Chapter 3 A Friendship

Daeng City is famous for its culinary tourism with a variety of seafood around Losari Beach. When exploring on several roads such as Jl. Datumuseng, Jl. G. Latimojong and others, in the afternoon we met a lot of sellers of epek banana carts with a variety of flavors ranging from durian, chocolate, cheese

This afternoon Al is driving his All New Civic sedan along the entertainer road to the Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport, because today his best friend and co-worker will arrive in Makassar with the aim of doing a market audit to see the market share before their company's new product is launched.

When he just entered the toll gate, Al's iPhone rang indicating an incoming call with a name he knew so well on the touch screen of his cellphone.

"Hello, have you arrived yet?" Al asked as he picked up the phone

"Yoi bro, are you going to pick me up or not?" ask Al's friend on the phone called Nostra

Nostra Ajie Prasetyo aka Nos from Bandung is one of the leaders of the success of PT. Tiga Mandiri Perkasa Tbk, which in the past 5 years has worked in the Distributor Company field, is quite successful in mastering market distribution in the field of Home & Personal Care products.

Nostra currently serves as Sales & Marketing Director (SMD) and is responsible for everything related to sales to trade, negotiable with principal, market distribution, A&P Brand products and others.

"I'll be there in a minute," Al answered then finally hung up the phone and rushed to increase the speed of his car to the airport.

When he arrived at the airport, Al immediately went to the arrivals door, and from a distance he saw Mr. Nos look around look at the car or the person who will pick him up

"Woi kang, sorry for being late," said Al who parked his car right in front of Nostra then immediately got out of his car and approached Nostra to ask him to get into his car.

"Widih Plat is cool bro, 4 YP like your name Al," said Nostra when Al's car was in front of him

"It's an old car, bro," Al answered briefly

Al's black Civic leaves the airport for the city.

"Makassar is quite developed, Al," said Nostra after seeing the current condition of Makassar City

"Yup, bro, that's why I want to open White Spice here, because the eastern part of Indonesia is currently developing," said Al.

"Hmm, can work matters be discussed later or not? So where are we?" ask Nostra

"Go home first, bro, say hello first," replied Al

"Okay, well, is there anything exciting here tonight?" ask Nostra again

As usual the hobby of a Nostra really likes the world of night entertainment, and as if he already knows what his best friend wants, Al just shakes his head remembering his friend's behavior

"Let's go to D'Liquid later, bro," replied Al

"What the hell, I'll be browsing for a while," said Nostra, who immediately opened the iPad application to browse nightlife spots in Makassar.

"Come on, call Lara first, don't you miss your best friend, bro?" ask Al

"Why do I miss the child, at least he is busy with the numbers on the monitor screen," Nos replied with a grin.

Lara Yudhistira or better known as Lara or L is one of Al's other friends and also one of the leaders of PT. Tiga Mandiri Perkasa, Tbk who currently holds the position of Finance Accounting Director (FAD), they have been trying hard to build their business from scratch.

And under the leadership of Al with his cool hands was able to prove that 3MP is able to compete with other large distributor companies in the country.

Suddenly Nostra's cellphone rang, signaling an incoming call from the person they had just talked about.

"Long live, son," said Nos.

"Hey Lara, right?" asked Al who was curious

"Really boss," replied Nos who immediately picked up the phone.

"What's up bro?" Nostra said after the phone was connected

"Have you arrived?" ask L from the other side

"Here again with the boss Al," replied Nostra

"Hahahaha .... Boss of your eyes," Al squeaked

"Tell him, while he is still in Makassar, Citra, let me take care of him... Hahahaha," said L.

"Al, Citra wants to be accompanied by Donjuan," said Nostra, glancing at Al.

"If he manages to seduce Citra, well, go ahead Hahaha," Al replied with a laugh

"I'm afraid that Al and your brother will be the champion of Judo in Jakarta again, in a moment I'll be battered with him... Hahaha," L answered when Nos loaded his cellphone speaker.

"Hahaha, btw later, Al and I want to look for a cem, then I'll just WhatsApp you L," said Nos

"Njirr, I've never been to Makassar, when are you going to invite me too, Al," Lara said

"The problem is that you're an office child, L, well you have to make an excuse for me to visit the outer island," Al replied

"Well, if it's the boss who says that, I'll just be silent," Lara said resignedly

"Yes, L, greetings ma'am, the boss is the boss," said Nostra

plakk....

"You're crazy, Nos, your PA is too slow," said Al, who was grinning at Nos beside him.

"You think I'm not going with you, Al, but if your PA, Kim Jung, gives it to me, I won't refuse... Hahaha," L said, making them laugh at the same time remembering all the silliness they often discussed in between heavy discussions.

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Finally, when the waiter approached him, he whispered something about his interest in the DJ, then a small piece of paper was given by Nos who already had his cellphone number to give to the DJ.

It wasn't long before the waiters approached the DJ and seemed to be talking about something and handed him the small paper, then the DJ raised his hand to give the code to Nos and both of them smiled at each other indicating something would happen later.

Well, who doesn't know Nostra Ajie Prasetyo, whose name has often appeared in infotainment in the past year and even several magazines reported that a young Director who had succeeded in building a business from scratch with his two friends.

"Hi, sorry it took so long," the DJ finally approached them because it turned out that he had just rolled play with another DJ who was continuing his work.

"Hey, let's have a seat," Nostr replied and asked to sit next to him

"Dona," DJ Dona from Manado introduced himself to Nos and Al.l

"I'm Nostra, here's my boss Al," replied Nos shaking his hand introducing his name and Al

"Oh, Mas Al, aren't you looking for a friend?" Dona said rebuking Al who offered a lady but it seemed that Al was still busy watching Rindiani from a distance

"Wait a minute," ignoring Nos and Dona he immediately approached Rindiani

When approaching Rindiani, his two male friends were surprised and then tried to stand up.

"He's my sister, please let him go," said Al when he arrived at Rindiani's place

"Oh your sister, hahaha how dare you?" said one of the men who had disturbed Rindiani

"Hmm... Want to try a little?" said Al coolly serving the two men

Rindiani who saw Al immediately stood up and hugged him immediately

"Mr. Al, Uweekk, help Rindi," he said, hugging Al's hand tightly

From a distance, Nos saw that his friend was in trouble, so he approached them, basically Nostra's body, which was quite tall and handsome but relaxed with his Muay Thai martial art, was able to grab the man's collar without permission and grabbed his arm just as he was about to attack him.

"Before you're a dead person or my boss, it's better if you fight me, you idiot," said Nostra casually

"Arghhhh... Sorry bro, sorry... It hurts," said the man who had been twisted by Mr. Nostra

Just as the other friend was about to attack, suddenly Nostra's fist smacked him in the face before doing anything.

Buggg....

"Arghhhhh...."

"Leave this place or I will break one bone in your body," Nostra said coldly

"Hahaha... Kang still has the time to make small talk with them," said Al hearing Nos' words just now

It didn't take long for the two men to finally leave them out of fear.

"Are you okay?" asked Al when he asked Rindiani to go to his place

"Thank you sir, it's okay," replied Rindiani

"Are you going back or do you still want to hang out first?" ask Al again

"Just a little more, sir, Rindi is still annoyed with someone, that's why I want to comfort myself first," replied Rindiani.