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The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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In a perfect world, it means we’re turning a new chapter of our life, and live another moment of grace, prosperity, health and all other great stuff other people might have never tasted them in a real world.

At the last twilight yesteryear, I didn’t think that I could be here again this time, to enjoy the last sun-although a little drizzly outside-of 2011, the year which I believe most people have been cherishing because of what they have accomplished.

Different people, different destiny. Some people live in a royal palace, but don’t close our eyes, some people also live in a small dirty old shack, with the whole family.

Another person, another aim. One person wants to get another side job only to get assurance to maintain their crazy lifestyle. And another person just walks down the street, coming from one office building to another, to make sure they could get a new job to feed their family.

Life is… Seen as unjust, told as cruel, sounded like a nightmare but the attractions of its fairy tale and of its lifetime funfair make people believe to survive, to struggle but quite often also leave some people feel suicidal.

Life is… The holy grail, an empty one, after which everyone earnestly pursue. It is so empty that most of the time makes us too busy to work on how we fill it with the things we want, the things we need and we forget, almost always how we make it worth-living filled with joy, happiness and most importantly a feeling of “I think I have enough.”

Nothing else matters. Don’t live under the sun of glorious past. Don’t count any more time. Live the present and just live it while it lasts!

And, in this part of the world where I am now, at least I know it in my mind, that new year has flipped. So let me wish you a happy New Year 2012 and may we all have another great blessed year ahead!

I used to write on a piece of paper.
I used to pour my mind down into my personal computer.
Until a friend of mine introduced me to what is now called one of the most influential means of communication: a social media.

I started uploading all my writings into my wordpress account.
Then I uploaded my some photos.
And I recently uploaded my painting images.
And last year I bought the domain.

It is now:
http://mohammadreiza.com
And it has collected over 74,000 hits worldwide.
It is now 5 years in existence and I promise, it will still be growing.

Thank you for your visit and support.
Please come again and give some comments if you have.

Thanks a million,

Reiza
Twitter: @reizamohammad

Everyone stands a lot of chances to do so many things. When one door shuts, another door opens. When one window is closed another one will be opened for us. Again and again every now and then. Thus, we shall never feel afraid of losing chances, of losing hopes and strength. To go with changes is the greatest experience I ever gain in life. The miracle of seeing the beauty of many little (and big things) in life, is really indescribable. It feels like we’re flying with time and through times. And at the end of the day, little did we realize that we have gone through so many days, so many lives, we met so many people, so many characters, we visited so many places and saw so many buildings and cultures.

Few years back, I used to have this big fear of failing in life. And now after going through almost three good years, that feeling slowly disappears. And now I think that this is time for me to change. This is time for me to have another life. I am so grateful that I met so many great and inspiring people throughout the journey, people that have maintained and lived so many lives in their journeys. People that have changed and become someone else within themselves time after time. And they don’t seem to bother. They don’t seem to be regretful. In the contrary. They have so many stories to tell. They have so may stories to share. They have then become the great storytellers. And I want to be like them one day. Open up my shutting door and share my life and myself with the world, with other people. For the sake of getting connected to as many people as long as I live, to live my life to the fullest.

I more strongly believe that God creates the world not for nothing, not for everyone to shut their doors and just live their simple life. After all, the way our body works is never that simple. Let’s get tangled in life and experience more. We go with changes and do more things that we never thought we would and could do, but still within the corridors of our personal belief, personal faith, personal ethics and personal morale.

Sometimes, we can be smart and we can also be stupid. Smart-ness and stupid-ness are part of ourselves, so be it. Don’t waste our time being somebody we are not, life is simply too short for that. If you want to be smart, be it. If you want to be stupid, just be it. If you want to be simple, you can. If you want to be complicated, you can. The choice of being is fully ours. Don’t listen to what others say. Listen to your inner-heart and inner-voice.

Me, myself five years ago are totally different set of characters and personality from me and myself now. I have changed so much in the last years, although some people think I’m still the same person. I don’t change. I lost hope, I lost shelter and I was jobless for a little while until I saw chances and grabbed them. And the last two years or so, I hoped that I have really helped some people find their chances and excelled. I don’t hope for something in return. I don’t expect to get praises or personal credits. Sometime some people just have to understand and remember where they were, where we were or where I was.

To the hands of God I gave my life. On the miracles of God I rely my destiny. And with my shattered faith, I start all over again. I put myself together and I work on many things from zero. Sometimes life puts us to the point where we lose everything we have, as if that what we had in the past doesn’t really matter anymore–they lose their values. At some point, everything we have is taken instantly just like when it was given in the first place. But to start thing all over is really what we are so capable of, so why afraid?

