So, the morning day before we back to Jakarta, we went to a kind of semi private beach owned by my friend. It is a lovely shallow beach with few kerapu (grouper) breeders scattered near the seaside.
At that time, I was so damned fall in love with that place and try to forget my trip to Japan - as I know it is gonna be totally different kind of life scenes from I enjoyed here. We really had a good time, swimming, having barbeque and playing at the sea shore. I felt that there was a distinctive split, with only easy living on one side and "must do" on the other.
My "must do" is just nearby a place what people called an unreal market, where people buy and sell a PAPER and to some extent they just buy and sell few bytes of data telling a value of one thing.
Tonite just several minutes to midnight, listening to some gospel songs from Joe Pace, I am feeling so empty with my flashy Ph.D. program in bond market, stock daytrading and all those finance structuring models - gee,.. I feel like I am being trapped into something unreal.
So it's difficult for me to tell if my disappointment in it is justified or not. Somehow, I got to go this way first before I could enjoy those "real life" and somehow, we got to choose both or nothing at all. That's life!! Who said we only have one choice at one time?!! At least, it is not me!
God bless you
2 comments:
Nice blog, brother... Hmmm... You had not tell us specifically as to your trip to Lampung??? Now I got influenced by your trip experience in Lampung; but still hesitate to go there though, I don't have a friend who has a private beach like your friend's.
Anyhow, there will be a long weekend in May 2007, so that I am planning to go for a short holiday (with my family of course) although I have not decided yet where to go. As usual, budget is always a concern; because school holiday is approaching too, another budget to consider for a long school holiday, right...
Thanks...
Lampung is only 6 hours from Jakarta, 2 hours driving on highway, max 2hours on ferry (if u got lucky, the big one only takes 90 minutes) then another 2 hours driving. It is good since we dont have to drive for 6 hours.
U can bring some food and eat it while on ferry or go to some resto near Bakauheni - the good one is 15 minutes from Bakauheni.
Stay at Sheraton Hotel, nice place and not crowded. Rate is reasonably fair - USD 85
Coba deh, seru punya...
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