in sickness and in health the universe has it's ways

so beautiful. the way south from the harbour in the northern part of lombok. started in the mountains and the views were breathtaking. on the road there were monkeys and the driver was a bit too aggressive at them, with his face and honking. i shared a car with a couple from denmark who were on a two month trip around the islands of indonesia. i couldn't not film the views while chatting with them, tho from the car it was nothing compared to reality. after the mountains came villages and towns and the car stopped. we were about to change cars because this one was not approved to transfer customers. we joined another van which already had a group of seven young spanish and their speakers in it, all of us going to kuta.

i got to honey bee home stay and there she was, natali! she had already lived there over a month and got stuck in love with the place and the lifestyle: surfing and chilling with locals and some westerners too.

on the first day (sunday) she showed me around on a scooter, then it started raining and we went to bed early. at night i got sick and the next two days i had a fever over 38 that i usually dont have. couldnt do much cause all my muscles ached and on tuesday she took me to the medical center which was a tiny pretty place and they gave me liquids and medicine in my veins (haha). next to me was a 52 yo guy from sydney and we had a chat about well many things. hus daughter studied social work as well and is now travelling the world, she worked in an orphanage in india and his wife is a mix of four cultures (or how u say it) for example aboriginal and maori. he had travelled in so many places im about to later thus year so it was a really good chat. then he left. i wished i would've asked his digits. universe heard my wish and he came back after 5 minutes so i said i'd love to meet your daughter when im in australia and he gave his number and said im most welcome to stay with them when im in sydney.

i spent the night in a bedroom there. couldnt sleep much but i had my music as a good company. also i felt like singing so i guess i was getting better already. i had to move my body as well, wjerever it ached i used it, stretching or i dunno other movements. what i've learned in life is wherever your hurting it needs either touching or using. one himself is the only one who really can fix them. im a great self-massauce by the way. also stretching is highly disrespected imo. it's soooooo important for the body.

okay so i got out and we went straight to krupuk (kerupuk?) where natali goes surfing and chilling with her local buddies. the way there was B E A U T I F U L oh my god i died in the hospital and went to heaven. actually, this planet of ours IS heaven, some people just dont gettit and they keep ruining it with all the bullshit that is happening in the world. thank god there are more and more people everyday waking up to make a difference by choosing a better lifestyle to live with respect for mother earth.

some went surfing doctor said no to me so i stayed on the boat and took a swim. didnt remember how much i love to swim. not only swimming more like swimgym or swimyoga. it was perfect. after two hours it was raining so hard we were hugging each other to stay warm on the boat. we chilled a bit at sea monkeys and ate there cause of the rain and while the locals went for a wedding party we got home. later they joined us for a chill at ours. that night i slept like a baby. for the first time here.

the next day i got flu. funny how my body talks to me like that, chill the fuck out woman. so i listened and took it very easy. we did some yoga at our homestay, i had four students, was fun. then i felt like writing and natali went to krupuk by herself after seeing the sunset from a small hill. she spent the night there. friday was our last half a day in lombok. we went to krupuk to surf (me swim) again and i got some colour on my skin, yeii. wont be white as snow when i go back. the feeling on the boat got stuck in my body and i felt it the whole evening and even the next day as well.

even tho i was sick, lomvok took a piece of my heart and i was already planning to come back on christmas or next spring the latest. i want to learn to surf here. im gonna miss the views, fell in love with em.

a bit of kuta bali next time, now i really need to take a swim before my last adventure back to finland! see yous xxx

connecting and creativity in gili t

i actually prefer this style haha. easier to read (t.lasimestari). our pick-up car was late and arrived around 8 am. the car was a van and there were eight of us and the driver. on the backseat was a family of three, mom dad and a baby. they were behind my seat and i connected with the baby many times throughout the ride. looking at her, smiling, chatting, letting her touch my hands and face, whatever really. there was also an older man who was observing my way of making the connection. in the front row there were three younger girls. we talked a bit and i started listening to music and writing, at times just looking around the scenery. i fell in love with bali based on 16 hours and will be back for sure.

we got to the harbour where we got tickets to the ferry from a restaurant. we waited for the ferry for quite a while and i took a moment listening to music and said hi to the sand and the sea with my feet. more and more people came to the waiting spot and each had a sticker on their shirts saying which gili island they are going to. three options: gili air (relaxing), gili trawangan (parties) and gili meno (honeymoon). it was friday and my friend's friend was having a birthday there so gili trawangan it was. gilies are also close to lombok where natali was staying at so it was just one stop on my way there.

 when the ferry crew said the sun deck is open me and anna (an angel from holland) went up. even tho it was windy and cloudy, i got burned. half of my face, parts of my neck and my arms and legs were red like a lobster. luckily in the cottage yard was aloe vera that i put on the burns.

the first evening i went to eat by myself but heard some estonian/finnish behind me and asked four guys if the are from estonia. from finland, oulu. i joined them for dinner and a beer. they all played floorball and knew my big brother. small world. i was so tired and the beer made me even more so i went to sleep. couldn't sleep until 3 am because of the loud music but i was fine. listening to my own music, chatting with friends from finland and reading stuff. also my puerto rican friend sent me a link for this documentary about star children, so i watched it as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO1ICAyO-YE

on saturday i had a shroom-papaya shake for breakfast with two guys. after a while i went for a walk. i walked real slow and was looking at everything, taking it all in. taking pictures and videos. gili t is a beautiful island. there are actually horse carriages on the island. bicycles and horse rides. no scooters. it's so pretty. beautiful guest houses/hotels i don't know how they should be called cause they are all very unique. bars, restaurants, gardens, sun decks, pools, shops, people, music.

