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ubud again and again and again :) it must be quite obvious on my face how much i love this place and already feel so much at home here because lots of people today asked me if i had been here already many times :) i always said "no, it's only the second time" but who knows? maybe i spent other lifetimes here, maybe i traveled here in my dreams, maybe someone who loves me thought of me while in ubud... maybe i have been here many times and just didn't know it :) what i know is that i LOVE this place! the rice fields, the offerings all the time and everywhere, the smiles, the way the houses are built, the importance given to the arrangement of space, the smell, the sounds, the sweetness in the air... it's beautiful!

today i found out my balinese sign - cremation tower. the character of the 'cremation tower' people is intelligent, well-mannered, responsible, likes to give information, brave, happy and extravagant life, open person, hides nothing. i had a longer explanation done by a balinese teenager and it all sounded a lot like me :)

in all of my trips in asia i like to read a book that is kind of a bad book but that feels good to read - a bit like when i read "the diary of bridget jone's" in vietnam or the last adrian mole in india :) so today i bought "eat pray love" and it feels great to read it! lots of people read this book when traveling in indonesia and after hearing so much about it... it's my time to have an opinion on it! julia roberts has been here in ubud to film the american blockbuster version of the book ;) the third part is set in bali - the time to love, of course ;) :) i'm still on page 9, so it's still all in italy - that's when she eats :)

ok, it got quite late and i still want to go get a korean tea that helps rejuvenating during the night!

i'm really happy... just simply happy :) it's no from eating praying or loving in particular ;) or it is, only in the way we do those things everyday. this happiness is kind of a breeze on a south east asian night x