Imagine Nation

21 enthusiastic boys and 2 energetic girls from KDM shared their passion for drawing with me. Drawing is a universal language that breaks barrier between people. Every Saturday morning we speak in language of lines, shape, color, and dream. No translation required, no limitation, just us and our imagination. 

Pay It Forward

A warm cozy fuzzy soft feelings that tingles from my toes up to my nose is what I get every time I receive a random act of kindness. A Donna Faust threw kind words of my work in her blog. Thank you Donna! As a tribute to her I'm giving away this handmade blank journal to the first person who comment on this post and yes I will have it delivered free of charge anywhere in the world.

9 January

An interesting start of twenty twelve already. My mom suffered a stroke on her 75th birthday last Monday. I'm thankful my brother got help on time, I'm thankful the doctors and the nurses at Siloam Hospital were resourceful, I'm thankful Dena was with me to help me absorb the shocking news, I'm thankful for my sisters and brothers in IES, I'm thankful for endless support and love from family and friends. God is awesomazing! Everywhere I turned I was comforted and strengthened by his amazing love through his words, through family & friends. It's a long road to recovery with many challenges ahead. I'm just glad & humbled she made it. I love you Mom! You are one tough cookie.

Grade 2 Heroes

According to Merriam-Webster online dictionary a hero is a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability. 

Last semester Grade 2 picked Ibu Magda, Ibu Elsa, Ibu Bambang, Ibu Niniek and Pak Oky as their inspirational persons. These people are not mythological but they are divine creation and all of them are blessed with great strength and unique ability and more importantly they use their talents & passion to be blessing for others. Ibu Magda looks after stray dogs, Ibu Bambang & Ibu Niniek recycles & takes care the environment, Ibu Elsa & Pak Oky teaches less fortunate children for. 

Grade 2 interviewed them and worked on the story in Language Art class, in Drama class they work on voice projection and articulation and recorded their voices, and in computer class they created drawings with KidPix and learned to scan their art works. It takes a village to raise a child.

Journal Tag

I love vintage. Library books used to come with a pocket and a stock card on the inside of the front cover or the back cover. The librarian would write on the stock card the borrower's name and the due date. I imagine the librarian and the borrower would engage in small talk about the weather or something because it probably would take about 15-20 seconds to take out the stock card from the pocket, fill it in properly and store the stock card for each book. Now it takes less than 5 seconds to scan the bar code of library books.

To pay homage to the extinct library card I adopt the idea as the tag for my journal. The tag become part of the journal; which means my friends don't have to throw away the tag, which means I know my tag has longer living expectations than most tags. Double yay! 

Twenty Twelve

No resolution. It's going to be an interesting year; the year my daughter Dena is graduating from high school, the year she is leaving for college....