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Thursday, August 19, 2004
besok mo mainan apa?
i'm off to bali in t-minus 3 hours!
yeah baby!!
jakarta has been interesting. peoplecarsstoresfood fill every available inch of space in this city. i'm not sure if i want to return... but perhaps bali will 180 me.
it's been awesome realizing i'm part of this huge extended network of kin...and of course a bit tiring and taxing on the ol' stomach.
oh yeah, the two most obvious things i have acquired during my romp through malaysia and indonesia..
1. weight (oh how i miss japanese food. i nearly crumpled to the floor in relief when i saw a fast food place that was selling a salad)
2. a tan
the latter seems to be of great concern to the female members of my family. when my aunt first saw me at the airport, she bemoaned the loss of my "putiiiiih!!" (white/fair) skin. bc of HfH, i have become a "right browner" as amanda would say. i have never been this dark before! hehehehe.... and it's not just a farmer tan either! hats off to beach time. a few times, when i have been introduced to kin or friends, my aunt has thrown in an addendum explaining that i'm not usually this dark, that because i was doing volunteer work and had to labour outside, i became this dark. i'm usually fair.
sigh.
it's fun being tanned, although, by the second day of lazy beach time, and having to deal with a very sunburned back, i was over the whole self-bake process. i'm also peeling like crazy now, and it's not v.pretty.
i'm so brown!!!!!!!!!
anuty: mama mo kagiet lu!!! itemmm sekali!!!
(your mom will be so frightened! you are so dark!!)
hhehehe.
i'm off to bali in t-minus 3 hours!
yeah baby!!
jakarta has been interesting. peoplecarsstoresfood fill every available inch of space in this city. i'm not sure if i want to return... but perhaps bali will 180 me.
it's been awesome realizing i'm part of this huge extended network of kin...and of course a bit tiring and taxing on the ol' stomach.
oh yeah, the two most obvious things i have acquired during my romp through malaysia and indonesia..
1. weight (oh how i miss japanese food. i nearly crumpled to the floor in relief when i saw a fast food place that was selling a salad)
2. a tan
the latter seems to be of great concern to the female members of my family. when my aunt first saw me at the airport, she bemoaned the loss of my "putiiiiih!!" (white/fair) skin. bc of HfH, i have become a "right browner" as amanda would say. i have never been this dark before! hehehehe.... and it's not just a farmer tan either! hats off to beach time. a few times, when i have been introduced to kin or friends, my aunt has thrown in an addendum explaining that i'm not usually this dark, that because i was doing volunteer work and had to labour outside, i became this dark. i'm usually fair.
sigh.
it's fun being tanned, although, by the second day of lazy beach time, and having to deal with a very sunburned back, i was over the whole self-bake process. i'm also peeling like crazy now, and it's not v.pretty.
i'm so brown!!!!!!!!!
anuty: mama mo kagiet lu!!! itemmm sekali!!!
(your mom will be so frightened! you are so dark!!)
hhehehe.
// posted by naomi @ 3:31 a.m. 