Forty days left before I’m going on 28, the end of my having all the time in the world to fix my life for the second time with the second chance. But as I’m writing this monologue much do I realize that such thing doesn’t exist in my life dictionary anymore. Because I know, when I make mistakes again in the future, I can always fix them and move on. So can everyone of us. We’re born to get tangled in life, in so many lives. To make so many mistakes, learn and fix them and continue the journey of life.

Life is such a great journey of self search. One’s self search to be a whole being; yet we don’t have to be perfect and to be complete. The imperfectness and the incompleteness are the things that make us humane, that make us different from anyone because we are what we are. We are what we are doing again and again. And we deserve different and many chances in life to always better ourselves.

Every journey offers new situation that stimulates our mind and our soul. It’s feeding us with wisdom and knowledge, the food for our brain cells. It gives us chances to see the world and life from so many different views. Just how sometime we feel ups and downs. Every little thing shows us possibilities that we never could think of before.

Some people learn to better understand themselves and some people just take this for granted as if things would always be the same, forgetting that everything progresses and that the only constant thing is the change itself. Maybe they are nervous and afraid to go along with the change and they reconcile with themselves that accepting they way they are right now is the best thing to do and that changing means getting out of their comfort zone—big change on their entire life.

I am too, sometime afraid to change. I am happy with my current condition. And if I change meaning I would have to start things all over again. I always want to have something better and that I want to better what I have. I just couldn’t do much about it.

My life has been so flat in the last 2 years. Everything seems to be in the right order. Everything is easy to achieve. No significant difficulties come my way. I get everything easily, not that I am not grateful with things are going, it’s just that I need to put some colors in my life. I know and I understand that I have been showered with so much love and blessings and I always want to feel that.

Sometime the road is very smooth but sometime we travel through winding road. My path has been soft and easy to walk on. On the one hand, it’s very comforting, as I don’t have to get so frustrated about what’s happening along the way. On the other hand, my world has become very narrow. I can’t experience what others go through and how it is to be another person with another situation and problems.

To travel is the best thing for me to open up my eyes, my ears and my heart to traverse my own self-search. To travel helps me find new elements that I can add into myself.  Use the good positive components and understand the negative aspects and learn from them and try not doing that. It’s like how I learn from my parents to be a strong life fighter and not to be a loser and failure for the family. The yin-yang in life teach us the balance of all life elements and our part is to take the advantages life gives us to learn, shape and strengthen us as a great individual.

The Gili Trawangan-Meno I had last night was really unforgettable (boat) trip in my life. My friends and I decided to go to Gili Trawangan from Gili Meno at around sunset time by a charter boat–the same boat we hired for snorkeling earlier in the day..

It was so lively in Gili Trawangan, with more people and in a way, too many tourists. But it was really something. We had fine dinner by the beach at the Beach House Restaurant. And we went to Rudy’s for sort of night life activity. We asked our boatman to pick us up at the pier at 1 a.m. But when we got there, he wasn’t there yet. We called him right away and he said he was just about to go. So, we were waiting and decided to sleep a bit on a beach lodge.

Then here he came. And it was like 2 a.m. When the ocean wave was at its wildest activity. The boatman came with his wife. And when everyone was aboard and the boat was about to start, it got stuck in the beach sand. The boatman went off and tried to push the boat to the sea. After a couple of minutes he made it but another problem came, the engine did not want to start. It was just the beginning of the thrill.

When it eventually started, as we thought it could happen, the wild wave welcome us right away, shaking our wooden small-sized boat ups and down, rights and lefts and some water just splashed and poured into our boat. If you could feel the thrill; I asked everyone to pray along the way but I also tried to calm down as if everything would be ok (it did in the end). It was a very long ride, but after 10 or 15 minutes, the wave calmed down a bit and we started enjoying the breeze and the stars. The boatman’s wife told us that it was fishing time and we could see the fish jumping around the sea surface..

I never saw that many stars in my life, as far as I could remember. How many? Millions, to as far as I could see the sky, I saw the stars. It was very heart- shocking moment. I was so enthralled. And what shocked me the most was something that I always saw on tv which I never completely believed. But after witnessing that with my eyes and heart. I believe in that. Not only one shooting star that I saw, I witnessed two! In just one night. The first one had a short tail, and I made a wish right away. And I kept waiting on the next one to come. And I saw it with a longer tail, but I was already stunned, amazed and speechless. I couldn’t make any wish anymore, but praised Allah the Almighty..

The journey took about 45 minutes. And I saw millions of stars, thousands of fish, above the blue ocean water and under the very starry night sky.

