As I sit here at the computer, trying to win my battle with the nyamuk (mosquitoes) in my room (and losing), I can hear the sounds outside my house of life going on around me in Jakarta – the roosters are crowing (and they never stop), the roti (bread) man is driving around and around with the […] Read more »
A Trip to the Barber Shop in Radio Dalam
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Rocking the Rokok… The last land of the smokers
Last year the world was shocked and amazed by a video of a 3 or 4 year old Indonesian gendut boy smoking a cigarette while his parents sat beside him laughing. While this held the people’s fascination for as long as a youtube video can, and instilled a new false stereotype in a world gone wrong about […] Read more »
Bruno Mars is coming to Jakarta – YAH!
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Holi Hai – Hindu Festival of Colour Pt 2.
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Holi Hai – Hindu Festival of Colour Pt 1.
Holi Hai is a Hindu celebration to welcome in the beginning of Spring… What a beautiful and colourful way to start the season….. I am now left wondering how long it is going to take before I can get the pink henna paint out of my hair??? Hopefully the stain will disappear by the beginning […] Read more »
Happy Birthday to Treen!
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Sunset from the rooftop in Pejaten
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Java Jazz Festival
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Ogoh-Ogoh Parade for New Year Nyepi Saka 1933
I made a quick visit again this year to Monas for the Balinese Hindu ritual ogoh-ogoh parade. Ogoh-ogoh are demonic statues made of bamboo and paper symbolizing negative elements or malevolent spirits, and after the ogoh-ogoh have been paraded around the Ngrupuk ritual takes place, which involves burning the ogoh-ogoh. This event is held annually […] Read more »