10th Wedding Anniversary

WOW! I had the most wonderful weekend. On Friday after school, I got ready for my swimming lessons. When we arrived at Splashdown, we had a little play because it wasn’t time for my lessons yet. When we had my lessons, we learned lots of new things. My new teacher is called Tracey. When my lessons finished we got dressed, after that, we went home. When we arrived at home dad was taking a shower. Then we got ready for the sleepover. When we arrived at my dad’s friend’s house, we said “Hello” to Ken and Rosalie. We got the Marble Machine and built a tower, after that we put marbles at the top of the tower and it went down. After dad and mum went home, we had pizza. Mum and dad were going to the cinema; the movie was called The Forbidden Kingdom. It was mum and dad 10th wedding anniversary, so they wanted the night together. Meanwhile at Ken and Rosalie’s house I had pizza. It was a Seafood Pizza. It was DELICIOUS! After we had pizza, we watched the news. We had chocolate wedge for dessert. Then we watched the movie of the 12 Dancing Princesses. But it took a while to set it up. We went to bed at 10 o’clock. When we went to bed, I straight away closed my eyes because I was so TIRED! (By Chika Sunarto)

Tulisan di atas adalah catatan kecil yang ditulis Chika di Journal Writing sekolah. Cerita yang lugas, polos dan sederhana sekali, tetapi sangat menyentuh bagi kami, mengingat usia Chika yang belum genap 8 tahun. Di hari ulang tahun pernikahan kami yang ke-10 (Juli 2008), Chika dan Caca menginap sendirian di rumah salah satu pembimbing saya. Kami sudah sangat senang melihat mereka bisa menikmati bermalam di keluarga Aussie, sehingga kami bisa night out berdua saja. Betapa gembiranya kami ketika kemarin kami temukan tulisan Chika tsb diatas di Journal Writing-nya.

Saya juga mendapat kado puisi istimewa dari mantan pacar (sekarang istri saya):

10 TAHUN PERKAWINAN

Aku… hanya sekedip sinar
Yang datang di kehidupanmu ,
Seperti bintang kecil di langit malam.

Engkau… seperti sayap yang mengepak,
serta merangkum membawa semua hatiku.

Kita… adalah kata yang tercipta
ketika cinta datang memenuhi panggilannya.

Cinta…
itu yang selalu ingin kurasa
‘tuk merangkum semua harapanku
Rinduku
Percayaku
Kepasrahan serta maafku.

Kucoba memandang 10 tahun jejak kaki kita tanpa sesal
Kucoba menerimanya tanpa pernah aku mengerti
Kucoba menerimanya tanpa pernah ingin kuingkari.

Kucoba
Kaucoba
Kita coba
Karena yakin selalu ada CINTA.