something-to-remember: Oktober 2013

Freitag, 25. Oktober 2013

Enough is Enough

That was the name of a song not long ago and it feels still right to listen to it, but there are other reasons to think that way too.
Not long ago in the last days of August we had these words spelling over the streets and as it may seem far away it is still near. The situation has changed so little that we have to go on telling this to all the people out there who forget to use their heart and mind and remember what it is about being human.
So some people, to be clear seven, decided to do more then lip play... They got together to gather people together to walk on the street and show off that we are real, we are worth living and loving. That it is a human right to handle things with us in a fair way and with love too. All the hate and lies are just so sad and stupid but out there so much to find.
So we decide stopping be a victim, of words or racquets, of lies and people with hate inside and blindness. Also all this bitterness has to wash away on every side.
So we, the people, part of the folk, came.
They say we were just 2.000 or so, but that was just when we came together to the meeting point, but when we started we already had the number of over 5.000 and became next to 10.000 over the march and in the end we still had those 5.000 hard believer for equality and the rights to love.
Yes all started to set a sign for the gays and lesbian and transgender in Russia, but became much more as it is a fact that in many other countries homosexual get beaten, killed, punched and throw away from what they love and who they love.
So we showed up to these countries but also after just a couple of weeks after all this started to set a sign- it was very clear, because the Olympia is coming up in Russia and Putin had some bad, new, rules and laws set in, it was time to react.
Not only people in other countries should hear and see our acting and standing up for our and their believe, also we wanted to show our own government to stop the silence, to take a stand for human rights. They always talk, but never walk the walk.
Sadly they did not react much and many believe all we did was just another kind of lip play.
But as it happens so are people still hurting, beaten and punished for just the way they are. Just for a natural way of loving and being.
Just right now we had a famous Drag-mother- beaten up so hard on the streets after her gig she did, that she had to stay in the hospital and frighten how it will go on, like with her eye- will it function again or stay blind?
Don't get me wrong, there are worst out there but we have to make a stop in the earliest way, like on work when someone is behaving homophobe.
Courage is not a worth is an act. Standing up is courage.
But for this you have to know yourself and wake up, be aware of what is around and how it is meant to be or should be.
By the way- The name of that person is Gèrome Castell. And only she lived a very own way and does not look like a clichè of a man or a women, the pain was given.
That was a waking call, another one, but a call which woke up also the press and many people for now.
Another acting up is happing because of this and that is that there will be a Show on the 4. November in the "Wilden Oskar" in Berlin to support not only a famous person, it is also to support the right to stay alive.
I mean you may have problems to deal with the way another people lives but no one should have the right to beat and kill you for being different.
After all- those people, different people have given mankind so much more that mankind would be different if they would not have exist.
Great people where those, in good and bad.
So no matter what, I guess you will like to live in peace and that is what we are fighting for instead of fear, cos if you or someone needs fear then it shows just how weak you are, how sad you are and how unsure you are and how less you care about yourself.
Remember that.
And why not- decide for the side of the sun and love. It can be a challenge in the beginning but it is possible and in the end more easy to live up to then hate and bitterness and things like this.

still so many countries who fear homosexual and wants to kill them

it can rain, but love is never giving up

remember those who can't be with us and are death because they do care to love

and here we have the flyers for the support show... come if you can.. Revolution of LOVE is only real when we live it!

