Sonia Serrenade
Sonia Serrenade is a domestic helper from Indonesia; she has a great passion for art and literature. She also performed actively in many stages to represent migrant cultures in Singapore, which gained lots of appreciation. She has been a volunteer at MWS since 2021 and an alumnus at Aidha.
Life is like playing a musical instrument.
The journey was like the sound of the wind, melodious like a harp
It's beautiful to hear
But I'm struggling to carry it out
Every note plays beautifully
Every step I take feels heavy
I try to keep going
follow the music
but I kept limping
The music stopped
I rubbed my chest
The sweat dripping dry on my body.
the music started playing again
My feet moved again, following the music
Even though sometimes I fall
I still stand stepping to the often irregular music
That's a journey of life
Life is like a musical rhythm
Komodo Island is one of the main habitats of Komodo dragons. Long before this giant reptile became popular and known to the world community, the ancestors of the residents of Komodo Village had a very close relationship with Komodo dragons. Until now, native people still believe that Komodo dragons are their twins.
This belief is rooted in the legend of Princess Komodo, which tells that long ago, in the land of Komodo, a pair of living creatures was born. The male has the form of a human, while the female has the form of a Komodo dragon. According to this legend, one of the local names for Komodo dragons was born, namely Sebai, which means next door and is interpreted as a twin brother. Apart from Sebai, local people also call Komodo dragons Ora. These two names have been popular on Komodo Island for a long time, long before Peter Ouwens, curator of the Bogor Zoological Museum, gave the scientific name Varanus komodoensis (1912) to the giant reptile discovered by a Dutch officer, JKH van Steyn, in 1911.