Ooo....Nooo.... Mount Merapi erupted!!

The Mount Merapi... 

This old guy seemed never tired for  blowing  smoke which usually called 'wedus gembel'

What an unexpected...  it's been a couple month ago me  together with my family   ( here !  in our 5 days trip to Jogjakarta... ) were  still enjoy and seeing the beauty of Kali Urang , the place where was shaded by  the mount Merapi  which is  one of the  most  volcanic mountain in the world... 

And nowadays the Mount Merapi seemed   getting  a big  anger...(as what the resident said)...

yeah... sir mount Merapi  currently was beginning to rage and  has been  erupted ... spewing the lava and heat to every corner of the land wich was  sheltered  by this mountain  with  peacefully  since along time ago....

Here are our pics when we visited 'Kali Urang' (a jungle tours  that place at the mount Merapi area) a month ago.... enjoy!

 Water fall , one of the scenery of Kali Urang

Vincent, Icha, Ochi, and Baim... try to climb...

It's really horrible... the beautiful place when I visited a couple month ago was  so frenzied and chaotic recently  as I  watched from the TV .... 

 Icha, Ochi, Vincent, Baim...

Go...go... climb...kids!!

Icha and Ochi...

with my hubby...

I'm so sorry but I haven't any pic of the appearence of Kali Urang  now after attact by the eruption of mount Merapi...

I just hope this natural disaster will be over soon...

And for all the victims...may The Almighty will give you all strenght and fortitude..
And for the goverment I also hope could handle this situation with all the best...

I actually more  worried  because of my son Vincent who was  currently in  Jogjakarta for college... even though his place was far enough from the   disaster  area ... 
Everytime I  pray for my baby son... May Allah always protect and blessed him wherever he was...

With all  humility .... here  I also wanna  ask  you all readers to  give a little pray to all brothers who were affected  by the eruption of mount Merapi... If it could... any  little help  from all of you... will be so meaningful for them..

Insya Allah, I will also contribute some funds to help ease their burden ...

Thanks for   all your kindness,  my friends!

May God bless you !!

And I Pray for Mak Ucih...

The scenery around the village where my deceased granny lived

This pic was taken when I return home for Eid a couple month ago...

That little girl was wept bitterly, as she found  Mak Ucih, the old woman who lived alone in a little house on the riverbank has  already died... It's said that her body had been taken by her family who lived  at the opposite village.....

Mak Ucih was a best friend of that little girl.....

She knew Mak Ucih when  she spend her school holidays in her granny's home in the village... her granny also know who is Mak Ucih, but  her granny always warned her to not often  visit Mak ucih though... because her granny was too afraid that her granddaughter will slipped into the river or something... since Mak Ucih lived near the river and also a rather remote from others...

You know folks.....  that little girl was me... when still  in about 11 or 12 yo... I always spend my holidays school  in my granny's home in the village... 

Till now I always love the natural and rural atmosphere ... I think one day if I'm  getting old, I wanna lived and buy a house in the countryside area...hmmm... just a thought!!

That time I know better about Mak ucih from my granny... She said what poor Mak Ucih ... She didn't have a biological child, but she raised 2 children of her brother who fosterage lovingly ... and raising them from the babies until the adulthood, and  eventually  got married and lived happily...

but... what poor Mak Ucih... when she's  getting old and had no longer  property... her children seem like didn't care her anymore, even they let Mak Ucih living alone...
What poor Mak Ucih...!!
My little heart was deeply touched to hear the story from my granny...
so that what make me as a little girl wanna visit Mak Ucih more often... to comfort her ... and make her happy...  I sometimes I mean often brought  her some food which I'd taken secretly from my granny's kitchen...

Last time  when I visited Mak Ucih,  I've  promised   her but not told it   out yet , it's only a promise in my heart... since I saw Mak Ucih didn't have a Mukena (a special clothing for a Muslim for doing pray)  I mean she only  had one 'mukena', but it looked so old and worn... so I promise myself I wanna buy her one.. I have an idea...  asked  my mom some money for it or if not I wanna break my piggy bank..

It's trully sad that my promise couldn't fullfilled yet  while Mak Ucih was already gone...

The little me was crying that time... but also pray and pray for her...
It's make me  totally sure that Mak Ucih   has been  surely  rest peacefully with no more loneliness and suffering...
This memory was still kept good in my mind till now...

I think there're perhaps another Mak Ucih in this cruel world... I even read the story from my bloggy friend Doris, which already inspired me to write  this post ...  Thank you Doris!!  

I think you guys should read  an inspiring   post from Doris's site :  And She Prayed... I bet you will not regret!

Well... finally  from deep in my heart I  hope there will no other Mak Ucih anymore  in this world... 
And I hope one day if I'm getting old.. and being a granny ...I wanna be a happy person, not being a lonely grandma... or a poor grandma who was abandoned by our own children....   And I also hope the same  to all of you,  folks!  Amen!!

Walking under the Rain...at Borobudur temple area...

Ochi and Icha together with the Buddhist statues...

