8/28/06





You can never tell where life bring you, as I do...I do believe that something move us in mysterious ways. I was in my hometown expecting to go abroad and live there.....but then never thing that I could go this far. Being across Europe, respected everywhere I go was never came up in my mind. This year...I started with London to visit my priceless, she brought over to Birmingham, York, Manchester for the derby and some other places which I was only able to watch in movie or read at books.

I always wanted that someday I could stay in Europe for a little while. Not because that I don't like my country, I love it...I still have my flag with me and carry it in any concert or festival or any football match I watch. I just want something different, how we think, how we live, how we react or even ho we deal with others.
I remember about 8 years ago, Budi Syahbudin---my fella--said in front of my house "5 or 6 years or even 10 years would be great," well I think so.
Now I'm here, starting from she got her scholarship, I got my job in Budapest, travel to some countries in the region then I can see world and diversity.
I'm not coming from a rich family, my family keep telling me that going abroad is a big thing and so expensive, it was always my dreamt. Until these days, I found "Where am I 10 years ago?" I could come here and travel, either being a backpacker or work, so that I could finance myself in any ways. I visited Europe 2,5 years ago, I won't forget it....everything that far was here in my eyes.















Left picture is my life and still, I love football just like I always love women, and those are my fellow supporters friend. Same people as I am, migrants descendant who lost in Jakarta the big city. City where you can find hundreds of ethnich groups from the far east to the far west side of Indonesia. Most of us like football, and Jakarta is my team.
Right picture was my first experience on watching the game in Europe. I remember almost cry when I saw Olympia Stadium in Munich. My girl was amazed, she never realise that a stadium would make someone cry, but I did hahahaha.........For some reasons Europe has amazed me, maybe the other way around will happen to them when they visit my country. We are exotic and so are they for us. Life is strange, we never satisfy for what we have until we know we have it.
Those guys are from Kaiserlautern, of course I didn't know who they are, we haven't met before, but I believe my passion to football make them want to have a picture with me. We're the same, some crazy bastards who love our passion. It doesn't matter what your color or what you look like, football is auniversal language.......and sex too.



I hate heat in Indonesia, but now I miss it, I miss my eternal sunshine, I miss my beaches, my mountains and everything that so hard to find in Europe. I'll be home before it's getting cold here, but I'll definitely will return because I found something to bear with. Some jobs and school







1 komentar:

swastika said...

A song said, "We don't know what we've got till its gone". We took Indonesia's warmth and other great things for granted, until we're parted from them... We're lucky we're always welcome to return to Indonesia. Imagine those who couldn't because of some silly political reasons.