Savour every moment

Beyonce

2009-01-24T00:42:00.001-08:00

2009-01-23T23:56:00.000-08:00

Jay Z
“Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly”

2009-01-23T23:24:00.000-08:00

Obama's 1st Dance-Beyonce singing At Last

First Dance for the First Couple - Barack and Michelle Obama

2009-01-23T22:53:00.000-08:00

At Last Lyrics

Etta James classic sang by Beyonce

At last, my love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song
Oh, yeah, at last
The skies above are blue
My heart was wrapped up in clovers
The night I looked at you
I found a dream that I could speak to
A dream that I can call my own
I found a thrill to rest my cheek to
A thrill that I have never known
Oh, yeah when you smile, you smile
Oh, and then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven
For you are mine
At last

2009-01-23T21:28:00.000-08:00

The moment in our history

2009-01-23T21:03:00.000-08:00

Obama - Oprah Speaks at UCLA Rally

Oprah Winfrey speaks at Barack Obama rally UCLA

Oprah & Michelle Introduce Barack Obama (Full Oprah Speech)

Barack Obama Welcomes Oprah to Iowa

LA Rally: Oprah Winfrey

LA Rally: Maria Shriver Announces Her Support for Barack

LA Rally: Caroline Kennedy

Denzel Washington opening We are One - Inauguration for Barack Obama 2009

2009-01-23T21:02:00.000-08:00

Barack Obama: Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial

2009-01-23T21:00:00.001-08:00

Barack Obama in Inauguration 2009 (part 2)

2009-01-23T20:59:00.001-08:00

Barack Obama Inauguration Day 2009 (part 1)

2009-01-23T20:58:00.001-08:00

Barack Obama on the Inauguration

2009-01-23T20:23:00.000-08:00

Michelle Obama on Ellen De Generes show

2009-01-23T20:09:00.000-08:00

Barack on how to balance family

2009-01-23T20:06:00.000-08:00

Barack Obama on Ellen - he is a good dancer

2009-01-23T20:05:00.001-08:00

President-Elect Barack Obama on Election Night

2009-01-23T20:02:00.001-08:00

A Mother's Promise: Barack's Biography

2009-01-23T19:57:00.001-08:00

Maya Soetoro Ng on her mother and Barack Obama

2009-01-23T19:46:00.001-08:00

Obama speaks Indonesia

2009-01-23T19:34:00.001-08:00

Shopaholic....

2009-01-05T22:55:00.000-08:00

Confessions of a Shopaholic Movie Trailer

Before you see the movie,

buy and read the book..

it is sooo hilarious..

Merry Christmas to all of my beloved friends and families

2008-12-24T18:39:00.000-08:00

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16

Best Christmas Wishes to all my dearest friends!

Lots of cheery holiday .

Fina Irawati

for GRACIANA LUXE
XOXO

IT'S A WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR
Andy William

It's the most wonderful time of the year
With the kids jingle-belling
And everyone telling you
Be of good cheer
It's the most wonderful time of the year

It's the hap-happiest season of all
With those holiday greetings
And great happy meetings
When friends come to call
It's the hap-happiest season of all

There'll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for roasting
And caroling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories
Of Christmases long, long ago

It's the most wonderful time of the year
There'll be much mistletoe-ing
And hearts will be glowing
When loved ones are near
It's the most wonderful time of the year

WHITE CHRISTMAS
Michael Bubble

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the tree tops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
just like the ones I used to know
Where the tree tops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases
May all your Christmases
May all your Christmases
May all your Christmases be white

I'm dreaming of a white
Christmas with you
Jingle Bells all the way, all the way

O HOLY NIGHT
Josh Groban

O Holy night, the stars are brightly shining
It is the night of our dear Savior's birth
Long lay the world in sin and error pining
Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth
A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn
Fall on your knees
O hear the angel voices
O night divine!
O night when Christ was born
O night divine!
O night, O night divine!
Truly He taught us to love one another
His law is love and His gospel is peace
Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother
And in His name, all oppression shall cease
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we
Let all within us praise His holy name
Christ is the Lord!
Then ever ever praise we
Noël, Noël
O night, O night divine
Noël, Noël
O night, O night divine
Noël, Noël
O night, O holy divine

This one is for all my friends
that cannot be home during Christmas.
May God Bless You all.
My prayer is always be with you.

