To infinity and beyond !!

Hi again Libby

My little princess,… this past few months have been quite hectic for me with all of those travelling abroad and important visitors coming to our office so I don’t have time to talk to you. but I promise to spend more time to talk to you, to tell you on what’s going on around me and around our family lately. on the travelling part, now at least once a month I have to go abroad, as I said, next week I have to go to Durban, south africa to attend a workshop on D&E market, the following week I have to go to Manila for the RBT. Thank God I don’t have anything on September on my agenda (it’s fasting time). On first and second week of October I supposed to go to Rotterdam for a course but I have decided to postpone it to next year since I don’t want to miss puasa too much. couple of days before lebaran I supposed to go to manila again for savoury RBT but I managed to talk to suppatra (our regional boss) to postpone it after the lebaran. so then after lebaran I will go to Manila again, then followed with trip to London to visit wa willy who is moving to London next month.then, Insya Allah we will continue to go to Paris directly in which I want to spend mommy’s birthday party in Eiffel Tower (isn’t it romantic). Hopefully mommy will be happy going to Europe with me… many of my friends say that I’m lucky to be able to travel quite often, but honestly it’s  not a fun travelling at all… it’s suck ! on the plane for more than 10 hours than continued right away with full days debating things is not my idea of fun.not too mention preparation beforehand, preparing materials for the meeting (data, presentation materials, etc.) it’s actually really tiring, and worse thing is that I don’t really have time to enjoy the place I’m visiting. whole days in the meeting room…ok, may be a little during at night for a dinner… but that’s it. What will be nice is if you could go around the country, do sight seing, do some shopping. telecommunication cost is also killing me, sms, (the cheapest mean of communication) turn out to be quite costly too is we do it too often. and of course i can not stop communicating with mommy, with adelle, with aliyya…so all and all.. travelling abroad for business purposes is not fun at all.. it’s suck !!  Now of course it will be different if I’m travelling with you, and mommy, and adelle, and aliyya… although the cost of shopping could go up to the roof ( you know mommy’s urge for shopping, right libby??). It’s a pity that we haven’t had chance to go anywhere abroad… the furthest that we have been was only Bali… but you were very happy already at that time..I’m sure you’ll be thrilled if we could go to somewhere further… something with snow in it…anyway,… you could do it anytime now…

Wa willy is moving to london to start a new job as talent and organizational development director in Unilever Asia Amet. such a fancy title, huh libby ? your buddy Laras and Fadlan will go later (after lebaran since they have to find school for them). If you’re still around, I could imagine that you will want to go with Laras since Laras is your bestest best friend. anyway, you could always visit her in her dream wherever she is. I remember Laras told me that she had a dream with you coming to her dream and play together. something that you haven’t been doing to me lately…I miss you so much dear.. please come again to my dream..

okay then, I got to check out now…and go to the airport although my flight will not come till 2 o clock at night.

kisses and hugs

daddy

Hi sweetheart…

I’m in singapore now, on the way to Durban, South Africa… spend a night here to buy some books in Borders. I bought some books for Adelle and myself. I bought a lot of books by Roald Dahl for Adelle… They are much cheaper here than in Jakarta. I was going to buy the latest Harry Potter’s book for Mommy,and she also she missed some of the series so I was planning to complete ‘em for her, but they’re too thick and too heavy to be carried in my thin suitcase all the way to south africa. I might come back again on the way back from south africa.

I bought some books too, I bought some of Paulo Coelho’s books…I don’t know somehow i’m into that type of books now. good books to remind ourselves of who we are…I also bought a book called "Dear Charlie", it’s a collection of letters of a dad to his passed away daughter. It’s really touchy and it really reminds me of what I usually do (as I’m doing now) to talk to you in spirit. I feel the connection and can really emphatize what this guy feel. Suddenly I feel that I’m lookin at myself. The book is actually so simple, as simple as my letters to you..but I guess that’s the strength of the book, the simplicity and the genuine love and care that is shown in the book. a lot of people comments about my love letter to you and encourage me to keep doing it. I guess someday my letters to you would be worth publishing… who knows… But I don’t care about all of that, what I care is that I can talk to you, feel your presence although not in physical.

I remember you love books so much that we bought you a complete set of books from Tigaraksa… I remember you particularly like the book on the story  of Belgeduel (I forgot the complete title though) that you keep insisting me to read it for you every night. You also like the books on animal, and on human anatomy. Once you told nike that the brain (for thinking) is not really in the forehead but in the back of the head…I don’t know where did you get that idea. and you were upset when we teased you that the brain is in the knee not in the head. you said that in the knee there is bone not brain…we were kidding Libby…although some of the people really doesn’t have brain in their head and it’s in their knee..(otak dengkul). They are especially the corruptors…

Aliyya loves books too, Adelle likes book although not as fond of as Aliyya. Aliyya can read so many books in one night . although, mommy or daddy need to read them for her that’s why we told her to learn to read so she can read all the books by herself.

Gotta go libby… I will try to read a book again for you someday in the heaven if God let me re-join you…

big hugs…

ayah