Bareng Veni & Ivan, dlu kta perna bkin ini pas masi awal2 bgt di klas inter klas 10. Stelah dipost di blog veni, tnyt kocak juga.
Ini gw repost d. Quite funny 
One night in the era of Roman Empire, a senator named Octavius Crassus came home from a Senate meeting in Rome. Known as a wise and firm senator, he was a good-looking man with a great charisma and charm that never ceased to amaze everyone he met. The night was so dark with no moonlight as Octavius laid down on his soft silk bed. He tried hard to close his eyes, but however hard he tried, he couldn’t sleep.
“Something’s wrong,” he thought. And his instinct served him right.
Suddenly the door opened wide dramatically, with a tall, big bearded man stood behind it. With a sword on his hand, the man swaggered towards the laying Octavius.
“Brutus? What do you think you’re doing?” Octavius shouted.
Brutus looked at him with no pity. He stared at Octavius in silence, and his gesture was so dreadful that Octavius stepped back at his bed. Afterward, the famous murder happened. That night, the popular Roman senator, Octavius Crassus, was killed brutally at his bed.
Two thousand years later, in a small town of Greenland, lived a young man named Edward. He lived poorly with his dying grandmother. He was so poor that he had only a pair of silk socks, which he wore every single day, although the land he lived in was very cold. He was a miserable boy. Everything he did was always a big failure, and nobody seemed to love him. Even his grandmother and his gone parents despised and abhorred him. Throughout his life, Edward had asked God continuously why he should live in a miserable life like this. Finally he found his life was too hard to live in, and decided to kill himself.
That day, he went to the seaside. He wept for the last time, and threw himself into the ocean. It was such a pain. He felt his lung was frozen, his skin, his heart, his entire body. He felt cold; so cold that he couldn’t even feel anything. But suddenly he felt warmth through his body and he wondered what had happened to him
“Have I reached Heaven?” he asked himself.
He opened his eyes and couldn’t believe what he saw. He winked spontaneously, but the amazing view he had in his eyes stayed still. Sea horses and sea lions were everywhere in the room. There were huge pillars, incredible seashells, sculptures and carvings, and a glamorous red carpet in the center of the room. As he turned his body to the end of the carpet, he found himself facing a woman sitting in a dazzling throne. She looked elegant yet dark by wearing black caftan and dazzling seashell decorating her hair. However, it was her kaleidoscope eyes that jammed him so hard that he could barely speak.
Spontaneously, Edward fell on his knee.
“Where am I?” he stammered.
The lady lifted her eyebrows silently. Silence was in the air as the lady remained silent.
“This is the underwater world,” she uttered. Her voice was so dark and mysterious that made Edward terrified. “An unknown land, and has to remain unknown. Restricted area, you human say. This is the center of your world, where your world spins and controlled.”
Still in amazement, Edward murmured, “What are you talking about? Who the hell are you?”
The lady chuckled. “I am the Lady of the Earth, the leader of the whole operation in the Underwater World,” she replied calmly, “We lead everything—I lead everything. We control everything here; make sure that everything goes by the book. We make plots of your world, your destiny, your life.”
Edward was terribly shocked. He could not believe his ears.
“So, is that you who made me this way? Who made me having this miserable life that I could no longer bear? Who made me such a disappointment that my parents couldn’t resist? Who made me such a big failure? Who made me the most…”
“Silence!” the lady shouted. Her voice shook the palace to its very foundation. “Who do you think you are? Who do you think you’re facing? What do you think you are talking about?”
“But…”
“You are no one. I am someone. And you know nothing. You hear me? Nothing,” the Lady spoke angrily. She took her breaths slowly and tried hard to retrieve her calmness. “Look, young boy. I didn’t carry you here to have an argument with you. I could let you die in that cold water. Gosh, I really could. But I’m willing to help.”
Edward, struck by the Lady’s anger, became fearful as he replied terrifyingly, “I’m listening, my Lady.”
“Good. Wise, you must be,” the Lady sat back on the throne. “Look, young boy. Your miserable life is not my will. It is far beyond my power. The truth is, I can do nothing.”
“What do you mean? You control everything!”
“What happened in the past is none of my power. And what happened to you, caused by what happened in the past. This is all caused by…” the Lady stopped for a while and stared at Edward’s feet. She pointed her finger, and said, “That.”
