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When do you feel it’s time to act? When time allows.

When does time allow? When we are ready.

When are we ready? When we have strong determination.

When do we have strong determination? When we have strong grounds.

When do we have strong grounds? When all reasons are well collected.

When? When the Universe gives us a click.

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Singapore – January 25, 2015 – 10:12pm

Listen

Sometimes you are tired of listening to friends who keep saying they are tired of walking down their life path.
Sometimes you are bored of listening to people who keep thinking they are the unluckiest ones on earth.
Sometimes you are just wondering what those people are talking about and you just say “uh-uh” at the end of every sentence they say.
Sometimes you are just smiling at the end of the table to confirm that they just want to be heard and not really care whether you are really listening or not.

That’s fine….
Life is about enjoying.
So, let’s enjoy the listening part.
Open the ears wide, and more than that HEART wide to suffice what those people are craving: to be listened, to be care.
Because they feel abandoned in their own life, in their own self…. Without realizing that they are feeling that way.

But, willingness doesn’t come easy. It sometimes gets dragged aside by weak body and heavy days…. So, forgive yourself for not listening to every whining and complaining….

Oh…. What a beautiful life! What a beautiful journey! I think I know why I am here.

If only I can tell them to listen to their own selves.

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Penang – January 21, 2015 – 4:46am

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I Do What I Believe Is Right

When I was a teacher years ago, I didn’t stop telling my students that all deeds are based on our intention and our intention is based on our belief. “Never stop asking yourself whether or not what you believe is right,” said I at that time. And, I’ve got tested every now and then — I guess the Universe wants to show us that I walk the talk.

And, yes. I walk the talk. I do believe what I believe is right, with reserve. Challenging our own belief is kinda routine task scheduled in life. With that, I don’t bother anymore what people are saying about what I’m doing or even what or who I am. This is a good life to travel and this path is already set, planned in the space somewhere by the Core of the Universe…. Why bother by fellow traveler?

I’m not a teacher anymore and recently I’ve been tested by a fact that some people are just sucking energy like vampire sucks the blood. Don’t worry, they are not that powerful. They suck, but weakly — not as strong as they think they are. They think they suck your “blood”, your “real life spirit” to dry but actually they only suck the “sweat”, the daily emotion that act as rubbish of our day. So, the best treatment for those suckers is only one: just smile and play seriously….

Play seriously? Yups, don’t entertain them. Just treat them as friends who have nobody to share and cry for bucket to puke all their stress of life. Not seldom they would try to make you jealous (to them or to others) or angry by sending you stories or news…. But, that is the worst scenario. They just need your attention so give it to them. And, I believe it is right — paying attention is right!   🙂

It is weekend and ‘ve got laundry to clean up so nothing much I can do to entertain those kinds of things. Ignore.

Again, I do what I believe is right and ‘m gonna keep doing it till I think I don’t believe what I am doing is right. Nothing to explain to the outer world.

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Dinner with a bunch of workaholic and global trekkers 

Singapore – January 17, 2015 – 12:35am

Beautiful Greek & Handsome Greg

It is not Greek from the Europe.

She is our beautiful Greek and our handsome Greg – two cats our ours raised by my family.

The most beautiful girl and handsomest guy in our humble abode….

One female and one male felines that share their happiness and joy with us in life.

Greek, thanks for your cheerful hello when we get up, for your quick snatch when we throw the rope, for innocent look when we don’t give you enough, for your touch with the fur when you want even more rubs, for everything making us smile and (pretend to be) upset….

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Mew…. Your soft voice, Greek….

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Saw her and her caretaker last holiday

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Meow! Wow, stronger voice: that is Greg, the one replacing Bob

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enjoying day after lunch

Greg, now one-eyed has been a tough guy in our family – his right eye was attacked by virus and late treated. He’s been with us since Bob was still here.

Greg behaves calmer than Greek. He won’t hop or jump or run in front of me. He is just sitting, licking his whole body over, mewing strongly and more loudly. And, he eats more easily even finishes Greek’s leftover. They have different plates for sure but the same bowl of water.

