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Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:35:51 +0200

Hi, my name's Mimin Wiharjo. I am the youngest in my family. My father gave me a chinese name, oey wan may, I don't know, what's that means coz my Go Kong (5th grandfa) had passed away My father said, Go kong who gave the meaning of all my brothers and my sisters'names.
even my papa is chinese, but he had dark skin like judge Bao (the famous honest judge legend form china land), I am like my papa, have dark skin, big eyes but my hair is very stright, like a common chinese. my sisters and my brothers' skin follow my mom, their skin brighter than me. they looks chinese.
When I was a child, My mom always asked me to buy food at a small shop and I had to pass the way where many children yelling at me : Hi, Chinese, chinese. I din't like it. That's why I hate being chinese. for 16 years before I went to Jakarta, I lived in a small village, named Jamblang, one hour from Cirebon city, where most of the people hate chinese, I don't know why, maybe because many chinese in my village were rich and they're very exclusive. they had a small town named china town surrounded by fortress and they didn't want mix with "pribumi" or Indonesian. they called "Tiko" for pribumi. but my family lived among Indonesian. Although we're not "the have" family but my parent always nice and helped our neighbours. even sometimes they're evil to us. for example: they stole our fruits, border land and our pets. I ever asked my father, why he's so good to our neighbours. He answered all he had done just to protect us. He didn't want our neighbours harm us. He realized, We're dislike for our nature, being chinese. for more than 40 years, my parent did a good things, so no wonder when they died, many people (we didn't know them) came to condole with us until the last rest place. they said although my father's chinese but he's a good and a helpfull man not stingy. My parent tought a good lesson for me. Although They're never passed an elementary school and poor people but they're a hard work people, never give up, very creative and very helpfull to the others. My Mom tought us very strictly, that's why when we're a child we love our papa than our mom. But after we're growing up, we understand all she had done just to make us better and not become a worthless people, she's a very responsible and a very good mother.

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