Nicely Soaked

Nicely soaked in love
With flowing sweet intension
In a good morning

soaked in water in this Bali morning (7am) – a standing phone helped capture a moment nicely ♥️

jineng that becomes a gazebo at the pool; jineng is originally Balinese rice storage house

Angel

Angel, Beloved
Wraps me with hundreds of wings,
Showers me with light.

Angel Moon and Chris under confetti

Chris, Angel Moon and the person behind her

both pictures sent by a friend watching Coldplay from Rajamangala National Stadium, Bangkok – thank you❣️

Feel

Feeling, Beloved
Wraps a soul in ecstacy,
A heart in jollies

working from remote in Bali feels perfectly energetic to fully contribute to team ♥️ at the same time feels home

i need to renew my passport (changing it to e-passport) and so i can only do it in Indonesia — Bali it is

e-passport was done yesterday at ~3pm and now i continue working from this small Balinese bedroom until end of this week

The Joy of Small Things (book)

The small is
Hugely
Building me
Strong and
Sweet.

This that
I will embrace
To the
End.

This book is one of best reads in my life. If I am to write a book, it should feel this way. True, light and meaningful–

Life cannot be truer, lighter and more meaningful to me now.

Thank you!

one of books that make me fall in love with the you in me❣️ i am to write a review of it ♥️

Coincidence Is Blessing

Coincidently waking up
With light breath
And open eyes
In a good morning
That calls for
Another day.

Some don't know the feel
And it's just a coincidence
For me?
How fair life is!
How unfair life is!

Be blessed, dear.
Be blessed everyday
With the blessings
That come from
Every other way.

That coincidence often comes as blessings might have been ingrained in me, even more.

One Coldplay-big-fan friend said to me some time ago “If you have spare ticket for Coldplay in Singapore, please sell it to me.” He really wanted to watch Coldplay in many different places. Seems to him Coldplay has brought in a lot of good meanings into his life. Not denying this possibility, I have to admit the lyrics are powerful for those wanting to look deep in to their own selves.

I said “I will but it is a very thin chance knowing this band has tremendously massive lovers.”

Sorry, friend….

Yet one fine day in January one good friend from Jakarta texted me asking if he can let me buy two Jan 30’s Coldplay show tickets as he was “suddenly” assigned for a biz trip and would not make it to be in Singapore for the show. What a blow! This friend and his wife would have met me before or after the show so I was kind of upset to hear the news. Yet at the same time I remembered that one friend would be super excited to buy the tickets.

What a coincidence!

Long story short the Coldplay-big-fan friend agreed to buy two. He wanted to watch with his friend this time.

Some time after he agreed, he texted me again saying that his friend could not fly in for the show. Honestly I felt it was another coincidence as I was also thinking of going again – I found listening to “Biutyful” live was addictive to me. So, I asked if it was ok for me to buy the other ticket: Coincidently he agreed; he must have really wanted to watch with his special friend yet he welcomed me nicely.

excited in my 3rd watch! more? no, no, it was the last for the “Music of The Spheres World Tour”, now time to enjoy them back in Apple Music 😃

So, this time we watched from above. A very stunning view with all the well-arranged illumination and performance.

Another coincidence. My friend and I didn’t say anything about which tee to wear yet both of us happened to wear the same one: Coldplay 2023 Tokyo special edition design. Wow!

We both went crazy blended with others who were as crazy as us. I don’t know when I will meet him again after the show but I truly thank him for giving me a lesson that someone can love something (in his case a band) that he is capable of explaining almost all fun facts about the band that I didn’t even think exist. Memorizing all songs’ lyrics, knowing albums and EP contents, and so on and so forth! Thank you, KM-san! God bless you. 🙏🏼

I asked him how he could memorise all lyrics. His answer was annoyingly true “If you love something, you will remember.” Damn! I just realized forgetful is my middle name especially when dealing with passwords and where I put small stuff. 😂

Jan 31 was another merry day. My niece watched with her best friend and they stayed overnight in my home after that. Her friend is a journalist who knows how to access “Kampung Badui Kanekes” that I have dreamed of visiting. To my excitement he agreed to escort me to visit the unique ethnic group in Banten anytime I want to go. ♥️

Should I underestimate a coincidence? Or, actually there is no that that we call coincidence. It is just a lesson that we never clearly see and (hopefully) later will be well learnt.

Thank You!!!!

among all this is my favourite photo – Angel Moon❣️ BIUTYFUL!!!

favourite of mine ♥️

Happy You’re Alive

My second Coldplay show watching after Tokyo Dome.

This time I went with my best friend (who was with me in Tokyo Dome) and my brother’s sons who became our body guards.

So happy I am alive at the same time with you. So happy you’re alive!

Jan 27, 2024 – Singapore National Stadium

Mine The Life

Those who never get drunk
Of love
Will misunderstand it.

Lust and love
Are coal and diamond.
One is clear around a lady's finger.
One is dark in a lady's fireplace.

Which of which, Beloved
Is precious?
Either
In different dimensions.

Your Highness Age

Dear,
You.
Could you tell my body
To slow down
And let you go first?

Your Highness Age,
You are too excited
Yes, precise too.
Yet would you please
Leave me an energetic one?

Yours truly,
Weakening Body

how i see myself 😍

how my nephews and nieces see me 😂

About Love

About love
That throbs like screaming wound,
Craving for nothing but
Its own
Genuineness,
Clarity,
Loyality.

No reciprocity
No repayment

It hurts.
It hurts.
Yet it is noble
And true.

