What had Mirabelle in mind?

Mirabelle just received confirmation about Tina's and Chandni's schedule arriving in her island. That morning, after the news, Mirabelle plunged herself into thoughts and figured out the plan how her two foreign friends would spend their holiday. She thought of something different, unusual. It was end of the year holiday season when many people prefer to have long Christmas and New Year vacation and that would leave many companies less employees, so much as monetary circulations need to be maintained. An idea came to Mirabelle, why not have a partime work adventure, yet what or which and where. That was excitingly interesting, but first of all she should book a place for them.

To obtain a nice accommodation for her friends, she surfed in the Internet and found a place which she hoped would please them.

Then her mind went back to the idea of bringing along her foreign friends into an adventure. Maybe as  co-animators or bartenders in a music-pub or maybe sales-representatives in a mall... Mirabelle sneered at her own ideas. She visualized her friends in those situations. It would definitely be fun! And they would be able to exchange their holiday wages with some beautiful Mauritian souvenirs. And Mirabelle also thought of dressing them up in Sega dance costume and taking them to a beach party to dance around a New Year's Eve bonfire. That would be marvelously nice.

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Tina's feasibility study into business (4)

With Edward's assistance Tina succeeded in registering her shop. When she started a topic on the interior designs, Edward reminded her that she should start to apply for the operation permit, and she had to draw her budgets and inventory, and not forgetting the banking relations and affairs as well as taxes. Smiling Edward reminded her about her drop-shipping activities, apart from being a dressmaker, too,  that she hardly thought about paying taxes, now that she had a shop, it was a real business with taxes to pay involved.

Making big money through that line was not really promising, Edward told her. but since Tina's passion was there, so let it be. Tina's watched Edward talking. Anyone would laugh seeing Tina's expression. After sometime, Tina told Edward that her head had started spinning, and she guessed that she would need his assistance quite a lot. Then she suggested that they should go somewhere for lunch and then dropped by a bookstore to buy  several fashion catalogs.

 

As they walked, Edward saw this and he whistled, Tina slapped his arm ^o^ 

Tina's extremely hot day

Sunday, a sunny day. In the month of July, the sun shines brightly over the equator that crosses Indonesia, and Jakarta, a quite advance city with surplus concrete sky-scrapers add to the heat.

Tina got up a bit late to the rings of her phone. That was her daddy, yelling in her ear. He reprimanded Tina of not informing him about her business plans. Her daddy found out from his friend who happened to be one of Edward's firm employees. Like all jet-sets children, she was as stubborn as her father. She said that she lived her life as would like it to be. She hung up on him.

Still in trance, she figured out what her Sunday would be. Then "ting...tong.." on her computer. Checked it, gosh... she forgot completely about this girl, a Mauritian girl, Mirabelle. Mirabelle was one of her best contact, but for the last two months, she'd forgotten about her. Mirabelle lived in the northern part of the country, so she said.

A chat went on, Mirabelle sent her some lovely pictures of her country's treasures. Tina was happy, in return, she also sent some of her treasures to Mirabelle.

beach pareos from Mauritius

are colorful and beautiful

Javanese wooden puppets from Indonesia

have many characters, mostly are Ramayana characters

After exchanging conversation, Mirabelle invited Tina to come pay a visit to her country and Tina promised to have fun with her in that far away land.

Tina's feasibility study into business (2)

It was a bright day, Tina started deriving lists of the matters to be discussed with her friend, Edward or Eddy, who worked as a business consultant. She called him on the phone and told him briefly about the matters, subject and objective of their discussion regarding her plan.

Edward suggested that they should meet and Tina invited him to her residence located somewhere in the Cengkareng area not very far from the  international airport. It was a quite classy apartment.

Tina prepared everything, including some refreshments. And she stepped into some comfortable outfit

She said to herself dressing up like this in the hot big city of Jakarta would be very comfy. Edward came half an hour before three o'clock in the afternoon bringing a prospectus. That day Tina started her plan.