I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
Josh Groban

I'm dreaming tonight of a place I love
Even more than I usually do
And although I know
It's a long road back, I promise you

I'll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Please, have snow and mistletoe
And presents under the tree

Christmas Eve will find you
Where the love light gleams
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams

Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light gleams
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams

If only in my dreams

Adoration of the Magi
Gentile da Fabriano, 1423
Tempera on panel, 203 × 282 cm
Florence, Uffizi

The Adoration of the Magi
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo
1655-1660
Museum of Art, Toledo (Ohio, USA)

THE CHRISTMAS SONG
Celine Dion

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like Eskimos

Everybody knows
A turkey and some mistletoe
Help to make the season bright
Tiny tots with their eyes all a-glow
Will find it hard to sleep tonight

They know that Santa's on his way
He's loaded lots of toys
And goodies on his sleigh
And every mother's child is gonna spy
To see if reindeer really know
How to fly

And so I'm offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to ninety two
Although it's been said
Many times many ways
Merry Christmas to you

And so I'm offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to ninety two
Although it's been said
Many times many ways
Merry Christmas to you
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
To you

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU
Mariah Carey

I dont want a lot for christmas
Theres just one thing I need
I dont care about presents
Underneath the christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true...
All I want for christmas
Is you...

I dont want a lot for christmas
There is just one thing I need
I dont care about presents
Underneath the christmas tree
I dont need to hang my stocking
There upon the fireplace
Santa claus wont make me happy
With a toy on christmas day
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for christmas is you...
You baby

I wont ask for much this christmas
I wont even wish for snow
Im just gonna keep on waiting
Underneath the mistletoe
I wont make a list and send it
To the north pole for saint nick
I wont even stay awake to
Hear those magic reindeer click
cause I just want you here tonight
Holding on to me so tight
What more can I do
Baby all I want for christmas is you
You...

All the lights are shining
So brightly everywhere
And the sound of childrens
Laughter fills the air
And everyone is singing
I hear those sleigh bells ringing
Santa wont you bring me the one I really need
Wont you please bring my baby to me

Oh I dont want a lot for christmas
This is all Im asking for
I just want to see baby
Standing right outside my door
Oh I just want him for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
Baby all I want for christmas is
You

All I want for christmas is you baby

MY MOVIE RECOMMENDATION FOR PERFECT HOLIDAY SEASON
These all my choices..
I know i know...
cheesy cheesy ..
but we should enjoy the season right?
Let me know your recommendation

LOVE ACTUALLY - 2003
Hugh Grant
Emma Thompson
Colin Firth
Liam Neeson

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING - 1995
Sandra Bullock
Bill Pullman
Peter Galagher

BRIDGET JONES DIARY - 2001
Renee Zellwegger
Hugh Grant
Colin Firth

Twilight Trailer

2008-12-15T22:08:00.000-08:00

Twilight Trailer

2008-11-26T22:31:00.000-08:00

Une Baignade, Asnières (Bathers at Asnières) is an 1884 neo-impressionist oil painting on canvas by Georges-Pierre Seurat. It was painted in Asnières-sur-Seine, France.

2008-11-26T22:28:00.000-08:00

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte

1884

George Seurat

Oil on canvas
207.6 × 308 cm, 81.7 × 121.25 in
Art Institute of Chicago

More information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Seurat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Afternoon_on_the_Island_of_La_Grande_Jatte

2008-11-26T21:02:00.000-08:00

Fra Filippo Lippi (b. Florence, ca. 1406–d. Spoleto, 1469)

Portrait of a Woman and a Man at a Casement, ca. 1440–44

Tempera on panel; 25 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (64.1 x 41.9 cm)

Inscribed on edge of woman's cuff: LEALT[À]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889 (89.15.19)

2008-11-26T21:00:00.000-08:00

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) (Florentine, 1444/45–1510) and Workshop, probably Bartolomeo di Giovanni (Florentine, act. ca. 1475–ca. 1500/1505)

The Banquet in the Pinewoods: Scene Three of The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, 1483

Tempera on panel; 33 1/8 x 56 in. (84 x 142 cm)

Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (2840)

2008-11-26T20:57:00.000-08:00

Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian (b. Pieve di Cadore, ca. 1488–d. Venice, 1576)

