a warm greeting from Jakarta, with a calming backsound of rain, snacks and hot tea. i would like to say 'hi' to everyone of you for i just arrived here in blogspot and care to share daily stories again. it's been a crazy long time that i felt so much fired up i can jump to finally be able to track my old password of my forgotten blogspot, and start these tales of my days again !
in these days, when you have to work based on clients' demand, life will be so much unpredictable. i mean, it wont be piece of cake to predict what time you will be in the middle of damn packed working hours, what time you will be so much idle that you can just go down stair and buy some ice creams, and whether or not you can split the whistle to home. on account of this situation, i never again make a promise for a dinner or just a hang out with friends after hours, because, life's been so much unpredictable lately. but what i can be grateful about, is that i always have some particular time to just sit on my desk, travel around some interesting websites for the sake of my knowledge, hunt some interesting pictures and most importantly, be alert in every social medias.
it was a chill morning without beeps on email and phone in my office when one of my English friend, Paul Scott, gave me a buzz on Facebook and asked a favor to record a video for his project. he was about to make a kickstarter campaign called The Open World Project which aims to create an app and website dedicated to travelling to aid travelers in many different ways. this project provides a strong knowledge base of restaurants, bars and sights with an interactive map and language converter and printout screenshot function to aid with travelling via taxi, train, etc. local tour guides can upload their information and offer open world world project user's discount etc. he had been asking his travelling friends he had met from all over the world to give a greeting in their very own language and gather the videos into his video campaign. i haven't recorded the video yet but sure as hell, enthusiastically, will do and help him.
a short story about our first meeting, me and Paul, it happened 2 years ago in Thailand. i traveled solo to Bangkok to catch some fresh air in the middle of my internship in KL. we happened to meet in Khao Sarn road in one fine night, not rather randomly since he was also a friend of a friend, but i can say it's always been amazing to talk to stranger when you travel solo. so i enjoyed a night there, and had a great convo with this man in English accent. he seemed to be a true traveler i was inspired the most. he shared his experience having fun with life during his traveling around some countries and sometimes threw intelligent perspectives about life that he said he got from his times when he traveled. what i had recalled urges me to be a part of supporters of his project to ease other travelers to see the world.
on the next day of my other days, i got a beep again from a friend from Dutch i met randomly again in Bandung. it started with a like hitting on his facebook's post i gave to him. he posted one song he currently listens, Emilliana Torrini - Big Jumps. all of this lady's works are dazzling that i adore all of the songs she sings. always have loved them. so i felt like liking 100 buttons on his post. and he sort of sent me a buzz on facebook after that. and he was like:
Hey Tazkya!
Thanks, how are you? This song Big Jumps fits the end of my travel story..Its in Dutch so you probably won't understand a thing haha. I'll try to translate a bit in English.
It is about the feeling when a journey comes to an end. When the flowers outside are fading away during wintertime in Holland, so are my memories fading away. The world didnt stop spinning while I was away, and how easy you forget things when you are home, as the things you experienced abroad have nothing to do with your daily live back home. That doesn't mean travelling is worthless; on the contrary. This experience is for life, and you will remember your journey and nobody can take that away from you. For example when you hear a happy song you were listening to being abroad or a souvenir, that can bring memories back again like a movie. Because you are the one that experienced it all. It's hard to explain a journey to others, as it is more about a feeling then about a couple of events that happened. A lot of people have dreams, but don't dare to live them. I have seen how easy it actually is to follow them. The best part of the adventure, is that when you arrive at a new place, we usually don't find what we expected. And for these unexpected situation, you'll need to adapt to the circumstances. I travelled alone, but I never felt alone. You notice, you see, and you learn a lot about yourself, especially when you are travelling on your own. This is also what Paracelsus wants to explain with the following quote. It was the beginning of a book, The art of loving, by young philosopher Erick Fromm, which I read while being abroad and is about love. Because in the end, everyone is searching for any kind of love.
‘He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who undersands also loves, notices, sees….The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love… Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.’
I wanna wish you all the best and lots of love, not only for 2013 but for your whole life
Good example about bringing back memories: I'm thinking about the conversation we had in the restaurant right now. So nice Glad I met you.
his name is Bastiaan Sallevelt from Dutch and he happened to come to Bandung for traveling solo and randomly again we were connected in one dinner on saturday night. we just met but we started our casual conversation with things that are not casual at all anyway. we talked about philosophy, religions in the earth, theories of human relationship, school, and last but the most enchanting, traveling.
two days in a row, i had been slapped by these two people about the awesomeness of traveling. they were simply a buzz on facebook but make me recall things undone i should have made true. one day in the election of Vice President in AIECEC, in the panel i said in front of everyone that my ultimate ambition is seeing the world with my own eyes, listening to every sounds in the world with my own ears, and capture all of them shapely through words i am gonna arrange in a book with my very own hands. and these two buzzes are just like waking me up from a long dream.
i am so thankful that i had been surrounded by those inspiring people who love to travel and believe that world itself gives more than theories or learning, beyond the expectation. i start to see my schedule and calendar to check when my traveling plan possibly happen in the middle of my hectic days at work. i know experience is not a dime a dozen we can find it anywhere. but every learning we can get from traveling is way more expensive than tickets or amount of money you spend for traveling. for the luckiest people are those who live a life to the fullest.
so, cheers and happy traveling
loves,
tazky.
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