tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84979419232357314842024-03-05T15:22:28.506-08:00Marty's LifeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.comBlogger347125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-82225101318321981752015-12-05T10:58:00.001-08:002015-12-05T10:59:07.483-08:00Stagnant times It's been awhile. Life has not been so exciting, you know the everyday things of working to earn a living. Being laid off .. Waiting to collect government insurance .. Walking around the neighbourhood with the Dalhouise .. Same old same old...<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-84109774947475343882015-01-13T21:33:00.002-08:002015-01-13T21:33:43.440-08:00Picnicking -Stanley ParkWaking up this morning with no real plan... I had mentioned to Noni that we should go to Vancouver again to buy some speciality coffee that she likes. Well once uttered it becomes written in stone it seems, so since the sky was clear off we went. Of course I had plans developing in my head to walk some of the Seawall at Stanley Park to look for birds and to geocache. I am pleased with the bird I seen and that I could identify<br />
-- Black Oystercatchers - Double Crested Cormorants - Surf Scoters - common Goldeneyes -<br />
Barrow's Goldeneyes - Mallard Ducks - Buffleheads.... And gulls of some type and possible a loon but can not be sure.<br />
We bought our lunch in the Asian market and took it to the beach. Perfect day for a picnic - sitting on a bench looking over the glass ocean.<br />
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And to make this even a better day - I found my loss Arcteryx glove </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-36807164525223951092015-01-10T20:12:00.003-08:002015-01-10T20:12:37.140-08:00estuary walk <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">It was a good day with me sighting 14 species of birds. I even seen my first Robin of this year... In Ontario the first sighting was always an encouragement that winter was almost gone - spring has arrive. I don't think it means the same here in BC, nevertheless it is my first Robin of the year. </span><br />
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Can you tell the difference. Top is a Common Goldeneye and bottom is a Bufflehead.</div>
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Then on the way home I saw three Bald Eagles that were perched in the trees. It was a good day. I exercised and got fresh air.</div>
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Feeling still icky - nevertheless I went with camera around neck to walk the Mashiter Side Channel with Dalhouise. The sun is out - so bright after days of rain, snow, overcast ness ... I spotted seven Eagles, and a flock of hooded Mergansers and Mallard Ducks. Walking was a little tricky as the ground was frozen - pass people steps - from pass walking the trail frozen up making for very uneven ground. I am so thankful for my hiking poles that help stabilize me.<br />
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I haven't snowed shoeed in years - many years to be exact. I was not even sure if I could, after the head on car collision I lived through. Today was just a brief trial run (walk) and to my delight I can do it. Howbeit my thigh muscles were screaming by the time I stopped. I can't blame that on the accident but only on old age and not being in shape.</div>
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Today is a snow day (4 January) and I have been sick with a flu and cold for the last week or so. I wanted so bad to go out and explore, but listening to wisdom I stayed in. I have been feeding the birds on my third floor balcony of my condo and today was a good day to sit in my favourite arm chair and enjoy the company of my wild friends.</div>
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Friday, November 28, 2014
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I am home. Noni and I are both suffering from Jetlag terribly.
