Dear Mr. Gates:
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Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 10:04 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: Donald Trump's Donation to Governor Schwarzenegger
When the news appeared in the media about Donald Trump gives donation of US $10,000 to governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, I thought it has nothing to do with me. Yet later on there were two other news that made me thing it could be related with me, like in the followings.
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 10:10 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: Kabelvision Programs on Friday 13 April 2007
On Friday, 13 April 2007, Kabelvision, the Indonesian Cable TV operator, televised two different programs at two different channels that seems like questioning something of my past. At National Geographic there was the video of "Violent Earth: Chasing Earthquake", about some devastating earthquakes in history, including the December 26, 2004, in Aceh that caused Tsunami with more than a hundred thousands casualties in more than a dozen countries. Also the earthquake in California of 17 October 1989. At AXN there was the video of a movie starred by Arnold Schwarzenegger, "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines". Arnold Schwarzenegger is now the governor of California. Both of those videos was started at the same time, at 20.00 Jakarta time. Like questioning me about my experience at the American Express in 1989 before the earthquake in California happened.
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 10:16 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: The Shooting at Ward Parkway Mall
The shooting at Ward Parkway Center in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday April 29, 2007, was like strengthening the questioning of my experience in American Express in 1989, because the name of the shopping center, Ward Parkway, was like reminding me with the name of my supervisor in American Express, Mr. Wardy Bafagih. And the store name, Target, was like reminding me that my getting the termination form American Express by Mr. Wardy was because I failed to fulfill the sales target. .
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 10:31 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: San Francisco Bay Bridge Collapse
The accident of a gasoline tanker truck overturned and caught fire, that caused San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to collapse, also happened at the same day of the shooting at Ward Parkway, on 29 April 2007. Like to strengthening more the questioning on me related to my experience at American Express in 1989 that later on followed by a devastating earthquake in California.
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 10:31 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: 1989: My Work at American Express, Then Earthquake in California
The Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on Tuesday October 17, 1989, in the greater San Francisco Bay Area in California at 5:04 p.m. local time and measured 6.9 on the Moment magnitude scale (surface-wave magnitude 7.1). The earthquake lasted for 15 seconds. This earthquake was the first major earthquake in the U.S. to be broadcast on live television as it happened. Extensive damage also occurred in San Francisco's Marina District, where many expensive homes built on filled ground collapsed. Fires raged in some sections of the city as water mains broke. (source: wikipedia.com) At the same year of 1989, before the earthquake, I spent my time working at the American Express. To make sure all letters in this "Closing the Window of Disaster" is not about blaming game, I would only write the possibility of my own mistakes that might related with the earth quake.
Around two weeks after I began my work at the American Express, one day I heard the entrance door to the Personal Sales at the ground floor was knocked from the outside. It was a card-key lock door, could only opened from the outside using a card key, yet from the inside could be opened like ordinary door. Since I was the one who was so close to the door, I opened it, and it appeared to be a beautiful girl searching for my supervisor Mr. Wardy. A few days later she began to work at the same team with me, in the Personal Sales. Her name is Rina Triana. Because the Sales Department was on expansion, there were some additional sales persons that made the sales office room in the ground floor was inadequate. So some of the new sales persons were placed in 14th floor, at one of the rooms of BNI-Amex Leasing. Since then I often spent some times alone with her in the office room, because usually most of the other sales persons rarely in the office, while I often needed to do some paper works in the office after visiting some clients. Rina was a nice girl, often shared some jokes with me. She made me forgot my bad memories with previous girls. Yet one day I made a terrible mistake. When she all of a sudden asked me to propose her, and she did it in front of my friend Idris whom my other friends said as the boy friend of Rina, I felt tortured. I thought she was a part of a conspiracy to frame me, to prove that I was a kind of person who liked to grab someone else's girl friend. Since then I began to feel uncomfortable, and I began to think that every time she was alone with me in the office room it could be also a part of the conspiracy to frame me to prove that I like to do sexual harassment toward any girls. A few weeks later Mr. Wardy terminated me, with the reason that I failed to fulfill my sales target. But even the termination seems like triggered by my own measures. Around two days before Mr. Wardy terminated me, I withdraw almost all of my money from my account at Amex Bank. Actually the reason was because I also have another saving account in a bank close to the house where I lived. Yet so often Mr. Wardy liked to take inspirations from whatever I was doing. For example, if one day in the meeting room I mentioned to my friend: "Yesterday I met Mr. A wearing brown shirt....," then Mr. Wardy would immediately grabbed the phone and talk to someone: "Mr. A with brown shirt...." My friend Edison Sinaga would usually smiled and said: "Ustadz Wardy is so fast to grab the inspiration....." Ustadz is the Arabic word for "teacher", because Wardy is an Arab.
So, most of all, regarding the earthquake in San Francisco in 1989 after my work at American Express, I certainly hope it has nothing to do with me. Nevertheless, if there were any mistakes that I have done, I apologize for it. It could be because I have let myself to feel tortured when Rina asked me to propose her while in fact she already has a boy friend. Next time if such a thing happened again, I should prevent my self from feeling tortured, since it could unnecessarily like pushing the button for false alarm. I should be better have a positive thinking, by considering it as an indirect advice to raise my appetite to get married with someone else, not to consider it as a torture toward myself.
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