Non Surreal Extended

This is about another dream that also turned into real.
The difference is I never really had any direct or indirect contact with this person.

She was my brother's mother-in-law.
I wasn't here when my brother got married. My brother's in-law family live in another island, so even after I got back, I never met his mother-in-law, until....

I dreamt:
I see a woman lying on a bed; she waves her hand at me and tells me to call my Mom because she wants to tell something to her.

I got awakened as I heard the telephone outside was ringing; it was still early for a day. I think the sun was not yet even rising.
All of sudden this thought came into my mind....
"That's it, she's gone"

Guess what, that was a phone call for my Mom from my brother or my sis-in-law (I forgot which one exactly) telling that my sis-in-law's mother has just passed away.
My Mom and my sis-in-law's mother was best friend when they were young.

Long before that dream, I had similar dream turns into real already.
It was when Leet was back in Indonesia.

This was my dream:
I was awakened by a telephone call from Leet. She asked me to tell Pete to pick her up on this certain date and hour.
I said ok and went to sleep again. But I also felt that I had been talking to Pete through the telephone about it and he told me why did I wake him up so early in the morning.

This was the reality:
That morning just after I got that dream I did get awakened by a telephone call from Leet, and she told me exactly like in that dream.
Except that, no complain from Pete, cos I didn't make an early call to him.

Another similar dream...
I had an appointment with Eara for a meeting in an afternoon.
Because I felt very sleepy, I took a siesta to kill the hours.
Then I dreamt Eara phoned and canceled the meeting.
The dream stopped because the telephone was then really ringing, and it was indeed from Eara, and it's exactly like in my dream. The meeting was canceled.

Because I have dreamt that kind of dream many times, one day I was really freaking out when I dreamt this:

I just exited a grocery store. I saw J standing on the porch. I greeted her and asked her what she is doing. She talked to me inexpressively that she's waiting for a pick-up. I told her: "me too". The end.

J was my friend at the university; I wasn't even close to her back then. She has already passed away some years when I had that dream. I dreamt about her twice after she passed away. The first dream was about her death. In the reality she died of acute asthma, in my dream she died of heart attack in our class reunion event at a discotheque.

Non Surreal

Three days ago I dreamt about this guy .
Can't put it here what exactly is. It's too personal
This is what I dreamt...
I saw his picture and read his info, on particular thing his *secret* !! your dirty thought ya!!! this has nothing to do with anything pervert !!

When I woke up, I straightly thought about.....
"was it a dream?"
"did I really read something last night?"
Cos it's so lifelike, hisface and everything.

Couldn't let my self keep wondering about the meaning of that dream, I made a single check.
Surprise..surprise....
Something has changed about him at the time when I made the investigation.
Exactly about his *secret*, but with the opposite fact (from what I got in my dream).

If this is too confusing , stop reading it
I just feel like a fortune teller because of this.

The next day because I was still curious, I worked an enquiry again. I found out that that specific something -his *secret*- has changed again, and this time is exactly like what I saw in my dream.
What still confuses me , the message of that dream for me is not so important, but why did I dream about him that way? and it happens!

This is not my first and only fortune-teller-like dream.
But...it's already late now, I'm sleepy.

Exactly A Year

Something that we can't forget, he smelt like capuccino! and sometimes like chocolate!

Memoirs of a Geisha

When I read that Arthur Golden's novel about 4 years ago, I dreamt to see it filmed cos the book is very well written.
The plots were interweaving in my head when I was reading it and I really felt like I could see Sayuri with her blue-grey eyes, the Chairman and the other characters.
Recently, its film version is out, but.....
To my disappointment the lead roles are not played by Japanese actresses at all.
I don't mean that those Chinese actresses are less pretty or don't play well.
The matter is exotism, Chinese and Japanese each have their own differently.

I think I'm not going to see it, I'm afraid the movie will ruin my ideal picturing of the book. Maybe I will read the book again instead of watching the flick.

