Saturday, December 23, 2006
LIFE - Mind Of A Mankind - Chapter Twenty
HERU
I wish upon a star
To follow where you are.
I wish upon a dream
To know what it means.
Lyrics from the song titled ' Wishing upon a star' by Diana Ross.
I wish upon a star
To follow where you are.
I wish upon a dream
To know what it means.
Lyrics from the song titled ' Wishing upon a star' by Diana Ross.
One afternoon Yani was possessed by an entity who was crying out, "Ni! Ni! Ni!" It was looking for Soni. This entity's behaviour was also like Soni but the difference was, it was not handicapped. It could not talk well like Soni though and it had difficulties in expressing itself. So I let it took a nap for awhile with me and when I woke up, I saw it was playing with the make-up sets that belongs to Yani. It was playing with the lipsticks and it's face was messy with lipsticks and make-up powders. I stopped it from playing further with the lipsticks and make-up sets. It was happy playing with it and I told it not to play with it anymore. I tried to explain to it that Yani would be angry if she found out. It listened to me with it's happy and innocent face, just like a little child. After that we took our nap again. I observed the behaviours of this entity very closely and it liked to suckle its right thumb and before it went to sleep, it's eyes were moving aimlessly, staring at the ceiling, as though it was thinking or wondering about something.
Later when Margarita came to meet me, she said that this entity was a small boy and he looked like Soni. They were like twins and they were both White Boys, with blonde hair and deep blue eyes. His name was Heru. Margarita said that Mas Anton was so surprised to see another boy who looked just like Soni. That day, Heru became a part of our family.
Margarita and Mas Anton told me that they went to the shanty houses along the riverbank near a bridge just next to Jalan Bypass, just outside the entrance of Kuta Permai residential area. There they met an old woman that was taking care of Heru.
The old woman told them that Soni and Heru were borne by a woman who was a singer and she had fallen in love with an Australian man. There was a local man who was also interested in her but she had rejected him and he did some black magic charmed on her. The Australian man was deported to Australia when she was already pregnant. Then later, Soni and Heru were born and one night their mother quietly left them. Soni was taken care by a family that was living at the house near to the building where Yani had took up her aerobic classes. Heru was taken care by the old woman herself. When the family that was taking care of Soni wanted to shift, Soni had refused to follow them and after that he lived all by himself in that house. Budi and Soni would always drop by her house to play with Heru at the riverbank.
Margarita and Mas Anton had invited the old woman to stay with them at our home in Kuta Permai but the old woman had declined the offer because she did not want to burden them. The old woman said that she was very happy to see Heru being a part of their family because Heru would have all the things he wanted in his life. She was not able to provide Heru those things that little boys would like to have in his life. Heru addressed me as "Om (Uncle) Bi" too. In the later part of my life in Bali, Heru became very, very closed to me. He was like a son to me and I was like a father to him.
It did not cross my mind to ask Margarita or Mas Anton to query that old woman, Soni's real name. Sorry, I wish I had.
By the way, this story reminded me about Yani's personal life story of her own mother. This story too sort of reminded me about my own story, especially about being deported. Was it a premonition or a predestine planned about my future before it actually took place? I sometimes wondered about it but I took it as only a story that could happen to anybody, anywhere and at anytime in the whole wide world, without even seeing it as predestiny or a prophecy.
When I met Heru, there was a thought that flashed in my mind that Soni and Heru were possibly White Boys. I could not explain to you why I thought that way but I was wondering where that thought came from. I must say something here. I did not know why they had never mentioned to me before that Soni was a white boy. Coincidentally, my neighbour next door had twin babies too. One was a male and the other one was a female. Their aged were around one and the half year old and these twins had an elder brother, aged around seven years old. Their mother was a Balinese Christian and she worked as a money-changer in Kuta. Her husband worked on a fishing trawler and he was a Javanese Muslim. He would only be at home for a short period, about a month rest, and then he would go for oversea trips again. His mother was an old woman from Jakarta and she was there to take care of her grandchildren. Yani was quite closed to this old woman because she could converse with Yani in Javanese. Yani too loved to play with the twins and the twins' mother too was very friendly with Yani and I.
Most of the religious teachings taught that every human has a guardian angel or a good spirit to guide and protect them in their lives. While I was doing my researched in Singapore pertinent to the spirits that I had encountered while living in Indonesia, I was wondering and questioning the possibilities of these so called guardian angels or good spirits crossing over to other humans' lives or go into humans' mind to do their angelic mission. I had postulated it that it was plausible because they seemed to know what I was thinking in my mind. They had used simple scenarios that they had picked up from my own life or Yani's life. They seemed to teach me or guided me or reminded me or change my principles and conscience in my life while I was living in Indonesia.
Have you ever thought of some problems or questions secretly in your mind, which you alone knew about it? Then when you talked to someone else about other matters, they seemed to talk about your secret problems or questions and they even gave answers or solutions to your secret problems or questions obliviously. When this happens to you, it is like coincidence or synchronisity or God was using him or her as His instrument to talk to you. I think it is quite wonderful to have this enigma questions and later have someone else gives you the answers. Some religious people called it as a miracle. Many of you would call it as instincts or intuitions. Many psychics would call it telepathy or synchronisity. I would call it as interaction and communication of the souls in the unseen realm.
One day Natalia came to meet me. She and Gordon had just returned home from their honeymoon and they were very surprised to meet Heru too. They did not know that Soni had a twin brother. She told me that Gordon was worried about handling two little boys. I told Natalia to inform him not to worry about it because I would try to help him taking care of them too.
Natalia said that they went to Lake Toba in Sumatra and Batam for their honeymoon. They had wanted to go to Singapore but they were afraid of being caught by the 'police' in the spirit world there because Natalia did not have a passport.
She also mentioned that when Gordon and her were honeymooning, there were many spirits in their world were surprised to learn that Gordon was her 'husband' because they thought that Natalia was a sister or a daughter to Gordon. This statement that she told me reminded me of the times when Yani and I were going to many places in Indonesia.
Many Indonesian people had wondered the same thing about our relationship. We too were in Batam island before and I did have a fantasy about sneaking into Singapore but I had never told Yani about it. How did Natalia know about my thought and was she using this story about her honeymooning as a guideline for her to use it on me? While Yani and I were drifters within Indonesia, we told many people too that we had just got married and we were on our honeymoon journey.
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