And this is Shinta. So it used to be me, Shinta, Mala, and Nisa. We lost contact with Nisa, so it’s just the three of us. We came from different high school and met in a tutorial class. If my memory is correct, we only met 2-3 times a week and we didn’t go out much. But somehow we still are best friends until today. 

Shinta is one of the most positive person I know. She never thinks much, but not in impulsive way. Every time there’s problem, she naturally thinks of a solution, instead of blaming others. At some point, I think she just don’t think that the problem might be caused by others. So, yeah… she ends up helping a lot of people, maybe without she even realizes it.

I really believe it it her kindness that somehow bring her luck. She is so lucky in so many aspects. I envy her job. She got a nice job, and some facilities that no fresh graduate can get. Every time we meet, she tells me about how she’s doing and stuff, it’s just a normal chatting between friends, yet she inspires me to always do good thing to others. And once again, I think she doesn’t realize how much she inspires me.

What makes me even sure about that is her comment. Many times Mala and I says how lucky she is with her love life , career, and education. Her respond is “God always bless me.”

She is Mala. We’ve been friends since…. 5-6 years ago. Sometimes i am amazed and, at the same time, proud with some long - lasting friendships that I have.I think the ironic part comes from the fact that I didn’t do anything to take care of it. There’s time that I tried so hard to make friends and maintain the friendship, all failed. But when I just let it flow, somehow it just works out. 

I guess the point is nobody can meet ideal friend or create ideal friendship. They’ll find you. All you have to do is just wait and make friends with a lot of people. As time goes by, the filter will works on itself, and without realizing it, you’ll be surrounded by your true friends.  

Jadi, langsung lompat yah?

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This photo was rather old, maybe 1 or 2 weeks ago. My supervisor is driving me nuts that I did nothing but sleeping and eating. Anyway…. It’s been a while since I met Arin. We used to live in the same place, NUS. And we still do, except it’s Jogja. But somehow it’s just hard for us and Jhendra to meet up.

Once I and Anin had a discussion about this. Sometimes we stuck in an event like orientation, exchange program, even military service. We had new friends and we were very very close with them. But once the ‘event’ was over, so did the friendship. She said that this kind of thing happened because we had the same past and when we meet, the topic will be about the past. And that’s why it’s gonna end sooner or later, sooner usually. Sound sad to me, but I can’t say it’s wrong.

However, Arin is just so nice to keep contacting me and we just had lunch this noon. We plan to do this lunch ritual weekly. Of course we also plan to hace Jhendra join this ritual. It’s gonna feel like old times, every wednesday me, Arin, Jhendra, and Fira would have lunch together at 'the deck’ because our classes ends at the same time that day….. Here we go, I’m talking about another 'past’. But,,,,, I guess it won’t hurt, you know, trying to keep your 'event friendship’ going.