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In Hindu , unlike any other religion when our loves one passed away , there was a much larger ceremony to perform beside the already complex funeral. The ceremony were intended to make the spirit of our loved one forget about all the things that he/she had left behind. The attachment of the worldly possession and feeling was not something that they should carry. The ceremony were complex and expensive , so expensive that I do not know any family could perform the ceremony alone.
Last week there was a collective ceremony in my hometown , it was so massive that took seven days to complete and there were about 500 families joins this ceremony.

here is some of the photos I have taken

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Seeing hailey bartholomew video on 365 days of grateful was really inspiring.
and you could always visit her blog in here

So I started taking photos of anything around me , even the picture is not good but I think what’s you feel inside when taking the photos is more important that anyone else eyes.

here’s a another shot of the bread …

what can you do when your job is not something that takes rocket scientist to do it ?
and you’re not irreplaceable ?
and there are people half your age could done a better job than you ?

I’ve seen this japanese show depicting people from various occupations and their success stories.
But from all the series everyone in that show always had their own definition of success, which not necessarily involved in amount of money or wealth.
And the letter above is one of my favorite,

” never run away from hardship “

First of all, if you “lucky” enough being an indonesian and watching an afternoon news you may and certainly will find news about people wrongfully and unjustly became victims of biased and imperfect laws.
Sometime I read digg and found out these kind of cases cause public unrest and anger. But here , it’s just an afternoon news . Something that make you have the same reaction when hearing the news about accident in some railroad or some flood in southern Jakarta.
Here are some of that kind of stories that I watch in yesterday news :
1. Despite of resenment of some fans , Indonesian singer Ariel peterpan was charged with immoral conduct as public figure, alledgedly distributing inapropriate video and could face 12 years in prison ( well FYI you could kill or rape people in broad day light here and serve only 4 or 5 years or even walk out free if you did it along with angry mob )
2. Three widows of national war heroes got evicted from their home despite two of them were lying in their sickbed. The house were granted to them by the government years ago and for some reason the legality of the grants were in question by the current government .
3. An elderly lady was evicted from her house by the court because she lost the trial over the house ownership, the irony was the man who filed the suit over her house turn out being a conman. He forged the paper and her signature and were sentenced four month in prison. And for unknown reason the court still evict her for the lawsuit.

That is just one day , maybe someday I’ll try to take note of this kind of stories as I was saying that these kind of thing happen in daily basis.

May God have mercy for our sins