I thought they were lost in my village at Wonosari and met with me and my son with their plan for traveling.

Category: Traveling

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I thought, they were lost when they made a plan to come to Indonesia and made a decision to come to my village. I felt, they were disappointed when come and stay in my guest house. They were like confused. What could I do here? I was confused, too, what I would show to them here is. Finally, I made a decision that I will show, how, me and my son lives here. How do our genuine lives here? Yes, we found the activities finally.

With brought a hesitate feeling, I explained one by one how our village is in before. In the past, our village was a tourism village destination. A lot of Chinese local tourists and local citizen came to my village just for praying in the temple or just traveled and looked around because it was very crowded at that time. And, now become a kampung, just ordinary kampung. But, sometime become a tourism village again, it depend to the big days like, new year or Eid day "Muslim big day."

I thought hard, how making them happy when they were staying in my guest house. I suggested to my son that you had to cook some of Indonesian cuisine and invite them, he or she, to join when you are cooking. Well, finally, my son decided to cook Indonesian curry and lumpia for five day's dishes. I said to them that we usually cook a lot at once to live for five days or one week. And for another day, my son would cook Chicken claws, cooked with sweet soy sauce. But unfortunately, they rushed to leave, went to another place before my son cooked it. They stayed only four days of their planned that was 12 days.

In four days, they filled the days with cooking, one of them name is Ingrid gave a donation to me by buying a cement to plastering the floor on upstairs and gave a gift the seed of flowers. And the last, we went for a walk and sightseeing some near village of my property. My son and I have made a video memory about them as memento for us. See you again, guys.

Love and compassion,
Santosa Laksana and Kusuma A. S

One step to make a strawberry pot has finished. Tomorrow, I can start to work and produce it.

Because I very enthusiasm to sell online my strawberry plants, my idea has grown and I made a decision that I had to make a strawberry pot to fulfill the service to the customer candidate who want to buy online via my this blog. I have finished making my mini workshop for working and I am ready to produce the pots starting tomorrow.

I work starting from Zero and is helped by my only son every day. We will try to make a perfect product to my customer's satisfaction who buy our product by online via my this blog. We will make sure that our pots of our production of these are strong, heat resistant, and water resistance, so can be used for indoor and outdoor.

We make these pots from wood and plywood, so this will demand our craftsmanship and our diligence when making it. I am, personally, will improve and advance my handicraft skill, besides for my own heart's satisfaction, but also for I want to be seen by the world that my struggle of the live to become successful is never the end. 

So again, I am very grateful to the God, Universe, Holy Spirit, and Deities that I still can continue my life in Your protection and Your plan. Thank you so much.

Love and compassion.

Santosa Laksana and Kusuma A. S

The wall roof which leak due to seepage has resolved.

I was happy when I had to repair the other roof and wall which leak because of seepage of the heavy rain on the front at my guest house. It before, I have done fixing the bathroom roof area which collapsed and made a new fireplace to boil hot water. And then, I continued working at the farm on a next day. Meanwhile, I also fixed a roof of the wall at the reception room part which leak because of seepage and I could fix it. When the rain falls, the roof of the wall didn't leak again. I succeed fixing it from the leak due to of water seepage in many years. I think to about 12 years the leak was happening before my father passed away. Today, I succeed again and I thought it is worth if I felt grateful because I could repair anything although I do not have an experience in that field. In many years that has happened. The leak that be said couldn't be repaired again, today, I could fix it and now is not leaking again.

Love and affection,

Santosa Laksana

Finally the fireplace to cook hot water for bathing can be used again.

On the first day, when the roofs of the bathrooms collapsed, I had time thinking that, oh my goddess, how can I serve my guest if the fireplace to boil hot water is broken? I cannot repairing that! I do not able and do not have an experience to build a building using cement. I almost gave up.

Okay, because I had to repair the roof first, I did not think again how to repair the fireplace, I thought I would think later after I have finished repairing the roof. For three days I tried and struggled to build again the roof as I could and yeah,, I did it..! The Hut and roof have stood firmly on the ground at above the fireplace that was broken. Hoo hoo..., I thought again, I will have a new challenge tomorrow, build again the fireplace which I don't know how.

