Just when I thought we had escaped from the forest of the screaming-meltdown-tantrums from hell-phase that everyone calls the sweet Terrible Two… Please don’t let this sweet face fool you! Yes, he can be as sweet as honey when he wants to! But lately I wonder where did that sweetness hide? It have to be his way or the high way! He talks back – already! Told me to stop talking *triple gasps!* Criticizing my Mommy skill by saying “Not like that Mommy!” or “No…this way, Mommy!” The boy stripped himself naked every chance he got! Pushing every ounce of patience this Mommy already lack off. The screams – oh the screams the piercing painful screams had returned from the .....
Even before I moved to America to join DH, I’ve noticed some ‘uniqueness’ in Indonesians behaviors that lives in the US especially those who married Americans but I did not see the full extent of it until I personally live there and seeing it with my very own eyes. Of course not all Indonesian women are that ‘unique’. In my short years of living there, I had met and make friends with some fantastic, smart and brilliant women but I also have my share of not-so-lucky-ones. Ones that I’d rather forget but still couldn’t. Some of these friendships had lasted years already. However, there are some that, well how can I put this nicely, just too bizarre for my taste. .....