The older I get the more difficult it seems these travels to Indonesia
and back again are affecting me. <br />
We have been so tired - head ache and waking up in the middle of the night wide away and then <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5824389#" id="_GPLITA_2" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">sleeping<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> again till noon... <br />
This afternoon I refused to <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5824389#" id="_GPLITA_3" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">sleep<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>
and so Dalhouise and I went for our walk around the pond to look for
birds. At first it was so hard to go but once we got moving I am glad
we did.. But now at home again my eyes are so heavy... <br />
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Dalhouise was - is so happy to be back with me.. I snuck into the <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5824389#" id="_GPLITA_4" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">house<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>
he was staying in and sat on the couch until he could discover me
himself.. It was so funny as he was playing in the other room with
their dog - when he came into the living room and looked at me and then
began to quiver and the. The jump into my lap.. He nibbled on my
jackets sleeves and kissed me for a long time. When I stood to leave
he began to bark with excitement and went right to the door - he was
ready to come home.. <br />
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014
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The art of Batik making is best done on the island of Java
Indonesia as all the materials are readily available here - cotton,
beeswax, and assorted plants from which the different vegetable dyes are
made. <br />
The Batik is made either by drawing dots and lines using a resist with a spouted <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5822591#" id="_GPLITA_1" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">tool<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> called a canting or by printing the resist with a cooper stamp called a cap. <br />
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a resistant so that when dyes are applied you get the different
patterns and colours. The artisan selects the colours and then the
material is soaked in tubs of different colours and so for many
different colours the <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5822591#" id="_GPLITA_5" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">process<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>
takes a long time. Eventually when the cloth is soaked in boiling water
to remove the wax. Where the wax is coating the material the cloth
does not get dyed - thus the different coloured patterns. <br />
These delicate patterns can only be created by using the canting (wax resist) by using the <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5822591#" id="_GPLITA_3" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">etching tool<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> that holds a small reservoir of hot wax. <br />
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So the above pictures were taken at the second shop we visited - they were working on the outside entrance to the shop. <br />
I am also posting some pictures again of the first workshop we stopped at that is. Ore complete of the process of Batik making. <br />
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<img src="http://photos-ak.sparkpeople.com/nw/1/7/l1703224596.jpg" /> note the <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5822591#" id="_GPLITA_4" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">hand tool<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> appling the hot wax <br />
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Monday, November 24, 2014
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The name of Zheng He is used to invoke an oratory in the blessing
of safety, health, and fortune.. This puzzles me as he died while on a
sea voyage - so where is the power to grant to others what he couldn't
domhimself? Anyways at the temple going into the main place of <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5822218#" id="_GPLITA_7" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">prayer<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>
- Noni and I did not enter this place.... On the outside is a stone
wall decorated with reliefs of Zheng He voyages and - well I will let
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Sam Poo Kong is the oldest Chinese temple in Central Java. It was originally <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5822195#" id="_GPLITA_1" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">establish<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> by the Chinese Muslim explorer Zheng He. <br />
Unlike most temples these buildings do not belong to any specific <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5822195#" id="_GPLITA_2" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">religion<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>,
but rather functions as a place to worship for people of various
ethnicities and religious groups such as Muslim, Buddhist and Taoists. <br />
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So in memory of Zheng He - 1371 to 1435 <br />
He was a mariner - explorer - diplomat and a fleet admiral from 1405 -
1433. His first fleet he was in charge off consisted of 317 ships with
over 28000 crewmen. He visited Arabia, Brunei, East Afrifia, India and
the Malay Archipekage. He gave gold, silver , porcelain and silk as
gifts and in return he received novelties such as ostrich, <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5822195#" id="_GPLITA_3" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">zebras<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>, camels, ivories and giraffes. <br />
It is believed that some of his fleet even found the America's. <br />
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He died during his last voyage in 1935 and was probably buried at sea - but in his honor he has a grave in China. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-13162746275435842382014-11-29T12:18:00.000-08:002014-11-29T12:18:33.691-08:00Hamengkubuwono IX Kraton<h3>
Sunday, November 23, 2014
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Hamengkubuwono IX <br />
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though I have tasted Western Education, I am still and will always be
Javanese" words spoken at his cornanation ceremony on the 18 March
1940. Later in his life he would be given the title of a National Hero
for Indonesia. <br />
He played such a vital role in the independence of Indonesia from the Dutch <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5821877#" id="_GPLITA_6" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">Colonial<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5821877#" id="_GPLITA_8" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">Government<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>.
