yani’s sister and reuben mustafa!

i will not mention her sisters name here unless yani approves… i am not sure she will approve of this site!!! i havnt heard from her since i started this.  yesterday i inadvertantly sent a batch of emails and included her address so i guess she knows or soon will!!!!!! (yani has no computer and must go to an internet cafe, and it is not cheap for her) anway, yani’s sister met an american guy at jaksa.  i think she was around 19 or 20 at the time. he was in his early twenties.  she should have never been hanging around jaksa! but she was not hooking. i guess maybe she was looking for this guy, that is, a husband.  i am quite sure she was a virgin when they married.  lest i lose your attention, let me tell you the most interesting part of this story.  she is of course a muslim, but he, he was a jewish kid from new jersey!!!!! and  now he is a muslim kid from new jersey!!!!!!!  thats right, he converted to islam for a piece of a…… now you might think that i am being a little cynical here, but really i am not.  it’s the only thing that makes sense once you hear THE REST OF THE STORY. now yani’s sister was, i hope still is (havent seen her for 4 years)  a major cutie!  petite with a pixie haircut and just gorgeous, and i might add a good kid!  the wedding was in parung in front of the family home in the complek. a 2 bedroom rented bungalow, maybe seven hundred square feet of concrete. they had rented a tent and chairs for guests. it was relatively expensive for a not so well off javanese family.  i dont know who paid for it. it was a sweltering day and the bride and groom spent hours sitting on display dressed to the hilt, she in some traditional stuff. i really cant remember how he was dressed.  his family was represented by his sister and brother inlaw. i guess the mother and father just didnt feel it necessary to attend their new muslim sons wedding! jakarta is literally the other side of the world from new jersey, you just can’t go any further without starting home agin!!!    sitting in the audience with the grooms brother in law i decided to stick my neck out and make a prophecy!! i really should have kept my mouth shut! like many other times in my life!! but i didnt!  i asked him if he could keep something to himself, a secret if you would.  i should have known better, as i have long known, just as mark twain did, how to keep a secret.  so i said that i would make a wager with him that the marriage would be finished within six months!!!  i really cant remember, again, whether or not he took the wager but it seems to me that he didnt, but IF YOU DID wherever you are out there, you owe me a million rupiah…  not only didnt it last six months it didnt last six weeks!!!!!!!! and his brother in law  did not keep his mouth shut either…. the next time i saw the groom, at the hostel bumi rama tama!!! which was only a few days after the wedding, he was somewhat upset with me for my lack of faith. and he had a point for sure. maybe because of what i said, set in motion events which led to their eventual seperation. the perverbial self fullfilling prophecy…nostradamus  step aside.     well the new jersey muslim was seen not long afterward with a somewhat more exotic girl in tow. just another day on jalan jaksa but certainly not a great one for yani or her sister)^&&%$%@*^)*^)(   and i have always wondered if he ever reconverted or deconverted!!!! can he do that?  anyone out there know????  selamat jalan              

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