Greg doesn’t sleep at home. He is a tom and strays around at night for female feline; he stays home when it rains very heavily — dining chair is his favourite. Greek is staying home almost 60% of her day — sometimes at the porch, beds, chairs, corner of mom’s study.

Both are loved as loved as the human around…. And be thanked as thanked as the whole Universe….

Thanks for the humans around who take care of them        🙂

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under the shade of drying frame

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Bob, the grand predecessor 🙂

Singapore – January 11, 2015 – 2:10pm

Why I am not Charlie

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imagesThere is no “but” about what happened at Charlie Hebdo yesterday. Some people published some cartoons, and some other people killed them for it.  Words and pictures can be beautiful or vile, pleasing or enraging, inspiring or offensive; but they exist on a different plane from physical violence, whether you want to call that plane spirit or imagination or culture, and to meet them with violence is an offense against the spirit and imagination and culture that distinguish humans. Nothing mitigates this monstrosity. There will be time to analyze why the killers did it, time to parse their backgrounds, their ideologies, their beliefs, time for sociologists and psychologists to add to understanding. There will be explanations, and the explanations will be important, but explanations aren’t the same as excuses. Words don’t kill, they must not be met by killing, and they will not make the killers’ culpability go away.

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Lezat!

Lezat itu bukan tentang rasa makanan. Lezat lebih berhubungan dengan kekuatan lidah mencecap rasa. Menurutku sayur rebung (dengan santan dan bumbu lodeh) lezat luar biasa walaupun gaya memasaknya mungkin tidak berkenan di hati saya.

Mie…. Segala macam mie tidak langsung saya anggap lezat kecuali ketika aku amat sangat kangen indomie (sebut merk, ha ha ha….) atau seperti sekarang ini: pengen mie tek tek…..

Alhasil, saya ke Indobox lagi di ION Orchard biar bisa makan “mee tek tek”. Ini hidangan berlabel “Chef’s Recommendation” tapi saya kasih grade “Im-palate Recommendation” alias horaaaa huenaaaak….

Again, bukan soal rasa melainkan indera perasa…..

Semua maya 😂

English version to come…..

Singapura – 9 Januari 2015 – 7:05pm

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Into The Nature

Happiness and joy are represented by those two children playing in the rice field. Running and laughing, chasing each other in the sloping road…. Framed by terraced land of paddy, roofed with blue sky, and founded on the strong brown soil they enjoy their early journey of life.

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Oka and Asti

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Catch me if you can, Mbak Asti….

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Grinning Oka

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Smiling Asti

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Pretty ladybird

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Nephew and aunt

Temasek – January 9, 2015 – 1:02am

2015 – A Simple Resolution

Resolution 2015? Ooooh lala…. Once forgotten, let’s do it now!

What do I project?

  1. All assignments – well done
  2. Clearer understanding about myself
  3. More relaxed and cheerful
  4. Consistently writing

That’s it? Those four are the big points, smaller are flowing, following those main topics.

Today, Getting back to Singapore, getting back to work — a bunch of work.

Bismillaah….

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among the wine, holding tea

Temasek – January 4, 2015 – 10:48pm

International Airport But….

I’m such a nagging grandma ha ha…. Please allow me to….

I’m in Juanda International Airport (terminal 2) Surabaya (East Java), a new one…. I’ve been in this site several times and kinda a bit disappointed with the facility.

They don’t have money changer, man….. When I asked “how come no money changer?”, they would say “Oh, it’s new….” as a giant excuse but it won’t work for me. And, today’s experience was definitely not first of mine; I told them to have one earlier this year (which were also asked by many people). And, they still don’t change. They asked me to go to terminal 1.

International? Do they  seriously expect tourist and foreign business people to come in? So, what did they analyze of what the tourists need when arriving in an international airport?