When the Japanese Inperial Army was advancing and taking control of
Indonesia he was told to to evacuate to Australia or to the Netherlands,
but he refused insisting that a Sultan has to stay close to its people
in times of crises - in fact he saved his people from being sent to
Burma to become forced labors by asking the Japanese to allow the
building of a water canal ( the Selokan Matarami) <br />
When the Dutch returned to lay claim to their former colony he played a vial role again in the resistance. He was <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5821877#" id="_GPLITA_7" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">handed<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> the authority in 1949 as the Dutch retreated and again by Queen Julianna in Amsterdam in December of the same year. <br />
Directly after the declaration of independence because he gave support
to the new Central Government he was recognized by the appoint of a Life
Government and a special area was set apart. <br />
Noni was not happy at this - he never took a Queen to be his wife but
preferred to have four concubines which gave him 21 children. <br />
He was a fan of movies and novels and of Cooking. He began an unofficial cooking club which even member <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5821877#" id="_GPLITA_9" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">Cabinet<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> Ministers as members.. He was very involved in the Scouts and enjoyed bird watching and exploring. <br />
At the musuem we were told all this but I didnt understand most of it
until now when I did a searched. About the place I visited... Now I can
connect the dots with the tour leader and pictures and the internet
information. He is painted as a true hero a man like,our Winston
Churchill or <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5821877#" id="_GPLITA_10" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">Abraham Lincoln<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>... I wonder what the real truth is ... <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-87815472134473840592014-11-29T12:15:00.002-08:002014-11-29T12:15:54.241-08:00some road side pictures<h3>
Saturday, November 22, 2014
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It amazes me what motorcycles do here and the disregard of road rules.
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They drive where ever and what ever direction they wish... Many times I
see them coming straight at me only to move over at the last moment...
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-88118751580381251032014-11-29T12:13:00.002-08:002014-11-29T12:13:32.149-08:00cake and fish shops<h3>
Saturday, November 22, 2014
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These are a small version of the cake we bought. I understand it is a
well known product and people come from all around to buy. This is a
small version of the actual cake. It is similar to a macaroon cookie but
different. I did enjoy it. <br />
I think Noni bought about ten actual cakes to giver to her family. We
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So this where we bought vacuumed packed fish. Once again I have
conversations about the food safe of it. Yes it is vacuumed pack but
this isn't the same as refrigeration, or a cooler of ice. What a
different culture- one thing I see and and happy about is that Noni now
understand these things and is trying to explain to her brother as
well. Her brother said it is ok because they will fry it before
eating... We tried to tell him last night to put into the <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5821398#" id="_GPLITA_3" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">hotel<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> fridge.. I don't think it happened - I don't know I just went to bed when we checked into the hotel room. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-55463613017398952692014-11-29T12:10:00.002-08:002014-11-29T12:10:19.294-08:00Batiks 1<h3>
Friday, November 21, 2014
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Today's <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5820808#" id="_GPLITA_2" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">adventures<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> was going to the workshops of where they <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5820808#" id="_GPLITA_3" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">hand<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> make Batiks. <br />
It gives just a little more appreciation to some of thenBatiks that I own. I have both hand sew ones and pressed ones <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-29599111799899193072014-11-29T12:07:00.002-08:002014-11-29T12:07:49.137-08:00musuem Day<h3>
Thursday, November 20, 2014
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This was another long day, but not all of it was spent in the
car. We were shopping and walking and exploring a couple of museums,
and I got an early morning swim is as <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5820268#" id="_GPLITA_1" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">well<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>. <br />
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The one thing that stood out is that all the glamour and cleanliness is
long gone. They don't really take care of their musuems. They could do
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Once we parked the car we were led to a couple of shops but a person
who makes a living by doing so.. We had to follow him , and he waited
patiently for us as we bought different items - we got a real nice
indonesian hand made picture and a gift for my brother and Noni's sister
and herself. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-90587225596081435002014-11-29T12:04:00.002-08:002014-11-29T12:04:35.101-08:00Borodudur Buddist Temple <h3>
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
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Boy do I have a storey to tell. I am so pleased I could spend another
couple of hours here but Noni and the BIL are tired and I think bored.
