“After Storm” Sky Panorama, Seminyak, Kuta, Bali

What could be imagining to the rain drops all day long, the scariest time to stay safely at home. A day could be passing away on the feet of Stormy King. Hardly blowing winds just like to over heavy smoked lung of the earth, black face of the sky will enjoy accompanying this heavy breath. Pain that resulted by waiting over six months is already has their way to come. Flash of light in the sky is their torch alarm of welcoming storm party and sounds of tympani thunder will follow their march to a battle of rain drops.

Soldier of the stormy sky already settle to a position of attacking mother of earth, what will green calm under will do about this attack except of waiting these soldier to flash their kingdom weapon. Creatures under are rush in their busy way to safe their self for not getting wet. Prepared a shield or just to postpone a trip for a better solution.

Here in Bali, attacking rain drops usually come in the beginning of December or could be earlier. It is depending to process of oceans evaporate and atmospheric condensation. But sometimes these “teardrop-shaped” are canceling their trip to fall at Kuta or Seminyak area in Bali just for a special mystical reason. But today, the storm panoramas that hang on the sky in Seminyak could not lying about stormy kingdom attack that just left their footprint in the black cloud. After a storm, it’s come a light of a shy sunset to offering a beauty in the sky of Seminyak. Colour wiping of sunset is forcing balaclava of pearl to drive away black cloud, these beauty behind the storm in Seminyak also forcing you to look up above and heal your fear from the storm.

Semar Pergulingan – Gamelan of the Love God

Of the many kinds of gamelan to be found on the tiny island of Bali, none evokes a more ethereal and enchanted sound world than the rare gamelan of the love god, Gamelan Semar Pegulingan. This is the first commercial recording of the Semar Pegulingan type of gamelan (except for three 78-rpm discs, now rare collectors’ items). By the 1930s, Semar Pegulingan, which was originally a palace gamelan, was preserved in only a few villages. Now, however, the gamelan has been restored to life with a repertory that derives from the old traditions, but is strongly influenced by the innovations of 20th-century Balinese music.

This CD which is consist 6 track, offer to you The Love God Gamelan, the very old remastered sound of Gamelan that recorded in Teges Kanyinan, Pliatan, Bali, by Robert E. Brown. Originally released in 1972.

If you interested to find more, you can buy the Bali: Gamelan Semar Pergulingan:Gamelan of the Love God CD here.

Garuda Wisnu Kencana sculpture

An innovation of civilization could be older than its product, form of carving a stone into sculpture that has an artistic value could be catch at one of sculptures in Garuda Wisnu Kencana’s wall gallery. Just like other artistic wall pepper stone, shape of an angel was caught by a sculptor daydream to be arrested in the stone there in Garuda Wisnu Kencana’s park. One of the angels already free from a flowering dream of an artist at last then became free and showing herself to public eyes.

Sculptor stone choice was first query to give this angel place to rest, grabbing and knocking off wide area to give the edge of her wings to fly in the stone was then taken on. Transferring all sculptor energy to powering an artist tools was a guiding road for this angel to bounce to her new place. 45 degree of sculptor tool process was the act for refining a reality of catching angel. Touch of nature process will be a final beauty polishing, so she always could spread her wings to fly over a thousand hills there in Garuda Wisnu Kencana’s park.

Voila……would you visit this beauty angel and her de ja vu of sculptor’s whom made her dream come true “freedom form fall from heaven”

Caught her at Garuda Wisnu Kencana’s courtesy, located at Jimbaran Bali.

Crowded Tanah Lot, Bali

Posted at heavenly catalog of Tabanan – Bali, “Tanah Lot” is famous among local and foreign visitors. Settled at shored Indian Ocean land with tiny foot finger creeping the sea land, this place is welcoming view to enter mother of wide blue ocean. Noon sun lights accompanied by salt tears reflection could attractive to eyes catching.

You could hold Tanah Lot and Batu Bolong Temple together at one stop place,

and would makes you to come for once again and again…………….

Shiny Christmas at The Corner

Christmas is always memorable, shiny color of holy white, glorious gold and amazing red will hold you tight at Christmas Eve. Hopefully Santa Claus will visit with holy jingle steps and tons of wishes to be come true.

Many creativity have already settled to meet a shape of modern Christmas tree, the idea is always been pop up to make this holy night shining.

Holy season already shining up from the corner side of Kunti road at Seminyak, Bali.

You could visit this glorious of shiny gold at a courtesy of “Bale Bali”, where Chinese culinary is available with Jazzy Mood.

Merry Christmas…..