Page 47 and a strange fruit.

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The 21st of September 2008 was a funny date.
It saw me start a blog of sorts on another forum. It stayed as the written word until page 47 when I started posting photos regularly.
The photos were taken with an old mobile phone and the camera wasn't that great.

The first was this strange fruit that I never really remembered the name of.

A lot were way too poor quality to bother with now but I did get the odd interesting snap.

I started to look around for interesting bits and bobs.

Jogjakarta is a tourist city.
The road signs are in Indonesian and javanese.

 

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Food can be interesting out here.

Borobudur temple in Java is amazing

 

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Kids in government schools tidy their own classrooms.

A bus

Repairing a motorcycle inner tube

Safety first at a petrol station.
Sticky tape is an acceptable way to sort out a leaking hose on a petrol pump.

 

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A pretty typical village shop.

Roadside food sales.
Sate (pro. Sattay) is very nice. It's whatever meat on a stick, BBQed.

A guy on a bike.

 

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I wondered if anyone will read this crap or if I should devote more time to scratching my balls and farting.

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[koshergrl]

I read it! I love pics! There is a photography and imagining forum, I post my bs pics there all the time, lol.

 

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I'll post a few more later.
Oh go on - one more now.

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[koshergrl]

The first one looks like what we call prickly pear...which is a succulent? A cactus? But I've never seen one that big.

Here is purple prickly pear:

 

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Yours is a little different though.

 

[Sunni Man]

Please keep posting the pictures because I find them interesting.

Last year I gave a talk at the Indonesian mosque in the city where I live.

They were exceptionally nice people and had a great buffet after the event.

I would love to visit there some day.

 

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Please keep posting the pictures because I find them interesting.

Last year I gave a talk at the Indonesian mosque in the city where I live.

They were exceptionally nice people and had a great buffet after the event.

I would love to visit there some day.

Thailand is known as "The land of smiles".
They aren't even close to people here.
Smiling and being nice are national hobbies.

 

[Jos]

Is The strange fruit durian king of fruits, smells like old socks dipped in turpentine, but tastes great

 

[mememe]

Is The strange fruit durian king of fruits, smells like old socks dipped in turpentine, but tastes great

How can anything taste great if it smells awful?!

 

[koshergrl]

Maybe socks dipped in turpentine taste good, too!

 

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Is The strange fruit durian king of fruits, smells like old socks dipped in turpentine, but tastes great

No - You'll see durian a little later.

Durian is like a kiss from your favourite lover while she's sitting on the toilet with a bad case of the shits.

 

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Shops get built wherever someone can.

Bamboo is available free by just popping into the jungle with an axe so off they went.

Sambal is crushed chilli with a few bits and bobs added.
Very popular in Indonesia.

Poverty is pretty common here.
Yes - this is a house.

I used to live here

 

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Note.
I sort of regret selling that house. The village was a wonderful place to live.

 

[Sunni Man]

Could a person live there comfortably on $1,000 U.SD per month?

 

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The police on pre duty parade, Banjarnegara, central Java.

School kids on parade. Each Monday morning sees a flag ceremony in Indonesian national schools.
They raise the flag then salute it and the headmaster.

One very popular dish out here is called Bakso. It's all over the place. It usually comes boiled and is often sold from carts pushed around the place.

Now and again you see bakso bakar or roasted bakso.

(The quality of the photos gets better later)