Relax.., relax.., I said to myself, I definitely can if I do it slowly and one by one. I took my rest, bathed, and did small celebrate when dinner with my son to celebrate our success, that is building a hut and its roofs.

Yes.., the fourth day has come, it's the time for me and my son to repair the fireplace to cook the hot water for bathing. Okay.., I didn't think again, I just did it naturally. Because my son had to clean the bathrooms first, I worked to rebuild the fireplace alone, without a help from my son. Ha ha ha.., and LOL a lot, in the middle of my work, my son warned me that my work was wronged. Yes, he right, after I thought twice and so on, I aware that it would be collapsed again if I continue my work. My son stop cleaning the bathrooms and made a decision to help me, finally. Yeah.., My son helped me rebuild the fireplace till the end.

We repeated again, what I worked in advance and did it one by one like what said by my son was. Great, finally I could think clearly how to continue the work in the right manner although might not be perfect. I struggled to cement it carefully. Slowly by slowly I did it and with a small smile of course. And yeah.., We did it and succeed rebuilt the fireplace to cook the hot water for bathing. Thank you God, thank you so much.

Love and affection,
Santosa Laksana.

Cleaning the bathrooms area and make sure to keep the spring water cleanest.

Hot water traditional

Bathrooms area

Spring water

I and my son very busied today. Finishing our work yesterday cleaning the bathrooms area that just collapsed. Our loyal and bona fide guests from Jakarta will be coming today, so we had to hurry up to finish our work can be finished today. We make sure that the floor-yard outside of the bathrooms be clean.

We have 9 bathrooms outdoor to serve the guests whose stay one night or long stay at our guest house. We take the water directly from a spring of ours that was created by my father in the past in 1978. It was me at 4 years old.

We very excited for working until finish. Cleaning the floor and bathroom wall and bathroom tub. So amazing! Because, although our guest house is a simple guest house, not modern, the old guest house, but, the environment is very beautiful for me. The bathrooms area are already clean and the water in the bathtub so very clean, like no the water. I and my son are very satisfy with our work today and we say thanks so much to our God, the Universe, Holy spirit, and Deities. They always protect us and guide us. Have a good day.

Love and affection,
Santosa Laksana

Rebuilding the roofs of the bathrooms area have finished.

We had to fast to rebuild again the bathrooms roofs area in our guest house and we could finish it within three days. Actually we lack of ingredients to rebuild it but we could finish it with a little use of our creativity.


We started it from cleaning the plants of binahong from the top of the roofs which were collapsing so that we had the space to work on there. It was on day one and we thought and made a plan for tomorrow, how and where to place the poles of bamboos to place the roof. We decided to put it on the top of water reservoir wall beside of hot water boilers. We worked start from morning at 06.00 am to at 14.00 pm because we have to take care on our guest house too. We decided to break to work for our farm.

On day two, we started making the bamboo poles and bamboo fragments for the roofs and then we installed it. We installed it one by one and carefully because we are actually do not have the experience to build a house or things like that. We always tested one by one the strength of bamboo we installed. We had to finish on that day to install the structure of bamboo because tomorrow on day three we must finished to install the roofs. Our loyal and bona fide customers will be coming from Jakarta.

Thanks to the God, Universe, Holy spirit, and Deities. We could passing the days with love and passionate. We work with joyful..! This is the reward from the happy traits. we always happy in any conditions and circumstance, so that we have a strength to do something that actually, we cannot do it. On day three, we could install the roofs completely although might be in a very simple way and in a simple result. We are very satisfied in our work. We already to receive our loyal and bona fide customers from Jakarta. Thank you.

Love and affection,
Santosa Laksana

I must be happy in any conditions. The roofs of the bathroom area collapsed.

The warning from universe..! You must strong, your foundation must be sturdy, you must keep your health every day if you want to be happy in your life..! The roofs of the bathroom area of ours collapsed because of couldn't hold the heavy load of binahong plant which I planted one year and a half ago, which I thought would be cool decoration. I must start from beginning again, now.

