In & Around Jakarta

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During my trip last week to Jakarta, I had Tuesday off of work because it was a public holiday, so a colleague from the local office we are working with took me on a scenic drive around the Jakarta countryside. We drove to the Jatiluhur Reservoir to look at an old dam built in the 1950′s, toward Bandung, Cianjur and then Puncak (click for a Google Map). The area is very scenic and beautiful once you get out of the pollution of the city.

Enjoy the pics. It was the first full-time camera duty I have experienced with my new iPhone 4 (yeah, yeah…that will get it’s own post soon) and I was pretty impressed. Some were taken with the Hipstamatic app for retro-type photos. With the grittiness of the area and the retro look from the App, it made for a pretty neat effect.

Click on the slideshow to take you to Photobucket where the pics are actually in order…

Valentine’s with Bintang

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That’s right…we are apart for Valentine’s Day. My poor wife sitting at home while I am in my usual work travel spot having “dinner”. Let’s just say that there are some things Indonesia does well like pirated DVDs and fresh seafood in a tent. Most other things are a mess. On my 8th trip here and this is the saving grace :)


It sure has been a while…

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Not sure if anyone even comes around here anymore, but with the proliferation of Facebook, personal websites are becoming obsolete. Anyways, I couldn’t let a year go by without a post, so here it is.

Who visits here that does not have a Facebook account other than my mom? Is it worth it to maintain the site? I have already moved the photos to Photobucket so it is really just for the posts, which I put on Facebook by default now…

So, my readers, your thoughts?

Bailey is a cone head…

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…poor girl…

Took her to the vet today because she had this big open sore on her foot and even with it wrapped up she would not leave it alone. They told us that she has a tumor on one of her toes and we have to treat her foot for a week or so to get her skin more healthy before they amputate the toe. Once they take the growth/toe off, they will send it to the lab to see if it is benign or malignant.

So until she can learn to stop licking and chewing her feet and until all this gets healed, she gets the cone…

:(

- peeps

Fun with Flying

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So I landed in London this morning basically on time. Took the tram over to Terminal 1 at London Heathrow and found that because of a computer failure, they didn’t have any departure boards working showing the departure times and gates. They were writing them with a sharpie on paper setup on an easel!!! So my coworker and I waited 4 hours for our boarding time and made our way to the most remote gate at LHR – Gate 74, Terminal 1! Upon getting there, we found that the jetbridge had a hydraulic problem and no longer lined up with the boarding door of the plane, so they shuffled us off to a waiting area and kept us posted with useless status updates for ~2 hours before telling us that the plane could not be inspected since they still couldn’t move the jetbridge so they were getting another plane for us…that meant 4 more hours of layover!!! So…the flight is SUPPOSED to leave in another hour and 10 minutes…we’ll see…

Hopefully sometime in the next half a day or so, I will end up in Almaty!