Edward looked down at his feet.
“What? Is there anything wrong?”
“Your socks is the source of everything,” the Lady uttered. She looked at the astonished Edward and she continued, “It is not yours.”
“What do you mean? I had this from my ancestors!”
“But you are not your ancestor,” the Lady explained serenely. “You were the reincarnation of Brutus Cassius, the man who killed your ancestor two thousand years ago. And your socks, it’s not yours. But it’s Octavius Crassus’s, the man you killed two thousands years ago. Just before Octavius died, he put a spell on the socks, that Brutus would be reincarnated to be his descendant and would live a miserable life.”
“What? So this is because of a spell put two thousand years ago? This is not fair! I know nothing! What should I do? Why do you let me live in a life like this?”
“I give you a chance, young boy,” the Lady replied softly, “I give you a chance to know and live a better life. What you have to do is exchange Crassus’s socks with Brutus’s—your—socks, by saying sorry. That’s all. And you’ll have the best life.”
“Err,” Edward hesitated. “How can I do that? I don’t know the man you’re talking of. How can I find the man who owned my socks in this big world? If I’ve found him—I don’t think I will—how can I explain this complicated problem? He would think I’m a daft man. This problem is way too complicated to explain!”
“Have no worry, young boy. I’m willing to help. In a sec, I’ll transfer you to the land where the man who owns your socks lives in. Take and use the first telephone you find, and you’ll find this man—Ivan,” the Lady flicked her finger, and suddenly Edward’s pocket was full of money. “Take that. You’ll need that.”
The Lady of the Earth smiled, and flicked her finger again.
Suddenly, the view all around Edward changed. Instead of the big pillars, sea horses, dazzling throne and the Lady, he saw a big blue ocean and cliffs in front of him. He was confused as he never saw the view before; a dark blue fumy sky with wastes everywhere in the sand. He felt warmth; something he never went through. As he looked around, there was nobody in that seaside.
While Edward was wondering where he was and what he had to do, he heard something rang. He looked around, dug sands, and there, in the sands, he saw a dirty cell phone. Remembered what the Lady had said before, he answered it. He heard a voice of a man. The voice was strange; heavy, deep and mysterious whisper. Miraculously, he could understand what the man was talking.
“Come to Jalan X, now. We have to talk. I’ll wait there.”
“Wait, wait…”
Toot… toot… toot…
Edward was very confused. He had no idea who was the man that phoned him before.
“Is he Ivan?” he thought.
Decided to end his miserable life and start a brand new great life, Edward left the seaside and roamed through the streets. He asked people he found—who, mysteriously, understood his English—about the place mentioned by the mysterious caller. He found the street; a small dirty street with poor people and beggars all along it. He scouted around and spotted a short glassed man who was reclining on a dirty wall, looking around and take a glance regularly on his watch.
Edward encouraged himself to approach that man.
“Excuse me, are you Ivan?”
The man was stupefied.
“Err… Yeah, I am. Pardon me, but who are you?”
“I am Edward. I had a mysterious phone call around half an hour ago, to come here. A friend told me to meet a man named Ivan; therefore I thought it must be you!”
“You must be kidding! I didn’t call you, I even have no idea who you are. I also received a mysterious phone call at… should be the same time as your call, around half an hour ago. It’s strange…”
Edward was aghast after hearing Ivan’s explanation.
“Well, then perhaps we were meant to meet. I had an offer for you,” Edward said.
“Offer? What kind of offer?” Ivan looked suspicious.
“Did you have a pair of socks, which you got from your ancestors? Silk socks?”
Ivan replied, “Yes, I do. I have no idea how you know it, but… this silk socks I’m wearing was my ancestors, it was hundred years old, I guess…”
“Then I’m right. What I offer you is… Five million dollars for exchanging your socks with mine. Nice offer, isn’t it?” Edward smiled.
Ivan gaped.
“What? Five million dollars? For this dirty socks? Deal!” Ivan agreed quickly.
So they did their transaction; they exchange their silk socks, and after Ivan received the money happily, they shook hands and said goodbye.
Life was strange and unpredictable, unbelievable at times, but this strange story did come true. Since then, Edward lived happily ever after.