LOVE & LIGHT

Sonntag, 20. Oktober 2013

Bali- ---Seminyak-Ubud-Seminyak

That means, we are going through the last part of my journey in Bali.
As you may remember, the round tour I made has just finished and I arrived in Seminyak again.
Two days at the Bali Agung Village. Again. 5 min to the beach and a little house just for myself. Time to sleep as long as I wanted and relax and write down what I remember from all the days.
Of course I have a journey diary. There are so many things you will never remember after they have been done and some of these things you will not gonna tell everyone.
But one of the things I am able to tell you is that you sometimes have the luck to meet new people before you meet them in real.
Over Facebook, months before, I made contact with a sweet and very nice guy.
Frank is his name and he works in Bali as a fashion designer ("Franksland" is the name of his company... look under: https://www.facebook.com/Thefranksland). He enjoys living in Bali and as we are living in a modern world we got contact via facebook and mobile. So we meet and I had the luck to see new parts of Seminyak and above. Driving with him on one of those scooters, we let the wind blow through our hair and had lunch in one of those Warungs- that's the traditional way to eat. I mean, these are little street restaurants, kind of and you get there rise, fish, bananas and a bit more, made in typical balinese way. Otherwise you never really get a chance of classic balinese food. Sadly most of the restaurants have become very european or american style...
Anyway, we also drove through the shopping streets of Seminyak and then stepped into a fashion store, which had a coffee in the backroom. Kind of. You can come into the coffee from the side of the house/ building, but anyway, it look very nice, as long you did not look up, but then charming, good coffee, nice stuff, pictures of old times like the 50tis and in the restroom you meet people with tattoos on one wall and on the other Marilyn Monroe. Yes you read right the lovely Miss MM. Bali seems to have a taste of that women. What a nice surprise.
After all, we where also at the beach and had some drinks and a wonderful sunset.
Then it was time to travel to Ubud. A week in a town with art and things to discover. Be sure when you are there to go into the coffees- like the "KAFE" in Jl Hanoman, you'll meet so many and so nice people from all around the world. Be also sure to take sidetracks to see the usual way of living and discover art which is less traditional and just made for tourist. Even though, there are good in what they do... I am happy to have found the painter Frank Malik, who paint just with a pen and his pictures are very nice, just black and white but showing Bali in a way which is in no way corny.
I bought a picture and it is now becoming its frame. The painter self is painting with just one eye now, cos an accident made him lose one of his eyes. A very nice man, coming from Java, had been in Singapore and is now married to a balines women. Although he wanted to be a taxi driver, his parents told him to be a painter. Well done parents. :-)
Also when you go through the traditional market, try to take the stairs up and down following pictures and maybe you also meet the little sacred place I found there, which was quite and had an altar. It was such a nice thing to hear nothing, even though I was surrounded a minute ago with so many noises.
But the highlight more or lesson was- Mr. Ketut Liyer.
If you have read the book "eat , pray, love" or seen the movie with the same name. You will know who he is. For all the others, he is a very famous healer and very old, maybe the oldest balines. But no one knows how old he really is and he must be really over 100 years.
I had the luck to find my way to him after I did not had the luck to make the "white magic village" tour. So the hotel stuff told the guy who did not know any healer in Ubud about that man, although they did not mention his name. So I was like, well let's try and see who it will be.
As I saw the sign with his name on it I got an idea that it maybe could be him. The medicine man, the healer, the painter (was a good one- I saw his pics) and so on.
First, if you wanna know how it looks where he lives... then watch the movie. There you see the original house and street and all the rest. Yes looks bigger as it is, but it was filmed at his place, except... himself. But the film shows a man much like the book told us (written by Elisabeth Gilbert) and the book is very right and true. Ketut is a very charming, old, but smart and interesting man. No teeth yes, but very nice in a way everyone would like. Although you cannot over see he had problems to keep all the things in mind and he once could speak better foreign languages, but what he was reading from the palm of my hand was mostly right. That stuff he still can do but after all he is still alive! I never really believed he would be.
That he was the real one I could not have been more sure about after seeing the book from Elisabeth Gilbert and her wishes to him in it and Cards she wrote him. By the way, her writing looks very nice...
So then, what more to tell? I did my meditation and yoga every day and it felt very good after a while, cos you feel how your body relax and the muscles get back to the right direction.... and the lunch in the hotel was very good and the Spas in Ubud are to recommend.
After my 7 days in Ubud I can say, 5 would have been enough and a Mac Store is also to find there and if you wonder why I mention it. Well Apple is a DIVA and so the Mc Adapter is not helping to give back electricity to your Ipad but make it this way-----> Put the normal adapter into the wall and into the normal adapter the Mc adapter, then connect it with the Ipad and tata.. now you can get energy! Crazy but that's the way it works.
Leaving Ubud was in one way sad, but you maybe know it too, when the time has come that your journey and therefore your holiday comes to an end, you want to come home anyway.
Being back in Seminyak I was staying in the Eden hotel which is actually a house for three companies or families or pairs, in the middle of a hotel block, 15 min away from the beach. It was like being in the garden Eden but it was also kind of being alone there when you are traveling alone and arrive in such place. That was a place to share. But also last two days and so it was much of... when am I gonna go and I wanna go home.
As long as I like Bali, I learned to love my old middle Europe more. Again.
Fall/ Autum is waiting home and that was not a bad though.
So last pics you'll see are some of Bali from the plan in the sky...
By by till the next time...
I will be there again if I can..