It is endless overflow
Of spring water
To the river
Flowing
To the
Sea.

the driver drove me these 2 days has 3 kids; 1 is pursuising police education, 1 is studying to be a technician, 1 is 10 years old

he and his wife work super hard to make their children’s dreams come true — they have double jobs and spend most of their time working

that old man and his loyal wife truly have reflected what love is, reminding me to my parents and what they did for their children

thank you for the love lesson that makes me believe how love changes things

❣️

City of Dreams

What do you dream
Of a city
Where you drive like a snail,
Work like a horse,
Sleep like a girrafe?

Wake up.
The dice is rolling,
A lucky number is falling,
You are winning.

i wrongly booked a hotel — it was supposed to be in BCG yet i wrongly selected the one in the Roxas Boulevard; as a result i am now staying in a hotel with a casino and the room is really not for business people, it is for those busy partying — next time i should be more careful 😎

Kindness

Kindness, Beloved
A strand of gemstones glowing.
A gift for my love--

arriving home from Malaysia, i found a sukun (bread fruit) as a gift from my neighbours (cleaners, gardeners, security guards) for the 2nd time — need to look for things that can give them smile

thank you, neighbours!

Time

I wish a nice day for you
And evening so bright,
In one morning wishing you
Good night.

How time
Broadens our space,
It mimes
Every broken wish.

The Persistence of Memory (painting by Salvador Dali)

About Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory

Cross Road

Walking a cross road,
Filling a crossword puzzle
With just a sweet wit

never hesitate to walk through a cross road where map is sometimes a second thought, the first is always what my heart says ❣️

Perfect?

Perfect, Beloved?
Universe dancing pattern
With risks and blessings--

there is no need to be perfect to be beautiful — it is just about expressing one’s self genuinely

picture from Pinterest

In Our Rendezvous

In our next
Next
Next rendezvous
We won't see but white
And laughter
Decorating the day.
All bad times will be forgotten,
Leaving early with the short memory
Giving us only good times
And an ease that next stage
Is just another
Rendezvous.

if we all survive by then, my best friends and i will look like this 😍 all of us will wear spectacles 😁 how sweet and romantic a friendship can be ❣️

picture from Pinterest

Hard or Light

To remember you is hard
With only shadow in my eyes.
To touch you is hard
With dimensions between us.
To see you is hard
With you unwilling to show up.
To hear you is hard
With your vague heads-up.
Yet to love you is light
As light as light brightening my heart.

someone is lucky to be capable of loving even that whose heart is a frozen clover 🍀

Sweet Heart

What can be sweeter than sugar
Except a heart that sings
In each of her beat
In each of her vibe
In each of her flutter

many minutes of delay mean a lot of tea, book and music — i am not with a sweetheart but always with a sweet heart

💕

New Guest

Who are you, hooman.
Don't sleep here,
My bed.
I am new here.
Yours truly
Visiting cat.

on the bed – this cat belongs to my mother’s neighbour; she visits my mother’s home everyday leaving her 3 kittens screaming, she will run back home when she is full 😍 she even enjoys the bed for her before others can slumber at night 😌

on my lap – a mother sometimes needs a daughter’s lap — neko-chan!!! 😃

A Fan Not

A fan not, dear love
Takes away half of portion
Of adoration.

no garnish, just 2 cabbage rolls for today’s night munching

my first cabbage rolls — not the best, i regretted of putting a can of tomato into it, should have been half of if

i am not a fan of tomato 😌

i still have 8 remaining in the freezer and will make it perfect next year 😍

The Music Is

Once I saw a name
On one of my 100 days
Then a cloud flew
Over the same night
Sweeping away a story
Leaving an end
Hanging silently
With no word
Just my throbbing heart
Counting how long spaces were.
Then I asked you
"Did I really see
You?"

Life Given

Life is given
Each day
To those
Falling in love.

How can I not breathe
You?

the flowers give life to the statue

Atsushi Taniguchi is a florist whose flower arrangements define that that i call falling in love — colourful yet not busy, packed yet not congested, priceless yet not expensive, easy yet not cheap, meticulous yet not complicated

💕

I to You

If I can cry my soul,
It is only for
You.

I
Whose heart is made of
Silken nets miss
You.

I
Whose plane wanders
Circumambulate
You.

stillness that spins, noise that calms, memory that vanishes, emptiness that fulfils — all within

what’s missed has all been met at a point for a moment then time pulls the wanderer to keep the journey on and on like a subtle network full of signs and wisdom about the beloved

happy long weekend with no interruption

💕

Now Here

Now here, Beloved
Is the best nowhere to go.
Breathing, close your eyes.

gethuk sukun with grated palm sugar 💕 for today’s breakfast! long weekend will be full of home cooking and some fun now and here

happy long weekend fully home…. no no fully home, maybe biking or walking too

waking up hungry, i went to kitchen this morning; re-steam the sukun then put one big slice in the mortar

yesterday aunty cleaning service knocked my door and showed me a big sukun (breasfruit) saying “Ma’am, would you mind cutting this into 2, one for me and and for you” — she promised me to give some sukun harvested from a tree at the green swimming pool; of course i did it happily! thank you very much, Aunty! 💕

i loved to eat it steamed or fried back home — can i grow it in my backyard? 😍

About sukun

Garden of Roses

My heart is a garden of roses
That bloom
When I feel
You.

My heart is a garden of thorns
That prick
When I think of
You.

wishing that a climbing rose grows and blooms happily in the kitchen door 💕 my guests will feel the beauty without having to think of the gardening

picture from Pinterest

Wishing

I wished him much money
I wished myself something less
I won't know if he'll be happy
I know I get the best

Merry Christmas

i met a friend who asked me to wish him happiness by having a lot of money then i wished that for him; he asked if i wanted the same wish, i asked him to wish me that i live my life to the fullest — he said “you are blessed with it now”

some friends simply make you feel thankful forever with what you have