16/02/2021
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Hello everyone,
So it’s been a couple of days or weeks since I write about something and now I’m gonna write you some story that happens a couple of months ago. So here’s the story.
Days before 3rd December 2020 I texted a couple of my best friends to hang out with me because I feel boring. So I grab my phone open the chatting app and start to text them. It starts with “Bro, do you have some work today?” and he said “Man I’ve got a lot of work stuck on my desk, maybe tomorrow?” so I replied with “Okay then, tomorrow it is”. That’s Oliver.
The next person I’m going to is Ganesha. So I texted her like “Where are you?” and she said “On the office, why?” and then I’ve said, “I want to ask you to go out and have dinner or meal”. And after a couple of messages, she said “Tomorrow sounds good to me”. And eventually, the three of us will meet tomorrow. It’s just like a last-minute call and no game plan at all.
The next day in the afternoon we met, I was the first person to arrived and making sure we’ve got the table. To be honest the services there are not good because the employees seem to look down on me IDK why. It’s like I’m coming alone and bought some old camera and one reading book. First I go to the table in the back because I thought the view was good it gives you the sight of the city under the big ball of sunset. And yeah I started to sit there and after around five to ten minutes the waiter came to me and he said “Sorry this table is already reserved, maybe you can move to another table” and I was a little surprised because there’s no reserved sign on it and when I first put my bum on the chair there’s nothing happened it’s just fine five minutes. So I said to him “Oh I don’t know there’s no sign on it” and he just gives me a smile. Eventually, I found another table in the front place where you can see the road and nice ambiance as well. They still starring at me because I’m not order anything yet. I was waiting for my friends. And yeah just to make them “happy” I order something from the menu. When the food arrived I said “Thank you” and start eating them. After a while, my friends arrived. They order their food straight away because they’re starving.
And then as time goes by we have a chit-chat about everything. And before or after we’ve run out topics I started to persuade them like “Do you guys wanna have this chicken..?” we started to starring each other and laugh and said, “Yes we do”. Here comes the chicken with a delicious aroma and everything with it. So good.
Before we go out I suggesting to pay it with my card because I need to “punch” them in their face because of what they did when I arrived. Ah, sweet revenge.
When we’re in the car it’s like the night just begins for us because we rarely have this kind of short trip during 2020 because of the lockdown, quarantine, and everything. We don’t want the night or this moment to end just yet, we have to go to another place so after this and that we decided to go to Ragusa Ice Cream. It’s a legendary ice cream place in Jakarta since 1932. Many people grandpa start their relationship there maybe, I guess.
So as Barney Stinson said on HIMYM “Whatever you do in this life, it’s not legendary, unless your friends are there to see it.”
We’re going to the place when we arrived there around 8 or 9 p.m. the place still open. First thing first we ask about the table and yeah since the place is legendary the table is limited and we realized that we’re running out of cash. So we asked if they accepted the card, they said no. It’s cash only, so we asked where is the nearest atm around here. They show us the way and we follow it. After we have our money we’re coming back to the place to order some ice cream. And as we speak the owner of the place came to us and she said many things. Especially about some stubborn customers that insist on paying with their card or some customer that not listening when they order something so they seem to know what they order but actually don’t. Know what I mean?
It’s like when a customer order something from the menu they usually don’t know what it is and they asked the staff to explain what it is at the times when the staff explaining sometimes they’re not listening. And when the order arrived they complaining about why the taste is not the same as their expectations. They blame the staff but it really is their own flaws.
The owner said that she likes us because we’re really going out and walk a couple of meters to go to atm to get our cash and going back to the place. Like we have an effort for it so she likes us. She even said that we’re smart customers. She valued that she even gave us free ice cream. What a moment.
So if you want something you have to show your effort on it cause it may lead you to something that may be surprised you.
After that we’re going out as the place will be closed. Before we came home we bum some cigarettes and sat on a park bench near the river across the place. On our way home first, we drop Ganesha to her place and then I drop Oliver at his place. Going to Ganesha place is easy at it is just like go with the flow. But when I drive my car to drop Oliver at his place things got mess a bit.
So here’s what it is when I drive in my mind I have to go to the highway because when I already on the highway I know the way. And my friend here using the maps to guide me. After a couple of minutes, we’ve got ourselves in someplace near the harbor on the north side of Jakarta that we don’t know anything about. We even saw some odd architecture we have never seen before. And finally god answer us we saw the highway gate and I’m driving straight to it.
From the north side of Jakarta to the south part of Jakarta and then Bintaro seems fine as we drove on the highways. When I arrived near his place I talked to him “Man can I go to the supermarket first I need to top up my highways card” he replied, “Sure man, I’m going to buy some snack too”. It turns out the machine didn't work to top up my card. And then my friend right here lends me his card he said “Use my card man it’s okay you can take it”. What a bro.
And yeah eventually we all coming back home and it was a good day for me I hope they felt it too. That is me I love wandering around to some places alone or with some friends and creating moments preserving it in many ways. Because the times we spend with our closest one are the times we cherish the most. It’s not always your family maybe it can be your best friends.
Live in the moment.
