Kegiatan sehari2 ngapain aja mbak? What do you do usually, Mbak? A friend in LA asking me over online chat this morning. It’s not easy to answer such question. Unlike people who work from nine-to-five, I don't have better answer. Again, I found myself creating a fiction about what I’m doing at home when I’m not traveling. Really, listing my activities is not as easy as Facebook automatically lists our activities on the Wall. As hard as answering question like How do you feel? when morning is still dark. I don’t have idea how I’m supposed to feel when even my day hasn’t started yet, my soul hasn’t gathered become one yet, my realization is still far from complete.

Not that I didn’t think about the list of my activities, I thought about it while walking in the drizzle at 8:15 this morning. It was raining all morning but I decided to just go see nature I had longed for so long. My thighs got quite a workout as I balanced my steps on slippery sidewalk along the way. I don’t have professional shoes to walk in the wet and my favorite plastic Crocs can be slippery in hard surface and later in the mud! I am prone to slip and fall the past days, or since I fell exactly last week. I fell again in my porch the other day, same pattern, wet floor. My good friend fell from stairs for the second time after rain in her house. That’s even worse. We are not getting younger it seems.

Anyway, I had really nice long breakfast in an organic resto and farm in the middle of rice field twenty minutes from home. Yes, I was surprised too that it took me that short to get the place that is not so close to home actually. I met no traveler on the way and in the place. In better days with sun, I might have breakfast with at least two other tables occupied. It gave me quiet time to observe some men fixing nice Balinese cloth on ceiling of the new deck. They apologized for the not-so-nice view but I didn’t see it that way.

There’s something exotic about being among people speaking language that sounds foreign to me. Well, Balinese sounds not so foreign to me actually because many of the words have similar sound and meaning as in Javanese, that I also found in Tagalog. But still, I might lost in translation after quite a full conversation. But listening to people talking in a language that I hardly comprehend lulls me. It makes my mind wandering.

I really wanted to write but I’m not a good block note writer who can jot down ideas then develop the writing later. Many people can do but not my cup of tea at all. So I dreamed about something new. Something that I once considered but then gone after further thinking. Not this morning, the idea was so strong that I had to think about other things I can do with the device if I buy. There’s no way I will buy BlackBerry despite the constant mock of my friends and relatives that I still enjoy a 4-year old cell phone. Or iPad? Wish I had quite an idle money to spend. No. I found netbook is more economical considering its price and usefulness.

I picture myself writing in a quiet place like this morning resto. Or, while waiting for friends in a bigger resto with wireless connection. Or, to unintentionally compete with friends with BlackBerry that constantly check out emails and people’s status on Facebook, or upload their own status. I’m kind of sick of those but this is 2010. I cannot complain! That’s when I need a better deal.

I got home all wet of sweat. I bought focaccia and banana bread from my favorite resto-cum-cakery on the way home. I also bought six rrr pirated DVDs from a shop next to the resto. I feel ashamed that I enjoy pirated discs because the rest of stuff in my life are original only. A friend shared a reasonable justification about such habit, said the film industry has made a lot of money enough from the movie so it’s good that they share the 'profit' with the pirates in the market so some other people can also earn. I buy it with a soft pang of shame.

I showered after, strangely, a few stretching. Yes, I took the 2-hour walking as warm up. It was a nice short stretching before shower in the drizzle. A bit over noon, I felt I have completed my day. I had focaccia with instant chicken soup, and an apple, for lunch. I plan to stay home the rest of the day learning about netbook reviews in the net, do some more reading, and watch movie(s)! What a perfect activities in a rainy day!

The view from where I sat at breakfast in Subak Sok Wayah this morning.