Top Dog Bloggers

Are they real?
If you ever joined or are joining Bloggerwave then you probably know what I'm writing here.
That's the top earners list on Bloggerwave. That list really brings question to my head. I have joined BW since December (or early January) but I never have seen any opportunity there, yet the bloggers on that list can get that much?

Then sometimes ago, I googled some of the names from that Top Dog bloggers list, guess what?
I found a post by Meredith Neiss, the supposed runner up on the list, she expresses her surprise on how her name can be on the second top when all that she's done only 5 posts of $US 10 each.

Just now I made some further search about those name on the list, I chose 3 names to google and none of the results that I get relate bloggerwave. Strange? Or maybe that can't be taken as a proof of something wrong.
Here's another funny fact about that top dog bloggers list.
Why does it use Dog anyway? Dog is a trusty creature, dog's image shouldn't be used for -I hope I'm wrong- something phoney.
I don't know how to delete my profile there now. Wondering.

Photo by ansik

Dream Ingredient

When you dream of someone, that could mean that the person you dream of is thinking of you, said Ira.

I hadn't really been in touch with Leet in these last previous days and was thinking about that.

This morning I dreamt I answer a phone call in the stretch of morning when the light in my bedroom is still off. I can see myself smiling when I hear Leet's voice on the phone, and I can read what I'm thinking during the conversation, I am thinking how lucky that I don't ignore the phonecall. It looks like I miss her a lot.

When I woke up, I planned to call her soon.
But my soon was taking longer time, I was doing internet thing when my mobile's beeping, and it was from Leet.
I immediately told her about the dream.
Funny that she said she'd been thinking of calling me in the morning because she dreamt about that too?

Back to Ira's saying, of course that someone should be anyone who we are acquainted with in person.

Want to try? ;)

Prophetic Dream?

I am not really a fan of Manchester United.
That's why I felt weird when one day in February I woke up with the feeling that I just saw a picture of MU team cheering up with a trophy, and a headline above it with three words that I saw vividly "MU won" and "UEFA."

I had that kind of dream too before and it did come true, but I think that probably happened because I really wanted JD to win that Rockstar: INXS.

Will this become a prophetic dream?
.....for sure it's a nightmare for the Rossoneri ...but never fear a dream or to dream .....

The Guest

Yesterday morning I spot a stranded butterfly perched on my bathroom wall.
I thought it would find its way out soon or later.
I was wrong.
This morning when I entered the bathroom I was happy to see the empty wall, until I spot it on the ceiling.

There's a superstitious believe in my country that butterfly in a house is an omen of guest coming to that house.
That will be a good-looking guest then, since the butterfly was good-looking ;-)

The butterfly is safe now, after my sister came and rescued it.

It's a boy

The prophecy's fulfilled!
The sequence happened...
My sis-in-law got cured, became preggy, and delivered a cute baby boy today!

A deviant reading that did happen.
Jesus is always in the number one of thank you list though.

13 = 1+3 = 4 = Good luck!

Last year when I went to Penang Island, I visited a famous Thai Buddhist temple. It's one of tourist destinations in Penang.
Usually in many Buddhist temples we can get fortune reading.
I like this kind of thing, though if I got bad reading, I will never believe it.
Say, I'm superstitious only when my reading outcome is a good :-D

So, as soon as I entered the temple, I asked Sarjid, our tour guide, where can I get a fortune reading. He showed me a machine with a slot for a coin. Since I didn't have the prescribed coin, Sarjid kindly gave me one. I put it into the slot. I don't remember exactly, I think there's a ball in that machine that would go round and stop at a specific number after the machine swallowed the coin. Before I got the result, I had a funny feeling that I would get either 13 or 4, and it was.
As I took out the small paper number 4, I told Sarjid,
- I knew I would get this number

I told him that 4 and 13 are considered as some omens of bad luck by some people in my country, especially by Chinese Indonesian, because 4 sounds like death. Some high-rise buildings with more than 12 floors don't have floor number 13, but 12B or other than 13. Though I never believe in any bad reading, I still felt cross a bit.
But Sarjid encouraged me to read it.
The saying started with something like "you are going to be lonely for a very long time before you finally find happiness in your life."

- See...I knew it I should not read it
+ Don't worry, it's my coin, so it's not your reading at all, just throw it away

But instead, I kept it in my jeans pocket.

In the car, on our way back to the hotel, I frivolously took that small paper out of my pocket. This time, I read the reverse side of the paper.
Surprise....
I shouted out the words, it was written something like this:
"For a married person, you will have your ill wife recovered and she will soon bear your son"

It was intendedly a reading for man. I was supposed to take the pink colour which is for woman.

+ That's a reading for your brother then, give it to him

My brother was also in the car with us. He just smiled widely, but didn't say a word.

At the hotel, I told about that to my sis-in-law who had just returned from hospital after her 3 or 4 days of stay there for her big operation. My Mom and she were happy to hear that, and wanted to see that small paper. Too bad, my brother threw it away, cos fortune reading is actually against our Christian belief :-P

Today my sis-in-law is 5 months pregnant.
But we believe it's only because of our God's mercy that my brother and her will soon have a baby.

Let's wait and see, baby girl or baby boy?

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.

New Sensation

When I woke up this morning I had a funny feeling that I just saw in my dream JD wins the RockStar:INXS.

There's a superstitious belief amongst some people in my country that dream is the opposite of reality. I freaked out, and thought why I have to dream him winning. Bad luck!

Fortunately it was not an omen.
JD Fortune is the New Sensation!

Too bad Reality Show creates haters too, not only fans.
Mig and Marty each will be in their own success.
Why worry about them? Why throwing bad words over JD?

Mig Ayesa is great, but he's too well-mannered to rock.
Marty is great, but didn't blend well with INXS as seen at the finale show.

JD, he's great and dynamic.
He thinks fast and outside the box as mentioned by Andrew.

So for JD haters, like JD sang it well:
....You can't always get what you want.....
......You just might find.............
........You get what you need......

JD is What you need.

Now, I'm gonna miss The House Band!
Finally, not All About JD.
Enjoy the new sensation.