Wednesday, August 25, 2010

It feels like nothing it ever felt before

"True friends are like diamonds; bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style." --Nicole Richie

So many friends have left, but this one is the worst. I don't know why, but I guess this is what happens when it comes to your best friend of 6 years and still counting. It's just somehow worse and harder than it's always been. I was sitting alone in my lodge and suddenly this thought came to me: hey,when is this gurl leaving? ooh please, I'd better find out, before suddenly the phone rings and the voice over there saying, "Hey, wazzup? I'm leaving tonight."

Dear friend,

I know I've been a terrible friend for you, but I just wanna let you know, that you're my best. I know I've been ignoring you for some very, very stupid reasons--reasons that you don't deserve, because they're really not worth it. If I were you and I have a friend like me, I'd probably leave her. But you didn't, and that's the most amazing part of you. You didn't just give up on me, no matter how annoying and disappointing I am as a friend.

A little newsflash: I still remember the day we first met; before we were friends and all that. I still remember the way you look that day, at the school mosque. It's amazing how it happened 6 years ago and I never forget, while I tend to keep forgetting things I just heard yesterday. I don't know how I could remember it very clearly, but I wanna let my kids and grandchildren know about this.

I'm still questioning everything, like, why Japan? Why really, why?

But I know you love Japan. And I'm sure you'll love it there. I'm sure you'll have an amazing life waiting for you over there. I'm sure you'll get all the better and all that you deserve; because you deserve the best. I'm sure you'll have amazing friends, amazing experiences, amazing uni... just like I do.

I'm gonna miss your calls so badly. I'm gonna miss your stories, your jokes, your laughs... hopefully I'm still gonna remember your laugh 4 years from now. Hopefully we'd still speak the same languange then, or laugh as hard as we can do today. Hopefully, in the future, I'll see you as we're both on top of the world.

Be good in Japan. Take care of everything. Spend your money wisely as everything is so expensive there. Right, I started to sound like your mom. But really, just don't suck at keeping old friends. Always remember that back home, you'd still got your family, and I'm not going anywhere for the next 4 years, just in case you need a friend and share your cool experiences in Japan :p

I wish you all the best luck in the world. I wish you a much better life. I miss you already.

"...no matter how far we are, we are still under the same sky"

your super extra cool friend for 6 years (and still counting)

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Before it all goes to waste, I wanna remember it all

Greetings!

If you ask me how I am, I'm very well, thanks. If you want an update, here's the short one. I'd like to share (in fact, I'd LOVE to. you know I love that kind of activity) but I just wanna say, I've had some of the best moments of the year in the last 20 days, and that's fast. New experiences, nostalgia, new friends, all the sadness and laughs and tears shared with new people, all the secret crushes... everything is so full packed! Just in case you insists to know why, here's some hints:


OBM mates



The girls of voeging: Puspa, Dea, moi et Bela in Bogor


Fingers crossed for all the good things to never end. But if it will, I'll just be thankful it happened and that means it was good.

regards,

your editor in chief