There are rented houses in Cikutra which named Yanarti, I don’t know the story behind the name. I just want to share a few things that happened in that place. When we started to rent the room, the housekeeper gave us a paper about the rules (most of them are: don’t’ bla… bla… bla…) of the house. If we’d like to stay in that house we must follow it.
My first friends were Icunk and Beye, Icunk also joined me and took Product Design in college, and Beye took Midwife as her major. Another friend, I mean outside Darul Arqam circle is Annur, she came from Cikampek and took Management as her major. We became a close friend since knew we were the newest member of that house. For 1st year college is the craziest, we often sleep at dawn only to do our tasks. Especially when we are in the mid-test and final test.
Usually, we unite during lunch and dinner, but sometimes we do not see each other for a day. Since we’re still single, we always spend time together, is it going to college, to the mall, to karaoke, to Gasibu, to warnet, to Tante (she is a food seller near our house), to anywhere, even to caught up cheated boyfriend hehe
We avoid bringing electronic stuff, such as a mini refrigerator, rice cooker, television, iron, etc. except laptops and cellphones. If we still want to use it, we must pay (again) counting by item. Actually, we can hide that stuff, but the housekeeper keeps spying on us, she has eagle eyes which know every detail stuff in our room.
Sometimes we’re cooking, we’re only Annur hehe… She would take care of our food while we were so confused about what we wanted to cook, she liked cooking, her hobby is cooking and we trusted her so much more than ever. We usually ate in Annur’s room (I thought it was very weird to eat in the room although there is a dining room) then watched television and slept together. it seems my room is useless because most of my activity is done in Annur’s room.
In that house, we divided ourselves into a group. I mean from my perspective there are 4 groups based on the habit.
1. New Comer – It’s us, The High School label is still on us, and still need time to adapt to a new environment.
2. Previous Renters – It’s the people who arrived before us, they are hard workers and busy with campus activity.
3. The Oldest – The oldest renter who has stayed at that house since they were in college until they work
4. The Unknown – I don’t know, they’re rarely in the house, more busy outside (maybe), only seen while paying the bill.
There are no annoying things in the house, except a person or a person who thinks that our group is so annoyed. Maybe because of our habit, grouped and noised hehe… Sometimes they have pranks for us, but as the nicest newcomer, we don’t care and forget. Let me explain, our rented house is so quiet and rarely noisy. It’s quite well until you can hear the heartbeat 🙂 Even the fart would know easily.
One craziest ideas ever was to make a Yanarti t-shirt, It’s Annur, she wanted to show how much we loved at hated living in that house. Never realized it because no one wore it hehe.
One time, there was a renter from another island in Indonesia, she didn’t much talk but gave more attention to some people in the house. We thought she had a little bit of weirdness, I don’t say she’s an anomaly but her attitude says it. On one fine day we were cooking in the kitchen, we didn’t know she was inside until she texted Icunk about her tasty food smells. If she wants to join us, at least she must come out and socialize.
The similarity of her victim (I don’t mean to be rude, but…) is she’d like women who have a big body shape that came from the bathroom to use a towel hehe… She is our big concern and threat. Because of one and another things she decided to go back to her hometown. We were happy for a while until the Mbak Mar (the housekeeper) told us about the fact of her. She has a gift for Icunk and two people outside the newcomer.
She gave Icunk, Mbak Mar, and 1 person a cell phone, even if it’s a simple cellphone that only can be used for texting and phone calls, it’s still a cellphone, right? the last person has the carpet in her room and of course, she denies it. After Icunk got the cellphone, she texted: Please accept my gift, you can give it to the cat if you don’t like it. Come on… a cat? How could she think like that? We forced Icunk to remove the card and change it with a new one, so she could use it without being terrorized.
Icunk left first, she wanted to change her major and university, so she decided to move to stay a while in her house in Malangbong Garut. No longer, Rela’s sister (Yayang) came to replace Icunk’s room and make a friend with us. We all do the same things we used while Icunk available. Then, time flew by we had a boyfriend and rarely spent time together like in the old days. Only have a little chit-chat in the morning and in the night before sleep. We have another important activity to do 🙂
We celebrate Yayang’s boyfriend by making a surprise, a failed surprise by the way… We planned to give a surprise while they were talking on the porch, it’s kind of an unpredictable surprise until we make a noise about the candle of the cake, seriously that things matter. He is aware of us… we don’t have any choice except to go outside by bringing the birthday cake. He is very happy to get the surprise and gift from his girlfriend, it seen by his bruise check.
Fortunately, they took their relationship to the next level, yes, now they’re engaged and ready for the wedding next year. Congratulation!!!
*Yayang only took 2 semesters of Interior Design, and she decided to move to Garut to help her mother’s business.
After that, Annur moved closer to her college. She wanted to focus on her studies and relationships hehe… We were happy when Annur got a boyfriend, finally, she found the right guy. I felt uncomfortable and sorry for her because she had trouble with our friend. She is jealous of Annur because she is in the same class as her boyfriend. It’s a stressful relationship between us, she can take a breath when Annur has a boyfriend.
Beye, how could I describe this person? We thought we knew each other very well since we were in the dormitory and lived under the same roof for 9 years. Even though we’ve moved, we moved into the same house (again). She got her boyfriend on the day I celebrated 1 anniversary, officially it’s the same date in a different year. So happy for her. She moved into another rented house near the street and I followed her, I didn’t want to be left alone, not really alone, but I felt lonely.
I rented for 2 years before decided to move out with Beye, closer to my college and more noisy hehe
Thank you Mbak Mar who was loyal to the owner and took care of us, also Mas Jaja who was loyal waited for the Nasi Goreng seller on the porch.
