Thursday, June 28, 2012

Sports day - KJRI karachi

Orang Indonesia, Kemana pergi akan selalu membawa rasa nasionalisme yang tinggi, mengibarkan bendera merah putih setinggi-tingginya, melantunkan lagu-lagu patriotisme sekencang-kencangnya, dan berbicara sebebas-bebasnya... berekspresi sesuai asal muasalnya....

Ya, kali ini memang sedang membicarakan warga Indonesia di Karachi. Juni adalah bulan yang selalu kami tunggu WNI di Karachi, meski penuh dengan desakan berita-berita target killing, hartal or whateva di media, serta suhu politik yang tak pernah dingin, moment kemerdekaan 17 Agustus selalu hadir setiap pertengahan tahun. Layaknya WNI di Indonesia yang menyambut kemerdekaan dengan pelbagai pertandingan dan perlombaan anak-anak, di sini pun kami merasakan hal yang sama, TERIMA KASIH untuk KJRI Karachi.
My boy on "tug of war" - cre.foto tante Nia-khi

Hampir sepuluh permainan yang diperlombakan tidak menjadi kurang menarik hanya karena tidak ada kerupuk untuk digigit dalam permainan lomba makan kerupuk tapi tergantikan oleh donut coklat yang lezat, begitu juga tidak kurang seru karena tidak ada panjat pinang tapi tergantikan oleh permainan bowling.

Beginilah rasanya mensyukuri hidup di perantauan, bukannya mencari-cari yang tidak ada tapi menggantikannya dengan sesuatu supaya hidup menjadi lebih terasa ringan. Intinya mari menikmati hidup meski di rantauan. Bersyukur atas apa yang ada!!!

BRAVO WNI di Karachi

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

What Bilingual kids dream while sleeping...

The good thing in raising your kids with 2 languages or more are, you can identify what their dream while they are sleeping...

You don't have to go to the psychologist to know what your kid's trembling of or love about,  well I can't said that scientifically  proofed by the expert, but I just found it myself on both my kids (LOLs). I found it funny when I heard my kids talking in their sleep, and I enjoyed every their "conversation" in a sleep.

It's also "unscientifically" proof that bilingual kids are able to shift their attention since in their consciousness are supposedly easy, so of course in their  sleeping more clear..

The bilingual kids will respond to the dream according to whom they deal with... one sample, my kids showing anger by saying word "Ga mau" (= I don't wan't it) in their sleep, so I know to whom she's talking to in the dream, and it's me, my husband reply her "kya huwa meri beti"(What's wrong my daughter?) best thing about her, sometimes she replied. And she replied it nicely in urdu... Amazing how the brain works... "MashAllah"...

I shared this as a fun... I found many moms thought their kids in some languages... some thinking this is an ordinary topic, so they didn't share it in the blog or any other stuff, or might be its not a new thing... I still searching some blogs related to bilingual kids...