Face It

Location: East Nusa Tenggara
Quote:
Dreams are like the paints of a great artist. Your dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing, is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality
[Unknown]

Minds Eye

Location: East Java
Poetry:
-Sweetheart-
On the wings of an eagle
My love for you flies
Soaring higher and higher and touching the skies

I reached up above
And pulled a star from the sky
To place it within your precious minds eye

To dwell there forever
As my love for you
On the wings of our love, enduring and true

I honor you my darling
With all that I am
Please darling please, will you be my man?

There are so many things, my heart wants to say...
I love you sweetheart, there is no other way...
[Jo'Lene Tover]

Muharram 1432 H

Location: East Java
Poetry:
-Muharram-
With the dim light of the crescent moon
The New Year unfurls insidiously
Like black clouds of Monsoon
Casting shadows of doom and gloom

Thick shades of black that drape the earth
Writhing and bleeding as the wind brings images -
A Severed arm, a pierced throat, a headless body
O my Abbas! O my Ali Asghar! O my Hussain!
Dripping black blood like black gold
That energizes the rusty dead soul

The black garb of night
Devoid of color and pleasure
Hides the vibrant colors of truth
Pure and untainted
Only to be seen with the spirit of the eye
The spirit of the seeker seeking the truth

Truth in its gleaming armor
Faces the black beast in the Yazids,
The blackened hearts of the Qabils,
The blinding blackness of ignorance

The rare black rose of the desert
Gives up its precious petals to the winds
The fragrance drifting in the valleys and hills of time
The scent of the Tuba Tree
The scent of Yusuf’s shirt
The scent of the poetry of Ali
The heavenly scent of pure divine beings

The banner falls with a loud crash
But the words like seeds scatter far and wide
The black fertile earth
Brings forth a celebrating green of hope
Truth after all can never die
[Raihana Yusufali]

Moments in Life

Location: Sky on Java Island
Poetry:
-Moments in Life-
There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real!

When the door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one,
which has been opened for us..

Don't go for looks; they can deceive..
Don't go for wealth; even that fades away..
Go for someone who makes you smile, because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright..
Find the one that makes your heart smile :)

Dream what you want to dream..
Go where you want to go..
Be what you want to be..
Because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do!

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong,
enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy..

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
they just make the most of everything that comes along their way..

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past;
you can't go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches..

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
[Unknown]

Indahnya Alam

Location: Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara
Quote:
Hanya KuasaMu sajalah yang mampu menciptakan keindahan sejati di alam raya.
[ReP]

Key of World

Location: East Java
Poetry:
-The Key-
There are many locks
and with such are many keys
with most keys they are returned
but with one lock where one key
and only one key can unlock it
Once that key is given away
the key can never be returned
It becomes the sole possession of the recipient forever theirs
For this is no random key but is a special key
This key is not handed to one another lightly
but rather earned over time
For several years people work to earn this key
once given this key,
the one key that will forever more unlock
not a door to a house or a car but unlock
The person's heart forever
at that point in time when they give that key
they will then for the first time understand True Love
[Nicholas Hubbard]

Grains of Earth

Location: East Java
Quote:
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
[Sivananda]

Never Off to Try

Location: East Java
Poetry:
-Try and Try-
I have always seen life for what it really is
Ever since I was a child growing up, hard times are all I know
I had to sit back and watch my mother work from sunset to sundown
I had to sit back and watch my mother work herself to her grave
Nothing ever came easy for her
She always had a heart and kept a smile on her face
Life is like a newborn baby struggling to come out of its mother's womb
Life is a struggle true enough, but after all the struggling you have done
..and after all the hell you have been through, there is success

Life is nothing but a big struggle, but just keep the faith and focus on your goals
Don't let life beat you or you will be walking around like zombies
Keep on pushing, keep on trying, life can be whatever you make it to be
But life can also be a bowl of cherries with whip cream and apple pie
I say this again; life is what you make of it

You can achieve or conquer anything it throws at you
You can't quit or give up, you have got to keep on working
Look higher some way, some how you are going to make it
[David Cook]

Ship of Life

Location: East Java
Poetry:
-The Ship Of Life-
The ship of life
Across the shore awaits a boat
Though sea's are rough, its still afloat

Raise the sails, held up by mast
Forget the troubles of distant past
As wave crash down upon the deck
Steady the boat; not quite a wreak

Tend the mast, and fix the scratch
light the lantern with one last match
The storm will end, pull anchor and rope
Look up to see the stars of hope.
[Jessica M. Balcom]

Smartwork

Location: Lasiana Beach, East Nusa Tenggara
Quote:
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed:
They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
[John Ruskin]

Blessed Month

Location: East Java
Poetry:
-Blessed Ramadhan-
All deeds of the seed of Adam
are for him but one
Oh Lord of this blessed month
we praise you for Ramadhan
and for the Al-Qur'an
to guide us to the light
Ya Rabb, give us the imaan
to stand in prayer that mighty night
let our siyam benefit us more
than mere hunger and unquenched thirst
and by Your Grace, the ayaat of Al-Qur'an
each day we shall rehearse
may we be restrained from the evil deeds
and from evil in what we say
may we know and understand
and implement the Prophet's way
what joy was there when believers saw the hilal, the crescent moon
may we all emerge from this month, insya Allah muttaqun
[Unknown]

Discovery

Location: Jakarta City
Quote:
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
[Marcel Proust]

Mesmerize

Location: Bandung, West Java
Quote:
I want to do drawings which touch people.
In figure or landscape I should wish to express.
Not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.
[Vincent van Gogh]

My Favor

Location: West Nusa Tenggara
Quote:
If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.
[Charles Baudelaire]

Spectacular

Location: West Nusa Tenggara
Quote:
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
[Henry David Thoreau]

Cita Diri

Location: Langit Sudirman, Jakarta
Poetry:
-Kejar Matahari-
Seumpama gantung cita diri
Harapan sejati perlu tinggi
Barani untuk mimpi
Semua yang ada kini
'Kan jadi jawaban kala mati
Kejarlah tujuan kemudian hari
Meskipun sulit bak mengejar matahari
[ReP]

No Fear

Location: Taman Safari, Bogor
Poetry:
-Malu PadaMU-
Perjalanan hidup harus kutempuh
Tak peduli apa yang menghalangku
Kuberpikir...berencana dengan niat penuh
Ketakutanku hanya kerugian
Kerugian pastinya sia-sia
Ketakutanku itu malu
Malu jika tenggelam dalam putus asa
Demi masa yang ada
Untuk setiap cerita yang datang dan pergi
Antarkanku menggapai setujuMU
[ReP]

Schoolmasters

Location: West Nusa Tenggara
Quote:
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
[John Lubbock]

Jalan

Quote:
Tuhan telah menganugerahkan untukmu intelegensia dan pengetahuan.
Janganlah kamu padamkan lampu kasih sayang Tuhan,
dan jangan biarkan pelita kearifan mati dalam kegelapan nafsu dan kesalahan.
Karena, seseorang yang bijak mendekati manusia dengan obornya
untuk menerangi jalan umat manusia.
[Kahlil Gibran]

Panorama

Location: Puncak, West Java
Quote:
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
[Friedrich Nietzsche]