Java, late October 1965 and I was 13 years old at the time. That night our father woke us up and told us to go outside to see “lintang kemukus”. It is a Javanese name for a comet. When I looked up, there almost filling across the dark sky was the bright tail of Ikeya [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Ikeya Seki Comet
Posted in Poems, tagged Comet, Ikeya Seki, Poem, Writing on October 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In Memory Of Luciano Pavarotti
Posted in Life, tagged Luciano Pavarotti, Music, Nostalgia, One Year In Memoriam on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It has been more than a year since the world lost one of The Three Tenors. Luciano Pavarotti, a son of a baker from Modena, Italia was born October 12, 1935 and he died on September 6, 2007.
Although his early dream as an average young boy was to become a goal keeper in soccer game, [...]
Back in my early teens, one of my favourite songs was Sukiyaki which was sung by The Blue Diamond. Until to day I still love the song and recently I found and enjoy the original Sukiyaki song which is a Japanese song.
If people talk about Sukiyaki, it can mean two things. It is either [...]
Strange Dancing Lights
Posted in Life, tagged Nature's Wonder, Strange Dancing Lights, Writing on October 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The other day, I found some digital pictures that my son took on December 23, 2005. That night around 11.00PM (Melbourne time, Australia), I went outside to admire the Christmas lights decorations at the front part of our house. They were so bright and colourful. It was a cloudy night without any stars to be seen. [...]
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