10 April 2006

I noted that day. 10 April 2006. Tika, Bebe, and I, were sitting in FISIP's gazebo, counted the best and the worst time during our colleges years. We spent the whole afternoon there.

We talked about our plans. Tika with her plans, Bebe too, and off course I did. I told them that I'd like to join the Foreign Affairs. I had prepared for the last a year, by taking foreign language, but English. They laughed. "No, darling. You don't want to go there.... You said that you want to join to NGM. Remember that?" Yeah, I did really remember, very clearly. Since then, I decided not to join that department. I don't why, just it does not fit me.

At the end of our conversation, we pledged, "Let's see each other in Prague, five years from now" We did not know, where the idea came from. We just said so.... We held hands. Like, we never be separated as best friends. And, we did not know, why must be Prague. For us, who sometimes, told ourselves being Socialist, Prague is such an icon. It's the place where Kafka was born. It's a place where Velvet Revolution occured. It's a place where all cultures and thought are mixture. It's a place of beauty. With the beauty of Bohemia in our mind. The place for its crystal. Everything was on our mind.

Mates, the three of us, everyday are chasing our dreams. Tika, is dwelling in Jakarta with her love live and her work as journalist. Bebe, is struggling with her humans right ideas in United Nations (UN) while preparing her leaving on September to UK. And me, is living with all these dreams. The dreams that would take me to places I wanna to be. Dreams of back to the world where leaves falling, the wind blows with its breezing joy and with all those happy faces. The world which smells of pulp and paper. Oh, I love that world.

Everyday, we count about meeting in Prague, 10 April 2011.