Sharing Love: Winning Without Love
Nostalgic
The motorcycles that Radit and Khaira were driving had finally reached the Old City. Radit immediately parked his motorcycle, then he took his wife's hand to walk in the Old City area.
Sometimes life is strange, they both spent a day here when the relationship was bland. Then Khaira visited this place also two days before his flight to Manchester, with the determination to erase the traces of them both. But today, the two actually returned again not just the two but three with their prospective children.
"Hmm, before going to Manchester, I've been here Mas" said Khaira as he continued walking and occasionally sighed.
"Can't you love?" ask Radit.
"It used to be my intention to erase the memories of both of us Mas, I want to go to Manchester with a sense of relief. No need to remember what is behind me. Uh, now I'm even back here again with you." the story while shaking his head.
"Never erase whatever is behind us, dear, let it be a memory. Now let's just say we are nostalgic." said Radit while embracing his wife's shoulder.
"So, you want to go to the museum?" ask Radit to Khaira.
Because the Old City is the place of the Museum, Radit certainly offered to his wife to tour the Museum.
Khaira nodded too. "Now. Hmm, but besides the Fatahillah Museum yes Mas .. right if Fatahillah we have already visited. The others, huh? There are many museums to visit."
Radit nodded his head, agreeing with Khaira. "So, Bumilku Beautiful and Papa's son want to take a walk to the Museum where?"
Circulating his eyes at a glance, Khaira observed one by one the old buildings that were transferred to function as the Museum. Finally, Khaira dropped his choice to visit the Bank Indonesia Museum first. The white Dutch colonial building with its towering pillars seems to attract Khaira's attention.
"Bank Indonesia Museum wants Mas?" he said with his index finger pointing at a magnificent white building.
"Yes, yuk...."
They both entered the Museum with a building that looks magnificent compared to some of the surrounding buildings. Previously the magnificent building was used as a General Hospital under the name Binnen Hospital. However, given the high historical value of the building, the building was converted into De Javasche Bank. Then the name De Javasche Bank was nationalized into Bank Indonesia in 1853.
They both saw the various logos of Bank Indonesia from time to time, the history of currency in Indonesia, the collection of money from various countries in the world, the record of the monetary crisis in 1998, to various piles of gold, sculpture, and banking activities.
"Banking like this, huh? What were you in the first place?" ask Khaira when looking at the diorama of banking activities.
"Yes, like that, baby. I'm not in this diorama, because this is usually an activity in front of Teller and Costumer Service. I work inside, auditing his banking finances. Not knowing the customer. Just dealing with bookkeeping and tables. That big book." Radit recalled his previous job as a Banking Auditor.
Khaira listens to her husband's story, which she never knew when she first began her marriage to Radit.
"Kangen didn't Mas the same job you used to do?" again Khaira asked her husband.
Khaira also imagined how busy Radit was, of course her husband always came home at night and his face was so tangled.
Radit clasped Khaira's hand. "Now there is you, I don't want to work until the early hours. I have a wife and a baby to take care of. Udah nice work in the office Dad anyway, the workload is not so heavy and the most important thing at four o'clock in the afternoon has gone home. Still late afternoon at home meet Wife, it makes me very happy." he said so gently that made Khaira moved.
Seeing that the look in his wife's eyes began to glaze over, Radit immediately shifted the subject and invited his wife to lunch as it was approaching lunch time. "Yes already, yuk continued. Wanna eat?" he offered it to Khaira.
Khaira saw that the new clock was approaching lunchtime, after all her stomach was still full. "Buy crust telor first want not Mas? I want to."
"Yes yuk, Bumil want Kerak Telor where? Yuk, we go out first and find Kerak Telor ya..."
They again walked in the Old City area to look for Kerak Telor, one of the foods that Khaira wants today. Because pregnant or indeed wanting, buying Kerak Telor alone must be far to the Old City.
Finally they stopped at the seller Kerak Telor which is in front of the Museum Pos Indonesia. "Sir, one's Telor Kerak." Radit ordered one Kerak Telor for Khaira.
"Yes, chicken eggs or duck eggs?" ask the seller to Radit.
"Duck it, sir.." said Khaira.
Just a minute waiting finally Kerak Telor they ordered already. Khaira first smelled the scent of Kerak Telor using the duck eggs. After that he began to eat the Telor Crust.
"Dear Boy? Udah his cravings.." said Radit to his wife.
Khaira nodded her head. "Yes, this is delicious. Thanks to you, I have been craving for me." he said while feeding Kerak Telor in his mouth.
But just a few spoons, he ate Kerak Telor it feels he was full. She finally revealed Kerak Telor to her husband. "You ate too Mas, I took a bribe" she said, siphoning off a mouthful of Kerak Telor into her husband's mouth.
"How come I am the one who eats, he said you crave Honey .. I've done it, you finish it." said Radit while chewing Kerak Telor.
"I'm full Mas, so Mas who ate ya." he said while continuing to feed Kerak Telor to her husband.
Radit rolled his eyeballs. At home his wife who whined to ask Kerak Telor, after bought it just eaten not up to five spoons. And, now it is precisely he who must eat this Telor Kerak. "Lahh .. Why am I the one who is lying, Yang?"
Khaira laughed, "I don't want Mas, but Papa's son is asking."
When it comes to the name of the child, practically Radit can only give in. After all, the first pregnancy moment for his wife, giving up does not hurt. The man always imagined how his wife who began to often soy sauce around the waist just make pity, especially when the gestational age is getting bigger later which will make pregnant women experience weight gain, swollen legs, and even more, engap. So if only limited to spending Kerak Telor is not a problem for Radit.