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Couple gives adopted child back to orphanage
- Two years after proudly telling
friends they'd adopted a newborn baby in Indonesia, an Irishman
and his Azerbaijani wife decided things weren't working out.
The adoptive father, Joseph Dowse, drove
to an orphanage on the outskirts of Jakarta with his son and
left him there with a box of
clothes and toys. (NZ Herald)
Foreign investors cheer Indonesia graft war
The traffic cop who
refused a bribe.
The expatriate who did not have to pay an
extra fee for his work permit. The brokers, who
once helped foreigners jump the queue for a driver's license,
finding themselves out of a job. (Standard)
 'Honest'
Aceh prisoners rewarded - Hundreds
of prisoners in Aceh who chose not to escape from their jails
during the tsunami are to have
their sentences halved.
(BBC)
Last mile is weak link in tsunami
warning system
PERTH: A tsunami alert
system is taking shape around the Indian Ocean seven months after
gigantic waves killed more than 230,000 people, but making sure
warnings reach impoverished coastal villages
remains problematic, experts
said. (Stuff)
BuGils Bar Staff Are Going
International
In support of the BuGils staff, who are planning to go to
Singapore for their half yearly outing, the BuGils management is
giving them freedom to organise events of which the revenues will
go directly to them. The first event they planned is a Hawaiin
Night on coming Thursday. No entrance fee. For next
week a Country and Western Night is scheduled. (BuGils Daily)
(Note:
The event is this THURSDAY AUGUST 11
and not Monday as mentioned on the poster)
Forest Fires in Indonesia Blanket
Malaysian Cities with Unhealthy Haze
It said in a statement that satellite images showed
587 "hot spots," or fires, in
Riau and northern Sumatra in Indonesia. The province is separated
from peninsular Malaysia by the narrow Malacca Strait. (ENN)
 FROM THE EDITOR:
When my brother came off the plane, there
apparently was a girl approaching him rather aggressively. That is
if I have to believe his words. Mind you, he is a kind of shy guy,
not the person who would go to Blok M and chase women.
While waiting for his bags at the conveyor belt, the girl had
asked him where he stayed and why he was traveling alone. When she
also asked for his number, Herman was absolutely sure it was his
little brother who had send the girl to 'go and get him'.
No friendly handshakes when he came out of the airport this time.
‘If you are trying to arrange women for me, I leave directly. I
was harassed just now, and I am sure you arranged that!’ Angry and
irritated he threw his bags in the back of my car. ‘No I didn’t.
That girl probably just tried to be friendly, my dear brother!
Relax, this is Indonesia. It is a standard question to ask if you
are single or married!’ Later in his holiday, he did fall in love
with a pretty girl who was working for me at that time. She even
came to Holland for a holiday a year later. But my good hearted
brother believed her every time when she asked for money. School
fees, sick sister, a new roof, etc. I think her mother was in the
hospital at least ten times in the year he kept sending her money.
And her grandmother must have died five times. I tried to make
clear to him, that she was using him but he wouldn't listen. He
finally gave up sending money when she delivered her first baby.
And it wasn’t from him. Sakit hati enggak sih..?
On the picture: Tourist Herman who is never
convinced of his brother innocence
Now, 10 years later, Herman, still single, came back to Indonesia
to see the BuGils, the stroopwafel bakery and to play some golf.
Straight from the airport we drove to BuGils. I introduced him to
the staff and some regulars. (scary enough nobody believed that he
is 5 years older then me). The staff asked him bluntly if he was
still single. Herman, by now, had learned that this was an
introduction question. But the staff went in the attack directly,
overwhelming my shy brother. ‘Ah! You are a liar! Maybe
here you are single, but in Holland you have wife!’. The Bir
Bintangs went in smoothly. But when at a certain point he came
hurrying back from the toilet, he pointed angry at me. ‘Don’t tell
me, you did it again! There is a girl in the toilet asking if I
want to have sex!’ In surprise I looked directly to the toilet
entrance, just behind the pool table. One waitress walked out with
a sleepy look on her face. ‘That’s her! She asked me if I
needed sex! What kind of bar or you running here!’ He was clearly
shocked and disappointed at the same time. And I was confused as I
could not believe that a waitress would have the guts to ask my
brother if he needed sex! Absurd! I turned again to my brother.
‘What did you tell her?’ He grasped for air. ‘Well, when I washed
my hands I noticed this girl in the toilet, so I apologized. I
didn’t know I was in the women's’ toilet!’ I understood his
confusion. ‘Herman, it is a mixed toilet for both men and women!’
‘Oh, was it? I asked that girl three times where the mans’ toilet
could be, but three times she answered ‘You need sex?’
 The
waitress had no idea what I was talking about. ‘Really Bart! I
didn’t ask him anything. He asked me where the men's’ toilet was
and I told him that the BuGils toilet is Uni-sex... What
did I say wrong!?’ For a few seconds there was a silence. ‘No. I
don’t think you said anything wrong. I think my brother heard
it wrong…’ Then I looked at my brother. He shrugged his
shoulders and quickly took a sip of his beer with a sly smile on
his face. From tense released he quietly repeated the word. ‘U-need-sex….
Uni-sex…. Sorry, but its just not a common word where I come
from….’
On the picture: The
innocent waitress who was misunderstood
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Japan's marathon postal reform debate takes
toll on tea-serving secretary
Japan's cliff-hanger fight over postal reform has not only
pressured politicians. A lawmaker's secretary said she needed
treatment for
an elbow injury resulting from serving so
much tea and coffee. "I'm an athletic woman with
lots of muscles," she told AFP. "I never dreamed this would
happen."
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