Tag: Pancoran
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Eid al-Adha Jakarta 2013 : The Feast Of Sacrifice
I must warn you that this post contains graphic images of animals being slaughtered. If you are vegan, vegetarian or in any way squeamish, then please do not read it. If on the other hand you are interested in learning about this special day in the Muslim calendar, you are in luck; your South-east Asian […]
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The Other Side Of The Coin
This photographic challenge that I’ve set myself is proving an interesting exercise. As with most of my creative endeavours, I start with an idea but never quite know how it will end up. So far it’s not going the way that I had hoped. That’s not to say that it is a failure, it’s more […]
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Snapshots of Jakarta
It’s been a busy week with lots going on here in Jakarta. There’s always something that captures my eye when I’m out and about on my travels and the photos above are just of a few of the things that I saw this week and couldn’t resist taking a picture of. The photo of the […]
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Naturist Gardening In Jakarta
I’ve had to ditch the dusters (dastahs). Irishman said he’d refuse to sleep with me (read that as something else) if I continued to wear them. In revenge for his hateful, chauvinist ultimatum, I did toy briefly with the idea of celibacy over comfort but I caved in and grudgingly gave into his wishes a […]
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My Pelvic Floor And Our Move To The 12th Floor
I’m meant to be packing up our apartment in Dengue Villas today. It’s hardly a big deal as we are not actually moving out of the building, merely up 7 floors. To look at the place though you’d think it was. Empty packing boxes are strewn around the sitting room and piles and piles of […]
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Oh My Giddy Aunt!
It was the XXXL sized cockroach streaking past me as I opened the bathroom door that did it. I can normally deal with them as they are part and parcel of being here, but this one was three X’s too large for my liking. That, and Monsieur Le Rat who after weeks of keeping us […]
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