They try to reestablish peace between two groups at war, befriend the locals with human touch, playing around with kids etc.

And then farewell time becomes bitter.

Eating and rating in Bali. Quite surprising that Lontong Balap beats Gado-Gado. We don’t have it in Jakarta. Lontong Balap is food from East Java.

The sun never rise nor set. It (dis) appears ABOVE the Extended Horizon.

The family regards the dead ‘still in illness’ till the funeral time — which needs a big ceremony — months later, even years after the death took place.

Inter Cultural encounters give inspirations for all parties.

In hotels, we have both tissue and sprayer, but in regular homes generally there are only sprayers, or no both tools exists. To wash with water, traditionally we use manual tool called ‘gayung’, especially in small cities or villages.

Due to any intention: trying something new, health, diet, … Youtube? Maybe, IDK, but even long before Youtube existed, this phenomenon was already there.

I have a friend did that, although only 8 days of fasting on last Ramadan. Soedomo, a Chatolic minister in Soeharto era did that too.