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Saturday, April 25th 2009. My friends and I had a trip to Jogja, the city of culture in Indonesia. Not like others ordinary trip, our vacation to Jogja was also some kind of camouflage for my best pal to show his love to his mistress. (Well, I had better not to mention their names for the sake of my safety, hehe…) Based on this experience I had an idea to compose or write another short story about this true event.
Not many people knew about our plan. We made it as classified as possible. During the trip my best pal (Let’s call him ANW as his initial) asked so many things about his idea for showing his feeling to his love (Let’s call her as IS as her initial). It had been one week before the “D” day. Let’s take a look from the beginning of this story.
Friday, March 13th 2009 was the first meeting for ANW and IS. It was their first dinner but there was no such crush on both of them, just ordinary feeling. Time went by when finally that feeling arrived to ANW’s heart. Love! Love! And love! It had been five weeks since their first meeting, Saturday, April 18th 2009, ANW decided to express his feeling to her. Finally he got crushed. That day was my first day as an announcer at Produa English Time at Indonesian Broadcasting Radio (RRI) of channel Pro 2 and we discussed a little bit about our little huge plan! My first idea was showing ANW’s feeling of love on air, so that the whole city would listen to it. But, he was too afraid and he thought it was illogical. Then, the second scenario was made, showing ANW’s love to IS when we had a trip to Jogja. Simpler, easier, and more effective. Time did fly fast!
The “D” day came. Saturday, April 25th, 2009. In the morning when we started the trip, ANW asked me the best time to show his love to IS. Our seat was on the last row of the bus and IS’ seat was two rows from our seat. As you knew, I almost messed up with our plan. I told ANW, the best time to show his love was after we had dinner in a restaurant. It’s up to him, whether he wanted to express his feeling in the restaurant or in the bus before we went back to Semarang. He agreed that plan and also the crew of our travel agent, they even helped us. I had another idea. It would be very odd if when ANW showed his love and he didn’t give anything to IS, so I decided to tell him that he had better buy something and give it to her later on. We decided to buy a necklace during our visit to Kukup Beach near the Baron beach in Jogjakarta.
Malioboro Road, Jogjakarta. It was 7 P.M. and Saturday night. So many people came and went back and forth the road. We got off the bus and made a small group. At first we were together, but 10 minutes later we separated. Y and I went straight forward looking some sandals, outfits, and souvenirs. While, ANW and IS went together. We had decided that we had to be in one big group again at 9 P.M. Indonesian has a bad habit in doing such discipline. They are always late! And so did some of my friends. This included ANW and IS. I was so upset until I almost forgot that plan behind. I didn’t give a shit on that plan. Just did by yourself! But, I decided, as a good pal, you should not do such bad things. You should be happy when your friend happy.

Before we continue our story just consider the following reflection:
Kita dilahirkan dengan dua mata.
Kita dilahirkan dengan dua telinga.
Namun, cukup dengan satu mulut,
karena mulut adalah senjata yang tajam,
yang dapat melukai, memfitnah, bahkan membunuh.

Kita dilahirkan dengan hati,
yang mengingatkan kita untuk mengahargai dan memberikan cinta kasih dari dalam lubuk hati.
Belajar untuk mencintai dan menikmati untuk dicintai,
tetapi jangan pernah mengharapkan orang lain,
untuk mencintai lo dengan cara dan sebanyak yang sudah lo berikan.

Berikanlah cinta tanpa mengharapkan balasan,
Maka lo akan menemukan bahwa hidup ini terus menjadi lebih indah.
(Everlasting Friendship by Andika page 69)

We are born with two eyes
We are born with two ears
But, just one mouth
Coz your mouth is the most dangerous weapon
It can kill, slander and hurt someone else

We are born with heart,
It reminds us to always appreciate and give love and care from the bottom
Learn to love and enjoy to be loved
But never hope that someone will love you as much as you do

Give your love without any return
So you will find that your life will be better every single day

Back to our story, I almost cancelled to help ANW to show his love to IS, but I would feel very guilty if I had done that. I would feel very sorry if I didn’t act as we had planned before. I was so upset when dealing with this situation, lateness! I won’t give any excuse for anyone who is being late! Any second is very important, moreover if you had someone who was feeling unwell waiting for those who were late.
At the restaurant, ANW and I sat in one table; of course my feeling was still in bad mood. But again a friend in need is a friend indeed. I believe in that proverb. I will never screw my best pal special occasion and seven years of friendship because of that little thing.
Everything was set up. While we were eating dinner inside a restaurant in Magelang, the bus crew and the travel agent under my lead prepared everything. The sound system and of course the scenario we would use. After we ate the dinner, every one got on the bus one by one. Even a friend of mine asked,
“Why would you get on from the front door? You are sitting in the back. Why don’t you just get on from the back door?”


I just answered:
“Well, I have to make sure that everyone is in her seat. And there is something I want to say to you all.”
Then, she got on the bus and everyone was inside, except me, ANW, and the bus crews. I made the first appearance, and said:
“Well, good evening friends, tonight I want to tell you something. One of our “illegal” passengers from other department wants to show his feeling to one of our friend here. Let’s listen to him. “Mas ANW would you come to the stage”, I said. Then, ANW showed up, of course with a trembling heart since he was very nervous. No doubt about it! He started talking:
“Good evening everybody. My name is ANW and tonight I want to express my feeling to someone in this bus. This is for IS”.
Everyone yelled…
“Quite…quite… Listen to her” ANW said.
“Shshshshhhhhh….”
Everyone is in silence.
“Tonight I want to show my love to IS. Would you be my girl?”
Everyone yelled again.
“Say yes…Say yes…Say yes!!!”
Applause, smile, and shock surrounded the atmosphere inside the bus.
I whispered to ANW, “Give her the necklace…give her the necklace!”
IS answered with her red face:
“Well, I’ll think about it first.”
ANW responded, “Well, I really appreciate your decision. If you finally later on say yes, just wear the necklace, but if you say no, it’s up to you. You can keep the necklace or even you can throw it away.”
It was exactly 11.00 P.M. when the event occurred. Every one awaked and opened their eyes widely. I could see so many shocked faces, including IS herself. This special occasion was recorded and taped by one member of the crews. (I definitely will upload it into my facebook account!) After IS said, “I’ll think about it,” he got off from the front door and back inside front the back door and gave the necklace, then he sat next to her and slept beside her, of course just slept on two different seats but besides. Everything was back to normal and the occasion was closed as I said “I love you all…”
Finally, we went back to Semarang with the previous additional performance from my best pal which we never taught before and of course we will never effort to pay that kind of courage from my best pal.
Good luck then and I hope she will say yes and everyone is happily ever after….just like a fairy tale…. Good bye…