The rain fell heavily yesterday, started noon until morning at 04.00 am and the roof collapsed at that time when my son woke up to pee. Fortunately, my son could avoid it quickly. Our responsibility are increasing now, beside to fix the guest house roof, work on the farm, keep clean the house, and take care ourselves, we must rebuild the roof of the bathroom area with a stronger foundation. In our country is raining season, raining every day.

Because, we have learned to how to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance, we are having a happy feeling, calm, and keep smiling with happiness. We are happy because we can learn more about how to feel responsible in our lives in any condition and in any circumstance without blaming others, God, the Universe, Holy spirit, and Deities. We pure, responsible for all of the problems of our own lives. We aware, this is the task as a human from God.

We feel happy, we feel joy, we feel stronger, and we feel become a real human. My thoughts, my feelings, my soul, and my body can be used properly and correctly. I feel grateful to God because he has taught to us that, if someone wants to live happily, he must have a solid foundation. Let's wake up!

Love and affection,
Santosa Laksana and Kusuma A. S

The Universe gave me a great work.

First, I would like to say thank you so much for the God, Universe, Holy spirit, and Deities. This is truly my hope, the great hope I have at this moment. I always learn to have a gratitude attitude every day in any condition, even in a very bad condition. But, for this thing, I am begging to the God and from the higher nature which has power, I pray to accept my gratitude. I very love with my work now, planting the strawberries and I want to be successful in this field.

My strawberries are growing well. Today I can continue to transplant them to the new containers and I am being helped with my son. This morning the weather is very bright and the air is very cool. We are, one by one cutting the runners of strawberry and moving it to the new poly bags that we have already prepared yesterday.

I have a different feeling after I planted the strawberry plant. I felt happier, stronger, more passionate, wiser, and loved. Yeah.... The plants of strawberry could change my soul which in before always worries, disappointed, sad, weak, helpless, vulnerable, and hesitate. Now, I feel more confident to face my future in any condition with love and compassion.

I have removed the negativities. God, Universe, Holy spirit, and Deities, have taught me about the faith and the trust. God, Universe, Holy spirit, and Deities, have taught me how I can get the faith and the trust. With love and compassion and my love strawberries, I and my son are welcoming the beautiful future of ours.

Love and affection.
Santosa Laksana and Kusuma Atsarak Santosa.

Hooray...! I have finished weeding the grass.

Today is the day of Wednesday, I cooked an Indonesian food, sayur lodeh manisah with tahu gembos "lodeh of manisah vegetable with gembos tofu." I didn't work on the farm today. I prepared the ingredients of food with my only son, Kusuma Atsarak Santosa, the best supporter of mine at home. We happy and joyed on today.

Our task to weed the grass is over and we will continue our work tomorrow to transplant the runners of the strawberry into the new containers or poly bags. Today we had a free time to gather together with a different feeling, freed from working, freed from thinking, and freed from our uniform "garden clothes." Our feeling and mind are being felt light, now.

My son had a time for learning his program to become an online business development and he will write and talk about his new jobs someday here when he has finished his studies. Me too, I had a time to do another activity what I very like, that is writing, in English, like which I am doing now. This is the best moment we had today for moving forward into our new life in the future we dream. To become successful in our field and have a freedom of life and also, to become independent.

Have a nice day everyone, God bless you.

Love and affection.
Santosa Laksana and Kusuma Atsarak Santosa.

Our first celebration on Chinese new year.

I was touched last night because I remembered when I was celebrating Chinese New Year with my late parents, my father and mother. Yesterday on Monday, February 04, 2019 were Chinese New Year's Eve 2570 and I had a chance to celebrate with my only son, which, I have never had the chance to celebrate it for 25 years. Last night was the first time, I and my son could celebrate The Chinese New Year to give the honor to my late father because he is Chinese, and my mother is Javanese and I am actually having two celebrations, right? Chinese and Javanese celebrations.

