Today is Idul Fitri - the end of Ramadan. Indonesians all across the archipelago are currently mudik - they're all going home for Lebaran (the holiday period). There'll be communal prayer in the town squares, and huge meals cooked - enough to feed the entire extended family. Fresh goat meat, ketupat .... it's like Christmas without Jesus, Santa or ( Read more... )

I have news-type-stuff to say, but I'm very uninspired when it comes to explaining it all out, so it will have to wait ( Read more... )

Hi. Yeah. Me. Still alive.

Not very awake though.

Uni, in all its malevolent wisdom is cocking shit up worse than it did last 'trimester' (oh, it's such a special snowflake uni). I have classes 3 days a week, and every couple of weeks there's this stooooopid bloody 'intensive' class which means I have 3x 16hr days in a row. Officially, this leaves me ( Read more... )

I was watching Good News Week tonight when Paul (oh Paul <3<3<3) talked about roller derby, and showed footage of the girls from my league!!

And then he said some very dirty and filthy things about derby.

Guess what my new ringtone is. :D :D :D

Sweet Granny's Apples, WHAT A DAY.

A political day, that is. For those unaware, the current Government has just pretty much tossed out the Prime Minister (Rudd), and installed a new one (Gillard). Pundits and commentary have it that the Labor party freaked out that Rudd was dropping in the popularity polls, and decided to go with the more popular ( Read more... )

Wednesday night is my Trivia Night. I like trivia quizzes. I like how sometimes I can pull together random snippets of knowledge in order to come up with an answer to an otherwise unanswerable question. I like it when the answers are given after each round, and we cheer every time we get a right answer, and point recriminating fingers at each other ( Read more... )

Dear Americans and other non-Aussies.

I shit you not. This is the BEST, hands-down BEST place in Melbourne to get chips (or fries, as you may call them)

Lord of the Fries

Their first store was across the road from Flinders St Station. Then they put an outlet IN the station. IN THE STATION! My commuting heart loves them for it. These chips are one of ( Read more... )

'kay - so I'm on teaching rounds at the moment, doing two weeks of this vague sort of observation/dabbling thingy. For *whatever* reason, our uni has had to put more than one of us at each school, and at the school I'm attending, there's four of us student teachers altogether ( Read more... )

Going through second drafts of the second book in the Indon text book series ( Read more... )

#1 I am desperately wanting some Melting Moment sort of biscuits. I can't cook until I wash my dishes though ( Read more... )