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004 Dangdut Karaoke: Denis Arista – the Rocker

By admin | Published: February 11, 2011
This young lady can really belt out a song.  In this one, ‘Aku’, it’s mostly rock with the dangdut showing through occasionally.  This has been the most popular of all the songs we’ve uploaded to youtube so far.  If I can work out why, I’ll be very popular indeed.  But finding out the ’why’ is often a [...]
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Jakarta Street Food: Skoteng – bring your own bowl

By admin | Published: February 6, 2011
There are quite a few variations on warm milky ginger drinks which Indonesians love to eat on a cool night.  As you can see, skoteng includes mutiara (pink sago beads), bread cubes, peanut, sweet beans, condensed milk and jahe (ginger tea), of course.  Sweet yet spicy. The interesting part of this video starts at 2:20.  You [...]
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Badai di Awal Bahagia Part 2: The Great Escape

By admin | Published: December 18, 2010
After the first scene in this movie, the bad guy (Herman) who got left behind was arrested and thrown in jail.  Rhoma did his civic duty and identified him.  We were also subjected to some sickening scenes of domestic bliss between Rhoma, one of his wives and their chubby toddler daughter.  But Herman doesn’t like prison life [...]
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Travelling in Java

By admin | Published: October 28, 2010
Just to let you know, I’ll be travelling through Java for the next two weeks.  Well actually I’ll only be going to two cities, Jakarta and Kediri – for a week each and in that order.  The important reasons are at the beginning and the end of the trip, first to go to Pesta Blogger [...]
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Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Vocanoes Don’t Scare Us

By admin | Published: October 27, 2010
The world’s newspapers and news sites seem to be filled with stories about a series of natural disasters that Indonesia is currently suffering.  Earthquake and tsunami in Sumatra, volcano erupting in Yogya, floods in Jakarta.  I’ve seen a YouTube vid of a US pastor who says it’s the end of the world.  Well, it’s not the [...]
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Jakarta Street Food: Candy Sculptures

By admin | Published: September 19, 2010
Watch this video to see how to turn a lump of melted sugar into a butterfly or a horsie.  Some people are put off by the fact that he uses his hands and everything’s done a foot off the dusty ground.  Indonesians are generally very clean when handling food and they often use thir hands, even [...]
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