luni, 31 august 2009

me and an elephant

my young friend and me

duminică, 23 august 2009

the great adventure ... (izismile.com)

Malaysia in short

it sounds pretty interesting, isn’t it? this is only 2 hours distance from Chiang Mai (airplane), so you’re there very quickly

the thing is that Thailand visa system is a little bit tricky and I had to leave the country and then come back in order to get another visa; among Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and the others, Malaysia was the closest and most accessible, as Romanians don’t need visas for this country.

First of all, they have lots of palm trees everywhere, similar to our Christmas trees forests; secondly their capital Kuala Lumpur it’s like an Asian copy of the New York city. All over the center part, called the golden triangle, you can see huge tours, and among them, the two twin tours, as far as I know the tallest in the world (I’m not very sure) .

these twin tours are really impressing, it’s such a shame I lacked the curiosity of climbing up there…, I was very proud to see live the place where Sean Connery played in Entrapment, a movie I liked

all in all I was not too culturally impressed; varied people, mostly Muslims, their shopping centers are crowded and everybody buys a lot…; women respecting the Muslim tradition, some of them covered entirely in black, except for the eyes, others in jeans and only with the head covered; men are not submitted to tradition, they wear either t-shirts or shirts, without any restriction; “poor” them!

anyway some things may have diminished in their moral code as well, because I saw enough of them holding hands; it was very interesting to see a woman dressed completely in black and a guy in casual clothes walking hand in hand …

well, I’ll stop here with my short Malaysian trip, I doubt I’ll repeat it soon … I’ll come back soon with some more Thai …

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Thai travel diary 8

first of all, today it’s definitely a rainy day, it’s been raining all the day since morning and it’s evening now…

secondly, I proudly announce you that I can entitle myself official counsellor of the Pichest massage school… well, just a short remark on this, counsellor not on massage topics but on topics regarding musical devices. The master received a nice gift from a client, a new Ipod Touch which he didn’t know how to use. And this is my part, me the counsellor – as I already had such a toy, I was familiar with it, so I take the Ipod and start showing the master the mysteries of the modern technique! Ever since then he has a problem with the thing, he makes a sign to me and I start …

thirdly, Thursday is a very important day for me and I marked it in the calendar. Due to an arrangement done by the destiny, I found myself the only student at school. So I spent one full day with the master, only the both of us alone. In the first part, I practiced different positions on him and he corrected me and explained me the details. It’s useless to tell you that in two hours I was broken, sweated and tired because of the excitement and the tension! In the second part of the day, this is completely special, I was the beneficiary of a more than an hour treatment from his side. I don’t go in further details, but I only tell you that it took him less than one minute to work in one point and a blocking I had on my right hand for almost 10 years disappeared. (I could only raise my hand at my back until the shoulder blade). After he finished, I easily scratched my backhead with that hand ...

fourthly, the ayurvedic treatments I took part in are interesting; for massaging, they fully use the oil and the smoothing movements in the Swedish massage, to which they add some specific movements for the head. A funny detail – their oil is good, natural, but poor me, its flavour smells like that of our pickled cabbage, but of course much weaker; so imagine how relaxed I was for about 40 minutes with the smell of the pickled cabbage in my nose ….

in this clinic, they integrated more modern treatments as well – they do colon cleansing, liver and gall detoxification, detoxifications of the body with ionic foot baths; they also have a kind of interesting sauna – they put you in a wood box and they only leave your head out; they heat the box with steam and you have sauna everywhere, except for the head; wherever the case, they also use ozone in the box in order to help the detoxification and the feeding of the cells with oxygen…; they also have a device for stimulating the lymphatic system – it’s like a kind of drum they put on the zones with lymph nodes and that drum strikes at the regular intervals of time; I don’t know what are its effects, but I know it is very expensive, I read some time ago about this on the internet …

see you in a while …


Aura Soma 6

so this is the time of the final posting regarding aura soma, at least for now

Quintessences

these are more special substances and they work with the Masters’ subtle energies, invoking their support; each of the 15 bottles represents a certain master and, by using it, qualities and experiences specific to that Master are brought into the subtle plan of the human being

for example, Lady Nada (pale pink) invokes unconditional love, helping to eliminate the negative energies or Lady Portia (golden) is meant to those who are too severe with themselves, helping them to better understand and to accept themselves

the working mode is the same as for the Pomanders, application on certain parts of the body and making specific movements

Among the secondary products we mention:

Air Conditioners – spray that pulverizes colours in the air; personally, I often used such a spray for aura purification with great results
Watersticks – a kind of glass tubes coloured inside; they help for purifying and charging the water
Essences: Archangeloi, Butterfly, Colour – essences for working with the Archangels, the butterflies’ spirit or colours

Cosmetic, Beauty and Bath products – different cosmetic products, creams, balsams etc.

For additional information I recommend two web address:

The main page of the organisation:  ASIACT
The page of a British instructor who also has a virtual shop: Dolphins and Angels

sâmbătă, 22 august 2009

Aura Soma 5

Pomanders

they work at the level of the electromagnetic field (aura) that surrounds the physical body having the role of protecting, cleaning and strengthening the aura

the content of the bottles is a combination of 49 extracts of plants and essential oils

each bottle contains seven herbal extracts corresponding to each of the 7 chakras and one of the herbs is predominant in order to resonate with a specific chakra

one of the bottles is white, it contains seven extracts in equal proportions, thus being achieved an equilibrium

the substances are used by applying them on the body, usually around the wrists, and by inhaling the scent they emanate (a very pleasant scent, I assure you); all this is accompanied by specific movements and certain invocations ...


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Thai travel diary 7

hi there,

I'm fine, thank you and I have some more things to share with you:

an old temple is always attractive - architecture, interesting sculptures, atmosphere; around the temple, the monks may often arrange a sort of garden - trees, flowers, plaster statues with all kinds of traditional animals, symbolizing the harmony between man and nature

a few days ago I had to wonder seriously - in their forests long time ago, did the Disney Donald duck use to walk round there? I was wondering this because among elephants, monkeys, tigers and so on a huge Donald, the character from the cartoons of my childhood, was dominating the garden of the temple … what a winner this American guy!

a very usual phenomenon in their society and regarded as something normal (even if people always make fun of ) is the presence of the so-called "lady-boy"s and more seldom, the "boy lady"s; the first are feminine men who make all the efforts to look like women - make up, depilation, attitude, hairdo, clothes, sex changes (not for the poor guys) ; at a certain extent, I guarantee that they are difficult to distinguish - last week I was in a kind of mini-bus of theirs when a person stepped in; at a first sight it seemed to be a young thin lady; it took me a couple of minutes of discrete examination to realize that in fact she was a transformed "he"; the other category of masculine women is less common; I met such a woman-male and I only found out after a while from other guys that in fact he was a "she"; it's true her voice was quite thin but this is not unusual for Thai men

otherwise, I had my first contact with the Indian ayurvedic medicine; there is a good clinic here in Chang Mai, run by an experienced lady who also brought something from the modern non-conventional techniques - ozone, colon detoxification etc  to the existing traditional methods …