“Cuma KTP”

Ada-ada saja memang kelakar para pejabat di negeri ini, perkataan mereka terkadang kerap memunculkan tawa bagi pendengarnya. Entah itu karena spontanitas mereka yang senang melucu atau karena tekanan beban kerja sehingga membuat mereka mencari “suasana baru sebagai penurun ketegangan.”

Demikian halnya dengan Menteri Keuangan Sri Mulyani Indrawati dan Gubernur DKI Jakarta Fauzi Bowo. Dalam kesempatan acara penandatanganan Naskah Perjanjian Penerusan Hibah (NPPH) untuk proyek Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) antara Depkeu dan Pemda Provinsi DKI Jakarta, Rabu (25/03). Dalam sambutannya, kedua pejabat pemerintahan ini mengeluarkan statement yang membuat hadirin tertawa.

The Farmer and his Horse

There is an old farmer who had an old horse for tilling his fields. One day the horse escaped into the hills and when all the farmer’s neighbors sympathized with the old man over his bad luck, the farmer replied, “Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?”

A week later the horse returned with a herd of wild horses from the hills and this time the neighbors congratulated the farmer on his good luck. Then, when the farmer’s son was attempted to tame one of the wild horses, he fell off and broke his leg. Everyone thought this very bad luck. Not the farmer, whose only reaction was, “Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?”