An Honored Guest is Coming

Tuesday, 22 July 08, 8.46am at home

Hellow my dear diary,
Last weekend was a long weekend since yesterday was public holiday in Japan. You know what? 21 July is Japan national holiday to celebrate the ocean! It's called Ocean Day (Umi no Hi)! The day marks the return of Emperor Meiji from a boat trip to Hokkaido in 1876 so we should say thanks to the ocean for making the Emperor Meiji came back safely. Cute, isn't it? Yes, Japanese is really cute in choosing national days for their country. Anyway, I don't care, I just want holidays.

Tomorrow night, my pastor is going to come to my home, for his second time. He said that he just wanted to visit us, but hopefully it's because there's a message from God to us that he's going to tell. I really welcome his coming, but, only one concerns me; my sofa! *Sofa makin tua, giginya tinggal tiga!* Since my last post about my sofa, me and my hubby had an agreed-technique on how we both should sit on the sofa. Nothing new, nothing spectacular. We just sit on the sofa with pasrah-mode on! I sit at the right side (the right side still had 3 supporters) while my hubby sits at the center (the center part has no supporter). You can imagine what happens. Usually I'm dragged to the center of sofa and we both duduk amblong ke bawah dan terjepit. But, we just let it be because that's the only way we could sit on the sofa.

Now, the 3 supporters at the right side had also collapsed, only left with 3 supporters at the left side. That makes us more terjepit and susah keluar. But, I keep sitting at the right side while Ron keeps sitting at the center. *Why?* because there's no supporter anymore and we are free to sit! *Why??* Because we won't be disturbed anymore with a loud sound of "dOeNKk!" followed by proses makin terjepitnya our backsides whenever one supporter collapses. *Why???* It's because it happened to us many times when we were watching Tukul Empat Mata, we laughed like crazy, our backsides unconsciously put more pressure to the sofa, and the loud sound of "dOeNKk!" and the movement really shocked us, you know! We thought of earthquake because earthquake happens in Tokyo very OFTEN! Then we stopped laughing, looked at each other shockingly, and the Tukul was not funny anymore. You know what I mean, rite?

Anyway, actually we have no problem sitting on our sofa recently. But now, our pastor is coming! An honored guest is coming!
- We can't let him sit on the sofa and terjepit bertiga with us.
- We can't let him sit on the floor.
- We can't let him sit on my green study chair while seeing us pretending-duduk-nyaman-padahal-terjepit on the sofa.
- We can't let him know that my sofa giginya tinggal tiga!
Let's see what we can do tomorrow. Please help me think, diary!

-Abbie-