SX012 the lights are on...

Cultural learnings, gender opression & repression. The lights are on... but nobody is home.
I spend the first half of the podcast with some scary observations on Uni students and the education (school) system here.

In fantastic news, I have now changed rooms in my Kos (boarding house)!
Oh yeah, and have picked up a new BOYFRIEND too!!! :-)

You can listen online by clicking here
PS- recorded in Dec, 2010

SX011 oh yeah, it's gr8tle

Ajir, Yenni, Anni, Robi, me - Rumbio, 2010

You can probably guess that this means there is good news on the crackBook hardware front!

Well, whilst my laptop is now restored to it's original (2009) glory - with tiny 160GB HDD - the internet has decided to pack it in now.
To use my iPhone4 I need to have the newest version of iTunes. After 3 hours, and a crash (meaning I had to start again), it is back to saying "5 hours" to download. I hate to think how long this 2mb file will take to upload.

You can click here to listen online, but iTunes is easier

holy Jihad on Apple!

Still no laptop for me, so no podcasts for another few weeks at least. My extremely bad quality white macBook of 2007 is literally cracking everywhere now. Shitty apple. Wish i still had my old 12" PowerBook!! My mum is posting over my old HDD, so here's hoping i can pop it in my crackBook OK.  if not, i'll be buying a new laptop - even though the new models will come out in Feb.  Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. :-(

 our TV is still broken, and my laptop is dead - so not much news for me lately. I have to go to internet cafe to go online. Urgh.

re; my news.  I've been on 3 dates since arriving in Malang. :-)
Am having MAJOR dramas with flatmates at home. She has driven out 1 of other tenants, so my house now has an empty room! :-(  very stressed.

love you all, miss you all.
Scotty.

PS-  my listener line still works!  ;-)  And I have email on iPhone still.

new episode, coming soon

I've been so busy lately, and when not busy am not alone!
there are millions of people in Java - and Indonesian culture is to not let people be 'sendiri' (alone). So, when I try to be alone, sit etc, by myself, I am always approached by someone.

stay tuned though!!

SX010 Student Day at UMM

Enhanced podcast*- Today is "student day", so join me and 5,000 students as we march around the kampung (suburb)! It was quite a spectacle, and also very HOT. Glad we started around 7am.
I am sure I talk about some other stuff too, and get sidetracked, but I hope you enjoy the pictures on your iPod.

* this is an 'enhanced' podcast, with photos imbedded. You must listen/watch in iTunes or on your iPhone /iPod!
Right-click here to download if you like

SX009 flu drugs & teaching

I have become a junkie now. Life in Indonesia has pushed me over the edge - to hard drugs! Luckily here, you can just pop into the Apotik (chemist) and ask for whatever drugs you want.  HELLO!

I also fill you in briefly on my new job, teaching English Speaking 1! Sorry for my waffle, I hope you find the little gems of info!

My battles with UMM's "efforts", at providing bahasa Indonesia classes to us, continue.  :-(

Click here to listen online, but I'd prefer you use iTunes!

SX008 I'm starvin' Marvin!

I only have 2 topics in this show, and 1 of them involves me almost starving to death! Yes, I came close to going without any supper tonight (7 Oct), and you can imagine how that made me feel. :-(

I also share with the entire world, one of my student's very personal "secrets"! It was way more juicier than what I had expected from an Indonesian Muslim student to share. :-O

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