Happily Ever After

Once upon a time, when I was a naive obedient kid i read a story....

It was a story about 2 girls...
There's a princess, living in a castle, everything are there, foods, dress, servants. This Princess doesn't know why she is get bore tough everythings are there....
There's a girl, living in a simple house, has to share foods with his siblings, used worn clothes, must to work hard everyday. This girl envy the princess so much....
One day, they are met somehow somewhere, and they decide to swap with each other because they are looks really similar like twin.
But after sometimes, the (ex) princess are really enjoying his life as a commoner, she doesn't have to involved with lot of boring protocol and ceremonial, and even the food or dress are not there but he has warmth family and enjoy dinner together while laughing out of loud.
And the the (new) princess enjoy his new life only for some few days (or weeks) but after that she just realized she's not as happier as she think before, and even it's not happy at all, she miss her old family....
And the end of story are they are return back to their original position and become bestfriend (this ending is not really important, it's only for kid, so everythings are ended with good things)

The morale of story when i was kid is, just happy with what you have, i think this kind of story was made as an excuse to parents that they can not fulfill everything wanted by their children =p

It was when I was a Kid......

Now... I am not a Kid anymore, I'm still naive sometimes, but not really obedient....


I was going to a golf course in a middle of mountain last week, with my bosses and their guests, and I saw people there are living slowly.... (I prefer to use slowly than relax or something, because when I was there I feel time being slowed....)
It is not like urban life, not haunting by email, internet, phone call, etc
The golf course is old enough, and have a very good air, atmosphere, and everything, and I saw some people working there.....
May be they dont make a lot of money, don't meet a lot of person everyday, maybe being alone for the whole 8 hours of their shift everyday, don't use branded or high quality stuff.
But what I saw in their face are they are quite happy with their life, they can smile like human smile, not robot smile like we used to face in urban city......

I don't judge it's better than urban life, but even tough it's a simple life they have their own happiness.... (which may be more happier than people live in luxury mansion, I just wonder it)


And I read also another story some years ago, about city people come to a village and meet a fisher... (from Anthonny De Mello's book)

City People: What are you doing?

Fisher: I'm sitting here, resting

City People: Why are you sitting here resting, it is still to early to going back to land... you can cath more fish there

Fisher: Why I have to? I have catch enough fish to sell for get some food to eat for today

City People: If you catch more fish, you can get more money, you can buy a motor boat, if you have motor boat, you can catch more fish, and if you catch more fish you can buy big boat, and if you have big boat you can catch lot of fish and pay people to work for you, and you can life with relax

Fisher: What do you think I'm doing now?

cheers =D

I like that story.... tough I'm also that kind of City People, but it make me realize, there's a lot of things in the world except moneys (and his friends) needed to live happily ever after....
P.S the photo may not really related with the story, it was a photo of the golf course, it's a really nice place =D

Stupid Car (Or Stupid Me?)

DAMN !

I just left my car key inside the car !!!!

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..............

I swapped my car (car that i use everyday) with office car which i didn't know having automatic lock....

It was raining (still raining) outside, and i put all of my EDC (every day carry) inside the car, just put them all, and return back to lock my office door, and suddenly there's fuckin annoying sound, BEEP BEEP !!!!!!!!!!

AND I JUST REALIZE ALL MY STUFF ARE THERE AND THE CAR ALREADY LOCKED

(luckily i was planning to left my laptop in the office..... so i can make this post and have something to do for this 1 hour)

and luckily also my mother has not sleep yet (I only remember my mother phone cell number, i even dont remember my house phone number.... hahaha T_T)

Javanese people's philosophy = always be grateful if something bad happen (think that is not the bad situation) huhuhuhu

and now I'm here, dump at the office wait for my drive arrive with a spare key

I'm tired and sleepy tough....

hiks hiks...

40 minutes until my driver comes.....

Site Visit with V

Today i went to my company project's site with miss V, our Construction Management, here are some cool pictures, enjoy it

hohoho the land is cut like a bread with some chocolate and raisin

Looks Like cheesecake =p~
Press the filled land
And It's me, I'm so cool, hahaha

Nyepi

It was dark, only I and the stars above shone accompany with the moonlight ^^

When people around the world campaign about earth hour (turning off the lamp for 1 hour on 28th march) people in Bali turning off the lamp (supposed to be) for the whole day on Thursday, 26tth we have Nyepi here in Bali.

Nyepi is a new year for Hindu People, they are using Caka Calendar, I'm not hindu so i don't know exactly what is Nyepi, but from my experience living in bali since i was a baby. I can tell that Hindu people actually have to fasting for the whole day. And the day before nyepi is called "ngrupuk" usually they hold a carnival, they make a lot of noisy sound, and make monster (very big sometimes) from papers, linen, plastic, etc (materials that easy to burn because at the end of the day they have to burn them), unfortunately this year the Government prohibited that carnival, because we have election this year, and that kind of carnival is easy to be used for campaign which can easily make a fighting between groups also.


But in my opinion the practice is not really good, in the nite of "ngrupuk" lot of young people having kind of spontaneous stage and having kind of small and party with alcohol. Usually it is the group from neighborhood about 20-30 persons. I'm a little bit confusing with what they are doing, what the point for having all nite long drink alcohol when tomorrow they have to be fasting (yeach there's a point actually, with make theirself drunken they can automatically fasting tomorrow, because they are even to drunk for waking up hahaha) and that practice is totally different with ngrupuk philosophy, as i know the meaning of ngrupuk is to make noisy sound to scare the bad monster, bad spirit, etc. But with party like that, doesn't it invite the monster to theirself, so no wonder if in ngrupuk nite there's an fighting case, it's a normal things in Bali these day.

For me Nyepi is a day in one year that I alwasy waiting for. I love the feeling to be one with nature in nyepi (even if you are living in the middle of city), and luckily nyepi this year I'm almost alone in my house (almost because all of my family were in Jakata, and I only accompanied by some pembantu).
I love watching the stars from veranda, it's really cool because there's no other light except stars and moon, you have to experienced nyepi yourself to get the feeling !
You can feel the solitude in the positive way.....

And when nyepi comes I always reminiscing my childhood, when nyepi I always have football games on the mainstreet in the afternoon with neighborhood kids (I did until i become 12 years old), and sometimes some pecalang (banjar officer) will scold our parents for letting us playing on the street (not scolding actually because we are living in the same neighborhood and know each other well, they only did what they have to do). hahaha. what a day ^_^p.

We love our childhood, we love to live in ignorance, don't we?

my tips if you are going to Bali in nyepi day, just living in your relatives house instead of Hotels, it's better, believe me!