Venus Blindfolding Cupid, ca. 1565

Oil on canvas, 45 5/8 x 72 1/2 in. (116 x 184 cm)

Borghese Gallery, Rome (170)

Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) or 'Petrarch'

2008-11-18T22:16:00.000-08:00

Benedetto sia ’l giorno, et ’l mese, et l’anno

Blessed be the day, and the month, and the year,
and the season, and the time, and the hour, and the moment,
and the beautiful country, and the place where I was joined
to the two beautiful eyes that have bound me:

and blessed be the first sweet suffering
that I felt in being conjoined with Love,
and the bow, and the shafts with which I was pierced,
and the wounds that run to the depths of my heart.

Blessed be all those verses I scattered
calling out the name of my lady,
and the sighs, and the tears, and the passion:
and blessed be all the sheets

where I acquire fame, and my thoughts,
that are only of her, that no one else has part of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canzoniere

Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda

2008-11-18T22:15:00.000-08:00

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

In My Sky at Twilight by Pablo Neruda

2008-11-18T22:01:00.001-08:00

In my sky at twilight you are like a cloud
and your form and colour are the way I love them.
You are mine, mine, woman with sweet lips
and in your life my infinite dreams live.

The lamp of my soul dyes your feet,
the sour wine is sweeter on your lips,
oh reaper of my evening song,
how solitary dreams believe you to be mine!

You are mine, mine, I go shouting it to the afternoon's
wind, and the wind hauls on my widowed voice.
Huntress of the depth of my eyes, your plunder
stills your nocturnal regard as though it were water.

You are taken in the net of my music, my love,
and my nets of music are wide as the sky.
My soul is born on the shore of your eyes of mourning.
In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begin.

Bee Gees - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (live, 1997)

2008-11-18T21:58:00.001-08:00

Clouds and Waves by Rabindranath Tagore

2008-11-18T21:49:00.000-08:00

Mother, the folk who live up in the clouds call out to me-
"We play from the time we wake till the day ends.
We play with the golden dawn, we play with the silver moon."
I ask, "But how am I to get up to you ?"

They answer, "Come to the edge of the earth, lift up your
hands to the sky, and you will be taken up into the clouds."
"My mother is waiting for me at home, "I say, "How can I leave
her and come?"
Then they smile and float away.

But I know a nicer game than that, mother.
I shall be the cloud and you the moon.
I shall cover you with both my hands, and our house-top will
be the blue sky.

The folk who live in the waves call out to me-
"We sing from morning till night; on and on we travel and know
not where we pass."
I ask, "But how am I to join you?"

They tell me, "Come to the edge of the shore and stand with
your eyes tight shut, and you will be carried out upon the waves."
I say, "My mother always wants me at home in the everything-
how can I leave her and go?"
They smile, dance and pass by.

But I know a better game than that.
I will be the waves and you will be a strange shore.
I shall roll on and on and on, and break upon your lap with
laughter.

And no one in the world will know where we both are.

HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE by Bee Gees

2008-11-18T21:47:00.000-08:00

I know your eyes in the morning sun
I feel you touch me in the pouring rain
And the moment that you wander far from me
I wanna feel you in my arms again

And you come to me on a summer breeze
Keep me warm in your love and then softly leave
And its me you need to show

Chorus:
How deep is your love
I really need to learn
cause were living in a world of fools
Breaking us down
When they all should let us be
We belong to you and me

I believe in you
You know the door to my very soul
Youre the light in my deepest darkest hour
Youre my saviour when I fall
And you may not think
I care for you
When you know down inside
That I really do
And its me you need to show

Chorus
Repeat and fade

TOO MUCH HEAVEN - Bee Gees

2008-11-18T21:41:00.000-08:00

Chorus:
Nobody gets too much heaven no more
Its much harder to come by
Im waiting in line
Nobody gets too much love anymore
Its as high as a mountain
And harder to climb

Oh you and me girl
Got a lot of love in store
And it flows through you
And it flows through me
And I love you so much more
Then my life..i can see beyond forever
Evrything we are will never die
Lovings such a beautiful thing
Oh you make my world.. a summer day
Are you just a dream to fade away

Chorus..

You and me girl got a highway to the sky
We can turn away from the night and day
And the tears we had to pay(u hade to cry)
Youre my life..
I can see a new tomorrow
Evrything we are will never die
Lovings such a beautiful thing
When you are to me, the light above
Made for all to see our presious love

Chorus..

