Its 4 AM ( Read more... )

Of all the things that seem dangerous here, earthquakes, volcanoes, etc.  The thing that seems the most dangerous to me I do all the time.  Driving.  Or riding on someone else's motorbike.  Actually riding is scarier, at least when I'm driving I feel in control and I go slow cause I'm still getting used to traffic.  But some of my friends drive ( Read more... )

I liked reading this when Chris did a post like this a while back, so I'm bored and still can't sleep so I'm going to do the same.

I'm going to set the ipod to shuffle and write out the first line of the first 30 songs and we'll see how long it takes for people to guess them.  And we'll add the artist to the post when people guess them.  No using ( Read more... )

Set ipod to shuffle and for each blank apply whatever random song comes next.

So here's my life soundtrack

Opening credit: Morrissey - "I Am Hated For Loving" (shit that's not how I was hoping it would start)
Waking up: George Thorogood - "If You Don't Start Drinking" (okay that's better)
First Date: Little Beaver - "I Love The Way You Love"
Falling in ( Read more... )

Hey, I've gotten emails from people the last few months saying that the cheapest tickets they can find to Indonesia are between 3000-5000 dollars ( Read more... )

That was quite trick to get the internet working in my house. First, so you know my cd-rom drive on my computer doesn't work. I had bought an external drive back in the US to solve this problem but it broke here in Indonesia. So I had been on a quest here to find an external cd-rom drive here. Not the easiest task actually. Lots of drives, but ( Read more... )

In Indonesia like almost every other country in the world, they realize the sheer genius and aesthetic beauty of the game of soccer and show it on TV all the time ( Read more... )

So next week I have to start teaching again ( Read more... )

I don't know if I've ever posted something that describes the boringness of my job. Its not all palm sap wine, cloves, and beaches. Infact, the beach is 25km from here, so I've only been once, and its not a great beach let me tell you. You gotta go to Bali or Flores or Lombok for the superior beaches ( Read more... )

The regularity with which I post these days seems to be sporadic at best. But I have found the bomb ass cigarettes in this country. The are called Dji Sam Soh, they cloves, just like most of the local varieties. I paid $2 for them, about three times as much as normal cigs. They came in a slick black plastic case which slides open and the ( Read more... )