21 April, Kartini Day

Kartini was a great young woman. She wrote about things some women/man her era in java/indonesia had not even dared to think about. You know, stuff like education for women, emancipation, poligamy, hold on to your own rights, among other things.
Why do I write about her, now? Apart from high respect I render to her, there's something more interesting to talk about.

It's the date. 21 April 1996, yup 13 years ago. Our family was socially recognised. Socially, because officially it was registered one day before. And this morning, we --me and Mrs. Hikmat-- just found out that WE MISSED the anniversary by one day.

Of course it's nothing. Forgetting things is human, forgetful is my middle name. But, forgetting the marriage anniversary? for a wife? hehehe...no hard feelings, dear. Anyhow, she wasn't feeling too well since morning yesterday, and she even went back home early for the same reason. I'm not the kind of man who can easily remember dates, let alone the event that happened more than a decade ago.

Anyway, this how it happened. Driving to our offices, we were talking about Kartini Day when, all of the sudden, we looked at each other's face and laughed. I shook her hand, "Happy anniversary", and we celebrated it by taking a short stop at a streetside noodle vendor. What an anniversary to remember, hehehe.

I am getting old....