Love is such a beautiful thing
You make my world a summer day
Are you just a dream to fade away

Chorus..

Nobody gets too much love anymore
Its as wide as a river and harder to cross

Chorus..

THE REAL DISCO SOUND! Love´s Theme conducted by Barry White

2008-11-17T03:13:00.001-08:00

Never,Never Gonna Give You Up by Barry White

2008-11-17T03:08:00.000-08:00

Lisa Stansfield and Barry White - All around the world

2008-11-17T03:05:00.000-08:00

2008-11-17T03:01:00.000-08:00

Let The Music Play
BARRY WHITE

One ticket, please
Lord have mercy, everybody's there
Hey, what's goin' on man, yeah
She's at home, yeah, she's at home
Yeah, she's at home

Let the music play
I just wanna dance the night away
Here, right here, right here is where I'm gonna stay
All night long, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, wee

Let the music play on
Just until I feel this misery is gone
Movin', kickin', groovin', keep the music strong
On and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on

I'm out here dancin' and still, huh
I can't erase the things I feel
The tender love we used to share
See, it's like it's no longer there
I've got to hide what's killin' me inside

Let the music play
I just want to dance the night away
Here, right here, right here is where I'm gonna stay
All night long, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Let the music play on
Just until I feel this misery is go

2008-11-17T02:48:00.000-08:00

CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOUR LOVE BABE
BARRY WHITE

spoken)
I've heard people say that
Too much of anything is not good for you, baby
Oh no

But I don't know about that
There's many times that we've loved
We've shared love and made love
It doesn't seem to me like it's enough

There's just not enough of it
There's just not enough

Oh oh, babe

(sung)
My darling, I can't get enough of your love babe
Girl, I don't know, I don't know why
Can't get enough of your love babe
Oh, some things I can't get used to
No matter how I try

Just like the more you give, the more I want
And baby, that's no lie
Oh no, babe

Tell me, what can I say?
What am I gonna do?
How should I feel when everything is you?
What kind of love is this that you're givin' me?

Is it in your kiss or just because you're sweet?
Girl, all I know is every time you're here
I feel the change

Somethin' moves
I scream your name
Do whatcha got to do (?)

Darling, I can't get enough of your love babe
Girl, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know why

I can't get enough of your love babe
Oh no, babe

Girl, if I could only make you see
And make you understand

Girl, your love for me is all I need
And more than I can stand
Oh well, babe

How can I explain all the things I feel?
You've given me so much
Girl, you're so unreal
StillI keep loving you
More and more each time
Girl, what am I gonna do
Because you blow my mind

I get the same old feelin' every time you're here
I feel the change
Somethin' moves
I scream your name
Do whatcha got to do (?)

Darling, I can't get enough of your love babe
Oh no, babe

(spoken)
Baby, let me take all of my life to find you
But you can believe it's gonna take the rest of my life to keep you

(sung)
Oh no, babe
My darling, I can't get enough of your love babe
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know why
Can't get enough of your love babe
Oh my darling, I can't get enough of your love babe
Oh babe
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know why
I can't get enough of your love babe
Oh babe

2008-11-17T02:43:00.000-08:00

You're My First, My Last, My Everything
Barry White

The first, the last, my everything
And the answer to all my dreams
You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star
My kind of wonderful, that's what you are
I know there's only, only one like you
There's no way they could have made two
You're all I'm living for
Your love I'll keep for evermore
You're the first, your the last, my everything

And with you I've found so many things
A love so new only you could bring
Can't you see it's you
You make me feel this way
You're like a fresh morning dew on a brand new day
I see so many ways that I
Can love you till the day I die
You're my reality, yet I'm lost in a-a-a a dream
You're the first, the last, my everything

I know there's only, only one like you
There's no way they could have made two
Girl you're my reality
But I'm lost in a-a-a a dream
You're the first, you're the last, my everything

2008-11-14T08:05:00.000-08:00

Sonnet LXXXI
Pablo Neruda

And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.
Love and pain and work should all sleep, now.
The night turns on its invisible wheels,
and you are pure beside me as a sleeping amber.

No one else, Love, will sleep in my dreams. You will go,
we will go together, over the waters of time.
No one else will travel through the shadows with me,
only you, evergreen, ever sun, ever moon.

