Night Person- Entry to Freewriting Fridays Frenzy #fff-challenge

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Hello Steemit Fellows☺

image boiled peanuts and corns seller


When the night has come and the land is dark.
And the moon is the only light we'll see

Do you remember a song from John Lennon entitled "Stand By Me"? Well, that's one of my favourite's songs that mentioned moon. Moon River or Blue Moon from Frank Sinatra and What A Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong are the other. Why?

I am a "night person" 😊 night person means someone who will stay up late for work and produce the best things during the night time. I don't quite remember how I became a night person. But I think, football matches live on TV are to blame😂 yeahh... because the different time of the match took place on the other continents. I watched the live games on TV since the first TV were in our neighbourhood in 1985 and it belongs to my neighbour who was a sub-district chief or Camat.

I spent my night to watch the live of World Cup Match Final in 1986 ( I was 11 yo) at the neighbour's and 1990 at my home with our own colour TV. My Father was a civil servant and He'd stay up late to finished the Mosque or Dam design as a civil engineering student, and He always got home at night when he came back from out of town duties, which mean He needs someone to open the door and had a privilege to know what he brought as souvenirs. It's me and it's always me until I left home for Study to other city.

I spent my night to study and sometimes to joined the secret meetings about Aceh's situation with the student and civil society movement which always took time at night, though it was so dangerous to spent around midnight in a city with Martial Law Enforcement. But, I have no much choices that time😊 my colleagues who were always man would asked me to come with them because They thought it would safer if they took me with them😂 I feared nothing.

Later on, I worked as a radio announcer during the important period of peace building process in Aceh with a preparetion of conducting The Special Law of Shari'a Islam and night hour too. I was the only female who still working at the Radio Station till 2 am when all radio stations would be closed off at 00. Except for the "Stand By Me from Lennon" the 3 other songs will be my signature programm, jazzy tunes or easy listening songs and my salary was a cent for an hour. But I survived with 10 dollars a month no matter what at that time (2000-2004).

Night always special time to me😊 when I create this post and other posts on Steemit. I knew that most people will keep working to earns something for their live and families. Like the old man who pulling a cart with stove inside to heat the corns and peanuts and keep it warm even in a drizzling or hard rainy nights. And right when I wrote this post, 3 young men who came from a Salt Island called Madura, East Java still doing their job to sell fried rice, siomay and pangsit in front of My Father In Law Small Grocery with their pushing carts.

Night is a time when somebody start their day but also time to review their day and mission on earth. Night also a special time for muslim to get closer to Allah that they worship through some special prays which only several muslims could keep it as habitual deed. Night also a blanket for them who sweated during the day light, to enjoy their accomplishment mission.

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Ahhh my little @cicisaja a rebel. Who would have thunk (sorry English slang of a sort) I'm just kidding. You have a strong heart and beliefs it's very obvious. Of course we cannot forget a crazy sense of humor.

Beautiful post my friend. Seems like all good memories. I am the same way too. I have always been a night person. Even being off work due to my surgery. I still am pretty close to my normal schedule. Since I have the chance to actually sleep in bed with my husband. I am taking advantage of it though. With my normal schedule I only get 1 maybe 2 days where we can sleep together. That is the only thing I truly hate about my schedule. Ok I'm rambling again...I'll go stalk another post 😋

Thank you @tryskele 😊 I can't remember all bad memories because I'm the one who always find the positive things and funny side of every moment in my life.. that's the best way to survive in the worst situation.

Blessing in disguise.. is it the right idiom for the situation like that? How is it now.. getting better? And I can see have done the round checking during the night. Well... love can be a magic healer😉

Night is a special time for me especailly a calm night. Where I get to sit alone and meditate. Most of my creative ideas comes at night that's why I never joke with nights. I love it like you do

Another Night Person☕ welcome to the club @unyimeetuk😉 Have you ever think about living in the place where the night is only 3-4 hours a day? I think I can't survive in that place. Thank you for your comments, so how is it... how's your night?

