Highlight
of the day: My boss had died. The nice Batak aunty told
me. Millions of mourning Catholics. Sri Paus (The Pope)
had passed away on a Sunday morning. The locals were not
in a good mood, though we still sipped our Tuak and watching
Metro (an Indonesian Channel). I told her that my boss “died”
2,500 years ago. We burst into cynical laughter.
It
was Sunday and time for service. We went to a Protestants
Church in Tomok (another village in Pulau Samsoir) and listened
to a service delivered in Bahasa. I was talking to a local
youth, and he suddenly pointed at the ground, shouting "Tsunami"(?).
God knows what he meant. After which, my roomie and some
people ran out from the church, citing that they felt the
ground shook for 2 seconds. My roomie thought that portion
of the service was about Tsunami. We felt that revelation
of the 2 greats in 2 seconds.
God
DID know what he meant. |