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Fire in the Building

Who would have thought that I  experienced fire in the building.  This is my first time living in an appartement. Of course I never chose appartement when living in Indonesia because it’s a real high risk when the earthquake happen. But here we are placed in an appartement. What got me relieved the first time that we are in the lowest floor so if something happen we will be quickly evacuated.  That’s what I thought.  Until it really happened.  We slept around midnight and abruptly woken up by the noise outside. I thought it was the drunk people just got back from night club or the restaurant next door was doing some deep cleaning. So loud that I had to wake up. My husband peeked outside and immediately said “fire brigade outside, you wait here!” I was just “am I dreaming or what?” I put on clothes, checked outside and saw a few of fire trucks. I checked the other side of the appartement and saw a few of police cars and ambulances.  “Oh no, something serious...

Liuk Cantik Penari Legong

 

Ceritanya di Bali kita berdua bener-bener tanpa jadwal apapun. Tiba-tiba pengen aja liat legong. Nanya ke yang punya homestay, dia punya jadwalnya dan jadwalnya ternyata setiap hari disemua tempat. Ya kadang-kadang aja ada yang spesial, tapi bener-bener nggak pernah putus shownya.

Kita ambil yang deket homestay, di Puri Saraswati (water palace), yang mana kita udah kesana kemarennya. Harga disana 80ribu pertiket. Kalau yang di Ubud Palace harganya 100ribu. 10 menit dari homestay juga ada pertunjukkan tari kecak. Lebih spektakuler kan itu sebenernya, tapi kita pilih yang agak lebih deket aja lah.

Tariannya ruwet. Bener-bener ruwet. dan yang jelas kalo tarian Bali, spesialnya ada di permainan matanya. Aku punya temen SMA dari Bali dan dia bener-bener keren main matanya. Padahal dia bilang itu dia nggak bagus. Nggak bagus aja bikin kita mlongo.

Ada lima segmen (lima apa enam ya?), yang pertama pembukaan, semacem sambutan dengan gamelan. Kemudian ada 2 penari penyambut, kemudian ada 5 orang penari yang semuanya cewek. Selanjutnya ada satu penari topeng, mereka ambil temanya old man, jadi penggambarannya ya kakek-kakek gitu. Nah selanjutnya ini yang favoritku, seorang lelaki yang matanya aduhai beneran. Merasa main mata denganku uhuk. Selanjutnya ada 2 orang wanita dewasa, kemudian satu wanita dengan satu lelaki yang bermain  mata tadi. Dan yang terakhir yang 5 orang lelaki. Seolah menggambarkan perang.

 

 

 

 































I actually have no desire to write that much now, I just want to post pictures I've taken for Legong dance performance. They were great. My husband said so. Great performance







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