17 January 2012
15 January 2012
No child should have to live with a monster
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You pray he has a good day at work.
Or else you will have to hear your mother getting punched again tonight. And you pray she doesn’t talk too long to the neighbors or bring dinner out too cold. Or do anything else to annoy him tonight. Because you really don’t want to hear the screams. They make you wet the bed at night. So you pray. You pray that today, by some miracle, he won’t come back at all.
NO CHILD SHOULD HAVE TO LIVE WITH A MONSTER
To report instances of domestic violence, call AWARE at 6774 5935 |
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This morning it’s all quiet again.
Your mother’s nowhere to be seen. But there’s a broken bedside-lamp in the trash. Did he hit her with it? Has she left? Has she left you behind? What will happen to you if she really leaves? You don’t know. You’re only ten. All you know is it’s too quiet now. Quiet is scary. Sometimes it’s scarier than chaos and slamming doors, yelling and pushing and being spat at.
NO CHILD SHOULD HAVE TO LIVE WITH A MONSTER
To report instances of domestic violence, call AWARE at 6774 5935 |
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Your mother acts as though nothing happened.
She makes dinner and sits at the table, staring into her plate. He stumbles in drunk, stands behind her and says, “I’m sorry. Do you forgive me?” She sits silent for a long time. You can see the bruise over her eye turning purple. You can feel her sadness filling the room. She nods without looking up. He forces a kiss on her then smiles at you as if to say everything’s fine now. You stare into your plate.
NO CHILD SHOULD HAVE TO LIVE WITH A MONSTER
To report instances of domestic violence, call AWARE at 6774 5935 |
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore
Lagi nugas dan dapet iklan ini. "No child should have to live with a monster". Wow it's like the best copy I ever heard! Meskipun bukan jenis iklan yang gue cari, these campaign deserve a post in my blog.
11 January 2012
We'll make it works.
Time passed. That's what I notice these few days as I wrote the date, it's January already. So many thing remind me of those happy moment back then, but sometimes I asked myself: do I really happy back then? If I did, was it the best? Or is it just my ego to say I'm happy though I'm actually not? That is one unanswered question I won't know. It's just... it's still hurts. Though I can see the good things of all this crazy matters, it's still hurts. Everyday there's a thousand cursed in my head and all I have to do is be quite and that's not an easy thing to do. Let's just move on.
Yes, time's getting harder. But I know we could make it works. We can try.
Anyway. I miss him and I can't wait for Friday cause I've got a date! Yippee!
But times getting hard now. LDR is clearly not easy. But it's possible, so we'll give our best to make it works somehow. It's such a good gift to have someone, you know? I had many friends whom their life is pretty good. They had jobs I always wanted, or chances I always dream about, knowledge I always wanted to have or maybe a pretty face, skinny body and social magnets I don't have.
In other hands, some of them was jealous to me. I had one thing they didn't have: a great man and a strong relationship.
See, Red and I had so much difference before we met. I was so focus to work and put so much efforts to being perfect, while he's just an easy going guy. I tried to fix a broken heart from a 9-years-silly love and he told me he such a boy back then, dated girls with no serious intention (well, yeah, until he saw me).
But what we going through now really changed our personality. I'm getting weaker but I know all this pain will makes sense one day and I'm actually getting stronger while Red... is on his way to be a real man. And I'm proud of him. February 28th would be our 1year and half anniversary and that's just... wow.
All these time I know him and being his favorite girlfriend makes me see so much various face of Red. I know his good or weakness... and still I love him just the way he is. He laughed when he found out my geeky habits sniffing new books cause it's smells good to me. He sighed when I pull him to bookstore (and he ended up in magazine section). He smiled when I said I love him. He's jealous and got tendency to being mad when couple of my friends flirted. He's mad when I'm being selfish. He's happy when I got a high score for my Culture class.
Then, he cried when the first time he hold me after I left for 8 months. And that's the moment when I know I've found answer of all question I've been asked for my whole life. I've found what I've been looking for, what I actually want for my life. It's on him.
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| First field trip to Jakarta! |
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| I'm straight from campus to the hotel, he was in field trip so I just say hi for a while. |
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| A quality time in his place! |
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| Epic sneak out from my home to see him for the very first time! |
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