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Rob,
Be.
Seksi !
Achmad…
Even if I tried really hard, I’m never gonna be sexy!
I did buy a new pair of glasses though, but they did not really work out, still not seksi!
Va Va Vroom + Merdeka!
Rob !
Everyone can be Seksi !
Achmad…
Everyone? I am comfortable with being beyond hope, hopeless so to speak, on the seksi front.
Rob,
U just have to believe.
I want to believe.
Once upon a time, even Merdeka was just a dream !
Rob, thank you, I don’t think all are bad or evil but a greater percentage than usual seem to be compared to other countries I have been to. That said, I did enjoy my time there and it has it’s benefits for us (the foreigner). One being we can live a far better life than the average Joe (or AAB/Purba). Even a bum on the dole in Australia can move to Indonesia and enjoy a fairly easy life parading as a clown for kids for mmmm 15 million or more a month. Not saying that was me, I had a successful job and moved back as soon as I could sponsor my family knowing we could start a better life back here.
does anyone else notice it or is it just me….? but when someone on this forum says “Enjoy your weekend” They actually mean “Fall under a bus and die”.
Janma !
Seksi Friends !
C’mon…we want everyone to feel seksi. Don’t say such things…
BTW — loved the tank top designs. Fabulous.
And Seksi !
x o .
janma-does anyone else notice it or is it just me….? but when someone on this forum says “Enjoy your weekend” They actually mean “Fall under a bus and die”.
You are right thats exactly what we mean. Sadly, though, in Jakarta given the lack of safety on public transport that would most likely happen. A student of mine once said he saw a woman step off a bus in Jalan Sudirman and the bus took off before she had properly alighted. The bus dragged her under and the wheel ran over her skull and crashed it. In true Indonesian style he didn’t hang around long enough to see the damage he caused and the people just stood there laughing, smirking and saying or doing nothing.
Andy…
Gotta say that standing around doing nothing, saying nothing, smirking, and laughing is not something uniquely Indonesian. I have seen Indonesians dive into help someone in need on many more occasions than I have seen them stand around.
Hit & run accidents where the driver drives away is not something uniquely Indonesian. It happens in Australia. Admittedly, on a public bus in Australia this might be a rarity. Yet, there are occasions of children being hit by public / school buses.
If you want to advance arguments about how bad Indonesia is you will find plenty of similar examples to this one that you can then generalize to tar and feather all Indonesians as being the same.
To each their own. You are entitled to your opinion on these things based on the experiences you have had. As I can disagree with you. In the 15 years that I have been in Indonesia I have seen good and bad, far more good than bad, but in a similar vein in my 23 years in Australia, having been born and bred there, I have also seen good and bad, far more good than bad. I guess what matters is how you spin those experiences. I am the eternal optimist and have great hopes for Indonesia, if for no other reason that my wife and soon to be born son are children of this nation. I want only what is best for them.
Enjoy your Sunday! (strangely enough this has nothing to do with you falling under a bus)
True the Chiense are the most dreadful racist of all:
“one white covers a hundred defects” and all that tripe.
Pretty ironic again. let’s just hope that the likes of PN and AAB are just the blacks who mar the cleaner name of Indonesians.
Truth hurts these Chinese racists as their beloved masquerade as sinless victims for whitey massa’s Green Cards, PRs & refugee visas are exposed as one of their many lies.
They hate to lose face to an uppity brown “muddy” but most especially in front of beloved massa whitey.
“let’s just hope that the likes of PN and AAB are just the blacks”
Quod erat demonstrandum.
janma humming…..
I like chinese,
I love their yin and yangese….
theres 900 million of them in the world today
so you better learn to like ‘em is what I say…..
Can’t reveal any truth as they are being censored. Maybe I will start writing some goods about the Anglo Bules when I can think of one.
I think this guy is just great, such bad words but put in a way to make it not offensive, roll on another 20 years, good on ya Kev.
AAB said
Many Asians who have not been to Ostraya visualize a land of immense beauty with great cultured people like Europe and America. The moment the plane landed, you will be sprayed with insecticide; non-White person would be asked to step aside and interrogated and fill in intimidating forms.
Don’t believe that only non-White persons receive this Australian welcome-treatment. My own experience as a non-Anglo bule was an intimidating interrogation about a permanent resident family member whom I visited at the time, long before 9/11. Although I came with a normal tourist visa – no sponsoring or prolonged stay involved - the interrogating officer wanted to know if I had relatives in Australia. When I said yes he then started to ask questions about this family member, what he was doing in Australia, what he did before, how and why he emigrated, whether he was married and to whom, if there were children etc. All questions in rapid succession, suspect-interrogation style. I was under the impression that it wasn’t me and my reasons for visiting Australia that he was interested in but that he wanted to check up on my family. It was quite disturbing and I heard similar stories of prying into private affairs from other, also bule, visitors. In no country I ever visited, even the US after 9/11, I’ve been interrogated this way.
But he didn’t ask for hadiah like they do in other places like ……… (fill in the dots).
Nevertheless, except for some outback redneck ockers and sheilas, Australia remains a beautiful and interesting country.
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