Happy Independence Day of East Timor

It is 28^th of November (2015) today here in the States, but half of 29^th already back home in East Timor now as I am writing this entry. The 28^th of November is called the proclamation of Independence Day. Celebration of the day is regularly festive.

The celebration happens to be in dry season or known summer in the northern hemisphere society. The heat in summer makes the spirit of nationalism becomes fiery. East Timorese are proud when they celebrate the day, they chant, they laugh, and even they still have the memory of hardship, and revolution.

When I woke up today’s morning, I opened my window. I looked out from the window, I saw a leafless tree. The branches no longer have leafs because all have been swallowed by the fall season.

I saw crystal splashes vine around the three branches. It gives a more relaxing and cooling spirit to think about the fiery celebration that my fellows were and are celebrating back home given the humidity and hot weather at this time.

These crystal splashes come to mind to write. I want to connect the purity of the water drips to balance all negative spirit of pessimism, adversity, hostility, corruptive, self-righteousness, etc.

The purity of water-like spirit can balance those negative things. I hope, as the country gets older, Timorese learn to be more honest, and kinder in each one’s attitudes and behaviors as pure as the water splashes on the photo. This is one of the core principles of the independence is about. 

Happy 40th of Independence!

**I hope this gives you an inspiration       

Get the Safety Vigilance Reminder Out For All of Us

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It is sad to hear it, predetermined and planned killing, again in Paris, France. What I am trying to put in here is not that I am interested to write as if I am an international observer. Instead, we are now highly mobile or easy to go anywhere as opportunity for it is open for many of us.

Such an incidence is no longer just for people who are perceived as the target; everyone in the group is target. It sometimes happens in places about which we are so passionate to visit. Hence, vigilance is an indispensable psychological skill that everyone should have when one visits places that were used to have very good reputation of security systems.

New York City in America, Paris in France, and London in England, to name a few, can never be trusted for having perfect security systems that could lead us to be ignorant. It is, to my own understanding, our own vigilance that makes the security becomes close to perfect in a place where we are in.

I am thinking to write this down because as the more I travel the more friends I make. That leads me to know many friends around the world. They live in places that could have such incidences like the one happened in Paris on 13 November, 2015. I would like to get this reminder out for all of us.

I also particularly target the reminder to my fellow countrymen who are also so mobile within the European continent recently. Even though in a few amount, they are agile, and curious people who often end up in places where insane people may potentially plan to target for killing innocent people.

The point is be mindful when we go to crowded places, at the very least, for one's own individual safety; more than that be mindful for the collective safety in the place where we are in. That is how human is created for in this universe.

**Hope this gives you an inspiration