This is so cute!

And I love this song! Listen to it, you will too.

Indonesian song!

Sunglasses Hut :-)

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Interesting article

Climate 'shielding Indonesia from swine flu'

By Indonesia correspondent Geoff Thompson

Posted Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:24am AEST

Indonesia's health minister says the reason the country has been spared from any confirmed swine flu infections is largely because of its climate.

Dr Siti Fadilah Supari was previously embroiled in controversy when she decided to cease sharing samples of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus with the World Health Organisation (WHO), because of fears that any vaccines developed would be sold for profit to the developing world, with no share going to Indonesia.

Now she is seeking to calm the nation worst-hit by bird flu by suggesting that the H1N1 swine flu virus may be more of a problem for people of Spanish origin than Indonesians.

"We hope that H1N1 is not compatible with Indonesians," she said.

"H1N1 may be more compatible with their race, while H5N1 is more compatible with Indonesians."

But the spokeswoman with the WHO's swine flu communications team in Geneva, Viktoria Dijakovic, says there is no evidence that one race would fare worse than another.

"We don't know this virus very well yet, and there is no vaccine at this time, so we can't say if it's racially a problem ... or not," she said.

The WHO is particularly concerned about the southern hemisphere - where the flu season is kicking off - because the virus survives better in cold climates.

Ms Dijakovic says equatorial countries like Indonesia are a problem because there the flu season never ends.

But that is not the way Dr Supari sees it and yesterday she said that H1N1 could only survive in cold weather.

"Australia says H1N1 is more dangerous than bird flu," she said.

"Well yes, for Australia ... but for Indonesia that's not the case, because in Indonesia the weather is never cold, unlike Australia."

Australian epidemiologist Dr Andrew Jerimijenko is now involved with the response to the swine flu threat in Australia, but spent years studying influenza in Indonesia.

He says the Health Minister's theories are dangerous.

"Her idea that a tropical climate will protect them from H1N1 is not true, because H1N1 survives in tropical climates," he said.

"It survives a little bit better in cold climates, but it also survives in tropical climates."

Indonesia is taking more conventional precautions against pandemic.

Pork imports have been indefinitely banned, there is thermal scanner screening at some airports, and extra surveillance has been ordered over the nine million pigs managing to survive in a nation of mostly Muslims who do not eat pork.

Link: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/29/2555500.htm

There's nothing I can say in response to this......other than just shake my head with my mouth wide open thinking "what the hell kind of screwed up country is this?"

Carle and Eri are united again!

Hi hi,

I did make it to Indonesia!! Woot woot!!

Yes it was over a week ago, BUT I'm just now getting back into the grove of writing a blog and updating it!

I'm glad to be back with Eri, and everything's exactly the same. It's like the place stood still while I was gone and waited for my return.

As for the flight, it was brutual at some points, but I made it through. I am glad to know that I don't have to look forward to that long of a flight anytime soon! :-)

I absolutely love Singapore. I swear, one day, I want to live there (But Eri's been there done that, so he doesn't want to live there!). Maybe retire there, hehehe. I love Changi Airport too. When I arrived at Changi I had already been on the plane for 22 1/2 hours, so I was ready for a bath, and last time I read about the hotel they have inside Changi, so I decided to check that sucker out. Get this, I got to take a very luxurious bath (its actually a shower, but for some reason I call showers, baths!) You can rent a shower for 8 SGD, which is somewhere like 4.5USD. They give you soaps, warm towels, 'free' drinks, which I never got one (and NO NOT THOSE KIND OF DRINKS!!), but I was supposed to though. The hotel looked super lux, I would of stopped in and taken a nap if 1.)I wasn't so tired 2.)You have to rent it for 6 hours, I only had a 3 hour layover and 3.) I was just too amped to check out Changi. All the other times I was there, I was there super early, and everything was closed. So this time I got to check out everything. After my bath I went to Starbucks and got a drink, warm one, and a muffin. From there I decided to head to my gate, and oh my it was a massage post right beside my gate!! I got an hour long whole body massage for 15 SGD, which is about 7.50 USD!! How awsome was that?!!? It was so relaxing too!!!

So when the lady finished my massage, I headed to my gate, only had to wait about 10 minutes to start boarding, so that was awesome! And then the plane wasn't full at all, so I had 3 seats to myself! Took me a little nap, and then I was clean and fresh to see E!

The Swine Flu sure does make it bad for travellers though. When I got out of the plane, I had to be quarantined because our plane came from a country that has reported cases of swine flu. It was lovely.