They would tell you there’s a bank behind the ATM centre; and there you would be every disappointed with the rate. Today’s rate in the bank headquarters is  IDR9,393.66 per SGD1 but the bank give much lower than that. And, what made me so upset the lady manager told me that it is today’s Bank Indonesia’ rate when I asked what rate they were using. Wow! Are you trying to cheat this TKW (tenaga kerja wanita = female foreign worker)? And, when I called my friend in Jakarta to check that bank’s today’s rate, the lady revised her statement – this time she said “We are actually using pur own rate, madam”. Another gent manager came to tell me more firmly about the exchange rate thing but I did not entertain him. I just asked for that manager’s mobile number with my poker face without listening to his lecturing about banking and told the tellers to proceed the transaction.

I just said bluntly, “Please answer my question honestly, madam and sir. I’m your customer and you don’t try to pull my legs. Just for one hundred dollar?”

This is part of what I don’t like about my beloved country, Indonesia Raya. Some people are taking any possible way to earn and it is also done by some people called service providers. Bank is one of service provider, man….

If it happened two years ago, I might have said nothing in front of those people ‘coz I think they have good reasons and they have every single right to tell their shit then deep down in heart I would forgive them without traces. But not now…. You say bad things or do bad things to me, I put a line of tally somewhere in the space to count how good the Universe is at Math.

I’ve changed; yes, I have. Never underestimate what I have and what I’ve done well anymore. You can think of however you like to think about me but I don’t care. I will do whatever I like if I know it’s right. That’s it — I rest my case.

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Suroboyo – December 23, 2014 – 1:53pm

Gifts From Nature

Gift is everywhere, reflected by the heart as mirror reflecting shadows. How clear this heart is? See these pictures and find if there’s gift presented by nature.

Rainbow arch

Slides down to earth,

Pouring colors

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Prawn spruce in a golf court in Cupertino, California

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Betel leave in Tulungagung, Indonesia

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Banana field with farmer couple in Lumajang, Indonesia

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Green on green with an inserted red, Singapore

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Snail on a walk path, Singapore

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Green fountain in Tulungagung, Indonesia

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Fungi on tree trunk, Aloon-aloon Tulungagung

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Blooming grass flower in Nagoya, Japan

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We call it “bungur china” flower, flower shot in Nagoya

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Mushroom on the tree, Nagoya

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What flower is it Nagoya presented? Such beauty in mini….

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A dove is cooing just below my window, greeting me with warm friendly regards from nature,

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Not sure what they’re named but they are in Changi International Airport….

Happy Holiday, All! 

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Temasek – December 21, 2014 – 5:15

Here In Shanghai (haiku)

The chilling wind,

White jacket wraps inner layers —

With rose tea.

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Me, Sharon, Connie in a winter conversation in Shanghai accompanied by a jug of rose tea

Pudong SRL – December 18, 2014 – 7:24am

Ready For Boarding

Everyday is like a flight, ready for boarding then safe flight and landing smoothly. Otherwise, the flight is cancelled for operational or any other reasons. But, who wants day cancellation? As it means the life is shortened by the last breath taken.

I’ll be away again, kinda back to back trip that makes the eyes see how swift the age is scrolled. How immediate the shuttle is picking me up. What has been prepared but the readiness to depart…..

Changi to Shanghai, December 14, 2014 – 8:35am

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The Birds

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Goura Cristata (crown dove)

These birds —

They never sing false notes. Humans slip their tongues now and then.

Where did the birds learn to sing? How did they master the sounds without flaw?

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A silent crow

Oye, Birds…. Would you tell her? Would you teach him?

To sing beautifully, to talk flawlessly?

Or, at least I using the real voice of theirs…. Be it chirping, be it crowing, be it cooing…. So be it, as long as it’s their real languages.

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Three geese at the lake

Temasek – December 10, 2014 – 2:55am

Where Are You?

In my names, oh no.

In my birthdays, oh no.

In my bodies, oh no.

In my sizes, oh no.

In my families, oh no.

