Grinch On Tour
(Jakarta)
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Slouched into Indonesia in early 1999 intent on committing journalism. Fell in love with the country and a special someone. The Stockholm Syndrome has truly set in and I'm a willing, complicit hostage to this great country, with a wife and grinchlet twins (2010). While life is grand, I've not surrendered the critical faculties and prejudices honed to a fine point by firelight through many a long Canadian winter. For all the stunning advances since Suharto left, the paradoxes of modern Indonesia and its colorful collection of evil scumbags, willful incompetents, and fruitcakes offers fertile soil for commentary and hopefully, humor.
tags: grinch, humor, indonesia, opinion, politics
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It's been a weird couple of weeks even by G's...
Posted on 18/05/2012
It's been a weird couple of weeks even by G's standards. Three young relatives of immediate friends have died, including a five-year-old girl taken by dengue. The Grinchlettes...
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Angels& Demons
Posted on 24/04/2012
I'm not even going to begin to make excuses for the unseemly lag in blogs to this site. Hopefully this will serve to restart my engines (aye, where have we read that before, Papa...
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Suryo Bambang Sulisto is the Grinch's Hero of the...
Posted on 12/12/2011
Suryo Bambang Sulisto is the Grinch's Hero of the Week. Kadin (Indonesian Chamber of Commerce) has rarely rocked the boat because the status quo is so damn lucrative. However, the new...
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Explosive WikiLeaks Cables Nail Yudhoyono
Posted on 11/03/2011
It has taken a while - arrival of twin grinchlettes back in Jan 2010 set back efforts - but this news is too good to keep down.The funny thing is that while it will no doubt case enormous...
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When the going gets weird...
Posted on 28/04/2010
My favorite bits and pieces from the last couple of daysSnakes and AddersThe clearing of the 50+ hectare Rasuna Epicentrum lands smack in the centre of Jakarta and opposite the...
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Papa’s Rollin’ Stone Gathers No Political Joss
Posted on 07/04/2010
One of the weirder recent newsy bits that slipped beneath the radar was the midnight relocation last week of the gravestone of Indonesia’s first president Soekarno and what it says...
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Poop, Boob-radar and Furry Babies: Pearls of Wisdom From a...
Posted on 04/03/2010
This is the day the Grinchlettes were scheduled to arrive. Clever buggers, they decided to roll up in the middle of Letterman seven weeks early. Here’s what I’ve gleaned about...
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Trouble with Tigers, the MinTwit strikes again, and a...
Posted on 25/02/2010
News Item 1: Minister proposes giving endangered Sumatran tigers to “rich people” as a conservation measure.News Item 2: SBY bitch-slaps (Javanese style) proto-Taliban MinTwit...
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Enough Demo(cracy): Time to Split Some Heads
Posted on 22/02/2010
Jakartans are daily witnessing the application of the old adage about too much democracy being a bad thing. At the risk of lining up behind Mahathir Mohammed and Lee Kuan Yew whose distain...
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