Opa Johan Reproached His Wife

Opa Johan Reproached His Wife

“Why don’t you eat with me together, you little donkey? What’s enjoying my food alone. It makes the nicest food not nice. Do you know that?”

And I remember the vagrant eating with his lover the simplest food on the same banana leaf with their fingers, drinking out of the same used aqua bottle on the ground, in some half hidden corner beneath a tree. How sweet.

November 2009

What's The Use Of Having A Wife?

What’s The Use Of Having A Wife?

“Just peel your mango yourself. Learn and don’t be so lazy.”

“Well, What’s the use, profit of having a wife then?” So said opa Johan.

November 2009

Opa Johan's Complaint To His Wife

Opa Johan’s Complaint To His Wife

“Why are you always so near, so close and touch me, stay away, you little fool,” as Opa Johan neared his wife teasing and tickled her side.

November 2009

Feign To Be An Old Couple

Feign To Be An Old Couple

They thought we’re old and needed help, They were friendly and we were helped before the others in the Immigration office. You’re just 76 and I 79. Don’t you feel yourself as young as ever? I could still bicycle some 50 Km. Next time on another occasion we would feign to be an old couple with my grey hair and you walk with a limp. Ha, ha. What do you say? So said Opa Johan to his wife.

November 2009

Nothing Whatever Could Me Make Obedient Save Willingly

Nothing Whatever Could Make Me Obedient Save Willingly

There’s no marriage oath, no faith, no God, no law, no rule could ever make me (man) obedient, could ever force, prohibit, block, bar me, save willingly. So said Pak Arif.

November 2009

To Share My Suffering

To Share My Suffering

I’ll take you along with me to the Choir Festival, especially you, to share my suffering, annoyance, boring, vexation for hours. Am I not a good husband to remember you? So Opa Johan teased his wife.

November 2009

I Don't Believe

I Don’t Believe

Do you believe the jury of a choir festival could judge some 120 pages of the musical score to give a good, reasonable evaluation of the participants? I don’t. I only enjoy, judge it’s performance even without knowing the musical score, the lyrics. So said the Choir Conductor to me.

October 2009