To Hong Kong (Nadya's first email to dad)

Suasana kota Hong Kong island menjelang senja

Terinspirasi buat update blog karena teguran Papa. Ternyata bulan ini belum update. Setiap mau nulis selalu mikir.. besok aja ah masih ada waktu, terus.. besok aja.. eh nggak terasa udah hampir sebulan. Alasan sudah nggak jelas lagi karena sibuk atau malas :D. Cerita kali ini tentang jalan2nya Papa ke Hong Kong. Akhirnya kesampaian juga Papa jalan ke Hong Kong setelah sekitar 2 tahun lalu cuma transit di bandaranya dari perjalanan pulang Vietnam ke Canada. Mungkin kalau waktu itu dia nggak inget Mama sibuk sendirian urusin "1- month old Jasmin" dan "5 years old Nadya", mau juga tuh Papa jalan dulu ke kotanya :D.

Perjalanan kali ini sebetulnya mau ajak Nadya, karena di Hong Kong ada Disneyland dan kebetulan juga jadwal seminarnya tidak terlalu padat. Tapi berhubung kepikiran untuk ajak Nadya sudah dekat dengan hari-H dan cari tiket ternyata harganya "peak season" alias muahal, akhirnya batal. Lagipula jadwal kepergiannya juga bersamaan dengan jadwal awal masuk sekolah Nadya (setelah liburan semester), akhirnya ini dijadikan alasan untuk menghibur Nadya karena batal lihat Mickey Mouse dan kawan2.

Selama seminggu Papa ada di Hong Kong kita sering ngobrol pakai Yahoo Massenger. Sempat sekali Nadya kirim email ke Papa, lama sekali nulisnya karena sambil nonton TV, ada kali 1 jam baru selesai. Tapi begitu dapet balasan, wah senang sekali dan juga heran koq Papa balasnya banyak. Nadya pakai nanya lagi, berapa lama Papa perlu waktu buat nulis email itu? Mungkin pikirnya, dia nulis 6 kalimat aja udah 1 jam sendiri :D Apalagi papa yang nulisnya banyak banget yah????

Ini cuplikan emailnya (sekedar buat kenangan Nadya kelak)..

> --- Nadya Labiba wrote:
>
> dear daddy,
> I miss you daddy.what is it like in Honk Kong
> daddy? Yesterday I went to Abian sister's birthday. I
> played [with] my friends, Sheila, Aulia, Alvin, Karin and
> Jasmin. Inside Maritza house, Maritza friends
> sang "Happy Birthday" to her. The cake candles was
> dora the explorer and a number 2, because maritza
> is 2 [years] and I had a fun time. So are you having fun time
> in Honk Kong? I hope you come back here again.
>
> Love Nadya

--- Salut Muhidin wrote:

> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 03:12:04 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Salut Muhidin
> Subject: Re: Daddy Honk Kong
> To: Nadya Labiba , Aniek Salut
>
> My dearest & lovely Nadya,
>
> I am very happy to read your mail today. I am very
> happy too knowing that you and Jasmine had fun with
> your friends. Was mama having fun too?
>
> Today, Papa is having fun with Om Dominic
> (papa's friend in the office) and some other friends.
> We went to the highest level in Hong Kong called Victoria Peak,
> it's like Mount Cotha in Brisbane. From the top, we could see
> the whole city of Hong Kong, it's really beautiful, awesome.
> I wished that you, Jasmine and mama were here too in Hong
> Kong together with me, so then we could go to Disney Land.
>
> Hong Kong is a big city which belongs to China now. That's
> why, people in Hong Kong speaks Chinese and they like
> eating noodle..like our Jasmine, but she is not Chinese
> ..he..he.. She is still Indonesian
>
> After walking to the peak, papa was very tired and then we went back
> to Hotel for taking a rest. Tonight we are going to eat
> Noodle and Peking Roasted Duck... hm..yummy. What do you
> have for dinner today? Hope everybody will have a
> nice meal and always happy.
>
> So, tomorrow you are going to School again right?
> Please be good and I will always love you and miss you all..
>
> Big kiss from Papa for everybody..
> xxx
>
> Daddy
>

Setelah terima email Papanya, sempet pesan ke Nadya untuk dibalas, tapi dijawab "I'll reply it on weekend, mam, it'll take a long time to write email. I'm doing home work now." Yah gimana sih... weekend Papa udah sampe di rumah lagi..