here, there and everywhere

First I thought I’ll have another boring trip to Samarinda, but hhhmmmm I’ve got a funny experience.

It starts when I was on the plane to Balikpapan, on my left side sat an expatriate who’s talking with a mumbling accent to a person in front of him, and on my right side was an empty chair which surprised me cause it supposed to be a peak season.

I didn’t pay any attention of what they are talking about and continue reads Kite Runner, a must read book from Khaled Hosseini, but since I heard they discussed about Muhammadiyah and NU, and the person who sat in front of him gave a wrong perspective about it suddenly I pat his shoulder, interrupt the conversation and start to explained. For sure, it’s not me at all.

But the funny thing is after several minutes’ of discussion I found out that he’s an American born in Texas (that’s why he spoke like a cowboy), works for Chinese Company and based in Balikpapan, and he’s a friend of my half Dutch - Israelian friend who works closely with me in Istanbul, Turkey for Taiwannese Company. And now we met in Jakarta on the way to BPN, ‘we just like UN, he said”.
What a small world.

balikpapan
june 29, 2005
joeffry