This is probably my last post about our fun story at the Borobudur temple area...

I hope you guys all still can enjoy our journey...hehe...

Actually I didn't know before that there're some other places in the Borobudur area such as the museum of old ship named  'Phinisi Nusantara', and the museum of art which had some collections of arts including paintings, sculpture, hand crafts and other art works...

Ochi and Icha in the old ship museum...

Actually there's something that make Baim wanna enter the museum in a sudden... he found the bulletin board in the corner across the street when we passed... It showed there's a human dwarf (reputedly the shortest in the world) in the museum... so Baim was so excited to see it with his own eyes...

Finally we bought some tickets to enter the museum... although I was really anxious to get back home since the weather  was so unpleasent... cloudy with light rain...

Entering the museum and found the human dwarf... I can see Baim was not too excited as before... He even blurry right after he saw the dwarf... HAHAHA... he looked scared like watching a horor... whereas I wanna shot him with the dwarf as memento...  so Icha who finally dare to pose with the dwarf...

Here're some pics of us... enjoy!

 Baim posed with the wooden animal sculpture...

Icha posed with the dwarf...

with my daughter Ochi, at the ship museum...

 Baim posed in front of 'Phinisi Nusantara' ship...

Time was getting late, but the rain has not subsided, so we decided to run crashing the rain... Luckily there're some people who rent the umbrella... so we hired a few umbrellas and buy a plastic raincoat  for Baim...

See... we jogged through the rain mists toward  the gate.

But still can snap snap... under the rain... hehe...

Ochi, Icha, Baim walked under the rain toward the gate...

Oh damn!! when we got in the gate... we're puzzled to find our car park....we went round and round...even enter the market which sell many souvenir items and also crafts typical of Borobudur...

I tried to call my hubby asking where the position of  parking... but it didn't worked... so by following the instinct  eventually we found our car park where my hubby and Vincent waited us there as well... oh...Alhamdulillah!!

My three kiddos posed in front of the market...

posed with my daughter Ochi around the market area while looking for our parking...

Let's Jump....!!

Icha, Baim, and Ochi...

Still in  the Borobudur temple area....

After we descended  from the temple in a hurry because of  the rain which fallen in a sudden ...

we walked toward  the park around the temple ... Alhamdulillah (thanks to Allah!) rain was falling only a moment ...

Seeing the beauty of the park....we didn’t  want to waste the opportunity to take  some pictures ...

I told to my three kiddos: Ochi, icha, and Baim.... how if they posed  while jumping  ....I think it would be great  if I captured them with jumping posed... haha...

While  giggling Ochi, Icha and Baim then jump and jump... And I captured them also with crazy giggling...

Some people who passing around us staring with the strange eyes... but I can see they also giggling... but who's cared...??

 It's unfortunate that the camera I used was only a small digital camera ...

Actually  I'd love to have a camera like what Betsy have... ( I usually walk around her blog, seeing  and enjoy her amazing pictures which really fascinated me...!!).

Insha Allah one day if I've got some money... I wanna buy one, so that time I could take pictures with more better result... Just pray for me, folks... ok!! hehe....

 I hope you all enjoy my kiddos, Ochi, Icha and Baim in  their jumping pose... (or probably in their giggling pose?!)

I always love to see them on these pictures... 

Oh... Nooo...!! The kiddos want me to jump too...

Look!! What an ugly jumping  pose....!! HA... !!

The momma with an ugly jumping pose...

At The Borobudur Temple....

Posed with my daughter Icha...

Among in our 5 days trip to Jogjakarta, we visited Borobudur Temple... the largest temple in Indonesia which is a Budhist cultural heritage... Borobudur is  also the one of the seven wonders in the world...

Borobudur located in Magelang, the central java, about 40 km from Jogjakarta... More about  Borobudur, please click here!

At around 3.00 pm we began to enter the area of Borobudur temple... the weather was slightly cloudy... but the visitors were quite a lot  because that time was still in holiday feast of Eid...

Vincent was felt unwell... so he decided not to join us to go to the Borobudur temple area... finally he and his dad just have waited us in the parking area  while looking for the delicious resto which so many spread there... so eventually only me, Ochi, Icha and Baim who entered the temple area...

 Icha in front of the Borobudur Temple...

 

Posed at one of the stupa of Borobudur Temple...

Actually Me, my hubby and Vincent have been already coming to Borobudur several times  in the past..

But Ochi, Icha and Baim have not been seeing Borobudur yet...so I wanna them to know and see for certain how the shape of Borobudur temple which often discussed in the lessons of history  in their school.

Oh.. no... What a very bad pose...!!!

Icha....

Unfortunately the weather was not too friendly... After we reached to the top of the temple... rain began to fall ... we haven't had time to look around the stupa or reliefs that are very historic... we went down and left the temple with a little bit hurry...

The photos we've taken were not too much.... and not  too good...

but hopefully one day if  we got another chance to come to Borobudur again...  I promise myself to take more photographs with more good angels... Insha Allah!

Baim...

Icha  take Ochi with her BB...

Icha with Ochi...