Let's talk about books again.

The original books are pricey. Seriously, mahal.

Maybe a lot of people that seems too clever or too perfect in their imaginations or their brain its because yak gimana yak, orang stuffs-nya aja mahal gitu.

One piece of book itu gaada yang under 100rb, gaada. Mostly upper 100rb even that's preloved. Ada, ada memang, but u have to scrolling down in the marketplace to find that piece.

Takes time.

When I got jobless, I would tried to keep up with my hobby, that's reading. I went to library in my town almost twice a week. Sometimes I felt tired cause yak, my town's library not as much as large if you compare to the other city. So, I've ever seen ya itu itu aja. Meanwhile, a lot of books that I've been searching, no one that comes to the bookshelves. Unfortunately again, in some of the year, no one that I've been seen has some of new books. I felt so sad but no one ever care about it.

But, better than before.

So, what I mean is,

Kek mana ya, w hobby nya reading, but stuffs nya aja w yang belum bisa penuhin, kek, 'ih pen beli buku ini' terus w grab it fast, comes to the bookstore and buy some books that I wanna read. I definitely could not!

Even until now, I still don't believe it that when I wanna that stuffs I have to think about it several times.

Imagine, buset. Gini amat yak. saking mahalnya.

So, sometimes, a little bit too tricky if I wanna read but still struggle with the price tag.

Same as above that I was mentioned.

Scrolling the marketplace.

Lu tau ga sii, secercah senyuman di wajah w itu memancar ketika I found a book originally on the cheaper price. Gilaaa.. W senengnya bukan main tuh.

Kek kejadian belum lama ini.

Ceritanya, w lagi gabut pengen baca buku, kebetulan buku-buku yang w mau baca udah gaada.

So, I finally scrolling, searching buku bekas.

Yap, buku bekas, lu gasalah baca kok. W cari buku bekas, seriously, w gapapa banget liat sampul seancur kek gimana juga, most important thing is that book still can read. That's more than enough for me.

Nah, yesterday, I found a book, harganya 59rb, fortunately I got the voucher almost 20rb, so I just buy with 39rb doangan. Covernya emang udah ilang, kek black doangan gitu, but that it's hardcover and most important thing is the book is original.

Why? Cuy, if I bought that book in a new condition, can you imagine how pricey it is? Above 500rb cuy, almost 10x lipatnya.

I'm never mind if covernya berantakan, sampulnya ilang, ada coret-coretan nama pemilik sebelumnya, ttd, highlighting, or apapun itu yang penting itu dua, pertama, bisa dibaca, kedua, itu buku original.

W paling kecewa sama toko buku yang bilangnya dia original ternyata dia cetak ulang. W kesel bukan main. W pernah ngalamin dan from my experinced, I tried to selective again if I wanna buy.

It's because a little bit tricky again guys, karena emang ada beberapa buku yang w cari tapi pengarang aslinya itu emang dari luar dan di Indonesia itu nyarinya susah even itu yang bekasnya kek MasyaAllah😤😭. W sampe nyari ke marketplace luar negeri, it tooks maybe around 1 month to arrived at my house. Dan lu tau kan kalau nyari buku di luar itu delivery fee nya mehong banget, w sampe pernah ngeluarin duit sampe jutaan demi beli buku yang original. Seriously ga boong. Si label harganya aja masih w simpen tuh karena buat w itu saking mahalnya.

Ngerelain duit w yang w sisihin buat beli dompet, yang dompet w udah bulukan. Ngerelain buat beli tas yang mana itu tas udah w incer ga kalah lamanya dari itu buku. Tapi yang w beli malah buku, w kesampingin barang-barang yang udah lama w idam-idamkan demi sebuah buku.

Anjirr, gini amat yak, kok w sampe sesuka itu sama buku, why Ca? Why? OMG!

Same as coffee. Anjirrlaah w sama kopi, I've very addicted kali tuh sama tuh minuman, in a rude word is 'sakaw'.

Again, why?

Kalau bisa dibilang kerasukan, kerasukan w sama bapak-bapak di kantor yang almost everyday on the works' table are coffee. Mau gamau w kan jadi kepengen yak.

But, in a happy way, I've been always grateful that if I wanna learn something they always help me up.

When I wanna talk about something, they always know what I wanna talk about. If they don't know, they have no feel embarrassed to say that they don't know.

Some of them are encourage me to learn something especially Bapak Rifki, he's always talk about english, books, something new, coffee. Such as coincidence that all those stuffs are something that I wanna learn about.

So, if I wanna know something, I just tell him to explain.

And I hope, in the future, I'll meet someone like him. If I curious about something, he would tell me what it is without judgement, 'masak kek gini aja gatau'. And if he doesn't know, both of us are searching and discuss what we found. Such a little conversation that makes me happy if I found you.