• Posts Tagged ‘Indonesia’

    Indonesians Avenge the Mangling of English on Korean Notebooks by Mangling Hangeul on 대어 오ㅜㄴ 노트보ㅗㅋ

    by  • April 4, 2010 • KOREA • 2 Comments

    Often, expats in Korea like to share some of the crazy English that they see on things like the covers of notebooks, on T-shirts, and so on. I myself included one example–taken from a T-shirt I got at the Jeonju International Film Festival several years ago–in a story titled “Country of the Young,” where...

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    Soraya Intercine Films’ UFO

    by  • January 28, 2010 • PERSONAL • 2 Comments

    Yup, this is what was on TV tonight: A prime time comedy SF TV show in Indonesian about a UFO and some people who retrieved it and made friends with the aliens inside. Miss Jiwaku also picked out what seems to be (maybe!) some kind of plot thread involving some kind of device (a...

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    There Goes the Neighborhood

    by  • January 27, 2010 • PERSONAL • 4 Comments

    In the Starbucks where Miss Jiwaku and I hang out in Depok — she studies, I work on stuff — demographics have finally hit, like shit on a fan. The demographics I’m talking about are micropopulation dynamics: the national demographics of enrollment in her Bahasa Indonesian language program at University of Jakarta have shifted,...

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    Fever, What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Trip to the Local Immigration Office, and a Final Positive Turn

    by  • January 24, 2010 • PERSONAL • 0 Comments

    I’ve been quite ill this week — not quite just food poisoning, but something a little more vindictive and involved, though not in a sentient sense. The same intestinal upset as last time, but with an added element: a burning fever on Thursday night, and fever (slightly less severe, but much sweatier) again on...

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    Random Observations

    by  • January 19, 2010 • PERSONAL • 0 Comments

    While I really would prefer to be blogging something a touch more substantial, I’m overloaded with The Freelance Project That Refused to F*cking Die. So, while I’m a little tied up with that — and unable to dive into the fiction-writing project I thought I’d be well into by now — all I have...

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    Metal Softies

    by  • January 16, 2010 • PERSONAL • 3 Comments

    Indonesian rock bands have a seriously weird aesthetic for self-representation, from the point of view of a Westerner, that is. You see these guys who look for all the world like a death-metal band — weird hair-tattoos (like, where they shave intricate patterns into their hair), leather and spikes, braids in their beards, and...

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