We made some of the foods for offerings to our ancestors, to the Gods, to the Buddhas, to the Holy Spirits, and to the Universe. We prayed, wishing to the happiness, peace, glory, prosperity, chastity, affection, joy, for our ancestors, our late parents, our grandparents, brothers and sisters who are in another world. I hope, they are all in the realm of kindness, namely in the heaven realm or the realms of the Gods or the realms of the Buddhas. And most of all are, we can present our love to them.

On this occasion, we also begged to the Buddhas, to the Gods and to the Universe, to always protect us, look after us, love us, open the door to the happiness and prosperity for us, and teach us for us to always have a wise attitude. We also begged, hopefully we meet people who are kind, wise, clever, honest, sincere, gentle, trustworthy, have a noble character, are loyal, helpful, have affection, are passionate, positive, and friendly. We begged that we be surrounded by people as I mentioned above.

After finishing our praying, we felt so light, happy, and joy. We eat, we felt gratitude and we very excited to focus only into our work and our happiness. We will continue our life with peace and joy. Happy Chines New Year.

Love and affection.

Santosa Laksana and Kusuma A. Santosa

Only weeding the grass.

Today on Friday, February 01, 2019, I weeded the grass. Only weeded the grass! I very overwhelmed facing the runners of strawberries I planted. Very very fertile! The results are beyond what I expected. Imagine, I planted to about 50 the plants of strawberries in October 2018 and now in February 01, 2019 are becoming around 1500 the plants of strawberries. Whereas, I thought at the time that, I would get those numbers if already one year, but now, evidently, I could get that number within only three months. This achievement surprised me greatly. Thanks to God and Universe and the Deities whose always protect me.

So, I can speed up my plan for, I can sell the seeds faster, rather than I planned before, that is on next year. I guessed and I thought, I would can sell directly, my seeds of strawberries, on March or April in this year. I hope the sell goes well, so I can advance and add my products. I had an idea to make a plant pot when my sell of strawberry seeds goes well. I thought this was a second hope.!

Today on Saturday, January 02, 2019, I continue my writing about my activity on the farm. I have two places for farming, at the front of the upstairs of my guesthouse and at the backyard of my guest house. Today, I and my son weeded at the backyard. We clean all of the grass that already started to grow high. We have a plan that we will transplant new strawberry seeds after weeding.

We worked faster than yesterday, we finished our work at 8.00 am, so we could check the roof of our guest house that which is a mess due to strong winds and heavy rain. One by one I could fix it. Only less one, the gutter pipe must be given waterproof material. I will give it tomorrow or wait until the gutter pipe is dry.

I think, this is would be our everyday activity on three days next until we are finishing to weed. Now, I can take my nap. God bless and have a very good day.

Love and affection.
Santosa Laksana

Planting Strawberry and About Me.

Planting strawberry and the way of God.

I had a very bad experience recently, I couldn't sell my yield on local market. I planted spring onions that actually growth well. But, with no reason, the local market decreased their purchased to my product, so, I didn't have enough revenue from my farm. And the worsted is, they stop their bought at all with no reason also, although, I could serve them well and from the best of my harvest. I have a thought there are someone that envy to see my succeed and used a racism and religion way to beat me. I am a minority here.

Because I have been experiencing it for years until now precisely are 21 years. Someone was gave me an offer to work what they wanted like giving an advice to help me in order to how I become succeed. Yes, I very struggled to do that, and I am succeed. But, suddenly, all people that engaged or involved a business with me was changed their direction, and that were the things that I couldn't following it. And then they stopped all business with me with no reason again. This thing always happened to me again and again until now.

I started knowing and believe that if I repeat again to believe and follow someone advice, be sure, I would falling down again. Today, with largest faith to God, I will not beg support to everyone again except I really know and recognize that the someone is truly have the honest, sincere and responsible nature.

I am managing my own guest house the heritage of may parents. To survive, I am very depending from the yield of my farm. Now, I have to starting from early again. My management is distracted because this problem. This is need a lot of patience to make everything back to normal. I pray everyday, I ask a miracle from God and deities, God, please give me a miracle for overcoming my problem now.

