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Happy New Year, and a quick “I’m alive” update

1. Happy New Year!

2. I’m currently in an internet cafe in Yogjakarta, checking emails for the first time since I left. Here’s a few things that we’ve done since we’ve been in Indonesia:

• Sail in a tiny Indonesian fishing boat (roughly 5m long, and looks like an old canoe with outriggers) in 6ft open seas to get to Krakatoa. In the rain. It was 4 1/2 hours out, 3 hours back in; all in shark infested waters. Luckily, we didn’t die.

• Krakatoa was fun, even though we were wet, cold, wet and cold. But we were standing somewhere that didn’t exist 100 years ago, and that’s damn cool.

• Christmas in Jakarta — another warm Christmas for me! And New Years in Jakarta — another warm New Years for me! I got an email or two complaining that I wasn’t around to throw another NYE party, (sorry about that), but then it would’ve been tough to top the last one. If I can remember it.

• Souvenir shopping in Yogja. There are some really nice stuff, but it costs real money, not the usual play money they use here (anything under 100,000Rp I consider play money). And I have the same beef with bargain shopping here as I do anywhere — there’s a damn good reason why it’s cheap. I also have a rather long list of souvenirs to fill, and I can’t bring myself to give people shitty presents. Ahh, so I guess I’m not going to be saving any money on this trip…

3. There’s obviously a whole lot more, but I’ll get to all that when I get back to Japan. In the meantime, there’s beer to drink and hawkers to bargain with. Back again in a week!

4. (Incidentally, I’ve discovered that I’m quite good at this bargaining business. It’s genetic, baby!)

• Posted in Indonesia, RightBrain on the 03.01.2007 @ 9:13:16 PM, Permanent Link
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