May 20, 2006

Saving Balinese Family


Wayan, Made, Komang and Ketut.. these names were so commonly heard right after the question "What is your name?" or "Siape name?" when we tried to make friends with the local in Bali. It was confusing at first cuz we, somehow, thought that, these names are the only options for Balinese to name their people.

In fact, similar to what we have in our Malay family, Wayan, Made, Komang and Ketut equal to our Along, Angah, Alang and Achik. And sometimes, Wayan is also called Gade; Komang is also called Nyoman; and Ketut, also has an alias.

Simple said: Wayan, Made, Komang and Ketut, these four names stand for one word in Bali:

FAMILY.

... and these four names were entirely applied to four Bali loafers that claimed themselves have 'adventurous' as their middle name.

Hence, these four names appeared most of the times in my every blog's entries when I talked about Bali life: the eldest Azwa the Wayan or Azwa Adventurous Wayan, Yahya the Made or Yahys Adventurous Made, Wongey the Komang or Aiman Adventurous Komang, and the youngest Fiza the Ketut or Fiza Adventurous Ketut.

I really do not know how to express my gratitude to these three comrades of mine. They made the journey of loafing in Bali so memorable and .. cool, hmmm..

Yahya the Made and I planned to go Thailand for our next trip. I kinda love this guy cuz strictly saying, he is the only one among my friends who really 'just go!' right after each traveling idea we made.

We both strongly agree, that too much planning and budgeting and hesitating, will only turn all dreams and ideas into rubbish.

"What would you do, if you just ignore all your fear?"

I somehow learnt to appreciate this quote when I realized that I've got too many dreams that eventualy turned into garbages.

Fiza and Azwa are kinda surprise for me. Fiza the Ketut always looks serene but you gotta believe what that there are similarities and differences between serene and clueless. She is humorous, mild-mannered but extreme reactor towards doggies.

Azwa the Wayan, relatively, is an aggresive young lady that actualy is the main drive to get lots of plans moving. Matured but playful, considerate but stubborn, wise but emotional -- Contradiction is Wayan's second name.

I wish to put more words on these three wonderful people, on this wonderful journey, and on this weird Balinese family. However, people will not have patience to read this entry if it is any longer. So allow me to save this post, save this memory, save this journey, save these friends, and save, this Balinese family.

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think i will have a lot of patience to read your journals on Bali (or on Thailand in the future!)...You can relate well to your experiences!

Even though memories and the journeys you made may not be well understood by some people, but writing about it can at least brought them back to life. And that, can help us find ourselves in the future!

keep writing..
(sorry bout the 30th, because i came to KL like 3 days after that!)

SpidEy d'lEfty said...

Thank you so much Anouk.. and.., hey..WHAT A SURPRISE!!!!

30th April was disappointing actualy but instead of having u accompanying me, I did hv a good time with my friends spending my birthday.. (now u know, huh?!!) hehe..

Anyway, never mind. BTW, I'll keep writing, and really wish that some time in the future u'll join me in my journey.. :>

Cheerio.

Anonymous said...

ahw shit..
sorry :(
Happy Belated Birthday then :p
hope you are enjoying the life and what it has to offer :)

Anonymous said...

Matured but playful, considerate but stubborn, wise but emotional -- Contradiction is Wayan's second name.
hehe..I also dont know that i'm so contradict..hua hua hua..thanks for revealing..anyway i just know that my dear aiman is so jiwang..ahahahahaahahahah

Anonymous said...

Wongey aka Aiman aka Spider,

is this your last entry for your wonderful experience in Bali? This entry sounds like 'final episode'..

e-what said...

hopefully u don't have to wait until thailand to update your blog again =)

SpidEy d'lEfty said...

Hi nany nee chan.. welcome to my blog.. kuang3.. Dear e-what and Shunza, I hope i'll get more ideas or 'inspirations' from my life and turn them into the stories in my blog.. but so far, my life is full of boredom and funnily-clustered works.. but plz bear wit me..

E-waht, I thought by adding comment to ur blog would have alerted you bout some updates of my blog.. hehe.


Lefty Spider

ciki engineeR said...

andaikata daku di KL, akan ku turut semua program cuti2mu. di sini teman2ku semuanye pemalas2 belaka. kalaupon jenjalan, mcm tak adventure sgt lah.kasihan aku yg sebenarnye pelancong yg suke melencong...

nway, aku salu bace blog mu lelabah, tapi aku malas comment. sbb aku mmg pemalas. yahahaha

Anonymous said...

Wong..

Smlm try letak comment tak berjaye. So hari ni nak try agi,testing..testing...

:-)

Anonymous said...

Wong..

Smlm try letak comment tak berjaye. So hari ni nak try agi,testing..testing...

:-)

Anonymous said...

actually, im not so excited about my balinese name which is 'ketut'...sound funny ha? and these guys really like to call me by that name..just for the sake of laughing...i wish im older.

Anonymous said...

actually, im not so excited about my balinese name which is 'ketut'...sound funny ha? and these guys really like to call me by that name..just for the sake of laughing...i wish im older.

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