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Dear Mr. Gates:
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Date: Sat, 15 December 2007 10:31 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: Basuki's Sudden Death at Futsal Court
Wednesday 12 December 2007, a stunning news appeared in the media, Basuki an Indonesian comedian died in the Futsal court after playing for around fifteen minutes. That Wednesday evening he began to play Futsal at around half past six, then after fifteen minutes he took a rest and helped managed the scoring board while his other friends kept on playing. All of a sudden he fell to the ground. For five minutes his friends tried to help him, but failed, and they brought him to the hospital. Upon arriving at the hospital, the doctors said he had gone. Probable cause was a heart attack, although he never had a history of heart attack before. For me it becomes another strong message related to my consent to move to the eternity. Because his first name Basuki was similar to the name of an Indonesian painting Maestro Basuki Abdullah who had a Thailand woman as his wife, and he died in 1993. The Thailand wife of Basuki Abdullah was like related with my previous letter about your giving award to a Thailand entrepreneur that inspired me to write about the "Test of Getting Wealthy". Moreover, he lived at Tampaksiring Street, whereas Tampaksiring is also known as the name of presidential palace in Bali. Recently from 3 December 2007, for 11 days, there was a UN Conference on Climate Change held in Bali, among the attendants were UN Secretary General Ban Kie Moon, former US VP Al Gore, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It could be that my consent to move to the eternity will also have strong positive impact for the good condition of climate in this world. Basuki's death also has a political message for me, because it happened a few hours after I typed in the draft of my previous letter that later on uploaded to my homepage at http://www.geocities.com/amfir_mmvii_fdbm/others_fot/bgt214.txt. I uploaded it in the afternoon, containing the political matters about Japan's PM Shinzo Abe's surprise resigned to be replaced by Yasuo Fukuda, president Putin's supporting Dmitry Medvedev for his succession, and the newly elected Australian PM Kevin Rudd. The political message could be that I should die not as a politician but as a painting artist, like Basuki Abdullah, yet not too old like him, instead like Basuki the comedian who died at the age of 51. Or approximately two years from now since I am now 49 years old, and it will be in accordance with my last two years in this world like written in my letter of "My 2,5 Term of Life and Your 2,5 Grant to Four High Schools".
Date: Mon, 17 December 2007 8:26 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: Reminder of So Thin a Layer Between Life and Death
A couple of days after Comel died on 30 November 2007, I was thinking about writing this letter pertaining the fact of how thin is the layer between life and death. But then I postponed writing it because I thought Comel was just a cat, people would laugh at me if I used the example of a cat's death for this rather heavy matter about so thin the layer between life and death. Besides, Comel's death was preceded with an illness for around one week, it was not an instant death. When later on came the news of Basuki's death, it struck my mind, since it was like related with this matter. Basuki, a famous person, died instantly in a Futsal court, without any signs of illness preceding it. My deep condolences to Mr Basuki. This also becomes a strong reminder for me that such sudden death could also happen to anyone, and not only to a single person, but also to this world, as a dooms day. I wish I can do any good things for this world before such thing happen.
Date: Mon, 17 December 2007 8:36 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: Gray Cat as the Mascot of SEA Games 2007
From 6 December to 15 December 2007 there was a twice a year sport event Southeast-Asian (SEA) Games, this time held in Thailand. Because of my busy mind recently, I was not noticing the mascot of this year's SEA Games, especially since my sister had stopped subscribing the newspaper since around a year ago. Usually such mascot would appear in the sport section of the newspaper during the event. It was on Wednesday afternoon, 12 December 2007 while watching the live coverage of SEA Games through TVRI that I realized the mascot was ............ a gray cat, like Comel. Since Comel died several days before the opening ceremony of SEA Games 2007 in Thailand, it becomes like a reminder for me that the "Test of Getting Wealthy" is seriously related with my consent to move to the eternity, not about having fun. Because my previous letter about "Test of Getting Wealthy" was inspired by your giving award to a Thailand entrepreneur.
Date: Mon, 17 December 2007 8:57 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: Two Broken Souvenirs from Comel
Moments of interactive movie took place when Comel was alive. One evening, as usual I kept Comel inside the house, while the other two cats, the white-and-yellow and the black-with-some yellow-spots, were not available. I only let those two cats came inside once in a while to become the playmate of Comel, because my concern was more about nurturing and keeping the safety of Comel, not the other cats. There was a movie on TV about two officers from a special forces ordered to take an ambush to enter a house. At that moment I let the back sliding-door opened a little bit, to enable Comel came in and out. By the time the two officers making an ambush by entering the house, all of a sudden the two cats also entered the house. Like an interactive movie in accordance to what happened around me. I had no other choice than to treat those two cats with some Whiskas cat food.
Another more significant moment took place that seems like related with Lady Diana and my painting about a swan. It was on Monday 15 October 2007, two days after the big day of Iedul Fitri that marked the end of fasting month of Ramadhan. In the afternoon, my cousin Moody came to the house returning the Chevrolet Blazer he borrowed since two days earlier. I was alone, the other members of the family was going abroad. After parking the car in the garage, Moody went to the bathroom for a while, before left the house to get back to his own home. In the evening a few hours later, Trans-7 played the movie "Rules of Engagement", about a Marine soldier stands trial after he ordered his soldiers to open fire on a civilian crowd that was storming a US embassy somewhere in the Middle East. He was accused of killing innocent people while saving lives of some US citizens including the ambassador, played by Ben Kingsley. At the time when the dialogue was about the rule that a soldier should never shoot any unarmed persons, all of a sudden a sound of something falling and breaking came from the bathroom. I immediately went to the bathroom, and there was Comel, probably catching a gecko above the bathroom sink, causing some ceramics to fall down from a plank under the mirror. Thank God not all of them broken, only a white swan used to contain the tooth paste tube that was broken in two pieces and some small debris. That ceramic swan immediately reminded me with the swan in the background of my painting about Maudy, an Indonesian actress whose name sounds like "maut", the word that means "death". The painting was then responded by Lady Diana with a similar pose resembled to Maudy in that painting. And the ceramic swan was broken by Comel a few hours after my cousin Moody, whose name sounds a little bit like Maudy, came to the bathroom in the afternoon. Actually I managed to reassembled the broken pieces using Fox white glue, but around one week after Comel died my sister dumped the ceramic swan to the trash. I only knew it three days later when it was no longer inside the bathroom cabinet under the sink. At another moment still during the same movie, when Tommy Lee Jones was mentioning the word "marine" in front of the president, all of a sudden the Aqua water dispenser in the dining room producing the sound of air bubbles that were moving from the bottom to the top of the plastic barrel.
Another broken souvenir left by Comel is a capsule-like blue ceramic used to become the cap of a toothpick container. It was around five days before he died, I was watching TV in my bedroom in the evening when I heard something broken in the dining room. When I examined it, there was Comel with two broken pieces of blue toothpick cap on the dining room floor. I managed to reassembled it, again using Fox white glue. If it was not blue, like the frame of these letters, and Comel was not death later on, I would not write about this here.
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Thank's, A.M. Firmansyah Tel. +62812 183 1538
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