January 27, 2008 – 9:20 pm
Another excessive holiday post (unless you’re going to north Sumatra, then you might be interested):
Once again, I found myself with a gap of days in which I wasn’t going to teach, so I arranged to meet up with some colleagues in Medan to head to places as yet explored by me. I met up [...]
January 26, 2008 – 4:08 am
Eventually, one finds the ego boosting area on the Wordpress interface interesting. Today, I find out I’m being link to as part of Top 100 Indonesian blogs (in English). Keep scrolling until you hit number 80. Wooooo!
Got back last week from more orangutan visiting in Bukit Lawang and my first visit to [...]
January 3, 2008 – 9:58 pm
*Warning* excessive vacation post
Ten days of vacation: check.
Six flights: check.
Being arms-length from an orangutan: check.
Five hour jungle trek on Borneo: check.
A couple hours on a bamboo raft: check.
Ten hour bus ride: check.
Christmas karaoke: check.
Good company: check
That was my holiday, briefly. I’ve got some decent photos that I’ll put up somewhere soon.
December 13, 2007 – 10:13 pm
Upon returning from Jakarta and the wacky plane monsoon time plane flights in which the planes dodge the clouds by cutting through the sky at strange angles, I was met by a dirty apartment and the feeling that I was slammed into by a speeding becak. A good ten days with colleagues and in [...]
December 3, 2007 – 4:12 am
I came down to Jakarta last Friday amid some miscommunications. Anyhow, I looked in the newspaper yesterday to find out that the domestic terminal of the Medan airport in North Sumatra burned up. I have to transit in this airport for any domestic flight out of Banda Aceh! Medan is the third [...]