the Cacing Diaries #37

at the Sukawati Art Market, Bali, Indonesia

There’s a certain window of time that Cacing will be in her full element, animated, alive and sparkling. It can’t be early in the morning as she is still gathering her bearing. Rule out lunchtime as she’d probably be sleepy, with 11AM her typical hour for a nap. You’ll also see her get cranky just before hitting the sack near 8PM.


Cacing being enamored with the bamboo chandelier. Here, she is with my friend Ketut


Looking like a gangster moll on a bike


In our travels like the recent one in Bali, her biological rhythms were all thrown in a jumble. Lucky then that in Bali, our points of destinations were at least an hour apart by car and as is her wont, she quickly fell asleep from the white noise and the rocking motion of a moving vehicle as if they were lullabies.


This pose looks as if she’s in a shampoo commercial!

We have lots of pictures of Cacing in Bali. Here are a few that I took at the Sukawati Art Market. I tried to capture Bali - the wildness of the colors and the call of the exotic.


with Dia, while shopping for Balinese housewares


surveying the stalls of Sukawati


Without a doubt though, the gem for me will always be Cacing’s smile.


Cacing classical scrunched smile is never far away


Smiling for my camera again, while being carried by Mama Pingping (my wife’s mom)