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January 29, 2010 We have been here almost three years, and I think I am starting to become more Indonesian: 1. After this amount of time, someone finally ordered me a name plate for my office door...only it was spelled wrong. My response: "Meh. It's close enough." 2. My carpool driver was 15 minutes late. Eric offered to give me a ride, assuming I had been forgotten. My response: "No. At this point, the driver is still on time." 3. There was no toilet paper in the office bathroom for 3 days this week. I realized that I am considering this to be a completely acceptable state of a bathroom.
January 21, 2010 The next time I get into a fight with either of my brothers, we are going to celebrate the truce by doing this. Boys, I guess you'd better make friends with your local FFA / 4-H Club. ;) By Markus Makur PAPUA/KWAMKI LAMA PEACE ACCORD Rivals break bows, arrows to bury the hatchet Two rival groups engaged in a tribal war over the past two weeks in Kwamki Lama village in Mimika regency, Papua, held a traditional peace ceremony on Wednesday marked by the breaking of bows and arrows. The peace ritual commenced when hundreds of residents from the rival groups carried bows and arrows into the market compound. After a brief prayer led by Rev. Melkianus Kum, four war chiefs from both sides stood under triangular bamboo poles and separated residents from both groups. The groups each brought in a pig and shot them dead with arrows, handing them over to their rivals.
January 10, 2010 Photos by Eric
January 9, 2010 DHL. It's what's for breakfast. Last night we picked up a DHL shipment, and this morning we're starting off the day with a combination of jalapeno Doritos and blueberry-muffin-mix-made-into-coffee-cake (because I don't own a muffin pan). Many thanks to my family for the great package! Moms are the best!
January 4, 2010 Just to be fair I should probably point out at least one good thing that's gone on at the grocery store lately. The day after our guest was here, the store was stocked with vegetables and meats, and their meat scale was fixed. Ironic, isn't it? With the wide variety of veggies suddenly available, the Iron Chef challenge takes on a different level of difficulty, because now we are no longer limited by ingredients, but overwhelmed by them instead. I think our commentary at the store sounded like a crowd of people watching fireworks : "They have beets? WOW! And cabbage, too? Ooooo! Look! Carrots!" We will have plenty of vitamin C and antioxidants in the next couple of weeks.
January 2, 2010 Starting the year off in usual Tembagapura fashion...with another episode of Iron Chef Papua. The restaurant was closed for dinner on New Year's Day, and we had a dinner guest. I planned to do some sort of chicken dish because even if there is not much else to choose from at the store, at least we can buy chicken...unless the meat counter scale's electronics fry as they are weighing your chicken. Then they won't let you buy the chicken. Of all the incredibly stereotypically weird things to happen, and yet I didn't even see it coming! This Iron Chef challenge was made even more difficult by limiting the ingredients to what was already existing in the Smith's kitchen: freezer burnt chicken. Somehow we were able to do the equivalent of pulling a rabbit out of a hat, and pulled together a successful dinner. I will definitely keep this in the back of my mind for future culinary emergencies! |
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