Your hands have already opened their delicate fists
and let their soft drifting signs drop away; your eyes closed like two gray wings, and I move

after, following the folding water you carry, that carries
me away. The night, the world, the wind spin out their destiny.
Without you, I am your dream, only that, and that is all.

Vivo Per Lei by Andrea Bocelli

2008-11-14T03:22:00.001-08:00

Vivo per lei da quando sai
La prima volta l'ho incontrata,
Non mi ricordo come ma
Mi è entrata dentro e c'è restata.
Vivo per lei perché mi fa
Vibrare forte l'anima,
Vivo per lei e non è un peso.

I have loved the same as you
One that i know will never need me
It doesn't mater what i do
This love won't hurt for one to see me
Thought i was asking far to much
Hoping to feel this matching touch
Now it's here make me love again

È una musa che ci invita

No nothing comes sweeter

Atraverso un pianoforte
La morte è lontana,
Io vivo per lei.

Now with my new love i can cope
With all the burn to know the sadness
You are the one who gives me hope

É un pugno che non fa mai male.

Vivo per lei lo so mi fa
Girare di città in città,
Soffrire un po' ma almeno io vivo.

Oh i hear the music playing

Vivo per lei dentro gli hotels.

Something deep inside me saying

Vivo per lei nel vortice.

Attraverso la mia voce
Si espande e amore produce.

Vivo per lei nient'altro ho
E quanti altri incontrerò
Che come me hanno scritto in viso:
Io vivo per lei.

Io vivo per lei

Sopra un palco o contro ad un muro...

I have loved that it's so true

Anche in un domani duro.

For the belief I saw in you

Ogni giorno
Una conquista,
La protagonista
Sarà sempre lei.

Vivo per lei perché oramai
Io non ho altra via d'uscita,
Perché la musica lo sai
Davvero non l'ho mai tradita.

How would i hear the music play
Voices aside me stop to say
I will always be there when you call
When you need a friend

Vivo per lei la musica.

When you need a friend

Vivo per lei è unica.

Someone to be there for

Io vivo per lei.

Io vivo

Per lei.

2008-11-14T03:19:00.002-08:00

TIME TO SAY GOODBYE
Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman

Quando sono solo
Sogno allorizzonte
E mancan le parole
Si lo so che non c? luce
In una stanza
Quando manca il sole
Se non ci sei tu con me, con me.
Su le finestre
Mostra a tutti il mio cuore
Che hai acceso
Chiudi dentro me
La luce che
Hai incontrato per strada

Time to say goodbye
Paesi che non ho mai
Veduto e vissuto con te
Adesso si li vivro.
Con te partiro
Su navi per mari
Che io lo so
No no non esistono piu
Its time to say goodbye.

Quando sei lontana
Sogno allorizzonte
E mancan le parole
E io si lo so
Che sei con me con me
Tu mia luna tu sei qui con me
Mio sole tu sei qui con me
Con me con me con me

Time to say goodbye
Paesi che non ho mai
Veduto e vissuto con te
Adesso si li vivro.
Con te partiro
Su navi per mari
Che io lo so
No no non esistono piu
Con te io li rivivro.
Con te partiro
Su navi per mari
Che io lo so
No no non esistono piu
Con te io li rivivro.
Con te partiro
Io con te.

Time to say goodbye
----------------------

When Im alone
I dream on the horizon
And words fail;
Yes, I know there is no light
In a room
Where the sun is not there
If you are not with me.
At the windows
Show everyone my heart
Which you set alight;
Enclose within me
The light you
Encountered on the street.

Time to say goodbye,
To countries I never
Saw and shared with you,
Now, yes, I shall experience them,
Ill go with you
On ships across seas
Which, I know,
No, no, exist no longer;
With you I shall experience them.

When you are far away
I dream on the horizon
And words fail,
And yes, I know
That you are with me;
You, my moon, are here with me,
My sun, you are here with me.
With me, with me, with me,

Time to say goodbye,
To countries I never
Saw and shared with you,
Now, yes, I shall experience them,
Ill go with you
On ships across seas
Which, I know,
No, no, exist no longer;
With you I shall re-experience them.
Ill go with you
On ships across seas
Which, I know,
No, no, exist no longer;
With you I shall re-experience them.
Ill go with you,
I with you.

