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Comment on semalam di malaysia: stranded! by colson

colson — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:36:56 +0000

This is not a good story. I mean, yes it IS a good story but not a feel good story at all. I’ve pity on your fate. And I don’t just mean the Air Asia fuss (btw: my wife and I slept one afternoon at an airport hotel during a short stop over. We thought it was a huge, great, modern airport, but kind of too monumental and a too cold atmosphere. Quite unlike Soekarno-Hatta for instance).

Though I don’t know the details of and I’m not sure about the real reasons for your visit to KL ( though probably I can guess), and admitting being stubborn on principle is very laudable in my book, this time I very much doubt whether confronting “too many disappointments” was a sensible idea. You are too good to be disappointed by whoever it is.

By the time you read Air Asia will have managed to get you back home. I hope your tears have dried and you’ve closed that book for ever. And most of all that life in Padang and surroundings is gradually getting back to more or less normal.

Comment on gadis kampung: eat that fact delvi! by john

john — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:28:58 +0000

As an addendum, I was invited to Delvi’s village in the end — but unfortunately I was back in Jakarta by then. Fingers crossed I can check it out next time! : )

Comment on the tremor chronicle: what to do now? by delvi

delvi — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:38:40 +0000

living in the ring of fire is really fantastic! you see many deadly shows in your life time. yeah its either leave or live with it! i never regret being born here but we need to be real smart to survive. thank you colson for your concern. we’ll greatly apreciate it.

Comment on the tremor chronicle: what to do now? by colson

colson — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:43:55 +0000

A very clever post. It caused me to have mixed feelings.

My foremost thought is: how admiringly courageous is the perseverance of the Padang people. It is sheer vitality and a great talent for improvisation which is carrying them through. Essentially on their own they cope with the fall out of the earthquakes and to a large part they manage to succeed.

This exemplary behavior is at odds however with the saddening opinion of those ( only a few I hope) who think disasters like this are punishments by God. The solutions will not come from above or from elsewhere. You are right; it is much more likely a strong government ( “strong” means legitimate, transparent and with a broad social basis to secure sufficient income/tax and provide adequate public services), a strong administration, indeed is what is needed.

Being a “secular, westernernized, atheist……” like me, who has lived pretty much safe and protected ever since WWII (the big flooding of ‘53 didn’t affect me or my family, either), the Padang-situation provoked a weird sense of guilt. It’s the seemingly inevitability of inequality which is so uncomfortable: “Padang” made me realize once more that some have to live through series of devastating calamities , while others ( me) always seem to have all the luck of the world.

A small donation in money didn’t silence my conscience.

Comment on gadis kampung: eat that fact delvi! by colson

colson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:36:15 +0000

Different circumstances, different background, different gender. So,am I in any way qualified to really understand in any significant way this problem? No, probably not. It is not just another conflict of generations I do know about.

So I can only try and use empathy. And sympathize with you. Or, perhaps, I can verbally encourage the flame of peaceful feminist rebellion. That is ‘women’s lib’ Indonesian style.

In any case I can’t think of reasonable reasons to rein in the freedom of girls/women in comparison to what boys/men are allowed to do. Quite the opposite. The amount of testosterone in males- which causes aggressiveness- objectively requires stricter social control of men.

So.

Well, I’m sure you guys have some fun together now anyhow. And I am certain you will enjoy touring Sumatra and Java later.

PS: I think I noticed some glimpses of Kampung morals when I attended to the ( wedding) ceremonies of my daughters in law and sons. One was actually in a Sumatra Kampung – but the syndrome wasn’t absent in the other one in Bandar Lampung either.

Comment on gadis kampung: eat that fact delvi! by triesti

triesti — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:57:10 +0000

well, what did you expect? It’s one of those things that makes going home harder than going away… you’ve changed, and folks back home have also changed but in different speed/direction.

hope you guys have a good time tho

Comment on semalam di malaysia: a mad malaysian immigration officer by delvi

delvi — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:46:50 +0000

@farina: he he he i hope that was the case!

Comment on 46 seconds for forever by delvi

delvi — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:46:24 +0000

will do farina

Comment on miss delvi and her students: i am sexy oh so please rape me by delvi

delvi — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:46:11 +0000

@farina: yeah that’s why every time i enter my class i always throw controversial or taboo issues to them so they can discuss openly. i never force them to believe in what m saying but i’ll expose them to so many different but related discourses that hopefully they can draw some good conlusion.
and yeah unwanted pregnancy is really not a nice thing to undergo. I’ll make sure none of my loved ones experience this predicament.

Comment on gadis kampung: freedom of speech and black magic by delvi

delvi — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:41:22 +0000

@farina: come to my kampung and i’ll show you woundrous thing related to witchcraft. if you want to learn, i can direct you to a master of it he he he he he (i m serious dear!)
farina, i don’t believe in these stuff either not becuase it involves god or the prophet but for its distant touch from rationality.