Stay Useful

Sudiksa 70, lived in Nusa Dua Bali.He retired from armed forces, and he has five children and fourteen grandchild . The last position was the People's Representative Council Chairman of Bali. His wife has for a long time suffered paralysis

We were acquainted, time visited the wife of the clergyman who was sick in Sanglah Hospital. After the pension he was active as the attendant to a churh in Denpasar and afterwards was appointed to the clergyman.His health was good enough, however he had suffered the disturbance prostate but now has been good.

The long age was the gift from the Lord. The main life law was received and heeded. . Received each incident as the blessing and the lesson for the progress of our spirit. He wanted to stay useful for the peer while still lived

The Life Of The Farmer

Ngelboh Sinuraya 75, lived in the Village of Sarinembah, Karo Regency, North Sumatera. He lived as a farmer with two wives. They had farm land several hectare that partly was planted the durian tree and the citrus fruit. While the rest were planted rice and the second crop. They lived was happy with five children and fifteen grandchildren.

The citrus fruit, rice and the second crop must be given fertiliser, if not results did not satisfy.The price of fertiliser was very high caused the high production cost to make the income of the farmer very low even often the loss.There was no protection in the price of the farmer's production by the government.

His children were full of attention to him so as he felt happy to live in the village. He was very careful accepted help of the life from his children's family to avoid matters that not in wanted.

The healthy life in old age was his hope but the heart suffering coroner makes him undergo the maintenance of the doctor.

Want to live in Bali

Sergey 55, from Moscow. He is a psychologist and has 2 children . He came to Bali every year and learn Indonesian langguage

For the first time he came to Bali with his wife to visit their frend who did business in Bali. And then every year they take holiday to Bali and will leave Bali after 2 or 3 weeks.They love stay in Bali and said that Bali are their second home.

They are happy with Balinese warmth greeting along with their sincere smile and its magnificent culture and great view.. They said that Balinese is very special people.

A Happy Trip

On September 2008, we're joined ten days tour to Turkey. Our groups was 25 people including the Tour Leader. One of elderly participants like us was Dr Hendro Haryono (68) has good sense of humor, retired from Manpower Department and his hobby after his retirement as photographer.

He was participated a photo exhibition held by Bank Indonesia and got the first winner. With his wife who is a Nnotary, Dr. Hendro joined the tour. They are having 2 kids and lived in Jakarta. He was an invalid as an accident result when educated in high school. His health is relatively good.

The tour trip city to city were conducted in 6-7 hours driving but enjoyable because the scenery is very beautiful with wide road and smooth adorned with olive and grape trees as far as eyesight. The trip was also enjoyable because Dr. Hendro always made jokes during the trip. Then we watched belly dancing Turkey's traditional dancing.

The local guide told us that the olive harvested with only shaking the tree and the ripe olive will fall. The most impressive building is a beautiful and big building that built in the fourth century which originally a Church and converted became a Mosque in fifteenth century and converted became a Museum in 1935.

Another interesting place is a Palace that change into a Museum that tell a story of history of ceramic, gold and diamond in many different shapes and another

Life waves

I Nengah Sukerna SH (61 years old) from Singaraja has two children and 5 grandkids. Both of kids are off to their own lives, one works as Sony technician in Jakarta and the other works as technician at a line cruiser at USA. Before his retirement as civil servant at Finance Dept in Ambon. When the riot occurred in Ambon, he was scared and was able to leave his office for a week. After that he was assigned to Jakarta and then 3 months later to Irian Jaya. The left hand is always shaking and getting harder and more frequently and followed by his right hand. After check up he was found out that he had Parkinson disease. After his retirement on 2003 he elected to stay in Denpasar. Even if his hands shaking he still be able to eat alone without using spoon and sleep soundly.

For his medication and treatment he sees his doctor and alternative medication. With this medication and massage therapy his shaking hands is reduced and gone completely. But if his peace of mind disturbed his shaking hands will happen again. He said his post-trauma is difficult to cure