2008-11-14T03:17:00.001-08:00

THE PRAYER
Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli
(Carol Bayer Sager/David Foster)

I pray you'll be our eyes, and watch us where we go.
And help us to be wise in times when we don't know
Let this be our prayer, when we lose our way
Lead us to the place, guide us with your grace
To a place where we'll be safe

La luce che tu hai
[I pray we'll find your light]
Nel cuore resterà
[And hold it in our hearts.]
A ricordarci che
[When stars go out each night,]
Eterna stella sei
Nella mia preghiera
[Let this be our prayer]
Quanta fede c'è
[When shadows fill our day]

Lead us to a place, guide us with your grace
Give us faith so we'll be safe

Sogniamo un mondo senza più violenza
Un mondo di giustizia e di speranza
Ognuno lo dia la mano al suo vicino
Simbolo di pace, di fraternità

La forza che ci dà
[We ask that life be kind]
È il desiderio che
[And watch us from above]
Ognuno trovi amor
[We hope each soul will find]
Intorno e dentro sé
[Another soul to love]

Let this be our prayer [Let this be our prayer],
Just like every child
Need to find a place, guide us with your grace
Give us faith so we'll be safe

È la fede che
Hai acceso in noi,
Sento che ci salverà

Graciana Luxe says .....

2008-02-06T19:54:00.000-08:00

I live surrounded by beautiful panoramic and best of all lot of attention to details arrangement to make our life even more beautiful. So here are my suggestions to add more 'Bliss' in your life:

- Pick a wonderful flower on the street or buy one such as frangipani, orchid or rose petal. Bring a bowl, pour a water until half empty and put the flower on top. Place it near your work area, living room, bath room or everyplace that you want. This will stimulate your visual therapy and great 'spa' for your eyes

- Buy aromatherapy burner and use it daily. I always recommend you to buy a qualified aromatherapy oil. You can use lavender for relaxing, or ylang ylang for more exotic or lemongrass for rejuvenation.

My favorite is two drops of mixed lavender and mandarin orange. I use it to scent my whole house, I also use it in the water that I use for mop the house.

If I had a cough or flu, to avoid virus from spreading I add a drop of each tea tree and eucalyptus. Works everytime...

If you want to buy the oil and need recommendation, drop me a note and give me your direct e-mail.

All is in the detail

2008-02-06T19:10:00.000-08:00

What is bliss? A state of extreme happiness. So how we can achieve this state?

We are live in a busy world, with many things that we need to do, with many pressure on the achievement that we need to make. Sometime we forget that the world before was not like what it is today. Our ancestor never saw or even call with mobile, no wi-fi, no blackberry, no television, no newspaper, not even internet. They connect with each other through signal and for days sometime they only saw their own family or even some of them live isolated. I am talking about our ancient ancestor. So some of us may forget or never experience what is like to live in a quiet world.

But in Bali, where I live, they do what they call "Nyepi Day" or "Silent Day" in which for one full 24 hours period, people are not allowed to go outside their own home area and has to stay inside. For Hindu Balinese, they will spend their days praying and fasting. For the rest of us that stay in Bali but not Hindu religion the choice are either watch TV, read a book or stay in a resort which butler service for one day period.

When I came here first, the thought of being quiet and silend for a day was quite scary and most of my friends preferred to book to resort hotel. However as I began to experience later, it was one of the most rewarding experience that I had.

For a day, I began to realize how silent the world was, no car on the street, nobody outside their house so I did not hear any voice talking. The sky was clear and blue, definitely no pollution, no need to go to your office so I began to do things that I may not have time to do whan I was working which is reading a book, or painting or just enjoy the landscape of rice field from the window of my rooms, enjoy an organic tea, cook an organic meal, or just took a nap and listened to the voice of the birds. What a bliss!!

This year is the mark of my ten years live in Bali and I never skip Silent Day or refuge to hotel until now. It is my time to cleanse my mind, rethink of my goal and just enjoy a day of pure bliss - silent ......

Some people warn other not to come during Nyepi Day (Silent Day) but I recommend all of you guys to come during Nyepi Days as you will begin the transformation in your life by a simple act. Silent, listening to your heart, pray and you will be ready to face everything...

This year, Silent Day will fall on 7 March 2008 so I am looking forward to my special blissfull day...