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05/06/2025

Happy Pride Month for all 😊🏳️‍🌈 Please donate if you can https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/round-2-the-emeralds-touch #/

🎥 Emerald’s Touch — A love letter to q***r resilience in Indonesia.

This documentary began with a simple idea: to shed light on LGBTQ+ lives in one of the world’s most dangerous places to be q***r. Emerald’s Touch is a story of survival, resistance, and love — set against the backdrop of a country where being yourself can cost everything.

🏳️‍🌈 While we celebrate Pride around the world, our team is still in the trenches — fighting to finish this film. With a shoestring budget, limited resources, and real safety concerns, we’ve come this far through pure passion and community support. But we can’t do it alone.

🎬 Help us make Emerald’s Touch a reality.
Every dollar raised brings us closer to completing this vital project — and amplifying the voices of those too often silenced.

👉 Support us on Indiegogo: https://bit.ly/3F2h8mr
📢 Share. Donate. Stand in solidarity.

This Pride, stand with q***r Indonesians.
This Pride, fuel Emerald’s Touch.
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12/02/2025

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🇮🇩✨ Indonesia: A Land of Beauty, Resilience & Revolution ✨🏳️‍🌈

From its breathtaking landscapes to its rich cultural tapestry, Indonesia is a country of transformation. But beyond its beauty lies a powerful story—one of resilience, resistance, and the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

🌿 Emerald’s Touch is more than a documentary; it’s a movement to honor Indonesia’s q***r community, their struggles, and their unwavering spirit. In a nation at a crossroads, they continue to build safe spaces, challenge oppression, and redefine what it means to belong.

💜 Join us in telling their story. Support & share our Indiegogo!

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26/01/2024

There's hundreds of years of history that those roofs and arches have witnessed. There's millions of souls and eyes it has witnessed. While it isn't the most sacred of all temples and altars, indeed it is the most historically active within the last century.

World wars have come and gone, the place have been torn apart and reunited. Time and time again, Berlin's Brandenburg Gate is certainly one of its most iconic attractions, akin to the gates and roadways towards the Buckingham palace.

May yesteryears remind us of a past that shall never be repeated, and may it be a hope and symbol for the people and the citizens it represents towards the future of Berlin, and Germany as a whole. What a sight to to behold!

15/12/2023

Perched on the highlands of Lombok, known as Bali's little sister. This topography is quite out of this world.

This unassuming prairie is one of the majestic views you simply won't expect in a tropical archipelago.

The drier and much cooler climate above the clouds certainly has made it so much more comfortble. There were many beautiful memories along the journey.

One day I'll be back, to soak in all the beauty once more ✨️🙏

21/10/2023

Today marks my 1st year anniversary that I have landed in this beautiful country 🇨🇦 ✨️

No matter how much preparation you have for your life's big move. Nothing comes close to what everything seems to be. Life can truly be a series of hallmark movie moments here and for that is one of the few times I truly experiencing true main character moments in life.

You'll meet so many different people, you'll experience so many different things, and you'll encounter so many challenges, as well as moments of struggle, pain, joy, happiness and life. It certainly wasn't my first time moving abroad.

And in an ironic twist of fate. I felt more 🇦🇺 the longer I left my home in Sydney. It doesn't diminish my 🇲🇨 identity, however like Canada. You will never truly feel the country that you're a citizen of until you leave for abroad. It has coloured me all over with its raw beauty, long ancient history, and its ways of life and being.

I'll forever be a twice immigrant and a true global citizen. But many say, the first year or two will be your toughest challenge to settle in your new place. I didn't find my prospects until my 10th month here. And only just now I am starting to reap what I sow.

Thank you for reading my post. This is my official reflection of my first year in Canada. I pray that I will truly have my dream come true to this land of promise 🙏✨️ soon enough

20/09/2023

In the most desolate and isolated lands on the planet still contains some of the most beautiful and lush springs containing filtered waters from many millenias ago.

To see this magical sight in person is truly a sight to behold. In the adventures of our lives. There will be moments within our very own planet where we will be humbled by mother nature's creation.

From once a compilation of stardusts, to them becoming the elements of all the things on this planet, to experience billions of years of various transformations from sea floor, to lush lands, to dry desert and everything in between.

It makes you wonder what else is out there to see ✨️🙏🌏

20/08/2023

They say that this place is the land of gods. And its reverance between the connection between its earthly inhabitant customs, spiritual divinities, and its quirky cosmopolitan capitalism has uniquely created an infusion of the most influential travel destination in the 21st century.

Long gone are the days of a simple paradise, which was born out of the vestages of a once powerful hindu empires, the blood of its fighters, the escapades for the misfits. It has become a global hub of ideas, cultures, and a land of aspiring idealists and cultural archivists vying for longing and their temporary existence.

I was skeptical by the influence of globalisation that's occurred in the islands. But having visited it many times and seeing the evolution of its people both from the locals and the new arrivals from all over...

It's giving me hope that maybe, just maybe... the world of Made's, Ketut's, Gede's and so on will be alright 🙏 I can only hope that it continues to inspire and allow the space for world changing ideas and revolutions in this divine place.

May Bali and its true synchronised identity survives and thrive, may it become the inspiration for the rest of the world 🌏

26/06/2023

As a species, we will constantly chase the moments where we will be befallen by the jaw dropping sense of wonder and the grandeur.

Whatever it may be. In whatever context. We will always strive to find a sense of our being in this magnificent blue ball in a solar system on a quiet edge of the milky way.

One of those times I've befallen is viewing the scale, the beauty, magnificence and the ingenuity of the old world charm 🇲🇫 that is very much alive and thriving in our everchanging modern world

If as a species long ago we can create miracles as such, what possibilities in the future will we endeavour to recapture our sense of collective belonging within our humanity?

The answer is within all of us, we decide what the future will hold. And it's up to us to strive and rediscover beautiful living once more within this magnificence of urbanism landscape

14/06/2023

This magnificent church has been standing for over 700 years. With its breathtaking history and wonders that is rightfully marvelled.

Perched at the southern corner of the main Venice in the Venice lagoon, by the Adriatic coast. It's magnificence often undermined the passing by tourists.

There aren't simply any churches in today's world that can compare it to its ostentatious architecture and the gold covered ceilings.

Venice is certainly a victim of its own success. And it's certainly overrun by visitors in some ways, pushing out the locals of once a dreamy idyllic place to live.

The paradox of this place as both a must see pilgrimage of the wonders of the world and it's preservation as an idyllic place and the way of being will forever hold until things will radically change.

I will one day return to venice. Not anytime soon, but I am happy to get glimpse of this marvelousity and its ongoing glory