Failed Charm

Tita and her son Tomoki were visiting Aki's house, and I was also invited to have dinner together. It's been a while that I didn't meet them, so I wonder how big Tomoki-kun now (he's around one year at that time). When I arrived it was Aki who's opened the door, and at the time Tomoki-kun heard my voice, he started crying.
"It seems that your charm didn't work on boys, isn't it?", Aki was laughing (so far I have no problem with small kids, and even some of them didn't refuse when I hold them around in the first meeting, that's why Aki sometimes think that I use charm :-) )

Anyway, gradually Tomoki-kun began to used to with my presence, so he didn't cry anymore. Tita said that her husband was very busy that Tomoki only had little time to play with his father - the thing that we thought to be the cause of his shyness.

Thinking about it, I and my sister mbak Tini were also shy when we were kids (and still now, I think :-) ), while my brother mas Yudhi and sister mbak Wiwin were very outgoing. I can remember that in my childhood I hardly had time to play with my father (my father was so busy when I was a kid) - seems like the same reason for Tomoki-kun's problem.

I just can hope that Tita can find a way to solve the problem... anyway, I think I would try to spend time as much as possible with my kids (if I have :-) ), and also make them meet a lot of people during their growth, so they won't grow bashful like me... :-)

And more important, I think I should change to a more stronger charm... :-)

Karaoke Party

Yoriko-san was about to leave for UK for one-year stay, and since she's crazy about karaoke, we (we? actually it was Miyuki's idea...) made a karaoke party for her. Yoriko-san was around 50 years-old, so you can expect that most who came were also around her age... among 8 who came, only me and Miyuki who were still under 30...

At first I was worry what kind of song that I would sing... they were all Japanese and I didn't know at all what Japanese songs that were hit at their time. But Miyuki told me that I could sing any song that I want, so I just picked some song that I like. My first song was L.O.V.E from Nat King Cole, and I was really glad that most of them know the song (lucky me, it was used for CM song in Japan some times ago). During the course I tried to control my desire to pick Bon Jovi song :-), I didn't sing Bon Jovi at all, but I sang Aerosmith... :-) In the end, I realized that it doesn't matter whether the other know my song or not - as long as it's a good song, everybody will happy to hear it - and they might try to sing it as well...