Somewhere in the Manipa Straits, there was a 6.8 magnitude earthquake. It was in eastern Indonesia. I didn’t notice a thing…
As I was being driven around the city on errands, I saw twenty or so young ladies with placards. I only saw the writing on one of them: ATM Kondom = Produk Yahudi.
Roughly translated: Condom vending machines are the products of Jews.
It’s just an observation.
It’s Sunday afternoon and it’s raining. Again. There has been the suggestion that I should have gotten used to the rain after living in Nepal for two monsoons season and Indonesia for one and a half. The monsoon rains still have yet to acquire the ordinariness that others have applied to it.
An attempt at broadening the meaning of pornography in Indonesia to cover many sorts of things, mainly focused on the female form, could land bikini-clad beach-goers in the clink! Read the article NOThere.
Amendment:
Evidently, the Jakarta Post doesn’t archive their posts using the same URL. I’ll have to figue that out.
The February 2006 photo gallery is now available. Click on the photos link to your right.