Thursday, September 29, 2005

Apakah dia yang kamu cari?


Bagaimana meyakinkan diri kita kalau pasangan kita sungguh-sungguh atau sekedar merayu dengan kata-kata manisnya untuk sekedar menenangkan dan menyenangkan hati kita???
Simak penuturan Paul Joanndes, PhD , penulis Guide to Getting It On berikut:

  • Pendengar yang baik. Saat Anda bicara, matanya akan fokus pada Anda. Setiap kata disimaknya dengan seksama hingga Anda tak perlu repot mengulang. Oh, ini pertanda bagus!
  • Tepat waktu. Saat kencan atau janji menjemput, dia bersedia datang lebih awal atau minimal tepat waktu. Minimal kalau terlambat sekian menit, ada pemberitahuan sebelumnya
  • Cinta itu tak memaksa. Tubuh Anda sedikit melar dan dia mulai protes? Idih, maaf ya. Sepanjang pertambahan bobot tubuh masih dalam batas kewajaran, jangan biarkan dia berkomentar panjang lebar. Atau tolak saja deh
  • Bahasa tubuh. Ini pertanda natural yang hampir 'tak pernah salah'. Jika dia dapat menghargai Anda, sikap dan perilakunya membuat Anda nyaman, hmmm…mungkin si dia inilah sosok yang selama ini Anda cari. So, tunggu apa lagi?

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Good Morning...

Hello, osashiburi desu....it's been almost two months since I started my placement. Briefly these are what I do during my working days.

07.00: My mobile alarm rings, it plays my favourite song, Waltz from Suneohair. I grab my mobile and turn it into snooze mode for another half an hour.

08.00-08.30: Finally, I wake up after having snoozed my alarm twice. Lazily I get up, wash my face and brush my teeth, then turn on my laptop to watch anime. While watching I prepare myself to get ready to go.

08.40: I'm in a rush, putting everything into my bag, finishing my breakfast, locking my doors and waiting for the lift coming. Sometimes I forget my cellphone and go & back to pick them for another 2 minutes.

08.52: If I'm on time, this is the first metro 51 that I could catch.

09.05: I'm 5 minutes late for many many times ^^; I greet my boss who has always been there when I come and already busy with her bunch of works and she greets me back "OHAYOU!!" I don't know why but sometimes she reminds me of my mother who is always busy every morning with her cash book and calculator when I just woke up from my dream.

10.00-11.00: I'm working in front of my computer, checking email, filing invoices, updating the seminar list, having fun with dreamweaver and not forgetting to answer the phone and also prepare myself a cup of tea and some snacks...yummy. I'm gaining some weights in the last 2 months. I hardly bring snacks to the office actually, but there is often someone has oishii snacks to be shared.

11.30: Sleeepyyyy...sleepy...and my head is a bit dizzy after staring at my monitor for the last 2.5 hours. I'm thinking about my project but haven't got anymore idea. I open some online games and news page or relax myself by reading some interesting books available in my office. I've found some interesting book about Rijkmuseum, Rembrandts collections, and of course Van Gogh. Lately, I'm still reading Van Gogh book, huhu how I love this painter since I knew him from my childhood tabloid 11 years ago and now I'm in his country HOLLAND and had got a chance to visit the museum.

12.30: Lunch break!! Most of the time I'm too lazy to move my butt somewhere else when I want to save some euros:p so, I stay in the office and make myself a cup of soup and reading some manga online. Unless, I will go downstair and go to Burger King then enjoy myself to be alone with a crispy chicken menu.

13.30-16.00: Time to go back, so I go to the post office to pick up mails then go back to my office on the 9th floor. Sometimes, my boss asks me to go to the bank or to other company (in the same building of course) to pick up something or deliver some messages from her. At least I can move my body a little bit. It's not good sitting too long and waiting for jobs when you've got nothing to do or no phonecalls. So I go downstairs and go around the building from one tower to another tower or find a shortcut and finally meet people.

16.00-17.00: Horrayy!!! one hour to go...I become so exciting finishing my work. Then around 16.45 I wash my dishes and prepare myself to go home. Sometimes by the end of the day, I have a little chat with my boss, she likes telling stories about recent news, Japan, her hometown, her son, and some stuff she's doing recently, not seldom too she sometimes asks about me and my country and I love to listen to her since I'm missing my mom and I have no one to talk at home :) :) hehehe...

