Water in Gentong

Gentong is a large bowl for water. Yesterday, my husband and I visited Sunan Ampel Mosque in Surabaya (East Java, Indonesia). The mosque was built in 1421 and it’s already becoming a famous destination of religious tour.

Around the mosque and graves of righteous men, there are several large bowls that contain fresh water from the natural water source nearby. The water is ready to drink and provided for every visitor in the area.

Watery Wednesday

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Seventh Day, Handsfree Mobile Phone

I’ve been at my brother’s home in Surabaya (East Java, Indonesia) for seven days. My father’s health condition is stable. There are about seven different drugs that he must take every day. With controlled meal, proper medicines, and frequently doctor consultation, I hope my father’s stable condition can be continuing kept.

Since my brother has come back home from his work duties last Saturday, I and my husband plan to go back to our home in Bogor (West Java, Indonesia) next Tuesday. I believe that my brother and SIL will take care of my father well.

For Blue Monday, let me share here a female medicinal herbal drink vendor whom we saw in my FIL’s home (Bumiayu, Central Java). Have you tried to drink any medicinal herbal drink before? There’s another interesting about this woman –the way she put her mobile phone-makes it a handsfree one. Cool!

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Thinker

Thinker is my niece’s cat. Though I’ve been in my brother’s home for more than a week, I still haven’t heard yet her voice. She’s so quiet and calm. When I first met her, she’s always running away every time I’m nearing her. But now, we can already play together. She also let me take close up pictures of her.

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Welcome Home, Father

My father came back home ( to my brother’s home) from the hospital yesterday. For his daily lunch and dinner at my brother’s home, we decide to subscribe the specific meals from the hospital catering. The doctor said that he must take low fiber diet.

I remember a nurse’s advices yesterday, while I conveyed our appreciation for taking care of my father during the days in the hospital. One of her advice was she forbid my father to watch football matches on television, since it can provoke his emotion and then affect his heart. I still can’t tell him; my father is a football lover!

Yesterday I also received a call from the woman that keeps our home in Bogor (West Java, Indonesia) while we’re going out of town. She said that the telephone was broken and there are some leakages in my father’s bedroom. I still can’t go back home; I can’t leave my father here while my brother hasn’t been coming home yet from his work duties in other towns.

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