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Tuesday, January 01, 2008

What is the 'New Year' mean?

Today is a new year's day. Heavy rain causing flood and global warming causing flood tide have been happening all over Indonesia, welcoming the year 2008. So 'New Year' for me means being thankful to God that I am well, together with my husband in our small home.

Well maybe I saw some fireworks at 12 midnight from my roof and watched the news showed all these crazy people celebrated the New Year's Eve anyway under heavy rain with endless traffic jam in the centre of Jakarta. I can understand how hard life of Jakarta and all this natural disasters drove people to forget for once and just having fun by celebrating the New Year's Eve.

What I just don't understand is how I can be living my life and move on while lots of people in my country living under simple refugee tents, waiting for the flood to disssappear with the heavy rain keeps coming and coming. It is hard just to comment and critisize the government, blaming them with all these problems. Just as hard as knowing you can not do anything about it simply because you have your own life to take care of and you are not in the strategic position to turn things around.

And that what is the 'New Year' mean to me...

lulu, at home, Jakarta, 17.40, January 1, 2008