ooh gosh i have a lot to get through in a very short amount of time. umm wednesday last week i visited this amazing islamic uni. ok ill try think of the most interesting things: ok well you know the general dude from last blog? seems i left quite an impression with him... on thurs last week we were outside his headquarters when he came out with all these guards with guns and serious looking men marching but he stopped to wave at me from across the yard. oh the reporters were so jealous because apparently they see him everyday and [View Full Entry]

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long and tedious showers with a few drops of water, eating chocolate cake for breakfast and remaing a lady while dismounting from a motobike... ive done three days at the tv station now. the trip there takes about 25 mins on the motobike, didik drives. i love going through the small villages. the scenery, people going about their lives and just the fact that every building is different, nothing matches, it all just looks as though its been dumped and the juxtaposition of US ads and quiet asian traiditon is just cool. its so odd here everyone talks about "white beatuy" [View Full Entry]

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ok well im here! yogya is perhaps not as idylic and peaceful as i expected... its loud and polluted and everything is 'under construction' but its very vibrant and theres always soemthing to see. its probably bigger than i thought it'd be too. mostly uni students as expected because the biggest uni in indo is here, gagah mada. my delayed flight from melb to KL meant that i arrived in kl at about 4am instead of 9pm the night before... soo the LUXURY hotel room i payed for was wasted as i slept on a couch, along with about 11 others. [View Full Entry]

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