What's Up with U.... 'Mbah Petruk"....???

Mount Merapi was spewing 'wedus gembel'

image source from google

 

Today was the 11th days since mount merapi erupted... but  it's  seemed this old guy still has not let up  his  anger...

His tantrums even seemed got more blazing day after day...

See..... burst of hot clouds and lava ceaseless gush from the mouth of this  volcanic mountain ...

even everyone could watch  the last eruption was so powerful with very loud rumbling sound ...
What a horrible... the event that never really happened before..

Mount Merapi,  this old guy  has been known and well understood by the local resident ... but now it's been  stunned them very much  on his very act of excessive ...

all wondering ... why and what's up with this old guy..!!

You know folks,   almost all Javanese people think that mount  merapi is not only the ordinary mountain.. but this mountain has a spirits or it could be said controled by some spirits which among others  called  'Mbah Petruk'...

'Mbah petruk' cloud, appeared  on the top of Mt. Merapi a couple days before the eruption.

image source from google

A couple days  before the mountain erupted, one of the local resident  named: Suswanto (40 yo)   had been capturing   strange cloud on the sky which the appearence was really the same as 'Mbah Petruk' who has been  very familiar with most  Javanese people.

The 'Mbah Petruk'  cloud has been  believed by some people  as a sign   that something extraordinary (major disaster) will happen and the community is expected to be alert and prepared...

Believe   it or not... but the fact now Merapi this old guy has been fulfilled his promise as the most active volcanic and dangerous mountain in the world.

Appearance of 'Petruk' who had been very populer on the Javanese people

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And even    now the eruptions of Merapi which commonly understood by citizens, can't be predicted anymore ... every day people seemed to be left for  waiting for  the arrival of the awesomeness of this old guy's fury...

Noone   knows...

when will this old guy stop spewing the hot lava and 'wedus gembel' (hot smoke)...
when will  the people stop suffering  in the refugee camps due to this terrible disaster...
When will I stopped watching TV looking for the latest updates of  the eruption Merapi's  news
When will I stopped thinking about my baby son Vincent who  currently lived at  Jogjakarta for college, the place where  affected by the anger of this old volcanic guy...

Oh...   Allah...Oh... my Lord!!

Your hand is only the one who could stopped them.
There's noone  was the best helper except Thou...

At least...  a little prayer from all of you, folks...  would  be alleviate their suffering ...

Insha Allah! (May God willing!)

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 !!

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...

Reunion with Vincent....

 Me, Vincent and my hubby

this pic was taken before we left back to Palembang

a said goodbye pic...

After about 4 days celebrated Eid in my mom's home  in Sumedang,  the west Java province, we're going away to Jogjakarta, the central of Java, sending Vincent to his boarding place where he recently stay for college.

Actually it's  the first time we  will see  Vincent's   new place.... I just wonder how he lived his life there... what kind of place he stayed in.... how about the circumstances surrounding him... etc...etc...so many questions were  out  of my mind....

 Lunch on the way along Sumedang-Jogjakarta

Arriving at Jogjakarta at about 11.00 pm  we rent a hotel around Vincent's boarding place... Coincidently the hotel we rent was where Vincent  have been staying  alone there for 3 days last time when got  the entrance test to college where he in study now. 

We rent 2 rooms adjacent  where I slept accompanying with Icha and Ochi, and my hubby with Baim and Vincent. Vincent didn't wanna back and slept at his boarding place... he prefer with us... hehe...

You know... It's really surprising me when I see my son's boarding place...  I just wonder  my son  will comfortable stay in this place or not... I'm just a little weird with the situations...And Ochi, Icha and Baim had the same feeling  with me... Only my hubby who has the different feeling....hmm...  I'll tell you in my next post about the atmosphere which made me felt weird in my son's place...Insha Allah.

 In Vincent's room...

(Ochi who took this pic)

For about 5 days we stayed at Jogjakarta... We visited some popular place like Borobudur Temple, ParangTritis beach, Kali Urang, Malioboro... We've taken lots of pictures there... I promise I'll share with you in my another post..Insha Allah. 

Actually me and my hubby have been coming to Jogjakarta several times in the past, but my children Ochi, Icha and Baim had never been there... so I want them to know more about Jogja... You know, Jogjakarta was one of the city tourism which quite popular in Indonesia.. 

but unfortunately  we  spent most our time by shopping some tools to complement the needs of Vincent... I bought a small refrigator, TV, a radio, fan, bedsheets, blankets... and so on.....

However we still felt happy and enjoy along the time with my baby son...

 Baim posed in front of Vincent's new friend  aka his motorcycle which we bought from my hubby's friend at Jogjakarta...

And finaly the time for said goodbye to Vincent was coming... It's trully sad... Me, my hubby, Ochi, Icha and Baim hugged Vincent one by one... I saw his eyes  started watering ...I said to him... take care, my son...!! and dont forget to always pray and pray.. you'll do fine... Allah will always be with you!!

Bye my baby son....!!

Vincent's room...

This is Vincent's first creation on color pencil, which been  sent to me by email 

the theme is: 'MY  ROOM'

I just hope his lecturer will give him 'A'  for this painting...haha...