I thank God for giving me this opportunity to experience such beauty that God creates. This is a real heaven on earth… And this will always be a life experience that I will cherish…

Alhamdulillah ya Allah…

But I learn to see, I open up my heart to accept, and I listen up. I see through the eyes of my father how I still could love her, through good deeds I do to him and share with unfortunate others. By sharing, by caring, by loving, by giving–all of these have lifted me higher and understand more the meaning of Ramadan and what’s hidden, and forgotten by most, within it. I was so glad that not only I could see that, but I encourage others to share our fortune with others–and to inspire.

Even though I still failed to cherish Ramadan this year, at least I’ve tried to make it the most unforgettable in my life with big support of the closest ones. So, on this special moment, no matter the difference, I’d wish you a blessed and blissful Eid Al-fitr. May the blessing and mercy of Allah be showered on us until we see Ramadan again next year.

A lot of people still have difficulty in understanding themselves no matter how long they have been learning and understanding themselves, even if they have understood about themselves, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they could be at peace with themselves. It is also about self-acceptance, which most people have difficulty.

Accepting ourselves is a good start where we could explore further about ourselves. It might have slight difference with compromise, but we’ll somewhat compromise with ourselves if we have accepted who we really are–without wearing any mask, and without telling the world world that we are not wearing mask–through good and difficult times.

Self-acceptance is the key to a light and easy life, I believe, because then we’ll unconsciously spread the ‘positive’ energy it creates to our surroundings: people around us and the environment we’re living in, to every sphere of our lives. on the other hand, self-disacceptance will spread ‘negative’ energy to everything and everyone around us. Positivity will automatically recorded in us and it’s reflected in what we’re doing; step by step we will reach completion.

However, as only human being, we also still have other emotional elements such as anger, anxiety, nervousness happiness and sadness. These feelings will definitely affect on how we control our peaceful-selves and the positive-negative energy we reflect onto our actions. But, when we feel that we react badly towards certain things, try to get out of ourselves, cleanse the negativity quickly and grab ourselves wholly to positivity–take control of ourselves and take a very deep breath and exhale..

Being at peace with myself gives me more reasons to be happy, optimistic and excited although I can’t always do this at all times, I’ve been trying. The environment and surrounding we are in and the people really affect our abilities to do so, but keep doing and believing and try as hard as we could possibly do to be at our peaceful state of mind.

After all, being at peace with ourselves and positivity will keep us calm and enable us to do things better, in terms of better process that we could learn from and better outcomes that we could be proud of…

It used to be my condition but now to travel seems to be easier than before. To travel alone sounds really not interesting but not for me, although sometime I feel like having a traveling buddy. The only thing I don’t like when traveling on my own is that I will always have difficulty to take pictures of myself in front of a landmark of the places I visit, but it’s not a big deal. It is just one thing to memorize, but the rest depend on how we could pass on the stories to others. And not only that, when we learn, understand, accept and transform ourselves to be a better person after traveling, that’s one big thing. Traveling should make ourselves more culturally sensitive and versatile, and that we adapt to new cultures, peoples and places quicker and easier.

When I travel alone, I got to know new people, I learn about new cultures, languages and social norms as well as generation-to-generation traditions apart from observing the places I’ve visited–how we ‘read’ the surroundings of the places and how they all gravitate towards one largest thing on site and how they could vibrate together to create a bigger life.

I cried, I laughed, I sobbed, I got stunned, amazed, moved and all of those elements that shook my being and shaped a whole new notional standpoint in myself–all of these things that I loved feeling and letting them battling inside my head and my heart. They nourish my soul, my thoughts and emotional connection to the universe. It’s not how long we spend in a particular place but it’s about how quick we absorb and let all the things come inside our ‘home’ through the door of acceptance.

I found myself fought with the locals, I ended up getting lost in the labyrinth of new places and I let myself battle to adjust with the new cultures I encounter and lost in translation of the foreign language I never heard in my life. These things bombarded me everyday with their dynamic movement that definitely help me grow..

The travel itinerary is somewhat crazy: Jakarta-Surabaya-Bali-Jakarta-Manila-Davao City-Tagaytay-Manila-Jakarta in just a couple of days, but I believe as always, this will be another precious learning process for me to have such packed schedule to run around, not as some people say ‘ants in pants’; every travel will enrich the traveler for as long as the traveler wills to take the lessons and experiences gained and collected throughout the journey.

To learn about the people, to understand about the culture, to read about the language and to memorize the places visited. Everything is a learning point and every learning point is a chance to grow more mature and to be more knowledgeable; whatever happens a long the way: good experiences and small unfortunate mishaps, we don’t take them for granted but we take them as potential values that could help us transform to be a better person, to be a more culturally versatile person and to be a more understanding person about others of different cultures and ethnicities.

That’s about traveling–it travels our soul, heart and mind to a higher quality humankind.