Friday, 15Dec06
Highlights: fan, updating the website, Déjà vu
I’m getting tired of paying an exorbitant $200/month electric bill. I have no idea what is causing the electricity here to be so expensive, but the convenient excuse of our landlord is that A/C is the usual culprit which drives up electricity rates. Hmmm. I don’t think I use that much air conditioning,, but we can fix that problem. I went to the market & bought a $25 fan. How about no a/c now? If next month’s bill is anywhere near $200, I’m gonna be pissed.
The bigget chunk of my day fell atop the keys of my laptop,,, working to update the pics & prose of this website for you all (and myself). Gotta keep mom in the know! (=
Aside from that, it was fun playing with Fairus (3) a little bit at the house, while mom (Eli) worked. That kid has some serious energy! Whew!
Later, after the TNI-U.S. military exchange was over, I met Maj Behel & Reilley at Indonesia Plaza for an afternoon movie. Déjà vu, with Denzel Washington looked good (=
Personally, I enjoy Denzel Washington movies, and thought the movie part was well done. I can sympathize with Maj Doug Behel’s lackluster impression,,, being an anti-terrorism expert & looking at this stuff everyday… being under-impressed with Hollywood’s vision of sending our hero back through time to alter the course of a ‘mission from God’ or ‘destiny’ terrorist plot… orchestrated by one deranged man, of course, and managing to fall in love with & get the attractive girl in the end. Through experimental technology that Cambridge came up with & hadn’t fully tested yet.
There are worse ways to make 2 hours disappear (=
Jumping back on my rant of how Jakarta does not reflect reality in Indonesia, the movie theatre ($12 tickets), was hands down THE most luxurious I have ever watched a movie in. Fully reclining, brown leather lazy-boy seats complete with blanket and café service. It’s almost worth going back to take a picture.
Forget that the movie tikets are 6 times more expensive than those in Yogya, that most Indonesian families couldn’t afford to come here, and that I wouldn’t pay $12 to see most movies in America,,,
The other option was Eragon. I’ll get to it when it hits the cheap theatres.
It was fun hanging out & having dinner with Maj Behel, Reilley & their Indonesian guide from the Borobudur hotel.
Highlights: fan, updating the website, Déjà vu
I’m getting tired of paying an exorbitant $200/month electric bill. I have no idea what is causing the electricity here to be so expensive, but the convenient excuse of our landlord is that A/C is the usual culprit which drives up electricity rates. Hmmm. I don’t think I use that much air conditioning,, but we can fix that problem. I went to the market & bought a $25 fan. How about no a/c now? If next month’s bill is anywhere near $200, I’m gonna be pissed.
The bigget chunk of my day fell atop the keys of my laptop,,, working to update the pics & prose of this website for you all (and myself). Gotta keep mom in the know! (=
Aside from that, it was fun playing with Fairus (3) a little bit at the house, while mom (Eli) worked. That kid has some serious energy! Whew!
Later, after the TNI-U.S. military exchange was over, I met Maj Behel & Reilley at Indonesia Plaza for an afternoon movie. Déjà vu, with Denzel Washington looked good (=
Personally, I enjoy Denzel Washington movies, and thought the movie part was well done. I can sympathize with Maj Doug Behel’s lackluster impression,,, being an anti-terrorism expert & looking at this stuff everyday… being under-impressed with Hollywood’s vision of sending our hero back through time to alter the course of a ‘mission from God’ or ‘destiny’ terrorist plot… orchestrated by one deranged man, of course, and managing to fall in love with & get the attractive girl in the end. Through experimental technology that Cambridge came up with & hadn’t fully tested yet.
There are worse ways to make 2 hours disappear (=
Jumping back on my rant of how Jakarta does not reflect reality in Indonesia, the movie theatre ($12 tickets), was hands down THE most luxurious I have ever watched a movie in. Fully reclining, brown leather lazy-boy seats complete with blanket and café service. It’s almost worth going back to take a picture.
Forget that the movie tikets are 6 times more expensive than those in Yogya, that most Indonesian families couldn’t afford to come here, and that I wouldn’t pay $12 to see most movies in America,,,
The other option was Eragon. I’ll get to it when it hits the cheap theatres.
It was fun hanging out & having dinner with Maj Behel, Reilley & their Indonesian guide from the Borobudur hotel.
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