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Archive for January, 2009

The Inauguration of Hope

Last night, when watching TV, I was a little surprised to find out that ALL of our eleven national TV stations here were airing Obama’s inauguration, live! I even had to text my “always politically correct” dear pal Hernie to consult which station would be better to watch ha ha ha… It was because there [...]

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Sorong, the forgotten pain

Yesterday  I was speechless reading the paper. One of the earthquake victim in Sorong expressed a wonder of the very late response to help them. He said, ” People in Jakarta were busily making huge demonstrations to help Palestinians but here, to us in Sorong, they did give no damn at all.” (Kompas daily, page 4, [...]

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