AMIRU likes to see his dad experimenting with radio. Because then, his conscience, his father's mind, as well as his own mind, was not sidetracked from sadness. Sadness because Amiru's mother often gets sick. Her mother can be healthy for weeks, but if her illness recurs, she does not get out of bed.
Amiru marveled at the affection, patience, and diligence of his father caring for his mother. Therefore, he, as the eldest son, also always diligently caring for his mother. If the situation is worrisome, Amiru lying beside his mother, kissed her mother's hand while praying for her mother to recover quickly. While his father kept trying to find healing for his mother.
So, if there is one thing that can make his father happy, can forget for a moment the misfortune that afflict, Amiru will try to get it, and it is radio.
In such links, Oddly, Amiru always supported his father's experiments on the radio and always hoped that the experiment would fail. So his father would keep it.
Ever since he wanted to hear the live broadcast of the Indonesian Cup of Versus Malaysia Thomas Cup badminton match RRI broadcast live, his father borrowed his mother's cauldron. Extend a long piece of wire from the radio antenna and then attach the end of the wire to the crock of a cauldron mounted in the house. The point is probably to function the cauldron as a kind of parabolic antenna. Radio broadcasts did not improve. Experimental antenna potato: failed.
Unyielding, Amirza tried many different ways to get a clearer radio broadcast. He climbed the gayam tree beside the house and tied up the iron bar on top. At the end of the iron rod was linked to a wire that had been stretched out of the radio antenna. The result is even more radio broadcast kemerosok.
Amiru's father was curious. He wrapped the iron tip at the top of the gayam tree with a tin roll. The action follows a very academic logic that is as a people who are familiar with the mine. The inhabitants of Nira understood that the thunderbolts loved to grab the tin-filled ground. Because lightning is electricity and radio frequency is also one form of electricity, radio frequency would love to grab a tin-coated radio antenna. As a result, radio broadcasts will definitely get clearer. So basic is the thought of Amirza. If the thought was made a final student thesis proposal, surely the supervisor will nod without a doubt.
What happened was that on a heavy rainy night, the pihon gayam's antenna was struck by lightning. As a result, not only the antenna was charred to charcoal, but also the wilting tree next to it. Amiru's solemn father listens to the song Green Green Grass of Home bouncing off the seat. The radio groaned briefly, smoked, then fainted.
