My name is Nigel Mark Tabraham. I was an England journalist. On the 18th of September, 1811, England defeated Dutch and picked Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles as the Lieutenant Governor on an East Side territory that had been colonized by Dutch. Around three years later I received a letter from him, stated that he requested me to be his personal clerk. Lieutenant and I have the same passion to the mysterious eastern art and culture, and that was definitely the reason why I replied “yes” right away to his request through letter. Ever since, I left my job and started working as his personal clerk. I thank God so much and Lieutenant as well for giving me the chance to travel to an East Side territory. I knew that the journey was going to be one of the best thing ever gonna be happened in my life.
October 2nd, 1814
I have dreamed every night and day before, to travel into the East Side and it is like a dream comes true as I step my feet on the land called Java. I can feel the fertile soil under my boots; no wonder if this land has been famous for the spices it has grown and being hunted by many conquerors from all over the world. This, is the land that became the reason for what Portuguese and Spain did the first voyage around the world. I am so glad that this treasury land can be overtaken by England.
It’s about at nine in the morning. I am sitting on the porch, see that the sun has brightened all around. Across the road, on my neighbor’s park there are loads sunflowers with hundreds of yellow butterflies running around them, while on my park I only get a palm tree with the green grass surrounding or maybe it cannot even be mentioned as a park. However it looks like, it still looks so tropical and I still love it so much, especially because I should leave this hometown soon.
My hometown in Indonesia is such a nice place to live in. It has many interesting places to visit and the people here are just so friendly and supporting one to another. I thought I would never want to leave it, I’ve changed my mind, I’m going to leave this place to pursue my childhood dream.
When I was a child, I really wanted to be a princess. Well, which girl doesn’t want to be pretty, rich, marries the handsome prince just like the princess in tales? I think every girl ever dreamed the same.
A frightening dream woke me up from my sleep. In my dream, I was bitten by a werewolf. I guess it happened since lately I heard an issue that a werewolf haunted my neighborhood, in Transylvania. I was one of the people who got frightened by the issue.
A few seconds later, after getting my consciousness back I got up from bed and looked at the mirror. “No!!!” I screamed out loud ‘cause there I saw all of my body was covered by hair, just the same as a werewolf. I asked myself “Did the dream really happen?” I got panic so I ran around my room, made all things there became in mess.
Suddenly, I got slipped and fell into the floor. I saw many candies all around, than I realized what was really going on last night. Yeah…last night was Halloween, the night when everyone put on any scary costume on their body. I wore my werewolf costume that night, being exhausted after doing the “trick or treat”. I remember that I went straight to bed soon as I got home before even taking off my werewolf costume!!
