4/29

4/29

Whew! I'm knackered like cream crackers. Today -- well, let me back up to last night for a sec.

We went to Amigo's, a mostly expat restaurant/bar. Mexican food & Bintangs (the local Budweiser) all 'round. They had a live band, which was pretty decent (Well, as decent as Indonesians singing Jimmy Buffett & La Bamba can be!). And then they played "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and I broke down. I had to excuse myself. Meta saw, & looked concerned. Apart from that, a good evening overall. The 2nd band sang more upbeat, contemporary stuff like Shakira.

I woke up this morning around 4:30, just in time for the morning prayers, Actually, it was the cat who had snuck into the kitchen that woke me up. It was making this awful sound, like a dying bird, or a baby. Strange thing about the cats here, they are all regarded like vermin. And almost all of them have really short tails, like they had been bobbed off.

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So today we went to a wedding (actually, just the reception) of one of the former office girls @ EF. I was for sure the tallest & whitest person there, and there were @ least 1,500 people there. There was a LOT of food, and I tried to sample as much as I could. Everything was delicious. Lots of photo ops as well.

After that, Meta drove us to Pondok Indah. Big mall, lots of shops. Too bad I still haven't gone to the money changer. I got an iced coffee drink with Felix & Sheley. Felix is cool, he's from Colorado. Sheley's a hot ticket. Too bad she's ultra religious & a prude lol. Felix says they've been wearing her down. Saw a little of the Red Sox game vs. the Yankees. Wakefield was pitching, I think? Came home and crashed. Teaching tomorrow, so I gotta get some SLEEP. I predict I'm gonna wake up ~ 5:30. We'll see, it's been an hour later every night. I gotta go to bed, even tho it's only 8:30. Nite!