Dear Pap,
Hey! Happy birthday, Papa!!! Haha
how was the party there? Much better than here I guess…
Argh! So many things I want to
tell you now, ahh! Do you realize, I have been living in Wamena for 2 years
already? Haha. Cool huh? I went to Habema lake several times! Do you know this
place? It’s the highest lake in Indonesia, yeaah I have to admit that Toba Lake
is more famous, the one that make you proud being a Bataknese, but your daughter
has been to the highest lake in Indonesia, you have to proud about that either.
Haha. I walked to one village also, named Hitugi. It’s in Yahukimo, I’m sure you never heard
about these names, ahah. I walked for 5
hours, nonstop climbing up, no trees, then I stayed one night in Hitugi before
going home on the next day, by walking also.
It’s a beautiful village, no regret at all. Worth to fight for. I went to ‘batas batu’, a place in Nduga
district, about 3 hours from Wamena, by car.
Um, I visited Bokondini, stayed there for one day. No signal, no electricity, but you can definitely
see milky way there. The most beautiful phenomenon
I’ve ever seen!! It’s effortless beautiful!
Now you’re realized that your daughter is cool huh? HAHA!
Beside that I’ve met many good
people in 2016, mostly in Wamena. I came
there with had no one I knew, but now I already have many relatives there. Everyone knows me there (haha no, I’m not
that famous). I thank God for them,
obviously! So don’t worry about me being alone there, I’m not lonely, I have
many friends to visit, to talk, to being crazy together like friends that I have
in Bandung since I was 12, friends that always made me late to come home and
made you angry about that, but in the end you always allowed me to go with them
because you know them well and you believe us won’t do anything besides talking
for hours in café with a cup of coffee and one nasi goreng.
And I was a coordinator for
Sunday school in Church last year, haha! Been grateful to know the children
there, as you know I love children that much, not only because they are funny,
but also because I love teasing children and making them crying haha… they did
something great on our Christmas celebration, they sang a song and light the
candle to everyone. I’m very proud of
them. You have to watch the video, it’s
touchy.
I already get used to in Wamena. Last month, I got someone with a long spear
(a sharp stick) stopped me while I was on my way to work, asking for money. I wasn’t afraid he would kill me, but I didn’t
know what I have to do, I was confusing not afraid, after that I explained to
him that I’m a teacher in the nearest school there, so he let me go. Does it weird, doesn’t it? Just don’t tell mom, she won’t let me go back
to Wamena haha..
We moved into a new home, what a heartbreaking moment to leave our house, but mom is happier with the small house, that's the most important thing.
Ah this holiday, I went to Ijen
and Bromo with your lovely son. He never
been anywhere and mom never allows him to go far from her, so I took him with
me on a short holiday. And he’s been to
Ijen Crater now, he saw blue fire there, climbed up for 2 hours then climbed
down to see the blue fire, it was so foggy and dark there, a quite dangerous
honestly, but I took care of him, hahah no worries. He’s safe! I think he’s proud of himself
also. Haha. That’s good for him huh?
Anything else? Hem, some of my
friends in Wamena said greetings to you.
Everytime they said greeting for you, I always answered, ‘ah that’s hard
for me to say your greeting to my dad’, they would look so confused, and to
clear their question mark on their forehead, I continued saying, “my dad
already passed away, that’s why it’s hard for me to say your greetings for him,
haha”, they would become more confusing than before, because I’m laughing after
explaining the reason.
I still have no boyfriend,
hooray! And mom keeps asking me the question, when I will get married? And I will
always be mad to her for asking me that –“
I’m not in hurry, Pap, I am focusing
to get a scholarship now rather than get a spouse to be married with. You know, your daughter, who just had her
first boyfriend when she was turning 22.
Hopefully, I’ll get a scholarship this year, after that I’ll try to
think about marriage, ok?
So many stories, right? Haha..
It’s been 4 years already we don’t
celebrate your birthday together. 4
Christmases, 4 New Years. It’s quite
different without you, Pap. No staying up
all night on Christmas and New Year’s Eve, no ‘ketupat’, no ‘rendang’, no ‘mandok
hatta’ haha. Ah we change a lot without
you here. It’s sad of course, but do you
know, I realized something. You have a
big role in this family. You are the
leader of this family (after God absolutely), you are the man. That’s why it won’t be the same anymore, you
leave this world with warmhearted memories to remember (at least for us). You loved people around you and you are loved
as well! Your kindness to other is not easy to forget.
Today, on your birthday, I want
to say it out loud that I’m a proud daughter of you! No one is better than you
to be my dad. And it’s still a heartbreaking to me to lose you, because you are
one of lovely men that ever lived in this world, I’m so blessed to have you as
my dad.
Happy birthday there, Pap!
Love,
Your daughter who always pretends
be tough enough HAHA!
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