Yoga & Me

No one has ever told me that Yoga is brilliant
No one has ever told me that Yoga is more than just a sport
No one has ever challenged me that Yoga is nothing but a joyous sport

But now I could share with each of you that Yoga is an ocean of peace, flowering your world with peaceful emotion, blossoming your day with peaceful feeling and pouring your moment of life with peace of mind

As Yoga enters this life, nothing would prevent you from grabbing amazing feeling - a feeling that makes you feel so joyous-, an emotion that people call it "sweet emotion" that lasts for long

And this is what I feel now after Yoga storming into this hectic life
And this is what I want to share with each of you about joy, happiness and peaceful life

When Yoga arrives, nothing is there but a present moment
When Yoga falls into your heart, nothing is left but a moment of treasuring this life most with thankfulness

This is a life that each of us wants and this is what Yoga could do

Every morning when hectic of the day might have grabbed our ultimate mind, Yoga is made to allow us enjoying this life more in sweetness and why don't we give our life a time for Yoga?

Every brand new day when thoughts of busy life might have captured every single corner of our mind, Yoga is there to remind us that present time is inevitable, meaning, we shall savor this moment with sweetness of life and gratitude

And if every moment in our life is a present moment, we shall not worry of what future could hold because Yoga teaches us to always value the present moment

Present moment is a moment to savor with thankfulness
Present moment is a moment to seize this life with gratefulness
Present moment is here because all we have is here and now

Present moment is Yoga
Yoga is present moment
With Yoga, we learn to love this present moment more than ever

Happy Yoga Day, everyone....

Carl's Dream - Alor (III)

After two days in full contention, I was ready to get another moment of brilliance in Shark Galore, a place where various sharks, tunas, barracudas, dolphins and other sizeable fishes might appear in sudden

Brief briefing of dangerous current was shocking many of us but I was in the thick of the action, wishing to enjoy another colorful decoration of underwater corals, hoping to witness bands of tuna, shark or other colorful fishes

And it was another day in paradise

As far as I could see, many beautiful corals were there to spoil my very eyes while thousands of fishes in various sizes including sea snake passing me by in full ignorance of my presence that morning

What a day, what a moment!

And I was left to thank a moment of gratefulness by this astonishing scenery at Shark Galore, a moment that I later reckoned as a moment of joy

Benign current allowed us to enjoy most of the scenes

And I was later stunned in disbelief when one colorful sea snake –one of the most lethal creatures in this world- was approaching me, inches from my right hand and she loomed to have enjoyed much my presence when bubbles looked to attract much of her attention

It was the second time this trip the sea snake had approached me, before it was in Cathedral’s cave but no fear or whatsoever as I was always mesmerized by the vibes of sea snake’s presence

The only sour note for that day was the heat when we went back to surface

A cup of local coffee was later presented as ship moved in mild speed and the next trip to Three Top was later tipped as another moment of brilliance too

Quite hard now to equalize good spells of Shark Galore, Clown Valley and Cathedral, but stories of Carl’s Dream have fevered many of us to get there despite harsh current could be destroying too

But who cares as benign current is what we were told today and tomorrow

Tomorrow I would talk about Carl’s Dream, a site when many diving dreams bring to real life, as no other place with unique textures as Carl’s Dream have and that’s what we were told

I love Alor more on every new day…

Good night everyone
My love from Alor – 3

Church of Good Shepherd - Alor... (II)

True serenity in this small city was expected as I claimed myself back into a holy place, Catholic Church of Good Shepherd in Kalabahi, Alor

It was almost 20.30PM –facing up to life with contentment- when a large spell of thoughts to pray for my loved ones was exposed then I found myself down on my knee in later stage

Not much sound, only few lights on as calmness covered every corner of this church when I started praying for safety of each diving buddy, wishing for happiness for all loved ones, and longing for healthiness of everyone I love in this life

I was more than happy with the way this life had treated me so far

Thankfulness dominates while gratefulness encompasses

On the night where half-moon had displayed a half heartedly look, the wishes in prayers loomed to begin taking a new pool of tears in my heart

Balmy living is what I have now

And for many spells I’ve been involved in this life I could feel the true blessings of our Dear Lord continue pouring, a kind of unexplainable feeling

In the final moments of praying time, I sent a simple prayer for the happiness of my adorable Mother who needs any precious accepting heart more than anything in this whole world

Sunday had started brightly and now it ended up sweetly in prayers

Cathedral snatched my eyes in admiration, but Good Shepherd wrapped my heart in contention

Good night everyone
(My love from Alor – 2)

Cathedral - Alor... (I)

If I thought the third diving day on Sunday would be less colorful than yester Clown Valley’s trip then I was sadly mistaken

On this Sunday I was greeted in serenity and offered a sight of tranquility

Joyous mood was everywhere with a plate of yummy fried rice kicked off my whole morning in panache and who could stop my morning from dancing?

