I Am a Woman

As generally speak, woman is a female human, who has their own world. Their own way of thinking. Their own understanding of everything. Their own strength to face life. And their own complexity. Such as the words we use for several terms, which drives the opposite of our sex crazy. Male!! Hmf…what do they know about words picking. :p

The word ‘lucu’ –that’s in Bahasa– or cute in English –trust me I really did my research :p and cute is one of the English words for ‘lucu’–, has been a hot subject on my after work discussion lately. This topic took its place in our conversation and until this moment we haven’t share any agreement why women use this adjective to describe something which men thinks we should only say ‘bagus’ –that’s also in Bahasa– or just simply nice.

‘Lucu’ is the word you describe for something that makes you laugh. And cute little things you found when you do your window shopping ritual doesn’t really make you laugh, that’s why my male conversation partner thinks that we should just call it nice instead of cute.

Well actually I never knew this term before I moved to the capital of this country. Back home I used to say nice or ‘bagus’ when I see something nice. I don’t know when was this doctrine has caught my ears and my soul. Everyone (read. Every girl and also almost every boy –these are real men we’re talking here–) in that city speak this language. Then I found you can’t find any other words than CUTE to describe a very wonderful stuff you see –STILL. It does stand for LUCU in Bahasa–. Man and woman really do speak exactly the same words but totally different meaning. So what? No rules regulating on this. And it’s definitely not a sin. That’s just the way we are.

Back to Cute –AGAIN!! It stands for LUCU in Bahasa– :p. Same word different meaning. Spoken by the same species yet different gender. Heard by the same earth creature yet different way of understanding. It’s the beauty of diversity. Men sometimes confused by women and vice versa. So be it! Many times I got pissed by other woman way of thinking also. I really don’t have any explanation for this. Let’s not judge one way to another. Let’s try to change our paradigm. To understand others –though this is a common term in which I still don’t believe that it could be done by ME–. It’s the only solution for this. Trust me, me and my girlfriend have tried hundreds of different explanation to our male conversation partners for this and vice versa. And still, none of us have put our feet in the same shoes for this. But I swear to God I’ll fight for this word cute which ALWAYS stand for ‘Lucu’ in Bahasa in sickness and health, ‘till death do us apart…xixiixxixiixiii

Funny or cute little things you found doesn’t need to be perfectly symmetric, it doesn’t have to be a masterpiece of a famous great artist, it doesn’t have to be expensive, it doesn’t need to have any utility for the greater good. It’s just being cute because that’s just their nature. It is cute because it makes your heart beat faster than before; because it makes your eyes glow when you look at it; and mostly because it makes you gasp the very moment you spotted it and you spontaneously hold your breath for a while just to give a chance for your lung to save more oxygen to say a nice and long ‘O –pause– My –pause– God –pause– That –pause– Is –pause– So –pause– CUTE!’ and here I officially translate ‘Yak –jeda– Ampun –jeda– LUCU –jeda– Banget –jeda– Sumpah!’ *huge-giant-fat-grin* :D 

PS. I don’t receive any comment for this post. No heart feeling. Just womanly speaking…ha…ha…

Have a marvelous weekend

 -M-