o friends, where art thou?


From: bona
Subject: hullo pet

hey shinta,

r u still alive and in jakarta or have u become the prime minister of indonesia? how come we never hear of you anymore and dont see u online??? miss u man, pet i mean, where r u?

i am so so, in beautiful geneva... actually these two days it has been like a dream; sunny, warm, blue skies and lake, the alpes peaks covered with snow on the background... eh eh.. cant really describe it.

work is ok and interesting. have been on loads of meetings and i can tell u that they love to go on for ever about.. well , saw 2 indonesian parlamentarians today in a meeting and thought of you. i obviously think of you more often then that!!!

the accomodation is awful, the room is half the size of the beloved keele rooms and the kitchen here is like nothing else u might have seen. our keele kitchen was heaven by comparison. well, who cares after all; its people that make the difference they say but this is a problem too. i am off to work most of the time anyway and most people in the building are students and doing sth completely different from me. they all speak french and i really need to do sth about it. they speak english too in most cases if u were wondering and they are from all over the world. but as i said there is no shinta nextdoor... and it is just not the same.

the monkey is ok, and all busy with his nice and pretty girlfriend...
i need to go now. i refuse to write anymore until u answer me with a detailed email at least as long as this or more. take care pet and be happy. love, bona
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Dunya says: my god
Dunya says: the monky is here
stoic calm says: scuse me, this is not god
Dunya says: get lost then... haha
Dunya says: how are you?
stoic calm says: doing fine
Dunya says: i was talking about you with sheetal just 2 days ago
stoic calm says: what was it about?
Dunya says: nothing too bad.. dont worry... we were wondering how is the monky
stoic calm says: heheh the munky is trying to survive life here
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there's nothing special with that email or chat session, actually. but somehow it made me happy when I got it. so what's new about it, everybody's got emails from their friends?!

well, maybe I have been thinking about my friends lately. and it is so consoling to know that your friends are still thinking about you too, even when they're thousands of miles away from you.

oh dear, why do I sound so corny??!!! it must be the mood-swings thingy... aaarrggghhhh.... better stop that crap now.ftd!