Hotel Indonesia Kempinski Jakarta

After the earthquake that hit Padang, West Sumatra in early October, my family and many of my friends were worried about me who would go to Sumatra. Yet I was not going to Padang, I was going to Siantar instead. So I told them, no worries. :)

It was my first ...

Hello again. Just about to leave Jakarta this evening so i thought that i would let you know what we got up whilst we were here.

To be honest we havent found that there is a great deal to do in Jakart. Seems more like a city for people to live and work, and not much in the way for tourists. I could be wrong though and have missed a cracking city to be in. First day we walked around the freedom square in the middle of the city. Is a huge park ...

... dont come here, outsiders dont come here full stop. We soon had an audience. "if you dont give me 200, 000 i leave you here, they steal you and stab you and bad things will happen" Id like to thank my parents for having the foresight of raising me in yorkshire, for giving me the arrogance and confidence to simply turn round and say "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH" in a mocking fashion then laughing my head off and sneering at him. Id been in worse ...

What a title! What a paper! The Jakarta Post, THE no.1 English newspaper in Indo, has gallantly been pursuing this story about masseuses wearing chastity belts for almost a week now. The story, making the front page a few times, is essentially about massage parlours forcing their female workers to wear these underwear locking devices. Nowhere have i been able to find an actual ...

... at everything and Hau and Thanaphot too. Dinner was at a Thai restaurant to give Gamaliel a taste of what he's missing in a weeks time. Day 16 (Tues) Late start at 9am today so we were at the gym (Jeff, Gamaliel and Thanaphot swimming). My usual now is 25 mins, speed 6.5-7km/h, 100 calories, 3 km, HR=160bpm. Then off we were to The Crippled Children Hospital. Dr Uchok was there and for 45 minutes we discussed about various items. We were all pressured to ask controversial problems ...

Berangkat sore hari ke Jakarta hanya untuk melihat pantai carnaval ancol tidak merugikan. Tiba di ancol sebelum magrib, sesaat setelah parkir mobil segera pula mencari tempat sholat. Pantai carnaval pada malam minggu itu begitu ramai, terutama di setiap sudut pada tepian pantai dan sepanjang jembatan yang membelah pantai, dipenuhi oleh pasangan yang....*halah. Cukup sejuk udara ...

... other a soft-leafed variety I don't know the name of. Wanda collected the young fiddleheads for dinner--a delicacy also eaten by Canada's First Nations. However different this place is, it is also familiar. Each place is its own Eden. Now I'm inspired to find out all the names of these plants in Indonesian, and perhaps write a book on the flora of this jungle paradise before they disappear for good, though I want to be optimistic that they ...