Ok I think that's all for now...I hope I can successfully manage to finish this placement well even now I'm still not good in answering phone and sometimes feel nervous to greeting strangers hihihihi...once there was a mind-illness guy came to the office and he kept talking to me for more than 45 minutes.

Monday, September 12, 2005

Believe it or not...

When I told them about the cause of Mandala Airline's accident, some said it's so stupid, other said they had known it already, but not few said that I told a lie....but it's true that the cause of the airplane crash was the overweight of "2 tons of duren fruits!!" that were being carried unconstantly inside the plane...nah, can you believe it?... (have no idea...no comment) (-__-#)

Friday, September 09, 2005

Kalau saatnya tiba

Ketika saat itu tiba tak seorangpun pernah menduganya, tak seorangpun bisa mencegahnya. Saat itu adalah saat yang telah ditetapkan-Nya.

Orang berkata akhir jaman ah itu sih masih jauh. Nyatanya kemarin malam tak terjadi apa-apa, hari ini pun matahari bersinar dengan cerahnya. Banyak orang takut akan datangnya akhir jaman, terlebih setelah mereka membayangkan apa yang akan terjadi seperti dinubuatkan dalam kitab suci dan apa yang mereka dengar dari para tetua tentang datangnya hari itu.

Tetapi ketika hari itu belum datang, pesta pora masih berlangsung, kejahatan masih di mana-mana, tempat-tempat prostitusipun semakin menjamur, karena mumpung masih bisa bersenang-senang sebelum hari itu datang dan mungkin datangnya masih bertahun-tahun lagi.

Benarkah demikian? Mengesampingkan hari kiamat itu sendiri, berapa banyak kah orang yang memikirkan berapa lama lagi dia dapat hidup? Orang kaya bisa membayar dokter paling ahli tetapi dia tidak dapat membeli kesehatannya. Demikian pula memiliki kesehatan yang baik pun tidak menjamin dirinya akan hidup lebih lama daripada orang yang sudah divonis hidupnya tinggal 1 bulan lagi. Mungkin orang-orang yang sudah divonis itu harus merasa lebih bersyukur karena minimal mereka bisa mengira-ngira kapan waktunya di bumi akan berakhir.

Kejadian Tsunami Natal lalu dan jatuhnya Pesawat Mandala baru-baru ini seharusnya sudah cukup memberi sebuah pelajaran beharga bahwa hidup ini bukan kita yang menentukan lamanya. Manusia boleh berusaha tetapi yang Di Ataslah yang menentukan.

Kalau pesawat itu tidak jatuh...

Sang pilot pesawat mungkin kemarin sudah merayakan ulang tahun anaknya yang ke-5

Novi sang pramugari akan kembali ke rumahnya dengan berseri-seri mempersiapkan pernikahannya di bulan November

Pak Hendramon tidak harus kehilangan toko dan kedua anak balitanya, dll.

Peristiwa-peristiwa di atas sekarang hanyalah sebuah andai-andai belaka.

Bagi yang masih diberi waktu untuk hidup janganlah memikirkan hari kiamat itu masih jauh karena kalau seseorang meninggal maka waktunya di bumi ini juga sudah berakhir. Lebih baik memikirkan bagaimana kita hidup hari ini, karena tak seorangpun tahu apa yang akan terjadi di hari esok sehingga ketika waktunya tiba kita tidak didapati sedang melakukan sesuatu yang mengakibatkan penyesalan selamanya.

human's time is limited, GOD's time is for eternity

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Wishing lists...

Things to be done before this year end.
  • Way to behave well
  • Greeting guests well and nicely
  • Speeding up the work completion
  • Be more sincere to myself
  • Serving ocha
  • Speaking up
  • Not smiling too too much..(lol)
  • Answering phone and listening carefully to what they are saying
  • Remembering properly everyone's names
  • Learning the art of bowing?
  • Having meal-time 3 times a day
  • Stopping to snooze my alarm clock...WAKE UP!!
  • Understanding more Japanese
  • Riding my bike until my office not only until metro station
I'll add some more if I remember something...

Monday, September 05, 2005

How should a leader be?

