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Dear Mr. Gates:
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Date: Sat, 28 February 2009 10:04 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: A Player, Not Just An Audience
Actually today I was planning to write about Oscar 2009 that seems like containing some messages for me related with my consent to move to the eternity. But when this morning I browsed the Internet, I found something needed to write earlier here, related with Mr. Warren Buffett. The stock of his Berkshire Hathaway has dropped almost half of its price, slipped 44 percent in the past 12 months, though it is still the most expensive stock in history. Now it stands at US $ 78,600. When it reached an all time high in 2006 by hitting $100,000 and setting a new record for the most-expensive U.S. stock, it happened on October 2006. Or, a few months after in June 2006 he joined you in a press conference about his announcing to make an annual donation of about $1.5 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. And it was following the beginning of this "Closing the Windows of Disasters" that started on 22 June 2006. It was then followed by its setting a new record high of $151,650 in December 2007. What could be the meaning for me about all this, is it a sign from God that I should enter the game, as a player, not only as an audience like what happened for so many years? Other seemingly related matters are the moments when I was preparing to visit a Franchise Exhibition on 21 February 2009. Like mentioned in my letter Visiting Franchise Exhibition, in the morning when I was in the toilet the water supply happened to be cut off because the building labors were repairing some leaks in the bathroom upstairs. It made me have to wash using demineralized water for car battery. In Indonesian, the word for going to defecate in the toilet is "berak", that sounds a little bit like in the first syllable of Mr. Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway. Maybe it means that I really should ask for your help in realizing the "test" through "my 15 paintings", so I can get into the games of business as a player, no longer just as an audience, to provide jobs in this recent economic crisis situation where many people lost their jobs. Something happened when I was just finished writing this letter until the above paragraph, with the HTML codes and the images had been inserted too. All of a sudden the electric power was off. It was then I looked at the number above the monitor, it appeared that I had chosen computer number 03 in this Internet Shop. The other visitors had to leave the Internet Shop because there was no clear indication of whether the electric power would turn on again soon. I also went back home, and the electric power there was also off. Around ten minutes later, it turned on again, so I went back to the Internet Shop to continue this letter. It became like a reminder for me, whether my intention to "enter the game, no longer as an audience", will have the meaning that I will no longer keep my consent to move out of this world and therefore transfer such consent to others? The answer is no, I still keep my consent. It is by entering the game, no longer as an audience, that I hope my consent would have higher value in the eyes of God, and therefore God will bestow more Bless and Mercy to human being in this world. Because if I had my consent in the condition of my still living in the house of my brother or my sister or other's house, it would be like I merely trying to get away from my unfortunate life on earth.
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Thank's, A.M. Firmansyah Tel. +62812 183 1538
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