We have exploring for just over three hours so far and were on our way
back down after climbing to the top. We were almost down when they
stopped but I wanted to take a few more pictures of the engravings. OK
they said <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5819691#" id="_GPLITA_6" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">go<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> ahead and they would <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5819691#" id="_GPLITA_9" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">go<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>
down and wait for me. So off I wander around the temple taking
pictures. I couldn't be more pleased or in the moment. This is why I
traved thousands of miles to see after all... Well adventures do happen
when not planned. Somehow there was a miscommunication and I exited
through the wrong gate. There are four gates to the temple. You enter I
think from the east and exit from the west gates. Once I relized I was
at the wrong gate I returned to the correct one but I could not find
Noni. Then a local told me she went to the <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5819691#" id="_GPLITA_8" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">car<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>
- I recognized this pushy sales person who had greeted us at the car
when we first arrived so off I went. That was a mistake and a lie. <br />
I knew where I was and there was a geocache here also so I did my second favourite thing to do and sought the <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5819691#" id="_GPLITA_7" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">cache<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>
and found. But still no Noni. Then another sales person came and
began to help me seek Noni and walked me back to the proper gate but
still we couldn't find her. She had decided to wait on he upper level
where I had left her instead of coming down. <br />
As I walked I. A area with no tourist just my new found helper I beganto
wonder if he was leading me astray ... Would he try to steal my iPad -
my camera? Then another person joined us and. Y stress level increased
some more. Now I was out number two to one.... But they were very
helpful, and polite. Still no Noni so we walked back to the car to
wait.. I have no money - I have no cell phone -- this is not a good
situation to be in. So I iwalk ove to the entrance. And information
center and tell them my situation in broken English.. They help me
connect to the Internet.... I Facebook message Noni's family -- help -
call Noni and tell her to go to the car.. I contact three or four
family members before I got a message back Ok.. <br />
So to the car I go to wait again.. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-4572404412252527342014-11-29T12:02:00.002-08:002014-11-29T12:02:32.938-08:00On the road<h3>
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
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Just wondering if a road trip qualifies as a road trip if you go
on one if you are already in the middle of your vacation/ holiday? <br />
We hit the road at 09:20 hour and arrived at the Pandanaran Hotel in Semarang at 22:34 hour. <br />
We traveled 32306 km to start and end of day is 32778 km plus a couple of more. <br />
We stopped at a hotel which I thought was the end of the day but Noni
and the brother inlaw didn't like it so we drove another ten minutes to
another but by this time I didn't record the final stop. Tomorrows will
show the correct start km. <br />
I was so tired and a little motion sick. It was dark and we had to
struggle through construction for two hours moving at an inch at a
time... This always makes me sick. <br />
I was not so pleased that we didn't stop earlier as I didn't want to
travel in the dark. One I can't see the sights and second it becomes
more dangerous on th wet slippery roads and I noticed the brother inlaw
was struggling to see the road before we came upon the construction. He
tends to drive too fast at the best of times I had to tell home to keep
it below 120 km per hour over and over. Once it became dark and the
rain began he still drove in my oppion way to fast for the road
conditions. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-77728057044714135372014-11-29T12:00:00.002-08:002014-11-29T12:00:53.850-08:00Indonesian Bird Market<h3>
Monday, November 17, 2014
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Depending I guess on your world view and the condition of your heart would be your reactions to the Bird <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5818473#" id="_GPLITA_5" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">Markets<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> in Indonesia, of whether you are horrified or couldn't careless. <br />
That is a strong opening sentence isn't it... So let me explain and follow up with some pictures. <br />
When you first walk in close vicinity you will notice the crowds of
people - there are always people around - then you will be hit with the
stank smell of hundreds / thousands of little birds confined to tiny
cages that are not cleand often or if at all . So the smell of dead
birds, mixed with the feces is an on <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5818473#" id="_GPLITA_1" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">slot<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> to your nose. <br />
Here in the Bird Markets there are at least 200 <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5818473#" id="_GPLITA_2" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">traders<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>
who earn their livelihood just buy buying and selling nothing but rare
birds and animals. If you are really interested in a certain species
and it is not available in the market now, the <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5818473#" id="_GPLITA_4" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">traders<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>
