She Loved Them, They Loved Her Not
Our housekeeper has been in love with the neighborhood's veggieman since we moved to Bintaro 2 years ago. But unfortunately he's married and he's faithful to his wife. He's very sweet to Miskiyah though, he often gives her veggies for free :)
I took these pictures this morning when she shopped in front of our house.
Miskiyah had been married three times and she already has a granddaughter. The first time she got married, she was only 13 year-old. Yes. Thirteen year-old. She ran away to Jakarta a month after she's married and worked for us. She got no child from her first marriage. Few years later, she got married again and she got a daughter from her second marriage. She divorced because he cheated on her. The third marriage gave her another daughter and her mother-in-law didn't like her, so again, she divorced.
Do you think she's luckier or less luckier than me in love? When she was my age, she's had 2 kids and I have none :(
By the way, can you see the red arrow? It's one of my favorite beans called "petai". Some people call it "stinky beans". Yes, it makes your breath stinks, but I love it :D
Petai's stink isn't as bad as love when it hurts, though...
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ah, they call it stinky beans, now i know. but stinky peas suits it better. cuz it makes ur piss stinky oso. haha~! bad joke. (-.-||)
anyways, thanks for stopping by my blog. btw, petai is among my fave oso~!
Ah, how sad for her.
Are girls still allowed to marry that young in INdonesia? I remember reading Pramoedya Ananta Toer's "Gadis Pantai" at university and that was all about a kampung girl who married some kind of priyayi very young and was then kicked out after she had had a son. Very sad. I assumed that kind of thing was in the past though.
Think the legal marrying age in Australia something like 16 or 18yo. Even that seems very young to me!
Yeah, sadly in small villages they still force their kids to get married very young. Most of Indonesians generally got married younger than the "non-pribumi", though.
It was just one or two subjects as part of an Indonesian/Malay language major and think this was the only novel I read in Indonesian from start to finish (fortunately it was a short one!). We mainly did things like short stories or poetry and also put on a play one year. It was "Bom Waktu" by Jakarta playwright, Riantiarno (he also wrote Opera Kecoa which I think is more famous?). The characters included a transvestite, some kupu2 malam etc. Picked up some great new vocab from it!
Probably haven't read enough Indonesian literature to be able to make much of a comparison. One difference I did notice is probably in the narrative structure, ie, lots more surprises and coincidences in Indonesian literature. Any modern writers you would recommend? (would need to be in really easy Indonesian for me to be able to read though).
You might try to look for Fira Basuki's novels.
Thanks! They sound good.