Women are from Venus, Men are from... sh*t.

One day, at a warm and lovely living room in a sweet little house in Bandung.

There was a girl, lying lazily on her favorite sofa— a broken yellow colored comfortable long chair with two little pillows on it- watching television while chewing her favorite spicy snack and pretended to forget her diet.
Next on her left, there was her mother, wearing her blue flower pattern house dress, sitting on the same sofa with her second daughter who had just back from her college class.
Their eyes were watching to the same thing; a gossip show on the TV reporting some celebrities and a famous government official who had just divorced after been living peacefully with their wife for more than 20 years. The hottest news was about the Secretary of State- a fifty something old man who had divorced his 23 years marriage wife because he had his second marriage with a 19 year old girl, which is much younger than his son.

“Oh, shame on him! Yusril Ihza Mahendra used to be my idol, remember? I chose him on the last election; I thought he was so charismatic and responsible in every aspects! Oh my God, after 23 years of marriage he meant to divorce her wife just because of THAT 19 year old girl??” Still on her seat, her mother was in a great shock- she couldn’t believe what she had heard.

“WHAT? Is that true, Mom? Oh my God, I thought it was about his eldest son wedding! I thought his eldest son who had just married! I don’t get it!” The girl was so surprised and regretted- she had missed the news climax because she was too concentrated to the spicy snack on her hand.

“Ohhh... he begins to be so disgusting to me! Look at his new wife! She’s even younger than his eldest son! She is younger than me, Mother! Just imagine, that man is as old as Dad—and he marry a girl younger than me? Give me a break!” Her sister yelled emotionally commenting the news.

The screen showed some captions about the Secretary of State wedding, his broken hearted wife and the narrator seemed to provoke the audience to criticize it emotionally. The screen changed to the host- a pretty woman with mysterious face and frightening eyes- reporting some other celebrities who also have the same case with that old man.

“…and who doesn’t know about Ray Sahetapi? He also had successfully fill the entertainment news some moments a go, surprising and disappointing his fans by divorcing his 26 years of marriage wife, Dewi Yull and marry this woman (Ray Sahetapi’s new wife picture showed). And NOW, the most shocking news comes from this charismatic entertainer we’ve ever had; the very well known quiz presenter Koes Hendratmo. Who has ever thought that he would divorce his wife after 41 years of beautiful marriage? Rumors said that he is now in a relationship with a stewardess (Koes Hendratmo interviewed, some video captions showed on the screen)...........”

“What a world. Everyone turns to be insane! 41 years of marriage! Oh God. And hey, he IS NOT young anymore! He had forgotten his 41 years lovely moment just for a short time. I don’t get it. What else is he looking for? He supposed to realize that his life won’t be long anymore since he is more than 60 right now!” Once again, her mother was terribly shocked and tried to believe what she had heard about this ladies and housewives idol.

The girl was so speechless. She began to hate men. “Do I have to be a lesbian?” She thought. No. Of course not, she was just joking. A cynical joke. A pathetic thought. But the show had made her think that men are made from shit. Men have no heart- they are mean, and the most terrible thing inside her head was, never ever trust men.

Now, what she really need is something-- or A REAL MAN that could prove her thought about men was wrong…

I’m a toothless grandma!!

I have messy teeth. My upper jaw is a little bit too far from my lower jaw, and my front lower jaw teeth are a bit messy. Last week I went to the dentist and installed braces (a wire device fitted in the mouth to straighten the teeth) to tidy it up. Honestly, my private dentist had been asking me thousand times since I was in elementary, but everything is about money though. Installing braces is quiet expensive, so after one year of saving money (ha-ha) I decided to make it.

Anyhow, when my dentist asked me to choose what rubber color I want to wear on my braces, I chose the black one. He actually showed me some rubber colors, there were pink, blue, yellow, green, and so on—but I did chose black because I was thinking that other colors are too fancy and coquettish, while black is going to look cool—my thought that day.

Then voila. Please do not laugh at me because I do actually shock on my own looking my face like a toothless granny, ha ha ha!! Till now, I regreted to have chosen the black one— Rule number one; black supposed to be cool, but not every black is cool. It doesn't look that cool on braces!! A friend of mine who used to wear braces told me not to wear red, green and yellow because it's gonna look like a slipped food. Promise you that I’ll wear the pink one next month.

PS. Installing braces on your teeth means you couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep and couldn’t speak with good articulation for weeks. Aaarrgghh.. it hurts!!