will guarantee you that they will search for it and have it for you in a
few days, and you are to come back with payment to take it away on that
day. ( and I understand the cost is not so expensive) <br />
The capture and internal transporting of birds are suppose to be regulated by a system of capture and <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5818473#" id="_GPLITA_3" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">transport<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>
permits regulated by the government - and many species are totally
protected from capture..... However the system is not applied. Many of
these birds, animals are not legally captured and nothing is done or
said by the officials. <br />
Throwaway birds... There is a lack of birds in the countryside due to
the huge trade in throwaway birds... These are birds captured and sold
as a novelty to impress friends and family and which will die quickly in
captivity. Because they die quickly the traders don't want to hold
onto them and so are so real inexpensive. The lower price makes them
desirable and the easy replacement created a cycle that destroys
thousands of birds. <br />
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What did I see and recognize today - parrots, parrotlets,budgies,
canaries, ducks, geese, a turkey, pigeons, and doves. I seen other
birds I don't know what they are about the size of American robins and
other chirping birds. <br />
I see. Three or four bats and it just added to my broken heart of their
cage as they hung there. They were to long for the cage so it would be
like sleeping for the rest of your life all scrunched up. <br />
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So my Sparkfriends this is what I experienced and researched on the Indonesia Bird Markets. <br />
I can not say that these birds were legally or illegally caught. All I
can do is show the pictures of what I seen and yes the smell was
horrific. The cages seemed crowded at times and the bats cage certainly
was not appropriate ........ <br />
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Is there Hope? <br />
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To us a child is given, and on his shoulders will government rests with justice, peace and righteousness <br />
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We wait for his kingdom..Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-39977473970824541992014-11-29T11:53:00.003-08:002014-11-29T11:59:48.118-08:00Chinese Wedding Tea Ceremony<h3>
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The Chinese Wedding Tea Service.... Is one of the most
significant events at the wedding. In short it is to show respect and
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Tea is the symbol of purity, stability, and fertility. <br />
The <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5817912#" id="_GPLITA_2" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">ceremony<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> then stands <br />
The purity of the tea represents pure love for each other. <br />
The stablity of tea stands for a faithful love towards one another. <br />
The fertility of tea represents for the couple to have many children. <br />
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Traditionally red dates, peanuts, longans and lotus seed were added in
the wedding tea ceremony. These four ingredients in this order sounds
like. -- to have a baby as soon as possible -- which is a very good wish
for the new couple. <br />
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You can use any type of sweet tea which symbolizes --sweet is believed
to bring happiness to the couple and to foster good relations between
the newly weds and their in <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5817912#" id="_GPLITA_3" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">laws<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>. <br />
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After drinking the tea, the parents and family give a <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5817912#" id="_GPLITA_4" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">red envelope<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>
with either cash or jewelry in it. The tea service is for the whole
family beginning with parents first then grand parents then going down I
belive in order of age. Single siblings do not <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5817912#" id="_GPLITA_5" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">offer<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> an envelope. <br />
I think this service helps to offset the cost of the wedding. <br />
For Noni and I when we were discussing the tea ceremony and a wedding
gift while we were in Canada we had decided on the amount of money to
offer to each part - but when we arrived here we were told we do not
offer an envelope (wedding gift) at the door because we are family so we
only give at the tea ceremony. <br />
( the normal here is at the reception people bring a gift of money and hand it in at the doorway, in stead of buy presents)
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-24148664157607033982014-11-29T11:49:00.002-08:002014-11-29T11:49:57.044-08:00I love weddings<h3>
Saturday, November 15, 2014
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-23112401428463433132014-11-29T11:46:00.002-08:002014-11-29T11:46:32.581-08:00Marriage grand<h3>
Saturday, November 15, 2014
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Morning church ceremony - it is here that the spiritual part is done
after they go into the back for the civic signing to make it legal to
the government. Yes weddings must be recognized by both the church and
civic authorities. Also both people getting married must be baptized
into the same religion. No crossing the lines or intermingling allowed.
