He, She, He & She #1

She met him through her friends, lets call him White (It really his name). White ask her if She can tutor his friends whom a senior in her campus. He said that he took 2 repeat courses in this semester (for her, It's 6th term but for him, It's 12th!!). Well, because the repeat courses that he wants to tutor is the subjects that she mastered (and its basic subjects anyway) so she said she will tutor him to White so that he can give her contacts to him.

At first, he said that he wants to tutor once a week for one subject but hey, she don't have many time at that time because some organization activities so she said that if he wants to tutor once a week, than she will arrange the time of tutor that both can spare some time.

She hates people who need her help but "needing". For example, her friend in last semester wants her help for passing some subjects by tutor to her. BUT she only wants to take the cheapest package which is only tutor for 2 hours. You know, how can she tutor her only for 2 hours for a whole class in the semester?! She must be really diligent, crazy, or stingy. She can't guarentee if she can pass the subjects if she only learned in 2 hours anyway. Meh, impossible.

Anyway back to story, at first he really "needing" like her friend but lately She knows what the reason is. She told him that she can't guarentee that he will pass if he don't learn by himself after he tutor with me but suprisingly he really have the spirit to pass the subjects, not just pass, but good grades. So, he willing to took the pay-for-hour package and yeah, he is the main source of financial for her this semester.

Then, they took the first tutor and he told me that he once a brat and he realized that he's wasting his time by repeat the course. Even, he is repeating 4 courses in this semester! HA! He's sad that his friends began to graduate or do KTA but he is, now, tutor, for passing the courses. Anyway, he said that the system for repeating course in campus is hard because not enough lecturer to open a new class for repeated course. So, he took the chance now when the repeated course is open a class in this semester.

They tutor every week except when she has some activity to do, but she love his spirits to learn. She only see the spirits on him, even from my friends whom She has tutored. They only want to pass and don't think about grades, but not to him. He always asked her wether she could tutor him on thursday, friday, or saturday. Whoa She never have any students that a hard worker to even pass the courses, and well yeah good grades.

So, in tutor, It's not like any tutor who you only listen to the material, but do the homework, make a presentation, or even do the take-home quiz. I think she's not even a tutor, but a mentor.

Then, they often met in tutor and not only about the subjects that they talked about. But she curious how he can realize to serious in his study. So, here's his story :

He always busy in his business, really. He really an expert on this. He told her that he get the capital from his father and uncle to make a business. You know, in Confucian Family they always teach their kids to do business since they're little kids. He always teached by his father and uncle to open a business but only dare to do it when he is in university. So, what business?

He once have a Cows business. Well, yeah, Cows. Don't you know what he do? So! He told her that he buy the cow when It's mature but skinny, the land for cows, and the land for plants to grow for Cow's meal. So, what's the gain that he had? His capital gain was when the cow's weight increase per kilos and he have the gains from that.

Confuse? Okay at first she confused too. For example, you have cow which weight 20kg, then he maintain the Cow everyday. Everyday, the cow's weight increase about 3-5kg and every kilos that the cow's have will be paid for 75.000 IDR. So in this example, if the cow's weight increase 5 kg, then he earned 75.000 x 5 = 375.000 IDR EVERY DAY. Yup, Everyday.

But he said that he don't do that business for so long because the land is far from here so he can't control the Cows from here. Then he told her another business, It's ant business and he wants to start it once he finished the courses in this term. Yup, ant business.

So, he told her that ant's egg per kilos, worth IDR 300.000. OMG WHATS THE PURPOSE OF THAT ANT'S EGG THAT ITS WORTH SO EXPENSIVE?! He said that it's for bird's meal. Okay, mevvah. So, the singer bird (?) only eat ant's egg so the sound from the birds is good. It doesnt make sense but it exist such a business. He told her how he want to build the ant's nest in his house, from the jar that he give the sugar on it until a cabinet so that the ant can move freely.

And then, he told her how he play invest in shares and he learn from it. Well, she really interested about invest-thingy so It really an interesting topic to discuss. He once said that he have GGRM (Gudang Garam) when Its cheap and he can have a capital gain only in a few months and he proud that he sold the GGRM's shares before the shares decline HAHAHA! Okay, he's not from Finance, but he is the evidence that Investment is not learn from text-books, but from trial and error.

Okay, so that the story when he makes the capital gain, now the capital loss. After success in equity market, he moved to money market which is riskier than equity market. You know, if you invest 1 Million, you can either have 5 Million in 5 minutes or minus 1 Million in 5 minutes. It's a gambling. So, he curious about that "5 Million in 5 minutes" so he invest about 3 Million one at a time and you know what? He loss. All the 3 million just dissapear and never come back. Not like equity market, he can't wait until the price goes up.

But now, he realized that he must finished his schools now to open a business like that. So he really serious about taking the course and tutor for this semester. Even now, he has the highest score in all subject in this term now. Whoa, surprise, huh? Yeah, the brat who always out when taking class and only come for an attendance, now has the highest score? Impossible yes, but its possible if you work hard. Anyway, its not only him who learn the courses from her, but its her who learn the "outside world" from him. How the business looked like, how to plan a business, or how to invest in equity/money market, how to choose the best securities, and anything.

Moral of the story :
People changed. Either to the good or bad side it's just a matter of time to make them realized if they should change now to be a better person. There always a good side in people that you can learn from them.

-FRA-