People I've met part 2

In Jogja, I also met Iman Budhi Santosa, a writer who is interested in the poetry anthology draft by me and my girl friends as we planned to published it ourself. We decided to ask him for an endorsement to be in our book after reading his writing on the current phenomenon of everybody (a.k.a. ordinary people) writing poetry and publish it themselves.

I was thinking of 2-3 sentences from him to be put in the book back cover, along with other endorsements when getting really surprised to have 9 pages instead. He said, there's something about the number 9 that he just had to write 9 pages of "letter" to us, 4 women he didn't know at all but got the chance to read these women's very personal feeling through their poetries. I was speachless and wishing my other 3 friends were here right now to help me response to it.

We ended up discussing the draft and poetry writing in general. At the time I haven't read his 9 pages "letter". But 2 days latter after reading and sending it to my girl friends then got their reactions, I know that we were lucky to have his "letter" to be put in the book. So I decided to invite him for lunch today, my 'almost' last day in Jogja. He brought his draft of phrases from all over Indonesia, complete with its original native languages and meaning. Again, I was speachless. We ended up discussing lots of things with him, specially his plan to publish his Indonesian phrase book.

Sometimes wonderful thing happens to me when I met such inspiring people and suddenly be able to communicate with them like there's no tomorrow...

lulu, Polaris Internet Jogja, 23.08, August 11, 2006