Dec 28 2005
Someone special
The following experience happened last December 23, 2005, by the end of my thesis examination. After the four examiners besieged me with incessant questions, and I could answer all questions convincingly (I thought, LOL), the second advisor of my thesis suddenly said, “Ms. Nana, I have one last question.”
I looked at her, and said confidently, “Yes … what is it, Ma’am?”
She said, “I am interested in the acknowledgement of your thesis. Why didn’t you mention your hubby’s name? Instead you just wrote “…for my someone special who has become my catharsis and my inspiration as well without whom I believe that the thesis writing would have been a very much harder task to do.” Is it coz you were influenced a lot by Charlotte Perkins Gilman?”
I was dumbfounded to hear that question. Goodness, in fact the examiners not only paid attention to the content of my thesis, but they also paid attention to such a (trivial for me) thing? Well, in such an occasion it was trivial, I suppose, though of course when I wrote it, I did it seriously, to show my great indebtness to that someone special of mine. I got no idea how to answer that question, frankly speaking. Hmm…
And in fact, the other examiners were also curious to know why I wrote such a thing in the acknowledgment. Wow … J
After being silent for some time, at last I responded, “Well, Ma’am… I have my own personal reason to do that…”
Voila … then I found out that in fact, that simple response was enough to “silence” those four examiners of my thesis. LOL.
Some days passed.
When I visited that second advisor my thesis again, in the teacher’s room of English Department where I took my master’s degree, to ask for her signature, in fact, I found out that she was still curious. She asked me again, “Come on … tell me your reason why you wrote such a thing …”
In that crucial moment, (hehehe …), my being sakkepenake dhewe appeared. LOL. I responded, “Well … you know Ma’am … my someone special can be different person in different condition … Okay? That’s what I meant with ‘my personal reason’.” Hahaha …
For my someone special, my catharsis as well as my inspiration, the most loyal one who accompanied me during my writing the thesis, Je t’aime, mon amour …
Nana 
