It’s connection day!

My friend exclaimed after we finished a day of meeting people I and we know yesterday. We went to Sanur to enjoy the well-known Sunday market where people of Sanur and somewhere else meet from brunch till late-lunch time. It was not as busy as other Sundays. My dear friend didn’t have table for her jewelry as she had to rush home in America for a family matter. I also didn’t quite know some vendors selling in the market. The crowd was also quite new for me. I only knew a few but I made friend with one of the owner family members that was often seen around on Sundays. It had bothered me for some time that his face looked familiar so I came to him to ask if he was someone I knew in the past. What a brave me! He was not but then we talked that ended up I knew he has passion for old furniture! Good match!

My friend enjoyed his time observing people. Like my girlfriend said the place is perfect for ‘to see and be seen.’ I told my friend who’s who so he learned how people 'behave' in such place and how people live in Bali make a living. He was inspired by the way people multitasking like having several jobs that a part of them is voluntary job. It happened we met my friend who works as column writer in English newspaper in Jakarta and several other publications, interpreter, art curator, and interpreter in Denpasar court that he does voluntarily. I could see he was formulating his next life.

Great! We had nice chitchat (although some topics were quite consequential) while watching the sun moved closer to us. Sitting in the open air is my favorite especially after I could handle the sun better. And when the sun really caught us we had to move inside when we met our… Ubud friends! Oooh… so sad to see my good girlfriend looked not so good still. They just visited a hospital in Denpasar to get her lung examined. She has quite bad cough since a few days. She said she could not see us clearly since she felt half ‘existed.’ We could see her eyes were hardly open but she had the spirit to have nice lunch so it’s great we shared a table.

End of year often brought us to specific topics of what we have achieved and are going to in the new year. We kicked each other to do what we have passion for. We came to the topic about some great inventors started their venture from yucky garage. My friend made excuse because she does not have yucky studio enough to start producing beautiful artwork she is good at. She could not defend herself too long since she faced three ‘pushers’ who admire her a lot! It happened so fast that she agreed to sign a pact with herself about starting to work on her studio this coming month. She was the one who had the idea to make the pact so we all supported! We became the witnesses of her pact! It was so fun to see her eyes wide open before we left the café. I believe her spirit will bring good to her wellness these coming days! I’m happy to just think of it!

The late afternoon was still bright when we arrived Ubud that we wanted to push a little bit more. Make another new connection. We visited my friend in a village about 2 kilometers from Ubud main road. Beautiful surroundings! She has several businesses in Ubud that I’m interested to know to ‘expand’ mine so chatting with her was a good idea! In the end, she invited me to join her clubs (ranging from book club to volunteer club) and invited my friend to be speaker in one her club’s meetings. It was fun to talk with her. Soft spoken American.

Indian food as dinner was perfect to complete our long day with lots-of-fun connections!

The pact.