SWEET & GREEN

SWEET: Some really good friends I have here and some very special gifts they gave me yesterday. One of which is now hanging at the front door. And another one, on my wrist. Sweet! You guys rock! (least last night you sure did [new band playing at Yuli's Pizza House] along with a whole lot of other folks too)

GREEN: My second attempt at home grown lettuce here. The first try was a wash. The garden flooded out in the rain and I suspect all those little seeds ended up down the got (sewer) and washed out to sea. So far so good this time round - this time we're trying it in a flowerpot. Time will tell I guess. We'll see.

CURIOSITY: NASA - shooting the moon. (?) More like messing with the moon perhaps. (?) What do the rest of you think about that?

TODAY: Organize. Track down a few items I need for some festivities we're having tomorrow. Make pie. (2) Put on long sleeves. I know I can't believe it either - it's raining and it's 25°. (It's cold today) That's about 10 degrees less than what we're normally used to.

......... and just because it's the weekend. Here's some items off the YOU KNOW YOU'VE BEEN IN ASIA TOO LONG IF list, that showed up in my In Box this week.

:: You own a rice cooker.

:: You find it saves time to stand and retrieve your cabin baggage while the plane is on final approach.

:: A bathroom with four attendants is so disgustingly filthy that you wouldn't step into it back home ........ and one of those attendants sole job is to hand you flimsy, single-ply toilet paper to dry your hands with.

:: You're willing to pay to use a toilet you wouldn't go to within a kilometer of at home.

:: The footprints on the toilet seat are your own.

:: You can shake your hands almost perfectly dry before wiping them on your pants.

Good to Go!

SATURDAYNESS

Saturdayness, that's probably not a real word - but .......

Ok, so remember, I said I might slip in a few old photos every now and then. Well. here go - here's one of them. This (these) were actually taken quite some time ago, and sadly I have to admit I haven't been back out to where these guys live at the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS) at Samboja in quite awhile either. Go ahead - click on Samboja and check it out.

Big thanks for all the fish names - and there are some really good ones. Baskin & Robbins, Jake & Ellwood, Ying & Yang, Fish & Chips (?), etc. etc.and my personal favorite - Black & Decker. Sorry, but we haven't made a decision yet. Maybe over the weekend we'll manage to get settled on that.

Took me 2 tries yesterday, but I think I did manage to get the hand phone bill paid. Maybe (?) Maybe not (?) Computers were all down so ended up with a handwritten receipt. And so far, they haven't cut my service off, least, not yet. (FYI - I was queue #531)

So the new Yuli's Cafe and Pizza restaurant opened this week - last night was their soft opening event. And of course we went. Wouldn't have miss it. We've been watching this place come to life over the last few months. (remember the shopping trip - Bali and Lombok) Nice place.

We have a group coming over for dinner and the F1 Race (Monaco) tomorrow night. And apparently, I'm told, we're even going to invent or rather *re-invent the F1 Cocktail. (oh, those crazies from the UK)

*re-invent - looks like there already is one. It's called The MacLaren F1. (think I'll pass on that)

• 1 oz Malibu® Coconut Rum
• 1 oz Pernod® Licorice Liqueur
• 1 oz Dubonnet® Rouge Vermouth
  Stir ingredients together in a cocktail glass, and serve

TODAY: Perogie making morning in our house - in preparation for tomorrow night. A couple little errands to do and then we'll see about the rest. Have a great weekend!

Good to Go!