  • A leader is someone who can guide us to certain direction.
  • Someone who is able to make a fair decision.
  • A person who knows exactly when to say yes when must to say no.
  • A leader is someone who not only can make good promises but also knows how to fulfil those promises.
  • He/she is the one who get the trust from the fellows and the fellows know where to go when they have a problem.
  • To be a leader means not only to lead but also to serve
  • Someone can lead the others to follow his/her instructions if only he/she first listens and understand each of his/her followers.
  • Not to accuse and blame but to show the way and give another chance.
  • A leader is considered having the ultimate decision, but he should not feel the right one before the fellows feel the same way too.
  • A leader is not to be protected at the first place but to protect his men and show them how much they mean for this organization.
  • Someone who always remembers his/her fellows in his/her prayer and not thinks about his/her own needs.
  • A leader shoud not only be strong and tough but also be sensitive too to sense problems arising in his/her surrounds.


  • Everyone will hate their leader if the one always shows up and never admits that he/she has made a mistake.
  • A leader should listen to others but he/she should be able to make a clear decision and not follow the majority or a strong influence that comes from his/her close person.
  • A cruel leader is someone who punish his/her own people for something that they weren't able to do and on the other hand be very friendly just to persuade someone to be a member (even the person has no interest to join) just because that person is very skillful.
  • A cruel leader is a leader who only knows how to be the most right and most knowledgable one. You are fool and I am smart, you are wrong because you don't pay attention to what I say.
  • No one likes either weak leader who can only follow what people say or someone who is PRETENDING to be the leader (even she is the leader's wife).
  • I don't like big mouth leader who loves tell stories how suffered he/she is when he/she did many great things just to show that he/she's deserved to be a leader.
  • Please open the eyes of those leaders who don't realize yet that everything what they say everthing what they do just make their fellows leave them one by one.
  • Please...please forgive them, and please give us strength to be stronger and more patient to stand with that kind of leader.

Anyway, I'm disappointed with my leaders whose names I don't want to mention here. Not because that they did something bad to me but more about what they have done which hurt my fellow friends deeply. Hope that God will open their eyes...and change their heart.

Friday, September 02, 2005

to be with..

tahun pertama kita terpisahkan oleh batas kota
tahun kedua kita terpisahkan oleh laut dan negara
di tahun yang ke tiga ini, kita terpisahkan oleh station metro...
moga-moga kita masih bisa terus bersama di tahun berikut dan berikutnya meskipun terpisahkan oleh batas ruang dan waktu.
tentu saja 'slalu dalam lindungan Yang di Atas....aminn.

2 B with U
zutto isshoni ne...

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Living Expatriate

What do you wish as a student in a foreign country who is looking for a place to stay? If I could make one wish, I would like to stay in a place with everything I used to make this life and with people that I love and also not to move again to another place until I graduate from school. For the last three years I have been living here, I saw only one person could make it (at least among my friends who are in the same year as I am).

I myself never make it after my first year when all of us should hunt for a place to stay because we could only stay in the school's dorm only for our first year here.


Moving is hard especially for us, students who have limited budget to deal with everything. We always try how to get more with fewer funds. DON'T BUY TOO MUCH STUFF!! This is what exactly what I should do since I never know until when I could stay in a place. It will be very hard to carry everything with us when we're moving to a new place. Most of the time, those stuffs end in the garbage spot since they are impossible to be carried due to many many reasons such as:

-The new place is in another city, so it's expensive to go and back many times just to carry stuff.

-The new place is smaller, my stuff cannot fix in there, no space left.

-The new place is furnished, I am not allowed to throw the furniture away and replace them with mine, what I should do is dumping mine instead.

-I should move to my new place in sudden (natural disaster, accident, etc.) almost no time to pack, just pick the most important stuff with me.

-I am moving to another country, only 20 kilos allowed, 100 euro per 5 kilos excess luggage.

-I buy more clothes, my closet is full, and must throw the old ones hiks sometimes I want to have them all without reducing any.

So far I have moved four times during my three years stay in Holland which means I moved every year to a different place. Can you imagine if you should move to one to another place every (less) than a year? First time (well actually for the second time and follow too), I also grumbled, as I should carry so many heavy stuff with me. But thanks to my friends who helped me; or those who had the same thing happened to them so I did not feel so lonely (lol).

Anyway living in a new place is not bad at all, maybe only in the beginning when we should suffer of carrying things and adapting and then the new place are such having a brand new exciting thing. Fresh and new look. A new place to start the next chapter of my life. Therefore, I'm really enjoying the way I live now even now I'm quite far away from my mates, and I get really excited to tell you a story how those living expartiates are coloring my life.

