First Blood!

... And so I survived my first Marathon. I must say it has been an excruciating experience. Never before have I felt so tired in my life to the extend that I suffered a severe leg cramps 10km to finish line. It was quite a humbling experience too, never ever take things for granted and that everything will take care of itself. Along the way I saw quite a number of runners that are better shape than me fall out of the race. Psychologically it did affect me in a way. The thought of giving up did cross my mind during the last 10km. Despite the fatigue and cramps I persevere, knowing some good friends will be cheering me on at the ending point.
While my body still recuperating from the excruciating experience, my mind was thinking of the next Marathon. Hopefully this time I will do better... By the way next time around those friends that cheering me by the sideline will be running too, not necessarily the full 42.195km though. It will be fun.

Live to Tell

"No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act." Haruki Murukami wrote this in his book, What I talk about When I talk about running. So it is, I have started running for about a year now. I used to hate running but it change about a year ago when I decide to embark on this journey to better my health. I enjoy it so much that I am encouraging and sharing it with fellow good friends, I'll write more about this in another entry.
I have lost about 34kg (beat that biggest loser!) since and feel really good. Together with my good pal, bro Joe, we decided to take it a notch higher by enrolling ourselves for a marathon. We have been training and in between we (together with some very good friends) have taken part in some distance running events. The longest distance we covered so far is 21km and the minimum is 10km.
Tomorrow my fellow bloggers I am running the big-full Marathon. It has been a mix feeling for me, excited but at the same time terribly anxious. Hopefully everything goes all right. I will write about it on Monday, if I live to tell....wish me luck.

No Time!

How I wish that this arrangement of words are done by me but it wasn't. Truly only someone who understand the essence of time could come up with such lovely arrangement. Well for now I am content just to be able to realise it..

Leisure
WHAT is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?—

No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

W H Davies

OLD School

Hello! (echo) Ok its been a while since I last upload an entry. I've been very busy with work and some other extra curriculum activity. I felt very old and somehow starts to be very forgetful. My memory is failing me the past few days. I've end up sms-ing the wrong friend twice in the period of two days. Thankfully the 'wrong' friend is very forgiving and able to laugh at my forgetfulness. Anyway two wrongs does make a right, this friend of mine end up to be the antidote to my forgetfulness.

This is her sms to me:

"No worries, getting old is no fun but at times we do funny things. Always good to make someone else laugh. Yeah, its about time you updated your blog. Full of dust and cobwebs already."

Thank You "Al"

Topeng (Mask) Workshop.

Video courtesy of Juliana Yasin.

Jatiwangi

Taken from my latest trip to Indonesia. More to come...

Me conducting art workshop at Jatiwangi (Cheribon, Indonesia)

The Mask Squad

The Mask marching contingent on a mission
The march to paddy field

Let's fly kites

The Girls

The Boys

The Kites

The Teachers

Staring at the Sun

A question , "What is worse than pain?"

Parangtritis beach , Indonesia

....as What I've been doing? Staring at the sun, pondering and embracing life.
Be back to writing soon, my fellow bloggers.

...AND WHEN i THINK ABOUT IT.

There are reasons why people behave the way they do

And everyone has his or her rights regardless…

But who am i to judge....

For all i know this is could be
a lesson for me
or
A test from Him...

In My life

"There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all.." Beatles 'In My Life'

How does one mark their lives? The benchmarks that decide a moment is more of a moment then any others. For our life is made of them all. Does the best one stay in our mind? If it is, why? We would like to think so but how certain could one be. Maybe the one that hurt the most is the one that engraved in our memory but we just refused to acknowledge it. Denial? Maybe, it just words as some might say. Anyway an experience whether it is good or bad, it is a learning experience nevertheless.

Love your,

enemy

For the Sake of ART

Never say Never, and
"It was perhaps, one of those case in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides."
(Jane Austen)