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Book: The Midnight Library

It is one of the books that blown my mind. It's very well written and would probably relate with a lot of people who are in their journey to find themselves.  So many people are talking about it but I did not buy it until a few months ago where I read the preview on the first pages. Easy for me to see if I want to buy the book or not. When the first pages hook me right away, I don't need to think twice. This book is one of them.  This contains spoiler of course.  Nora, the main character, like many of us, fall into depression and decided to kill herself. But she's not dead right away. She went into a kind of limbo between life and death. In that library she met a librarian, this librarian is a kind of a guide. Our guide that probably tasked when we were born.    The librarian shows her lives that she could have had if she wants to. She is so depressed and thinks that no life will makes her happy enough to live it. I can totally understand her state. I was there....
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Memandang Burj Khalifa

 
View from Rove hotel 

Karena satu dan dua serta tiga alasan, akhirnya kita memutuskan untuk 'kencan' di Dubai. Nggak ada drama sepanjang perjalanan menuju Dubai, kecuali jalan panjang menuju gate. Duowooooo banget wes pokok e ya. Nggak di Soekarno Hatta, Changi maupun Dubai sana. Lumayan olahraga yes!

Sepanjang perjalanan ke Singapura, saya duduk sendiri. Jadi hepi lah bisa manjangin kaki. Begitu juga dg perjalanan menuju Dubai. Ah lega pokoknya bangku 3 dipake sendirian.

Aku nyampe duluan di Dubai, sekitar jam 1 siang. Sedangkan HJ sampai jam 9 malem. Nungguin dia dibandara sampe bego. Jadi ngapain aja aku disana? Jetlag, ngantuk. Jam biologis sih udah nunjukin jam 9 malem, tapi disana baru jam 4 sore sedangkan harus nunggu HJ sampe jam 9 malem disana kan. Hemmmm gimana cobak


Akhirnya menghibur diri dengan makan fast food, jalan-jalan muter bandara sampe oon, trus baca novel, trus ngeliatin orang-orang jalan, trus dengerin adzan yang super aduhaiiii enakkkk bener. Belom pernah denger di Indonesia adzan macem gitu. Bener-bener pengen dengerin adzan lagi lagi lagi. Baru kali ini ngerasa eager so much ke Islam yang nggak cuma di mulut aja.

Long story short, akhirnya kita ketemu. Tapi nggak ada adegan cipika cipiki cipok kanan cipok kiri soalnya prohibited daripada kita dipenjara gara-gara hal gitu ya. Kita langsung meluncur ke hotel, hotel langganan HJ yang bener-bener homey banget (ntar diceritain terpisah deh). Dan taraaaaa hotel kita ngadep Burj Khalifa. Gedung yang memiliki 3 waktu yang berbeda saking tingginya.


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