Modern medicine?

Four more days, and it would be five months since the day.

The frequency of her taking the ultimate painkiller increased. I obediently and reluctantly at the same time administer the required dosage for her; knowing full well that it is a way of 'shutting down' the 'pain nerves.' Just so that pain signal is not transmitted to and translated by the brain. Just so that one can rest while cells deteriorating inside the body. It is like taking sleeping tablets so that we can sleep well to ignore thieves in the house.

The surgery, radiotherapy, brachytherapy, chemotherapy, and more surgery all combined couldn't change anything. It has been destined to be so. I couldn't but only resigned to what was fated.

So said Nakamora.

What is one day...

A day will not end, except by the coming of a night. A night will not end, except by the coming of a day. That cycle constitutes a complete day. 24 hours, by the measure of our clock. That's the will of The Creator.

In four-season countries, the days last longer than nights during summer and shorter during winter seasons. In the northern hemisphere, the day-night cycle can be the whole year; six months of night.

So how do we measure one day then, is it by the hour or by the alternation of a day and a night. If a day is constituted by one daytime and one nighttime, then one day in the northern hemisphere could well be one year, isn't it?

Being a man...Javanese way

We are made to differ, as a person, a group, in origin, in culture, etc. We should celebrate the differences, for it is through those differences that we fulfill the needs of each other.

Nakamora was at Mangku Negara kraton the other day when he learned from Pak Agung, the guide who took him around the sultan palace, that for a Javanese to be a man he should have these five things: (1) wismo, which is building or a house; (2) wanito, that refers to wife, (3) vehicle, which he forgot what was it called in Javanese, but refers to means of transportation; (4) curigo, or suspicion that refers to the need to have weapons as personal defense when attached; and (5) burung or bird. These may just be symbolic of the traits that Javanese man should have.