Sunday, April 3, 2011

A Fond Memory After My Biking Trip

A Fond Memory After My Biking Trip

She sits patiently waiting looking at me, a lean lady of the street in Pantai Indah Kapuk. I opened my picnic but she is on the alert and kept her distance even when I took her some rice on my lunch box cover to share it with me. She eats by dainty bits, clean as a lady should. When I offered her something of my coffee milk, she refused, and went away.

Luckily enough we didn’t become good friends I thought. What if she runs with me all the way some 15 km and on top of that, refuse her a home while I have three already.

Then, as I was sitting, I saw her peeping. Oh she is so beautiful, irresistable, enticing, tempting as she peeps through the grating, kept her face out and up for anyone outside to kiss or pluck her.  I hadn’t brought my camera but I caught her with my mind’s eye.

She is the beautiful Kembang Sepatu (literally, flower shoe).

April 2011

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Better Know Or Not Know 2

Better Know Or Not Know 2

If you have cancer.
Your death sentence.
If tomorrow you die.
The Future.

April 2011

Friday, April 1, 2011

If Something Goes Wrong, The World Doesn't Collapse

If Something Goes Wrong, The World Doesn’t Collapse

“Time is money” they say.  My time is invaluable, money can’t buy. Some people are very proud when they are very busy, have a lot of activities and have no time. On the contrary am I proud when I have a lot of leisure time. I’m not wasting, selling my time.

“Take your time” I say when I was lost during my running, biking trips in the country, it was there that I found new delightful regions, otherwise would I not have found it.

I was stressed as I lost a photo when I edited my picture’s blog, but recovered after experimenting on “my blog experiments” and I got other invaluable information about uploading photo’s what I did not know before. As I mused, I have nothing to fear. I’m grateful. My photo’s in my blog are safe, taken in Picasa web-albums without my doings. My writings are safe in my website.

When I was disappointed as I couldn’t realize my blog book, despite of that, I learned a lot besides, have a picture blog now, which counts, is worth more and more delighting than having my blogbook.

I was very disappointed when I, in my younger years was offered a job with bright prospectives. I failed when tested on how to handle, calculate a person’s personal tax. A stupid occupation - as I now think - in a well known first rate large foreign corporation with comfortable remunerations.

I got a far better job as assistant accountant in a small public Accountant’s Office. For a month was my job  just reading a book on accounting, seeing the files and how it is done. Within a month I knew about book keeping, far more than what I learned during my school years for years. It was so easy, I just read, see how it is actually done, not what is so difficult, stupidly explained in books.

And what does it  matter if you fail in your exams and feel as though the world is collapsing? Suppose you passed even with flying colors but within a very short time you – gladly - forget the stuff you don’t like. Where are your “flying colors” then?

It’s easy to take regularly your medicine and live without fears, worries, you could indulge in eating more nice food, be lazy.

Sure, when you don’t take pills regularly, every time you measure your bloodpressure you are worried, stressed, but you learn what is good for lowering, to have your blood pressure normal and you are proud of this as you succeed without the pills. You exercize regularly, you eat carefully, you are alerted, on the watch as nature is. Besides I got good health, floors my inherited tendensi to diabetes, asthma and hopefully so of my high blood-pressure in old age. You always could take recourse to taking medicine if there’s a sudden rise in bloodpressure.

So don’t you be downhearted, stressed when you think you have lost your way, your chance, and daringly taking risks, the world doesn’t collapse. You sometimes even got more, better than what you had before, I comforted myself.

April 2011

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Repay Loan With A Kiss

Repay Loan With A Kiss

“Well, repay this loan some day with a kiss” said opa Johan to his wife.

April 2011

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

My Home And Me

Welcome!

My Home And Me
This, right now, right here is my home and me. Just takes a minute to be there. Wherever you are, even at the end of the world, whenever you want to, dinnertime, even bedtime. You can come in your daily wear, barefooted, or on slippers. You don’t need to travel by plane, train, or take a car. Just ring my doorbell http://www.leisurelyreading.blogspot.com/ and there I am and so do I look like.

Leave anytime you like and in a minute you’ll be back home.

Chew GH

My Photo?

Why? Do you want to see my photo? Do you want to see a scarecrow?



The Scarecrow


Self Portrait
And I were jealous,
And I feared,
And I desired the forbidden apple
And I fell
And hurt myself.


Kin to those who’re so human,
To all creatures, all life.
I am Nature’s Child.


My Brainchildren

Blessed with a loving mother’s kiss, they enter into the world.

Better Know Or Not Know

Better Know Or Not Know?

What would you choose?

March 2011

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Loaned In Ice Cream

Loaned In Ice Cream

“Hmm, how delicious” as si upik scooped her ice cream by little dainty bits. “Do you want some of mine? I’ll give you some.” knowing that I awfully like ice cream.

“I have had mine. No.” I said.

“Oh, don’t pretend, don’t lie” she said. What if you take this ice cream as a loan.” she insisted, persuaded me.

“What would you do?” I asked Pak Arif.

“Well, I would repay your little daughter’s loan with a kiss.” said he.

Form Berita Buana July 26, 1997

March 2011