Myriad Ways

Ten Thousand Words

One day a guy named Kemon suffered a strange illness. The oldest man in the village visited him and gave him an advice that wasn't less strange than his illness.

"Write please ten thousand words of poetry."

"What's that for, Sir?"

"Juzz write it. It's your antidote."

Kemon was still confused, but agreed to do that.

Since that day he had been writing 9997 words when his dog surprised him from behind by bitting his trouser at right side of his knee. Kemon understood what his dog -Bubibu- wanted.

He went outside following his fella to the boat at side of river and he saw a girl standing and looking at him.

"Need some help, Lady?"

"No, i just called him." This burly girl pointed Bubibu.

"Do not use English." In original version, they speak in Bahasa. "My dog, Bubibu will think that you call me."

"Oh, C'mon, impossible." The burly girl was amazed, why this guy knew if she spoke before a bit in English when trying to approach Bubibu.

"Whawhawhaw." Bubibu responded and bit Kemon's trouser.

"See?! My name is C'mon, Ma'am. Bubibu is trying to poke, to tell that i'm called by somebody."

A word that the girl liked to say,  "C'mon" turned out to be a name of somebody. She couldn't help laughing and was plunged into river. Kemon directly jumped into it to save and Bubibu did the same, but the girl had been out of the river soaking wet, squated and continued her laughter.

Kemon and Bubibu were too out of the river soaking wet and squated. Bubibu wiggled. Because the girl didn't stop laughing, Kemon again laughed, so did Bubibu -on his own way.

For a while the laughter stopped, the girl said, " You guys, are really, really, really, hahahahaha."

They laughed again together until the girl got tired of it then said,

"You know what, because of you, my illness has got recovered."

"Haa," Kemon was surprised, Bubibu as well. Bubibu did, whatever Kemon did.

The burly girl laughed again a while then said, "An old man said to me that i had to sing in front of people who had helped me to get cure. "

Kemon and Bubibu were flabbergasted.

The girl then sang a song written by herself, a hard rock one.

Kemon trembled and melted. He was so emotionally involved. So did Bubibu, but he just imitated his master, as always, hahaha.

"Madam, i like your song so much and the way you sing it. I feel no more pain either. It's so weird, uh. As weird as my illness." Kemon laughed. "Eh, where is that song from?"

"My own song. I made it."

"Wow, great!! But something strange i have felt like this: an old man who visited me last moment said, i could be cured if i had written 10 thousand words of poetry. Now it has reached 9997."

"Wawawawawawaitttt, this old man might be the one who told me that i had to come to the house at side of this river."

"How's he like?" Being so curious, Kemon moved closer.

"What i noticed, he always said, ' juzz'."

"Definitely, that's him! The old man who visited me also said 'juzz'."

"Impossible!" yelled the burly girl.

Kemon and Bubibu supported her emotion by being, again, flabbergasted.

"But you need more three words, C'mon?"

"Ehmm..," Kemon had still nothing in  his head for it. "By the way, what's your name?"

"Mari, my name is Marivianuketalo. And you?" Mari still could not believe that Kemon (sounds C'mon) is a real name.

"Kemon, just Kemon, but my friend has complete name, Kita Bubibu."

"So, this is an idea. Use our names for finishing your poetry to be 10 thousands."

"Great idea! Then my last three words of my poetry are Mari-Kita-Kemon."

Finally those three creatures were in friendship forever.

Information: The phrase "Mari kita kemon" for Indonesian people is a parole that has same meaning with "let's go". It has been used for trend, this sounds funny and entertaining. Some movie might have made this so popular and widely used, but nowadays those words have been replaced by "capcus".