i had a moment with a horse. i walked close to her and let her smell me, get to know my energy. after a while i laid my hand on her neck. her breathing was fast and scared i guess but i just stood there close to her my hand on her neck, patting and massaging a bit and her breathing relaxed. i continued walking and stopped by an outside art gallery. there was one local guy carving a piece of wood. all the wood art came from his town from across the sea in lombok. it started raining and i ran to the nearest shelter, a nice looking restaurant. i sat at the bar and ordered a coconut. a canadian guy also got stuck there and we started chatting. he teaches english to three graders in south korea. i felt creative and had so many ideas so i felt like writing.

i got hungry and wanted to find some nice vegetarian place. universe heard my wish and one thing led to another. i was walking back and felt like going on the beach behind the bars. one local man with a fishing boat gave me advice about how to get to lombok and showed me a quieter room if i wanted to move there cause i told him i could hear all the noice in my room and couldn't sleep last night. opposite the place i heard reggae music and a german girl who i had a chat with. she needed to go to the store near by so i joined her. there was also a guy who had lived in gili t over a year now and he recommended a nice vegetarian place for me to eat at and told me the directions (close to the big moskeija). it was raining again and an italian guy with an umbrella walked before me and i asked if i may join under. after his stop another guy, local asked me to come over. i went to the bar and he shared a cigarette with me. he walked me to the veg place cause he knew where it was and knew the staff there. also he made me a braid (similar i had in varkala). one finnish and one german woman joined us for food and i massaged the german and showed her some good yoga stretches cause she had some issues with her body. at the next table from ours was a scottish guy, blair, who had lived abroad for 18 years. he's living now in gili t. he had studied different tribes in the world for example saame tribe we have in finland. also he knew the whole kalevala story. he was so interesting i would've loved to hear him tell his stories more. 

after dinner i felt tired again so i went back to the cottage. my friend was already in bed but wanted me to go get him some food. he gave me earplugs so i got a little bit more sleep that night.

blair had asked me to stop by at a reggae cafe where he worked before i left gili t the next morning. i went there for a salad but couldn't see him. anna saw me eating there and joined me. i asked her to write in my journal. got the idea from mila, she wanted me to write in hers and she also wrote in mine. both of them wrote so beautiful things i can't even. <3 i walked to the harbour to buy tickets to lombok and waited for a public boat. whenever it is full it leaves. i had an idea that i'd go to the veg place and leave a note to blair. i asked if it's okay and the ticket man said if the boat comes and i don't get in, i have to buy a new ticket. it was less than 1 euro so i didn't mind. i went, left a note and came back just in time to hop on the boat. 

universe. it's a mysterious work of different vibes. and i love it.

greeeeetings from indonesia !

back in the tropics !!! love it so much.

my trip began on wednesday morning at 6.30 and 3 flights and 25 hours later i arrived in bali. a friend of mine from the usa i met in goa a year ago picked me up from the airport with his scooter. it was raining but he had a raincoat with so me and my backpack didnt get wet. i smiled the whole ride that took about an hour. back home. in the tropics. <3

he stayed in a gorgeous villa with his friend who wasnt there so i got to stay the first night there. two bedrooms with toilets, open kitchen and a yard with a swimming pool.

okay i cant get this back to the left. and apparently it's bigger as well. everything happens for a reason heh. i was super tired from the travelling because i didnt get almost any sleep on the planes. we rolled us a smoke while we were catching up. all the stories one has, like wow! we talked loads about the awakening and what an awesome time we're here to witness AND CREATE.

after playing some guitar we had to run some errands, tickets to gili trawangan and cash for me. i did not remember how much i love sitting on a scooter and just looking around. all the beautiful sceneries that change as you move forward. nature is so close everywhere, like everything built respects the nature and guest houses and cafes have gardens.

this amazing place called ubud got a piece of my heart. luckily my heart is endless. mila, a beautiful girl i met in varkala over a year ago was doing a yoga ttc there and she was one of the reasons i bought tickts to bali. we had a perfect evening together and healed the world and our souls a little bit more. she's an inspiration and i love how our paths crossed again. i know that we'll meet again somewhere in the world. she's a part of my ever extending soul family.

my friend picked me up at mila's (nuriani guest house = SO beautiful!!), dropped me at his and went for few beers. i got to sleep for 2-3 hour, then he came back and i woke up. our ride to the harbour was around 7am and he came back after three so we chilled out (including packing our things and cooking breakfast) for three hours before leaving for the pick-up place. we lost the track of time many times but checked it every now and again to make sure we wont be late. i played other songs i didnt play earlier and he said that my music is very healing. :):):):"):) that was nice to hear. after indonesia my music "career" will take a step further! i've found me a duo from a puerto rican guy and we're awesome together !!! first song almost ready already.

with love, a new indo lover