As a farewell trip for Mbak Nadiya before her depart back to Indonesia on the next few days, Ibuk and I gave her a mini ride to Lake Shidaka and other sightseeing places around Beppu. Anyway, Mbak Nadiya is an exchange student from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, taking urban planning major who's lucky to get a chanche studying in APU under development and environmental major. I was actually sad to let her go, as she's like a sister who always listens and gives me reminder of iman. Good bye, Mbak Nad! See ya when I see ya :")
Today, a piece of postcard came all the way from Bali, as the reply of mine that I sent a couple of months ago. He’s an IC alumni named Diba; a kind (yet annoying) guy I met first time in Singapore, when I had a 14-hour transit on the way coming back to Indonesia from Japan. He was in Singapore on an exchange program at NTU, while I got yet no one as my acquaintances for whom I might call in Singapore to pick me up at the airport and give me companion for a short stroll at the town. By any chance, I got contacted with Kak Ifah, also an IC alumna who I never met before. *Let's give applause to the power of IAIC, hehe. I asked her to accompany me strolling around the Merlion park, then she came up on that day with Kak Diba and Kak Toriq. So, that was the chronology of how Kak Diba and I know each other.
Since then, the friendship went along through ask.fm and twitter, the medias where he (that time) was really active on striking me with a bunch of sarcastic yet enlightening questions and tweets. When I was traveling in Jogja on March 2015, we managed to meet and had a visit to Gembiraloka Zoo and Affandi Museum as well on the other day. I personally think that we have many things in commons; sarcasm diction on putting words, stubborn personality, hobbies on traveling and writing, and we eventually shared the same results at www.16personalities.com personality test as the ENTPs. So far, all the talks going on our chat are fun, although sometimes he is way too annoying. Meh.
By the way, I sent him a postcard to his house in Semarang, but today I got it's replied from Bali as he is now traveling there. See ya in another journey, Kak! Hope you are fine and do get what you're looking for in the days ahead!
Started from her post on Instagram, one of my best high school friends of mine offering to send five postcards to anybody who got interested on receiving hers all the way coming from Hong Kong. You can obviously spot my name in the second comment above. Without any hello nor greeting, I commented with putting my address directly to the comment section, hehehe. Today I'm so happy to be proven that she is kind of "talks the talk and walks the walk" that I received her nice postcard with her silly message written on it. Ah Qoy, jadi kangen deh...
Hi, folks! This is my very first received postcard for 2016! I'm so happy to hand down this postcard right after my coming back from Tokyo today. As I arrived home, Ibuk told me that I got a postcard from someone, then what makes this postcard special is that; this is kind of sudden postcard from Tio which I never asked him to send me nor a reply from what I had sent to him.
It was about two years ago when we had a Line-call while Tio was traveling away from Karlsruhe to visit the ruins of Berlin Wall then I asked him to give me a small piece of its bricks. He didn't say a certain "okay" that time, but today he has definitely surprised me with this little thing inside the plastic circle container that is attached on the center of the card. Yap folks, it's the precious (and historical) dead witness of Berlin Wall demolition in the ending time of East and West Germany rivalry.
Thanks, Tio for your sixth postcard coming to Beppu! Thanks for all the postcards sent from Hannover, Karlsruhe, Lombok, Malaysia, and Berlin! Wait for my reply!
Taken on: 31 May 2015
Taken at: Asokuju National Park
Taken using: Sony Xperia ZL2
Edited with: VSCO