Monday, August 22, 2005

Metro

Di mana aku? Tubuhku serasa bergoyang-goyang dengan irama yang tetap. Perlahan kubuka mataku. Pandanganku masih sedikit kabur dan kepalaku rasanya penat sekali. Setelah itu berangsur-angsur penglihatanku semakin jelas, apakah aku sedang duduk di dalam kereta? Bukan! Lebih tepatnya ini sebuah metro. Metro yang sedang melaju kencang di bawah tanah.

Kulihat orang-orang berdesakan sebagian duduk sambil menikmati goncangan-goncangan kecil yang ditimbulkan metro yang sedang berjalan di rel ini. Sementara itu, orang-orang yang lain berdiri sambil melindungi barang bawaannya supaya jangan jatuh, ada juga yang tidak kebagian pegangan dan bergantung pada keseimbangan badannya sambil kadang-kadang mencari bagian metro yang bisa digenggam ketika terjadi goncangan keras.

Mengapa aku ada di sini? Aku mau ke mana? Melupakan hal itu sejenak, kulayangkan pandanganku kalau-kalau ada seseorang yang aku kenal di gerbong ini, tetapi tak seorangpun kukenal dan tak seorangpun sedang memperhatikanku. Mereka sibuk dengan urusannya sendiri.

Dua orang anak muda yang duduk satu di sebelahku dan yang lain di depanku sedang mendengarkan mp3 dengan volume max. Tampaknya mereka sebentar lagi akan mengikuti konser. Berkali-kali dihentak-hentakkannya kaki dan ditepuk-tepukan tangannya ke pahanya seperti orang bermain drum dengan irama cepat sementara yang lain menyanyikan lagu dengan syair yang aneh.

Ahh berisik, lama-lama aku merasa terganggu juga. Aku menduga-duga jangan-jangan aktivitas mereka berdua ini yang tadi membangunkanku. Sebaiknya aku lebih baik segera pergi dari tempat ini. Aku mencoba berdiri, kepalaku masih pusing dan keseimbanganku tidak stabil mungkin karena sakit kepala ini ditambah goncangan kereta yang makin keras begitu melewati jalan menurun.

Begitu aku berdiri, kulihat sudah ada sesorang duduk di sana, aneh sejak kapan dia duduk di sana padahal belum ada semenit aku berdiri. Mengapa metro ini begitu penuh dan sesak dengan penumpang yang tak kunjung berkurang maupun bertambah. Aku melangkah melewati kursi-kursi dan berdesak-desakan dengan orang-orang yang berdiri dekat pintu metro dan berharap kalau metro ini berhenti aku akan mengetahui di mana aku sekarang dan setidaknya jumlah penumpang ini berkurang.

Lima menit menunggu, metro ini belum pernah berhenti sekalipun kecuali jika ada metro lain yang melintas dari arah yang berlawanan. Kulayangkan pandanganku untuk ke sekian kalinya, kulihat seorang bapak tua yang ketiduran di kursinya yang dekat jendela metro. Melihat dari penampilannya sepertinya beliau tertidur bukan karena kecapaian. Dengan sebuah tas kumal dan segulung tikar dalam dekapannya, sepertinya bapak tua itu telah beberapa hari tidak tidur mencari tempat berteduh.

Kualihkan pandanganku ke gerbong sebelah yang hanya dibatasi dengan sebuah pintu kaca. Tiba-tiba pandanganku terpaku pada seorang anak muda bertopi baseball yang memasukan tangannya di tas tante gendut yang sedang ribut menyela orang-orang yang berdiri untuk mencari kalau-kalau ada tempat yang kosong. "Celaka, aku harus segera mencegahnya atau paling tidak menangkapnya, dia toch sebaya bahkan lebih kecil dariku," pikirku cepat dan segera berlari secepat mungkin melewati kerumunan dan melewati pintu pembatas. Cepat...cepat...dia sudah mendapatkan barang yang dia cari, sebuah dompet kulit merk Prada. Pencopet cilik itu berlari ke arahku, "lucky!" pikirku. Tetapi di saat yang bersamaan ketika pencopet itu mendekatiku, sekali lagi metro bergoncang keras ketika berbelok di sebuah tikungan. Aku terjatuh di lantai metro yang kasar dan kotor, begitu melihatnya lagi aku yakin sekali tanganku masih cukup panjang untuk menarik lengannya yang membawa dompet itu. Hey mengapa tidak bisa? Apa dia berlari sangat cepat sampai-sampai tanganku serasa menembus tangannya? Tidak mungkin, begitu banyak orang berdiri di sepanjang jalan. Dia tak akan bisa lolos secepat itu, siapa saja tolong tangkap dia... masa tidak ada orang yang menyadari kejadian yang baru saja terjadi?

