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 What a crap! - by @lbert
  Posted:28/01/2005 - 17:00 - in category: general
A read some articles in the Star the crappy english newspaper owned by MCA.
They had some 'features' on homosexuality by a Loh Foon Fong called =Changing sexual orientation through reparative therapy=.
Feature1
Are we back in the 18th century? Did Mr Loh dig any further than the crappy disputable resources he could find with his obviously narrow minded brain?
Probably not, but than on top op that they feature another article afterwards, on a real love ministry. Feature2
Well if it was not so sad what they try to tell you would drop dead of laughing.
Mr Loh and other so called writers holier than you of the Star should dig a bit deeper there are more thorow studies than a crappy study on 200 people available, but they obviously dont serve the authors purpose.
First world country but sadly enough a real 3rd world mentality!
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 Finally...back home - by @lbert
  Posted:28/01/2005 - 09:37 - in category: travel abroad
Back in my own quiet kampung.
What a relieve after 3 weeks in Indonesia.
Actually the most striking is no more deafening trafic noise, stinking 2 stroke motorbikes and black smoke puffing busses!
In Yogya (other cities even worse) you hardly can walk nowadays, it is to polluted. At the end of the day your hair is black by diesel fumes.
Number 2 is the rubish, allthough Yogya is quite clean, the attitude to throw rubish is more sickening than Malaysia.
Than remains the fact that Indonesia does not want any progress, they will do all they can to remain a 3rd world country. Do not expect anything to change even with their new president SBY, sorry to say but it will all remain the same. Super corrupt and fighting off every progress.
I pitty the people who want the country forward but it will not happen, not now and not in a 100 years.......
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 Selamat Raya - by @lbert
  Posted:21/01/2005 - 09:37 - in category: general
Wishing everybody selamat Aidil Adha!
My last few days in Indonesia before going back.
I heard in the indonesian news that Malaysia send a whole cow to Acheh for Raya.
At least you can see the Indonesian president going around without numerous unknown monkeys around him, greeting him and bidding him farewell as always seems to be the case in Malaysia.
Watched some pictures on TV from Acheh this morning and it is absolutely amazing, a whole city has been swept away. This becomes clear the more after some clean up operations. How many years will it take to rebuild something there? This is all hard to understand, all finished in a few minutes.
But it proves what man kind is againtst monther nature.
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 Tourist cheating - by @lbert
  Posted:16/01/2005 - 15:41 - in category: travel abroad
I am having 5 days off in Yogya, so i went around a bit to see some nature in the area.
If you leave very early, scenery is beautifull. After that the haze sets in.
Only one very irritating habit in In donesia is that they have double standards for all gouverment contrlled tourist sites.
Thing like Borobudur or Prambanan, a local pays Rp 5000 a tourist pays 50.000.
I went to Sukuh, a local pays Rp 2000- i had to pay 10.000. I hate this double standard cheating, asif every tourist is filthy rich.
So as a Malaysia if you go to Indonesia, pretend to be a local and pay the local tarif.
Indonesia wants tourists, but this way they will never get them, it just pisses people off.
But what to expect, Indonesia does NOT want any prgress, they puroposely want to remain in the stone age.
I just read that i missed another blackout in Malaysia.....i thought this never could happen again?
But than gouverment words are so cheap in Malaysia, and its a country rules by politicians not by professianals. Than a sho down VCD peddler and a Taiwanese in custody for weeks, well Malaysia surely has shown its 'Malaysia boleh' to the outside world again.
Well done..........
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 Birokrasi... - by @lbert
  Posted:07/01/2005 - 09:53 - in category: travel abroad
When you tell the average Indonesian that help efforts in Sumatra are dearly hampered by bureaucratic behaviour of the goverment the answer you get is just "biasa" .....
People are so used to it that it is common good. Meanwhile the food is rotting away.
Isn't it time the president steps in in person and kicks some buts?
Those people badly need help..........
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 Tsunami news in Indo - by @lbert
  Posted:05/01/2005 - 08:38 - in category: general
I am really surprised that news delivery on TV concerning the Tsunami and their victims in Indonesia is really more than lousy.
News is only in the normal news schedule, no extra news is brought no program interruptions. They are all to concerned that anything might interrupt their income stream from commercials, terrible.
The only station with real news is Metro TV but you cannot get it everywhere.
Of course life goes on, but the above is striking.
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 Happy new year - by @lbert
  Posted:01/01/2005 - 18:44 - in category: general
Wishing all readers and friends a happy prosperous 2005!
I will be outstation almost the whole month in Indonesia.
But if I got time will try to send an update from there.
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