A Visit to the Cemetery
June 29, 2006
Today I’m having a difficult time coz I’m still having stomach ache, it’s like having cramps on your stomach, I already took medicines but nothings happening. I’m only drinking water and juice for me to not be dehydrated, I texted Arta my friend about this and he said he will drop by at my house and will give me a tea to drink.
Thanks to Arta, he arrived at the house and gave me this tea, it doesn’t taste good hut I have to drink it he said, its made by his mother, he said he drinks it also if he has stomach aches. After few minutes, Arta asked me if I wanted to come with him and his family to a temple to pray and give some offerings, I said ok since I’m feeling better also. So we went to the temple, I was not allowed to get inside the temple because I’m not wearing the one that you put on top of your head, so I just waited outside of the temple with his sister who is a Muslim. While waiting outside I took picture of an elderly woman who has some offerings on top her head.
After few minutes Arta and his parents went out of the temple, we went to a nearby small cemetery just walking distance from the temple, their cemetery looks like our cemetery too they just don’t have the cross sign, we went to the burial place of his cousin who died in a motor cycle accident just few months, you can see on the pictures that they also offer food to their dead, they believe that they still need to be fed with foods. I also learned from Arta that after few years they will get the bones of their dead and burn them so it will turn into ashes, this ceremony usually takes 7 days and it’s so expensive you have to spend millions of Rupiahs, he also mentioned that if they already have the ashes, they will spread it to the oceans or sea. Before going to the motorbike I asked Arta to accompany me to a nearby shore to take pictures of the waves, the waves here are high also but it is not recommended for swimming or surfing.
After here we went back home and get some proposals and sample products, we went to Arta’s friend and manager, Budhi. We met him and his wife in a small mall near their house in Denpasar. I presented to him the Beach Hut sales kit and he said he will refer it also to some of his friends from hotels, coz he also worked for some hotel companies before, I also took some pictures of Spalding and Nivea sunblocks displayed on this mall’s grocery section.
Today I’m having a difficult time coz I’m still having stomach ache, it’s like having cramps on your stomach, I already took medicines but nothings happening. I’m only drinking water and juice for me to not be dehydrated, I texted Arta my friend about this and he said he will drop by at my house and will give me a tea to drink.
Thanks to Arta, he arrived at the house and gave me this tea, it doesn’t taste good hut I have to drink it he said, its made by his mother, he said he drinks it also if he has stomach aches. After few minutes, Arta asked me if I wanted to come with him and his family to a temple to pray and give some offerings, I said ok since I’m feeling better also. So we went to the temple, I was not allowed to get inside the temple because I’m not wearing the one that you put on top of your head, so I just waited outside of the temple with his sister who is a Muslim. While waiting outside I took picture of an elderly woman who has some offerings on top her head.
After few minutes Arta and his parents went out of the temple, we went to a nearby small cemetery just walking distance from the temple, their cemetery looks like our cemetery too they just don’t have the cross sign, we went to the burial place of his cousin who died in a motor cycle accident just few months, you can see on the pictures that they also offer food to their dead, they believe that they still need to be fed with foods. I also learned from Arta that after few years they will get the bones of their dead and burn them so it will turn into ashes, this ceremony usually takes 7 days and it’s so expensive you have to spend millions of Rupiahs, he also mentioned that if they already have the ashes, they will spread it to the oceans or sea. Before going to the motorbike I asked Arta to accompany me to a nearby shore to take pictures of the waves, the waves here are high also but it is not recommended for swimming or surfing.
After here we went back home and get some proposals and sample products, we went to Arta’s friend and manager, Budhi. We met him and his wife in a small mall near their house in Denpasar. I presented to him the Beach Hut sales kit and he said he will refer it also to some of his friends from hotels, coz he also worked for some hotel companies before, I also took some pictures of Spalding and Nivea sunblocks displayed on this mall’s grocery section.
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