Category: Living
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We Didn’t Start The Fire But…
Some of the forests that are being cleared by fire are apparently supposed to be under protection by a moratorium on deforestation. But as we know of many things in Indonesia, pacts count for little when there is money to be made. Most of that money being made is coming from buyers downstream of palm…
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How Did You Spend Father’s Day?
This is the second consecutive Father’s Day we’ve been abroad with family, and I think it’s a good way to spend it. We’re gonna make this a tradition. To all Dads – Happy Father’s Day – it’s a day to be thankful for family, and for the time you get to spend with them. A…
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Pedestrian Safety
Nick Singh stood at a traffic junction for 30 minutes to record all manner of jaywalking and dangerous behaviour and distilled it into this short video. He might have missed out on instances of people texting/facebooking/tweeting while crossing the road. Still, Pedestrian safety is everyone’s responsibility, including the pedestrian.
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Please Take Dengue Seriously
Read this first, then come back to this post. Yes, you can die from dengue. But mostly, people don’t exhibit serious symptoms, and are often not ill enough to be hospitalized. It’s been the same with this outbreak, and I’ve found that as a result, people are being a bit blase about the current epidemic…
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Seminyak Highlights
Our love-hate relationship with Bali continued this trip, with our ideal idyllic villa getaway shared with our friends celebrating their anniversary turning into a three day battle with mosquitoes (and the holey mosquito net) before we retreated to a multi-storey hotel with fewer bugs. Constant traffic jams on single-laned roads plied by mercenary cabbies whose…