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✈ Travel back Home after 2.5 Years!

Posted on September 15, 2022June 18, 2025 by melly

The light-hearted stuffs 😃

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2020 Cousin’s Wedding in Jakarta

Posted on March 25, 2020June 23, 2025 by melly

Unknowingly the last wedding I’ll be attending for awhile due to COVID-19?

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2020 Lunar New Year Trip Home

Posted on February 21, 2020June 17, 2023 by melly

From Granny and Slendrina to god of wealth.

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Bali Holiday (2/2) – Out of Club Med!

Posted on January 4, 2020January 5, 2020 by melly

Day 4 – Bali Safari
Day 5 – Pork party

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Bali Holiday (1/2) – Into Club Med?

Posted on January 4, 2020January 4, 2020 by melly

A little trouble for a start, then
Day 1 – A strange welcome
Day 2 – Settling in
Day 3 – Suckling pig comes!

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I’ve Got Gold!

Posted on April 30, 2019June 1, 2026 by melly

Living for myself, self discovery, right? 
So I dug and dug within and .. did I find gold .. ?  I would have found gold first in Sovereign Hill the other week when I went panning with my nephew!  But in my heart, I found only endless digging. 

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Trip Back Home – Lunar New Year

Posted on March 11, 2019May 1, 2019 by melly

Commemoration of past events is understandable, but insistence on tradition based on myth is baffling,

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After 2 Years..

Posted on February 3, 2019July 14, 2019 by melly

.. meditation is in being even more present, not absent.  It is in more thinking and not blanking out thoughts.  It is gaining peace not by not thinking, but by thinking rightly.  It results in fullness and not emptiness of the mind.

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Dubious New Year Greetings

Posted on January 1, 2019July 14, 2019 by melly

Wish it every year if you’d like, but what do we know for certain? You wait long long. For such things simply don’t exist. It doesn’t take long for the mood to settle back into everyday reality – by end of the week?

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