Raj and Lois in Timor

Lemo Rai, traditional Husi knua, lao to’o vila Oan kiak halerik beibeik  Walking from the village to the city The orphan always walks alone. Husi foho lao to’o tasi  Oan kiak harohan nafatin.  Walking from the mountains to the shore The orphan is always praying. O keta tau todan ba ema seluk  O keta sura O nia kole  Don’t put the burden on someone else Don’t recount your exhaustion. Hametin O nia ain tuban  Lao haksolok hananu nafatin Strengthen your heels Walk happy, sing always. Lemo, lemo rai  Lao lemo rai Sura loron sura kalan  Wandering, wandering, wandering the earth Numbering the days and nights Oinsaa susar nee bele hotu How will these troubles come to an end?   Tan sa O tanis beibeik  Tan sa O halerik beibeik  Why do you weep always? Why do you wail continually? Hamaran O nia matan been  Oinsa susar nee bele hotu. Dry your tears No matter how difficult, these troubles will come to an end.

 It's Day 5 of 14 in our quarantine. We are extraordinarily comfortable in a suite with AC, internet, a cooking hob, bedroom and toilet (It is non-serviced, of course, to protect people from us). Having not left the flat, I am a bit disoriented - spatial orientation never having been my strong suit. (I'm that person revolving at the T junction in Orchard Road with phone GPS in hand). From the balcony we can just glimpse the azure tasi,  ocean, and out of another window the outline of mountains (so that way is  sul , south- the mountains are always south of Dili).   Are you wondering how the compass points are named? Norte, sul, lorosae (the place where the matan-loron eye of the day sae  rises), and loromonu (where it monu  falls). But if you wanted to say from north to south, you wouldn't say "hosi norte too sul"... you'd say "hosi tasi feto too tasi mane"-- from the female tasi (the sea north of Timor) to the male tasi  (the Timor Sea south of...