MOSLEM.COM

A friend of my four years study, then now continue to be my partner in teaching for almost 2 years, jumping all around the corner of 10x10 m Chamber - our Second Home, office. Not only jumping, but also grieving. Screaming, yelling, worrying, daydreaming, not to say thinking a lot lately, are hers mainly activities after or between the classes.

Started from this remarkable year - she said so, since she found the MOSLEM.COM, a webpage or as it’s called, a yahoo’s matrimonial link-like matchmaker for Moslem around the world. Since her joining the club, seems like the whole of the life is about Yahoo Messenger, MSN, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer are the things she worries about.

Glad to see her happy, sad to hear her complaints, upset to see her over mad, crazy to see her online business. Our 6 years together is enough to recognize what will happen to her in a few minute after she got sun burn or new message on her GPRS.

MOSLEM .COM makes my friend change - mine too. A veiled oldest girl from Palembang nearly becomes a matchmaker victim, indeed she is now. First, Said aka Jack (I forget), a husband’s wife, a just 3 years Moslem, a New Yorker with no child, a 45 years old guy (Hmmm old…), was her main subject of our Chamber. We almost spent our 12 hours there, full of her Said…America…Passport…Second Wife…Akidah…Jilbab…(I was happy for her, but sad for my ears). The Y.M ended for a month just because there’s a Prince of Dubai, John Who? Aka Said - a divorced man with a daughter and a son plus a best friend, her ex wife, originally from Canada - a son of Mid Asia immigrant. For one month me and my rest un-victimized young co-teachers felt happy, at least she’s not going to be a second wife of that old beardy pale man (ups…only me and Abul who said so, hehe…we care of her, of course. In the right way). But, still 2 children, quite hard for me to understand her. The Dubai Lebay (Abul named it) was so busy, then my beloved friend got frustrated and suddenly made me so, coz she used my laptop (hehehe…ikhlas ko). Y.M - gmail - yahoo - MSN - google spread on my desktop. Me myself felt happy of course, but it seems my Apple was her laptop, coz everything I opened was automatically her username (silly). Worry…complaint…culture shock…piled on her desk…we helped her to tidy them up, coz the cubicle is unisex (Hahahah…). I am the youngest teacher there, and surely my helping her is different form others. She needed laugh anyway. Observing her with the DOT COM made me sad for her, oh my beloved friend who you are looking for - American? Australian? European? (of, course the Moslem one she said)…hmm her journey was great (just smile to my self). Dubai Lebay was gradually swallowed by our overwhelming works.

Free from MOSLEM.COM almost 2 weeks, BAM!!! A Van Dame look guy emerged on the server desktop made the administration officer shocked. “Is this Van Dame?”, he yelled to me, I said lightly, “nope…maybe Yun’s new guy”, my trashy guess was right, the guy is her new. A 36 years old single Australian guy (hmm, I do feel very happy at last), a Moslem since his 19, a quite handsome guy I think - great body, great look, and Abul also agrees with me. Ali is his name, a younger twin - that has a Bosnian friend whose Indonesian wife (great, perfect), me beloved friend easily has connection with his Indonesian friend. Everything is smooth, Y.M, MSN, all are fine till Ali’s Islamic SMS preach bombardier her GPRS, gosh, another disaster. He is an Islamic preacher in Australia, my friend becomes mad with those SMS. Suddenly, my being at the library becomes Islamic consultation, my focus is Creative Corner which is full of My Very Books…till she drags me to the religion shelves and asking for my opinion. OMG, MOSLEM.COM makes me mad.

Pray for ya ma sista…feel happy for ya…even sometimes it’s a hell, but I’ll be there for ya always.

(Chamber, 08)