Maybe, this is the way of God. I am starting planting strawberry and started from scratch. I focus on what I do now and I really avoid all people that ever has disappointed me. And slowly but surely has appeared the positive thought that I never realized before. I feel peace, I can thinking about how to develop my guest house, and finally, my direction of life is totally changed. I am on the journey to build my own strawberry guest house with kinship system for my guests. Voluntary donation system for payment. Doesn't it look great?

Now, I do not lose my dream, instead I have more big dream and this is need a God hand to realize it. God, please give me your miracle so that I can realize my dream.Thank you God.

Santosa Laksana

How Do I Think To Be A Successful Farmer?

My eyes and heart began to wide opened, that, to be a successful farmer it is not as easy as imagined. A lot of hidden knowledges and problems which have to be faced. Learn to become a successful farmer that who can enjoying his life in peace. A farmer who has an inner and physical satisfaction. Learn to look-out the hidden knowledges as well as hidden problems. All of those are already seen clearly in my mind.

I began to find my way to solidify my nature and behaviour as a farmer. If you are a crops lover or someone who are just starting your own garden, do not hesitate to follow these insights I found.

Centering your concentration on what you are planting.
Remove all you worries. Focus on producing the best crops you are having. Don't worry about the market, failures or anything. You would find your own markets and your own new insights automatically when you have already reached the best harvest yield of you. Do not stop when you got failures, continue and learn from there. Don't ever start to think to process your crops into processed products, just keep focus on your crops to thinking about how to care well, fertilization well and how to make a good irrigation. The three acts that would enhance your fortune and your farming knowledge automatically.

Navigate your future on the right track.
When you have a superior product of organic crops, whether it is tomato, potato, chili, mustard green, cabbage, onion, garlic, or organic fruits, you would find your own environment, once again "Automatically." A healthy society or environment which you would be able to offering and introducing your organic farming products. You need to know, organic agricultural products have fresher taste than the non-organic. I do not know about the nutrition content value, but I believe that organic plant products are healthier if we consume them.

Creating your own self-confidence.
Many people wrongly make decisions in processing and managing their farm management. They are always looking for the buyers with the highest price for their products. In fact, to become a successful farmer is not like that. It does not have to find a buyer that offering at the highest price. But find a bonafide buyers that support you to maintain and improve the income of your family. Avoid unhealthy competition by not looking for a buyer that offering at a higher price. Keep concentrate into your family life. Think about the happiness of your family, you will find the right way to manage your farm automatically.

Keep the faith your farm will grow well.
Never stop to research the needs of your market.  Everything is constantly changing. Expand your insights! See yourself, to be a farmer, it takes a lot of technical knowledge, management, and psychology, right? A farmer must have a high empathy to keep their plants, sense of care and affection. The market doesn't have what you have. You will always face the buyers, only buyers! Maintain your insight to deal with the market psychology changes.

Never postpone because you always need the time.
An experienced and succeed farmer always has the nature of joyful, happy, wise, calm, patient, persevering, diligent, persistent, and intelligent. But, did you know, how long did he get those qualities? To gain those natures, a successful farmer can pass through it in the times of 10, even 20 years. Do not ever postpone your work plan! Always remember, how long have you raised the money to buy and add your farm equipments? How long have you learned marketing and eventually getting to know your own markets? How long have you set up or built your farm? How long have you learned about your mistakes? And the last, how long of your journey for you will have become established.*

I also think about how to build personal quality which support the farmer works and lives. Below are the thing are always be my question.

1. Do I already have a strong and good work ethic?
2. Have I worked diligently and persistently?
3. Do I committed to what I do?
4.  Do I have the patience to listen, accept, and consider, when someone has different opinions and gives me hints?
5.  Do I carefully, examining, and talking about it with people associated with me, like family, when I receive and will use that advice?
6. Will I always maintain organic markets and organic products?
7.  How can I adjust myself to work on the farm and my other activities?

And there are many other questions that if I write here, it will be a book and not an article.  If you are interesting and wants to discuss deeply, please gives your feedback in the comments column, I will definitely answer it.

Let us share our experiences about the good things, build a healthy and useful life through the noble works. Greetings and thank you for visiting my blog.

Author.
Santosa Laksana