She is packing her suitcases. She is leaving home.
The love of my life, my wife Babes, will be off tomorrow morning. Due to board a flight to Jakarta. To grandson Kris and his parents – the happy trio in the picture. And to a wedding Javanese style. In the process she will indulge in a warm bath of Indonesian hospitality.
She will have a lot of stories to tell when she returns. I know all about it, because I myself was around last year. So no doubt she’s got really good times ahead of her.
Hard times ahead of me though.
Alone at home. A month of loneliness. No one to talk to, no one to fight with. And the yoke of household exclusively on my shoulders. Doing nothing but laundry, cleaning , cooking, shopping all day. It’s sad, even pathetic. Waves of self pity are anxiously near. A man without a woman is like a boat without sails, a bird without wings or a sky without stars.
Or should I resort to the alternative? And temporarily live a totally irresponsible life? Forget about laundry, cleaning, cooking, shopping. For why should I suffer while she is living life to the full in the vast tropical empire?
Shouldn’t I take advantage of this month of marriage vacation too? Get up late every morning. Read at leisure some of the books I should have read long ago. Watch each and every match of Euro 2012 on TV – regardless of the fact the Danes have beaten our national squad 1 -0 last night. Beg my daughter in law as well as my daughter ( well, actually her friend, the amateur master cook) to invite me for a daily three Michelin stars meal. Visit a few friends and see some exhibitions and cult movies together. And, most of all, be a wild and naughty nanny to Esha, my granddaughter.
It’s tough, it’s not an easy choice, but I know this … a man got to do what a man got to do. 
oh, poor thing. Here’s a tought: Why dont you go with her?
Come on, you’ll like it. Promised.
I know I would love it. But that’s married life: one wins, the other one looses
. So right, I’m a sorry person, a pitiable king in an empty empire 
.
Though … I consider it as a simple postponement of satisfaction of wants. Last year: I. This year: She. Next year: I. Ad infinitum.
Though it indulges to occur, there must be a sweety day right after. You have a great family! Your grandson must be missing you as he will have arrived in wild Jakarta, so does your Babes
Watching Match of Euro 2012 is the right choice, I guess. I spent a night long here for the match.
@ Hijjaz: Enjoyed to read your words to cheer me up
. Actually I’m pretty upbeat. This month may not just be a marriage vacation, but perhaps my wife silently offered me a marriage hall pass. Anyhow I saw England draw with France half an hour ago.
Fully agree with Hijjaz. You’ll have a fiftieth (?) honey moon….
aw poor you
how about watching the latest tv series? game of thrones? sherlock? (these are the latest hit tv series by BBC).
@ Utomo: Thanks Utomo. We’ve already passed our 50 years’ relationship a number of years ago (though it will take another 3 years before we can celebrate our legal marriage
).
@ calvin: Actually this recent BBC Sherlock series was exceptionally originally and very “2011/2012″:). Other series I like(d): Millenium (the original Scandivian triology), The Killing (also Scandinavian – Danish) and last week I saw the first series of Breaking Bad.See. And there is a lot of entertainment ahead.
Hoi Jerry! I wish I had that long me-time LOL. And still, you can become full time nanny for Esha
.
I’m still following your posts regularly
. Some updates: I will go back to uni end of July, taking post-graduate research (hoping for PhD degre in 4 years time). Don’t know when I will return blogging .. I’m even deactivating FB.
@ santi d: Good to see you here again. And even better to read you are active fulfilling a dream at University
. I’m sure you love it and will succeed.
But I guess it also means that a visit to Europe, let alone to Holland, is definitely off the agenda for the time being?
Who knows .. probably I will be there for seminars/workshops
!
@santi d: Waiting with open arms
.
Nice bonuses your study provides, by the way
.
xD finally I could access your web, I couldn’t do it on my tab, the layout got so messed, I could even read a post:|
Your son reminds me of english artist but I forgot his name,, XD
Aww for the home alone:( how it is so far? Don’t messed up with your eat and sleeping schedule though, it’s not good for your health:p
@ Meilina: Welcome. Appreciate your tenacity. And I regret I ( well the site actually) played so “hard to get”
.
I’ll take your advice – I will alternately have myself invited for a healthy dinner by either daughter-in-law & eldest son or daughter and her man, and eating at home the food I like. No, actually this week was proof of the fact I’m pretty good at household … Don’t tell my wife though
By the way: I can’t stop wondering what British artist that might be… Perhaps Rowan Atkinson, mr Bean?
^I want to like this previous post XD
@ calvin: You’re welcome
.
I ended up googled it and remembered his name xD it’s Hugh Grant.
I bet you look like him when you’re younger, Sir xD? eheheee
@ Meilina: Hugh Grant? Really??? Well, I’ll tell him
. Actually I think he is way too chubby. And so am I 
.