Sesaat kemudian terdengar teriakan seorang wanita, walaupun aku tak melihatnya aku kira itu pasti teriakan tante gendut yang menyadari seseorang telah mencuri dompetnya. Aku berusaha berdiri lagi dan ingin memberitahunya bahwa aku melihat anak yang mencuri dompetnya tetapi mendadak metro menjadi gaduh, orang-orang tergesa-gesa berlari ke arahku, melewatiku, bahkan ada yang menubrukku berkali-kali sehingga aku memilih untuk tetap tinggal di tempat tetapi aku tidak merasakan sakit apa mereka teralu cepat seperti angin? Kepalaku semakin penat, mungkin karena suasana yang makin panas dan sumpek dengan orang-orang yang berdesakan ingin mencapai bagian depan dari metro ini. Ada apa? Apa yang terjadi? Kulihat orang-orang di dalam metro ini menjadi liar, mereka berteriak, menggedor pintu kendali dan jendela, saling menjatuhkan satu dengan yang lainnya seolah-olah semuanya ingin segera keluar dari kendaraan panjang yang sedang melaju kencang di bawah tanah ini. Satu-satunya pemandangan yang janggal adalah bapak tua yang masih tertidur pula itu. Ingin kuteriakan sesuatu agar beliau terbangun dan segera pergi. Tetapi mengapa aku harus berteriak, untuk apa, aku pun di sini tak bisa ke mana-mana, seandainya bisapun aku harus berbuat apa?

Temperatur ruangan semakin memanas, udara yang sangat panas seperti datang dari belakangku. Menyengat seperti akan membakar seluruh tubuhku. Ketika kupalingkan pandanganku ke belakangku dalam hitungan detik, semua yang di belakangku telah dihanguskan termasuk orang-orang yang belum sempat mencapai gerbong-gerbong depan. Begitu cepat, begitu singkat, begitu panas, memekikan telinga, betapa mengerikannya, apakah ini yang terjadi dalam tungku kremasi di rumah duka?

Kepalaku penat, sekitarku gelap, tubuhku bergoyang-goyang seirama dengan goncangan di sekitarku. Aku mulai mengingat, bukan apa yang baru saja terjadi, tetapi mengapa aku ada di sini. Aku mau menjemput tante Ann yang baru datang dari Amsterdam untuk berjalan-jalan di kota London. Lalu ledakan itu tiba-tiba terjadi. Masih teriang di telingaku teriakan pilu itu, akupun juga berteriak aku masih ingin hidup aku tidak akan mati konyol dalam terowongan ini. Aku takut untuk membuka mataku, masih teralu takut untuk melihat di manak aku sekarang.

Jelas orang-orang itu tidak melihatku, orang yang duduk di tempatku sudah ada di sana jauh sebelum aku membuka mataku, akulah yang duduk di tempatnya. Pencopet itu tidak menyadari aku melihat perbuatannya karena dia tidak bisa melihatku, aku tak bisa menangkapnya bukan karena dia berlari teralu cepat tetapi karena aku memang tembus pandang, dan bapak tua itu tidak mendengar teriakanku karena tak seorangpun tahu aku ada bersama mereka dalam metro yang sesak itu. Mungkinkah aku..aku telah…meninggalkan dunia ini dan terperangkap dalam waktu yang berulang-ulang seperti kisah misteri yang kubaca beberapa hari yang lalu. Ternyata kisah itu bukan sekedar fiksi belaka.

Goncangan itu berhenti, tetapi kepalaku masih pusing dan berat. Ada suara memanggilku dari jauh, siapa? Apakah itu panggilan malaikat pencabut nyawa? Tidak..aku belum siap. Suara itu semakin mendekat dan bukan satu tapi ada beberapa. Mereka memanggil namaku. Apakah akhirnya metro ini berhenti di stasiun terakhir? Di manakah itu aku bertanya-tanya? Ayolah, aku tidak boleh jadi pengecut seperti ini, buka mata! Hadapi kenyataan. Kelopak mataku begitu berat, napasku sesak, tubuhku tidak bisa bergerak, dalam pandanganku yang kabur aku dapat melihat beberapa bayangan hitam memandangiku menghalangi cahaya putih yang begitu menyilaukan sampai-sampai membuat mataku sakit. Mereka meneriakkan namaku dan bahasa lain yang tak asing lagi di telingaku.