In my pets, oh no.

In my friends, oh no.

In my jobs, oh no.

In my dedications, oh no.

In my hobbies, oh no.

In my blogs? No….

In my….. Where am I?

Where am I? I’d been wandering around the worlds to find where I am but nowhere to find…. Now, here I stop to find my self….

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Temasek – November 9, 2014 – 11:49pm

Explain, please? No, Thanks!

People need others to understand what is going on, it is normally in interview or interrogation room. You’ll explain what’s your expertise, or why you are here, or what you expect people to know about what you’re doing. And, you’ll explain when explaining it will get the work done. Aside from that, no explanation is mandatory.

If you think what you are doing now need others’ understanding, it is not totally correct. Sometimes it is only feeling detecting one’s being guilty of having people misunderstood or totally lost about what is happening to us. No worries. The show must go on — as you wish. It’s your life, it’s your choice to do whatever is required to get your life DONE. As long as you don’t disturb others’ life — others are others, any other creatures.

Don’t let yourself like either the ostrich or the zebra in my below picture. Either or them is enjoying their life. The ostrich might think the zebra is annoying — I don’t think so because before this scene the zebra was with the rest of its group enjoying the green fresh grass until the ostrich got crazy breaking the zebra lot. The other zebras just went aside to another corner of the grass, while this one zebra was going around and around entertaining the ostrich…. Are they enjoying? The ostrich was, the zebra was freaking out!!!

So, the best thing is enjoying and starting to stop feeling guilty. People should be busy with themselves instead of bothering others.

Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.

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Temasek – December 6, 2014 – 3:38pm

Yaa Latief

And when the big wave of sadness and outrage linger in my soul, I start to whisper Thy name….

Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief …..

So that I can melt them away, to become positive energy that warm those helpless animals and underprivileged people in this cold night.

Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief Yaa Latief

To dearest Bob, Agam, Lorenz, Ucil, and all…..

Temasek, December 2, 2014 – 2:23

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Inspiring Steve Jobs Quotes on Passion, Life and Technology

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Steve Jobs changed the world.

Most of us enjoy his legacy every day, but what more we can do is learn from what he had to say, read his thoughts on important stuff and try to think about it, pay attention to what truly matters and see life, death, time and technology through his eyes.

Here are some of the deepest, wittiest and wisest things Steve Jobs has said about the world we live in:

  1. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
  2. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you…

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I thought

I thought of living as human peacefully, without thinking of how other creatures spend their time and place – that’s it.

I thought animals are only subordinates living being….

But now I change my mind. Both human beings and animals are living thing, the fellow earthlings. Plants are also the same. I respect them and love them equally, living peacefully is not the ultimate goal. My goal is to live peacefully IN HARMONY….

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Scooby the dear beagle and me

Temasek – November 0, 2014 – 6:34pm

Ketika Semua Bersahabat

Ketika saya kecil persahabatan begitu biasa terjalin, seperti bukan sesuatu yang suit dijalankan. Semua orang adalah sahabat, teman seperjalanan. Tak banyak musuh, bahkan kepelikan perasaaan terhadap orang yang perbuatannya dianggap menyakiti hati hanya berlangsung sesaat, kemudian berteman kembali.

Tidak hanya itu, dengan binatang pun persahabatan juga biasa. Anjing, kucing, ayam, menthok, marmut, kelinci, monyet, wedhus, sapi, kebo, jaran, iwak, macan rembah, luwak, gajah, macan belang, kidang, celeng, dan lain-lain semua berkeliaran di habitatnya tanpa manusia tergoda untuk menggangu kedamaian mereka hidup seadanya dari belas-kasih khalifah di bumi, manusia. Hanya kadang saja ketika alam ini telah mengijinkan maka beberapa dari para binatang yang sudah “cukup umur” itu diminta untuk menyumbangkan usia keberkahannya — buat acara selamatan yang tak sering terjadi.

