Takemoto is a sophomore at an art college in Tokyo. He lives with friends in an apartment. Near the end of his study he begins questioning what he wants to do after graduating. Thus it leads to his journey traveling around Japan for self enlightenment.
Along the way he encounters many experiences and the answer he's looking for. In a town he meets a group of builders restoring an old temple. They move from town to town after finishing a temple. Takemoto enjoys himself while he is among them. Therefore he decides to join them after graduation.
Takemoto, who is college graduate, takes a job as temple restorer. As his fellow worker says, "it's low paying job and it's not easy". If Takemoto was a real life person and living in Indonesia, I believe people would look down on him, since little we are pressured by our parents to study hard and get a good job. A good job here equals a high position, working in big company, and a high salary. We are taught not to work as random, unimportant things because they are not money producing. This dogma causes us to underestimate certain job positions.
My mind goes to a quote I saw couple years back. A pair of woman's hands making handy craft. A hand of an old woman pictured in black and white. Under it there's a saying. More or less it says, "whatever you do if you do it with love and you're a successful person".
Work with Love
Singapore Trip
My trip to Singapore was by plane and ferry. The plane flew for 2 hours from Jakarta to Batam, an island for transiting to Singapore, and then 1 hour crossing the sea by ferry. That 2 hours flying was boring but I enjoyed the ferry much. I went to the top of the ferry enjoying wind breeze, ships traffic, and the sea scenery as well. I stayed 4 days in Singapore which was more than enough for sightseeing around that tiny country. I visitted must visit spots within those 4 days.
Here's the pictures
Money Lost
This incident happened few days before I visitted Singapore. A friend, whom I went to singapore with, lost her money. The amount was truly hell plenty. It's IDR 2 millions. The story started when she withdrew some money from ATM machine but she forgot to pulled back her card. Few minutes after walking away from the booth she realized her forgotten card. Unfortunately some of her savings had been withdrawn by a thief by the time she getting back to the booth. The thief face was taped in cctv camera. She didn't recognise him as one of the employee of the same company as hers. At home she told me she lost her desire for singapore vacation.
I had my card lost last year. It was fortunate for me nobody stole anything from my account. Since then I've become more carefull everytime withdrawing some money from ATM booth.
Eventually she overcame her grief and we went to Singapore together.
Unforgetable 5th January 2009
I had terrible experience in the opening of 2009. one morning bunch of thieves broke in to my room stealing my brand new cellphone. Nokia Communicator. Those low life punks pretended to rent one vacant room in the house. After gaining access they went rampage and broke every room. Other friends lost their jewelries and money. Upon salvaging our rooms they took away our house keys.
On the incident day I vomited since dawn and kept having headache until morning. I intended to excuse not coming to work. Before going to office I saw all 3 of their faces and having bad feeling about them. At that time I didn't want to accuse them for something they hadn't yet committed. In addition the house keeper, the owner's brother, and a friend were at home. Hence I thought nothing would happen. Later at noon a phone rang telling me about the robbery. A friend, whom stayed in her room, didn't have any property loss. Other 2 rooms next to her didn't suffer property loss. I should've trusted my premonition. Upon arriving at home I felt shock seeing
the room had been vandalized.
Renting rule in the house was loose. After this incident the owner makes the rules stricter. He commits to check and recheck a prospect renter's ID before renting. He granted 4 months free rent which will expire next month. Starting from June I have to pay again.
Sigh.