Well Eri came and got me, we went shopping and came home to Toko/Rumah. And everything has fallen back into place like it was before.

Oh and yes, before I forget, there's no doubt in my mind why Singapore Airlines is considered the most luxurious airline in the world. Love it! 

Anyway that's it for the moment.

Love ya.

Greetings from Changi Airport!!!

Hello all, well I have made it to Singapore! Believe it or not hehehehehe!

I just finished taking a bath at the transit hotel, and now I'm just sitting here enjoying a Carmel Machiatto and a banana muffin from Starbucks. It's 1:07 Friday afternoon here, and my flight leaves at....hmm....let me look, I know it's 3 something, 3:40? Yes yes I think that's it! So I have a little while to just hang out here, so I decided to get online until the battery dies out.

First off, yes I'm exhausted, and if you talk to me, I sound like I am exhausted! Yes I am very excited to see Eri, but being on a airplane for (5.5+14+3.5=??) 23 hours already, it drains you a little bit. I do have some interesting stories from my flights, including one about my opinion how the airline industry is raping everyone with crazy stupid outrageous charges, BUT I will save that [rant] for later, most likely tomorrow.....

The flight from Singapore to Surabaya is only 2.5 hrs (thank god!!!) so I'm sure it's going to go by super fast, hopefully at least. They don't speak any English on that flight, and I'm sure they will try to feed me yet again, but I will resist, because....I'm having DUCK KING tonight!! Woo hoo! We are going to the mall after the pickup, buying some meat and eating dindin...hanging out with E and E (Eri and Eny [Eny is my cousin-in-law for all those who don't remember, she works for a coffee plant place testing the pH levels of coffee, I think. Or at least she used to.])

I will say this.....there are so many white people around these places! Last time I was here there weren't that many at all, but now, it's like damn what all these people doing up in here. I've been trying to guess where they are from before I hear them talk, cause some of them are super easy, like Austrailians, a lot of them have this look about them that just screams Australia. 

I'm going to be a tiny bit upset if my laptop dies before I can read my celebrity gossip for the days I have been gone! Anything juicy happen? I was chatting with Claude for a moment earlier, and she said something crazy happened on American Idol, Danny got voted out. What's the big deal about that? Not too sure. I just know that I was  reading some crazy shit on my friend's facebook that was saying that they wanted the good guy out. I can't really remember his name at the moment but the guy that everyone thinks is going to win, they were having a lovely wall chat about that. Yeah, I don't even watch the show, so it's kinda hard for me to explain what the hell I'm talking about. I missed Biggest Loser finale, America's Top Model finale, and something else....can't remember. 

While I do remember something, The Univited is a very good movie. It's slightly horror, but it's more like psychological thriller. My sister gave it to me for my birthday last week, and we watched it, very good. I give it $$$$$ for its value. Today, 5 $'s is the most you can get. 

On the plane I was watching some movies, which all of them I fell asleep during, so I don't know if that means they suck or I was sleepy. Or both. I think it's they sucked. I watched: Bride Wars (midly entertaining actually), Transporter 3 (boring!), and The Reader (soooo slow, but probably good if I wasn't so sleepy!!!).   

Ok I think that's it for now......got to go read celebrity gossips!

Love ya. Miss yall already.

Oh btw it's been 5.5 months since the last time I saw Eri!! And in just a few hours I will be seeing him soooo soon......so excited!!!!

I still totally LOVE Singapore.......especially since I took a bath in their transit hotel - awesome!!

Love ya'll.

Your little pony <3

Today is the day!!!

My flight leaves tonight!

San Fransico here I come!

Hong Kong here I come!!

Singapore here I come!!!

Eri here I come!!!!

So excited!

I will my family terribly though <3

Love ya'll.

-C

Last day at UPS :-(

It was a lot more emotional than I expected, I really love a lot of the box holders and regular customers, and the truck driver, I like hime too. But anyway, we said our goodbyes :-(

Ok, now I'm over that :-D! I leave one week from tomorrow for Indonesia! It's the final countdown! And the next few days are going to be SUPER SUPER busy!

But my birthday is Thursday, so we are going to have a family din din at the Cheesecake Factory, then Friday AM we are going to Virginia, for the weekend, coming home Monday. That basically leaves me Monday, Tuesday and the day Wednesday to finish all last tasks!

I'm sooooooooo excited to see Eri again!

Friday will be our 6 month anniversary <3 

And by the time I see him, it will be 5 months since we saw one another!

I'll keep you posted.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Love you.

-CW