Today we write you from Rotorua, a medium-sized town about halfway down the North Island. New Zealand is, in a word, gorgeous. What’s really amazing is that everyone we’ve talked to says that the North Island is pretty boring–you have…
We’ve arrived in New Zealand, safe and sound. We’re horrendously jet-lagged (neither of us can sleep on planes), but even in our diminished state of mental awareness we can tell that Auckland is a beautiful city, and that New Zealand…
Finally, a post about music. We’ve not done this yet, but we should. It’s about pop music though, so any of you interested in gamelan orchestras will just have to wait. The biggest band in Indonesia, without a doubt, is…
We’re busy packing, so here’s a series of pictures that shows what our apartment here in KL looks like. Start here, and scroll forward to see more. We swear that that picture was on the wall when we arrived.
OK, so I (JM) promise that this will be the last post involving educational visas. I can’t help thinking every single day as these students come in trying to figure out how to fill out all the forms, find nonexistant…
Administrative hagglings continued today as I (TP) journeyed down to the southern fringes of KL to deal with my accepted application to UKM. It’s nice that they admitted me after a month. I wonder what they expected me to be…
Can we take a moment to recognize that Wake Forest is the worst tournament team in history? I (TP) have been welded in a sort of sad alliance to the Demon Deacons since at least 1993, the year that Wake…
We’ve been away from the United States now for a little over six months. We left September 16, and it’s now March 19. So that’s close to 170 days–no small amount of time. Until last night, we had held out. …
Indonesia’s continuing arguments about whether or not to repeal fuel subsidies have turned a bit physical, at least in the Indonesian House of Representatives. Not a big deal, but there were "at least two confirmed knock-downs." Here’s the link to…
There is a kind of noodle both here and in Indonesia called Kway Teow, or Kwe Tiauw in Indonesian. It is big, soft, and flat, probably made out of rice, like an extra thick linguine. In both places it forms…
