Pak Lebai was an old man living in a village by the
river. Everyday, he used his sampan for travelling at the river. Pak
Lebai had a bad habit. He always changed his mind before he did
something. He was an inconsistent man. One day, Pak Lebai was invited to
a party by his neighbor. Pak lebai was happy. He loved party because he
could eat delicious food. He also could get a buffalo's head from the
party. Still on the same day, he got another invitation. Those two party
invitations made him confused. The two parties were held at the same
time, but at different places. The two neighbors who invited him lived
in different sides of the river. One neighbor lived on the east side and
the other one lived in the west side. "If I go to the west side, I will
only get one buffalo’s head. If I go to the east side, I can have two
heads of buffalo. But the host at the west side is friendlier,” he said
to himself. He was confused.
On the following day, Pak Lebai
paddled his sampan to the party at the west side of the river. But then
he changed his mind and went to the east side. On the way there, he met
with some friends. "The party is awful. There are not many buffalo's
heads," said one of them. So, Pak Lebai turned back his sampan again and
went to the west side. Unfortunately, the party was already over when
he arrived there. Pak Lebai immediately paddled his sampan to the east
side again. But he also missed the party.
Pak Lebai was upset and blaming
himself for being so inconsistent. He was so hungry and tired because he
was padding back and forth in the river. He then fell asleep in his
sampan. He did not realize that his sampan was drifting away at the
river. When he woke up, he was already in the different village. That’s
why all his neighbors started to call him Pak Lebai Malang (poor mister
Lebai).***
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