COLOUR OUR LIFE as colour surrounding our life everyday...day and night.
We wake up with colours of our bedsheet, colour of our bedroom walls and definately colour of our tooth...yellowish and then we will quickly take a toothbrush and start brushing with our white toothpaste.
A night, colour also influenced our sleep. There goes a story that all dreams are black and white until the invention of colour television sometime in the 1980s. Since then, many dreams are full of colour.
This is to show how colour influence our life, even in our subconsious mind in our sleep!
Colour has also blossomming my deteriorated business.
The paint with its original colour on my two-storey building, a budget guest house somewhere in the the world's oldest rainforest, had faded after four years of operating.
The hotel named Tahan Guest House, is sited along the mighty Tembeling River at the hub of Kuala Tahan, the base camp for Taman Negara Pahang. Taman Negara is the world's oldest rainforest.
I was reluctant to do anything to brighten the hotel as the cost will be huge.
Business was slow and it seem that there is no bright tunnel at the end.
As a devoted Muslim, I found faith in Allah.
Allah has widen my thought and colour soon dominating my dreams.
Yes! I dreamed of so many colour in my sleep. There were in many shapes and positions. All are very colourful dreams!!!
I realised later, I bought so many cans of paints of different colours during a trip to a nearby town.
I bought the main colours - green, red, blue, purple, white and black. Back home, I started to mix the colour, a small amout of green mixed with red, blue mixed with white and goes on.
I felt so happy that I already managed to mix about 30 colours altogether.
I opened up old magazines with so many fancy colourful pictures and start drawing these pictures on the wall of my guest house - inside each room and outside the balcony.
Having a knowledge of chinese fengshui does help. I designate the colours depending on the fengshui element.
Those places with water element, I draw pictures of fishes in the sea with blue colour. I draw fruit trees for room with earth element.
One guestroom is full of tropical fruit trees, another room full of birds, the other is fishes. Others include ladybug, flowering plants, insects extras.
I even painted the outer wall of the building and the reception floor!
I become so excited with painting as it was a form of exercise and a stress reliever.
Soon after, many tourists start flocking to my doorstep and stayed at my guesthouse.
They were amazed with the cheerful, colourful and beautiful guesthouse, that some of them continue staying extra nights.
There were guests who will stop in front of the guesthouse and take so many photos of the guesthouse before they check-in!
Although I still need to service a huge amount of monthly loan installment and land rental, the business is surviving.
The business still does not giving a lot of money after so many years. But, it gives satisfaction...a real inner satisfaction.
So, colour does make a different and it really influent people.
It is not expensive...the most precious is the creativity being put into the effort.
I thank Allah for all as He is the most Knowledgable.
I will continue with many more interesting thought in my future posts. See you.
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