A few minutes to reflect now. I’ve been tourist guide to my friends from back home. I have left them in Bali so that I could do my work. Work has been sped up as of late. I’m supposed to have a text list of a couple thousand dollars worth of [...]
I’m shoving off to Jakarta tomorrow to (hopefully) meet my visitors at the airport. Of course, a delay is probable, but let me hope for the best.
Another Nepal tidbit: Scott has a neat photo of one of the many Nepali language/cultural facilitators that indoctrinated us into the eating of sukuuti, a spicy, water [...]
Today, there were a few students in the street, not obstructing traffic, with bullhorn. As the taxi pulled into the campus, I saw a group of students in front of the Rektor’s (university president) building. A tire was already burning amid chanting students. Apparently, they were rallying to have some administrative paperwork [...]
From Today’s Nepali Times
The 25 civil society activists, doctors and journalists who defied the curfew on 8 April at the Teaching Hospital and jump-started the current agitation and were arrested have been shifted to a detention centre in Duwakot. The group includes prominent human rights activists Padma Ratna Tuladhar, Kapil Shrestha and Malla K [...]
I guess this would be about the right time for an eruption on Java. This time being the week friends from the U.S. come visiting. The email:
U.S. Embassy Jakarta
U.S. Consulate General Surabaya
Warden Message
April 13, 2006
The U.S. Embassy informs Americans in Indonesia that the Indonesian Center for Vulcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation raised the [...]