Archive for August 24th, 2008
I just came back from Bali for a wedding procession of my nephew. I spent like four days enjoying Bali and its culture, and by a coincidence those days were the holy days for the Balinese which is called Galungan.
Galungan will return in every other 210 days or six Balinese-months. In that very special day, the Balinese believe that the day was a victory day against the devils and other bad habits and bad human characters that we have to avoid from.
People in Bali have a philosophy of : ‘see no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil’ and the sculptors in Ubud have made the statue of the three monkeys that acting those three forbidden bad habits that people used to do. I love to see the funny statue made from ebony wood. And lots of tourists from all over the world enjoy everything made in Bali. Read the rest of this entry »
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