Have a good weekend!
Burnt Hair
Here is the long wait!
Here is the curiosity potion!
Here is the Burnt Hair!
😁
a message sent to me on Apr 24 when I was in my mother’s house, from a shipping company – could not recall what I purchased as not much shopping these days
today I picked it up when arriving home – what is it, what is it, said I curiously
ahhh!!! I purchased Elon Musk’s perfume, the Burnt Hair on Oct 14, 2022
the longest wait of a PO to be shipped in my life 😂
it is almost like burnt hair smell – maybe this is the smell of Elon Musk’s burnt hair 😂
does it worth the wait? hmmm…. for my curiosity yes, not for my olfactory system 😹
at least I have his product, not Tesla though 😎
Preference
It's a preferred life,
Not a perfect one. Not much,
And she's fine.
—
45R is one of my preferred brands (doesn’t mean i buy a lot of its products though) – its good material is preferred, its most designs are not as they are to me “very foreign” ☺️
Navigated
She's navigated
By stars that cluster in shapes.
They're glowing maps.
—
remarkable aspect of manta ray behavior is their ability to navigate across vast distances
a friend who didn’t meet for quite some time met me again in Hanoi and brought me this manta ray for my bag
she said she will invite me soon to her wedding 😍
thank you❣️
About manta ray
Light upon Light
I've opened curtains,
Layers of curtains
Curtains of light;
Lifting layer by layer of the dark,
Distinguishing hues in stacked of spectrums
Then
Here
You are
Converting this believing
To this knowing.
It's been
Light upon light.
—
His light is like a niche in which there is a lamp, the lamp is in a crystal, the crystal is like a shining star, lit from the oil of a blessed olive tree, located neither to the east nor the west, whose oil would almost glow, even without being touched by fire. Light upon light!….
(The Light, 35)
Learning from Tarot
I realise that I am a meaning seeker and I seek meaning in anything interested to me.
I seek meaning in the holy Books, in my own self, in nature, in literary works, in work of art and even in Tarot cards.
I don’t regret my failures of putting the right meanings to things as they’ve brought me here.
Thank you❣️
Four of Cups
⬇️
many lament over life as if they have no love ignoring a hand offering love 😁 what an irony!
thanks to my dear self who has found a pinch of self love in the journey – not perfect yet, hope it be before the end of this journey
Experience
Nothing's right or wrong
To experience this life.
Hey! Judgement applies.
—
fish with veggies and rice paper (paper rice?) — green is always the best part in Vietnamese cuisine
not suitable for one, should invite a friend next time
not professionally, very slowly for satisfactory experience
Fresh and Unique
I wish you a fresh air
That brings coolness in a hot day,
And lullabies me in a cold night.
I wish you a unique vibe
That loves me romantically,
And beautifies yourself naively.
—
banana flower salad — fresh and beautiful
young rice ice cream only in autumn ☺️ — unique and cool
Cảm ơn, Hanoi 🙏🏼
What Is Happening
What is happening
When trust and distrust collide?
A second big bang--
—
back to Hanoi – VN is happening ☺️ making my cheeks rounder and rounder 😂
Pink Petals
Pink petals falling,
Showering two tiny hands
Under bluish dome
—
Himeji, I’ll be back next year 😍
Dream
This dream doesn't end
Until cherry blossom falls
On a black forest
—
black forest
The Fool
This fool
Is learning
Through
Humming and
Walking with a friend and
Greeting fun adventures and
Kissing the flowers and the air.
Hello,
Fool.
Be sweet life!
—
one of my best friends is a prominent tarot master in Ubud, whose reading always reminds me that I am The Fool — thank you, De Nov ❣️
Sweet
Sweet life
Is
A glass of yogurt
And sticky leave
In Hanoi
—
street food night in Hanoi ♥️ the yogurt is so sweet, tak boleh tahan….
Hari Raya Idul Fitri
from Hanoi with a bunch of blessings and forgiveness
Eid Mubarak
❣️
Lost? Found!
Losing is a sign,
A sign to either find,
Or let it go off the mind.
All is fine.
—
i lost my Airpod case with one earset in it; not panicky as losing or forgetting small things is my middle name — not in the bag, sure not at taxi as bag was never unzipped in the ride — i sent email to the hotel saying that my Airpod with one earset left was in the room — yes! it was found and safe kept — see you next month! 😂
A Little Frog
A little frog leaps
Across ocean in a pail.
Clean water splashes.
—
ranunculus, the little frogs ☺️
Chair
Some people choose flowers,
Some ice cream,
Some either as the chair is the glazed pleasure,
Not what's before.
—
there is a chair behind flowers, there is a chair behind ice cream — which chair do you want to sit on?
In Javanese culture chair symbolizes status, authority, power.
The chair can also be compared with someone who gives one’s lap for sitting that symbolizes comfort, indulgence.
Seems like those two are different but both can give the same quality of life either positively or negatively.
When someone gives you comfort as if you are everything, yes you might be everything but that person at the same time is controling your status, your authority, control your power — making you a puppet graciously. Graciously at least, you said.
There is a Javanese adage “wong yen wis dipangku mesthi mati” that can mean “put someone on your lap and s/he will die”.
Pangku or pangkon is one device in Javanese script to “close”, to “kill” a “root consonant” at the end of a word. When an alphabet is followed by a pangkon device, it will turn to a closed consonant, a “dead” end.
pangkon: the Javanese alphabet that provides lap to a root consonant and closes or kills it 😍
e.g.: how “harusa”, “makana”, “minuma”, “bapaka”, “rudala” and “kusuta” are turned to “harus”, “makan”, “minum”, “bapak”, “rudal” and “kusut” by a indulging pangkon
Congratulations. You’ve got a chair. You’ve sat on a comfortable lap. You are the master of a universe. Yet remember, the chair can topple down, the lap is just a part of an individual who has mind– the master mind that governs you. You lose without truthfully winning. 💕
I see just a chair. With flowers. Or with ice cream. Or with both. Or without any. Both sweet through different senses, enticing for comfort. For just a glance. For just a sniff. For just a lick. For just a second. And then blended with a familiar taste name “just now”, a dead end before now.
A chair is a past tense adorned by a hope.
Dear, Life. Thanks much for the endless love. I need no chair except the mountain under the white cloud. I need no lap but breathing this fresh air. And how much ever I want someone or something, I will never take them from their chairs or their laps. Let them be empowered or expelled there — it is their best place. Be peaceful❣️
Let me be with those sitting on no chair but the lap of a naked soul. ❣️
Thank you, dear mother tongue. Even your Phonetics and Phonology bear insight and wisdom.
Thank you, my twisted-cum-twisting mind.
Never Matters, No More
It doesn't matter
Wherever I am.
I can find all
The air breathed,
The water flowing,
The fire flickering,
The wind swirling,
The earth stepped on,
The night falling,
The morning rising,
The day counting
The breathing towards
What's here and now.
No destination matters
As all is about this.
—
the best is now and here
Fool Me Once (Netflix)
Good thriller to watch on Sunday. British English is my favourite.
Enjoy yoir weekend!
Decorated
Outside boundary
You're silently blooming wild,
Decorating life.
—
thank you for silently decorating my day — wild flower outside the fence 💕
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