Asean in Love

December 21. 2024.

Returning from the company late at night Lintang took off her heavy high heels and slipped her feet into thin and light satin silk slippers.The apartment was bulky and had a modern interior with a view of the light panorama of the urban big city, but everything was still somehow fairy-tale for her, she was used to the slow life style and the friendly atmosphere of the household in her childhood living in a rural place, here she felt more lonely than ever, even though the famous and successful business woman did not find a soul mate and friends to chat with them over coffee and share a betel leaf that is chewed on the Bali.

Actor Rinota had agein new girlfriend and she told to herself:

"My heart will hurt less if I stop loving him!"

 That's why she devoted herself to her career and was 100% engaged in business, even thinking about upcoming business projects in the early morning and late evening hours.

She turned on the TV and sports program because the company was planning to open a new golf center on the island of Bali, so she wanted to hear news about golf.

The announcer excitedly announced first the latest news from the world of chess:

"The youngest winner of the World Chess Championship 2024 held in Singapore is Indian Grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju and he is only 18 years old.

At the European Chess Championship 2024 in Petrovac on Sea, Serbian chess player Aleksandar Indjić won, defeating many members of FIDE and ACF Grandmasters."

"Chess remained very popular in the 21st century," she thought and accepted that it was the best sport that could be played indoors, and especially when it was raining in the tropics.She thought that it would be better to open a chess or golf tee room in the open air, and then the idea came to her that the chess salon should be inside the building of the golf center, where the shops of sports clothes and golf equipment will be located, why not convert one room as well to the chess room?

In front of the TV was a storage room with video cassettes and CDs, and he decided to look at the CD that the architectural firm for the construction of the golf sports center had sent the other day to her.

While looking through videotapes and CDs, he came across a CD with writing written fluently in English in a calligraphic style."My fantastic Bali diamond, the most beautiful in the world"

She was curious, so she put that CD in the player first.

As soon as she put in the CD the screen snowed making a sound as if the connection from the provider was cut off, then the Queen of Bali appeared on the screen in a golden dress lighting just for a moment, then disappeared completely, the screen snowed again and now the director of the construction crew was standing on the screen addressing her personally:

"During the survey of the grounds for the golf center, we came across a tomb, the construction workers said through the screen, archaeologists came and took all the artifacts to the history museum, however, a little further from the tomb we came across a small dusty metal box that could be opened without key, it wasn't particularly decorated, so we thought it was there someone left the box not so long ago and it is not an artifact.There was a letter in the box with your name on it, so it confused us, we didn't know whether to deliver it to you or hand the letter over to the archaeologists, we thought they wouldn't be interested in this letter, so here are the messages on the screen, you tell us what to do with this box and letter because this is very unusual for us.The first thing that came to our mind is that you played the Queen of Bali and some of your fans or admirers left a box knowing that your business group is planning to open a golf sports center in this area of the city. However, it is strange that so much dust and patina of time has accumulated on an ordinary metal box, most likely your admirer wanted to confuse you and put the letter in an old antique box.

An image of a letter appeared on the screen that read:

"Dear Lintang,

If you ever read this letter of mine, my heart will rejoice in advance, thank you for your extraordinary work and acting skills in portraying to the audience the character of a princess from the Song dynasty who was married to the king of Bali - Raja Yau Pangus. Good thing the kingdom of Bali will continue its royal line, here is a cartographic map of the corridor for overseas trade and the canal we made passable near the city of Alexandria, this is the secret route that the kingdom of Bali continued to trade with Venice, surely many maps have been destroyed over time and temples burned during The Dutch occupation and colonialism over our people from the Song Dynasty who lived on the islands of Bali and Java.

Dutch troops killed over 10,000 inhabitants originating from the Song Dynasty who lived freely and peacefully on the islands of Bali and Java until then.

"A free man can not be made a slave", the Greek philosopher said, and we should all be the true bearers of freedom, unity and peace in the world since this planet was created, even with the separation of the continents, peoples were separated from each other by seas and oceans and it took centuries to discover new routes and find lost continents and disappeared ones islands during the movement of tectonic plates.

The second map is an even bigger secret, it is a map of the island where the ancient city named "Diamond City" is located, through the dense rainforest I discovered a city with medicinal healing honey and I leave you a sketch map so that you know where and in what location the city is located if if you're in trouble, look for the Diamond City."

I hope that you are already happily married to the actor Rinota and that you have created a harmonious oasis on the island of Bali by living well."

Your old friend from the Song Dynasty K.C W.