Surgakah atau neraka? ini di mana? Dapat kucium bau yang begitu khas di tempat itu. Sesosok berbaju putih mendekatiku dengan tongkat bersinar di tangan kanannya. Malaikatkah? Bukan, sosok itu adalah seorang dokter. Aku berada di rumah sakit rupanya. Tubuhku serasa begitu sakit, tetapi hatiku melonjak dan tak henti-hentinya mengucap syukur karena aku dapat merasakan rasa sakit itu lagi. Aku hidup…aku masih hidup teriakku dalam hati.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Facing the real world

I'm enjoying the sunshine outside my window while wearing my cardigan inside my office. What a contrast look...I'm freezing even there's no air conditioner and it's quite hot outside. I WANT TO GO OUTSIDE....yeah I wish I could. Do I really want to? nope...I'm still enjoying myself enough by sitting in front of my desk staring at a page of Rembrandt paintings book opening with a cup of hot coffee latte and a rice cookie snack...how fabulous and artistic is my situation. Well then I get a mood to write something on my blog.

I remembered when I wrote something about Indonesian dramas that are trapped in a fairy tail world. Not because I change my view about it, it just I'm thinking of a wonderful tale that is created by a modest story Honey & Clover--Hachimitsu to Clover.




If you see the opening song video clip, perhaps you'll think that this anime is kind of science fiction and imaginative with those artistic-weird-cuisines. It does tell about the daily living of a group of art university's students and their problematic life. But the storyline is not over someone's imaginations. Simple, comfortable, calm, funny, and entertained, those are feelings that I sense while watching it. I don't want to tell a long story here because it will make the scroll shorter and the blog page even longer. Just check the link above out if you to figure out the story.

Not like a common story where the main character will always get the dream girl, the heroine usually has a perfect body and face, or the handsome/pretty ones always get what they want. Almost everything in this story is turned up side down. The main character, Takemoto, is an ordinary college student and also the narator in the whole story. So most of the time the events that happens are viewed from his point of view.
Takemoto is falling in love with Hagumi a.k.a Hagu-chan, a 19 years old girl who more looks like an eight years old due to her chibi look. Unfortunately Hagu is having a crush with Takemoto's housemate, Morita Shinobu-kun (honestly, he's my fav chara here ^o^). Morita is actually a genius creative art student, only he's crazy about money very much (no one knows exactly what he does perhaps a secret agent?? he has a lot of hi-tech spy radar inside his room and a complicated password to enter his room ). Everytime, the job is calling, he will leave everything including the deadline of his final thesis as the ultimate condition so that he can graduate from the university. Therefore, Morita who should have graduated a few years ago, is still around in the university for his 6th year.
Morita always disturbs Hagu everytime he's around and hardly shows whether he has the same feeling towards that girl or not. Until one day, before Morita leaves for America without any news, he kisses Hagu in sudden, then the scene ends with Morita runs away when he realizes what he has done and leaves Hagu in confusion.

Another relationship that is appeared in the story is a triangle love story between Yamada Ayu, a beautiful adorable smart art student, who is expecting the love of Mayama, a graduated from art academy who works in an interior design company, Takemoto's sempai and housemate, who also loves hopelessly his sensei's wife in the same company, Rika-san. Mayama is not good looking even he's a very nice guy after all, this makes Ayu's fans become very jealous of him "A man like that is not suitable to get Ayu-sama's attention." Ayu tries many ways to have Mayama's attention, and she does get it since Mayama really care about her as a very good friend of him. But still Mayama's feeling towards Rika hasn't changed at all especially since he saved Rika who collapsed in her bathroom due to her painful and horrible accident scars on her body (Rika's husband dead in a car accident with her inside). Since then, Mayama feels responsible and wants to love her unconditionally even they know they'll never be together.

The story seems very dramatic for many audiences but still interesting to follow as the producer always put a lot of humors too in the right times (such as when Morita sang a nostalgic Japanese song in Hanami event and forgot his final project intentionally, or when Ayu was scared of leaving Hagu alone at home since Hagu reminded her of her dead cute little hamster). Those funny parts reduce the melancholic atmosphere in the story without ruining the main plot.

Well that's it, a good story is a story who is able to send the message to the audiences clearly and naturally. The happiness doesn't come from the happy ending, but more from how to finish the story well without leaving so many unanswerable questions. This reminds me to "Tersanjung" a never-ending Indonesian drama...this series is suck!! gomen (-__-#) but it is true according to me.