Hahaha yea. I hardly sleep so living in a place where I can only sleep 3-4 hours daily wouldnt hurt

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@cicisaja, the night time is the best time to explore many things, solve different problems, although the night was ment for resting, but he who stays awake for the sake of any pursuit, will always get the best out of it because he has paid the price for such thing by sacrificing his sleep, the learned and the wise uses the night time to acheive their aims because at night everywhere is calm and you will beable to think out solutions to problems and answers to questions.

keep on investing in your night times, don't sleep away all your life.

you can do some thinking and a peaceful fruitful meditation at night too.

So true.. but sometimes.. I just lost a chance to get the free Vitamin D from the sun😁 night is my friend and so many beatiful sound can be heard clearly during night time and I love it.

Thank you @mike4christ 😊

howdy this fine Saturday @cicisaja! what a great picture of that night vendor, those guys probably don't get much sleep either. I am too, a night "owl" as we are called in the United States. $10 a month! wow you were dedicated. and still are but to many different things. Great post, probably see you tomorrow!

Hello @janton😉 thank you for stopping by. You're right.. I saw how tired he was.. and push his cart carefully.

About that 10$ a month.. I must be lucky, it was in 1999-2000, everything was still cheap that time. I can bought a full-plate Acehnese' nooddle for 40 cents that time and once a day was enough. Free drink off course😊 and I lived at the radio station and its free. The last week in every month, I keep ate the noodle to survive and pay it gradually after payday, and sometimes my colleague will share his wrapped rice with me. So.. that's why I survived in the city😂

Yeaahh.. there're so many different, wild and unbelievable things and situation that you can't imagine in my hometown. See you tomorrow.

howdy there @cicisaja! wow you were very good with your money back then to live on just $10 a month, even though things were cheap. If your hometown has that many wild things there thing you should do some posts about those things, people will freak out! lol.

hahahahah.. it was over 18 years ago, before the tsunami hits the town and washed out more than 100.000 people in the areas, well.. I do have more wild things about the conflicts and martial law.. but it's nothing nice to talk about, will find a better "wild" to expose

howdy today @cicisaja! oh I forgot about the tsunami! that was horrible. yes I'm sure there are plenty of other wild things to talk about, thank you!

@cicisaja. If U have moment, I hope you could check'n your #pehtem. Who'se someone I didn't voted, you should see it, he's copied my friend poem. Just one man writing about force marriage in #pehtem. You must check it as soon as possible.

Sure I have and I'll check it out, Thank you for the warning. IF he did that stealing.. I'll make sure he is disqualified and never had a chance to join konteh for a long long time.

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This is the owner poem. He's one of my new friend who's care about poem tradition.
I hopefull that #pehtem must be clear by plagiarism

Don't you think he has more than one accounts? Rizkidon probably his other account😯 but I doubted it now.

Some steemians have more than one especially from Aceh and the use it as bot-votes or plagiarism and resteemer. But.. we'll see.. anyway, thank you.. I will change the rules if the participants doesn't reach 10 this time😉 Thank you

Double accounts is not approved in a contest. if it's true that it's another account, then he should make other poem that have never been posted.
Can he prove that it's another account?
You can check the harmony of languages, hasn't he ever participated in #pehtem before.

Yes he was.. and I think another one also copy paste from others.. see the new participant comment? He wrote the same poem and I think tonight I'll make a post about this thing to find the answer through debate. I feel so sad now...

Hello dear @cicisaja 🤗 don't stay up late because of steemit 😇 you're gonna missed our free Vitamin D and many beautiful birds chirping 😂

All right Night watch😉 You knew the way to take me to the bed right😨 I'm gonna adjusting my schedule after august 10th, do you think I spent too much time on steemit now? I'm so sorry.. I didn't realised.. I thought I've just waiting for you. Wake me up earlier then☺ I already have the sport shoes now.