My Life

 

my pic taken in 2007

Aku menandai adanya siklus dua tahunan dalam hidupku ini, terutama dimulai tahun 1986.

1986
Aku lulus SMA, dan pergi ke Yogya untuk melanjutkan studi. Aku kuliah di Fakultas Sastra Inggris UGM. Suatu perubahan yang cukup drastis mengingat aku pindah ke kota lain, setelah semenjak lahir aku tinggal di kota Semarang.

1988
I met Angie's dad. Keinginan untuk memiliki seseorang yang kusebut sebagai 'pacar' membuatku menerima proposalnya barangkali. LOL. What did I know about 'love' at such a young age? LOL. Moreover such a naive Nana. LOL. 

Kita sepakat jalan bareng meskipun kita tinggal di dua kota berbeda, terletak sekitar 120km. Belum ada teknologi telepon di kosku, apalagi handphone. So? Surat airmail lah yang membuat kita tetap berkomunikasi, karena aku pulang ke Semarang hanya sebulan sekali. Bagaimana kita bisa benar-benar saling mengenal karakter masing-masing? LOL. (Well, FYI, pertanyaan ini baru muncul akhir-akhir ini. Tidak terpikirkan olehku pada waktu itu.)

1990
I married him. How? Why? Kok? LOL.

Ketularan dua teman yang lumayan dekat denganku ketika masih SMP dan SMA barangkali. LOL. Dan waktu itu, mungkin aku berpikir, menikah kapan pun sama aja, toh, I would get married eventually. Why him? Yah ... waktu itu he was my boyfriend. Kalo belum kenal-kenal amat dengan karakternya, toh later I would know him. N A I V E kan? LOL. My marrying him made me take 2 years off from my study. 

In 1991, Angie was born. I took one year before going back to resume my study. Satu tahun lumayan lah untuk membangun emotional ties between me and Angie (yang ternyata sampai sekarang, she is my only kid. :) )

1992
I was back to continue my study. I spent 10 days in Yogya, 4 days in Semarang. My lovely cute understanding Angie ... She was very nice. Bagaimana dia bisa understanding begitu yah di usia yang baru 1 tahun? :)) I graduated in 1993.

1994
I started my teaching profession at Primagama.

1996
Bored with the atmosphere at Primagama, I applied for a job at LIA. New atmosphere, not as boring as at Primagama. For me. :)

1998
I found a new challenge for myself, by working as (still) an English teacher at STIBA AKI Semarang.

2000

I divorced Angie's dad after struggling to survive in the bitter marriage for some years. :(

2002
I remarried Angie's dad. An (un)happy anti-climax???
In the same year, I resumed my study at American Studies Graduate Program UGM. Two new things happened simultaneously in 2002. Perhaps my resuming study brought more changes in my life. As once I said to an ex high school friend about what kind of change happened to me after graduating my study, "This study made me feel like reborn. A new Nana has been born." (read => a feminist and a secular, but I claim I became more humane)

2004
(at the beginning of the year) My being feminist and secular made me change my point of view of my (second) marriage to the same person.

(in the middle of the year) Someone I dubbed as a hunk came into my life. He made my life more colorful, more with ups and downs. He reminded me of my "nature" as a romantic lover. 😀

2006
(at the beginning of the year) I got my graduation day from my Master's Degree. (what a waste of time!!! LOL. 

(in the middle of the year) Someone came to take the place of that hunk in my heart.

Where will my life lead to after this???