I am on a ferry crossing the Kapuas river now. We are on our way to Pontianak driving on road from Ketapang since yesterday. The whole trip has been quite exhausting for me. But the reward is here now tonight as I look up the sky. Stars are beautiful! It's pitch dark up there after a whole day of raining yesterday. Oh... always baffled by this astronomical feat, a chance to take a peek of the inner working of the universe. I also feel connected to hundreds of generations before me of people across lands who had been looking up at skies as the most ancient book.
Do you realize that we are not looking at merely objects but the fabric of time and space. Each twinkling of the stars are a bit of information from the past, millions of light years away (or ago).
Oups, we got to the other side at Tayan now. Got to go.