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Afternoon dress suit and tie for the reception. The reception is what makes the wedding a huge event. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-45378199835420168812014-11-29T11:42:00.002-08:002014-11-29T11:42:39.431-08:00wedding pictures 1<h3>
Saturday, November 15, 2014
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-57623749202652932032014-11-29T11:36:00.002-08:002014-11-29T11:36:53.617-08:00wedding reflections<h3>
Saturday, November 15, 2014
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Five years ago yesterday I was going all through this strange and
wonderful ceremonial celebrations. I think it would had been easier
for me if I would had attended a marriage before actually being the
front and centre <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5817519#" id="_GPLITA_0" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">attraction<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>
- I mean Noni was the centre of attraction. I just followed along and
stood - sat - kneeled when told to do so. I do not regret -'best thing
I ever did. Anyways today is the wedding day of Noni's neice and it
was a full day. <br />
To begin Noni was taken away around 7:30am for make up and hair due and
returned home about 10:30. I stayed at the family home and napped. <br />
Soon after arrival home with her younger brother and family we all piled
into the car to go to the church. When Noni arrived home with her
brother and family it is 'so stinking hot - then it was <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5817519#" id="_GPLITA_2" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">time<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> to dress up. Dress pants and batik for me and the <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5817519#" id="_GPLITA_1" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">women skirts<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> and blouses. Traditional.... <br />
I didn't understand much as the wedding was done in Indonesian but regardless it was beautiful. <br />
After we left the church it was a visit to the hair saloon for everyone
this time.. Us men folk just hung around patiently waiting. This took a
long time... I should had recorded the times but I didnt.. <br />
We came back to the family home showered.. Then it was time for the <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5817519#" id="_GPLITA_3" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">suits<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> to go on. I think I was going to melt.. Did I say it was so stinking hot. <br />
We all piled back into the car and drive to where the reception is going to take place - this took about an hour or so. <br />
It is not a fancy spot .. Her neice had rented a ball room in one of the huge towers downtown Jakarta. <br />
Family gathered first from both sides for the Chinese Tea service and a
meal. Noni reminder her to eat before the guest come because at our
wedding it was not planned and I - none of the wedding party got to
chance to eat until around midnight. I was starving. So this time I was
given the chance to eat - but it is hard to eat wearing a tightfitting
suit. My vest is acting like a girdle... But I think I <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5817519#" id="_GPLITA_4" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">look<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a> good. <br />
Tea service done - practice walking the red carpet and cake cutting...
Then the people began to arrive. The ball room filled up fast. I am
feeling much more comfortable here now and so I left Noni to go mingle
and take <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5817519#" id="_GPLITA_5" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">pictures<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>...
In the past we would not leave each other side... She worried about me
and I was so not sure of my self... Now I know her family and like I
said I am comfortable. I took a lot of pictures... <br />
So this day ended around 11:30 for me as we were dropped back at the
family home and I did a quicker shower and calapsed into bed.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497941923235731484.post-35735443494781564202014-11-29T11:33:00.003-08:002014-11-29T11:33:58.265-08:00another sight seeing trip at teh mall<h3>
Friday, November 14, 2014
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This was a very quiet day. I didn't go out just stayed at the
family home except for a little walk around the block. I thought we
were going to go to a market but that didn't happen.. Tomorrow is the
wedding - that will be a long hot day. I will be a fish out of the
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So this is another huge HUGE mall we went browsing in for our three hours <a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=5816531#" id="_GPLITA_4" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">walking<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" /></a>.. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884168729868520981noreply@blogger.com0