you show him how to make it better. The kid will appreciate what you do and I think the kid could improve his “weird” object into “better” one.

Personally I’m an adult but I haven’t had kids. Haha. Of course! I need to continue my study to master degree and I will think of marriage. But hey parents, you need to be patient facing your children. If they do something wrong, you have to ask the reason why instead of directly judging them. Remember this, everything has a reason to exist and something big starts from something small. Make this environment better place for children.

Medal of Star Wars Rogue One

Hey, Maders! How’s life? Having a great day, huh? Yeah me too. I’m home when I’m writing on this blog. Last night I slept on my comfortable bed, finally! I tell you what, no place’s better than home. Gotcha!

This time, I’d like to talk about Star Wars. A couple weeks ago, I bought a medal at Alfamart and surprisingly it only cost 5k. I love Star Wars and the coming movie seems having a title “Rogue One”. Based on the medal, the movie would be available on December 2016. This year? Yeah, right! Make sure you watch the movie in cinema cause I will. Haha

The last thing I remember about watching Star Wars is when Rey meets Luke Skywalker and she gives the light-saber because it belongs to him. Can’t wait to see what will happen next after that scene!

Back to the medal stuff. There are 37 medals with different drawing on it. One of which is gold and those who can find it would get a voucher for shopping 500k. On the other hand, if you can collect all of the medals, you will have 5 million money for shopping in a voucher. Amazing!

I don’t think I would collect all those medals because personally I have one and that’s enough. At least, I have something related to Star Wars. Haha. I’m a fan of it!

Perhaps you have another thought and that’s fine. You won’t force me to be a collector of medals, will you? xxx I’d say congratulations to anyone that can get all the medals. It could be you, yes you!

In fact, I’ve got a medal with robot drawing and I don’t know what it is. It doesn’t look like a storm-trooper. I wish I could get a medal with Darth Vader drawing. However, I won’t buy the medals anymore.

You could see the picture that I uploaded here. Those are the drawings of the medals. I love the other side of the medal having “Star Wars” letters. It’s very elegant!