Tapi sekarang….. Alangkah beratnya menjalin pertemanan. Sedikit terpeleset saja membuat status di FB, BB atau posting di blog, bisa-bisa di-block  dari posting-posting tertentu atau dari lamannya atau bahkan dari melihatnya sama sekali. Itulah dunia maya, harus penuh dengan kehati-hatian dalam mengekspresikan diri. Jika salah sedikit dan pas dilihat oleh hati yang sedang sensi maka akan runyam. Ya sudah lah.

Dalam dunia nyata juga…. Kalau tidak hati-hati berstrategi dalam berkomunikasi bisa-bisa disalahpahami juga. Hidup ini memang penuh lika-liku pelajaran.

Dan, binatang pun mendapat imbasnya. Manusia yang semakin hari semakin egos ternyata juga menjadi tidak hanya tidak percaya pada sesamanya akan tetapi juga pada binatang yang tak berdaya. Binatang sudah jadi alat bagi manusia untuk memperkaya diri, tidak hanya mensejahterakan diri saja. Mereka memakan anjing, ular, bahkan kucing, ayam tiap hari, babi tiap hari…. Wis pokoknya makan protein hewani itu wajib hukumnya supaya energinya cukup. Dan eksploitasi pada binatang juga banyakt erjadi. Banyak — dan saya nggak punya nyali untuk menceritakannya di sini. Animal abuse is just everywhere!

Byuh…..  Pergeseran budaya. Dulu makan daging hanya pada saat-saat tertentu saja, sekarang pagi siang sore bisa makan. Dulu gajah paling pol disuruh main acrobat — which is udah agar eksploitasi sebenernya — tapi sekarang gajah dijerat, disandera biar bisa minta ransom duit ke pemerintah; kalau enggak ya dibiarin tanpa makan mati kelaparan atau bahkan diracun. Manusia keparat!

Duit, duit, duit!

Duit penting, kalau nggak ada suit ya nggak bisa fully settled jaman sekarang apalagi di kota besar. Otak manusia udah diokupasi oleh industrialisasi, semua maunya disulap jadi duit.

Industrialisasi ini telah terbukti membuat manusia telah lupa bahwa bumi ini bukan hanya untuk dihabiskan melainkan lebih dari itu untuk disejahterakan, dipelihara kemudian nantinya akan dipersembahkan kepada “yang nitip” dalam keadaan paling tidak sama indahnya seperti dulu.

Kalau saja bisa kupeluk orang-orang malang itu dan binatang-binatang malang itu — yang telah menjadi alat politic dari para manusia yang perutnya nggak selesai-selesai teriak “more, more more” kecuali udah dibantalin dempu (bola dari tanah), akan kulakukan dengan tanganku tidak hanya dengan jiwaku…. Kusebarkan energy cintaku pada kalian, bola pink penuh cinta mengitari semesta!!!

Duh gustiku…. Sayangilah kami….

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Makati SRL, 1117 – November 26, 2014 – 1:04am

Maru and Hana

Just logged in to youtube and found that mugumogu uploaded another video of Maru and Hana just three hours ago. This pet owner has uploaded many of Maru the cat and Hana, Maru came earlier and Hana joined the gang just recently. Seems that mugumogu treats those cats like her own kids.

Those two cats have brought joy to this life, showed humans how fellow creatures should live together in harmony, enjoyed now&here to the fullest. Not easy (for me for sure) but it’s doable.

Here is the latest post meant…

Makati SRL, November 23, 2014 – 5:56pm

 

Coloring Mandala – Haiku

I’ve been coloring mandalas in a book entitled Coloring Mandala 4 For Confidence, Energy, and Purpose by Susanne F. Fincher. It’s fun, really fun. And while coloring the mandalas, my imagination is unlimitedly wandering around my cosmic awareness. My fingers become relaxed as much as my mind is….

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Swirling pencils

Push me to a colorful valley —

Submerged in joy.

Some of the colored mandalas, please enjoy….

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Singapore – November 22, 2014 – 12:42am