The other night, while sleeping somewhat pleasantly, I was awakened by what I thought was a fire alarm. The pulsing sound was similar to what I have heard in large buildings, but this was not a large building. I don’t have a fire alarm in my house. The piercing sounds seemed to emanate from the [...]
April 19, 2005 – 11:09 am
Since the activities of any interest have continued to cease, I’m including intensely vain photos because I can. The first photo is a self-taken picture of my waist. I bought the pants when I first returned to the US last year. Look at them now.
The second photo is what I looked like after [...]
Well, not a lot has been happening as of late. The Manado Post reported on Friday that there would be a massive earthquake here before 1.30p on 9 April. The earthquake occurred at 4a that day but wasn’t at all massive. Again, I slept through it.
I pumped around 200,000 rupiah into my [...]
There are two three-day weekends this month, and I took the first one we had to fly to the south of Sulawesi and meet up with another Fellow in the vast sprawl known as Makassar (or Ujung Pandang). The sojourn highlights are as follows:
Banti Murung: Upon arriving at the Makassar airport, I was picked up [...]
Saturday, the day road trips are made for. The weather has been getting nicer and nicer as of late and my compadres at work were up for another tour of this lovely area. This time we went east. The meeting time was 9a at the supermarket that I usually shop at. [...]