And in Cathedral, -how they name this brilliant site- we found ton of bliss

Lively corals, blossomed in reef and glued in the wall not just created unrivalled scenery but produced moment of elation that might last for years

I was lost in words… such an indescribable vista!

Yet again, big size fishes such as Red Snapper and schooling of Sweet Lips plus Emperor Angels and Sea Goldie were clearly there to send all of us into total rapture

Yet again, there was a time when Sweet Lips dancing in formation, twisting in creation and playing in style and I was, once again, speechless because that day was surely the best day of the week

Truly, it was a true sparkling moment in Cathedral, a day when we were diving across the cave, encountering traditional fish hunters below 40 meters, and swimming blue ocean with smile in the face

Just prior to that, I must have thought that day had been intentionally made into perfection when no current was posted, only for tons of colorful fishes were pictured everywhere.

Then the full scale of bliss happened on Sunday became apparent as enticing twilight was there, composed the early evening in sweetness then unleashed perfection in silence

No more words are close enough to describe my Sunday in Alor

Good night everyone…
(My love from Alor – 1)

CLown Valley - Alor...

The latest sensational feeling brought by splendid rainbow, turned up in sight and decorated in blissful colors –Red, yellow, green and violet-, showered additional belief of earlier awareness that Alor was more than just an astonishing diving heaven

With morning looking peaceful as soothing ocean was nowhere but calm as silky wind, this enticing gift of the morning –the rainbow- repaid the first portion of the second diving day, belting every feeling in the mood of gratefulness to Dear Lord

This allowed me to register the best feeling of the day, and prevented me making prolonged uneasiness since the day when we arrived in pouring rain

It was the day when beauty competed with loveliness as Clown Valley –a heavenly site for Clown Fishes of Nemo- produced a stirring display for each of us to reckon the greatness of our Creator for creating such an astonishing underwater place here in Alor

And the whole day was drowning in total amazement

Be frank, on the first night dive, I was nursing an equal sense of injustice as Alor was expected nicer in minds and sweeter in views but this second day was labeled in jovial feeling

Looking back, still remember sitting in the deck, seizing up any fascinating views when delicate currents emerged too dangerous for all human kinds, I was flirting my loving feelings of someone whom I met almost a year earlier

She loathes –if not resists- my diving hobby, legitimately argues a list of risks than enjoyments that diving could give, which make our discussions more harder when Friday falls on in panache

As evening faded into midnight, I must be fragile with tiredness but overjoyed

Alor keeps me in sight and high…

Good night every one
(My love from Alor)

Liberty Wreck - Bali

A scintillating pit stop in Liberty Wreck was too difficult to forget

That morning, huge troops of Jackfish that circled in panache, mesmerizing me in senseless emotion while countless Surgeon Fishes rounded in astute loop, making another unsurpassed epoch that would be remembered many times in many years to come

Now, the cloudy morning might have gone, but a myriad of unfathomable approbation to my Dear Lord would live forever in this heart

In Liberty Wreck, I found tons of blissful emotions of astonishing diving

I would come back to you when time is perfect
And I promise you this!

That Day In Tepekong - Bali

Sitting in the boat while chilly rain pouring your face made of such an irresistible flash

I was in Tepekong, floating on the boat after diving

Despite some worries in this heart as misty look was everywhere amidst shaky waves that waved the boat, a pool of sweet thoughts of memorable childhood was back in sudden, as tough, sucked all the chilly wind that sucked deeply my whole bones

With all this blissful view around, my heart was quavered, my passion was reinstated and my adrenaline was pumped

I felt rejuvanted and Tepekong had mesmerized every of my attention of that day.