Yesterday afternoon while still in Shanghai, Leet sms-ed me. Rumour says Memoirs of a Geisha is banned in China, probably because the current political dissonance between the two countries.

Wiki says Memoirs of a Geisha is "a movie about Japanese played by Chinese, written by whites".
Click the image to see some old postcards with genuine images of Geisha.

Barbaric Trade!!!!!

If only I didn't love dog, I wouldn't feel very sick about dog and cat fur industry in China.
About how they brutally skin alive those (have long been known as) domesticated animals. For some people they're not just animals, but they are also best friends and helpers.
In many countries people rely on dogs to do some important jobs.
In China they skin alive dogs and cats, and send their furs also to USA and Europe markets.

Sure, somebody can argue that some animals could be as domesticated as dogs and cats and can also be labeled as companion animals.
But I always see dogs as somewhat different. They are sincere, intelligent and most of all they kinda have this special bond with human that makes them seem to always want to protect human.

There's a story I watched on Animal Planet about a dog who rescued a kid who was totally a stranger to the dog.

They only met sometimes when his master took him for a walk and passed this little girl's house. The little girl and her Mom didn't like dog at all and would shun immediately once the dog and his master passed by, although the dog's master always greeted them.
One day, there was a big earthquake and the girl was alone and scared to dead inside her house. She was crying and no body was around. Just when the cupboard (or the wall) behind her was about to fall down, suddenly that dog came to rescue her, alone!
No one could understand what power that brought the dog to come and save her at the right time, though they live some distance apart.

That is just one story amongst uncounted stories about dogs' merits towards human.
Some cats, although very few also have been heard as saviours to their human companions.

So how could I am not mad about dogs and cats slaughtering in China?
Especially when they are killed brutally, I mean, by skinning them alive? :-(((

Of course pigs, sheep, chickens, etc also have been known as saviours to human, in term of providing us meat to eat.
But have you ever heard about a pig, sheep, or goat who guides a blind man?
Who can detect cancer?
Who can help epileptic seizures sufferers?
Who can save a boy from tsunami?
Who help the police busted drugs smugglings?

Killing dogs is like killing sincerity!

Please sign the petition against it now!
Spread it up!

Maybe you should be careful now when you buy some dolls or fur stuffs made in China!

Further readings:
McCartney attacks China over fur
What You Can Do....

I'm very sorry to friends/ people from China who read this blog, I'm only against those barbaric thing.

Wanna get tickled?

I cannot really get annoyed with this following ‘friendship' offer :-P
Not because I'm too often greeted by some deviant faux pen pals.
But...read it yourself...I bet anyone's laugh nerve will get tickled too...

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TICKLING FEET

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But frist of all, I have to expalin you that I am Italian, so I don't know English very well! Sorry for my mistakes!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello dear unknown friend! First of all, I have to tell you how you are beautiful........

But I have questions for you:
1. What your number of foot is?
2. Do you have pretty feet?
3. Are you tickling?
4. If yes, in which part of your body the most?
5. Maybe feet?
6. Have you ever been tickled-torture in your life?

I would want to put his hilarious official picture here, but I'm afraid of those minors that might come across this blog and seeing it.
I still can't erase it from my mind :-D
A fat naked woman lying on a bed with her four limbs tied to the bed, and a man (seems like) is tickling her hand - not her foot at all. She looks like laughing and screaming at the same time. The picture size is too small to see it clearly. I think it's nothing but provoking laugh.

And how old is this guy? I read on the profile, he's born in 1990! Gosh!
I got contacted by him on a supposedly very decent site, a language learning site.

No, of course I'm not interested in his offer, maybe Bigfoot would love his offer :-D

Firsts of My 2006

First thing to drink: Red wine
First thing to eat: Tiramisu cake
First thing to wish: God bless 2006
First sleep: not yet
First thing to blog: Firsts of My 2006